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| Mauricio
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| Art
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| Mauricio
Antón has been a full-time
paleo-artist since 1987. His career
was launched when he painted a
series of murals depicting life
in the Tertiary for the Sabadell
Museum in Spain. Since then, he
has created artwork for museum
exhibits worldwide, co-authored
and illustrated numerous books
and popular articles, and collaborated
with the BBC and Discovery Channel
in developing documentary films.
Mauricio’s artwork is inseparable
from his research on the anatomy
fossil vertebrates, which has
been published in academic journals
including the Journal of Vertebrate
Paleontology and the Journal of
Human Evolution. Most recently,
Mauricio is exploring the applications
of computer graphic imaging and
animation to paleoart. He collaborates
regularly with leading paleontologists,
studies collections all over the
world, participates in excavations,
and travels to pristine habitats
in search of information and inspiration.
Mauricio joins Syncreta
with the hope of working in new
projects involving the reconstruction
of past life. |
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| Education |
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| ‘Graduado’
of Print-making and graphic design,
Centro de Enseñanza Gráfica,
Caracas, Venezuela, 1984 |
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| Selected
Museum Exhibits |
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Florida
Museum of Natural History, Gainesville,
FL
Hall of Florida Fossils: Evolution
of Life and Land, 2004
American Museum of Natural History,
New York, NY
Atapuerca (temporary exhibit),
2003
Museo Nacional y Centro de Investigación
de Altamira, Santander, Spain
Altamira, 2002
California Academy of Sciences,
San Francisco, CA
Bones, 2002
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales,
Madrid, Spain
Atapuerca (travelling exhibit),
1999
Geological Museum, University
of Windhoek, Windhoek, Namibia
Paleontology Hall, 1998
Museo de Ciencias Naturales de
Alava, Vitoria, Spain
Fossil trackways from Salinas
de Añana (temporary exhibit),
1993
Museo Paleontológico de
Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Paleontology Hall, 1991
Museo de Paleontología
"Miquel Crusafont" Sabadell,
Spain
Catalonia in the Tertiary,
1991
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales,
Madrid, Spain
History of Life and the Earth,
1990 |
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| Book
Publications |
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The
National Geographic Book of Prehistoric
Mammals, Alan Turner and
Mauricio Antón, National
Geographic Society, 2004
Evolving Eden, Alan Turner
and Mauricio Antón, Columbia
University Press, 2004
El Chico de la Gran Dolina,
José María Bermúdez
de Castro, illustrations by Mauricio
Antón, Editorial Crítica,
2003
Mammoths, Sabertooths, and
Hominids, Jordi Agustí
and Mauricio Antón, Columbia
University Press, 2002
The Variety of Life,
Colin Tudge, Oxford University
Press, 1999
La Especie Elegida, Juan
Luis Arsuaga and Ignacio Martínez,
Illustrations by Mauricio Antón,
Ediciones Temas de Hoy, 1998
Memoria de la Tierra,
Jordi Agustí and Mauricio
Antón, Ediciones del Serbal,
1997
The Big cats and their Fossil
Relatives, Alan Turner and
Mauricio Antón, Columbia
University Press, 1997 |
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| Illustrations
in Selected Popular Articles |
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Gore,
R. 2002. New Skull Find. National
Geographic 202(2)
Kayser, A., K. Garrett, and M.
Antón, 2000. The Dawn of
Humans. National Geographic,
197(5): 76-83
Chiappe, L. M., 1998. Wings Over
Spain. Natural History, 9-98:
30-33
Meister, m. 1997. Der erste affe
auf zwei beinen: Oreopithecus.
Geo, 11-97: 98-10
O’Brien, S. J. and M. Antón,
1997. The human–cat connection.
National Geographic,
191(6): 77-85
Morales, J. 1994. Así era
España hace 10 millones
de años. Natura,
134
Nieves, J.M, M. Anton and M. Lockley,
1993. ¿Quién pasó
por aquí hace 20 millones
de años? Blanco y Negro,
September 1993: 56-65 |
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| Academic
Publications |
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Antón,
M., M. J. Salesa, J.F. Pastor,
I. M. Sánchez, S. Fraile
and J. Morales, 2004. Implications
of the mastoid anatomy of larger
extant felids for the evolution
and predatory behaviour of sabretoothed
cats (Mammalia, Carnivora, Felidae).
Zoological Journal of the Linnean
Society, 140:207-221
Antón, M. 2003. Comments
on the reconstructions of fossil
vertebrates from Lothagam. Pp
661-665 In “Lothagam: Dawn
of Humanity in East Africa”.
J.M. Harris and M. Leakey, eds.
Columbia University Press, New
York
Jablonski, N. G., Leakey, M. G.,
Kiarie, C. and Antón, M,
2002. A new skeleton of Theropithecus
brumpti (Primates: Cercopithecidae)
from Lomekwi, West Turkana, Kenya.
Journal of Human Evolution, 43:887-923
Antón, M. and A. Galobart,
1999. Neck function and predatory
behavior in the scimitar toothed
cat Homotherium latidens. Journal
of Vertebrate Paleontology, 19(4):
771-784
Antón, M. and L. Werdelin,
1998. Too well restored? The case
of the Megantereon skull from
Senéze. Lethaia, 31:158-160
Antón, M., R. Garcia-Perea,
and A. Turner, 1998. Reconstructed
facial appearance of the Sabretoothed
felid Smilodon. Zoological Journal
of the Linnean Society, 124:369-386 |
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