Museums in Patagonia

[Lanthanotus]

Just dug out some photos of our 3 months trip through Argentina back in 2010. Among others we visited two small museums that exhibited dinosaurs. The first was the MEF, Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio in Trelew. The town has not a lot to offer and most tourists won't visit it at all if not using the aiirport there for fast travelling the vast distances. We had to go there to pick up my girlfriend's backpack which our airline lost for two weeks (!) and returned it completley damaged and sliced up. Well, the muesum at least was a nice distraction, being completly dedicated to palaeo-history and mainly dinosaurs and boasting some very nice specimen (for example a big threatening Giganotosaurus in the entrance area) aswell as a view to the work of palaeontologists. Chubut, the province where Trelew is located is one of the fossil richest locations in South America. Unfortunatly we did not made a lot of photos back then, reason to go back. If you ever happen to travel Argentina, the Peninsula Valdes is a must see (you know those Orcas beaching to hunt sea lions, that's there) and Trelew is just a short drive from there.

I did not note any species names while being at the museums, so if someone has ideas or corrections, just post them.

Carnotaurus and ... , well, two other theropods


Forearm of some unnamed surpersize sauropod, Carnotaurs and those other fellow, another sauropod and Amargasaurus


Obviously Amargasaurus


the lab


The other museum was a chance visit while being a El Calafate, the more or less obligate starting point to visit the world famous Perito Moreno Glacier. It's a very small museum (Centro de Interpretacion Historica) dedicated to the history of southern Patagonia spanning the time from the mesocoic era to the recent past.

Austroraptor (it was a big skeleton, like 5 m long, maybe more)


think it was named Eremotherium, tho Megatherium would be more likely for the location of the muesum

[PaleoMatt]

Nice pictures

[Halichoeres]

Very cool. Thanks for sharing! Diego Pol, who works at the museum in Trelew, is at my university guest teaching a class in paleontology. Unfortunately I committed to teaching another class before he circulated a call for teaching assistants.