List of works - David M. Alba

A new dugong species (Sirenia, Dugongidae) from the Eocene of Catalonia (NE Iberian Peninsula)

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A new pliopithecid genus (primates: Pliopithecoidea) from Castell de Barberà (Vallès-Penedès Basin, Catalonia, Spain).

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 14 July 2021

A new species of Pliopithecus Gervais, 1849 (Primates: Pliopithecidae) from the Middle Miocene (MN8) of Abocador de Can Mata (els Hostalets de Pierola, Catalonia, Spain).

scientific article published in January 2010

A partial hominoid humerus from the middle miocene of Castell de Barberà (Vallès-Penedès Basin, Catalonia, Spain).

scientific article

A thorny question: the taxonomic identity of the Pirro Nord cervical vertebrae revisited

scientific article published on 17 July 2014

An amphisbaenian skull from the European miocene and the evolution of Mediterranean worm lizards

scientific article published in 2014

Bio- and magnetostratigraphic correlation of the Miocene primate-bearing site of Castell de Barberà to the earliest Vallesian

scientific article published on 10 May 2019

Biochronological, taphonomical, and paleoenvironmental background of the fossil great ape Pierolapithecus catalaunicus (Primates, Hominidae).

scientific article

Brief communication: Cranial reconstruction of Dryopithecus.

scientific article

Brief communication: Paleobiological inferences on the locomotor repertoire of extinct hominoids based on femoral neck cortical thickness: The fossil great ape hispanopithecus laietanus as a test-case study.

scientific article

Brief communication: the oldest pliopithecid record in the Iberian Peninsula based on new material from the Vallès-Penedès Basin

scientific article

Can Pallars i Llobateres: A new hominoid-bearing locality from the late Miocene of the Vallès-Penedès Basin (NE Iberian Peninsula)

scientific article published on 18 May 2018

Cochlear morphology of Indonesian Homo erectus from Sangiran

scientific article published in 2022

Comparative cranial osteology ofBlanus(Squamata: Amphisbaenia)

scientific article published on 15 December 2018

Dentognathic remains of Macaca (Primates, Cercopithecidae) from the late early Pleistocene of Terrassa (Catalonia, Spain).

scientific article

Dietary specialization during the evolution of Western Eurasian hominoids and the extinction of European Great Apes

scientific article published in 2014

Early Pliocene continental vertebrate Fauna at Puerto de la Cadena (SE Spain) and its bearing on the marine-continental correlation of the Late Neogene of Eastern Betics

scientific article

Early human dispersals into the Iberian Peninsula: a comment on Martínez et al.(2010) and Garcia et al. (2011).

scientific article

Early origin for human-like precision grasping: a comparative study of pollical distal phalanges in fossil hominins

scientific article published in 2010

Egarapithecus narcisoi, a new genus of Pliopithecidae (primates, catarrhini) from the Late Miocene of Spain.

scientific article

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

scientific article published in 2022

European pliopithecid diets revised in the light of dental microwear in Pliopithecus canmatensis and Barberapithecus huerzeleri

scientific article published in August 2013

First evidence of Tethytragus Azanza and Morales, 1994 (Ruminantia, Bovidae), in the Miocene of the Vallès-Penedès Basin (Spain)

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First joint record of Mesopithecus and cf. Macaca in the Miocene of Europe.

scientific article

First partial face and upper dentition of the Middle Miocene hominoid Dryopithecus fontani from Abocador de Can Mata (Vallès-Penedès Basin, Catalonia, NE Spain): taxonomic and phylogenetic implications.

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 11 September 2015

First record of macaques from the Early Pleistocene of Incarcal (NE Iberian Peninsula).

scientific article

Fossil apes from the Vallès-Penedès Basin

scientific article

Fossil remains of Macaca sylvanus florentina (Cocchi, 1872) (Primates, Cercopithecidae) from the Early Pleistocene of Quibas (Murcia, Spain).

scientific article published on 19 October 2011

Human evolution. Comment on "Human-like hand use in Australopithecus africanus".

scientific article published in June 2015

Kretzoiarctos gen. nov., the oldest member of the giant panda clade

scientific article published in 2012

Latest Early Pleistocene remains of Lynx pardinus (Carnivora, Felidae) from the Iberian Peninsula: Taxonomy and evolutionary implications

article by Alberto Boscaini et al published July 2016 in Quaternary Science Reviews

Locomotor inferences in Pierolapithecus and Hispanopithecus: Reply to Deane and Begun (2008).

scientific article published on 26 May 2010

Macaca (Primates, Cercopithecidae) from the late Miocene of Spain.

scientific article

Macaque remains from the early Pliocene of the Iberian Peninsula

scientific article published on 20 August 2018

Middle Miocene Pierolapithecus provides a first glimpse into early hominid pelvic morphology

scientific article published on 30 March 2013

Miocene small-bodied ape from Eurasia sheds light on hominoid evolution.

scientific article

Morphological affinities of the Australopithecus afarensis hand on the basis of manual proportions and relative thumb length

scientific article published in February 2003

Morphological affinities of the proximal humerus of Epipliopithecus vindobonensis and Pliopithecus antiquus: suspensory inferences based on a 3D geometric morphometrics approach

scientific article published on 16 September 2014

Neutron-based computed microtomography: Pliobates cataloniae and Barberapithecus huerzeleri as a test-case study

scientific article published on 25 March 2018

New Hispanomeryx (Mammalia, Ruminantia, Moschidae) from Spain and a reassessment of the systematics and paleobiology of the genus Hispanomeryx Morales, Moyà-Solà, and Soria, 1981

scientific article published on 4 March 2019

New craniodental remains of the barbourofelid Albanosmilus jourdani (Filhol, 1883) from the Miocene of the Vallès-Penedès Basin (NE Iberian Peninsula) and the phylogeny of the Barbourofelini

scholarly article by Josep M. Robles et al published November 2013 in Journal of Systematic Palaeontology

New dental remains of Anoiapithecus and the first appearance datum of hominoids in the Iberian Peninsula

scientific article published on 7 August 2013

New dental remains of Hispanopithecus laietanus (Primates: Hominidae) from Can Llobateres 1 and the taxonomy of Late Miocene hominoids from the Vallès-Penedès Basin (NE Iberian Peninsula).

scientific article published on 25 June 2012

New remains of Dorcatherium crassum (Artiodactyla: Tragulidae) from the Early Miocene (MN4) of Els Casots (Subirats, Vallès-Penedès Basin)

article by David M. Alba et al published February 2014 in Comptes Rendus Palevol

Oldest skeleton of a fossil flying squirrel casts new light on the phylogeny of the group

scientific article published on 09 October 2018

On manual proportions and pad-to-pad precision grasping in Australopithecus afarensis

scientific article published on 11 March 2014

On the holotype and original description of the pliopithecid Plesiopliopithecus lockeri ().

scientific article

Orang-like manual adaptations in the fossil hominoid Hispanopithecus laietanus: first steps towards great ape suspensory behaviours

scientific article (publication date: 7 October 2007)

Pierolapithecus and the functional morphology of Miocene ape hand phalanges: paleobiological and evolutionary implications

scientific article published on 24 July 2009

Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, a new Middle Miocene great ape from Spain

scientific article

Primate evolution - in and out of Africa

scientific article published in July 1999

Taxonomic attribution of the La Grive hominoid teeth

scientific article published on 11 June 2013

Taxonomic attribution of the Olduvai hominid 7 manual remains and the functional interpretation of hand morphology in robust australopithecines

scientific article

Ten years in the dump: An updated review of the Miocene primate-bearing localities from Abocador de Can Mata (NE Iberian Peninsula).

scientific article published on 11 November 2016

The Middle Miocene ape Pierolapithecus catalaunicus exhibits extant great ape-like morphometric affinities on its patella: inferences on knee function and evolution

scientific article published in 2014

The Miocene tortoiseTestudo catalaunicaBataller, 1926, and a revised phylogeny of extinct species of genusTestudo(Testudines: Testudinidae)

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The distal tibia of Hispanopithecus laietanus: more evidence for mosaic evolution in Miocene apes.

scientific article published on 7 March 2013

The evolution of the vestibular apparatus in apes and humans

scientific article published on 03 March 2020

The femur of Orrorin tugenensis exhibits morphometric affinities with both Miocene apes and later hominins

scientific article

The latest European painted dog

The nasal and paranasal architecture of the Middle Miocene ape Pierolapithecus catalaunicus (primates: Hominidae): phylogenetic implications

scientific article

The paleoenvironment of Hispanopithecus laietanus as revealed by paleobotanical evidence from the Late Miocene of Can Llobateres 1 (Catalonia, Spain).

scientific article

The pioneering primatologist Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major (1843-1923), and a Mesopithecus tooth from an unrecorded locality of Italy (?Casino Basin) in the Basel Naturhistorisches Museum

scholarly article

The taxonomic status of European Plio-Pleistocene badgers

article published in 2011

The vertebral remains of the late Miocene great ape Hispanopithecus laietanus from Can Llobateres 2 (Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula).

scientific article published on 18 June 2014

Tracing the origin of the panda's thumb.

scientific article published on 3 June 2015

Updated chronology for the Miocene hominoid radiation in Western Eurasia

scientific article

Were large carnivorans and great climatic shifts limiting factors for hominin dispersals? Evidence of the activity of Pachycrocuta brevirostris during the Mid-Pleistocene Revolution in the Vallparadís Section (Vallès-Penedès Basin, Iberian Peninsu

scientific article published in February 2017

List of works by David M. Alba

A new dugong species (Sirenia, Dugongidae) from the Eocene of Catalonia (NE Iberian Peninsula)

A new pliopithecid genus (primates: Pliopithecoidea) from Castell de Barberà (Vallès-Penedès Basin, Catalonia, Spain).

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

A new species of Pliopithecus Gervais, 1849 (Primates: Pliopithecidae) from the Middle Miocene (MN8) of Abocador de Can Mata (els Hostalets de Pierola, Catalonia, Spain).

A partial hominoid humerus from the middle miocene of Castell de Barberà (Vallès-Penedès Basin, Catalonia, Spain).

A thorny question: the taxonomic identity of the Pirro Nord cervical vertebrae revisited

An amphisbaenian skull from the European miocene and the evolution of Mediterranean worm lizards

Bio- and magnetostratigraphic correlation of the Miocene primate-bearing site of Castell de Barberà to the earliest Vallesian

Biochronological, taphonomical, and paleoenvironmental background of the fossil great ape Pierolapithecus catalaunicus (Primates, Hominidae).

Brief communication: Cranial reconstruction of Dryopithecus.

Brief communication: Paleobiological inferences on the locomotor repertoire of extinct hominoids based on femoral neck cortical thickness: The fossil great ape hispanopithecus laietanus as a test-case study.

Brief communication: the oldest pliopithecid record in the Iberian Peninsula based on new material from the Vallès-Penedès Basin

Can Pallars i Llobateres: A new hominoid-bearing locality from the late Miocene of the Vallès-Penedès Basin (NE Iberian Peninsula)

Cochlear morphology of Indonesian Homo erectus from Sangiran

Comparative cranial osteology ofBlanus(Squamata: Amphisbaenia)

Dentognathic remains of Macaca (Primates, Cercopithecidae) from the late early Pleistocene of Terrassa (Catalonia, Spain).

Dietary specialization during the evolution of Western Eurasian hominoids and the extinction of European Great Apes

Early Pliocene continental vertebrate Fauna at Puerto de la Cadena (SE Spain) and its bearing on the marine-continental correlation of the Late Neogene of Eastern Betics

Early human dispersals into the Iberian Peninsula: a comment on Martínez et al.(2010) and Garcia et al. (2011).

Early origin for human-like precision grasping: a comparative study of pollical distal phalanges in fossil hominins

Egarapithecus narcisoi, a new genus of Pliopithecidae (primates, catarrhini) from the Late Miocene of Spain.

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

European pliopithecid diets revised in the light of dental microwear in Pliopithecus canmatensis and Barberapithecus huerzeleri

First evidence of Tethytragus Azanza and Morales, 1994 (Ruminantia, Bovidae), in the Miocene of the Vallès-Penedès Basin (Spain)

First joint record of Mesopithecus and cf. Macaca in the Miocene of Europe.

First partial face and upper dentition of the Middle Miocene hominoid Dryopithecus fontani from Abocador de Can Mata (Vallès-Penedès Basin, Catalonia, NE Spain): taxonomic and phylogenetic implications.

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

First record of macaques from the Early Pleistocene of Incarcal (NE Iberian Peninsula).

Fossil apes from the Vallès-Penedès Basin

Fossil remains of Macaca sylvanus florentina (Cocchi, 1872) (Primates, Cercopithecidae) from the Early Pleistocene of Quibas (Murcia, Spain).

Human evolution. Comment on "Human-like hand use in Australopithecus africanus".

Kretzoiarctos gen. nov., the oldest member of the giant panda clade

Latest Early Pleistocene remains of Lynx pardinus (Carnivora, Felidae) from the Iberian Peninsula: Taxonomy and evolutionary implications

Locomotor inferences in Pierolapithecus and Hispanopithecus: Reply to Deane and Begun (2008).

Macaca (Primates, Cercopithecidae) from the late Miocene of Spain.

Macaque remains from the early Pliocene of the Iberian Peninsula

Middle Miocene Pierolapithecus provides a first glimpse into early hominid pelvic morphology

Miocene small-bodied ape from Eurasia sheds light on hominoid evolution.

Morphological affinities of the Australopithecus afarensis hand on the basis of manual proportions and relative thumb length

Morphological affinities of the proximal humerus of Epipliopithecus vindobonensis and Pliopithecus antiquus: suspensory inferences based on a 3D geometric morphometrics approach

Neutron-based computed microtomography: Pliobates cataloniae and Barberapithecus huerzeleri as a test-case study

New Hispanomeryx (Mammalia, Ruminantia, Moschidae) from Spain and a reassessment of the systematics and paleobiology of the genus Hispanomeryx Morales, Moyà-Solà, and Soria, 1981

New craniodental remains of the barbourofelid Albanosmilus jourdani (Filhol, 1883) from the Miocene of the Vallès-Penedès Basin (NE Iberian Peninsula) and the phylogeny of the Barbourofelini

New dental remains of Anoiapithecus and the first appearance datum of hominoids in the Iberian Peninsula

New dental remains of Hispanopithecus laietanus (Primates: Hominidae) from Can Llobateres 1 and the taxonomy of Late Miocene hominoids from the Vallès-Penedès Basin (NE Iberian Peninsula).

New remains of Dorcatherium crassum (Artiodactyla: Tragulidae) from the Early Miocene (MN4) of Els Casots (Subirats, Vallès-Penedès Basin)

Oldest skeleton of a fossil flying squirrel casts new light on the phylogeny of the group

On manual proportions and pad-to-pad precision grasping in Australopithecus afarensis

On the holotype and original description of the pliopithecid Plesiopliopithecus lockeri ().

Orang-like manual adaptations in the fossil hominoid Hispanopithecus laietanus: first steps towards great ape suspensory behaviours

Pierolapithecus and the functional morphology of Miocene ape hand phalanges: paleobiological and evolutionary implications

Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, a new Middle Miocene great ape from Spain

Primate evolution - in and out of Africa

Taxonomic attribution of the La Grive hominoid teeth

Taxonomic attribution of the Olduvai hominid 7 manual remains and the functional interpretation of hand morphology in robust australopithecines

Ten years in the dump: An updated review of the Miocene primate-bearing localities from Abocador de Can Mata (NE Iberian Peninsula).

The Middle Miocene ape Pierolapithecus catalaunicus exhibits extant great ape-like morphometric affinities on its patella: inferences on knee function and evolution

The Miocene tortoiseTestudo catalaunicaBataller, 1926, and a revised phylogeny of extinct species of genusTestudo(Testudines: Testudinidae)

The distal tibia of Hispanopithecus laietanus: more evidence for mosaic evolution in Miocene apes.

The evolution of the vestibular apparatus in apes and humans

The femur of Orrorin tugenensis exhibits morphometric affinities with both Miocene apes and later hominins

The latest European painted dog

The nasal and paranasal architecture of the Middle Miocene ape Pierolapithecus catalaunicus (primates: Hominidae): phylogenetic implications

The paleoenvironment of Hispanopithecus laietanus as revealed by paleobotanical evidence from the Late Miocene of Can Llobateres 1 (Catalonia, Spain).

The pioneering primatologist Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major (1843-1923), and a Mesopithecus tooth from an unrecorded locality of Italy (?Casino Basin) in the Basel Naturhistorisches Museum

The taxonomic status of European Plio-Pleistocene badgers

The vertebral remains of the late Miocene great ape Hispanopithecus laietanus from Can Llobateres 2 (Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula).

Tracing the origin of the panda's thumb.

Updated chronology for the Miocene hominoid radiation in Western Eurasia

Were large carnivorans and great climatic shifts limiting factors for hominin dispersals? Evidence of the activity of Pachycrocuta brevirostris during the Mid-Pleistocene Revolution in the Vallparadís Section (Vallès-Penedès Basin, Iberian Peninsu