Fernando Emilio Novas, Argentine paleontologist.

• Author abbreviation: Novas
• Laboratorio de Anatomía Comparada y Evolución de los Vertebrados, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales 'Bernardino Rivadavia', Av. Ángel Gallardo, 470, 1405DJR, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• CONICET, Av. Ángel Gallardo, 470, 1405DJR, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 6 taxon names authored by Fernando Novas

plus:

• Abelisaurus comahuensis Bonaparte & Novas, 1985
• Unenlagia comahuensis Novas & Puerta, 1997
• Megaraptor namunhuaiquii Novas, 1998
• Talenkauen santacrucensis Novas, Cambiaso & Ambrioso, 2004
• Neuquenraptor argentinus Novas & Pol, 2005
• Puertasaurus reuili Novas, Salgado, Calvo & Agnolin, 2005
• Tyrannotitan chubutensis Novas, de Valais, Vickers-Rich & Rich, 2005
• Aniksosaurus darwini Martínez & Novas, 2006
• Macrogryphosaurus gondwanicus Calvo, Porfiri & Novas, 2007
• Orkoraptor burkei Novas, Ezcurra & Lecuona, 2008
• Austroraptor cabazai Novas, Pol, Canale, Porfiri & Calvo, 2009
• Skorpiovenator bustingorryi Canale, Scanferla, Agnolin & Novas, 2009

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

• Bonaparte, J.F. & Novas, F.E. 1985. Abelisaurus comahuensis, n.g., n.sp., Carnosauria of the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia. Ameghiniana 21: 259–265. (Spanish)
• Novas, F.E. & Puerta, P.F. 1997 New evidence concerning avian origins from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia. Nature 387: 390–2. DOI: 10.1038/387390a0
• Novas, F.E. 1998. Megaraptor namunhuaiquii, gen. et sp. nov., a large-clawed, Late Cretaceous theropod from Patagonia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18: 4–9.
• Novas, F.E., Cambiaso, A.V. & Ambrioso, A. 2004. A new basal iguanodontian (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia. Ameghiniana 41(1): 75–82.
• Novas, F.E., Agnolin, F.L. & Bandyopadhyay, S. 2004. Cretaceous theropods from India: a review of specimens described by Huene and Matley (1933). Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, nuevo serie 6(1): 67–103
• Novas, F.E. & Pol, D. 2005. New Evidence on Deinonychosaurian Dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia. Nature 433: 858–861. DOI: 10.1038/nature03285
• Novas, F.E., Salgado, L., Calvo, J.O. & Agnolin, F.L. 2005. Giant titanosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia" - Paleontología 7(1): 37–41.
• Novas, F.E., de Valais, S., Vickers-Rich, P. & Rich, T. 2005. A large Cretaceous theropod from Patagonia, Argentina, and the evolution of carcharodontosaurids. Naturwissenschaften 92(5): 226–230. DOI: 10.1007/s00114-005-0623-3
• Martínez, R.D. & Novas, F.E. 2006. Aniksosaurus darwini gen. et sp. nov., a new coelurosaurian theropod from the early Late Cretaceous of central Patagonia, Argentina. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales 8(2): 243–259.
• Calvo, J.O., Porfiri, J.D. & Novas, F.E. 2007. Discovery of a new ornithopod dinosaur from the Portezuelo Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Neuquén, Patagonia, Argentina. Arquivos do Museu Nacional, Rio do Janeiro 65(4): 471–483.
• Novas, F.E., Ezcurra, M.D. & Lecuona, A. 2008. Orkoraptor burkei nov. gen. et sp., a large theropod from the Maastrichtian Pari Aike Formation, Southern Patagonia, Argentina. Cretaceous Research 29(3): 468–480. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2008.01.001
• Canale, Juan I., Scanferla, Carlos A., Agnolin, Federico L. & Novas, Fernando E. 2008. New carnivorous dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of NW Patagonia and the evolution of abelisaurid theropods. Naturwissenschaften 96(3): 409–14. PMID 19057888. DOI: 10.1007/s00114-008-0487-4.
• Novas, F.E., Pol, D., Canale, J.I., Porfiri, J.D. & Calvo, J.O. 2009. A bizarre Cretaceous theropod dinosaur from Patagonia and the evolution of Gondwanan dromaeosaurids. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 276(1659): 1101–1107. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1554
• Ezcurra, M.D., Agnolin, F.L. & Novas, F.E. 2010. An abelisauroid dinosaur with a non-atrophied manus from the Late Cretaceous Pari Aike Formation of southern Patagonia. Zootaxa. 2450: 1–25.
• Canale, J.I., Scanferla, C.A., Agnolin, F. L. & Novas, F.E. 2009. New carnivorous dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of NW Patagonia and the evolution of abelisaurid theropods. Naturwissenschaften 96(3): 409–414. DOI: 10.1007/s00114-008-0487-4

• Bogan, S., Agnolin, F.L. & Novas, F.E. 2016. New selachian records from the Upper Cretaceous of southern Patagonia: paleobiogeographical implications and the description of a new taxon. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36(3): e1105235. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2016.1105235 Reference page.