Aleksandr Grigorevich Sharov

Шаров, 1922–1973) was a Soviet palaeoentomologist, paleontologist and expert on Pterosauria.

[1] Since 1951 he worked at the Paleontological Institute in Moscow, where in 1966 he defended dissertation of Doctor of Science.

[2] He worked during the 1960s and 1970s on the Karatau rocks and discovered many of the fossils, of which some have been named after him, as in the case of the Karatausuchus sharovi (a crocodile), and Sharovipteryx (an early gliding reptile).

[3] Sharov, A. G. 1966 Unique finds of reptiles from Mesozoic of Central Asia.

[3] Sharov, A. G. 1971 Novyiye lyetayushchiye reptili iz myezozoya Kazakhstana i Kirgizii.