Rinchen Barsbold
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Rinchen Barsbold is a Mongolian paleontologist and geologist. He works from the Institute of Geology, at Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. He is world-renowned and an acknowledged leader in vertebrate paleontology and Mesozoic stratigraphy.
He has been instrumental in the discovery and recovery of one of the largest dinosaur collections in the world. His work has projected Mongolian paleontology into world prominence and helped to form a more modern understanding of the later stages of dinosaur evolution in Eurasia.
He has become a leading authority on the theropods of the Gobi Desert. He made his doctoral dissertation on these dinosaurs.
The dinosaur genera and families named by Barsbold are, in alphabetical order: Adasaurus (1983), Anserimimus (1988), Conchoraptor (1986), the family Enigmosauridae (1983) (now inactive), Enigmosaurus (with A. Perle, 1983), Gallimimus (with H. Osmólska and E. Roniewicz, 1972), Garudimimus and the family Garudimimidae (1981), Harpymimus and the family Harpymimidae (with A. Perle, 1984), Ingenia (1981), the family Ingeniidae (1986), the family Oviraptoridae (1976) and the suborder Segnosauria (with A. Perle, 1980) but this name is now inactive and is included in Therizinosauria.
Barsboldia (Maryanska et Osmolska, 1981) and Rinchenia (Osmolska et al. , 2004) were named to honour Rinchen Barsbold.
