Octávio Mateus

Octávio Mateus (born 1975) is a Portuguese dinosaur paleontologist and biologist Professor of Paleontology at the Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

[2] New dinosaur taxa he has helped name include Lourinhanosaurus antunesi (1998),[3] Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis (1999),[4] Tangvayosaurus hoffeti (1999),[5] Draconyx loureiroi (2001),[6] Lusotitan atalaiensis (2003),[7] Europasaurus holgeri (2006),[8] Allosaurus europaeus (2006),[9] Angolatitan adamastor (2011),[10] Torvosaurus gurneyi (2014),[11] Zby atlanticus (2014),[12] Galeamopus (2015),[13] Issi saaneq (2021),[14] and Iberospinus natarioi (2022).

[15] Since 1991, Octávio Mateus has organized dinosaur excavations in Portugal, as well as Laos with the French team of the Paris Museum of Natural History, led by Prof. Philippe Taquet.

[16] He collaborates with diverse international scientific institutions as the scientific council member of the German foundation Verein zur Förderung der niedersächsischen Paläontologie.

He also studied dinosaur tracks[17] and eggs, phytosaurs, chelonians, and whales.