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I graduated in Geology from Zaragoza University in
2004 and obtained my doctorate from the same University in 2009 (funded
by the Government of Arag?). My doctorate thesis entitle ?Middle
Cambrian echinoderms from the Iberian Chains and Cantabrian Zone (North
Spain)?, was awarded the maximum score possible (Cum Laude) and won the
Best Science Thesis prize from Faculty of Sciences (Zaragoza University)
in 2010. I next spent 24 months as a postdoctoral researcher at the
Natural History Museum (London) funded by the Spanish Ministry of
Science and Education. My proposal ?Tracing the origins of pentamery:
fossil echinoderm stem groups and their importance for understanding the
derivation of major new body plans?, obtained the maximum score in Earth
Sciences. My research in London focused on deciphering the early
evolution of a major deuterostome group (echinoderms) in order to reveal
the detailed pathways that gave rise to new body plans. My research was
based on original field collections from various parts of the world
(Spain, France, Italy, UK, Check Republic, Morocco, China, USA) and the
fossils obtained were studied using a combination of traditional and
state-of-the-art imaging techniques. By combining data from phylogenies,
three-dimensional imaging, morphometrics and sequence stratigraphy I was
able to document how key echinoderm lineages evolved and responded at
critical times of global change, namely the Cambrian Explosion and the
Great Diversification Ordovician Event. I spent later another PostDoc as
a researcher at the Smithsonian Institution at the National Museum of
Natural History (Washington DC), a position won in a public and
competitive call. My duties were to develop an independent research
project using the collections there, and I was pursuing a project
entitled ?The Early evolution of echinoderms and the timing of clade
origination: A comparison between Gondwana and Laurentia?. I am
currently employed at the Spanish Geological Survey (IGME) with a Ram?
y Cajal Research Grant funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and
Competitiveness. My work will be focus on Palaeozoic echinoderms from
Spain.
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2013 |
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?varo, J. J., Zamora, S. & Vizca?o, D. &
Ahlberg, P. 2013. Guzhangian (mid
Cambrian) trilobites from silica concretions of the Valtorres
Formation, Iberian Chains, NE Spain. Geological Magazine.
150
(1): 123-142. |
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?varo, J. J., Zamora, S., Clausen, S., Vizca?o, D. &
Smith, A. B. 2013. Cambrian substrate
revolution or evolution? A review from the benthic community
replacements of West Gondwana. Earth Science Reviews.
118: 69-82. |
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Esteve, J., Hughes, N. & Zamora, S.
2013. Thoracic structure and enrolment style in middle Cambrian
Eccaparadoxides pradoanus presages caudalization of the
derived trilobite trunk. Palaeontology. 56-3, 589-601. |
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Gorzelak, P. & Zamora, S. 2013.
Stereom microstructures of Cambrian echinoderms revealed by
cathodoluminescence (CL). Paleontologia Electronica.16
(3). 32A. |
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Kammer, T.,
Sumrall, C. D., Zamora, S., Ausich, W. A., & Deline, B. 2013.
Oral Region Homologies in Paleozoic Crinoids and other Plesiomorphic
Pentaradial Echinoderms.
PlosOne 8 (11). |
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Smith, A. B., Reich, M., & Zamora, S.
2013. Comment on supposed holothurian body fossils from the middle
Ordovician of Wales (Botting and Muir, Palaeoelectronica:
15.1.9A). Paleontologia Electronica. 16.1.3A. |
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Smith, A. B., Reich, M. & Zamora, S.
Devonian echinoids from Spain and Germany. Acta
Palaeontologica Polonica. 58 (4), 751-762. |
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Smith, A. B., Zamora, S. & ?varo, J. J.
2013. The oldest
echinoderm faunas from Gondwana show that echinoderm body plan
diversification was rapid. Nature Communications,
4: 1385 doi: 10.1038/ncomms2391. |
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Zamora, S.,
Rahman, I. A. & Smith, A. B. 2013.
The ontogeny of
cinctans (stem-group echinodermata) as revealed by a new genus,
Graciacystis, from the middle Cambrian of Spain.
Palaeontology 56: 399-410. |
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Zamora, S.
2013. Morphology and phylogenetic interpretation of a new
cambrian edrioasteroid (Echinodermata) from Spain. Palaeontology
56: 421-431. |
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Zamora, S., Darroch, S. & Rahman, I. A. 2013.
Taphonomy and ontogeny of early pelmatozoan
echinoderms: a case study of a mass mortality assemblage of Gogia
from the Cambrian of North America. Palaeogeography,
Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 377, 62-72. |
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Zamora, S., Sumrall, C. D. & Vizca?o, D. 2013.
Morphology and ontogeny of the Cambrian
edrioasteroid (Echinodermata) Cambraster cannati (Miquel)
from western Gondwana. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica,
58 (3): 545-559. |
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Zamora, S.,
Lefebvre, B., ?varo, J. J., Clausen, S., Elicki, O., Fatka, O.,
Jell, P., Kouchinsky, A., Lin, J-P., Nardin, E., Parsley, R.,
Rozhnov, S., Sprinkle, J., Sumrall, C. D., Vizca?o, D. & Smith, A.
B. 2013.
Cambrian echinoderm diversity and palaeobiogeography. From: Harper,
D. A. T. & Servais, T. (eds) 2013. Early Palaeozoic Biogeography and
Palaeogeography.. Geological Society of London, Memoirs.
38,
157-171. |
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2012 |
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Zamora, S. & Smith, A. B.
2012. Cambrian stalked echinoderms show
unexpected plasticity of arm construction. Proceedings of
The Royal Society B, 279: 293-298. |
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Zamora, S.
2012. The first Furongian (late Cambrian) echinoderm from the
British Isles. Geological Magazine, 149, 940-943. |
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Zamora, S., Rahman, I. A. & Smith, A. B. 2012.
Plated Cambrian bilaterians reveal the earliest
stages of echinoderm evolution, PLoS One 7(6). |
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Esteve, J. Sundberg, F., Zamora, S.
& Gozalo, R. A new Alokistocaridae Resser, 1939 (Trilobita) from the
Middle Cambrian of Spain. Geobios,
45, 275-283. |
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Mergl, M.
& Zamora, S. New and revised occurrences of
rhynchonelliformean brachiopods from the middle Cambrian of the
Iberian Chains, NE Spain. Bulletin of Geosciences, 87 (3),
571-586. |
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2011 |
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Sumrall C. D. and Zamora S.
2011. Ordovician Edrioasteroids from
Morocco: Faunal exchanges across the Rheic Ocean. Journal
of Systematic Palaeontology, 9(3): 425-454. |
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Zamora, S. 2011.
Equinodermos del C?brico de Espa?: Situaci? actual de las
investigaciones y perspectivas futuras. Estudios Geol?icos,
67(1): 59-81. |
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Esteve, J., Hughes, N. & Zamora, S.
2011. The Purujosa trilobite assemblage
and the evolution of trilobite enrollment. Geology,
39 (6): 575-578. |
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Zamora, S., Mayoral, E., Esteve, J., G?ez J.
A. & Santos, A. 2011.
Skeletal abnormalities in paradoxidid trilobites
from the Cambrian of Spain. Bulletin of
Geosciences, 86 (3): 665-673. |
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2010 |
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Zamora, S.
2010. Middle Cambrian echinoderms from
North Spain show echinoderms diversified earlier in Gondwana.
Geology, 38: 507-510. |
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Rahman, I.A., Zamora, S. & Geyer, G.
2010. The oldest
stylophoran echinoderm: a new Ceratocystis from the Middle
Cambrian of Germany. Pal?ntologische Zeitschrift,
84 (2): 227-237. |
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Zamora, S. & Smith, A. B.
2010. The oldest isorophid edrioasteroid (Echinodermata)
and the evolution of attachment strategies in Cambrian
edrioasteroids. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica,
53 (3):487-494. |
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Zamora, S. & ?varo, J.J.
2010. Testing for a decline in diversity
prior to extintion: Languedocian (latest mid-Cambrian) distribution
of cinctans (Echinodermata) in the Iberian Chains, NE Spain.
Palaeontology, 53 (6): 1349-1368. |
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Esteve, J.V., Zamora, S., Gozalo, R. & Li?n,
E. 2010. Sphaeroidal
enrollment in middle Cambrian solenopleuropsine trilobites.
Lethaia, 43 (4): 478-493. |
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Zamora, S., Clausen, S., ?varo, J.J. & Smith,
A.B. 2010.
Pelmatozoan echinoderms colonized carbonate firm ground substrates
in hight energy environments since the basal Middle Cambrian.
Palaios, 25 (12): 764-768. |
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2009 |
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Smith, A.B. & Zamora, S.
2009. Rooting phylogenies of
problematic fossil taxa; a case study using cinctans (stem-group
echinoderms). Palaeontology, 52 (4): 803-821.
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Zamora, S., ?varo J. J. & Vizca?o.,
2009. Pelmatozoan
echinoderms from the Cambrian-Ordovician transition of the Iberian
Chains (NE Spain): early diversification of anchoring strategies.
Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 102: 43-55.
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Zamora, S., Gozalo, R. & Li?n E.,
2009. Middle
Cambrian gogiid echinoderms from Northeast Spain: Taxonomy,
palaeoecology and palaeogeographic implications.
Acta Paleontologica Polonica, 54(2): 253-265. |
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Rahman, I.A. & Zamora, S.,
2009. The oldest
cinctan carpoid (stem-group Echinodermata) and the evolution of the
water vascular system. Zoological journal of the Linnean
Society, 157: 420-432. |
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2008 |
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Zamora, S., Mayoral, E., G?ez Vintaned, J. A.,
Bajo, S. & Esp?ez, E. 2008.
The infaunal echinoid Micraster:
taphonomic pathways indicated by sclerozoan trace and body fossils
from the Upper Cretaceous of northern Spain. Geobios,
41: 15-29. |
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Zamora, S. & Smith, A. B.
2008. A new Middle Cambrian stem group
echinoderm from Spain: Palaeobiological implications of a highly
asymmetric cinctan. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica,
53(2): 207-220. Most Cited Acta
Palaeontologica Paper. Honorable Mention for 2009. |
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Li?n, E., D?s M. E., Gozalo R. G?ez Vintaned J. A., &
Zamora, S., 2008. Nuevos
trilobites del Ovetiense inferior (C?brico Inferior bajo) de Sierra
Morena (Espa?) Ameghiniana, 45(1): 123-138. |
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2007 |
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Zamora, S., Li?n, E., Dom?guez Alonso, P.,
Gozalo, R. & G?ez Vintaned, J. A. 2007.
A Middle Cambrian edrioasteroid from the Murero
biota (NE Spain) with Australian affinities. Annales de
Paleontologie, 93: 249-260. |
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Zamora, S., Li?n, E., G?ez Vintaned, J. A.,
Dom?guez Alonso, P. & Gozalo, R. 2007.
Nuevo carpoideo de la Clase Cincta Jaeckel, 1918 del norte de
Espa?: Inferencias sobre la morfolog? funcional del op?culo.
Ameghiniana, 44-4: 227-238. |
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Panoramic view of Cambrian rocks from the Anti-Atlas
(Morocco) |
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Echinoderm fossils from the Spanish Paleozoic |
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