Jorge O. Calvo

Who is Jorge O. Calvo?

Jorge Orlando Calvo is an Argentine. geologist and paleontologist working for "Centro de Investigaciones Paleontológicas Lago Barreales".

Dr. Jorge Orlando Calvo was born in Córdoba, Argentina, in 1961. At present, he is a professor in Geology and Paleontology at the National University of Comahue, Neuquén. He is one of the founders of the Geology Career at this University as well as the Director of the Barreales Lake Paleontological Center.

He became a geologist in 1986 and in 1991 he won a Fulbright scholarship to do a Master in Paleontological Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, getting his degree in 1994. In 2006, he earned his PhD degree at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

He has devoted all his life to the discovering, digging and studying of Vertebrate Paleontology. He has been the first paleontologist living and working in the Neuquén province. He is both author and co-author of many discoveries of his own about new taxa in dinosaurs, birds, crocodiles, frogs, turtles, eggs and dinosaur tracks. He is the first paleontologist to have helped develop not only the Paleontological Science in Norpatagonia but also the Paleontological Tourism. He is the founder of the Geology and Paleontology Museum of the National University of Comahue, the Paleontological Museum of Rincón de los Sauces and the Barreales Lake Paleontological Center.