Macrovertebrate taphonomy of Solimões Formation fossil assemblages (Acre basin, upper Miocene)

• Grant number: 14/02006-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: June 01, 2014
• End date: June 30, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Zoology - Paleozoology
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Annie Schmaltz Hsiou
• Grantee: Marcos César Bissaro Júnior
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto (FFCLRP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Ribeirão Preto , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 11/14080-0 - Cretaceous and Tertiary (Paleogene/Neogene) Squamates (Reptilia, Lepidosauria) from the Bauru, Aiuruoca and Acre basins: systematics, evolution and palaeoenvironments, AP.JP
• Associated scholarship(s): 16/00476-3 - Geochemical taphonomy of macrovertebrates from fossil assemblages of Solimões Formation (Acre basin, upper Miocene), BE.EP.DR

Abstract

The upper Miocene Solimões Formation has been so long studied in the sedimentary basin of Acre. Outcrops of the major rivers of Acre has evidenced a rich and diverse fossil fauna, composed of molluscs (bivalves and gastropods), small and large mammals, reptiles and birds, as well as angiosperms logs. Scarce, however, are the works that seek to understand the taphonomic aspects of these fossil assemblages. This work proposes, through an excavation collection guided by a taphonomic protocol, associated with the generation of taphonomic and geochemical signatures, better understand the diagenetic and biostrationomic aspects of macrovertebrates fossil assemblages, bringing new insights for paleoecological and paleoenvironmental interpretations. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

BISSARO-JUNIOR, MARCOS CESAR; GHILARDI, RENATO PIRANI; BUENO, MATHEUS ROSARIO; MANZOLI, ANDERSON; ADORNI, FERNANDO SOARES; MUNIZ, FELLIPE PEREIRA; GUILHERME, EDSON; DE SOUZA FILHO, JONAS PEREIRA; NEGRI, FRANCISCO RICARDO; HSIOU, ANNIE SCHMALTZ. THE TOTAL STATION AS A TOOL FOR RECORDING PROVENANCE IN PALEONTOLOGY FIELDWORK: CONFIGURATION, USE, ADVANTAGES, AND DISADVANTAGES. PALAIOS, v. 33, n. 2, p. 55-60, FEB 2018. (11/14080-0, 14/02006-9)