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Graciela Piñeiro

PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer

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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

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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

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