Octávio Mateus

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Octávio Mateus (born 1975) is a

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]

Iberospinus natarioi

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]

References

  1. PMID 26492525
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  2. PMID 26734729
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  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.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) PDF Document Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ISSN 1251-8050
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  6. ISSN 0753-3969
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  7. ISSN 1631-0683
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  8. S2CID 4361820
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  9. ^ Mateus, Octávio; Walen, Aart; Antunes, Miguel Telles (2006). "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". In Foster, John R.; Lucas, Spencer G. (eds.). Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 36. Albuquerque, New Mexico: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. pp. 123–129.
  10. PMID 21437383
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  11. PMID 24598585
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  12. S2CID 59387149
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  13. PMID 25870766
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  14. ISSN 1424-2818
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  15. PMID 35171930
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  16. ^ Huffington Post - Angolatitan Adamastor: New Dinosaur, 'Angolan Giant,' Discovered
  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. ^ Rosenbusch, Claudia (28 April 2023). "Cientista dos dinossauros suspeito de assédio sexual" [Dinosaur scientist suspected of sexual harassment]. Sábado (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-04-29.

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