Mário Costa Barberena


Mario Costa Barberena was a Brazilian paleontologist.

Biography

He graduated in Natural History at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul in 1956 to 1959. He completed his doctorate at Harvard University, in Stratigraphic and Paleontology. He was lecturer at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in 1974.
The genus Barberenachampsa is named after him. Has contributed considerably to the Geopark of Paleorrota.