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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto (FFCLRP) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
BSc in Ecology from Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro (1994), MSc in Geosciences from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre (1996), PhD from the University of Bristol (2001), and "Livre Docência" in Geology and Paleontology from Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto (2011). Full Professor at the Biology Department, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto; ex-President of the Brazilan Palaeontological Association (SBP); voting member of the Subcommission on Triassic Stratigraphy; editorial board of Ameghiniana, Journal of Paleontology, and PLOS-ONE; and affiliated member (2014-2018) of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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| Los predecesores de los pterosaurios |
| La primera tierra de los dinosaurios |
| The First Land of the Dinosaurs |
| Fósiles dinámicos |
| Un pariente caribeño |
| A Caribbean cousin |
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The Triassic represents an important moment in the geologic and biologic history of our planet, comprehending paleoenvironmental, paleoclimatic and biotic shifts right after the most extreme extinction ever recorded, 251 Ma ago. In southern Brazil, the Rio Grande do Sul State preserves a fossil record of vertebrates, invertebrates and plants from the Triassic period, focusing on sedimenta…
The Cretaceous Period (ca. 145-66 Ma) encompasses almost the entire second half of dinosaur's evolutionary history, congregating about 70% of its fossil record. Dinosaur diversity at the time was already highly segregated, both geographically and phylogenetically. Hence, groups like hadrosaurs, ankylosaurs, tyrannosaurids, and marginocephalians abound in continents derived from the fragme…
The first 50 million years of dinosaur evolution, during the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic, encompass most radiation events in the history of the group, suggesting that key macroevolutionary differentiation between clades was being established during these emergent times. In Gondwana lands, dinosaur origins is well investigated in the Late Triassic deposits of south Brazil and north-we…
The Permian-Triassic interval witnessed the most severe biotic crisis of the entire Phanerozoic, and the study of Brazilian sedimentary sequences may shed light into important facets of this vital moment in the history of Earth. The most fossilifeous Brazilian deposits of Late Permian and Triassic age were formed in the context of the Paraná and Parnaíba basins. These rocks are especially…
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South American geographical isolation during the Cenozoic led to the evolution of an unique mammalian fauna. Among these, Notoungulata showed significant species richness and morphological diversity. Paleoproteomic and paleogenomic studies suggest a close relation between Notoungulata, Litopterna, and modern Perissodactyla, forming Panperissodactyla. Although anatomical studies about the …
Stenaulorhynchus stockleyi is one of the most abundant species found in the fossil beds of the Manda Formation, Mesotriassic of Tanzania, including some of the most complete rhynchosaur material discovered until present day. The most well preserved cranium of S. stockleyi was first described in the Thirties by Von Heune, at this time it was a common practice to reconstrude missing parts o…
Dinosaurs form a clade of archosaurs that emerged during the Triassic period, from which they began to diversify and colonize the entire globe. Among the main groups of dinosaurs, the sauropodomorphs started their evolutionary journey as animals quite distinct (bipedal, small-bodied, and not exclusively herbivorous) from their later members (from the Jurassic-Cretaceous). Among them, Satu…
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The Cruzeiro do Oeste bonebeds (state of Paraná, Brazil) represent anomalous preservation events in desert conditions during the Brazilian Cretaceous. The deposits stand out worldwide for the abundance of fossils and the quality of preservation of some specimens, which have so far allowed the description of fauna containing pterosaurs, dinosaurs and lepidosaurs. However, there are still l…
This research project aims to evaluate the main morphological differences between two groups of crocodyliforms: the living Crocodylia and the extinct Baurusuchidae. Although anatomical descriptions of these organisms are abundant in literature, they focus on elements of the skull, which might be insufficient for resolving ecological and phylogenetic questions. As they are groups with very…
Theropoda is, arguably, the best-known clade of dinosaurs, capturing the imagination ofscientists and laymen since the discovery of its first fossils. Also, they are the only dinosaurgroup with extant representatives, the birds. Theropods appeared in the Late Triassic, about230 million years ago, and rose significantly across the Triassic-Jurassic transition, whatallowed, millions of year…
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Toads of the genus Rhinella are small to medium-sized bufonids widely distributed across the neotropics, exhibiting significant morphological and biological diversity. The genus is recognized as monophyletic and is divided into two major clades: R. marina and R. margaritifera. Traditionally, osteological characters have been used to study the taxonomy and evolutionary relations of the gro…
Stenaulorhynchus stockleyi is one of the most abundant species found in the fossil beds of the Manda Formation, Middle Triassic of Tanzania, including some of the most complete rhynchosaur specimens discovered so far. The best-preserved cranium of S. stockleyi was first described during the thirties by Friedrich Von Heune, at a time when it was a common practice to reconstruct missing par…
The fossils collected between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century in the nowadays metropolitan area of Salvador-BA are probably among the historically oldest records of Mesozoic archosaurs in Brazil. One of the main collectors of such fossils was the amateur palaeontologist Joseph Mawson, a railway engineer responsible for the construction of the Bahia to São…
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The origin and evolution of ornithischian dinosaurs are topics that have undergone a series of substantial revisions, with several competing hypotheses concerning the relations within the clade, both at its base and towards groups such as Tyreophora and Ornithopoda. As a result, it is difficult to assess the robustness of the current phylogenetic hypotheses and the effect that the additio…
With a rich fossil record that dates back to the Late Triassic, Crocodylomorpha exhibits a remarkable diversity of body plans, which makes the group an excellent study system for macroevolutionary investigations documenting phenotypic changes through time. This morphological disparity includes significant variation in cranial and postcranial morphology, usually associated with different e…
The recently published paper of Mestriner et al. (2022) challenged the idea that Silesauridae had a simple permanent ankylothecodont dentition, because their teeth spend considerable time attached to the jaws via a non-mineralised periodontal ligament (gomphosis) prior being fused in place. This condition is known as "delayed ankylosis", with teeth passing through an extended stage in whi…
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