Dr. Emilia Sferco
Postdoctoral fellow
CICTERRA, CONICET
Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Av. Vélez Sársfield 1611
X5016GCA Córdoba, Argentina
Telephone: +54-351-4333199/4344983
Research interests
I am interested on studying the origin and first radiation of teleosts at the Late Jurassic, especially on their colonization of freshwater environments. My research interests on teleosts, especially on Jurassic and Cretaceous basal teleosts, include studying their anatomy -which I consider extremely important for detecting and discussing the evidence of homology or the lack of it-, as well as their phylogenetic and biogeographic relationships.
Education
2008-2013: PhD in Biological Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2001-2007: Licenciatura (diplom) in Biology (with an orientation in Paleontology), University of La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Scientific works
5. Sferco, E., López-Arbarello, A., and Báez, A.M. In press. Anatomical description and taxonomy of †Luisiella feruglioi (Bordas) new combination, a freshwater teleost (Actinopterygii, Teleostei) from the Upper Jurassic of Patagonia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
4. Sferco, E. 2013. Filogenia y Biogeografía de los peces teleósteos (Actinopterygii, Teleostei) de la Formación Cañadón Calcáreo (Jurásico, Provincia de Chubut, Argentina). PhD Thesis, 431 pp. University of Buenos Aires.
3. López-Arbarello, A., Sferco, E. and Rauhut, O.W.M. 2013. A new genus of coccolepidid fishes (Actinopterygii, Chondrostei) from the continental Jurassic of Patagonia. Palaeontologia electronica 16(1): 7A 23p.
2. López-Arbarello, A., Sferco, E. 2011. New semionotiform (Actinopterygii: Neopterygii) from the Late Jurassic of southern Germany. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 9(2): 197-215.
1. López-Arbarello, A., Sun, Z.-Y., Sferco, E., Tintori, A., Xu, G.-H., Sun, Y.-L., Wu, F.X., Jiang, D.-Y. 2011. New species of Sangiorgioichthys Tintori and Lombardo, 2007 (Neopterygii, Semionotiformes) from the Anisian of Luoping (Yunnan Province, South China). Zootaxa 2749: 25-39.
Published abstract and talks
Sferco, E., López-Arbarello, A. & Báez, A. M. (in press). Análisis de las relaciones biogeográficas del teleósteo basal Luisiella feruglioi (Bordas, 1943) (Jurásico Superior, provincia del Chubut). V Simposio Argentino del Jurásico. Trelew, Argentina, April, 2013.
López-Arbarello, A., Sferco. E. & Rauhut, O.W.M. (in press). Posición sistemática de "Coccolepis" groeberi, el pez predador en la Fauna de Almada (Jurásico, provincia del Chubut). V Simposio Argentino del Jurásico. Trelew, Argentina, April, 2013.
Sferco, E. Resolving the taxonomy of ‘Tharrias’ feruglioi, a Late Jurassic basal teleost (Actinopterygii) from Patagonia. (2011). IV Congreso Latinoamericano de Paleontología de Vertebrados. San Juan, Argentina, September, 2011. AMEGHINIANA 48 (4) Suplemento 2011–Resúmenes: R240-241.
Sferco, E & López-Arbarello, A. Southern Gondwanan Late Jurassic continental teleosts (Actinopterygii, Teleostei): phylogeny and biogeography. (2010). X Congreso Argentino de Paleontología y Bioestratigrafía y V Congreso Latinoamericano de Paleontología. La Plata, Argentina, September, 2010. Libro de Resúmenes: 358.
Sferco, E., Rauhut, O.W.M. & López-Arbarello, A. (2009). The Late Jurassic fish assemblage from the Cañadón Calcáreo Formation of Patagonia. 69th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology and the 57th Symposium of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy. Bristol, United Kingdom, September, 2009. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(3): 180A.
Sferco, E., Rauhut, O.W.M. & López-Arbarello, A. (2008). Faunal and taphonomic characterization of the fish-bearing localities of the Cañadón Calcáreo Formation (Tithonian? Chubut, Argentina). III Congreso Latinoamericano de Paleontología de Vertebrados. Neuquen, Argentina, September, 2008. In: Calvo, J.O., Juarez Valieri, R., Porfiri, J.D. and dos Santos, D. (ed.). III Congreso Latinoamericano de Paleontología de Vertebrados, Libro de Resúmenes: 233.