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  1. The enigmatic ailurid Magerictis imperialensis (Mammalia: Carnivora) unveiled: a systematic approach to the early Ailuridae

    Article • Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, December 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Juan Abella

  2. UNLOCKING THE SECRETS OF HEXAPODS: GAMIFIED APP TOOLS FOR IMPROVED MORPHOLOGY STUDIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION

    Article • March 2025, IATED Academy, S.L.

    Dr Juan Abella

  3. Earliest Vallesian suid remains from Creu de Conill 20 (Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula)

    Article • Journal of Mammalian Evolution, December 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Juan Abella

  4. The exceptionally high diversity of small carnivorans from the Late Miocene hominid locality of Hammerschmiede (Bavaria, Germany)

    Article • PLOS One, July 2022, PLOS

    Nikolaos Kargopoulos, Dr Juan Abella

  5. Els Casots (Subirats, Catalonia), a key site for the Miocene vertebrate record of Southwestern Europe

    Article • Historical Biology, March 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Juan Abella

  6. Análisis de egagrópilas del búho listado, Asio clamator, (Aves: Strigiformes) en Atahualpa, provincia de Santa Elena, Ecuador

    Article • Huitzil Revista Mexicana de Ornitología, February 2022, Huitzil - Revista Mexicana de Ornitologia

    Dr Juan Abella

  7. New fossil remains of the commensal barnacleCryptolepas rhachianectiprovide evidence of gray whales in the prehistoric South Pacific

    Article • Journal of Paleontology, December 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Juan Abella

  8. Coprolites in natural traps: direct evidence of bone‐eating carnivorans from the Late Miocene Batallones‐3 site, Madrid, Spain

    Article • Lethaia, December 2021, Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS

    Dr Juan Abella

  9. Recurring taphonomic processes in the carnivoran‐dominated Late Miocene assemblages of Batallones‐3, Madrid Basin, Spain

    Article • Lethaia, December 2021, Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS

    Dr Juan Abella

  10. A new species of Eomellivora from the latest Aragonian of Abocador de Can Mata (NE Iberian Peninsula)

    Article • Historical Biology, July 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Juan Abella

  11. Ammitocyon kainosgen. et sp. nov., a chimerical amphicyonid (Mammalia, Carnivora) from the late Miocene carnivore traps of Cerro de los Batallones (Madrid, Spain)

    Article • Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, March 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Juan Abella

  12. The autopodial skeleton of Paracamelus aguirrei (Morales 1984) (Tylopoda, Mammalia) from the late Miocene site of Venta del Moro (Valencia, Spain)

    Article • Journal of Iberian Geology, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Juan Abella

  13. Late Miocene remains from Venta del Moro (Iberian Peninsula) provide further insights on the dispersal of crocodiles across the late Miocene Tethys

    Article • Journal of Paleontology, August 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Juan Abella

  14. Diversity and paleoenvironmental implications of an elasmobranch assemblage from the Oligocene–Miocene boundary of Ecuador

    Article • PeerJ, April 2020, PeerJ

    Dr Juan Abella

  15. A new hypercarnivorous mustelid (Mammalia, Carnivora, Mustelidae) from Batallones, late Miocene (MN10), Torrejón de Velasco, Madrid, Spain

    Article • Geodiversitas, April 2020, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France

    Dr Juan Abella

  16. The last record of an ailuropod bear from the Iberian Peninsula

    Article • Geodiversitas, December 2019, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France

    Dr Juan Abella

  17. A New Thaumastocyoninae (Amphicyonidae, Carnivora) from the Early Miocene of Tuchořice, the Czech Republic

    Article • Fossil Imprint, December 2019, National Museum, Czech Republic

    Dr Juan Abella

  18. Revision of Varanus marathonensis (Squamata, Varanidae) based on historical and new material: morphology, systematics, and paleobiogeography of the European monitor lizards

    Article • PLOS One, December 2018, PLOS

    Dr Juan Abella

  19. New Early Miocene Material of Iberictis, the Oldest Member of the Wolverine Lineage (Carnivora, Mustelidae, Guloninae)

    Article • Journal of Mammalian Evolution, July 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Juan Abella

  20. The first Oligocene sea turtle (Pan-Cheloniidae) record of South America

    Article • PeerJ, March 2018, PeerJ

    Dr Juan Abella

  21. A new tropical Oligocene dolphin from Montañita/Olón, Santa Elena, Ecuador

    Article • PLOS One, December 2017, PLOS

    Dr Juan Abella

  22. A new late Miocene ailuropodine (Giant Panda) from Rudabánya (North-central Hungary)

    Article • Geobios, December 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Juan Abella

  23. New findings of Pleistocene fossil turtles (Geoemydidae, Kinosternidae and Chelydridae) from Santa Elena Province, Ecuador

    Article • PeerJ, April 2017, PeerJ

    Dr Juan Abella

  24. Feeding ecology and habitat preferences of top predators from two Miocene carnivore-rich assemblages

    Article • Paleobiology, April 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Juan Abella

  25. Megalictis, the Bone-Crushing Giant Mustelid (Carnivora, Mustelidae, Oligobuninae) from the Early Miocene of North America

    Article • PLOS One, April 2016, PLOS

    Dr Juan Abella

  26. When Cotton Rats Grasp Like Pandas

    Article • Journal of Mammalian Evolution, December 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Juan Abella

  27. First record of Mesopithecus (Cercopithecidae, Colobinae) from the Miocene of the Iberian Peninsula

    Article • Journal of Human Evolution, November 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Juan Abella

  28. First Early Pliocene micromammal faunas from Venta del Moro (Cabriel Basin, Spain): new data on the Messinian dispersal of Debruijnimys

    Article • Journal of Iberian Geology, September 2015, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)

    Dr Juan Abella

  29. The fossil record of the Neogene Carnivore Mammals from Spain

    Article • Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, August 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Juan Abella

  30. Tracing the origin of the panda’s thumb

    Article • The Science of Nature, June 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Juan Abella, Dr. Marcos D. Ercoli

  31. Complete description of the skull and mandible of the giant mustelidEomellivora piveteauiOzansoy, 1965 (Mammalia, Carnivora, Mustelidae), from Batallones (MN10), late Miocene (Madrid, Spain)

    Article • Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, May 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Juan Abella

  32. The scimitar-toothed cat Machairodus aphanistus (Carnivora: Felidae) in the Vallès-Penedès Basin (NE Iberian Peninsula)

    Article • Comptes Rendus Palevol, October 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Juan Abella

  33. Paleodiversity of the Superfamily Ursoidea (Carnivora, Mammalia) in the Spanish Neogene, related to environmental changes

    Article • Journal of Iberian Geology, April 2014, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)

    Dr Juan Abella

  34. On the Socio-Sexual Behaviour of the Extinct Ursid Indarctos arctoides: An Approach Based on Its Baculum Size and Morphology

    Article • PLOS One, September 2013, PLOS

    Dr Juan Abella

  35. Evidence for an African-Iberian mammal dispersal during the pre-evaporitic Messinian

    Article • Geology, April 2013, Geological Society of America

    Dr Juan Abella

  36. New Pseudaelurus and Styriofelis remains (Carnivora: Felidae) from the Middle Miocene of Abocador de Can Mata (Vallès-Penedès Basin)

    Article • Comptes Rendus Palevol, February 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Juan Abella

  37. Kretzoiarctos gen. nov., the Oldest Member of the Giant Panda Clade

    Article • PLOS One, November 2012, PLOS

    Dr Juan Abella

  38. Musteloidea (Carnivora, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene of Venta del Moro (Valencia, Spain)

    Article • Estudios Geológicos, December 2011, Departmento de Publicaciones del CSIC

    Dr Juan Abella

  39. A New species of Agriarctos (Ailuropodinae, Ursidae, Carnivora) in the locality of Nombrevilla 2 (Zaragoza, Spain)

    Article • Estudios Geológicos, December 2011, Departmento de Publicaciones del CSIC

    Dr Juan Abella

  40. Eucyon debonisi n. sp., a new Canidae (Mammalia, Carnivora) from the latest Miocene of Venta del Moro (Valencia, Spain)

    Article • Geodiversitas, December 2009, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France

    Dr Juan Abella

  41. Article • Estudios Geológicos, December 2006, Departmento de Publicaciones del CSIC

    Dr Juan Abella

  42. Las nuevas excavaciones (1995-2006) en el yacimiento del Mioceno final de Venta del Moro, Valencia

    Article • Estudios Geológicos, December 2006, Departmento de Publicaciones del CSIC

    Dr Juan Abella