Fernando Escaso

Prof. Fernando Escaso

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Academic Career Length

21Years (2006-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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1 September 2010 in Nature
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FOFrancisco Ortega
Francisco Ortega
FEFernando Escaso
Fernando Escaso
JSJosé Luis Sanz
José Luis Sanz

4 November 2015 in PLOS ONE
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INIván Narváez
Iván Narváez
CBChristopher A. Brochu
Christopher A. Brochu
FEFernando Escaso
Fernando Escaso
Adán Pérez-GarcíaAdán Pérez-García
Adán Pérez-García
FOFrancisco Ortega
Francisco Ortega
The late Campanian-early Maastrichtian site of Lo Hueco (Cuenca, Spain) has provided a set of well-preserved crocodyliform skull and lower jaw remains, which are described here and assigned to a new basal eusuchian taxon, Lohuecosuchus megadontos gen. et sp. nov. The reevaluation of a complete skull from the synchronous site of Fox-Amphoux (Department of Var, France) allows us to define a second species of this new genus. Phylogenetic analysis places Lohuecosuchus in a clade exclusively composed by European Late Cretaceous taxa. This new clade, defined here as Allodaposuchidae, is recognized as the sister group of Hylaeochampsidae, also comprised of European Cretaceous forms. Allodaposuchidae and Hylaeochampsidae are grouped in a clade identified as the sister group of Crocodylia, the only crocodyliform lineage that reaches our days. Allodaposuchidae shows a vicariant distribution pattern in the European Late Cretaceous archipelago, with several Ibero-Armorican forms more closely related to each other than with to Romanian Allodaposuchus precedens.

1 December 2016 in Cretaceous Research
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VDVerónica Díez Díaz
Verónica Díez Díaz
PMP. Mocho
P. Mocho
APA. Páramo
A. Páramo
FEFernando Escaso
Fernando Escaso
FMF. Marcos-Fernández
F. Marcos-Fernández
FOFrancisco Ortega
Francisco Ortega

16 December 2015 in PLOS ONE
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JGJosé Miguel Gasulla
José Miguel Gasulla
FEFernando Escaso
Fernando Escaso
INIván Narváez
Iván Narváez
FOFrancisco Ortega
Francisco Ortega
JSJosé Luis Sanz
José Luis Sanz
A new styracosternan ornithopod genus and species is here described based on a partial postcranial skeleton and an associated dentary tooth of a single specimen from the Arcillas de Morella Formation (Early Cretaceous, late Barremian) at the Morella locality, (Castellón, Spain). Morelladon beltrani gen. et sp. nov. is diagnosed by eight autapomorphic features. The set of autapomorphies includes: very elongated and vertical neural spines of the dorsal vertebrae, midline keel on ventral surface of the second to fourth sacral vertebrae restricted to the anterior half of the centrum, a posterodorsally inclined medial ridge on the postacetabular process of the ilium that meets its dorsal margin and distal end of the straight ischial shaft laterally expanded, among others. Phylogenetic analyses reveal that the new Iberian form is more closely related to its synchronic and sympatric contemporary European taxa Iguanodon bernissartensis and Mantellisaurus atherfieldensis, known from Western Europe, than to other Early Cretaceous Iberian styracosternans (Delapparentia turolensis and Proa valdearinnoensis). The recognition of Morelladon beltrani gen. et sp. nov. indicates that the Iberian Peninsula was home to a highly diverse medium to large bodied styracosternan assemblage during the Early Cretaceous.

29 July 2014 in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
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FEFernando Escaso
Fernando Escaso
FOFrancisco Ortega
Francisco Ortega
PDPedro Dantas
Pedro Dantas
EMElisabete Malafaia
Elisabete Malafaia
Bruno CamiloBruno Camilo
Bruno Camilo
JSJosé Luis Sanz
José Luis Sanz
A new dryosaurid ornithopod, Eousdryosaurus nanohallucis, gen. et sp. nov., is described here based on a single specimen from the Late Jurassic Alcobaça Formation of Portugal. Eousdryosaurus nanohallucis is distinguished from all other dryosaurids by eight autapomorphic features and an unique combination of characters, some of which are also shared by other dryosaurids. Eousdryosaurus is linked with Dryosauridae, because the fourth trochanter is proximally placed and widely separated from the scar for the insertion of the M. caudifemoralis longus, which is restricted to the medial surface of the femoral shaft. Phylogenetic analysis nests Eousdryosaurus in an unresolved polytomy at the base of Dryosauridae together with Callovosaurus, Dryosaurus, and Kangnasaurus. The complete pes of Eousdryosaurus, which has a phalangeal formula of 1-3-4-5-0, supports the putative autapomorphic reduction of the dryosaurid pes that also occurs in parallel in more derived ornithopods. SUPPLEMENTAL DATA—Supplemental materials are available for this article for free at www.tandfonline.com/UJVP

23 December 2006 in The Science of Nature
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FEFernando Escaso
Fernando Escaso
FOFrancisco Ortega
Francisco Ortega
PDPedro Dantas
Pedro Dantas
EMElisabete Malafaia
Elisabete Malafaia
Nuno PimentelNuno Pimentel
Nuno Pimentel
FBFernando J.A.S. Barriga
Fernando J.A.S. Barriga