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Florentino Ameghino (19 September 1853 – 6 August 1911) was an Argentine naturalist, palaeontologist, anthropologist, and zoologist who, along with his brother Carlos Ciriaco Ameghino (16 June 1865 – 12 April 1936), made many important palaeontological discoveries in Patagonia and the Argentine pampas.
He is known to cryptozoologists for his theory, based on sightings and ethnoknowledge collected by himself and his brother, that a species of living ground sloth (Neomylodon listai) existed in the Patagonian Desert. One of the cryptids which sustained this belief, the iemisch, is thought to have been a different animal akin to a giant otter,[1] and Ameghino himself came to believe that there were probably several unknown mammals in Patagonia.[2] He also patronised an investigation into the minhocão in northern Argentina.[3]
Selected bibliography[]
- Ameghino, Florentino (1898) Premiere Notice sur le Neomylodon listai, un Representat Vivant des Anciens Edentes Gravigrades Fossiles de l'Argentina
- Ameghino, Florentino "El Neomylodon Listai: Un Sobreviviente Actual de los Megaterios de la Antigua Pampa," La Pirámide (15 June 1899)
- Ameghino, Florentino "Das Neomylodon listai: Ein Unlängst Aufgefundenes Megatherium," Mutter Erde, No. 27 (1900)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ Heuvelmans, Bernard (1955) On the Track of Unknown Animals, Routledge, ISBN 978-1138977525
- ↑ Ameghino, Florentino & Torcelli, Alfredo J. (1936) Obras Completas y Correspondencia Científica de Florentino Ameghino: Correspondencia Científica, Vol. 22
- ↑ Basaldúa, Florencio de (1901) Pasado, Presente, Provenir del Territorio Nacional de Misiones