Name Llewellyn Price | Education University of Oklahoma Fields Paleontology | |
Died June 9, 1980, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Residence Brazil, United States of America Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, Latin America & Caribbean | ||
Llewellyn Ivor Price (October 9, 1905, Santa Maria – 1980, Rio Grande do Sul) was one of the first Brazilian paleontologists.
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Price's work contributed not only to the development of Brazilian but also to global paleontology. He collected Staurikosaurus, the first dinosaur discovered in Brazil.
Son of American parents, he studied chemistry and graduated in zoology and geology in the United States. After being professor at Harvard he returned to Brazil. He died of a heart attack.
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