Thesis
Theses | Employability | Research | Publications
The second year of the course is totally dedicated to research, to develop the Master thesis.
Theses already concluded
2022
Gonçalo Dias Nogueira Pires Soares, thesis on “Late Cretaceous Sea Turtle from Bentiaba, Angola Ascribed to Euclastes”. Defended on July 27th, 2022. Main juror (arguente): Anne Schulp.
Luís Carlos Gouveia Santos on "Foraminíferos Miocénicos de Porto Santo (Madeira, Portugal)”. Main juror (arguente): Doutor Sandro Monticelli Petró. Advisor: Paulo Legoinha.
Filipe Carmo. Topic: “Ensino Experimental e Interativo da Paleontologia”. Defended on Feb. 9th, 2022. Main juror (arguente): Doutor Luís Azevedo Rodrigues
Carlos Gaudari Silvano. Topic: “Geossítios de Vertebrados Fósseis de Angola”. Defended on Feb. 3rd, 2022.
2021
Cátia Fernandes Ribeiro. The first noasaurid theropod (Dinosauria) from the Late Jurassic of Portugal (Porto Dinheiro, Lourinhã, Lourinhã Formation). Main juror (arguente): Christophe Hendrickx
Mahima Praveen Pai. Quantitative analysis of foraminifera and sedimentology of the marine Pliocene of Vale Farpado (Pombal, West Portugal) and its palaeoenvironmental interpretation. Main juror (arguente): Pedro Alexandre Henriques Dias Morgado Dinis
Victor Beccari Dieguez Campo. The sauropodomorph dinosaurs from the Late Triassic (Norian) of Jameson Land, East Greenland. Main juror (arguente): Oliver Wings
Maciej Roman Ruciński. Topic: “Novel Placodont material and paleoenvironment analysis of triassic deposits of Rocha da Pena (Algarve, Southern, Portugal)”. Defended in 2021.02.04. Main juror (arguente): Jean-Sebastien Steyer.
Daniel Liam Capelo O’Toole.Topic: “The Cretaceous Angolan turtle Angolachelys mbaxi, description of a new specimen of postcranial skeleton”. Date: 28/01/2021. Main juror (arguente): Anne Schulp.
Solange Isabel Ferreira da Silva. Topic “The consumption of seafood by the populations of islamic silves (12th century)”
Victor Rojas. “A new phytosaur from the Late Triassic of Jameson Land, Greenland”. Date: 26.01.2021. Main juror (arguente): Richard Butler.
2020
Miguel Marx. Topic: “A New specimen of cardiocorax Mukulu with a nearly complete cranium from Angola”. Date: 22/06/2020. Main juror (arguente): Benjamin Kear
Alexandra Fernandes. Topic: “Pterosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Bentiaba, Angola” Main juror (arguente): Date: 29/04/2020. Timothy Scott Myers
2019
João Bernardo Saramago São Bento Pereira Topic: Stratigraphy, microfacies and taphonomic analysis of Vascoceras Choffat, 1898 from the upper Cenomanian of Tentúgal (Baixo Mondego region, Portugal). Approved unanimously with (grade 19/20). Defense on December, 12th, 2019.
Darío Lopez (2019) - Quaternary fossil vertebrates from continental Portugal: paleobiodiversity, revision of specimens and new localities.
Catarina C. Carvalho (2019)- Trilobites Calymenina do Devónico de Portugal - Uma revisão.
2018
Alexandre Gullaume (2018) - Microvertebrates of the Lourinhã Formation (Late Jurassic, Portugal).
André Saleiro (2018) - Upper Jurassic dinosaur bonebeds at Ten Sleep, Wyoming: stratigraphy, preliminary results and field reports of 2016 and 2017.
Filippo Rotatori (2018) - Ornithopod dinosaurs from the Late Jurassic of Portugal.
Edwaldo Oliva (2018) - Ensino da Paleontologia em espaços não formais.
João Sousa (2018) - A review of Ichthyosauria from Portugal.
Hugo Campos (2018) - Triassic vertebrates of Algarve: geological settings and the first occurrence of placodonts.
Ricardo Pimentel (2018) - Bivalvia (Mollusca) do Pliocénico de Vale de Freixo (Pombal).
2017
Margarida Azevedo (2017) - Seláceos do Neogénico da Ilha de Santa Maria (Açores).
Francisco Pinto (2017) - The Stegosaurian dinosaur Miragaia longicollum from the Late Jurassic of Portugal, with description and comparisons of a new specimen.
Sandra Rocha (2017) - Foraminíferos planctónicos de Montemayor-1 e relação com as variações orbitais, entre 5,77 e 5,61 Ma.
2016
João Andrade (2016) - Pleistocene biostratigraphic datums of the North Pacifc, IODP Site U1340A: Proboscia barboi, P. curvirostris and Thalassiosira jouseae.
João Duarte (2016) - Function, sexual dimorphism and intraspecific variation of the bizarre rostral structures of the extinct beaked whale, Globicetus hiberus. (presentation)
Joana Ferreira (2016) - Foraminíferos de Montemayor-1 (Huelva, Espanha) e inferência das mudanças climáticas de há 5,6 a 5,5 Ma.
Rita Vilas Boas (2016) - Tartarugas do Jurássico Superior de Portugal.
Isabel Gria (2016) - Seláceos do Farol das Lagostas (Bacia do Cuanza, Angola).
2015
João Russo (2015) - Eggs and eggshells of Crocodylomorpha from the Late Jurassic of Portugal.
Sérgio Cardoso (2015) - On the function of the floccular complex of the vertebrate cerebellum: implications in paleoneuroanatomy.
João Marinheiro (2015) - Proboscidiens and other vertebrates from Anchrif, Morroco.
Pedro Fialho (2015) - Seláceos do Miocénico médio da Bacia do Baixo Tejo (Brielas, Portugal).
2014
Simão Mateus (2014) - Fundamentos para uma exposição hipotética do Jurássico Superior da Lourinhã.
Diogo Mota (2014) - Estudo zooarqueológico de restos faunísticos de época islâmica (séculos XII e XIII) de um silo do castelo de Aljezur.
Rúben Domingos (2014) - Contribuição para o conhecimento da fauna do Devónico do Anticlinal de Valongo (Norte de Portugal).
Margarida Pereira (2014) - Ostracodos da Sondagem de Belverde (Miocénico da Bacia do Baixo Tejo).
