Andrea Cau

Andrea Cau is an Italian vertebrate paleontologist. He specialises in the study of dinosaur cladistics. Cau named the unique dromaeosaurid theropod Halszkaraptor in 2017. He also reanalysed the theropod Balaur, placing it as a basal avialan (primitive bird) rather than a dromaeosaur.^[1][2]

Halszkaraptor escuilliei fossil

Below is a list of taxa that Cau has contributed to naming:

Year	Taxon	Authors
2025	Shuilingornis angelai gen. et sp. nov.	Wang, Cau, Wang, Kundrát, Zhang, Liu, & Chiappe[3]
2023	Migmanychion laiyang gen. et sp. nov.	Wang, Cau, Wang, Yu, Wu, Wang, & Liu[4]
2022	Musivavis amabilis gen. et sp. nov.	Wang, Cau, Luo, Kundrát, Wu, Zhu, Guo, Liu, & Ji[5]
2021	Ceratosuchops inferodios gen. et sp. nov.	Barker, Hone, Naish, Cau, Lockwood, Foster, Clarkin, Schneider, & Gostling[6]
2021	Riparovenator milnerae gen. et sp. nov.	Barker, Hone, Naish, Cau, Lockwood, Foster, Clarkin, Schneider, & Gostling[6]
2020	Kompsornis longicaudus gen. et sp. nov.	Wang, Huang, Kundrát, Cau, Liu, Wang, & Ju[7]
2020	Huinculsaurus montesi gen. et sp. nov.	Baiano, Coria, & Cau[8]
2017	Halszkaraptor escuilliei gen. et sp. nov.	Cau, Beyrand, Voeten, Fernandez, Tafforeau, Stein, Barsbold, Tsogtbaatar, Currie, & Godefroit[9]
2017	Serikornis sungei gen. et sp. nov.	Lefèvre, Cau, Cincotta, Hu, Chinsamy, Escuillié, & Godefroit[10]
2013	Aurornis xui gen. et sp. nov.	Godefroit, Cau, Dong-Yu, Escuillié, Wenhao, & Dyke[11]
2013	Tataouinea hannibalis gen. et sp. nov.	Fanti, Cau, Hassine, & Contessi[12]
2011	Neptunidraco ammoniticus gen. et sp. nov.	Cau & Fanti[13]

Personal life

Cau graduated in 2017 with a PhD in Life, Earth and Environmental Sciences.