Octávio Mateus

Octávio Mateus (1975-), Portuguese paleontologist.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Mateus, O. 1998. Lourinhanosaurus antunesi, a new Upper Jurassic allosauroid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from Lourinhã (Portugal). Memórias da Academia de Ciências de Lisboa 37: 111–124.

Bonaparte, J.F. & Mateus, O. 1999. A new diplodocid, Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis gen. et sp. nov., from the Late Jurassic beds of Portugal. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales 5 (2): 13–29.

Allain, R., Taquet, P., Battail, B., Dejax, J., Richir, P., Véran, M., Limon-Duparcmeur, F., Vacant, R., Mateus, O., Sayarath, P., Khenthavong, B. & Phouyavong, S. 1999. Un nouveau genre de dinosaure sauropode de la formation des Grès supérieurs (Aptien-Albien) du Laos. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris, Sciences de la Terre et des Planètes 329: 609–616. DOI: 10.1016/S1251-8050(00)87218-3 Academia.edu Reference page.
Bonaparte, J.F. & Mateus, O. 1999. A new diplodocid, Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis gen. et sp. nov., from the Late Jurassic beds of Portugal. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales 5(2): 13–29.

Mateus, O. & Antunes, M.T. 2001: Draconyx loureiroi, a new Camptosauridae (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Late Jurassic of Lourinhã, Portugal. Annales de Paleontologie 87 (1): 61–73.

Antunes, M.T. & Mateus, O. 2003. Dinosaurs of Portugal. Comptes rendus. Palévol 2 (1): 77–95. DOI: 10.1016/S1631-0683(03)00003-4

Sander, P.M.; Mateus, O.; Laven, T. & Knötschke, N. 2006. Bone histology indicates insular dwarfism in a new Late Jurassic sauropod dinosaur. Nature 441: 739–741. DOI: 10.1038/nature04633
Mateus, O.; Walen, A. & Antunes, M.T. 2006. The large theropod fauna of the Lourinha Formation (Portugal) and its similarity to that of the Morrison Formation, with a description of a new species of Allosaurus. In Foster, John R.; and Lucas, Spencer G. (eds.). Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 36: 123–129.

Mateus, O. 2008. Two ornithischian dinosaurs renamed: Microceratops Bohlin 1953 and Diceratops Lull 1905. Journal of Paleontology 82 (2): 423. DOI: 10.1666/07-069.1
Schulp, A.S.; Polcyn, M.J.; Mateus, O.; Jacobs, L.L. & Morais, M.L. 2008. A new species of Prognathodon (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from the Maastrichtian of Angola, and the affinities of the mosasaur genus Liodon. Proceedings of the Second Mosasaur Meeting, Fort Hays Studies Special Issue 3: 1–12.

Mateus, O.; Maidment, S.C.R. & Christiansen, N.A. 2009. A new long-necked 'sauropod-mimic' stegosaur and the evolution of the plated dinosaurs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 276 (1663): 1815–1821. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1909
Mateus, O.; Jacobs, L.; Polcyn, M.; Schulp, A.S.; Vineyard, D.; Buta Neto, A. & Antunes, M.T. 2009. The oldest African eucryptodiran turtle from the Cretaceous of Angola. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 54 (4): 581–588. DOI: 10.4202/app.2008.0063
Hendrickx, C., Hartman, S.A., & Mateus, O. (2015). An Overview of Non- Avian Theropod Discoveries and Classification. PalArch’s Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology, 12(1): 1–73.

Smith, A.S., Araújo, R. & Mateus, O. 2012. A new plesiosauroid from the Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) of Alhadas, Portugal. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57(2): 257–266. DOI: 10.4202/app.2011.0023 . Reference page.

Araújo, R., Polcyn, M.J., Schulp, A.S., Mateus, O., Jacobs, L.L., Gonçalves, A.O. & Morais, M.-L. 2015. A new elasmosaurid from the early Maastrichtian of Angola and the implications of girdle morphology on swimming style in plesiosaurs. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 94(1): 109–120. DOI: 10.1017/njg.2014.44 . Reference page.

Agnolin, F. L., Mateus, O., Milàn J., Marzola M., Wings O., Adolfssen J. S., & Clemmensen L. B. 2018. Ceratodus tunuensis, sp. nov., a new lungfish (Sarcopterygii, Dipnoi) from the Upper Triassic of central East Greenland. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. e1439834