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Argentina
2026

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Earth Science

D-Index
41
Citations
5657
World Ranking
5598
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Argentina Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Argentina Leader Award

Overview

Leonardo Salgado is affiliated with the National Scientific and Technical Research Council in Argentina. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Within these areas, their work focuses on several subfields including Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Geophysics, and Oceanography.

Their scholarly contributions emphasize topics related to Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Ichthyology and Marine Biology, and Marine and Coastal Plant Biology. Additionally, their work covers Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, and Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide.

Leonardo Salgado has published extensively in multiple venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • Cretaceous Research
  • Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina
  • Spanish Journal of Palaeontology
  • Diversity
  • Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

Their recent papers include:

  • "Two Late Cretaceous sauropods reveal titanosaurian dispersal across South America," 2020, Communications Biology
  • "Structure of Rhodolith Beds and Surrounding Habitats at the Doce River Shelf (Brazil)," 2020, Diversity
  • "Report of a giant titanosaur sauropod from the Upper Cretaceous of Neuquén Province, Argentina," 2021, Cretaceous Research
  • "Should we abandon the name Titanosauridae? some comments on the taxonomy of titanosaurian sauropods (Dinosauria)," 2021, Spanish Journal of Palaeontology
  • "Variación morfológica en la secuencia de vertebras caudales de algunos seudópodos titanosaurios," 2021, Spanish Journal of Palaeontology

Collaborations have been an important aspect of their research, frequently co-authoring with:

  • José Luis Carballido
  • Alejandro Otero
  • Jorge O. Calvo
  • C. S. Karez
  • Rodrigo L. Moura

Best Publications

  • A new giant carnivorous dinosaur from the Cretaceous of Patagonia

    Rodolfo A. Coria;Leonardo Salgado

  • A new giant titanosaur sheds light on body mass evolution among sauropod dinosaurs

    José Luis Carballido;Diego Pol;Alejandro Otero;Ignacio Alejandro Cerda

  • UBERABATITAN RIBEIROI, A NEW TITANOSAUR FROM THE MARÍLIA FORMATION (BAURU GROUP, UPPER CRETACEOUS), MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL

    Leonardo Salgado;Ismar De Souza Carvalho

  • A NEW SPECIMEN OF NEUQUENSAURUS AUSTRALIS, A LATE CRETACEOUS SALTASAURINE TITANOSAUR FROM NORTH PATAGONIA

    Leonardo Salgado;Sebastián Apesteguía;Susana E. Heredia

  • A basal iguanodontian (Ornithischia: Ornithopoda) from the Late Cretaceous of South America

    Rodolfo A. Coria;Leonardo Salgado

  • Embryonic Skulls of Titanosaur Sauropod Dinosaurs

    Luis M. Chiappe;Leonardo Salgado;Rodolfo A. Coria

  • Un nuevo saltasaurino (Sauropoda, Titanosauridae) de la provincia de Río Negro (Formación Allen, Cretácico superior), Patagonia, Argentina

    Leonardo Salgado;Claudia Azpilicueta

  • A new basal rebbachisaurid (Sauropoda, Diplodocoidea) from the Early Cretaceous of the Neuquen Basin; evolution and biogeography of the group

    José Luis Carballido;Leonardo Salgado;Diego Pol;José Ignacio Canudo

  • Amazonsaurus maranhensis gen. et sp. nov. (Sauropoda, Diplodocoidea) from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian–Albian) of Brazil

    Ismar de Souza Carvalho;Leonardo dos Santos Avilla;Leonardo Salgado

  • Osteology and phylogenetic relationships of Tehuelchesaurus benitezii (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Upper Jurassic of Patagonia

    José Luis Carballido;Oliver Walter Mischa Rauhut;Oliver Walter Mischa Rauhut;Diego Pol;Leonardo Salgado

  • Lower Cretaceous rebbachisaurid sauropods from Cerro Aguada del León (Lohan Cura Formation), Neuquén Province, northwestern Patagonia, Argentina

    Leonardo Salgado;Alberto Garrido;Sergio E. Cocca;Juan R. Cocca

  • EVOLUTION OF TITANOSAURID SAUROPODS. II: THE CRANIAL EVIDENCE

    Leonardo Salgado;Jorge Orlando Calvo

  • Climate's role in the distribution of the Cretaceous terrestrial Crocodyliformes throughout Gondwana

    Ismar de Souza Carvalho;Zulma Brandoni de Gasparini;Leonardo Salgado;Felipe Mesquita de Vasconcellos

  • Extreme postcranial pneumaticity in sauropod dinosaurs from South America

    Ignacio Alejandro Cerda;Leonardo Salgado;Jaime Eduardo Powell

  • The Osteology of Chubutisaurus insignis Del Corro, 1975 (Dinosauria: Neosauropoda) from the ‘Middle’ Cretaceous of Central Patagonia, Argentina

    José Luis Carballido;Diego Pol;Ignacio Alejandro Cerda;Leonardo Salgado

  • EL GENERO AEOLOSAURUS (SAUROPODA, TITANOSAURIDAE) EN LA FORMACION ALLEN (CAMPANIANO-MAASTRICHTIANO) DE LA PROVINCIA DE RIO NEGRO, ARGENTINA.

    Leonardo Salgado;Rodolfo Aníbal Coria

  • Demandasaurus darwini, a New Rebbachisaurid Sauropod from the Early Cretaceous of the Iberian Peninsula

    Fidel Torcida Fernández-Baldor;José Ignacio Canudo;Pedro Huerta;Diego Montero

  • Reappraisal of an ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of James Ross Island (Antarctica)

    Leonardo Salgado;Zulma Gasparini

  • Giant titanosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia

    Fernando E Novas;Leonardo Salgado;Jorge Calvo;Federico Agnolin

  • An enigmatic plant-eating theropod from the Late Jurassic period of Chile

    Fernando E. Novas;Leonardo Salgado;Leonardo Salgado;Manuel Suárez;Federico L. Agnolín

Frequent Co-Authors

Zulma Gasparini
Zulma Gasparini National University of La Plata
José Ignacio Canudo
José Ignacio Canudo University of Zaragoza
Jorge O. Calvo
Jorge O. Calvo National University of Comahue
Diego Pol
Diego Pol National Scientific and Technical Research Council
Luis M. Chiappe
Luis M. Chiappe Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Fernando E. Novas
Fernando E. Novas Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Museum
Marcelo Reguero
Marcelo Reguero National University of La Plata
Sergio A. Marenssi
Sergio A. Marenssi University of Buenos Aires
Ashok Sahni
Ashok Sahni Panjab University

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