Prof. Francisco J. Rodríguez-Tovar

Department of Stratigraphy and Paleontology

University of Granada, Granada, Spain

Professor

Email: fjrtovar@ugr.es

Qualifications

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

Publications (Selected)

1. Rodríguez-Tovar, F.J. and Delgado, J. (2006) Cuantificación del grado de consolidación del substrato: Aplicación en análisis icnológicos. Ameghiniana, 43, 503-508.
2. Rodríguez-Tovar, F.J., Martínez-Ruiz, F. and Bernasconi, S.M. (2006). Use of high-resolution ichnological and stable isotope data for assessing completeness of a K-P boundary section, Agost, Spain.Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 237, 137-146.
3. Pardo-Igúzquiza, E. and Rodríguez-Tovar, F.J. (2006). Maximum entropy spectral analysis of climatic time series revisited: assessing the statistical significance of estimated spectral peaks. Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, 111, doi: 10.1029/2005JD006293
4. Olóriz, F., Reolid, M. and Rodríguez-Tovar, F.J. (2006). Approaching trophic structure in Late Jurassic neritic shelves: A western Tethys example from southern Iberia. Earth-Science Reviews, 79, 101-139.
5. Rodríguez-Tovar, F.J. and Uchman, A. (2006). Ichnological analysis of the Cretaceous-Palaeogene boundary interval at the Caravaca section, SE Spain. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 242, 313-325.
6. Rodríguez-Tovar, F.J., Pérez-Valera and Pérez-López, A. (2007). Ichnological analysis in high-resolution sequence stratigraphy: The Glossifungites ichnofacies in Triassic successions from the Betic Cordillera (southern Spain).Sedimentary Geology, 198, 293-307.
7. Jiménez-Moreno, G., Aziz, H.A., Rodríguez-Tovar, F.J., Pardo-Igúzquiza, E. and Suc, J.-P. (2007). Palynological evidence for astronomical forcing in Early Miocene lacustrine deposits from Rubielos de Mora Basin (NE Spain). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 252, 601-626.
8. Rodríguez-Tovar, F.J. and Pérez-Valera (2008). Trace fossil Rhizocorallium from the Middle Triassic of the Betic Cordillera, southern Spain: Characterization and environmental implications. Palaios, 23, 78-86.
9. Olóriz, F., Reolid, M. and Rodríguez-Tovar, F.J. (2008). Taphonomy of fossil macro-invertebrate assemblages as a tool for ecostratigraphic interpretation in Upper Jurassic shelf deposits (Prebetic Zone, southern Spain). Geobios, 41, 31-42.
10. Reolid, M., Rodríguez-Tovar, F.J., Nagy, J. and Olóriz, F. (2008). Benthic foraminiferal morphogroups of mid to outer shelf environments of the Late Jurassic (Prebetic Zone, southern Spain): Characterization of biofacies and environmental significance. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 261, 280-299.
11. Uchman, A., Bak, K. and Rodríguez-Tovar, F.J. (2008). Ichnological record of deep-sea palaeoenvironmental changes around the Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 (Cenomanian-Turonian boundary): an example from the Barnasiówka section, Polish Outer Carpathians. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 262, 61-71.
12. Hemanta Sinhg, R., Rodríguez-Tovar, F.J. and Ibotombi, S. (2008). Trace fossils of the Upper Eocene-Lower Oligocene Transition of the Manipur, Indo-Myanmar Ranges (Northeast India). Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 17, 821-834.
13. Rodríguez-Tovar, F.J., Puga-Bernabéu, A. and Buatois, L. (2008). Large burrow systems in marine Miocene deposits of the Betic Cordillera (Southeast Spain). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 268, 19-25.
14. Rodríguez-Tovar, F.J. and Uchman, A. (2008). Bioturbational disturbance of the Cretaceous-Palaeogene (K-Pg) boundary layer: Implications for the interpretation of the K-Pg boundary event. Geobios, 41, 661-667.
15. Ortiz, S., Gonzalvo, C., Molina, E., Rodríguez-Tovar, F.J., Uchman, A., Vandemberghe, N. and Zeelmaekers, E. (2008). Palaeoenvironmental turnover across the Ypresian-Lutetian transition at the Agost section, southern Spain: in search of a marker event to define the Stratotipe of the base of the Lutetian Stage. Marine Micropaleontology, 69, 297-313
16. Reolid, M., Nagy, J., Rodríguez-Tovar, F.J. and Olóriz, F. (2008). Foraminiferal assemblages as paleoenvironmental bioindicators in Upper Jurassic continental platforms: relation with trophic conditions. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 43, 705-722.
17. Nagy, J., Reolid, M., and Rodríguez-Tovar, F.J. (2009) Foraminiferal morphogroups in dysoxic shelf deposits from the Jurassic of Spitsbergen. Polar Research, 28, 214-221.
18. Rodríguez-Tovar, F.J., Uchman, A. and Martin Algarra, A. (2009) Oceanic Anoxix Event at the Cenomanian-Turonian boundary interval (OAE-2): ichnological approach from the Betic Cordillera, southern Spain.Lethaia, 42, 407-417.
19. Rodríguez-Tovar, F.J., Uchman, A., Martín-Algarra, A. and O’Dogherty, L. (2009). Nutrient spatial variation during intrabasinal upwelling at the Cenomanian-Turonian oceanic anoxic event in the westernmost Tethys: an ichnological and facies approach. Sedimentary Geology, 215, 83-93.
20. Rodríguez-Tovar, F.J. and Martín Peinado, F.J. (2009). The environmental disaster of Aznalcóllar (southern Spain) as an approach to the Cretaceous-Palaeogene mass­ extinction event. Geobiology, 7, 533-543.