Octávio Mateus Explained

Octávio Mateus (born 1975) is a Portuguese dinosaur paleontologist and biologist Professor of Paleontology at the Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He graduated in Universidade de Évora and received his PhD at Universidade Nova de Lisboa in 2005. He collaborates with Museu da Lourinhã, known for their dinosaur collection.

His PhD advisor was Miguel Telles Antunes. He is an expert on dinosaurs, particularly Late Jurassic dinosaurs of Portugal, but he has also worked with specimens from Angola, the USA, Greenland, China[1] and Morocco.[2] New dinosaur taxa he has helped name include Lourinhanosaurus antunesi (1998),[3] Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis (1999),[4] Tangvayosaurus hoffeti (1999),[5] Draconyx loureiroi (2001),[6] Lusotitan atalaiensis (2003),[7] Europasaurus holgeri (2006),[8] Allosaurus europaeus (2006),[9] Angolatitan adamastor (2011),[10] Torvosaurus gurneyi (2014),[11] Zby atlanticus (2014),[12] Galeamopus (2015),[13] Issi saaneq (2021),[14] and Iberospinus natarioi (2022).[15]

Since 1991, Octávio Mateus has organized dinosaur excavations in Portugal, as well as Laos with the French team of the Paris Museum of Natural History, led by Prof. Philippe Taquet. He has worked in Angola, where he discovered Angolatitan, the first Angolan dinosaur in the scope of a project in the area of vertebrate paleontology of Angola.[16] He collaborates with diverse international scientific institutions as the scientific council member of the German foundation Verein zur Förderung der niedersächsischen Paläontologie.He also studied dinosaur tracks[17] and eggs, phytosaurs, chelonians, and whales.In 2012, he integrated an expedition to the Triassic of Greenland in Jameson Land.

Controversies

In 2023, Mateus was accused of sexual harassment spanning back to 2010.[18]

Notes and References

  1. Xing. Lida. Lockley. Martin G.. Marty. Daniel. Zhang. Jianping. Wang. Yan. Klein. Hendrik. McCrea. Richard T.. Buckley. Lisa G.. Belvedere. Matteo. Mateus. Octávio. Gierliński. Gerard D.. 2015-10-22. An Ornithopod-Dominated Tracksite from the Lower Cretaceous Jiaguan Formation (Barremian–Albian) of Qijiang, South-Central China: New Discoveries, Ichnotaxonomy, Preservation and Palaeoecology. PLOS ONE. en. 10. 10. e0141059. 10.1371/journal.pone.0141059. 1932-6203. 4619635. 26492525. 2015PLoSO..1041059X. free.
  2. Hendrickx. Christophe. Mateus. Octávio. Buffetaut. Eric. 2016-01-06. Morphofunctional Analysis of the Quadrate of Spinosauridae (Dinosauria: Theropoda) and the Presence of Spinosaurus and a Second Spinosaurine Taxon in the Cenomanian of North Africa.. PLOS ONE. en. 11. 1. e0144695. 10.1371/journal.pone.0144695. 1932-6203. 4703214. 26734729. 2016PLoSO..1144695H. free.
  3. Mateus O (1998). "Lourinhanosaurus antunesi, a new Upper Jurassic allosauroid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from Lourinhã (Portugal)" (PDF). Memórias da Academia de Ciências de Lisboa 37: 111–124.
  4. Bonaparte, J.F., & Mateus, O. . 1999 . A new diplodocid, Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis gen. et sp. nov., from the Late Jurassic beds of Portugal . Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales . 2 . 13–29 . PDF Document
  5. Allain. Ronan. Taquet. Philippe. Battail. Bernard. Dejax. Jean. Richir. Philippe. Véran. Monette. Limon-Duparcmeur. Franck. Vacant. Renaud. Mateus. Octavio. Sayarath. Phouvong. Khenthavong. Bounxou. 1999-10-30. Un nouveau genre de dinosaure sauropode de la formation des Grès supérieurs (Aptien-Albien) du Laos. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences - Series IIA - Earth and Planetary Science. fr. 329. 8. 609–616. 10.1016/S1251-8050(00)87218-3. 1999CRASE.329..609A. 1251-8050.
  6. Mateus. Octávio. Telles Antunes. Miguel. 2001-01-01. Draconyx loureiroi, a new camptosauridae (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) from the Late Jurassic of Lourinhã, Portugal. Annales de Paléontologie. en. 87. 1. 61–73. 10.1016/S0753-3969(01)88003-4. 0753-3969.
  7. Antunes. Miguel Telles. Mateus. Octávio. 2003-01-01. Dinosaurs of Portugal. Comptes Rendus Palevol. en. 2. 1. 77–95. 10.1016/S1631-0683(03)00003-4. 1631-0683.
  8. Martin Sander. P.. Mateus. Octávio. Laven. Thomas. Knötschke. Nils. 2006-06-08. Bone histology indicates insular dwarfism in a new Late Jurassic sauropod dinosaur. Nature. en. 441. 7094. 739–741. 10.1038/nature04633. 16760975. 2006Natur.441..739M. 4361820. 1476-4687.
  9. Book: Mateus, Octávio. Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. Walen, Aart. Antunes, Miguel Telles. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. 2006. Foster, John R.. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 36. Albuquerque, New Mexico. 123–129. The large theropod fauna of the Lourinha Formation (Portugal) and its similarity to that of the Morrison Formation, with a description of a new species of Allosaurus. Lucas, Spencer G..
  10. Mateus. Octávio. Jacobs. Louis L.. Schulp. Anne S.. Polcyn. Michael J.. Tavares. Tatiana S.. Buta Neto. André. Morais. Maria Luísa. Antunes. Miguel T.. 2011. Angolatitan adamastor, a new sauropod dinosaur and the first record from Angola. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências. en. 83. 1. 221–233. 10.1590/S0001-37652011000100012. 21437383. 0001-3765. free.
  11. Hendrickx . C . Mateus . O . 2014 . Torvosaurus gurneyi n. sp., the Largest Terrestrial Predator from Europe, and a Proposed Terminology of the Maxilla Anatomy in Nonavian Theropods . PLOS ONE . 9 . 3. e88905 . 10.1371/journal.pone.0088905 . 24598585 . 3943790. 2014PLoSO...988905H . free .
  12. Mateus. Octávio. Mannion. Philip D.. Upchurch. Paul. 2014-04-16. Zby atlanticus, a new turiasaurian sauropod (Dinosauria, Eusauropoda) from the Late Jurassic of Portugal. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 34. 3. 618–634. 10.1080/02724634.2013.822875. 59387149. 0272-4634.
  13. 10.7717/peerj.857. A specimen-level phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision of Diplodocidae (Dinosauria, Sauropoda). PeerJ. 3. e857. 2015. Tschopp . E. . Mateus . O. V. . Benson . R. B. J. . 25870766 . 4393826. free.
  14. Beccari. Victor. Mateus. Octávio. Wings. Oliver. Milàn. Jesper. Clemmensen. Lars B.. 2021-11-03. Issi saaneq gen. et sp. nov.—A New Sauropodomorph Dinosaur from the Late Triassic (Norian) of Jameson Land, Central East Greenland. Diversity. en. 13. 11. 561. 10.3390/d13110561. 1424-2818. free. 10362/128951. free.
  15. Mateus. Octávio. Estraviz-López. Darío. 2022-02-16. A new theropod dinosaur from the early cretaceous (Barremian) of Cabo Espichel, Portugal: Implications for spinosaurid evolution. PLOS ONE. en. 17. 2. e0262614. 10.1371/journal.pone.0262614. 35171930. 8849621. 2022PLoSO..1762614M. 1932-6203. free.
  16. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/16/angolatitan-adamastor-dinosaur-discovered_n_836647.html Huffington Post
  17. Milàn, J., Christiansen, P., & Mateus, O. (2005). A three-dimensionally preserved sauropod manus impression from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal: implications for sauropod manus shape and locomotor mechanics. Kaupia, 14.
  18. Web site: Rosenbusch . Claudia . 28 April 2023 . Cientista dos dinossauros suspeito de assédio sexual . Dinosaur scientist suspected of sexual harassment . 2023-04-29 . . pt-pt.

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