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Graciela Piñeiro
PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer
4,615 Points

Contributions by role

Author 405
Preprint Author 105
Reviewer 35
Editor 4,070

Contributions by subject area

Biogeography
Evolutionary Studies
Paleontology
Taxonomy
Zoology
Marine Biology
Histology
Biodiversity
Ecology
Plant Science
Entomology
Agricultural Science
Environmental Sciences
Food Science and Technology
Toxicology
Nutrition
Animal Behavior
Conservation Biology
Natural Resource Management
Microbiology
Soil Science
Climate Change Biology
Environmental Impacts
Ecosystem Science
Molecular Biology
Aquatic and Marine Chemistry

Graciela Piñeiro

PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer

Summary

Professor at Departamento de Evolución de Cuencas, Facultad de Ciencias, Montevideo, Uruguay. Investigator Level 1, Agencia Nacional de Investigación e Innovación (ANII). Investigator Gº 4 of the Programa de Desarrollo de las Ciencias Básicas in Biological and in Geological Fields. Responsible for several research projects on Late Paleozoic communities, including comparative anatomy, systematics, paleobiology, taphonomy, biostratigraphy, paleobiogeography and paleoenvironments.

Aquatic & Marine Chemistry Climate Change Biology Environmental Contamination & Remediation Environmental Sciences Evolutionary Studies Natural Resource Management Paleontology Taxonomy

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Past or current institution affiliations

Universidad de la República

Work details

Adjunct Professor

Universidad de la República
Departamento de Paleontología
Research Area: Systematics, Paleobiology, Paleoecology, Biostratigraphy and Taphonomy of Late Paleozoic assemblages from Uruguay. Main targets: Mesosaurs, pygocephalomorph crustaceans and insects from the Early Permian Mangrullo Formation Konservat-Lagerstätte. Late Permian tetrapods from Uruguay: searching for evidence about the effects of the end Permian extinction event on continental community’s survivorship.

Professor

Facultad de Ciencias
Department of Paleontology
Full time Professor at the Department of Paleontology of Facultad de Ciencias. Lectures for postgraduate and undergraduate students. Responsible for postgraduate and undergraduate courses. Researching on Late Paleozoic biotas from Uruguay and Brazil.

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PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 3
  • Preprints 2
  • Edited 33
  • Reviewed 1
  • Questions 3
January 18, 2019
A large cockroach from the mesosaur-bearing Konservat-Lagerstätte (Mangrullo Formation), Late Paleozoic of Uruguay
Viviana Calisto, Graciela Piñeiro
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6289 PubMed 30687590
May 17, 2016
The ontogenetic transformation of the mesosaurid tarsus: a contribution to the origin of the primitive amniotic astragalus
Graciela Piñeiro, Pablo Núñez Demarco, Melitta D. Meneghel
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2036 PubMed 27231658
February 19, 2015
Early archosauromorph remains from the Permo-Triassic Buena Vista Formation of north-eastern Uruguay
Martín D. Ezcurra, Pablo Velozo, Melitta Meneghel, Graciela Piñeiro
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.776 PubMed 25737816
April 22, 2016 - Version: 2
The ontogenetic transformation of the mesosaurid tarsus: a contribution to the origin of the primitive amniotic astragalus
Graciela Piñeiro, Pablo Núñez Demarco, Melitta D Meneghel
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1952v2
December 9, 2014 - Version: 1
Early archosauromorph remains from the Permo-Triassic Buena Vista formation of NorthEastern Uruguay
Martin Ezcurra, Pablo Velozo, Melitta Meneghel, Graciela Piñeiro
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.678v1

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December 21, 2022
A new Meckel’s cartilage from the Devonian Hangenberg black shale in Morocco and its position in chondrichthyan jaw morphospace
Merle Greif, Humberto G. Ferrón, Christian Klug
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14418 PubMed 36573235
October 24, 2022
Scientists’ warning of the impacts of climate change on mountains
Jasper Knight
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14253 PubMed 36312749
September 29, 2022
A spectacular new species of Hyloscirtus (Anura: Hylidae) from the Cordillera de Los Llanganates in the eastern Andes of Ecuador
Juan P. Reyes-Puig, Darwin Recalde, Fausto Recalde, Claudia Koch, Juan M. Guayasamin, Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, Lou Jost, Mario H. Yánez-Muñoz
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14066 PubMed 36196397
July 14, 2022
The oldest record of Saurosphargiformes (Diapsida) from South China could fill an ecological gap in the Early Triassic biotic recovery
Long Cheng, Benjamin C. Moon, Chunbo Yan, Ryosuke Motani, Dayong Jiang, Zhihui An, Zichen Fang
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13569 PubMed 35855428
January 20, 2021
A large pterosaur limb bone from the Kaiparowits Formation (late Campanian) of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA
Andrew A. Farke
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10766 PubMed 33552741
December 18, 2020
Archosauriform footprints in the Lower Triassic of Western Alps and their role in understanding the effects of the Permian-Triassic hyperthermal
Fabio Massimo Petti, Heinz Furrer, Enrico Collo, Edoardo Martinetto, Massimo Bernardi, Massimo Delfino, Marco Romano, Michele Piazza
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10522 PubMed 33384899
October 8, 2020
The phylogenetics of Teleosauroidea (Crocodylomorpha, Thalattosuchia) and implications for their ecology and evolution
Michela M. Johnson, Mark T. Young, Stephen L. Brusatte
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9808 PubMed 33083104
September 24, 2020
Life history and habitat do not mediate temporal changes in body size due to climate warming in rodents
Aluwani Nengovhela, Christiane Denys, Peter J. Taylor
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9792 PubMed 33024624
April 9, 2020
Revision of the mollisoniid chelicerate(?) Thelxiope, with a new species from the middle Cambrian Wheeler Formation of Utah
Rudy Lerosey-Aubril, Jacob Skabelund, Javier Ortega-Hernández
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8879 PubMed 32296605
November 21, 2019
Rehabilitation time has greater influences on soil mechanical composition and erodibility than does rehabilitation land type in the hilly-gully region of the Loess Plateau, China
Leilei Qiao, Wenjing Chen, Yang Wu, Hongfei Liu, Jiaoyang Zhang, Guobin Liu, Sha Xue
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8090 PubMed 31772842
September 19, 2019
Nurhachius luei, a new istiodactylid pterosaur (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) from the Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province (China) and comments on the Istiodactylidae
Xuanyu Zhou, Rodrigo V. Pêgas, Maria E.C. Leal, Niels Bonde
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7688 PubMed 31579592
May 13, 2019
Using GIS to examine biogeographic and macroevolutionary patterns in some late Paleozoic cephalopods from the North American Midcontinent Sea
Kayla M. Kolis, Bruce S. Lieberman
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6910 PubMed 31139505
April 11, 2019
A small caseid synapsid, Arisierpeton simplex gen. et sp. nov., from the early Permian of Oklahoma, with a discussion of synapsid diversity at the classic Richards Spur locality
Robert R. Reisz
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6615 PubMed 30997285
March 26, 2019
Loancorhynchus catrillancai gen. et sp. nov., a new swordfish (Xiphioidei, Blochiidae) from the Middle Eocene of central Chile
Rodrigo A. Otero
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6671 PubMed 30941278
February 14, 2019
Physicochemical investigation of shrimp fossils from the Romualdo and Ipubi formations (Araripe Basin)
Olga Alcântara Barros, João Hermínio Silva, Gilberto Dantas Saraiva, Bartolomeu Cruz Viana, Alexandre Rocha Paschoal, Paulo Tarso Cavalcante Freire, Naiara Cipriano Oliveira, Amauri Jardim Paula, Maria Somália Viana
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6323 PubMed 30783565
August 3, 2018
A new iguanodontian (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia
Terry A. Gates, Khishigjav Tsogtbaatar, Lindsay E. Zanno, Tsogtbaatar Chinzorig, Mahito Watabe
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5300 PubMed 30083450
July 31, 2018
Ornamentation of dermal bones of Metoposaurus krasiejowensis and its ecological implications
Mateusz Antczak, Adam Bodzioch
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5267 PubMed 30083441
July 6, 2018
Fossil eggshell cuticle elucidates dinosaur nesting ecology
Tzu-Ruei Yang, Ying-Hsuan Chen, Jasmina Wiemann, Beate Spiering, P. Martin Sander
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5144 PubMed 30002976
June 29, 2018
­Morphological variations in the dorsal fin finlets of extant polypterids raise questions about their taxonomical validity
Marcos Vinícius Coelho, Camila Cupello, Paulo M. Brito
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5083 PubMed 30042877
June 29, 2018
Wolf spider burrows from a modern saline sandflat in central Argentina: morphology, taphonomy and clues for recognition of fossil examples
Fatima Mendoza Belmontes, Ricardo N. Melchor, Luis N. Piacentini
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5054 PubMed 29967732
May 15, 2018
An examination of the impact of Olson’s extinction on tetrapods from Texas
Neil Brocklehurst
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4767 PubMed 29780669
February 2, 2018
Redescription of Calyptosuchus (Stagonolepis) wellesi (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia: Aetosauria) from the Late Triassic of the Southwestern United States with a discussion of genera in vertebrate paleontology
William G. Parker
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4291 PubMed 29416953
November 14, 2017
The ultimate legs of Chilopoda (Myriapoda): a review on their morphological disparity and functional variability
Matthes Kenning, Carsten H.G. Müller, Andy Sombke
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4023 PubMed 29158971
June 30, 2017
3D-Analysis of a non-planispiral ammonoid from the Hunsrück Slate: natural or pathological variation?
Julia Stilkerich, Trisha A. Smrecak, Kenneth De Baets
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3526 PubMed 28674668
May 4, 2017
Anhanguera taxonomy revisited: is our understanding of Santana Group pterosaur diversity biased by poor biological and stratigraphic control?
Felipe L. Pinheiro, Taissa Rodrigues
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3285 PubMed 28484676
March 23, 2017
Neogene amphibians and reptiles (Caudata, Anura, Gekkota, Lacertilia, and Testudines) from the south of Western Siberia, Russia, and Northeastern Kazakhstan
Davit Vasilyan, Vladimir S. Zazhigin, Madelaine Böhme
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3025 PubMed 28348925
March 1, 2017
Digital reconstruction of the mandible of an adult Lesothosaurus diagnosticus with insight into the tooth replacement process and diet
Lara Sciscio, Fabien Knoll, Emese M. Bordy, Michiel O. de Kock, Ragna Redelstorff
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3054 PubMed 28265518
December 21, 2016
Deciphering the preservation of fossil insects: a case study from the Crato Member, Early Cretaceous of Brazil
Gabriel Ladeira Osés, Setembrino Petri, Bruno Becker-Kerber, Guilherme Raffaeli Romero, Marcia de Almeida Rizzutto, Fabio Rodrigues, Douglas Galante, Tiago Fiorini da Silva, Jessica F. Curado, Elidiane Cipriano Rangel, Rafael Parra Ribeiro, Mírian Liza Alves Forancelli Pacheco
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2756 PubMed 28028459
September 1, 2016
Food safety in Thailand 4: comparison of pesticide residues found in three commonly consumed vegetables purchased from local markets and supermarkets in Thailand
Sompon Wanwimolruk, Kamonrat Phopin, Somchai Boonpangrak, Virapong Prachayasittikul
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2432 PubMed 27635366
February 18, 2016
Stratigraphy, palaeoenvironments and palaeoecology of the Loch Humphrey Burn lagerstätte and other Mississippian palaeobotanical localities of the Kilpatrick Hills, southwest Scotland
Richard M. Bateman, Liadan G. Stevens, Jason Hilton
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1700 PubMed 26925325
November 12, 2015
New craniodental remains of Wakaleo alcootaensis (Diprotodontia: Thylacoleonidae) a carnivorous marsupial from the late Miocene Alcoota Local Fauna of the Northern Territory, Australia
Adam M. Yates
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1408 PubMed 26587359
October 29, 2015
An investigation of the genus Mesacanthus (Chordata: Acanthodii) from the Orcadian Basin and Midland Valley areas of Northern and Central Scotland using traditional morphometrics
Matthew G. Baron
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1331 PubMed 26539330
April 21, 2015
The first occurrence of the enigmatic archosauriform Crosbysaurus Heckert 2004 from the Chinle Formation of southern Utah
Robert J. Gay, Isabella St. Aude
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.905 PubMed 25922793

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September 16, 2022
Ontogenetic, dietary, and environmental shifts in Mesosauridae
Antoine Verrière, Jörg Fröbisch
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13866 PubMed 36132215

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Water resources increasing in Uruguay
about Impacts of climate change on water resources in the major countries along the Belt and Road
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Comments about the history of this manuscript
about New data towards the development of a comprehensive taphonomic framework for the Late Jurassic Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry, Central Utah
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Why the main extinction events are restricted to Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Eras