Prof. Francisco J. Rodríguez-Tovar

Department of Stratigraphy and Paleontology

University of Granada, Spain

Professor

Email: [email protected]

Qualifications

1993 Ph.D., Department Stratigraphy and Paleontology, University of Granada, Spain

Publications (Selected)

1. Dorador, J., Benavente, D., Cabrera-Ortiz, J. F., et al. (2026). Assessing portable air permeameter in bioturbated sedimentary rocks. International Journal Of Rock Mechanics And Mining Sciences, 204, 106579.
2. Martin-Garcia, L., Jimenez-Espejo, F. J., Rodriguez-Tovar, F. J., et al. (2026). An evaluation of effects of bottom currents in calcareous nannofossils assemblages and implications for Mediterranean outflow reconstructions during the Early Pliocene. Marine Geology, 498, 107798.
3. Celis, S. A., Trejos-Tamayo, R. A., Rodriguez-Tovar, F. J., et al. (2026). Hydroclimate-driven variability in Middle Miocene deep-marine deposits of the Eastern Equatorial Pacific of Colombia: a multi-proxy sedimentological, ichnological, and geochemical reconstruction. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 691, 113730.
4. Miguez-Salas, O., Rodriguez-Tovar, F. J. & Pujalte, V. (2026). Paleoenvironmental Stasis for the Bioturbating Community During the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum at the Southern Iberian Margin. Geobiology, 24(3), e70048.
5. Miguez-Salas, O., Rodriguez-Tovar, F. J., Martinez-Ruiz, F., et al. (2026). The Variable Impact of Heinrich Events on the Benthic Environment of the Porcupine Abyssal Plain. Paleoceanography And Paleoclimatology, 41(5), e2026PA005432.
6. Rodriguez-Tovar, F. J., Huneke, H., Hernandez-Molina, F. J., et al. (2026). Ichnofabric variability and paleoenvironmental changes on contourite drift deposits: the Miocene case study from Spitali (Cyprus). Ichnos-An International Journal For Plant And Animal Traces.
7. Fernandez-Martinez, J., Rodriguez-Tovar, F. J., Martinez-Ruiz, F., et al. (2026). Ichnological response of macrobenthic fauna to Late Devonian anoxic pulses: New evidence from North America and a global synthesis☆. Global And Planetary Change, 260, 105347.
8. Gonzalez-Lanchas, A., Dorador, J., Flores, J. A., et al. (2026). Surface-to-deep-ocean ecosystem responses to orbital-to-millennial-scale paleoceanographic variability across the mid-Brunhes at the Iberian margin. Global And Planetary Change, 257, 105205.
9. Dorador, J. & Rodriguez-Tovar, F. J. (2025). Report of 18th International Ichnofabric Workshop, 26-31 May 2025 in Granada (Spain). Ichnos-An International Journal For Plant And Animal Traces, 32(4), 364–368.
10. Beaty, B., Foster, W. J., Zuchuat, V., et al. (2025). Bioturbation Shapes Marine Biogeochemical Cycling Following the End-Permian Mass Extinction in Northern Pangea. Geobiology, 23(5), e70032.
11. Giraldo-Villegas, C. A., Rodriguez-Tovar, F. J., Celis, S. A., et al. (2025). Campanian-Maastrichtian evolution of sedimentary systems during the final stages of an epeiric sea -La Luna Sea- in eastern Colombia: Processes, spatio-temporal variability, and depositional controls. Marine And Petroleum Geology, 177, 107385.
12. Cabrera-ortiz, J. F., Dorador, J., Rodriguez-tovar, F. J., et al. (2025). PALEOENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS AND EVOLUTION OF A MUDDY TURBIDITE SYSTEM: AN INTEGRATED SEDIMENTOLOGICAL AND ICHNOLOGICAL ANALYSIS. Journal Of Sedimentary Research, 95(1), 86–103.
13. Laska, W., Hsieh, S., Rodriguez-tovar, F. J., et al. (2024). Bichordites-dom i nated ichnofabrics from Span ish Plio cene calcarenites: traces of ma rine life in migrating dunes. Geological Quarterly, 68(4).
14. Rodriguez-Tovar, F. J., Esperante, R., Biaggi, R. E., et al. (2024). Occurrence of the trace fossil Hillichnus in Upper Cretaceous deposits in association with dinosaur footprints: A case from the Torotoro National Park in Bolivia. Geobios, 87, 71–79.
15. Reolid, M., Perez-Claros, J. A. & Rodriguez-Tovar, F. J. (2024). Federico Oloriz: a career dedicated to the Jurassic palaeontology. Journal Of Iberian Geology.
16. Monedero-Contreras, R. D., Martinez-Ruiz, F., Rodriguez-Tovar, F. J., et al. (2024). Tracking orbital and suborbital climate variability in the westernmost Mediterranean over the past 13,000 years: New insights from paleoperspectives on marine productivity responses. Quaternary Science Reviews, 344, 109001.
17. Miguez-Salas, O., Rodriguez-Tovar, F. J., Dorador, J., et al. (2024). Small topographical variations controlling trace maker community: Combining palaeo- and neoichnological data at the Porcupine Abyssal Plain. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 655, 112524.
18. Reolid, M., Perez-Claros, J. A. & Rodriguez-Tovar, F. J. (2024). Federico Olóriz: a career dedicated to the Jurassic palaeontology. Journal Of Iberian Geology, 50(3), 269–271.
19. Casanova-Arenillas, S., Martinez-Ruiz, F., Rodriguez-Tovar, F. J., et al. (2024). Reconstructing deep-sea oxygenation in the Western Alboran Sea Basin during Late Pleistocene-Holocene (last 37 kyrs): Insights from a multiproxy approach. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 654, 112427.
20. Klages, J. P., Hillenbrand, C. D., Bohaty, S. M., et al. (2024). Ice sheet-free West Antarctica during peak early Oligocene glaciation. Science, 385(6706), 322–327.

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WOS ResearcherID: AAA-9041-2020