Biography

Juan Carlos Quiroga, Argentine paleontologist (1951 – July 1988)

SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY

Cuantificación de la corteza cerebral en moldes endocraneanos de mamíferos girencefalicos. Procedimiento y aplicación en tres mamíferos extinguidos. Ameghiniana 25(1):67-84, 1988

With M.T. Dozo. The brain of Thylacosmilus atrox, extinct South American saber-tooth carnivore marsupial. J. fur Hirnforsch. 29:573-86, 1988  

The endocranial cast of the advanced mammal-like Therioherpeton cagnini (Therapsida, Cynodontia) from the Middle Triassic of Brazil. J. fur Hirnforsch. 25:285-90, 1984

The brain of the mammal-like reptile Probainognathus jenseni (Therapsida, Cynodontia). A correlative paleo-neurological approach to the neocortex at the reptile-mammal transition. J. fur Hirnforsch. 21:299-36, 1980

The brains of two mammal-like reptiles (Cynodontia-Therapsida). J. f. Hirnforschung 20:341-50, 1979

The tectum opticum of Pantodactylus schreiberii Wiegmann (Teiidae, Lacertilia, Reptilia). J. fur Hirnforsch. 19:109-31, 1979

The inner ear of two cynodonts (Reptilia, Therapsida) and some comments on the evolution of the inner ear from peligosaurs to mammals. Gegenb. Morphol. Jahrb. 125:178-90, 1979

The cell masses in the diencephalon of Amphisbaena darwinii heterozonata Burmeister Amphisbaenia, Aquamata, Reptilia. Acta Anatomica 104:198-210, 1979

The nucleus of Darkschwitsch in Pantodactylus schreiberii Wiegmann (Lacertilia, Reptilia). Z. Mikrosk. Anat. Forsch. 91(3):568-72, 1977

El sistema nervioso central de Amphisbaena (Reptilia). I. Histoestructura de la corteza dorsal. Arch. Fund. Roux-Ocefa (1976)

HONORS (Fossil)

Quirogatherium Bonaparte 1990 (Mammalia)

Quirogalestes Goin & Candela 1998 (Mammalia)

Quirogaichnus Laza 2006 (Coleoptera)