Andrea Cau

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Andrea Cau is an Italian vertebrate paleontologist. He specialises in the study of dinosaur cladistics. Cau named the dromaeosaurid theropod Halszkaraptor in 2017. He also reanalysed the theropod Balaur , placing it as a basal avialan (primitive bird) rather than a dromaeosaur. [1] [2]

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Halszkaraptor escuilliei fossil Halszkaraptor escuilliei.jpg
Halszkaraptor escuilliei fossil

Below is a list of taxa that Cau has contributed to naming:

YearTaxonAuthors
2026 Kunpengornis anhuimusei gen. et sp. nov.Huang, Wang, Cau, Mao, Liu & Wang [3]
2025 Shri rapax sp. nov.Moutrille, Cau, Chinzorig, Escuillié, Tsogtbaatar, Ganzorig, Mallet & Godefroit [4]
2025 Shuilingornis angelai gen. et sp. nov.Wang, Cau, Wang, Kundrát, Zhang, Liu & Chiappe [5]
2023 Migmanychion laiyang gen. et sp. nov.Wang, Cau, Wang, Yu, Wu, Wang & Liu [6]
2022 Musivavis amabilis gen. et sp. nov.Wang, Cau, Luo, Kundrát, Wu, Zhu, Guo, Liu & Ji [7]
2021 Khinganornis hulunbuirensis gen. et sp. nov.Wang, Cau, Kundrát, Chiappe, Ji, Wang, Li & Wu [8]
2021 Ceratosuchops inferodios gen. et sp. nov.Barker, Hone, Naish, Cau, Lockwood, Foster, Clarkin, Schneider & Gostling [9]
2021 Riparovenator milnerae gen. et sp. nov.Barker, Hone, Naish, Cau, Lockwood, Foster, Clarkin, Schneider & Gostling [9]
2020 Kompsornis longicaudus gen. et sp. nov.Wang, Huang, Kundrát, Cau, Liu, Wang & Ju [10]
2020 Huinculsaurus montesi gen. et sp. nov.Baiano, Coria & Cau [11]
2017 Halszkaraptor escuilliei gen. et sp. nov.Cau, Beyrand, Voeten, Fernandez, Tafforeau, Stein, Barsbold, Tsogtbaatar, Currie & Godefroit [12]
2017 Serikornis sungei gen. et sp. nov.Lefèvre, Cau, Cincotta, Hu, Chinsamy, Escuillié & Godefroit [13]
2013 Aurornis xui gen. et sp. nov.Godefroit, Cau, Dong-Yu, Escuillié, Wenhao & Dyke [14]
2013 Tataouinea hannibalis gen. et sp. nov.Fanti, Cau, Hassine & Contessi [15]
2013 Sauroniops pachytholus gen. et sp. nov.Cau, Dalla Vecchia & Fabbri [16]
2011 Neptunidraco ammoniticus gen. et sp. nov.Cau & Fanti [17]

Personal life

Cau graduated in 2017 with a PhD in Life, Earth and Environmental Sciences.

Works

References

  1. ↑ Cau Brougham Naish (June 18, 2015). "The phylogenetic affinities of the bizarre Late Cretaceous Romanian theropod Balaur bondoc (Dinosauria, Maniraptora): dromaeosaurid or flightless bird?". PeerJ. 3 (3) e1032. doi: 10.7717/peerj.1032 . PMC   4476167 . PMID   26157616. S2CID   1124579.
  2. ↑ "Andrea Cau". PeerJ.
  3. ↑ Huang, Jiandong; Wang, Xuri; Cau, Andrea; Mao, Lei; Liu, Yichuan; Wang, Yang (February 2026). "A new euornithine from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian) of China reveals the first radiation of fish-eating birds". Cretaceous Research (in press). 106244. doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2025.106244 . ISSN   0195-6671.
  4. ↑ Moutrille, Léa; Cau, Andrea; Chinzorig, Tsogtbaatar; Escuillié, François; Tsogtbaatar, Khishigjav; Ganzorig, Bayasgaa; Mallet, Christophe; Godefroit, Pascal (2025-07-13). "A new bird-like dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia with extremely robust hands supports niche partitioning among velociraptorines". Historical Biology : 1–32. doi:10.1080/08912963.2025.2530148. ISSN   0891-2963.
  5. ↑ Wang, Xuri; Cau, Andrea; Wang, Yinuo; Kundrát, Martin; Zhang, Guili; Liu, Yichuan; Chiappe, Luis María (February 2025). "A new gansuid bird (Avialae, Euornithes) from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian) Jiufotang Formation of Jianchang, western Liaoning, China". Cretaceous Research . 166 106014. doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2024.106014 .
  6. ↑ Wang, Xuri; Cau, Andrea; Wang, Zhengdong; Yu, Kaifeng; Wu, Wenhao; Wang, Yang; Liu, Yichuan (November 2023). "A new theropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Longjiang Formation of Inner Mongolia (China)". Cretaceous Research . 151 105605. doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2023.105605 .
  7. ↑ Wang, Xuri; Cau, Andrea; Luo, Xiaoling; Kundrát, Martin; Wu, Wensheng; Ju, Shubin; Guo, Zhen; Liu, Yichuan; Ji, Qiang (July 2022). "A new bohaiornithid-like bird from the Lower Cretaceous of China fills a gap in enantiornithine disparity". Journal of Paleontology . 96 (4): 961–976. doi:10.1017/jpa.2022.12. ISSN   0022-3360 . Retrieved 13 February 2025– via Cambridge Core.
  8. ↑ Wang, Xuri; Cau, Andrea; Kundrát, Martin; Chiappe, Luis María; Ji, Qiang; Wang, Yang; Li, Tao; Wu, Wenhao (2 September 2021). "A new advanced ornithuromorph bird from Inner Mongolia documents the northernmost geographic distribution of the Jehol paleornithofauna in China" . Historical Biology . 33 (9): 1705–1717. doi:10.1080/08912963.2020.1731805. ISSN   0891-2963 . Retrieved 9 February 2025– via Taylor and Francis Online.
  9. 1 2 Barker, Chris T.; Hone, David W. E.; Naish, Darren; Cau, Andrea; Lockwood, Jeremy A. F.; Foster, Brian; Clarkin, Claire E.; Schneider, Philipp; Gostling, Neil J. (29 September 2021). "New spinosaurids from the Wessex Formation (Early Cretaceous, UK) and the European origins of Spinosauridae". Scientific Reports . 11 (1): 19340. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-97870-8. ISSN   2045-2322. PMC   8481559 .
  10. ↑ Wang, Xuri; Huang, Jiandong; Kundrát, Martin; Cau, Andrea; Liu, Xiaoyu; Wang, Yang; Ju, Shubin (1 September 2020). "A new jeholornithiform exhibits the earliest appearance of the fused sternum and pelvis in the evolution of avialan dinosaurs" . Journal of Asian Earth Sciences . 199 104401. doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2020.104401 . Retrieved 10 January 2025– via Elsevier Science Direct.
  11. ↑ Baiano, Mattia A.; Coria, Rodolfo Aníbal; Cau, Andrea (June 2020). "A new abelisauroid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Huincul Formation (lower Upper Cretaceous, Neuquén Basin) of Patagonia, Argentina" . Cretaceous Research . 110 104408. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104408 . Retrieved 2 February 2025– via Elsevier Science Direct.
  12. ↑ Cau, Andrea; Beyrand, Vincent; Voeten, Dennis F. A. E.; Fernandez, Vincent; Tafforeau, Paul; Stein, Koen; Barsbold, Rinchen; Tsogtbaatar, Khishigjav; Currie, Philip John; Godefroit, Pascal (6 December 2017). "Synchrotron scanning reveals amphibious ecomorphology in a new clade of bird-like dinosaurs" . Nature . 552 (7685): 395–399. doi:10.1038/nature24679. ISSN   1476-4687 . Retrieved 5 January 2025.
  13. ↑ Lefèvre, Ulysse; Cau, Andrea; Cincotta, Aude; Hu, Dongyu; Chinsamy, Anusuya; Escuillié, François; Godefroit, Pascal (22 August 2017). "A new Jurassic theropod from China documents a transitional step in the macrostructure of feathers" . The Science of Nature . 104 (9–10). doi:10.1007/s00114-017-1496-y. ISSN   0028-1042 . Retrieved 1 February 2025– via Springer Nature Link.
  14. ↑ Godefroit, Pascal; Cau, Andrea; Dong-Yu, Hu; Escuillié, François; Wenhao, Wu; Dyke, Gareth John (29 May 2013). "A Jurassic avialan dinosaur from China resolves the early phylogenetic history of birds" . Nature . 498 (7454): 359–362. doi:10.1038/nature12168. ISSN   1476-4687 . Retrieved 5 January 2025.
  15. ↑ Fanti, Federico; Cau, Andrea; Hassine, Mohsen; Contessi, Michela (9 July 2013). "A new sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Tunisia with extreme avian-like pneumatization". Nature Communications . 4 (1): 2080. doi:10.1038/ncomms3080. ISSN   2041-1723 . Retrieved 1 February 2025.
  16. ↑ Cau, Andrea; Dalla Vecchia, Fabio M.; Fabbri, Matteo (March 2013). "A thick-skulled theropod (Dinosauria, Saurischia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Morocco with implications for carcharodontosaurid cranial evolution". Cretaceous Research. 40: 251–260. Bibcode:2013CrRes..40..251C. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2012.09.002.
  17. ↑ Cau, Andrea; Fanti, Federico (March 2011). "The oldest known metriorhynchid crocodylian from the Middle Jurassic of North-eastern Italy: Neptunidraco ammoniticus gen. et sp. nov" . Gondwana Research . 19 (2): 550–565. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2010.07.007 . Retrieved 5 January 2025– via Elsevier Science Direct.
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