Andrea Cau

Andrea Cau, Italian paleontologist.

Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences BiGeA, Bologna, Italy

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Lefèvre, U., Cau, A., Cincotta, A., Hu, D., Chinsamy, A., Escuillié, F. & Godefroit, P. 2017. A new Jurassic theropod from China documents a transitional step in the macrostructure of feathers. The Science of Nature 104: 74. DOI: 10.1007/s00114-017-1496-y Reference page.

Cau, A. 2018. The assembly of the avian body plan: a 160-million-year long process. Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 57(1): 1–25. DOI: 10.4435/BSPI.2018.01 ResearchGate Reference page.

Barker, C.T., Hone, D.W.E., Naish, D., Cau, A., Lockwood, J.A.F., Foster, B., Clarkin, C.E., Schneider, P. & Gostling, N.J. 2021. New spinosaurids from the Wessex Formation (Early Cretaceous, UK) and the European origins of Spinosauridae. Scientific Reports 11: 19340. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-97870-8 . Reference page.
Cau, A. & Madzia, D. 2021. The phylogenetic affinities and morphological peculiarities of the bird-like dinosaur Borogovia gracilicrus from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia. PeerJ 9: e12640. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.12640 . Reference page.

Cau, A. 2024. A Unified Framework for Predatory Dinosaur Macroevolution. Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 63 (1): 1–19. DOI: 10.4435/BSPI.2024.08 Reference page.

Wang, X., Cau, A., Luo, X., Kundrát, M., Wu, W., Ju, S., Guo, Z., Liu, Y. & Ji, Q. 2022. A new bohaiornithid-like bird from the Lower Cretaceous of China fills a gap in enantiornithine disparity. Journal of Paleontology 96(4): 961-976. DOI: 10.1017/jpa.2022.12 . Reference page.

Cau, A. & Paterna, A. 2025. Beyond the Stromer's Riddle: the impact of lumping and splitting hypotheses on the systematics of the giant predatory dinosaurs from northern Africa. Italian Journal of Geosciences 144(2): 162-185. DOI: 10.3301/IJG.2025.10 . Reference page.