Mauricio Antón
Paleoartist/illustrator specialized in the scientific reconstruction of extinct life
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Mauricio Antón Ortuzar is a paleoartist and illustrator specializing in the scientific reconstruction of extinct life, well known for his influential paintings of hominids, extinct carnivores and other vertebrate fossil groups. His works illustrate a great number of books, scientific papers, private collections and museums in many parts of the world. He currently works in association with the Natural Science Museum in Madrid.
Mauricio Antón's Published Works
Published Works
- The Big Cats and Their Fossil Relatives: An Illustrated Guide to Their Evolution and Natural History (1997) (260)
- Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History (2008) (136)
- The giant hyaena,Pachycrocuta brevirostris (Mammalia, Carnivora, Hyaenidae) (1996) (112)
- Co-existence of scimitar-toothed cats, lions and hominins in the European Pleistocene. Implications of the post-cranial anatomy of Homotherium latidens (Owen) for comparative palaeoecology (2005) (93)
- Taxonomy and evolutionary patterns in the fossil Hyaenidae of Europe (2008) (91)
- FIRST KNOWN COMPLETE SKULLS OF THE SCIMITAR-TOOTHED CAT MACHAIRODUS APHANISTUS (FELIDAE, CARNIVORA) FROM THE SPANISH LATE MIOCENE SITE OF BATALLONES-1 (2004) (86)
- Aspects of the functional morphology in the cranial and cervical skeleton of the sabre‐toothed cat Paramachairodus ogygia (Kaup, 1832) (Felidae, Machairodontinae) from the Late Miocene of Spain: implications for the origins of the machairodont killing bite (2005) (83)
- Evidence of a false thumb in a fossil carnivore clarifies the evolution of pandas. (2006) (83)
- Neck function and predatory behavior in the scimitar toothed cat Homotherium latidens (Owen) (1999) (82)
- Implications of the mastoid anatomy of larger extant felids for the evolution and predatory behaviour of sabretoothed cats (Mammalia, Carnivora, Felidae) (2004) (73)
- Mammoths, sabertooths, and hominids : 65 million years of mammalian evolution in Europe (2002) (68)
- Inferred behaviour and ecology of the primitive sabre‐toothed cat Paramachairodus ogygia (Felidae, Machairodontinae) from the Late Miocene of Spain (2006) (63)
- Functional anatomy of the forelimb in Promegantereon* ogygia (Felidae, Machairodontinae, Smilodontini) from the Late Miocene of Spain and the origins of the sabre‐toothed felid model (2010) (56)
- Implications of the functional anatomy of the hand and forearm of Ailurus fulgens (Carnivora, Ailuridae) for the evolution of the ‘false‐thumb’ in pandas (2006) (56)
- A NEW AMPHICYONINE (CARNIVORA: AMPHICYONIDAE) FROM THE UPPER MIOCENE OF BATALLONES‐1, MADRID, SPAIN (2008) (53)
- Ailurid carnivoran mammal Simocyon from the late Miocene of Spain and the systematics of the genus (2005) (50)
- Functional anatomy and biomechanics of the postcranial skeleton of Simocyon batalleri (Viret, 1929) (Carnivora, Ailuridae) from the Late Miocene of Spain (2008) (50)
- Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids (2002) (48)
- A new skeleton of Theropithecus brumpti (Primates: Cercopithecidae) from Lomekwi, West Turkana, Kenya. (2002) (48)
- Climate and evolution: implications of some extinction patterns in African and European Machairodontine Cats of the Plio-Pleistocene (1998) (46)
- Systematic revision of the Late Miocene sabre‐toothed felid Paramachaerodus in Spain (2010) (44)
- Systematics and phylogeny of the small felines (Carnivora, Felidae) from the Late Miocene of Europe: a new species of Felinae from the Vallesian of Batallones (MN 10, Madrid, Spain) (2012) (41)
- How to build a mammalian super-predator. (2008) (37)
- The Plio-Pleistocene scimitar-toothed felid genus Homotherium Fabrini, 1890 (Machairodontinae, Homotherini): diversity, palaeogeography and taxonomic implications (2014) (32)
- A complete skull of Chasmaporthetes lunensis (Carnivora, Hyaenidae) from the Spanish Pliocene site of La Puebla de Valverde (Teruel) (2006) (28)
- Machairodus aphanistus (Felidae, Machairodontinae, Homotherini) from the Late Miocene (Vallesian, Mn 10) Site of Batallones-3 (Torrejón De Velasco, Madrid, Spain) (2014) (27)
- The evolution of the bone-cracking model in carnivorans: cranial functional morphology of the Plio-Pleistocene cursorial hyaenid Chasmaporthetes lunensis (Mammalia: Carnivora) (2011) (26)
- Quantitative inferences on the locomotor behaviour of extinct species applied to Simocyon batalleri (Ailuridae, Late Miocene, Spain) (2015) (24)
- Promegantereon ogygia (Felidae, Machairodontinae, Smilodontini) from the Vallesian (Late Miocene, MN 10) of Spain: Morphological and Functional Differences in Two Noncontemporary Populations (2014) (20)
- Carnivore Trackways from the Miocene Site of Salinas de Añana (Alava, Spain) (2004) (20)
- Machairodont Adaptations and Affinities of the Holarctic Late Miocene Homotherin Machairodus (Mammalia, Carnivora, Felidae): The Case of Machairodus Catocopis Cope, 1887 (2013) (17)
- A Rich Community of Felidae (Mammalia, Carnivora) from the Late Miocene (Turolian, MN 13) Site of Las Casiones (Villalba Baja, Teruel, Spain) (2012) (16)
- Comparative Anatomy of the Shoulder Region in the Late Miocene Amphicyonid Magericyon anceps (Carnivora): Functional and Paleoecological Inferences (2015) (16)
- Anatomy of the “false thumb” of Tremarctos ornatus (Carnivora, Ursidae, Tremarctinae) : phylogenetic and functional implications (2006) (15)
- A non‐aquatic otter (Mammalia, Carnivora, Mustelidae) from the Late Miocene (Vallesian, MN 10) of La Roma 2 (Alfambra, Teruel, Spain): systematics and functional anatomy (2013) (14)
- Reconstructed facial appearance of the sabretoothed felid Smilodon (1998) (14)
- Functional and Systematic Implications of the Postcranial Anatomy of a Late Miocene Feline (Carnivora, Felidae) from Batallones-1 (Madrid, Spain) (2019) (13)
- Changing ideas about the evolution and functional morphology of Machairodontine felids (2012) (13)
- The early evolution of the sabre-toothed felid killing bite: the significance of the cervical morphology of Machairodus aphanistus (Carnivora: Felidae: Machairodontinae) (2019) (12)
- New data on carnivores from the Middle Miocene (Upper Aragonian, MN 6) of Arroyo del Val area (Villafeliche, Zaragoza Province, Spain) (2006) (11)
- Functional anatomy of the cervical region in the late Miocene amphicyonid Magericyon anceps (Carnivora, Amphicyonidae): implications for its feeding behaviour (2017) (10)
- Chapter 3 – Evolution of the Family Ailuridae: Origins and Old-World Fossil Record (2011) (9)
- Soft tissue reconstruction of Homotherium latidens (Mammalia, Carnivora, Felidae). Implications for the possibility of representations in Palaeolithic art (2009) (9)
- Dietary ecology of the scimitar-toothed cat Homotherium serum (2021) (8)
- The Chosen Species: The Long March of Human Evolution (2005) (8)
- Functional anatomy of the postcranial skeleton of Styriofelis lorteti (Carnivora, Felidae, Felinae) from the Middle Miocene (MN 6) locality of Sansan (Gers, France). (2011) (7)
- Comparative anatomy of the frontal sinuses in the primitive sabre-toothed felid Promegantereon ogygia ( Felidae , Machairodontinae ) and similarly sized extant felines (2012) (7)
- First Evidence of Pathology in the Forelimb of the Late Miocene Saber‐Toothed Felid Promegantereon ogygia (Machairodontinae, Smilodontini) (2014) (7)
- Built for Strength: Functional Insights from the Thoracolumbar and Sacrocaudal Regions of the Late Miocene Amphicyonid Magericyon anceps (Carnivora, Amphicyonidae) from Batallones-1 (Madrid, Spain) (2019) (6)
- The muscle-powered bite of allosaurus (dinosauria; theropoda): an interpretation of cranio-dental morphology (2003) (5)
- New fossils of Amphicyonidae (Carnivora) from the middle Miocene (MN6) site of Carpetana (Madrid, Spain) (2020) (5)
- Palaeoecological implications of the sympatric distribution of two species of Machairodus (Felidae, Machairodontinae, Homotherini) in the Late Miocene of Los Valles de Fuentidueña (Segovia, Spain) (2019) (4)
- Evolution of the Family Ailuridae (2011) (4)
- Evolution of the family Ailuridae: origins and Old-World fossil record (2022) (4)
- The Family Line: The Human-Cat Connection (1997) (3)
- How dogs came to run the world: During the past 40 million years, three great lineages arose in the dog family. Two are now extinct, but diversity thrives in the array of living species. (2008) (3)
- Walking with lions: the missed potential of Quaternary palaeoichnology (2012) (2)
- Appendix. Notes on the Reconstructions of Fossil Vertebrates from Lothagam (2003) (2)
- Climbing Adaptations of an Enigmatic Early Arctoid Carnivoran: the Functional Anatomy of the Forelimb of Amphicynodon leptorhynchus From the Lower Oligocene of the Quercy Phosphorites (France) (2021) (2)
- Too well restored? The case of the Megantereon skull from Senàze (2007) (2)
- Functional inferences on the long bones of Ischyrictis zibethoides (Blainville, 1841) (Carnivora, Mustelidae) from the middle Miocene locality of Sansan (Gers, France) (2020) (1)
- Morphometric Analysis of the Mandible of Primitive Sabertoothed Felids from the late Miocene of Spain (2021) (1)
- Professor Alan Turner (1947–2012). Specialist in Miocene–Pleistocene Carnivora, particularly Felidae and Hyaenidae and their palaeoecology (2014) (1)
- Functional anatomy of the calcaneum and talus in Cercopithecinae ( Mammalia , Primates , Cercopithecidae ) (2012) (1)
- Comparative Anatomy of the Shoulder Region in the Late Miocene Amphicyonid Magericyon anceps (Carnivora): Functional and Paleoecological Inferences (2014) (1)
- Quantitative inferences on the locomotor behaviour of extinct species applied to Simocyon batalleri (Ailuridae, Late Miocene, Spain) (2015) (0)
- Concealed weapons: A revised reconstruction of the facial anatomy and life appearance of the sabre-toothed cat Homotherium latidens (Felidae, Machairodontinae) (2022) (0)
- Mandibular disparity of early sabertoothed felids from the Late Miocene of Spain (2020) (0)
- The hindlimb of Amphicynodon leptorhynchus from the lower Oligocene of the Quercy Phosphorites (France): Highlight of new climbing adaptations of this early arctoid (2022) (0)
- New data on the mammalian fauna from the late middle Eocene (MP 15-16) of Mazaterón (Soria, Spain): The youngest presence of the genus Prodissopsalis (Hyaenodonta, Hyaenodontidae) in Europe. (2023) (0)
- Functional and Systematic Implications of the Postcranial Anatomy of a Late Miocene Feline (Carnivora, Felidae) from Batallones-1 (Madrid, Spain) (2017) (0)
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