Mitarbeitende

Publications in international peer-reviewed scientific journals:

• Urciuoli, A., Martíne, I., Quam, R., Arsuaga, J.L., Keeling, B.A., Diéz-Valero, J., Conde-Valverde, M., 2025. Semicircular canals shed light on bottleneck events in the evolution of the Neanderthal clade. Nat. Commun. 16, 972 (2025).
• Pandolfi, L., Arranz, S.G., Almécija, S., Galindo J., Luján, A.H., Pina, M., Urciuoli, A., Casanovas-Vilar, I., Alba, D.M., 2025. Late Miocene Tapiridae from Vallès-Penedès basin (NE Iberian Peninsula): Taxonomic and paleoenvironmental implications. Swiss J. Palaeontol. 144, 3 (2025).
• Smith, C.M., Hammond, A.S., Urciuoli, A., Braga, J., Beaudet, A., Cazenave, M., Laitman, J.T., Almécija, S., 2025. Divergent otolithic systems in the inner ear of Paranthropus robustus and Australopithecus africanus. J. Hum. Evol. 199, 103624.
• Bouchet, F., Zanolli, C., Skinner, M.M., Urciuoli, A., Fortuny, J., Almécija, S., Bernardini, F., Tuniz, C., Schillinger, B., Moyà-Solà, S., Alba, D.M., 2024. Molar enamel-dentine junction shape of Pliobates cataloniae and other Iberian pliopithecoids. J. Hum. Evol. 195, 103581.
• Bouchet, F., Zanolli, C., Urciuoli, A., Almécija, S., Fortuny, J., Robles, J.M., Beaudet, A., Moyà-Solà, S., Alba, D.M., 2024. The Miocene primate Pliobates is a pliopithecoid. Nat. Commun. 15, 2822. Link
• Alba, D.M., Urciuoli, A., Hammond, A.S., Almécija, S., Rook, L., Zanolli, C., 2024. Miocene ape evolution: Where does Oreopithecus fit in? Bull. Soc. Paleontol. Ital. 63, 153-182. Link
• Zhang, Y., Urciuoli, A., Zanolli, C., Kullmer, O., Wu, X., 2024. Three-dimensional geometric morphometric analysis of the bony labyrinth of Xujiayao 6. J. Hum. Evol. 189, 103514. Link
• Urciuoli, A., Alba, D.M., 2023. Systematics of Miocene apes: State of the art of a neverending controversy. J. Hum. Evol. 175, 103309. Link
• Arias-Martorell, J., Urciuoli, A., Almécija, S., Alba, D.M., Nakatsukasa, M., 2023. The proximal radial morphology the Middle Miocene ape Nacholapithecus kerioi: Morphometric affinities, locomotor inferences, and implications for the evolution of the hominoid humeroradial joint. J. Hum. Evol. 178, 103345. Link
• Frosali, S., Bartolini-Lucenti, S., Madurell-Malapeira, J., Urciuoli, A., Costeur, L., Rook, L., 2023. First digital study of the frontal sinus of stem-Canini (Canidae, Carnivora): evolutionary and ecological insights. Front. Ecol. Evol. 11, 1173341. Link
• Urciuoli, A., Kubat, J., Schisanowski, L., Schrenk, F., Zipfel, B., Tawane, M., Bam, L., Alba, D.M., Kullmer, O., 2022. Cochlear morphology of Indonesian Homo erectus from Sangiran. J. Hum. Evol. 163, 103163. Link
• Urciuoli, A., Zanolli, C., Almécija, S., Beaudet, A., Dumoncel, J., Morimoto, N., Nakatsukasa, M., Moyà-Solà, S., Begun, D.R., Alba, D.M., 2021. Reassessment of the phylogenetic relationships of the late Miocene apes Hispanopithecus and Rudapithecus based on vestibular morphology. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 118, e2015215118. Link
• Urciuoli, A., Zanolli, C., Beaudet, A., Pina, M., Almécija, S., Moyà-Solà, S., Alba, D.M., 2021. A comparative analysis of the vestibular apparatus in Epipliopithecus vindobonensis: Phylogenetic implications. J. Hum. Evol. 151, 102930. Link
• Fornai, C., Webb, N.M., Urciuoli, A., Krenn, V.A., Corron, L.K., Haeusler, M., 2021. New insights on hip bone sexual dimorphism in adolescents and adults using deformation-based geometric morphometrics. J. Anthropol. Sci. 99, 117-134. Link
• Bouchet, F., Urciuoli, A., Beaudet, A., Pina, M., Moyà-Solà, S., Alba, D.M., 2021. Comparative anatomy of the carotid canal in the Miocene small-bodied catarrhine Pliobates cataloniae. J. Hum. Evol. 161, 103073. Link
• Arias-Martorell, J., Almécija, S., Urciuoli, A., Nakatsukasa, M., Moyà-Solà, S., Alba, D.M., 2021. A proximal radius of Barberapithecus huerzeleri from Castell de Barberà: Implications for locomotor diversity among pliopithecoids. J. Hum. Evol. 157, 103032. Link
• Urciuoli, A., Zanolli, C., Beaudet, A., Dumoncel, J., Santos, F., Moyà-Solà, S., Alba, D.M., 2020. The evolution of the vestibular apparatus in apes and humans. eLife 9, e51261. Link
• Urciuoli, A., Zanolli, C., Fortuny, J., Almécija, S., Schillinger, B., Moyà-Solà, S., Alba, D.M., 2018. Neutron-based computed microtomography: Pliobates cataloniae and Barberapithecus huerzeleri as a test-case study. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 166, 987-993. Link
• Urciuoli, A., DeMiguel, D., Moyà-Solà, S., Rook, L., 2016. New Hoplitomeryx Leinders, 1984 remains from the Late Miocene of Gargano (Apulia, Italy). Hystrix 27, 1-8. Link

Scientific communications and posters:

• Urciuoli, A., Zhang, Y., Zanolli, C., Wu, X., Schrenk, F., Kullmer, O., 2024). The unique semicircular canal morphology of Indonesian Homo erectus from Sangiran. International Symposium on Paleoanthropology in Commemoration of the 95th Anniversary of the Discovery of the First Skull of Peking Man. Beijing, 2-4 December 2024. Abstract book (pp. 29-30).
• Urciuoli, A., Keeling, B.A., Webb, N.M., Diez-Valero, J., Martínez, I., Quam, R., Arsuaga, J.L., Conde-Valverde, M., 2024. More than a deme: semicircular canal shape reveals local evolution in Neanderthal paleodemes. Proc. ESHE 13.
• Smith, C.S., Urciuoli, A., Cazenave, M., Braga, J., Beaudet, A., Almécija, S., Laitman, J.T., Hammond, A.S., 2024. First insights into the inner ear otolith system of Australopithecus and Paranthropus. Am. J. Biol. Anthropol. 183(S77), 169 . Link
• Keeling, B.A., Conde-Valverde, M., Urciuoli, A., Diez-Valero, J., Quam, R. The biomechanical nature of the human chin. Proc. ESHE 13.
• Webb, N.M., Urciuoli, A., Fornai, C., Krenn, V.A., Rmoutilova, R., Haeusler, M., 2024. It's a boy? A machine learning and deformation-based morphometric approach to evaluating pelvic sexual dimorphism in the Kebara 2 Neanderthal pelvis. Proc. ESHE 13.
• Diez-Valero, J., Conde-Valverde, M., Rodríguez, L., Quirós-Sánchez, A., Keeling, B.A., Urciuoli, A., Martínez, I., 2024. Patrones de alometría en las cavidades del oído externo y medio en homínidos: primeras aportaciones para la especie Pongo pygmaeus. XXIII Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Antropología Física 2024. Alcalá de Henares, 4-6 septiembre 2024. Libro de resúmenes (pp. 126): Fundación General de la Universidad de Alcalá.
• Keeling, B.A., Conde-Valverde, M., Urciuoli, A., Diez-Valero, J., & Quam, R. (2024). La naturaleza biomecánica del mentón humano. XXIII Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Antropología Física 2024. Alcalá de Henares, 4-6 septiembre 2024. Libro de resúmenes (pp. 134): Fundación General de la Universidad de Alcalá.
• Frosali, S., Bartolini-Lucenti, S., Madurell-Malapeira, J., Urciuoli, A., Rook, L., 2024. Analysis of the frontal sinus of Early Pleistocene Canids. In G. Bianucci, M. Merella, & A. Collareta (Eds.), XXIV Edition of the "Giornate di Paleontologia". Pisa, (4) 5-7 June 2024. Abstract book (pp. 63).
• Luján, À., Vega-Pagán, K.A., Urciuoli, A., Abella, J., DeMiguel, D., Almécija, S., Alba, D.M., Pina, M. (2024). Earliest Vallesian fossil turtle remains from Creu de Conill 20 (Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula). In S. W. Evers, W. G. Joyce, & Y. Rollot (Eds.), Turtle Evolution Symposium 2024. June 26-29, 2024. Fribourg, Switzerland (pp. 14). Fribourg: Université de Fribourg.
• Urciuoli, A., Conde-Valverde, M., Quam, R., Arsuaga, J.L., Zipfel, B., Bam, L., Martínez, I., 2023. Further insights into the evolution of the Neanderthal semicircular canals. PaleoAnthropology 2023:2, 399.
• Urciuoli, A., Florian, B., Quirós-Sánchez, A., Conde-Valverde, M., 2022. The human cochlea: a test case for endocranial morphology comparisons on a small scale. PaleoAnthropology 2, 592. Link
• Urciuoli, A., Zanolli, C., Bouchet, F., Almécija, S., Moyà-Solà, S., Alba, D.M., 2022. Semicircular canal morphology of the Miocene small-bodied catarrhine Pliobates cataloniae: Phylogenetic implications. Am. J. Biol. Anthropol. 177(S73), 187. Link
• Urciuoli, A., Beaudet, A., Heaton, J., Alba, D.M., 2022. Papionin affinities in the endocranial anatomy of Cercopithecoides williamsi. In: Belvedere M., Mecozzi B., Amore O., Sardella R (Eds.). Abstract book of the XIX Annual Conference of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists, Benevento/Pietraroja, Italy, 27th June-2nd July 2022. PalaeoVertebrata Special Volume 1-2022, 207-208. Link
• Urciuoli, A., Costeur, L., Alba, D.M., Zanolli, C., Moyà-Solà, S., Rook, L., 2022. New insights into the semicircular canal morphology of Oreopithecus: implications for hominoid evolution. In: Oreopithecus150 a Miocene hominoid enshrouded in a 150-yearslong mystery. International Conference. Abstract Book.
• López-Onaindia, D., Crevecoeur, I., Thibeault, A., Urciuoli, A., Lucas-Aragay, M., Pruvost, M., Zanolli, C., Sala, N., Balzeau, A., Couture-Veschambre, C., Gómez-Olivencia, A., 2022. Variation of bony labyrinth morphology in late Middle Pleistocene Neanderthals from Abri Suard, France. Am. J. Biol. Anthropol. 177(S73), 111. Link
• Zanolli, C., Urciuoli, A., Delgado, M., Davies, T.W., Bouchet, F., Fortuny, J., Beaudet, A., Alba, D.M., Kullmer, O., Skinner, M.M., 2022. The phylogenetic signal of the enamel-dentine junction of primate molars. Am. J. Biol. Anthropol. 177(S73), 202-203. Link
• Zanolli, C., Alba, D.M., Begun, D., Bouchet, F., Costeur, L., Dean, M.C., Fortuny, J., Kelley, J., Le Cabec, A., Morita, W., Nakatsukasa, M., Rook, L., Urciuoli, A., 2022. Tracking Oreopithecus evolutionary history: evidence from the enamel-dentine junction morphology. In: Oreopithecus150 a Miocene hominoid enshrouded in a 150-years-long mystery. International Conference. Abstract Book.
• Fornai, C., Urciuoli, A., Kren, A.V., Hausler, M., Webb, N.M., 2021. Deformation-based geometric morphometrics captures the morphology of the modern human hipbone. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 174(S71), 33. Link
• Bouchet, F., Urciuoli, A., Beaudet, A., Moyà-Solà, S., Alba, D.M., 2020. Orientation and proportions of the carotid canal in Epipliopithecus and Pliobates. Proc. ESHE 9, 18.
• Urciuoli, A., Zanolli, C., Begun, D., Almécija, S., Dumoncel, J., Moyà-Solà, S., Alba, D.M., 2019. A deformation-based geometric morphometric analysis of the vestibular apparatus in the Miocene apes Hispanopithecus laietanus and Rudapithecus hungaricus. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 168(S68), 253. Link
• Urciuoli, A., Pina, M., Moyà-Solà, S., Alba, D.M., 2018. The inner ear of Epipliopithecus vindobonensis: preliminary results. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 165(S66), 281. Link
• Urciuoli, A., Zanolli, C., Almécija, S., Moyà-Solà S., Alba, D.M., 2018. Analysis of the primate vestibular apparatus: a comparison of 3D geometric morphometric and diffeomorphism approaches. Proc. ESHE 7, 193.
• Delfino, M., Candilio, F., Carnevale, G., Coppa, A., Medin, T., Pavia, M., Rook, L., Urciuoli, A., Villa, A., 2018. The early Pleistocene vertebrate fauna of Mulhuli-Amo (Buia area, Danakil Depression, Eritrea). Boll. Soc. Paleontol. Ital. 57, 27-44. Link