Sergei Kurzanov

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Sergei Kurzanov (Сергей Курзанов) is a Russian paleontologist at the Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is known mainly for his work in Mongolia and the ex-Soviet republics in Central Asia. In 1998, a species of iguanodont dinosaur from Mongolia was named Altirhinus kurzanovi in his honor.[1]

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  1. ^ Norman, David B. (1998). "On Asian ornithopods (Dinosauria, Ornithischia). 3. A new species of iguanodontid dinosaur". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 122 (1-2): 291–348. doi:10.1006/zjls.1997.0122.