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Francisco Ortega is affiliated with Grupo México in Mexico and has an extensive publication record in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a specific focus on paleontology. Their work also spans Environmental Science, with subfields including Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Neurology, and Geometry and Topology.

The main research topics covered by Francisco Ortega include:

  • Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Ichthyology and Marine Biology
  • Amphibian and Reptile Biology
  • Turtle Biology and Conservation
  • Morphological variations and asymmetry
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils

Ortega has published in a range of scientific venues, frequently contributing to:

  • Cretaceous Research
  • Journal of Iberian Geology
  • The Anatomical Record
  • Diversity
  • Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Recent papers authored by or involving Ortega include:

  • High browsing skeletal adaptations in Spinophorosaurus reveal an evolutionary innovation in sauropod dinosaurs, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Ontogenetic similarities between giraffe and sauropod neck osteological mobility, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Three-dimensional analysis of the titanosaurian limb skeleton: implications for systematic analysis, 2020, Journal of Iberian Geology
  • Neuroanatomical and neurosensorial analysis of the Late Cretaceous basal eusuchian Agaresuchus fontisensis (Cuenca, Spain), 2020, Papers in Palaeontology
  • A new carcharodontosaurian theropod from the Lusitanian Basin: evidence of allosauroid sympatry in the European Late Jurassic, 2020, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Francisco Ortega include:

  • Adán Pérez-García
  • Fernando Escaso
  • Pedro Mocho
  • J. L. Sanz
  • Iván Narváez

Best Publications

  • A unique multitoothed ornithomimosaur dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain

    Bernardino P. Pérez-Moreno;José Luis Sanz;Angela D. Buscalioni;José J. Moratalla

  • A new species of Araripesuchus (Crocodylomorpha, Mesoeucrocodylia) from the lower Cretaceous of Patagonia (Argentina)

    Francisco Ortega;Zulma Nélida Brandoni de Gasparini;Ángela Buscalioni;Jorge Orlando Calvo

  • An Early Cretaceous bird from Spain and its implications for the evolution of avian flight

    José L. Sanz;Luis M. Chiappe;Bernardino P. Pérez-Moreno;Angela D. Buscalioni

  • A bizarre, humped Carcharodontosauria (Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain

    Francisco Ortega;Fernando Escaso;Fernando Escaso;José L. Sanz

  • A new basal sauropod dinosaur from the middle Jurassic of Niger and the early evolution of sauropoda.

    Kristian Remes;Francisco Ortega;Ignacio Fierro;Ulrich Joger

  • A revision of the crocodyliform Allodaposuchus precedens from the Upper Cretaceous of the Hateg Basin, Romania. Its relevance in the phylogeny of Eusuchia

    A. D. Buscalioni;F. Ortega;D. B. Weishampel;C. M. Jianu

  • A Nestling Bird from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain: Implications for Avian Skull and Neck Evolution

    José L. Sanz;Luis M. Chiappe;Bernardino P. Pérez-Moreno;José J. Moratalla

  • The Braincase of the Basal Sauropod Dinosaur Spinophorosaurus and 3D Reconstructions of the Cranial Endocast and Inner Ear

    Fabien Knoll;Lawrence M. Witmer;Francisco Ortega;Ryan C. Ridgely

  • New evidence of shared dinosaur across Upper Jurassic Proto-North Atlantic: Stegosaurus from Portugal.

    Fernando Escaso;Francisco Ortega;Pedro Dantas;Elisabete Malafaia

  • New crocodiles (Eusuchia: Alligatoroidea) from the Upper Cretaceous of southern Europe

    Angela D. Buscalioni;Francisco Ortega;Denis Vasse

  • Reinterpretation and new denominationof Atacisaurus crassiproratus (Middle Eocene; Issel, France) as cf. Iberosuchus (Crocodylomorpha, Metasuchia)

    Francisco Ortega;Angela D. Buscalioni;Zulma Gasparini

  • Dinosaurios de la Península Ibérica

    F. Ortega;F. Escaso;J. M. Gasulla;P. Dantas

  • The fish trace fossil Undichna from the Cretaceous of Spain

    Jordi M. De Gibert;Luís A. Buatois;María A. Fregenal‐Martínez;M. Gabriela Mángano

  • New and exceptional discovery in the Upper Cretaceous of the Iberian Peninsula: the palaeontological site of “Lo Hueco”, Cuenca, Spain

    F. Barroso-Barcenilla;F. Barroso-Barcenilla;O. Cambra-Moo;F. Escaso;F. Ortega

  • New Crocodyliforms from Southwestern Europe and Definition of a Diverse Clade of European Late Cretaceous Basal Eusuchians.

    Iván Narváez;Christopher A. Brochu;Fernando Escaso;Adán Pérez-García

  • The biota of the Upper Cretaceous site of Lo Hueco (Cuenca, Spain)

    F. Ortega;N. Bardet;F. Barroso-Barcenilla;P.M. Callapez

  • Primera evidencia de dientes aislados atribuidos a Spinosauridae (Theropoda) en el Aptiano inferior (Cretácico Inferior) de Europa: Formación Arcillas de Morella (España)

    José I. Canudo;José M. Gasulla;D. Gómez-Fernández;Francisco Ortega

  • New Spanish Late Cretaceous eusuchian reveals the synchronic and sympatric presence of two allodaposuchids

    I. Narváez;C.A. Brochu;F. Escaso;A. Pérez-García

  • Phylogenetic reassessment of Lourinhasaurus alenquerensis, a basal Macronaria (Sauropoda) from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal

    Pedro Mocho;Rafael Royo-Torres;Francisco Ortega

  • A new titanosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Lo Hueco (Cuenca, Spain)

    V. Díez Díaz;P. Mocho;A. Páramo;A. Páramo;F. Escaso

  • Late cretaceous continental and marine vertebrate assemblages from the Laño quarry (Basque-Cantabrian Region, Iberian Peninsula): an update

    Xabier Pereda Suberbiola;José Carmelo Corral;Humberto Astibia Ayerra;Ainara Badiola Kortabitarte

Frequent Co-Authors

José Luis Sanz
José Luis Sanz Autonomous University of Madrid
Eliecer Coto
Eliecer Coto University of Oviedo
Victoria Alvarez
Victoria Alvarez University of Oviedo
Carlos López-Larrea
Carlos López-Larrea Central University Hospital of Asturias
Luis M. Chiappe
Luis M. Chiappe Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Nathalie Bardet
Nathalie Bardet Université Paris Cité
Christopher A. Brochu
Christopher A. Brochu University of Iowa
Alberto Ortiz
Alberto Ortiz Autonomous University of Madrid
Philip J. Currie
Philip J. Currie University of Alberta
Fernando J.A.S. Barriga
Fernando J.A.S. Barriga University of Lisbon

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