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Oriol Oms is affiliated with the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain and focuses their research primarily within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, contributing extensively to the study of paleontology and related disciplines.

Their work spans several subfields, including Paleontology, Anthropology, Earth-Surface Processes, Atmospheric Science, and Archeology. The scientific topics covered by their research include Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological formations and processes, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, and Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology.

Oriol Oms has published papers in a variety of academic venues. Notably, the most frequent publication venues include Quaternary Science Reviews, Scientific Reports, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, and the Spanish Journal of Palaeontology.

Their recent papers include the following:

  • "Pliocene to Middle Pleistocene climate history in the Guadix-Baza Basin, and the environmental conditions of early Homo dispersal in Europe," 2021, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Oldowan stone knapping and percussive activities on a raw material reservoir deposit 1.4 million years ago at Barranco León (Orce, Spain)," 2021, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
  • "New stratigraphically constrained palaeoenvironmental reconstructions for the first human settlement in Western Europe: The Early Pleistocene herpetofaunal assemblages from Barranco León and Fuente Nueva 3 (Granada, SE Spain)," 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "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, Global and Planetary Change
  • "Use of meat resources in the Early Pleistocene assemblages from Fuente Nueva 3 (Orce, Granada, Spain)," 2021, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

In collaboration, Oriol Oms frequently works with several researchers. Regular coauthors include Hugues-Alexandre Blain, Juan Manuel Jiménez Arenas, José Antonio García Solano, Alexia Serrano-Ramos, and Déborah Barsky.

Best Publications

  • Postcranial evidence from early Homo from Dmanisi, Georgia

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

  • A calibrated mammal scale for the Neogene of Western Europe. State of the art

    Jorge Agustí;L. Cabrera;M. Garces;W. Krijgsman

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

    Reid Ferring;Oriol Oms;Jordi Agustí;Francesco Berna

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

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

  • Early human occupation of Western Europe: Paleomagnetic dates for two paleolithic sites in Spain

    O. Oms;J. M. Parés;B. Martínez-Navarro;J. Agustí

  • Quaternary time scales for the Pontocaspian domain : Interbasinal connectivity and faunal evolution

    W. Krijgsman;A. Tesakov;T. Yanina;S. Lazarev

  • Fuente Nueva-3 (Orce, Granada, Spain) and the first human occupation of Europe.

    Bienvenido Martı́nez Navarro;Alain Turq;Jorge Agustı́ Ballester;Oriol Oms

  • The end-Cretaceous dinosaur succession in Europe: The Tremp Basin record (Spain)

    Violeta Riera;Oriol Oms;Rodrigo Gaete;Àngel Galobart

  • The last hadrosaurid dinosaurs of Europe: A new lambeosaurine from the Uppermost Cretaceous of Aren (Huesca, Spain)

    Xabier Pereda-Suberbiola;José Ignacio Canudo;Penélope Cruzado-Caballero;José Luis Barco

  • Integrated stratigraphy from the Vallcebre Basin (southeastern Pyrenees, Spain): New insights on the continental Cretaceous−Tertiary transition in southwest Europe

    O. Oms;J. Dinarès-Turell;E. Vicens;R. Estrada

  • High-resolution LiDAR and photogrammetric survey of the Fumanya dinosaur tracksites (Catalonia): implications for the conservation and interpretation of geological heritage sites

    Karl T. Bates;Frank Rarity;Phillip L. Manning;David Hodgetts

  • Lithostratigraphical correlation of micromammal sites and biostratigraphy of the Upper Pliocene to Lower Pleistocene in the Northeast Guadix-Baza Basin (southern Spain)

    Oriol Oms;Jordi Agustí;Montserrat Gabàs;Pere Anadón

  • A new key locality for the Pliocene vertebrate record of Europe: the Camp dels Ninots maar (NE Spain)

    B. Gómez de Soler;G. Campeny Vall-llosera;J. Van der Made;Oriol Oms

  • Geology and chronology of the continental Pleistocene archeological and paleontological sites of the Orce area (Baza basin, Spain)

    Oriol Oms;Pere Anadón;Jordi Agustí;Ramon Julià

  • On the late Miocene closure of the Mediterranean–Atlantic gateway through the Guadix basin (southern Spain)

    S.K. Hüsing;O. Oms;J. Agustí;M. Garcés

  • The Latest Succession of Dinosaur Tracksites in Europe: Hadrosaur Ichnology, Track Production and Palaeoenvironments

    Bernat Vila;Oriol Oms;Víctor Fondevilla;Rodrigo Gaete

  • The diversity of sauropod dinosaurs and their first taxonomic succession from the latest Cretaceous of southwestern Europe: Clues to demise and extinction

    B. Vila;À. Galobart;J.I. Canudo;J. Le Loeuff

  • The late Neogene-early Quaternary small vertebrate succession from the Almenara-Casablanca karst complex (Castellón, Eastern Spain): Chronologic and paleoclimatic context

    Jordi Agustí;Andrés Santos-Cubedo;Marc Furió;Roger De Marfá

  • Calibration of the late Pliocene-early Pleistocene transition in the continental beds of the Guadix-Baza basin (southeastern Spain)

    Jorge Agustí;Oriol Oms;Miguel Garcés;Josep M. Parés

  • Carbon isotopic record of terrestrial ecosystems spanning the Late Miocene extinction of Oreopithecus bambolii, Baccinello Basin (Tuscany, Italy)

    Samuel D. Matson;Lorenzo Rook;Oriol Oms;David L. Fox

  • Systematic palaeontology (Vertebrate palaeontology) The last hadrosaurid dinosaurs of Europe: A new lambeosaurine from the Uppermost Cretaceous of Aren (Huesca, Spain)

    Xabier Pereda-Suberbiola;José Ignacio Canudo;Penélope Cruzado-Caballero;José Luis Barco

Frequent Co-Authors

Jordi Agustí
Jordi Agustí Rovira i Virgili University
Pere Anadón
Pere Anadón Geociencias Barcelona (GEO3BCN - CSIC)
Jaume Dinarès-Turell
Jaume Dinarès-Turell National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Hugues-Alexandre Blain
Hugues-Alexandre Blain Rovira i Virgili University
Lorenzo Rook
Lorenzo Rook University of Florence
Massimiliano Ghinassi
Massimiliano Ghinassi University of Padua
José Ignacio Canudo
José Ignacio Canudo University of Zaragoza
David Lordkipanidze
David Lordkipanidze Georgian National Museum
Wout Krijgsman
Wout Krijgsman Utrecht University
Mikael Fortelius
Mikael Fortelius University of Helsinki

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