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2026

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Citations
5266
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  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Portugal Leader Award

Overview

Octávio Mateus is affiliated with Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal and has made contributions mainly within the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science.

The main focus of their research lies in paleontology, with significant publications covering several related subfields:

  • Paleontology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Geology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology

Their work addresses a range of topics, including:

  • Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Ichthyology and Marine Biology
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geological Studies and Exploration
  • Amphibian and Reptile Biology
  • Optical measurement and interference techniques

Octávio Mateus has coauthored research frequently with several scholars, including Jesper Milàn, Lars B. Clemmensen, Miguel Moreno-Azanza, Filippo Maria Rotatori, and Eduardo Puértolas-Pascual.

Their publications have appeared mainly in venues such as:

  • Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark
  • Diversity
  • Historical Biology
  • PLoS ONE
  • Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Selected recent papers include:

  • "Morphology and distribution of scales, dermal ossifications, and other non-feather integumentary structures in non-avialan theropod dinosaurs" (2022), published in Biological Reviews/Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • "Osteology of an exceptionally well-preserved tapejarid skeleton from Brazil: Revealing the anatomy of a curious pterodactyloid clade" (2021), published in PLoS ONE
  • "A new theropod dinosaur from the early cretaceous (Barremian) of Cabo Espichel, Portugal: Implications for spinosaurid evolution" (2022), published in PLoS ONE
  • "New information on ornithopod dinosaurs from the Late Jurassic of Portugal" (2020), published in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
  • "Reappraisal and new material of the holotype of Draconyx loureiroi (Ornithischia: Iguanodontia) provide insights on the tempo and modo of evolution of thumb-spiked dinosaurs" (2021), published in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Best Publications

  • Osteology of the Late Jurassic Portuguese sauropod dinosaur Lusotitan atalaiensis (Macronaria) and the evolutionary history of basal titanosauriforms

    Philip D. Mannion;Philip D. Mannion;Paul Upchurch;Rosie N. Barnes;Octávio Mateus

  • A Proposed Terminology of Theropod Teeth (Dinosauria, Saurischia)

    Christophe Hendrickx;Octávio Mateus;Ricardo Araújo

  • Dinosaurs of Portugal

    Miguel Telles Antunes;Octávio Mateus

  • Physical drivers of mosasaur evolution

    Michael J. Polcyn;Louis L. Jacobs;Ricardo Araújo;Anne S. Schulp

  • Torvosaurus gurneyi n. sp., the Largest Terrestrial Predator from Europe, and a Proposed Terminology of the Maxilla Anatomy in Nonavian Theropods

    Christophe Hendrickx;Octávio Mateus

  • Late Jurassic dinosaurs from the Morrison Formation, the Lourinhã and Alcobaça Formations (Portugal), and the Tendaguru Beds (Tanzania): a comparison

    Octávio Mateus

  • The distribution of dental features in non-avian theropod dinosaurs: Taxonomic potential, degree of homoplasy, and major evolutionary trends

    Christophe Hendrickx;Octávio Mateus;Ricardo Araújo;Jonah Choiniere

  • An overview of non-avian theropod discoveries and classification

    Christophe Hendrickx;Scott A. Hartman;Octávio Mateus

  • A new diplodocid, Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis gen. et sp. nov., from the Late Jurassic beds of Portugal

    J F Bonaparte;O. Mateus

  • 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

    Octávio Mateus;Aart Walen;Miguel Telles Antunes

  • Draconyx loureiroi, a new camptosauridae (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) from the Late Jurassic of Lourinhã, Portugal

    Octávio Mateus;Miguel Telles Antunes;Miguel Telles Antunes

  • A new specimen of the theropod dinosaur Baryonyx from the early Cretaceous of Portugal and taxonomic validity of Suchosaurus

    Octávio Mateus;Ricardo Araújo;Carlos Natário;Rui Castanhinha

  • Filling the gaps of dinosaur eggshell phylogeny: Late Jurassic Theropod clutch with embryos from Portugal

    Ricardo Araújo;Rui Castanhinha;Rui M. S. Martins;Octávio Mateus

  • Angolatitan adamastor, a new sauropod dinosaur and the first record from Angola

    Octávio Mateus;Louis L. Jacobs;Anne S. Schulp;Michael J. Polcyn

  • A diverse Upper Jurassic dinosaur ichnofauna from central‐west Portugal

    Octávio Mateus;Jesper Milàn

  • THE OCCURRENCE AND GEOLOGICAL SETTING OF CRETACEOUS DINOSAURS, MOSASAURS, PLESIOSAURS, AND TURTLES FROM ANGOLA

    Louis L. Jacobs;Octávio Mateus;Michael J. Polcyn;Anne S. Schulp

  • New aristonectine elasmosaurid plesiosaur specimens from the Early Maastrichtian of Angola and comments on paedomorphism in plesiosaurs

    R. Araujo;M. J. Polcyn;Johan Lindgren;L. L. Jacobs

  • A new species of Metoposaurus from the Late Triassic of Portugal and comments on the systematics and biogeography of metoposaurid temnospondyls

    Stephen L. Brusatte;Richard J. Butler;Octávio Mateus;J. Sébastien Steyer

  • Osteology of Galeamopus pabsti sp. nov. (Sauropoda: Diplodocidae), with implications for neurocentral closure timing, and the cervico-dorsal transition in diplodocids

    Emanuel Tschopp;Emanuel Tschopp;Octávio Mateus

  • Zby atlanticus, a new turiasaurian sauropod (Dinosauria, Eusauropoda) from the Late Jurassic of Portugal

    Octávio Mateus;Philip D. Mannion;Paul Upchurch

  • An Ornithopod-Dominated Tracksite from the Lower Cretaceous Jiaguan Formation (Barremian–Albian) of Qijiang, South-Central China: New Discoveries, Ichnotaxonomy, Preservation and Palaeoecology

    Lida Xing;Martin G. Lockley;Daniel Marty;Jianping Zhang

  • Histomorphogenesis of embryos of Upper Jurassic Theropods from Lourinhã (Portugal)

    Armand J. de Ricqlès;Octávio Mateus;Miguel Telles Antunes;Miguel Telles Antunes;Philippe Taquet;Philippe Taquet

Frequent Co-Authors

Louis L. Jacobs
Louis L. Jacobs Southern Methodist University
Lars B. Clemmensen
Lars B. Clemmensen University of Copenhagen
Stephen L. Brusatte
Stephen L. Brusatte University of Edinburgh
Philip D. Mannion
Philip D. Mannion University College London
Mark A. Norell
Mark A. Norell American Museum of Natural History
Richard J. Butler
Richard J. Butler University of Birmingham
Dennis V. Kent
Dennis V. Kent Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Pedro P. Cunha
Pedro P. Cunha University of Coimbra
Paul Upchurch
Paul Upchurch University College London
Michael J. Benton
Michael J. Benton University of Bristol

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