
Darío Estraviz LópezUniversidade NOVA de Lisboa | NOVA · Department of Earth Sciences (DCT)
Darío Estraviz López
PhD student at NOVA School of Science and Technology
PhD thesis on Pleistocene mammals from Portugal
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Introduction
I am biologist by University of A Coruña and MSc in Paleontology by NOVA School of Science and Technology. Currently doing my PhD in the same institution about Portuguese Pleistocene Megafauna. My main focus is mammals but anything related to Cenozoic vertebrate paleontology in Iberian Peninsula can draw my attention. Broadly I am also interested in anything related to vertebrate paleontology. Geometric and traditional morphometrics also interest me a lot as methods.
Additional affiliations
September 2016 - present
Museu da Lourinhã
Position
- Volunteer
Description
- I worked as volunteer during summers in the Museu da Lourinhã between 2011 and 2016. Since 2016 I am resident volunteer.
Education
September 2016 - June 2019
September 2012 - June 2016
Publications
Publications (37)
The Quaternary fossil record of Portugal is important for our understanding of the paleobiodiversity in Iberia. In the present master thesis a series of studies augment our knowledge about this topic. A census of Quaternary paleobiodiversity is carried out in order to test how reliable the fossil record is for detecting living species, resulting in...
Spinosaurids are some of the most enigmatic Mesozoic theropod dinosaurs due to their unique adaptations to aquatic environments and their relative scarcity. Their taxonomy has proven to be especially problematic. Recent discoveries from Western Europe in general, specifically Iberia, provide some of the best specimens for the understanding of their...
Modern giraffids are nowadays represented by few species; however, this family was quite diverse during the Neogene. Several lineages radiated, showing high morphological disparity in metapodial shapes. During the last few years, not many scholars have focused on this subject. Furthermore, modern statistical approaches have been totally neglected....
The Epivillafranchian (1.2 to 0.8 Ma) fossil vertebrate assemblages of Portugal are extremely poorly known compared with to those from the eastern half of Iberia. We review material from one of the two localities of this age previously known in Portugal, Algoz, and present a new microvertebrate locality, Santa Margarida. Both localities are situate...
How snow leopard gradually adapted to the extreme environments in Tibet remains unexplored due to the scanty fossil record in Tibet. Here, we recognize five valid outside-Tibet records of the snow leopard lineage. Our results suggest that the snow leopard dispersed out of the Tibetan Plateau multiple times during the Quaternary. The osteological an...
O Museu da Lourinhã conduz anualmente, desde há décadas, campanhas de
campo nas arribas costeiras do concelho da Lourinhã, onde são encontrados
fósseis cruciais para o entendimento do Jurássico Superior Ibérico. Estes
achados, procedentes dos membros de Porto Novo e Praia Azul da Formação
da Lourinhã, são objecto de contínuos trabalhos científicos...
The pantherine partial skeleton from the Algar da Manga Larga (MG1355.0001-9), was discovered at the Natural Park of Serras d´Aire e Candeeiros and published in 2006. It comprises a nearly complete cranium and mandible, a damaged distal half of right humerus, a complete left metacarpal III, proximal epiphyses of left metacarpals II and IV and three...
The identification of additional Late Miocene (MN10, Late Vallesian) Decennatherium rex cranial remains at Batallones-10 (Torrejón de Velasco, Madrid Basin, Spain) provides valuable insights into the ontogenetic variability of this extinct giraffe. Most recovered specimens are adults, making the discovery of calves significant. The 2022 excavation...
The Lourinhã Museum carries out annual fieldwork campaigns along the coastal outcrops of Lourinhã, which have provided vital fossils for understanding the ecosystems of the late Jurassic of Western Iberia. These fossils come from the Lourinhã Formation, specifically the Porto Novo and Praia Azul members, and are the subject of ongoing research by t...
Gruta da Oliveira is a cave in the Almonda karst system (Torres Novas, Portugal), which lies at the southern edge of the Central Limestone Massif of Portuguese Estremadura. Archaeologically excavated between 1991 and 2012, the site is dated to between ca. 70 and ca. 100 ky ago and yielded tens of thousands of microvertebrate and macrovertebrate rem...
Modern Giraffidae are represented by very few species, however, the family was quite diverse during the Neogene. As such, different forms emerged resulting in various fossil metapodial shapes. During the last years, researchers have focused on the study of the morphology of these metapodials, but modern methods of shape analysis accompanied by a st...
O sítio de Silveirinha é uma das localidades de mamíferos mais conhecidas da Paleontologia do Cenozoico de Portugal e da Europa em geral. Graças à sua rica e diversificada associação de mamíferos, com mais de 30 taxa, foi posicionado no Eocénico inferior (início do Ypresiano, MP7, ca. 55,8 M.a.), sendo o local mais antigo da Europa desta Época, dev...
The Iberian Peninsula possesses one of the best records of
Early Pleistocene faunas in Western Eurasia, with localities of
global importance such as Atapuerca or Orce. Nevertheless, the
westernmost part of Iberia, is almost devoid of coeval localities.
Three sites are known for the Early Pleistocene in Portugal; all
of them from its southernmost pa...
Several Late Miocene and Early Pliocene hippopotamid species
have been described from Peri-Mediterranean fossils sites in Italy,
Spain, Libya, Egypt, and Algeria. However, most of these species
are documented by scant and/or severely fragmented remains.
Among these taxa we find Hexaprotodon? crusafonti, which was
a small-medium sized hippopotamid,...
For the first time in its 21 years of existence the EJIP (Encontro de Jovens Investigadores em Paleontologia) is coming to Lourinhã, the “Capital of the Dinosaurs” of Portugal. We think that this is the perfect setting for the meeting, as Lourinhã is a relatively small Iberian village with an extremely important palaeontological heritage (which is...
Lisbon’s Miocene vertebrate faunas have been studied since the 19th century. In this work, we review the bibliography on terrestrial vertebrate fossils from the Lower Tagus Cenozoic Basin (LTCB). We used the data from this bibliographic review to create generalised additive models (GAMs) in order to better understand the evolution through time of:...
Type specimens (holotypes, neotypes, syntypes, etc.) are of crucial importance because they are the only tangible evidence of the nomenclatural act that supports the understanding of paleobiodiversity. The list of the vertebrate species whose type specimen is based on fossils from Portugal is presented here. We counted 206 species, of which there a...
One cervid phalanx of large proportions (CINT-LU-1) was recovered at Cova do Rei Cintolo, Lugo, in 2020 by speleologist from the CETRA club, during a topographical campaign, being now deposited at the IUX (Instituto Universitario de Xeoloxía Isidro Parga Pondal, A Coruña). Cova do Rei Cintolo is a karstic system of great development, including seve...
The recovery of a new partial cranium of Decennatherium rex Ríos et al . 2017 bearing two anterior and two posterior ossicones from the Late Miocene deposits of the site Batallones-10 (MN-10, Cerro de los Batallones, Madrid Basin) sheds light on the complex variability of the cranial appendages of these extinct giraffids. The special features of th...
The recovery of hundreds of skeletal remains of the extinct giraffid Decennatherium rex Ríos, Sánchez and Morales, 2017 from the Late Miocene deposits of the site Batallones-4 and Batallones-10 (MN 10, Cerro de los Batallones, Madrid Basin) sheds light on the complex intraspecific variability of the fossil giraffid. Here we reconstruct for the firs...
The revision of the giraffid material stored at the Museu Geológico (Lisbon, Portugal) using current analytical tools and methods leads us to the first identification in Portugal of a member of the Samotheriinae-Sivatheriinae clade. The material consists of a metacarpal from Casais da Formiga, Azambuja (MG 5733, later Middle Miocene, MN 7: 13-12.5...
The Algar do Vale da Pena is a cave that was discovered
during limestone mining works around 1980, at the Natural
Park of Serras de Aire e Candeeiros, Portugal. The entrance
to the cave, through the collapsed roof, is a 30 meter near-vertical
well, inaccessible without means of vertical progression
and specialized equipment. Soon after the discover...
The oldest European remains of marmots (Genus Marmota) are 0.8 my old and come from the site of Gran Dolina, Atapuerca. Dental measurements from the specimens recovered at Gran Dolina are compared with other Early Pleistocene fossil marmots from Croatia; as well as a set of Middle and Late Pleistocene marmots from France and Italy and Middle Pleist...
Cave and browns bears lived sympatrically during the Late Pleistocene in Northwestern Iberia. Their bones have been easily identified qualitatively, but new evidences regarding the hybridization of both species made a quantitative approach necessary, in order to detect hybrids with intermediate morphologies. In this work we use measurements of 273...
En este trabajo se resumen los estudios llevados a cabo en los distintos yacimientos arqueopa-leontológicos de Orce durante las últimas décadas, haciendo especial hincapié en los resultados obtenidos a raíz de las últimas campañas de excavación (2017-2020), enmarcadas en el Proyecto General de Investigación «Primeras ocupaciones humanas y contexto...
Quantitative classification of metapodial bones of Ursus spelaeus and Ursus arctos from Northwestern Iberia using multivariate statistics Cenozoic Cave and browns bears lived sympatrically during the Late Pleistocene in Northwestern Iberia. Their bones have been easily identified qualitatively, but new evidences regarding the hybridization of both...
The Algar do Vale da Pena is a cave situated in the Natural Park of Serras de Aire e Candeeiros (Leiria, Portugal). It was discovered and opened in late 1980s in a limestone quarry excavation. The cave has five fossil bone concentrations that we interpreted as five individuals of different sizes. The remains are identified as Ursus arctos based on...
The production of high volumes of scientific data is a standard output of any research nowadays. In Paleontology, if we multiply it by several research teams of different branches, such as the vertebrate, invertebrate, micropaleontology, paleobotany and so many others, the amount of information gathered is immense. It generates not only management...
Lapa da Canada (District of Santarem, municipality of Alvaiázere, Portugal) is an uncharted cave situated in the karst of the “Maciço Calcário Estremenho”. Vertebrate remains were collected in October of 2014 from four (A, B, C and D) galleries of the cave. These recovered remains belong to at least nine vertebrate taxa: Equus ferus (right metatars...
Santa Margarida (Municipality of Loulé, Algarve, South Portugal) is situated in the karst of the Picavessa formation, Lower Jurassic in age. Several blocks of breccia and cemented terra rossa with numerous cranial and postcranial remains of microvertebrates were recovered by a team of the FCT-UNL in 2017 from a traditional rural man-made wall. Afte...
Paleobiodiversity studies have been used to study the representativeness of the fossil record or to detect extinction events. The fossil fauna of the Quaternary is the most comparable to nowadays, thus can be used to test the representativeness of paleobiodiversity studies. However, studies of this type with Quaternary vertebrates are not widesprea...
The most complete proboscidean discovered in the Quaternary of Portugal comprises a nearly intact femur, a partial tibia, part of a spinal apophysis and a phalanx. It was found in São Antão do Tojal, Loures and was attributed to Palaeoloxodon antiquus (Falconer & Cautley, 1847) by the geologist Georges Zbyszewski in 1943. In this work, newly-obtain...
Estraviz López, D. & Mateus, O. (2018) The History of the Quaternary vertebrate paleontology in Portugal, p 65. In: Marzola, M, Mateus, O. and Moreno-Azanza, M (Eds), Abstract book of the XVI Annual Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontology, Caparica, Portugal June 26th-July 1st, 2018, 204 pp.
Estraviz López, D. & Mateus, O. (2018). Estraviz López, D. & Mateus, O. (2018). The Quaternary mammals from the caves of Casais Robustos and Cabeço de Morto, Alcanena (Portugal): The case of Lynx pardinus Temminck, 1827, pp. 159-162. In: Amayuelas, E., Bilbao-Lasa, P., Bonilla, O., del Val, M., Errandonea-Martín, J., Garate-Olave, I., García-Sagast...