Francisco Ortega

Francisco Ortega, Spanish palaeontologist, professor of the National University of Distance Education.

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• 13 taxon names authored by Francisco Ortega

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• Perez-Moreno, B.P., Sanz, J.L., Buscalioni, A.D., Moratalla, J.J., Ortega, F. & Raskin-Gutman, D.. 1994. A unique multitoothed ornithomimosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain. Nature 370: 363–367. DOI: 10.1038/370363a0

• Sanz, J.L., Chiappe, L.M., Pérez-Moreno, B.P., Buscalioni, A.D., Moratalla, J.J., Ortega, F. & Poyato-Ariza, F.J. 1996. An Early Cretaceous bird from Spain and its implications for the evolution of avian flight. Nature 382(6590): 442–445. DOI: 10.1038/382442a0 Reference page. 

• Buscalioni, A.D., Ortega, F. & Vasse, D. 1997. New crocodiles (Eusuchia: Alligatoroidea) from the Upper Cretaceous of southern Europe. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences – Series IIA – Earth and Planetary Science 325: 525–530. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1251-8050(97)89872-2

• Dantas, P., Sanz, J.L., Marques da Silva, C., Ortega, F., Dos Santos V.F. & Cachao, M 1998. Lourinhasaurus n. gen. Novo dinossáurio saurópode do Jurássico superior (Kimmeridgiano superior-Tithoniano inferior) de Portugal. Comunicações do Instituto Geológico e Mineiro 84(1A) : 91–94.

• Ortega, F., Gasparini, Z., Buscalioni, A.D. & Calvo, J.O. 2000. A new species of Araripesuchus (Crocodylomorpha, Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Lower Cretaceous of Patagonia (Argentina). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20: 57–76. DOI: 10.1671/0272-4634(2000)020[0057:ANSOAC]2.0.CO;2 ResearchGate Reference page. 

• Remes, K., Ortega, F., Fierro, I., Joger, U., Kosma, R., Marin Ferrer, J.M., Project PALDES, Niger Project SNHM, Ide, O.A. & MagaA. 2009. A new basal sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Niger and the early evolution of Sauropoda. PLoS One 4(9): e6924. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006924

• Ortega, F., Escaso, F. & Sanz, J.L. 2010. A bizarre, humped Carcharodontosauria (Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain. Nature 467(7312): 203–206. DOI: 10.1038/nature09181

• Pérez-García, A., de la Fuente, M.S. & Ortega, F. 2011. Hoyasemys jimenezi gen. et sp. nov., a freshwater basal eucryptodiran turtle from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57(2): 285–298. DOI: 10.4202/app.2011.0031
• Pérez-García, A. & Ortega, F. 2011. Selenemys lusitanica, gen. et sp. nov., a new pleurosternid turtle (Testudines: Paracryptodira) from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal. Journal of vertebrate paleontology 31(1): 60–69. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2011.540054

• Pérez-García, A., Gasulla, J.M. & Ortega, F. 2012. A new turtle species of Brodiechelys from the Early Cretaceous of Spain: Systematic and palaeobiogeographic implications. Cretaceous Research 48: 130–138. DOI: 10.4202/app.2012.0059
• Pérez-García, A. & Ortega, F. 2012. A new species of the turtle Hylaeochelys (Eucryptodira) outside its known geographic and stratigraphic ranges of distribution. Comptes Rendus Palevol 13(3): 183–188. DOI: 10.1016/j.crpv.2013.10.009

• Escaso, F., Ortega, F., Dantas, P.M., Malafaia, E., Silva, B., Gasulla, J.M. Mocho, P., Narváez, I. & Sanz, J.L. 2014. A new dryosaurid ornithopod (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Late Jurassic of Portugal. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(5): 1102–1112. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2014.849715
• Pérez-García, A., Gasulla, J.M. & Ortega, F. 2014. Eodortoka morellana gen. et sp. nov., the first pan-pleurodiran turtle (Dortokidae) defined in the Lower Cretaceous of Europe. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 59(2): 333–342. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2013.12.004

• Gasulla, J.M., Escaso, F., Narváez, I., Ortega, F. & Sanz, J.L. 2015. A New Sail-Backed Styracosternan (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Early Cretaceous of Morella, Spain. PLoS One 10(12): e0144167. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0144167
• Narváez, I., Brochu, C.A., Escaso, F., Pérez-García, A. & Ortega, F. 2015. New crocodyliforms from southwestern Europe and definition of a diverse clade of European Late Cretaceous basal eusuchians. PLoS ONE 10(11): e0140679. (PDF) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0140679 Reference page. 

• Narváez, I., Brochu, C.A., Escaso, F., Pérez-García, A. & Ortega, F. 2016. New Spanish Late Cretaceous Eusuchian Reveals the Synchronic and Sympatric Presence of Two Allodaposuchids. Cretaceous Research 65: 112–125. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2016.04.018
• Díez-Díaz, V., Mocho, P., Páramo, A., Escaso, F., Marcos-Fernández, F., Sanz, J.L. & Ortega, F. 2016. A new titanosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Lo Hueco (Cuenca, Spain). Cretaceous Research 68: 49–60. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2016.08.001
• Pérez-García, A., Ortega, F. & Jiménez-Fuentes, E. 2016. Taxonomy, systematics and diversity of the European oldest testudinids Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 177: 648–675. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12381

• Coria, R.A., Windholz, G.J., Ortega, F. & Currie, P.J. 2018. A new dicraeosaurid sauropod from the Lower Cretaceous (Mulichinco Formation, Valanginian, Neuquén Basin) of Argentina. Cretaceous Research DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2018.08.019
• De Miguel Chaves, C., Ortega, F. & Pérez‐García, A. 2018. A new placodont from the Upper Triassic of Spain provides new insights on the acquisition of the specialized skull of Henodontidae. Papers in Palaeontology. Online edition DOI: 10.1002/spp2.1218
• De Miguel Chaves, C., Ortega, F. & Pérez‐García, A. 2018. New highly pachyostotic nothosauroid interpreted as a filter-feeding Triassic marine reptile. Biology Letters 14 (8): 20180130.

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VIAF: 32145304389078570959 Mendeley: francisco-ortega1 ZooBank: 210B1F98-9B66-4346-979D-7F9BE280A8C7 ORCID: 0000-0002-7431-354X ResearcherID: B-5760-2009 Google Scholar: 5uN8xgQAAAAJ Scopus: 7102751907 ResearchGate: Francisco_Ortega3