Draw of a rodent in an island, by Blanca Moncunill Solé.
Draw of a rodent in an island, by Blanca Moncunill Solé.

Peer-reviewed publications

  1. Fernández-Bejarano, E., Blanco, A., Angelone, C., Zhang, Z., Moncunill-Solé, B. In press. Bone histology of the Late Pleistocene Prolagus sardus (Lagomorpha, Mammalia) provides further insights into life-history strategy of insular giant small mammals. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad112.

  1. Jordana, X., Marín-Moratalla, N., Moncunill-Solé, B., ...Alcover, J.A., Köhler, M. 2013. First Fossil Evidence for the Advance of Replacement Teeth Coupled with Life History Evolution along an Anagenetic Mammalian Lineage. PLoS ONE, 8(7), e70743. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070743.

  1. Angelone, C., Čermák, S., Moncunill-Solé, B., Rook, L. 2022. The body mass of Paludotona (Lagomorpha, Mammalia): first approach to the ecology of the last stem lagomorph (Tusco-Sardinia palaeobioprovince, Late Miocene). Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana, 61(1), pp. 61–70. DOI: 10.4435/BSPI.2022.01.

  1. Moncunill-Solé, B., Tuveri, C., Arca, M., Angelone, C. 2021. Tooth and long bone scaling in Sardinian ochotonids (Early Pleistocene-Holocene): Evidence for megalodontia and its palaeoecological implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 582, 110645. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110645.

  1. Moncunill-Solé, B. 2021. Eco-evolutionary adaptations of ochotonids (Mammalia: Lagomorpha) to islands: New insights into Late Miocene pikas from the Gargano palaeo-archipelago (Italy). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 132(2), pp. 400–413. DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blaa157.

  1. Köhler, M., Herridge, V., Nacarino-Meneses, C., Fortuny, J., Moncunill-Solé, B., Rosso, A., Sanfilippo, R., Palombo, M.R., Moyà-Solà, S. 2021. Palaeohistology reveals a slow pace of life for the dwarfed Sicilian elephant. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 22862. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-02192-4.

  1. Čermák, S., Angelone, C., Moncunill-Solé, B. 2021. Prolagus Pomel, 1853 (Lagomorpha, Mammalia) in the framework of the Pliocene faunal rearrangements in central Europe. Comptes Rendus - Palevol, 28, pp. 597–617. DOI: 10.5852/CR-PALEVOL2021V20A28.

  1. Angelone, C., Moncunill-Solé, B., Kotsakis, T. 2020. Fossil Lagomorpha (Mammalia) of Italy: Systematics and biochronology. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 126(1), pp. 157–187. DOI: 10.13130/2039-4942/13014.

  1. Blanco, A., Puértolas-Pascual, E., Marmi, J., Moncunill-Solé, B., Llácer, S., Rössner, G.E. 2020. Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) crocodyliforms from north-eastern Iberia: A first attempt to explain the crocodyliform diversity based on tooth qualitative traits. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 189(2), pp. 584–617. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz106.

  1. Moncunill-Solé, B., Isidro, A., Blanco, A., Angelone, C., Rössner, G.E., Jordana, X. 2019. The most ancient evidence of a diseased lagomorph: Infectious paleopathology in a tibiofibular bone (Middle Miocene, Germany). Comptes Rendus - Palevol, 18(8), pp. 1011–1023. DOI: 10.1016/j.crpv.2019.10.007.

  1. Angelone, C., Moncunill-Solé, B., Kotsakis, T. 2019. Contribution of fossil Lagomorpha (Mammalia) to the refinement of the late Miocene–Quaternary palaeobiogeographical setting of Italy. Comptes Rendus - Palevol, 18(8), pp. 1025–1040. DOI: 10.1016/j.crpv.2019.10.002.

  1. Moncunill-Solé, B., Jordana, X., Köhler, M. 2018. Where did Mikrotia magna originate? Drawing ecogeographical inferences from body mass reconstructions. Geobios, 51(4), pp. 359–366. DOI: 10.1016/j.geobios.2018.06.006.

  1. Fondevilla, V., Vecchia, F.M.D., Gaete, R., ...Moncunill-Solé, B., Köhler, M. 2018. Ontogeny and taxonomy of the hadrosaur (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) remains from Basturs Poble bonebed (late early Maastrichtian, Tremp Syncline, Spain). PLoS ONE, 13(10), e0206287. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0206287.

  1. Angelone, C., Čermák, S., Moncunill-Solé, B., ...Arca, M., Kotsakis, T. 2018. Systematics and paleobiogeography of Sardolagus obscurus n. gen. n. sp. (Leporidae, Lagomorpha) from the early Pleistocene of Sardinia. Journal of Paleontology, 92(3), pp. 506–522. DOI: 10.1017/jpa.2017.144.

  1. Moncunill-Solé, B., Jordana, X., Köhler, M. 2016. How common is gigantism in insular fossil shrews? Examining the ‘Island Rule’ in soricids (Mammalia: Soricomorpha) from Mediterranean Islands using new body mass estimation models. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 178(1), pp. 163–182. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12399.

  1. Moncunill-Solé, B., Tuveri, C., Arca, M., Angelone, C. 2016. Comparing the body mass variations in endemic insular species of the genus Prolagus (Ochotonidae, Lagomorpha) in the Pleistocene of Sardinia (Italy). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 122(1), pp. 25–36. DOI: 10.13130/2039-4942/6905.

  1. Moncunill-Solé, B., Orlandi-Oliveras, G., Jordana, X., Rook, L., Köhler, M. 2016. First approach of the life history of Prolagus apricenicus (Ochotonidae, Lagomorpha) from Terre Rosse sites (Gargano, Italy) using body mass estimation and paleohistological analysis. Comptes Rendus - Palevol, 15(1-2), pp. 227–237. DOI: 10.1016/j.crpv.2015.04.004.

  1. Jordana, X., Marín-Moratalla, N., Moncunill-Solé, B., Nacarino-Meneses, C., Köhler, M. 2016. Ontogenetic changes in the histological features of zonal bone tissue of ruminants: A quantitative approach. Comptes Rendus - Palevol, 15(1-2), pp. 255–266. DOI: 10.1016/j.crpv.2015.03.008.

  1. Orlandi-Oliveras, G., Jordana, X., Moncunill-Solé, B., Köhler, M. 2016. Bone histology of the giant fossil dormouse Hypnomys onicensis (Gliridae, Rodentia) from Balearic Islands. Comptes Rendus - Palevol, 15(1-2), pp. 238–244. DOI: 10.1016/j.crpv.2015.05.001.

  1. Moncunill-Solé, B., Quintana, J., Jordana, X., Engelbrektsson, P., Köhler, M. 2015. The weight of fossil leporids and ochotonids: Body mass estimation models for the order Lagomorpha. Journal of Zoology, 295(4), pp. 269–278. DOI: 10.1111/jzo.12209.

  1. Quintana Cardona, J., Moncunill-Solé, B. 2014. Hypolagus balearicus Quintana, Bover, Alcover, Agustí & Bailon, 2010 (Mammalia: Leporidae): New data from the Neogene of Eivissa (Balearic Islands, Western Mediterranean). Geodiversitas, 36(2), pp. 283–310. DOI: 10.5252/g2014n2a4.

  1. Quintana Cardona, J., Moncunill-Solé, B. 2014. Reconsidering locomotor habits and life style of the Balearic insular giant rodent Hypnomys Bate, 1918 from the allometry of the limb long bones. Comptes Rendus - Palevol, 13(4), pp. 297–306. DOI: 10.1016/j.crpv.2013.11.003.

  1. Moncunill-Solé, B., Jordana, X., Marín-Moratalla, N., Moyà-Solà, S., Köhler, M. 2014. How large are the extinct giant insular rodents? New body mass estimations from teeth and bones. Integrative Zoology, 9(2), pp. 197–212. DOI: 10.1111/1749-4877.12063.

  1. Jordana, X., Marín-Moratalla, N., Moncunill-Solé, B., Köhler, M. 2014. Ecological and life-history correlates of enamel growth in ruminants (Artiodactyla). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 112(4), pp. 657–667. DOI: 10.1111/bij.12264.

  1. Marín-Moratalla, N., Cubo, J., Jordana, X., Moncunill-Solé, B., Köhler, M. 2014. Correlation of quantitative bone histology data with life history and climate: A phylogenetic approach. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 112(4), pp. 678–687. DOI: 10.1111/bij.12302.

  1. Moncunill-Solé, B., Arzi, B., Filliquist, B., Vapniarsky, N., Zavodovskaya, R., Angelone, C. 2024. The extinct osteoarthritic lagomorphs (Prolagus sardus) from Sardinia (Italy) reveal further evidence of life history evolution in insular domains. Palaeoworld, 33, pp. 504-516. DOI: 10.1016/j.palwor.2023.03.004.

  1. López-García, J.M., Piñero, P., Agustí, J., Furió, M., Galán, J., Moncunill-Solé, B., Ruiz-Sánchez, F.J., Bain, H.-A., Sanz, M., Daura, J. 2024. Chronological context, species occurence, and environmental remarks on the Gelasian site Pedrera del Corral d'en Bruach (Barcelona, Spain) based on the small-mammal associations. Historical Biology, 36, pp. 657-676. DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2023.2180740.