Curriculum Vitae Octávio João Madeira Mateus
Complete name: OCTÁVIO
João Madeira MATEUS
Date of birth: 31 January
1975
Phone number: +351. 918 381 501 (mobile)
Email:
omateus@fct.unl.pt
Homepages: http://www.lusodinos.blogspot.com/ &
http://omateus.googlepages.com/
Institutional Affiliation: New University of Lisbon, Dept. of Earth Sciences,
CICEGe-FCT (as postdoctoral fellow); Museum of Lourinhã, Portugal
(paleontology curator)
2005 PhD in Paleontology, Department of Earth Sciences, New University of Lisbon, Portugal, under advisory of Miguel Telles Antunes.
1998 Graduation in Biology, University of Évora, Portugal
Present Post-doctoral fellowship, Department of Earth Sciences, New University of Lisbon, The Dinosaurs from Portugal, with emphasis to the ornithischians.
1998-2005 Research fellowship, Department of Earth Sciences, New University of Lisbon, Late Jurassic Dinosaurs from Portugal.
1997-2008 Curator of Paleontology, Museum of Lourinhã, Portugal.
PROFESSIONAL SPECIALIZATION AND INTERESTS
The main topics of interest are:
·Mesozoic vertebrates (mainly dinosaurs).
·Evolution.
·Vertebrate Paleontology of Portugal, specially Late Jurassic.
·Science and paleontology museums.
·Curatorial activities and fossil preparation.
·Paleontology of Africa, mainly Angola.
SELECTION OF PUBLICATIONS
MATEUS, O. 2008. Fósseis de transição, elos perdidos, fósseis vivos e espécies estáveis, pp. 77-96, in Levy et al. (eds.), Evolução: História e Argumentos. ISBN: 978-989-8025-55-5.
SANDER, P.M., MATEUS, O., LAVEN, T. & KNÖTSCHKE, N. 2006. Bone histology indicates insular dwarfism in a new Late Jurassic sauropod dinosaur. Nature, 441: 739-741.
MATEUS, O. 2006. Late Jurassic dinosaurs from the Morrison Formation, the Lourinhã and Alcobaça Formations (Portugal), and the Tendaguru Beds (Tanzania): a comparison. in Foster, J.R. and Lucas, S. G. R.M., eds., 2006, Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 36: 223-231.
MATEUS, O., WALEN, A. & ANTUNES, M.T. 2006. The large theropod fauna of the Lourinhã Formation (Portugal) and its similarity to the Morrison Formation, with a description of a new species of Allosaurus. in Foster, J.R. and Lucas, S. G. R.M., eds., 2006, Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 36: 123-129.
Ricqles, A. DE; MATEUS, O.; Antunes, M. Telles ; & Taquet, P. 2001. Histomorphogenesis of embryos of Upper Jurassic Theropods from Lourinhã (Portugal). Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences - Série IIa - Sciences de la Terre et des planètes. 332(10): 647-656.
MATEUS, I., MATEUS, H., ANTUNES, M.T, MATEUS, O., TAQUET, P. RIBEIRO, V. & MANUPPELLA, G. 1997. Couvée, œufs et embryons d'un Dinosaure Théropode du Jurassique de Lourinhã (Portugal). C.R Acad. Sci. Paris, Sciences de la terre et des planètes, 325: 71-78.
MATEUS, O. 1998. Lourinhanosaurus antunesi, a new Upper Jurassic Allosauroid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from Lourinhã (Portugal). Memórias da Academia de Ciências de Lisboa. 37: 111-124.