Fernando Emilio Novas

Fernando Emilio Novas, Argentine paleontologist.

Author abbreviation: Novas
Laboratorio de Anatomía Comparada y Evolución de los Vertebrados, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales 'Bernardino Rivadavia', Av. Ángel Gallardo, 470, 1405DJR, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
CONICET, Av. Ángel Gallardo, 470, 1405DJR, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Bonaparte, J.F. & Novas, F.E. 1985. Abelisaurus comahuensis, n.g., n.sp., Carnosauria of the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia. Ameghiniana 21: 259–265. (Spanish)

Bonaparte, J.F., Novas, F.E. & Coria, R.A. Carnotaurus sastrei Bonaparte, the horned, lightly built carnosaur from the Middle Cretaceous of Patagonia. Contributions in Science 416: 1–41. DOI: 10.5962/p.226819 Reference page.

Novas, F.E. 1992. Phylogenetic relationships of basal dinosaurs, the Herrerasauridae. Palaeontology. 35(1): 51–62. PDF ResearchGate Reference page.

Novas, F.E. & Puerta, P.F. 1997. New evidence concerning avian origins from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia. Nature 387: 390–2. DOI: 10.1038/387390a0

Novas, F.E. 1998. Megaraptor namunhuaiquii, gen. et sp. nov., a large-clawed, Late Cretaceous theropod from Patagonia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18: 4–9.

Novas, F.E., Cambiaso, A.V. & Ambrioso, A. 2004. A new basal iguanodontian (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia. Ameghiniana 41(1): 75–82.
Novas, F.E., Agnolin, F.L. & Bandyopadhyay, S. 2004. Cretaceous theropods from India: a review of specimens described by Huene and Matley (1933). Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, nuevo serie 6(1): 67–103

Novas, F.E., Salgado, L., Calvo, J.O. & Agnolin, F.L. 2005. Giant titanosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, n.s. 7(1): 37–41. PDF ResearchGate Reference page.
Novas, F.E. & Pol, D. 2005. New Evidence on Deinonychosaurian Dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia. Nature 433: 858–861. DOI: 10.1038/nature03285
Novas, F.E., de Valais, S., Vickers-Rich, P. & Rich, T. 2005. A large Cretaceous theropod from Patagonia, Argentina, and the evolution of carcharodontosaurids. Naturwissenschaften 92(5): 226–230. DOI: 10.1007/s00114-005-0623-3

Martínez, R.D. & Novas, F.E. 2006. Aniksosaurus darwini gen. et sp. nov., a new coelurosaurian theropod from the early Late Cretaceous of central Patagonia, Argentina. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales 8(2): 243–259.

Calvo, J.O., Porfiri, J.D. & Novas, F.E. 2007. Discovery of a new ornithopod dinosaur from the Portezuelo Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Neuquén, Patagonia, Argentina. Archivos do Museu Nacional 65(4): 471–483. BHL Reference page.

Novas, F.E., Ezcurra, M.D. & Lecuona, A. 2008. Orkoraptor burkei nov. gen. et sp., a large theropod from the Maastrichtian Pari Aike Formation, Southern Patagonia, Argentina. Cretaceous Research 29(3): 468–480. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2008.01.001
Canale, Juan I., Scanferla, Carlos A., Agnolin, Federico L. & Novas, F.E. 2008. New carnivorous dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of NW Patagonia and the evolution of abelisaurid theropods. Naturwissenschaften 96(3): 409–14. PMID: 19057888. DOI: 10.1007/s00114-008-0487-4.

Novas, F.E., Pol, D., Canale, J.I., Porfiri, J.D. & Calvo, J.O. "2009" [2008]. A bizarre Cretaceous theropod dinosaur from Patagonia and the evolution of Gondwanan dromaeosaurids. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 276(1659): 1101–7. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1554 Reference page.
Canale, J.I., Scanferla, C.A., Agnolin, Federico L. & Novas, F.E. 2009. New carnivorous dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of NW Patagonia and the evolution of abelisaurid theropods. Naturwissenschaften 96(3): 409–414. DOI: 10.1007/s00114-008-0487-4

Ezcurra, M.D., Agnolin, Federico L. & Novas, F.E. 2010. An abelisauroid dinosaur with a non-atrophied manus from the Late Cretaceous Pari Aike Formation of southern Patagonia. Zootaxa. 2450: 1–25.
Novas, F.E., Chatterjee, S., Rudra, D.K. & Datta, P.M. 2010. Rahiolisaurus gujaratensis, n. gen. n. sp., a new abelisaurid theropod from the Late Cretaceous of India. pp. 45–62. In: Bandyopadhyay, S.: New Aspects of Mesozoic Biodiversity. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences 132. Berlin: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-10311-7_3 ResearchGate Reference page.

Novas, F.E.; Ezcurra, M.D.; Chatterjee, S. Kutty, T.S. 2011. New dinosaur species from the Upper Triassic Upper Maleri and Lower Dharmaram formations of central India. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 101 (3-4): 333–349. DOI: 10.1017/S1755691011020093

Bogan, S., Agnolin, F.L. & Novas, F.E. 2016. New selachian records from the Upper Cretaceous of southern Patagonia: paleobiogeographical implications and the description of a new taxon. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36(3): e1105235. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2016.1105235 Reference page.

Motta, M.J., Agnolín, F.L., Egli, F.B. & Novas, F.E. 2020. New theropod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia sheds light on the paravian radiation in Gondwana. The Science of Nature 107: 24. DOI: 10.1007/s00114-020-01682-1 ResearchGate Reference page.
Ezcurra, M.D., Nesbitt, S.J., Bronzati, M., Dalla Vecchia, F.M., Agnolin, F.L., Benson, R.B.J., Egli, F.B., Cabreira, S.F., Evers, S.W., Gentil, A.R., Irmis, R.B., Martinelli, A.G., Novas, F.E., da Silva, L.R., Smith, N.D., Stocker, M.R., Turner, A.H. & Langer, M.C. 2020. Enigmatic dinosaur precursors bridge the gap to the origin of Pterosauria. Nature 588: 445–449. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-3011-4 Reference page.