Vicentino Prestes de Almeida

Vicentino Prestes de Almeida
Born	1900 Chiniquá, São Pedro do Sul
Died	(1954-10-28)October 28, 1954 (aged 53-54) São Pedro do Sul
Nationality	Brazilian
Scientific career
Fields	paleontologist

Vicentino Prestes de Almeida (1900 - October 28, 1954) was a Brazilian paleontologist.

Biography

Prestes was born in1900 in Chiniquá, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and was a self-taught paleontologist. Beginning in 1925, he worked with many visiting paleontologists in both Santa Maria and São Pedro do Sul in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul.

Many of the fossils collected by Prestes are in museums in Porto Alegre, such as the Júlio de Castilhos Museum, the Zoobotanical Natural History Museum of Rio Grande do Sul, the Museum of Science and Technology (PUCRS) and the Museum of Paleontology Irajá Damiani Pinto.

Friedrich von Huene named the carnivorous Triassic reptile Prestosuchus chiniquensis in Prestes's honor (from Prestes and Chiniquá, his birthplace).[1][2]

Prestes organized and arranged the fossils for the Instituto de Educação General Flores da Cunha[3] and contributed considerably to the Paleorrota Geopark.

He died on October 28, 1954, in São Pedro do Sul, Brazil, aged 53 or 54.

Notes

1. von Huene, Friedrich (1942) "Lieferungen 3/4. Pseudosuchia, Saurischia, Rhynchosauridae und Schlussabschnitt" ("Parts 3/4. Pseudosuchia, Saurischia, Rhynchosauridae, and Conclusions") Die Fossilen Reptilien des Südamerikanischen Gondwanalandes: Ergebnisse der Sauriergrabungen in Südbrasilien 1928/29 (The Fossil Reptiles of South American Gondwanaland: Results of the Dinosaur Expeditions in southern Brazil 1928/29) C. H. Beck, Munich, Germany, pp. 161–332, OCLC 72550227
2. Couto, Carlos de Paula (1944) "Repteis e mamiferos fosseis do Brasil" An. IX. Congr. Brasil. Geogr., 8, 167—206, 15 Abb., Rio de Janeiro
3. "Parque Farroupilha (Redenção): Instituto de Educação General Flores da Cunha" in Portuguese; Archive

Further reading

• Isaia, Antônio. Os Fascinantes Caminhos da Paleontologia (Dazzling Paleonotogical Paths) (in Portuguese). Porto Alegre, Brazil: Grafica Editora Pallotti. length: 60 pages; Guide to the fossil finds in Rio Grande do Sul, and especially in the Santa Maria area.
• Beltrão, Romeu (1979). Cronologia Histórica de Santa Maria e do extinto município de São Martinho: 1787-1930 (in Portuguese) (second ed.). Grafica Editora Pallotti. OCLC 10022858. length: 582 pages