Salvador Moyà-Solà (born 1955) is a Spanish

paleontologist Paleontology, also spelled as palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of the life of the past, mainly but not exclusively through the study of fossils. Paleontologists use fossils as a means to classify organisms, measure geolo ...

. He works in the Institut Català de Paleontología Miquel Crusafont in

Sabadell Sabadell () is a city and municipality in Catalonia, Spain. It is in the south of the ''comarca'' of Vallès Occidental, where it is one of the two capitals, the other being Terrassa. It is located on the River Ripoll, north of Barcelona, a ...

Catalonia Catalonia is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a ''nationalities and regions of Spain, nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia of 2006, Statute of Autonomy. Most of its territory (except the Val d'Aran) is situate ...

. From 1983 to 2006, he was affiliated with the Diputación Provincial de Barcelona. In 2006 he became investigator of the Physical Anthropology unit of the

Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona The Autonomous University of Barcelona (; Spanish language, Spanish: ; ; UAB) is a public university mostly located in Cerdanyola del Vallès, near the city of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain. , the university consists of 57 departments in the e ...

. He is an expert in

primate Primates is an order (biology), order of mammals, which is further divided into the Strepsirrhini, strepsirrhines, which include lemurs, galagos, and Lorisidae, lorisids; and the Haplorhini, haplorhines, which include Tarsiiformes, tarsiers a ...

s of the

miocene The Miocene ( ) is the first epoch (geology), geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma). The Miocene was named by Scottish geologist Charles Lyell; the name comes from the Greek words (', "less") and (', "new") and mea ...

. He has directed two important excavations in Catalonia: *Can Llobateres, in Sabadell (

Barcelona Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within c ...

province), where he found remains of ''Dryopithecus laietanus'', the first Catalan fossil, nicknamed “Jordi.” *Barranc de Can Vila 1, in

Els Hostalets de Pierola Els Hostalets de Pierola () is a Spanish municipality situated in the Autonomous Community of Catalonia, province of Barcelona, Spain. The municipality includes the villages of Els Hostalets de Pierola, els Boscos de Can Martí, Can Fontimarc, Ca ...

(Barcelona province), where he found the species '' Pierolapithecus catalaunicus'', nicknamed “'Pau.”

External links

Interview with Salvador Moyà-Solà on the FECYT.

Articles published by Salvador Moyà-Solà.
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