Our Research and Publication list

Articles in peer-review and book chapters

Araújo, R., Polcyn, M. J., Lindgren, J., Jacobs, L. L., Schulp, A. S., Mateus, O., Gonçalves, A. O., & Morais, M.-L. (2015a). New aristonectine elasmosaurid plesiosaur specimens from the Early Maastrichtian of Angola and comments on paedomorphism in plesiosaurs. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences, 94(1), 93–108. https://doi.org/10.1017/njg.2014.43  PDF

Araújo, R., Polcyn, M. J., Schulp, A. S., Mateus, O., Jacobs, L. L., Gonçalves, A. O., & Morais, M.-L. (2015b). A new elasmosaurid from the early Maastrichtian of Angola and the implications of girdle morphology on swimming style in plesiosaurs. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences, 94(1), 109–120. https://doi.org/10.1017/njg.2014.44  PDF

Fernandes, A. E., Mateus, O., Andres, B., Polcyn, M. J., Schulp, A. S., Gonçalves, A. O., & Jacobs, L. L. (2022). Pterosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Angola. Diversity, 14(9), 741.

Jacobs, L. L., Mateus, O., Polcyn, M. J., Schulp, A. S., Antunes, M. T., Morais, M. L., & Silva Tavares, T. da. (2006a). The occurrence and geological setting of Cretaceous dinosaurs, mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, and turtles from Angola. Paleont. Soc. Korea, 22(1).

Jacobs, L. L., Mateus, O., Polcyn, M. J., Schulp, A. S., Scotese, C. R., Goswami, A., Ferguson, K. M., Robbins, J. A., Vineyard, D. P., & Buto Neto, A. (2009). Cretaceous paleogeography, paleoclimatology, and amniote biogeography of the low and mid-latitude South Atlantic Ocean. Bulletin de La Société Géologique de France, 180(4), 333–341. https://doi.org/10.2113/gssgfbull.180.4.333  PDF

Jacobs, Louis L., Polcyn, Michael J., Mateus, Octávio, Schulp, Anne S., Gonçalves, António Olímpio, Morais, Maria Luísa, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Geology and Geochemistry, & Dynamic Earth and Resources. (2016). Post-Gondwana Africa and the vertebrate history of the Angolan Atlantic Coast. Memoirs of Museum Victoria, 74, 343–362. https://doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.2016.74.24

Mateus, O. et al. (2019). Biodiversidade de Angola: Ciência e Conservação - Uma Síntese Moderna (pp. 89–116). Arte & Ciência.

Mateus, O., Callapez, P. M., Polcyn, M. J., Schulp, A. S., Gonçalves, A. O., & Jacobs, L. L. (2019). The Fossil Record of Biodiversity in Angola Through Time: A Paleontological Perspective. In B. J. Huntley, V. Russo, F. Lages, & N. Ferrand (Eds.), Biodiversity of Angola: Science & Conservation: A Modern Synthesis (pp. 53–76). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03083-4_4

Mateus, O., Jacobs, L. L., Schulp, A. S., Polcyn, M. J., Tavares, T. S., Neto, A. B., Morais, M. L., & Antunes, M. T. (2011). Angolatitan adamastor, a new sauropod dinosaur and the first record from Angola. Anais Da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 83(1), 221–233. https://doi.org/10.1590/s0001-37652011000100012

Mateus, O., Jacobs, L., Polcyn, M., Schulp, A. S., Vineyard, D., Neto, A. B., & Antunes, M. T. (2009a). The oldest African eucryptodiran turtle from the Cretaceous of Angola. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 54(4), 581–588.

Mateus, O., Marzola, M., Schulp, A. S., Jacobs, L. L., Polcyn, M. J., Pervov, V., Gonçalves, A. O., & Morais, M. L. (2017). Angolan ichnosite in a diamond mine shows the presence of a large terrestrial mammaliamorph, a crocodylomorph, and sauropod dinosaurs in the Early Cretaceous of Africa. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 471, 220–232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.12.049

Mateus, O., Morais, M. L., Schulp, A. S., Jacobs, L. L., & Polcyn, M. J. (2006). The Cretaceous of Angola. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 26((Suppl. To 3)), 96A-97A.

Mateus, O., Polcyn, M. J., Jacobs, L. L., Araújo, R., Schulp, A. S., Marinheiro, J., Pereira, B., & Vineyard, D. (2011). Cretaceous amniotes from Angola: Dinosaurs, pterosaurs, mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, and turtles Amniotas cretácicos de Angola: dinosaurios, pterosaurios, mosasaurios, plesiosaurios y tortugas. Actas de V Jornadas Internacionales Sobre Paleontología de Dinosaurios y Su Entorno. PDF

Myers, T. S., Polcyn, M. J., Mateus, O., Vineyard, D. P., Gon?alves, A. O., & Jacobs, L. L. (2017). A new durophagous stem cheloniid turtle from the lower Paleocene of Cabinda, Angola. Papers in Palaeontology.

Polcyn, M. J., Jacobs, L. L., Schulp, A. S., & Mateus, O. (2010a). The North African Mosasaur Globidens phosphaticus from the maastrichtian of angola. Historical Biology, 22(1–3), 175–185. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912961003754978 PDF

Schulp, A. S., Polcyn, M. J., Mateus, O., & Jacobs, L. L. (2013). Two rare mosasaurs from the Maastrichtian of Angola and the Netherlands. Geologie En Mijnbouw/Netherlands Journal of Geosciences, 92(1), 3–10.

Schulp, A. S., Polcyn, M. J., Mateus, O., Jacobs, L. L., Morais, M. L., & da Silva Tavares, T. (2006a). New mosasaur material from the Maastrichtian of Angola, with notes on the phylogeny, distribution and palaeoecology of the genus Prognathodon. On Maastricht Mosasaurs. Publicaties van Het Natuurhistorisch Genootschap in Limburg, 45(1), 57–67. PDF

Strganac, C., Jacobs, L., Polcyn, M., Ferguson, K., Mateus, O., Gonçalves, A. O., Morais, M.-L., & da Silva Tavares, T. (2015). Stable oxygen isotope chemostratigraphy and paleotemperature regime of mosasaurs at Bentiaba, Angola. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences, 94(01), 137–143.

Strganac, C., Jacobs, L., Polcyn, M., Mateus, O., Myers, T., Salminen, J., May, S., Araújo, R., Ferguson, K., & Gonçalves, A. O. (2015). Geological setting and paleoecology of the Upper Cretaceous Bench 19 marine vertebrate bonebed at Bentiaba, Angola. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences, 94(01), 121–136.

Strganac, C., Salminen, J., Jacobs, L. L., Polcyn, M. J., Ferguson, K. M., Mateus, O., Schulp, A. S., Morais, M. L., da Silva Tavares, T., & Gonçalves, A. O. (2014a). Carbon isotope stratigraphy, magnetostratigraphy, and 40 Ar/39 Ar age of the Cretaceous South Atlantic coast, Namibe Basin, Angola. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 99, 452–462.

Theses and dissertations

PhD

Maréchal, Arthur (FCT NOVA). Ongoing  "Marine vertebrate through Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary in Angola: disentangling the effect of K-Pg mass extinction and fauna recovery"

Strganac, Christopher Bryan (SMU)  2014 “Chronostratigraphy, Paleotemperature Change, and Mosasaur Paleoecology at the Late Cretaceous South Atlantic Margin, Bentiaba, Angola” 2014.

Araújo, Ricardo (SMU). 2013. "Aspects of plesiosaur locomotion: insights from Angolan specimens, Eusauropterygian heritage, myology and osteology."

Master in Paleontology. Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Universidade de Évora

Gonçalo Dias Nogueira Pires Soares, thesis on “Late Cretaceous Sea Turtle from Bentiaba, Angola Ascribed to Euclastes”. Defended on July 27th, 2022. Master in Paleontology. Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Universidade de Évora 

Carlos Gaudari Silvano. Topic: “Geossítios de Vertebrados Fósseis de Angola”. Defended on Feb. 3rd, 2022. Master in Paleontology. Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Universidade de Évora

Daniel Liam Capelo O’Toole.Topic: “The Cretaceous Angolan turtle Angolachelys mbaxi, description of a new specimen of postcranial skeleton”. Date: 28/01/2021. Master in Paleontology. Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Universidade de Évora

Miguel Marx. Topic: “A New specimen of cardiocorax Mukulu with a nearly complete cranium from Angola”. Date: 22/06/2020. Master in Paleontology. Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Universidade de Évora

Alexandra Fernandes. Topic: “Pterosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Bentiaba, Angola” Date: 29/04/2020. Master in Paleontology. Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Universidade de Évora

Abstracts and public engagement 

Graf, J., Jacobs, L. L., Polcyn, M. J., Mateus, O., & Schulp, A. (2011). New fossil whales from Angola. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 31, 119–119.

Jackson, Y. J., Economos, R. C., Jacobs, L. L., Mateus, O., & Gonçalves, A. O. (2020). When dinosaurs walked through diamonds: Constraining the age of Early Cretaceous footprints in volcanic crater sediments. 54th Annual GSA Geological Society of America - South-Central Section Meeting 2020, 52(Geological Society of America).

Jacobs, L. L., Morais, M. L., Schulp, A. S., Mateus, O., & Polcyn, M. J. (2006). Systematic Position and Geological Context of Angolasaurus (Mosasauridae) and a New Sea Turtle from the Cretaceous of Angola. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 26 (Suppl. To 3), 81A.

Jacobs, L. L., Polcyn, M. J., Mateus, O., Schulp, A., Ferguson, K., Scotese, C., Jacobs, B. F., Strganac, C., Vineyard, D., Myers, T. S., & Morais, M. L. (2010). Tectonic Drift, Climate, and Paleoenvironment of Angola Since the Cretaceous. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, 1, 02. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010AGUFM.B44B..02J

Jacobs, L., Polcyn, M., Mateus, O., Schulp, & Neto, A. (2009). The Cretaceous Skeleton Coast of Angola. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 29(3), 121A.

Marzola, M., Mateus, O., Schulp, A., Jacobs, L., Polcyn, M. J., Pervov, V., Goncalves, A., & Morais, M. (2015). Comparative anatomy and systematics of Cretaceous mammal tracks of Angola. 13th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists - EAVP 2015, 35.

Marzola, M., Mateus, O., Schulp, A., Jacobs, L., Polcyn, M., & Pervov, V. (2014). Early Cretaceous tracks of a large mammaliamorph, a crocodylomorph, and dinosaurs from an Angolan diamond mine. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 181.

Mateus, O. et al. (2012). Age and paleoecology of mosasaurs and plesiosaurs from the Late Cretaceous South Atlantic margin at Bentiaba, Angola. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, 2012. 180., 180–181.

Mateus, O., & Castanhinha, R. (2008). PaleoAngola- Predadores de um oceano primitivo. National Geographic Portugal, 8(91), 26–33.

Mateus, O., Jacobs, L. L., Polcyn, M. J., Myers, T. S., & Schulp, A. S. (2015). The fossil record of testudines from Angola from the Turonian to Oligocene. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Mateus, O., Jacobs, L. L., Polcyn, M. J., Schulp, A. S., Neto, A. B., & Antunes, M. T. (2008). Dinosaur and turtles from the Turonian of Iembe, Angola. Livro de Resumos de Tercer Congreso Latinoamericano de Paleontología de Vertebrados, 156–156. http://omateus.googlepages.com/Mateusetall2008Turtles.pdf

Myers, T. S., Mateus, O., Polcyn, M. J., Vineyard, D., & Jacobs, L. L. (2016b). A new chelonioid turtle from the Paleocene of Cabinda, Angola. Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 294.

Polcyn, M. J., Jacobs, L. L., Schulp, A. S., & Mateus, O. (2015a). Tethyan and Weddellian biogeographic mixing in the Maastrichtian of Angola. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Polcyn, M. J., Jacobs, L. L., Schulp, A. S., & Mateus, O. (2015b). Trolling the Cretaceous Seas: Marine Amniotes of Two West Coast Margins.

Polcyn, M., Jacobs, L. L., Schulp, A., & Mateus, O. (2007). Halisaurus (Squamata: Mosasauridae) from the Maastrichtian of Angola. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 27(suppl. to 3), 130A.

Polcyn, M., Jacobs, L., Mateus, O., & Schulp, A. (2009). New specimens of Angolasaurus bocagei and comments on the early radiations of plioplatecarpine mosasaurs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 29(3), 165A.

Polcyn, M. W., Jacobs, L. L., Schulp, A. S., & Mateus, O. (2007a). Morphology and systematic position of Angolasaurus bocagei and the evolution of the braincase in Plioplatecarpine mosasaurs. Second Mosasaur Meeting, 20. http://omateus.googlepages.com/Polcyn_et_al_2007_Angolosaurus_Mosas.pdf

Polcyn, M. W., Jacobs, L. L., Schulp, A. S., & Mateus, O. (2007b). The mosasaurs of Angola. Second Mosasaur Meeting, 21. http://omateus.googlepages.com/Polcyn_et_al_2007_The_mosasaurs_of_A.pdf

Schulp, A. S., Polcyn, M. J., Mateus, O., Jacobs, L. L., & Morais, M. L. (2008c). A new species of Prognathodon (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from the Maastrichtian of Angola, and the affinities of the mosasaur genus Liodon. Proceedings of the Second Mosasaur Meeting, Fort Hays Studies Special Issue 3, Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas, 1–12. 

Schulp, A. S., Mateus, O., Polcyn, M., Gonçalves, A., & Jacobs, L. L. (2019). Angola and its role in the paleobiogeography of Gondwana. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, 188.