Dr. Rosalia Guerrero-Arenas
About me
Rosalia Guerrero-Arenas is a Mexican paleontologist, mother of Sebastian and a female scientist. She currently works in the Universidad del Mar, southern Mexico. She is interested in the past of the Mexican territory and the inclusion of more females in the scientific sector.
My name is Rosalía Guerrero Arenas, and I am a Mexican woman committed to the education of women scientists from various academic backgrounds. I am the mom of Sebastian. I have also been a Professor-Researcher at the Universidad del Mar, Oaxaca, Mexico, since 2004. I previously worked at UNAM and in private schools. At UMAR, I teach and conduct research. Due to my academic productivity, I have been a member of the SNII (National Institute of Scientific and Technical Research) since 2014. I dedicate myself to studying invertebrate fossils at different sites in Oaxaca, with the goal of understanding the communities of the past. I was a member of the Paleontology Council from 2017 to 2023, tasked with proposing and regulating strategies for the conservation and protection of Mexico's paleontological heritage.
As part of UMAR, I have also held several administrative positions, including coordinator of a Bachelor's Degree program, coordinator of the Academic Mentoring Program, and most recently, coordinator of the Institutional Academic Mentoring Program. This program arose from my desire to support undergraduate students in successfully entering the workforce as active scientists. As part of this commitment, I have also served as a mentor in the British Council's Third Generation of Mentors, as well as in the BécALAS program.
Degrees:
• Guerrero-Arenas, R., Aguilar Arellano, F.J., Alvarado Mendoza, L., Jiménez-Hidalgo, E. 2020. How is the paleontological heritage of Mexico and other Latin American countries protected? Paleontología Mexicana 9(2): 83-90.
• Guerrero-Arenas, R., Jiménez-Hidalgo, E., Bravo-Cuevas, V.M. 2020. Una revisión al uniformitarismo, sus aplicaciones en paleontología y las particularidades del registro fósil de animales terrestres mexicanos. Investigación y Ciencia de la Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes 28(81): 74-81.
• Guerrero-Arenas, R. 2021. Estrategias para la protección legal de los fósiles. Arqueología Mexicana, XXVIII (170): 34-38.
• Jiménez-Hidalgo, E., Lander, E.B., Israde-Alcántara, I., Rodríguez-Caballero, N.W., Guerrero-Arenas, R. 2021. Earliest Arikareean (later early Oligocene) Iniyoo local Fauna from Chilapa Formation of Santiago Yolomécatl area in northwestern Oaxaca, southern Mexico (2021). Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 109: 103307.
• Merlín-Hernández, A.L., Guerrero-Arenas, R., García-Estrada, C., Jiménez-Hidalgo, E. 2021.Using Late Pleistocene records for conservation strategies of terrestrial biotas in the Mixteca Alta Oaxaqueña, southern Mexico. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 112: 103542.
• Jiménez-Hidalgo, E., Guerrero-Arenas R., Crespo, V.D. 2022. First galericine erinaceid (Mammalia: Eulipotyphla) from the early Oligocene of tropical North America, Historical Biology, DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2022.2070018
• Crespo, V.D., Ríos, M., Arnal, F.A.M., Gamonal, A., Cruzado-Caballero, P., González-Dionis, J., Vlachos, E., Guerrero-Arenas, R., Sánchez-García, A. 2023. 3rd Palaeontological Virtual Congress: palaeontology in the virtual era. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 114(1-2):1-4.
• Sánchez-García, A., Ríos, M., Arnal, F.A.M., Gamonal, A., Cruzado-Caballero, P., González-Dionis, J., Vlachos, E., Guerrero-Arenas, R., Crespo, V.D. 2023. The 4th Palaeontological Virtual Congress. Palaeontomology 006(1): 001-002.
• Guerrero-Arenas, R., Jiménez-Hidalgo, E. 2024. Trace fossils of incisor marks indicate multiple inhabitants of burrowing systems rodents (Geomyidae) in the Oligocene (Chilapa Formation) of southern Mexico. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 148, 105171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2024.105171
• Jiménez-Hidalgo, E., Guerrero-Arenas, R. 2024. Cretaceous turtle tracks from central and southern Mexico. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 145, 105066. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2024.105066
• Guerrero-Arenas, R., Bravo-Cuevas, V.M., Jiménez-Hidalgo, E. 2024. Técnicas de estudio de icnofósiles de vertebrados e invertebrados continentales en territorio mexicano. Paleontología Mexicana, 13(2):105-113.
• Jiménez-Hidalgo, E., Pacheco-Castro, A., Cruz, J. A., Guerrero-Arenas, R. 2024. Importancia, técnicas de recolecta y procesos curatoriales de pequeños vertebrados e invertebrados continentales fósiles. Paleontología Mexicana, 13(2): 141-155.
• Guerrero-Arenas, R., Sánchez-García, A., Vlachos, E., Gamonal, A., Arnal, F.A. M., Cruzado-Caballero, P., González-Dionis, J., Ríos Ibañez, M., Crespo, V.D. 2025. 4th Palaeontological Virtual Congress. How palaeontology advances in the XXI century. Geobios 88:1-4.
• Guerrero-Arenas, R., Jiménez-Hidalgo, E. (eds) (2024). Past environments of Mexico. Springer Geology, Cham. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-51034-2.