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    Octávio Mateus (born 1975) is a Portuguese dinosaur paleontologist and biologist Professor of Paleontology at the Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da...
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    Lourinhanosaurus (category Taxa named by Octávio Mateus)
    1982, but were not described until 1998, by Portuguese paleontologist Octávio Mateus. Its type (and to date only) species is L. antunesi, in honour of Portuguese...
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    Lusotitan (category Taxa named by Octávio Mateus)
    atalaiensis. The specific name referred to the site Atalaia. In 2003 Octávio Mateus and Miguel Telles Antunes named it as a separate genus: Lusotitan. The...
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    Zby (category Taxa named by Octávio Mateus)
    1996 in the Louriñha Formation, Portugal by Octávio Mateus. Zby was first described and named by Octávio Mateus, Philip D. Mannion and Paul Upchurch in 2014...
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    Draconyx (category Taxa named by Octávio Mateus)
    herbivore. It was found in the Lourinhã Formation in 1991, and described by Octávio Mateus and Miguel Telles Antunes in 2001. The type species, known from only...
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    Microceratus (category Taxa named by Octávio Mateus)
    the genus Graciliceratops, a replacement name Microceratus was created by Mateus in 2008 for the type specimen. Microceratus belonged to the Ceratopsia (Ancient...
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    Kaatedocus (category Taxa named by Octávio Mateus)
    species is Kaatedocus siberi, described in 2012 by Emanuel Tschopp and Octávio Mateus. In 1934, a team of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) headed...
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    Issi (category Taxa named by Octávio Mateus)
    Issi saaneq was named and described by Victor Beccari Dieguez Campo, Octávio Mateus, Oliver Wings, Jesper Milàn and Lars Bjørn Clemmensen. The generic name...
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    In 2000, material from Portugal was referred to a Torvosaurus sp. by Octávio Mateus and Miguel Telles Antunes. In 2006, fossils from the Portuguese Lourinhã...
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    Hesperonyx (category Taxa named by Octávio Mateus)
    2...77A. doi:10.1016/S1631-0683(03)00003-4. Hendrickx, Christophe; Mateus, Octávio (2014). "Torvosaurus gurneyi n. sp., the Largest Terrestrial Predator...
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  • banker, businessman Octávio Trompowsky, Brazilian chess player Marco Octávio informal name of Brazilian beach soccer coach Octávio Mateus, Portuguese paleontologist...
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    Miragaia longicollum (category Taxa named by Octávio Mateus)
    Kimmeridgian-early Tithonian (Late Jurassic, approximately 150 million years ago). Octávio Mateus, Susannah Maidment and Nicolai Christiansen named and briefly described...
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    Thing Jens N. Lallensack; Hendrik Klein; Jesper Milàn; Oliver Wings; Octávio Mateus; Lars B. Clemmensen (2017). "Sauropodomorph dinosaur trackways from...
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    and Octávio Mateus in 2003. De Lapparent and Zbyszewski had described a series of remains but did not designate a type specimen. Antunes and Mateus selected...
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    and a phalanx bone, was attributed to Baryonyx by the palaeontologist Octávio Mateus and colleagues, the most complete Iberian remains of the animal. The...
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    Angolatitan adamastor, found in Angola, named by the paleontologist Octávio Mateus. The name Adamastor is an adaptation for the Portuguese language from...
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    Jan Schulz; Estrup, Eliza Jarl; Frobøse, Nicolai; Klein, Nicole; Mateus, Octávio; Wings, Oliver (2015-12-16). "The vertebrate-bearing Late Triassic...
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    Galeamopus (category Taxa named by Octávio Mateus)
    it was renamed as the separate genus Galeamopus by Emanuel Tschopp, Octávio Mateus and Roger Benson. The generic name is derived from Latin galeam, the...
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    Europasaurus (category Taxa named by Octávio Mateus)
    is probably the youngest in which Europasaurus is present. Sander, P.M.; Mateus, O.V.; Laven, T.; Knötschke, N. (2006). "Bone histology indicates insular...
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  • and it is since 2006 reported as being destroyed in a fire. In 2012, Octávio Mateus and colleagues reported that an additional specimen of T. iembeensis...
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    which Iberospinus was described as a new genus and species in 2022 by Octávio Mateus and Darío Estraviz-López. Iberospinus is currently known from dentary...
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    leading to the discovery of Angolatitan. The discovery was made by Octávio Mateus on May the 25 near Iembe in the province of Bengo, and excavations were...
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    for the latter to merit a separate genus. In 2015, Emanuel Tschopp, Octávio Mateus, and Roger Benson released a paper on diplodocoid systematics, and proposed...
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    Tangvayosaurus (category Taxa named by Octávio Mateus)
    B; Dejax, J.; Richir, P.; Véran, M.; Limon-Duparcmeur, F.; Vacant, R.; Mateus, O.; Sayarath, P.; Khenthavong, B.; Phouyavong, S. (1999). "Un nouveau genre...
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    assigned to Allosaurus but not to any particular species. In 2006, Octávio Mateus and colleagues reported a partial skull and three neck vertebrae (ML...
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    Dinheirosaurus (category Taxa named by Octávio Mateus)
    Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis, first described by José Bonaparte and Octávio Mateus in 1999 for vertebrae and some other material from the Lourinhã Formation...
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    A complete description of the entire material is in preparation by Octávio Mateus. The number of maxillary teeth were twenty per side, lower than the...
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  • Wamweracaudia (category Taxa named by Octávio Mateus)
    (2000): 25 - 76 Mannion, Philip D.; Upchurch, Paul; Barnes, Rosie N.; Mateus, Octávio (2013). "Osteology of the Late Jurassic Portuguese sauropod dinosaur...
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  • footballer Octávio Octávio Trompowsky, Brazilian chess player Marco Octávio informal name of Brazilian beach soccer coach Octávio Mateus, Portuguese...
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    Michael J. Polcyn; Louis L. Jacobs; Ricardo Araújo; Anne S.Schulp; Octávio Mateus (2014). "Physical drivers of mosasaur evolution" (PDF). Palaeogeography...
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