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Jordi Agustí is affiliated with Rovira i Virgili University in Spain, focusing on research within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work addresses multiple subfields, including Paleontology, Anthropology, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Key topics in Agustí's research include:

  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
  • Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

Recent publications by Agustí highlight their ongoing contributions to paleontological and geological knowledge. Notable papers include:

  • "Five-fold expansion of the Caspian Sea in the late Pliocene: New and revised magnetostratigraphic and 40Ar/39Ar age constraints on the Akchagylian Stage" (2021), published in Global and Planetary Change
  • "A catalogue of the vertebrate fossil record from the Guadix-Baza Basin (SE Spain)" (2020), Spanish Journal of Palaeontology
  • "First continuous pre-Jaramillo to Jaramillo terrestrial vertebrate succession from Europe" (2020), Scientific Reports
  • "Quibas-Sima: A unique 1 ma-old vertebrate succession in southern Iberian Peninsula" (2022), Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Amphibian body size and species richness as a proxy for primary productivity and climate: The Orce wetlands (Early Pleistocene, Guadix-Baza Basin, SE Spain)" (2021), Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology

Frequent co-authors in Agustí's work include:

  • Pedro Piñero
  • Hugues-Alexandre Blain
  • Marc Furió
  • Oriol Oms
  • Gerard Campeny

Agustí's publications have appeared primarily in venues such as:

  • Historical Biology
  • Spanish Journal of Palaeontology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Comptes Rendus Palevol

Best Publications

  • Postcranial evidence from early Homo from Dmanisi, Georgia

    David Lordkipanidze;Tea Jashashvili;Tea Jashashvili;Abesalom Vekua;Marcia S. Ponce de León

  • A New Skull of Early Homo from Dmanisi, Georgia

    Abesalom Vekua;David Lordkipanidze;G. Philip Rightmire;Jordi Agusti

  • Earliest human occupations at Dmanisi (Georgian Caucasus) dated to 1.85-1.78 Ma.

    Reid Ferring;Oriol Oms;Jordi Agustí;Francesco Berna

  • Circum-Mediterranean Neogene (Miocene and Pliocene) marine-continental chronologic correlations of European mammal units

    F. F. Steininger;William A. Berggren;Dennis V. Kent;Raymond L. Bernor

  • The oldest human fossil in Europe, from Orce (Spain).

    Isidro Toro-Moyano;Bienvenido Martínez-Navarro;Jordi Agustí;Caroline Souday

  • Anthropology: the earliest toothless hominin skull.

    David Lordkipanidze;Abesalom Vekua;Reid Ferring;G. Philip Rightmire

  • Age and Date for Early Arrival of the Acheulian in Europe (Barranc de la Boella, la Canonja, Spain)

    Josep Vallverdú;Palmira Saladié;Antonio Rosas;Rosa Huguet;Rosa Huguet

  • Early Pleistocene enamel proteome from Dmanisi resolves Stephanorhinus phylogeny

    Enrico Cappellini;Frido Welker;Frido Welker;Luca Pandolfi;Jazmín Ramos-Madrigal

  • Evidence for African–Iberian exchanges during the Messinian in the Spanish mammalian record

    Jordi Agustí;Miguel Garcés;Wout Krijgsman

  • A fourth hominin skull from Dmanisi, Georgia.

    David Lordkipanidze;Abesalom Vekua;Reid Ferring;G. Philip Rightmire;G. Philip Rightmire

  • Climate forcing of first hominid dispersal in Western Europe

    Jordi Agustí;Hugues-Alexandre Blain;Gloria Cuenca-Bescós;Salvador Bailon

  • On the limits of using combined U-series/ESR method to date fossil teeth from two Early Pleistocene archaeological sites of the Orce area (Guadix-Baza basin, Spain)

    Mathieu Duval;Christophe Falguères;Jean-Jacques Bahain;Rainer Grün

  • A new Lower Pleistocene archeological site in Europe (Vallparadís, Barcelona, Spain)

    Kenneth Martínez;Joan Garcia;Eudald Carbonell;Jordi Agustí

  • Homo vs. Pachycrocuta: Earliest evidence of competition for an elephant carcass between scavengers at Fuente Nueva-3 (Orce, Spain)

    Ma Patrocinio Espigares;Bienvenido Martínez-Navarro;Paul Palmqvist;Sergio Ros-Montoya

  • Explaining the end of the hominoid experiment in Europe.

    J Agustı́;A.Sanz de Siria;M Garcés

  • The early Pleistocene small vertebrate succession from the Orce region (Guadix-Baza Basin, SE Spain) and its bearing on the first human occupation of Europe

    Jordi Agustí;Hugues-Alexandre Blain;Marc Furió;Roger De Marfá

  • Refining upon the climatic background of the Early Pleistocene hominid settlement in western Europe: Barranco León and Fuente Nueva-3 (Guadix-Baza Basin, SE Spain)

    Hugues-Alexandre Blain;Iván Lozano-Fernández;Jordi Agustí;Salvador Bailon

  • Old World first appearance datum of “Hipparion” horses: Late Miocene large-mammal dispersal and global events

    Miguel Garcés;Lluís Cabrera;Jordi Agustí;Josep Maria Parés

  • Mammal extinctions in the Vallesian (Upper Miocene)

    J. Agusti;S. Moya-Sola

  • Can Llobateres: the pattern and timing of the Vallesian hominoid radiation reconsidered

    J. Agustı́;M. Köhler;S. Moyà-Solà;L. Cabrera

  • Ecogeographical stability and climate forcing in the Late Miocene (Vallesian) rodent record of Spain

    Isaac Casanovas-Vilar;Jordi Agustí

Frequent Co-Authors

Oriol Oms
Oriol Oms Autonomous University of Barcelona
Hugues-Alexandre Blain
Hugues-Alexandre Blain Rovira i Virgili University
David Lordkipanidze
David Lordkipanidze Georgian National Museum
Juan Manuel López-García
Juan Manuel López-García Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution
Francesc Burjachs
Francesc Burjachs Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Paul Palmqvist
Paul Palmqvist University of Malaga
Lorenzo Rook
Lorenzo Rook University of Florence
Gloria Cuenca-Bescós
Gloria Cuenca-Bescós University of Zaragoza
Miguel Garcés
Miguel Garcés University of Barcelona
Lluís Cabrera
Lluís Cabrera University of Barcelona

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