Mario Alberto Cozzuol
Professor
Zoology
University of Minas
Brazil
Biography
He has a bachelor's degree in Biology (1985) and a doctorate in Natural Sciences (1993), both from the National University of La Plata, Argentina. Since October 2006 he has been an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Zoology of the Biology Institute of the Federal University of Minas Gerais. He received a scholarship from CONICET, Argentina (1985-1991); professor at the National University of Patagonia, Argentina (1991-1995); two-time visiting researcher of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (1996-1997 and 2005/06); Visiting professor and later assistant of the Federal University of Rondônia (1998-2006). He is a Specialist in the Paleobiology Database since 2006, an evaluator of the Council of Scientific and Technical Investigations of Argentina since 2006 and Research Associate of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, United States since 1993.
Research Interest
Aleontology of Vertebrates, Water mammals, Paleontology of Vertebrates, AQUATIC MAMMALS OF THE MIDDLE TERTIARY OF ARGENTINA, FOSSEIS AQUATIC MAMMALS, Systematics and Paleontology of Aquatic Mammals, Paleontology of vertebrates, Phylogenetic Systematics.
Publications
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Buono, MR; VIRGILIO, M.; Cozzuol, Mario Alberto ; LUCERO, S.. Deciphering the evolutionary history of the Neoceti (Mammalia: Cetacea): contributions of the fossil record of the Neocean of the Southwest Atlantic. In: Evolutionary and paleobiogeographic history of the vertebrates of South America., v. 6, p. 323-334, 2016.
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AZPELICUETA, MM; CIONE, Alberto Luis; Cozzuol, Mario Alberto ; Mirande, JM. Kooiichthys jono n. gen. n. sp., the primitive catfish (Teleostei, Siluriformes) from the marine Miocene of southern South America. Journal of Paleontology , v. 89, p. 791-801, 2016.
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PARISI DUTRA, RODRIGO; MISSAGIA, RAFAELA VELLOSO; PERINI, FERNANDO ARAUJO; Cozzuol, Mario Alberto ; GASPARINI, GERMÃN MARIANO; GUEDES, PATRICIA GONÇALVES; SALLES, LEANDRO DE OLIVEIRA. Fossil peccaries of Late Pleistocene / Holocene (Cetartiodactyla, Tayassuidae) from underwater caves of Serra da Bodoquena (Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil). Historical Biology (Print) , v. 29, p. 85-92, 2016.
