PhD Blanca Moncunill Solé  

Contratada Posdoutoral (PR-PX)

Department Physics and Earth Sciences
Knowledgment area External Geodynamics
Research  Research group Grupo de Investigación en Cambio Ambiental
Research lines 1) Adaptaciones eco-evolutivas de los lagomorfos extintos y otros pequeños mamíferos a la insularidad. 2) Respuestas biológicas de los lagomorfos extinctos a cambios ambientales. 3) Los ecosistemas oligo-miocenos de Galicia (NO peninsular).
Keywords Cenozoico; Eco-evolución; Ecosistemas insulares; Estadística avanzada; Historia de vida; Island Rule; Lagomorpha; Macroevolución; Morfometría; Paleobiología; Pequeños mamíferos; Peso corporal
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Orcid id0000-0001-8042-4257 ResearcherIDT-9986-2019 Scopus55804925400

Teaching

Subjects taught

This section shows the teaching given in degrees, masters and other officers studies in last 6 years.

Subject and involved studies Distance hours Total hours
Crystallography and Symmetry 0 24
Final Year Dissertation 0 9
Geology 0 24
Paleobiology 0 20
Subject and involved studies Distance hours Total hours
Paleobiology
Degree in Biology
0 33
Subject and involved studies Distance hours Total hours
Paleobiology
Degree in Biology
0 12

Defined tutoring by teacher for 2023/2024 academic course.

Faculty of Science

Quarter Day Site
1st quarter Monday
15:00 a 17:00
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EOG works and final master thesis directed

Directed or codirected by current teacher since 2013 year.

Paleobiological study of Pleistocene micromammals from Galicia
Paleobiology of Spinosaurus aegyptiacus (Dinosauria, Theropoda): systematics, paleoecology and paleobiogeography - Literature revision
Paleohistological study of extant and extinct lagomorphs (Pleistocene-Holocene): a paleobiological approach

Research results

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Body mass evolutionary dynamics in the Oligocene-Miocene lagomorphs from Eurasia - Call ¿Synthesys+¿ 2022, Transnational Access Call 4

Funding entity European Commission
Type Proyecto UE
Dates From 24/04/2023 to 28/05/2023

AXUDAS PARA A CONSOLIDACIÓN E ESTRUTURACIÓN DE UNIDADES DE INVESTIGACIÓN COMPETITIVAS.EXCELENCIA 2023

Funding entity CONSELLERIA DE EDUCACIÓN, UNIVERSIDADE E FORMACIÓN PROFESIONAL
Main researches Luis Alejandro Blanco Calvo
Type Proyecto Programas Autonomicos
Dates From 01/01/2023 to 20/11/2027

AXUDAS PARA A CONSOLIDACIÓN E ESTRUTURACIÓN DE UNIDADES DE INVESTIGACIÓN COMPETITIVAS.EXCELENCIA 2022

Funding entity Consellería de Educación
Main researches Armand Hernández Hernández
Type Proyecto Programas Autonomicos
Dates From 01/01/2022 to 20/11/2026

Recurrencia de los eventos climáticos extremos en el Oeste de Europa desde una perspectiva holocena: repercusiones en la gestión de los ecosistemas costeros en Galicia - CLIMCOST

Funding entity Xunta de Galicia
Main researches Armand Hernández
Type Proyecto Programas Autonomicos
Dates From 01/01/2022 to 31/12/2026

Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of lagomorphs in front of climate changes: a paleobiological approach for the conservation of extant taxa

Funding entity Consellería de Cultura, Educación e Ordenación Universitaria
Main researches Blanca Moncunill-Solé
Type Proyecto Programas Autonomicos
Dates From 16/05/2022 to 15/05/2024

Did fossil pikas from insular environments move slowly? Assessment of postcranial elements of extinct ochotonids using geometric morphometrics - Call "Synthesys+" 2019

Funding entity European Commission
Main researches Blanca Moncunill-Solé
Type Proyecto UE
Dates From 17/02/2020 to 28/02/2020

Fossils, a key to conservation - Call IACOBUS 2018

Funding entity Agrupación Europea de Cooperación Territorial Galicia-Norte de Portugal (GNP-AECT)
Main researches Blanca Moncunill-Solé
Type Proyecto Programas Autonomicos
Dates From 01/05/2019 to 15/05/2019

The body mass of Paludotona (Lagomorpha, Mammalia): first approach to the ecology of the last stem lagomorph (Tusco-Sardinia palaeobioprovince, Late Miocene)

Authors Chiara Angelone, Stanislav Cermak, Blanca Moncunill-Solé, Lorenzo Rook
Journal BOLLETTINO DELLA SOCIETÀ PALEONTOLOGICA ITALIANA Vol. 61 Num. 1 (pages 61 to 70)
DOI https://doi.org/10.4435/bspi.2022.01

Eco-evolutionary adaptations of ochotonids (Mammalia: Lagomorpha) to islands: new insights into Late Miocene pikas from the Gargano palaeo-archipelago (Italy)

Authors Blanca Moncunill-Solé
Journal BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY Vol. 132 Num. 2 (pages 400 to 413)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blaa157

Prolagus Pomel, 1853 (Lagomorpha, Mammalia in the framework of the Pliocene faunal rearrangements in central Europe

Authors Stanislav Cermak, Chiara Angelone, Blanca Moncunill-Solé
Journal COMPTES RENDUS PALEVOL Vol. 20 Num. 28 (pages 597 to 617)
DOI https://doi.org/10.5852/cr-palevol2021v20a28

Tooth and long bone scaling in Sardinian ochotonids (Early Pleistocene-Holocene): Evidence for megalodontia and its palaeoecological implications

Authors Blanca Moncunill-Solé, Caterinella Tuveri, Marisa Arca, Chiara Angelone
Journal PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY Vol. 582
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110645

Palaeohistology reveals a slow pace of life for the dwarfed Sicilian elephant

Authors Meike Köhler, Victoria Herridge, Carmen Nacarino-Meneses, Josep Fortuny, Blanca Moncunill-Solé, Antonietta Rosso, Rossana Sanfilippo, Maria Rita Palombo, Salvador Moyà-Solà
Journal SCIENTIFIC REPORTS Vol. 11 Num. 1
DOI https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-02192-4

FOSSIL LAGOMORPHA (MAMMALIA) OF ITALY: SYSTEMATICS AND BIOCHRONOLOGY

Authors Chiara Angelone, Blanca Moncunill-Solé, Tassos Kotsakis
Journal RIVISTA ITALIANA DI PALEONTOLOGIA E STRATIGRAFIA Vol. 126 Num. 1 (pages 157 to 187)
DOI https://doi.org/10.13130/2039-4942/13014

Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) crocodyliforms from north-eastern Iberia: a first attempt to explain the crocodyliform diversity based on tooth qualitative traits

Authors Alejandro Blanco, Eduardo Puértolas-Pascual, Josep Marmi, Blanca Moncunill-Solé, Sergio Llácer, Gertrud E Rossner
Journal ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY Vol. 189 Num. 2 (pages 584 to 617)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz106

The most ancient evidence of a diseased lagomorph: Infectious paleopathology in a tibiofibular bone (Middle Miocene, Germany)

Authors Blanca Moncunill-Solé, Albert Isidro, Alejandro Blanco, Chiara Angelone, Gertrud E Rossner, Xavier Jordana
Journal COMPTES RENDUS PALEVOL Vol. 18 Num. 8 (pages 1011 to 1023)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crpv.2019.10.007

Contribution of fossil Lagomorpha (Mammalia) to the refinement of the late Miocene-Quaternary palaeobiogeographical setting of Italy

Authors Chiara Angelone, Blanca Moncunill-Solé, Tassos Kotsakis
Journal COMPTES RENDUS PALEVOL Vol. 18 Num. 8 (pages 1025 to 1040)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crpv.2019.10.002

Harpa ligata y H. kawamurai versus H. major (Mollusca: Gastropoda)

Authors Josep Quintana, Blanca Moncunill-Solé
Journal Spira Vol. 7 (pages 1 to 7)

Paleontological research lines in the northwest of Iberian Peninsula

Authors Blanca Moncunill-Solé, Carrillo-Barral, N, Alejandro Blanco
Editors Blanca Moncunill-Solé, Carrillo-Barral, N, Alejandro Blanco
Publishing Universidade de A Coruña, Coruña, A (España)
ISBN 978-84-09-46113-4

I lagomorfi di Cava Monticino (Brisighella, RA)

Authors Chiara Angelone. Stanislav Cermak. Blanca Moncunill-Solé
Book La fauna messiniana di Cava Monticino
Publishing: FSRER editore.
ISBN: 978-88-943271-5-1
Pages From 109 to 120

Preliminary paleohistological study on an ontogenetic series of Prolagus sardus (Ochotonidae, Lagomorpha) from the Late Pleistocene of Sardinia
6th International Symposium on Palaeohistology
International

Authors Eva Fernández-Bejarano, Alejandro Blanco, Chiara Angelone, Zaoqun Zhang, Blanca Moncunill-Solé
Organization Deccan College PGRI Pune
Place Pune (India)

The body mass of Paludotona (Lagomorpha, Mammalia), the last stem lagomorph (Tusco-Sardinian Palaeobioprovince, Late Miocene)
19th Conference of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists
International

Authors Chiara Angelone, Stanislav Cermak, Blanca Moncunill-Solé, Lorenzo Rook
Organization European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists
Place Benevento (Italia)

First approach to life history of the islander Prolagus sardus (Lagomorpha) by studying femoral bone histology
19th Conference of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists
International

Authors Eva Fernández-Bejarano, Alejandro Blanco, Chiara Angelone, Zaoqun Zhang, Blanca Moncunill-Solé
Organization European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists
Place Benevento (Italia)

Mithocondrial phylogeny of the extinct Prolagus sardus (Lagomorpha, Mammalia): reigniting the debate about family Prolagidae
19th Conference of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists
International

Authors Pere Bover, Josep Lira-Garrido, Pilar Beltrán, Pilar Alfaro-Ibañez, Blanca Moncunill-Solé, Chiara Angelone
Organization European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists
Place Benevento (Italia)

Primary osteoarthritis records in the extinct lagomorph Prolagus sardus and its life history implications
19th Conference of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists
International

Authors Blanca Moncunill-Solé, Boaz Arzi, Barbro Filliquist, Natasha Vapnisarsky, Regina Zavodovskaya, Chiara Angelone
Organization European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists
Place Benevento (Italia)

New Gelasian small vertebrate assemblage from northeastern Iberia: chronological and environmental remarks
4th Meeting of the ICAZ Microvertebrate Working Group
International

Authors Juan Manuel López-García, Pedro Piñero, Hugues A. Blain, Jordi Agustí, Marc Furió, Julia Galán, Blanca Moncunill-Solé, Francisco Javier Ruíz-Sánchez, Monserrat Sanz, Joan Daura
Organization Microvertebrate Working Group
Place Tübingen (Alemania)

New finding of Stratiotes fossil seeds in the Oligocene lignite from As Pontes basin, NW Spain
1st Symposium of Paleontology from the northwest of Iberian Peninsula
International

Authors Carrillo-Barral, N, Blanca Moncunill-Solé, Alejandro Blanco
Organization Universidade da Coruña
Place Coruña, A (España)

Understanding deterioration due to salt crystalization in plant fossils from Galicia (NW Iberian Peninsula)
1st Symposium of Paleontology from the northwest of Iberian Peninsula
International

Authors Carballeira, R., Blanca Moncunill-Solé, Alejandro Blanco
Organization Universidade da Coruña
Place Coruña, A (España)

The 'Tertiary' palaeontological heritage from Galicia (NW Spain)
1st Symposium of Paleontology from the northwest of Iberian Peninsula
International

Authors Alejandro Blanco, Blanca Moncunill-Solé, Carrillo-Barral, N, Rafael Carballeira, Ramón Valle García
Organization Universidade da Coruña
Place Coruña, A (España)

Late Pleistocene rodents from the Second Gallery of Cova Eirós (Lugo, NW Iberian Peninsula)
1st Symposium of Paleontology from the northwest of Iberian Peninsula
International

Authors Sara Pombo Parada, Blanca Moncunill-Solé, A. Grandal-d'Anglade
Organization Universidade da Coruña
Place Coruña, A (España)

Femoral bone histology of extant ochotonids: a palaeobiological approach to study life history of fossil lagomorphs
1st Symposium of Paleontology from the northwest of Iberian Peninsula
International

Authors Eva Fernández-Bejarano, Alejandro Blanco, Blanca Moncunill-Solé
Organization Universidade da Coruña
Place Coruña, A (España)

Reviewing eco-evolutionary adaptations of extinct ochotonids (Mammalia, Lagomorpha) to island environments: clues for the management of extant ones
1st Symposium of Paleontology from the northwest of Iberian Peninsula
International

Authors Blanca Moncunill-Solé, Chiara Angelone
Organization Universidade da Coruña
Place Coruña, A (España)

Evolutionary biological responses of pikas (Lagomorpha, Mammalia) to past insular ecosystems (Miocene-Holocene): a key for the management of extant species
1st International Electronic Conference on Biological Diversity, Ecology and Evolution
International

Authors Blanca Moncunill-Solé
Organization MDPI
Place Basel (Suiza)

Extinct lagomorphs from Mediterranean Islands (Miocene-Holocene): reviewing eco-evolutionary responses to insularity.
XVIII Conference of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists
International

Authors Blanca Moncunill-Solé, Josep Quintana, Chiara Angelone
Organization European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists
Place Karlsruhe (Alemania)

The vertebrate faunal assemblage of As Pontes Basin (Oligocene-Miocene, A Coruña, Spain).
XVIII Conference of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists
International

Authors Alejandro Blanco, Blanca Moncunill-Solé, Alberto Sáez, Lluis Cabrera, Carrillo-Barral, N
Organization European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists
Place Karlsruhe (Alemania)

Enlarged tooth area in the Sardinian Prolagus lineage (Lagomorpha, Early Pleistocene-Holocene): is it a response to ecological stressors of islands?
XVIII Conference of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists
International

Authors Blanca Moncunill-Solé, Caterinella Tuveri, Marisa Arca, Chiara Angelone
Organization European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists
Place Karlsruhe (Alemania)

Primary osteoarthritis in Prolagus sardus (Lagomorpha, Late Pleistocene); How paleopathologies can throw light on the life history of extinct taxa
3rd Palaeontological Virtual Congress
International

Authors Blanca Moncunill-Solé, Boaz Arzi, Barbro Filliquist, Natasha Vapnisarsky, Chiara Angelone
Place Virtual (Argentina)

Prima segnalazione di una paleopatologia infettiva relativa ad un lagomorfo (Miocene medio di Goldberg, Germania).
Giornatta della Ricerca 2022
National

Authors Blanca Moncunill-Solé, Albert Isidro, Alejandro Blanco, Chiara Angelone, Gertrud E Rossner, Xavier Jordana
Organization Dipartimento di Scienze, Università degli studi Roma Tre
Place Roma (Italia)

Unravelling the biology of giant pikas: the case of Prolagus spp. from Gargano's paleoarchipelago (Late Miocene, Italy)
2nd Palaeontological Virtual Congress
International

Authors Blanca Moncunill-Solé
Organization Universitat de Valencia (UV)
Place Valencia (España)

Niche partitioning in allodaposuchid crocodyliforms (Eusuchia, Crocodylia) during the Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) of the northeastern Iberian Peninsula
8th Symposium about Dinosaurs Palaeontology and their Environment
International

Authors Alejandro Blanco, Eduardo Puértolas-Pascual, Blanca Moncunill-Solé
Organization Museo de Dinosaurios Salas de los Infantes
Place Salas de los Infantes (España)

Positions

Academic or management positions held by teacher.

Consello do Departamento Física e Ciencias da Terra

PDI (Membros Natos)

From 15/03/2023.

Consello do Departamento Física e Ciencias da Terra

PDI (Membros Natos)

From 18/05/2022 to 14/03/2023.

Consello do Departamento Física e Ciencias da Terra

PDI (Membros Natos)