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Salvador Moyà-Solà
Salvador
Moyà-Solà
is a
Spanish
paleontologist
. He works in the
Institut Català de Paleontología Miquel Crusafont
in
Sabadell
,
Catalonia
. From
1983
to
2006
, he was
affiliated
with the
Diputación Provincial de Barcelona
. In 2006 he became investigator of the
Physical Anthropology
unit
of the
Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
.
He is an
expert
in
primates
of the
miocene
. He has
directed
two important
excavations
in Catalonia:
Can Llobateres, in Sabadell, where he found remains of
Dryopithecus laietanus
, the first
Catalan
fossil
,
nicknamed
“Jordi.”
Barranc
de
Can
Vila
1, in
Els Hostalets de Pierola
, where he found the
species
Pierolapithecus
catalaunicus
, nicknamed “'Pau.”
