Irajá Damiani Pinto

[1] Irajá Damiani Pinto was born in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, on July 3, 1919 [2] He studied Ginásio Nossa Senhora do Rosário.Attended the 2nd grade at Colégio Universitário Estadual Julio de Castilhos.In 1942, he began his studies of Natural History in the Faculty of Philosophy of the then University of Porto Alegre.In 1945 he carried out the DNPM, in Rio de Janeiro, with Dr. Paul Ericksen de Oliveira and directed by Dr. Llewellyn Ivor Price, and began the library of Geology and Paleontology at the University.[2] The genus of cynodont Irajatherium is in his honor, in addition to the Museum of Paleontology Irajá Damiani Pinto.
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