Miguel Telles Antunes

Antunes is a ranking member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, Portugal's most eminent scientific scholarly society, Antunes serves as the director of the academy's Maynense Museum. Antunes is a professor at the Nova University of Lisbon, where he previously served as chair of Nova's Sciences and Technology Department. Antunes serves as a curator and member of Scientific Council of the Museum of Lourinhã. Species named after Antunes Numerous species, all extinct, are named after Antunes, including: • Lourinhanosaurus antunesi, extinct late Jurassic theropod dinosaur • Paragaleus antunesi, extinct weasel shark • Cytherella antunesi, extinct ostracod of family Cytherellidae • Diacodexis antunesi; extinct herbivore mammal of family Dichobunidae • Fluviatilavis antunesi; extinct bird of order Charadriiformes • Echinolampus antunesi; extinct echinoderm • Gyraulus antunesi; extinct mollusk • Equus caballus antunesi; extinct subspecies of horse ==Personal life==

Miguel Carlos Ferreira Telles Antunes was born in Lisbon, Portugal, on 11 January 1937. On 30 January 1965, he married Maria Salomé Soares Pais Telles Antunes, Secretary-General of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences and Secretary of the Academy Class of Letters, Portugal's highest linguistic governing body. The couple have two children: Helena Luísa Soares Pais Telles Antunes, M.D., a cardiothoracic surgeon and researcher, and Ana Isabel Soares Pais Telles Antunes Béreau, Ph. D., a preeminent concert pianist associated with New York University, Évora University and Lisbon's Amadores Academy of Music. The last married Jean-Sébastien Béreau, Jubilate Professor of the Paris Conservatory (CNSMDP). ==Published works==

• (1976) Dinossáurios eocretácicos de Lagosteiros, Ciências da Terra 1:1-35. • (1984). Novas pistas de Dinossáurios no cretácico inferior- Discussão. Comunicações dos Serviços Geológicos de Portugal. 70(1): 123-4. • (1986). Sobre a história da Paleontologia em Portugal. Memórias da Academia de Ciências de Lisboa. II: 773-814. • (1992) - Sobre a História da Paleontologia em Portugal (ca. 1919-1980). História e Desenvolvimento da Ciência em Portugal no séc. XX . Publicações do II Centenário da Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, p. 1003–1026, 18 fig. • (1989). Sobre a História do Ensino da Geologia em Portugal. Comunicações dos Serviços Geológicos de Portugal, 75: 127-160. • (1998). A new Upper Jurassic Paulchoffatiid Multituberculate (Mammalia) from Pai Mogo, Portugal / and a few comments on Walter Georg Kühne. Memórias da Academia de Ciências de Lisboa. 37:125-153. • (1999). Dinossauros e Portugal: Dois casos menos conhecidos. Ciências da Terra 13. • (1999). Veiga Ferreira e a Paleontologia em Portugal. Ciências da Terra (UNL), No. 13:157-167. • (2000). Paleontologia e Portugal. Colóquio/ Ciência/ Revista de Cultura Científica, 25: 54 - 75, 50 fig. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa. • (2001). The earliest illustration of Dinosaur footprints. Proceedings of the INHIGEO Meeting, Portugal ==References==