María Dolores Soria Mayor

María Dolores Soria Mayor (1948 – 5 June 2004), also known as Loli Soria, was a Spanish paleontologist.

Biography María Dolores Soria Mayor earned a degree in Biological Sciences in 1971, and until 1973 she was a professor of Natural Sciences at the Corazón de María school in Ciudad Lineal. In 1973 and 1974 she studied and worked in Germany, and after her return she began her thesis on the canid Nyctereutes, found in the . At that time she also published about another species of that site, the rodent Blancomys neglectus.

She was hired as a Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) collaborator in 1974, and in 1981 she obtained the position of Senior Scientist at the National Museum of Natural Sciences, where she was head of the Department of Paleobiology from 1996 to 2001.

In 1974 she contributed to the international conference on Continental Biostratigraphy of the Upper Neogene and Lower Quaternary. The following year she participated in the 6th Congress of the Regional Committee of Stratigraphy of the Neogene Mediterranean, in Bratislava. She was also part of the research teams of the Miocene fossils of Venta del Moro, Loranca, and Cerro de los Batallones, among others. Gacella soriae Alcalá y Morales, 2006, a species of antelope from La Calera deposit in Teruel Parabos soriae Morales, 1984, a species of bovine from Venta del Moro deposit, Valencia