Student internships

Student exchanges

Peer-reviewer for an article in Annals of Carnegie Museum

Doctoral thesis "Evolution of encephalic structures in the native mammalian predators of South America: Its relevance for the study of their ecology and the role of the Sparassodonta in the ecosystems of the Cenozoic"

Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, PROBIOL

Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales (CONICET-UNCuyo-Gob. Mza)

Mendoza, Argentina

Member of the organizing committee of the "34° Jornadas Argentinas de Paleontología de Vertebrados"

Mendoza, Argentina

Master thesis "Fossil fauna of La Petite Morée (Miocene) in Glovelier, Jura"

Universities of Fribourg and Bern

JURASSICA Museum

Firbourg, Switzerland

Bachelor thesis "The taphonomy of the graptolites from the Utica Shale, Québec"

Université Laval

Québec, Canada

Project "CGPal" is a website with a series of short videos presenting some concepts of paleontology, neurobiology, and 3D virtual modeling of fossils that will be posted on social medias (Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube).

Talk at the I Jornadas Latinoamericanas de Divulgación de la Paleontología organized by the Red Colombiana para el Fomento de la Paleontología in Colombia (COPAL).

Recording of the talk about the sabretooth marsupial and other paleontological topics was made available by COPAL following this link (start for Thylacosmilus is at 3:45 minutes).

Copromotor of the museum exhibition "Tocar para aprender: Un viaje al mundo de la paleontología"

Museo de Ciencias Naturales de la Fundación Miguel Lillo

San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina

Talk at the PaleoTalk 2025 organized by the Portuguese Fossil Database. 

More talks are upcoming! You can sign up for the talks and get personalized updates on paleontological topics by following their Discord server "Paleo Tavern of Fossilized Archives".

Promotor of the museum exhibition "Tocar para aprender: Vehiculando Ciencia y Sociedad. Explorando los Órganos de los sentidos"

Museo de Ciencias Naturales y Antropológicas "Juan Cornelio Moyano"

Mendoza, Argentina

Guest for the outreach television program "La Liga de la Ciencia"

Guest for the high school education project "Daily Dive" by Exploring by the Seat of Your Pants

Press interviews for an article. Some examples here: CONICET, AMNH, CNN, Sciences et Avenir

Participation to the setting of the exhibition "Además de  Glaciares, hay GRUPO"

Museo de Ciencias Naturales y Antropológicas "Juan Cornelio Moyano"

Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales (CONICET-UNCyo-Gob. Mza)

Mendoza, Argentina

Participation to the setting of the exhibition "Exposición de Paleoarte de las 34° JAPV"

Museo de Ciencias Naturales y Antropológicas "Juan Cornelio Moyano"

Mendoza, Argentina

Technical assistant of the 3D printing lab of the IANIGLA (CONICET-UNCuyo-Gob. Mza) in Mendoza

Argentina

Teacher of the workshop "Herramientas básicas para generar modelos 3D a partir de tomografías computadas"

VII Simposio Mioceno-Pleistoceno del Centro y Norte de Argentina

La Rioja, Argentina

Volunteer for the American Field Service (AFS) as member of the local committee of Valais, homeinterviewer, homeinterviewer coordinator, member of the film crew, and AFS ambassador

Switzerland

Volunteer at the Jefferson Peer Court as member of the peer court for students under 18 years old

Jefferson, Oregon USA

Languages

Skills

Softwares

Field works

Scientific meetings

Specific courses

Memberships

Articles

Gaillard C, Rougier GW and Forasiepi AM

Early evolutionary transformations in the petrosal and inner ear of Marsupialia

Gaillard C, Costeur L, Prevosti FJ, Maridet O and Scherz K

The inner ear of Felidae and its implication in felids' phylogeny

Forasiepi AM, Gaillard C, MacPhee RDE, Abello MA and Taglioretti ML

Cranial anatomy of the South American Argyrolagus (Marsupialia, Argyrolagidae): New insights and new interpretations

Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural Histoy

Suarez C, Gaillard C, MacPhee RDE and Forasiepi AM

The infraorbital foramen in Sparassodonta (Mammalia, Metatheria), extinct native predators of South America

Ameghiniana 64(4):314-325

https://www.ameghiniana.org.ar/index.php/ameghiniana/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/139

Gaillard C, Prevosti FJ, Forasiepi AM and Babot MJ

The braincase endocast of Sparassodonts reveals that most of today's morphological characters of marsupial brain were already present in stem Marsupialia

Journal of Mammalia Evolution 32:26

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-025-09763-6

Gaillard C, Forasiepi AM, Tarquini SD, MacPhee RDE and Ladevèze S

Cranium of Sipalocyon externus (Metatheria, Sparassodonta) with remarks on the paleoneurology of hathliacynids and inshights into the Early Miocene sparassodonts of Patagonia, Argentina

Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 143:20

https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-024-00312-x

Kramarz A, Bellosi E, Bond M, Forasiepi AM, Gaillard C and Krause M

A new South American archaic ungulate and new insights for the early diversification of the South American native ungulates

Historical Biology 37:1508-1529

https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2024.2380810

Gaillard C, MacPhee RDE and Forasiepi AM

Seeing through the eyes of the sabertooth Thylacosmilus atrox (Metatheria, Sparassodonta)

Communications Biology 6:257

https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-04624-5

MacPhee RDE, Gaillard C, Forasiepi AM and Sulser RB

Transverse canal foramen and pericarotid venous network in Metatheria and other mammals

Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 462:1-122

https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0090.462.1.1

Gaillard C, MacPhee RDE and Forasiepi AM

The stapes of stem and extinct Marsupialia: implications for the ancestral condition

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 41(2):e1924761

https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2021.1924761

Gaillard C, Prevosti FJ, Costeur L and Maridet O

Exploring the inner ear of Felidae (Mammalia: Carnivora)

Abstract booklet of Fossil Carnivore Specialist Group (FCSG) Meeting:10

Gaillard C, Forasiepi AM, Blanco J, Abdala L, Babot MJ, Suárez C and Madozzo Jaén MC

Explorando la evolución de los sentidos con los sentidos: la paleontología y su potencial en la comunicación inclusiva de la ciencia.

Acta Zoológica Lilloana 69(Suplemento):112-113

https://doi.org/10.30550/j.azl/s182

Gaillard C, Suárez, C, Segura V, Babot MJ, Pérez ME and Forasiepi AM

Los depredadores nativos de América del Sur (Mammalia: Metatheria: Sparassodonta): La evolución del encéfalo, la masa corporal y la ocupación del morfoespacio.

Acta Zoológica Lilloana 69(Suplemento):514-515

https://doi.org/10.30550/j.azl/s182

Gaillard C, Forasiepi AM and MacPhee RDE

The South American rat-kangaroo Argyrolagus (Marsupialia, Argyrolagidae): Paleoecological reconstructions based on CT and new fossils from the Pliocene of Argentina

Program and abstracts of the 4th Crossing the Palaeontological-Ecologica Gap (CPEG) and 3rd Conservation Paleobiology Symposium

Gaillard C, Forasiepi AM and Blanco J

"Tocar para aprender: Explorando los órganos de los sentidos" hacia una exposición incluyente en la paleontología

Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina, Libro de Resúmenes 25(R1):R87

https://peapaleontologica.org.ar/index.php/peapa/article/view/544/902

Forasiepi AM, Contreras VH, Kramarz A, Bond M, Martinelli AG, Gaillard C and Vega N

Primer registro de Pantodonta  (Mammalia, Eutheria) en Argentina

Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina, Libro de Resúmenes 25(R1):R85

https://peapaleontologica.org.ar/index.php/peapa/article/view/544/902

Gaillard C, Forasiepi AM and Babot MJ

Insights into the encephalic cavity of Sparassodonta (Mammalia, Metatheria) from 3D digital reconstructions

Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina, Libro de Resúmenes 24(R1):R22

https://doi.org/10.5710/PEAPA.06.03.2024.495

Gaillard C and Forasiepi AM

Insights into the paleoneurology of Sipalocyon (Mammalia, Metatheria), an extinct predator from the Early Miocene of Patagonia, Argentina

96th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Mammalian Biology, Program and Abstracts:p.14.

https://www.pim.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:4783956b-6cb1-4bd4-a8b1-203381e600d7/DGS_Zurich2023_Program&Abstracts_Booklet.pdf

Gaillard C and Forasiepi AM

Nasal cavity of Sipalocyon externus (Metatheria, Sparassodonta)

Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina, Libro de Resúmenes 22(R2):R89

https://doi.org/10.5710/PEAPA.23.03.2022.422

Gaillard C, RDE MacPhee and Forasiepi AM

Seeing through the eyes of Thylacosmilus atrox (Metatheria, Sparassodonta)

Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina, Libro de Resúmenes 21(R2):R20

https://doi.org/10.5710/PEAPA.08.06.2021.394

Gaillard C, RDE MacPhee and Forasiepi AM

The stapes of stem and extinct Marsupialia: implication for the ancestral condition

Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina, Libro de Resúmenes 21(R1):R19

https://doi.org/10.5710/PEAPA.28.04.2021.392

Gaillard C, Tarquini SD, Hernández Del Pino S, Ladevèze S and Forasiepi AM

3D digital endocast of the Early Miocene (Colhuehuapian) Sipalocyon externa (Metatheria, Sparassodonta)

Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina, Libro de Resúmenes 20(R1):R81

https://doi.org/10.5710/PEAPA.16.06.2020.324