Publications
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2022
McKenzie S, Sorbelli L, Cherin M, Almécija S, Pina M, Abella J, Luján AH, DeMiguel D, Alba DM. 2022. Earliest Vallesian suid remains from Creu de Conill 20 (Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula). Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 30: 155-212
Cazenave M, Kivell TL, Pina M, Begun DR, Skinner MM. 2022. Calcar femorale variation in extant and fossil hominids: implications for identifying bipedal locomotion in fossil hominins. Journal of Human Evolution, 167: 103183
Azanza B, Pina M, Quiralte V, Sánchez IM, DeMiguel D. 2022. New fossils of the early Miocene stem-cervid Acteocemas (Artiodactyla, Ruminantia) from the Iberian Peninsula shed light on the evolutionary origin of deer antler regeneration. Historical Biology
2021
Bouchet F, Urciuoli A, Beaudet A, Pina M, Moyà-Solà S, Alba DM. 2021. Comparative anatomy of the carotid canal in the Miocene small-bodied catarrhine Pliobates cataloniae. Journal of Human Evolution, 161: 103073
Pina M, Kikuchi Y, Nakatsukasa M, Nakano Y, Kunimatsu Y, Ogihara N, Shimizu D, Takano T, Tsujikawa H, Ishida H. 2021. New femoral remains of Nacholapithecus kerioi: Implications for intraspecific variation and Miocene hominoid evolution. Journal of Human Evolution, 155: 102982
Urciuoli A, Zanolli C, Beaudet A, Pina M, Almécija S, Moyà-Solà S, Alba DM. 2021. A comparative analysis of the vestibular apparatus in Epipliopithecus vindobonensis: Phylogenetic implications. Journal of Human Evolution, 151: 102930
2020
Pina M, DeMiguel D, Puigvert F, Marcé-Nogué J & Moyà-Solà S. 2020. Knee function through Finite Element Analysis and the role of Miocene hominoids to understand the origin of antipronograde behaviours: the Pierolapithecus catalaunicus patella as a test-case study. Palaeontology, 63: 459-475
DOI: 10.1111/pala.12466
Takano T, Nakatsukasa M, Pina M, Kunimatsu Y, Nakano Y, Morimoto N, Ogihara N & Ishida H. 2020. New forelimb long bone specimens of Nacholapithecus kerioi from the Middle Miocene of northern Kenya. Anthropological Science, 128: 27-40
DOI: 10.1537/ase.200116
2019
Alba DM, Garcés M, Casanovas-Vilar I, Robles JM, Pina M, Moyà-Solà S & Almécija S. 2019. Bio- and magnetostratigraphic correlation of the Miocene primate-bearing site of Castell de Barberà to the earliest Vallesian. Journal of Human Evolution, 132: 32-46
Pina M, Alba DM, Moyà-Solà S & Almécija S. 2019. Femoral neck cortical bone distribution of dryopithecin apes and the evolution of hominid locomotion. Journal of Human Evolution, 136: 102651
2015
Alba DM, Montoya P, Pina M., Rook L, Abella J, Morales J & Delson E. 2015. First record of Mesopithecus (Cercopithecidae, Colobinae) from the Miocene of the Iberian Peninsula. Journal of Human Evolution, 88: 1-14
Alba DM, Almécija S, DeMiguel D, Fortuny J, Pérez de los Ríos M, Pina M, Robles JM & Moyà-Solà S. 2015. Miocene small-bodied ape from Eurasia sheds light on hominoid evolution. Science, 350 (6260): aab2625
2014
Pina M, Almécija S, Alba DM, O’Neill MC & Moyà-Solà S. 2014. The Middle Miocene ape Pierolapithecus catalaunicus exhibits extant great ape-like morphometric affinities on its patella: inferences on knee function and evolution. PLoS ONE, 9(3): e91944
2013
Almécija S, Tallman M, Alba DM, Pina M, Moyà-Solà S & Jungers WL. 2013. The femur of Orrorin tugenensis exhibits morphometric affinities with both Miocene apes and later hominins. Nature Communications, 4: 2888
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3888
2012
Pina M, Alba DM, Almécija S, Fortuny J & Moyà-Solà S. 2012. Brief Communication: Paleobiological inferences on the locomotor repertoire of extinct hominoids based on femoral neck cortical thickness: the fossil great ape Hispanopithecus laietanus as a test-case study. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 149: 142-148
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22109
2011
Pina M, Salesa MJ, Antón M & Pastor JF. 2011. Functional anatomy of the calcaneus and talus in Cercopithecinae (Mammalia, Primates, Cercopithecidae). Estudios Geológicos, 67: 385-394