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Paleontologia Em Destaque Paleontologia em Destaque Boletim Informativo da SBP Ano 31, n° 69, 2016 · ISSN 1807-2550 PALEO 2015 Súmula dos encontros e RESUMOS SOCIEDADE BRASILEIRA DE PALEONTOLOGIA Presidente: Dr. Max Cardoso Langer (USP/Ribeirão Preto) Vice-Presidente: Dr. Átila Augusto Stock da Rosa (UFSM) 1º Secretário: Dr. Renato Pirani Ghilardi (UNESP) 2ª Secretária: Dra. Mírian L. A. Forancelli Pacheco (UFSCar/Sorocaba) 1ª Tesoureira: Dra. Annie Schmaltz Hsiou (USP/Ribeirão Preto) 2º Tesoureiro: Dr. Rodrigo Miloni Santucci (UnB/Planaltina) Diretor de Publicações: Dr. Juan Carlos Cisneros (UFPI) P a l e o n t o l o g i a e m D e s t a q u e Boletim Informativo da Sociedade Brasileira de Paleontologia Ano 31, n° 69, Junho/2016 · ISSN 1807-2550 Web: http://www.sbpbrasil.org/, Editor: Juan Carlos Cisneros Agradecimentos: Valeria Gallo (UERJ), Fabiana Rodrigues Costa Nunes (UNIFESP), Karen Adami Rodrigues (UFPel), Carolina Zabini (UTFPR) Capa: Formação Santa Maria (Triássico: Carniano), Agudo, Rio Grande do Sul; foto: Juan Carlos Cisneros. 1. Paleontologia 2. Paleobiologia 3. Geociências Distribuído sob a Licença de Atribuição Creative Commons. PALEO 2015: súmula das atividades 12 R E S U M O S ENSINO / DIVULGAÇÃO Oficina de réplicas (IGc-USP) - educação para o Brasil 19 Geociências e educação ambiental no ensino formal (contra turno escolar) 19 Explorando o potencial científico-social do estudo de fósseis no ensino básico: 20 aprimoramento de um kit e capacitação do professor Paleontologia na educação básica: uma análise crítica das principais estratégias didáticas e 20 seus resultados práticos no processo ensino-aprendizagem Divulgação científica de paleontologia no estado de são paulo: o panorama dos arcossauros 21 fósseis O Laboratório de Estratigrafia e Paleobiologia da UFSM no programa Janela Aberta – edição 22 2015 A paleontologia no âmbito do curso de ciências ambientais na UNIFESP Campus Diadema: 22 desafios e perspectivas Arte disseminando o conhecimento paleontológico em exposições de história natural 23 Geo-oficina “fóssil e fossilização” como metodologia de ensino de paleontologia - uma 24 experiência em escolas do ensino médio no Ceará Divulgação científica e preservação de coleções micropaleontológicas através de exposições 24 Novos talentos em paleontologia 25 Utilização de sequência didática em uma perspectiva histórico-sóciocultural em oficinas de 25 Paleontologia Diálogos entre as geociências e a museologia através do projeto “Big History” e da 26 animação “Das Rad” Introdução de conceitos paleontológicos em uma intervenção pedagógica para o ensino 27 infantil Mini-escola de evolução: uma iniciativa de ensino de evolução em resposta ao design 28 inteligente e outras pseudociências GeoTales: divulgação da geologia e paleontologia através da contação de histórias 29 Um passeio no mar devoniano das bacias do Paraná e do Amazonas 29 Semana nacional da ciência e tecnologia: importância da divulgação científica para a 30 Paleontologia Paleontologia e Geofísica: uma abordagem didática através de uma exposição interativa 31 O Laboratório de Pesquisas Paleontológicas (LPP) da Universidade Federal do Acre (UFAC) 31 como instrumento de ensino para escolas de ensino fundamental e médio Aplicação do conteúdo de biogeografia histórica no ensino fundamental 32 3 ACERVOS / GEOCONSERVAÇÃO Paleontologia, licenciamento ambiental e legisladores: proteção não tão protegida 34 Levantamento de materiais fósseis do Laboratório de Paleobiologia da Unipampa 34 provenientes do sítio “Bica São Tomé” (Supersequência Sanga do Cabral, Triássico Inferior) O acervo de fósseis da Universidade Federal de São Paulo – Campus Diadema (UNIFESP) 35 Curadoria e informatização do acervo da coleção científica de paleontologia do Instituto de 36 Geociências, USP Coleção de paleontologia do Núcleo de Estudos em Paleontologia e Estratigrafia - NEPALE - 36 UFPel Os fósseis tipo do acervo paleoictiológico do Museu de Ciências da Terra, RJ 37 Os peixes fósseis depositados no acervo do Museu de Ciências da Terra/RJ e sua 38 representatividade nas bacias sedimentares brasileiras Diagnóstico do risco de degradação em geossítios fossilíferos 39 Territorialidade dos geoparques 39 PALINOLOGIA / MICROPALEONTOLOGIA / MICROBIALITOS Inferências paleoclimáticas para o Membro Taquari (Formação Riachuelo), Cretáceo Inferior 41 da Bacia de Sergipe: aplicação do índice de espécies indicadoras (IndVal) em palinomorfos Biocenose e tafocenose de foraminíferos do sistema lagunar de Saquarema – RJ como 41 ferramenta para análises ambientais e paleoambientais Confocal laser scanning microscopy of gymnosperm pollen from the Irati Subgroup 42 (Permian, Paraná Basin) Análise paleoambiental da Baía de Guanabara (RJ-Brasil) com base em foraminíferos e 43 isótopos estáveis Microfossils and environmental changes, Maracá Islands, Amazon coast, Amapá 44 Primeiro registro de grãos de pólen diporados da família Poaceae em sedimentos quaternários 45 da América do Sul Palinoflora atual de turfeiras de altitude do Parque Estadual da Serra do Tabuleiro, sul do 45 Brasil: contribuições para a formação da primeira palinoteca de referência do estado de Santa Catarina Palinologia de depósitos cársticos quaternários: dados taxonômicos e paleoecológicos da 46 Gruta do Urso (Tocantins, Brasil) Novos aportes ao conhecimento da palinoflora neopaleocena-eo-eocena da Bacia de São José 47 de Itaboraí, RJ, Brasil Relação entre o local de amostragem e o registro da chuva polínica - parque estadual de 47 Itapuã - RS Análise palinológica e estratigráfica de uma turfeira na Serra do Espigão – Lebon Régis (SC) 48 Atlantic sea surface temperatures estimated from planktonic foraminifera off the Iberian 48 margin over the last 40 ka bp 4 Paleoecologia dos estromatólitos no registro arquitetônico da cidade do Rio de Janeiro 49 Palinofácies do Eoceno médio da Bacia de Pelotas, RS, Brasil 50 First occurrence of Calcarea spicules from upper Paleozoic of Brazil 50 Mudanças na paloeoprodutividade nos últimos 3.000 anos, aplicação de bioindicadores, Ria 59 de Vigo, Espanha Palinologia de sedimentos turfosos na região de Campo Mourão indicam a presença de 51 vegetação de cerrado a mais de 7.280 anos Análise comparativa entre a biocenose e a tafocenose de foraminíferos e seu potencial para 52 estudos paleoambientais na Laguna de Itaipu, Rio de Janeiro Biodiversidade da fauna de foraminíferos e tecamebas dos manguezais da Ilha de Trinidad, 53 Atlântico Equatorial Chuva polínica e a ocorrência de esporos de fungos - Parque Estadual Itapuã - RS (Brasil) 54 Comparison between death and living benthic foraminiferal assemblages in Aveiro Lagoon 54 (Portugal) Integração das análises de palinofácies e petrográfica para o Membro Herbert Sound 55 (Formação Santa Marta), Cretáceo, Bacia Larsen, Ilha James Ross, Antártica: inferências paleoambientais Estudo preliminar dos ostracodes cretácicos na Bacia de Barreirinhas, Nordeste do Brasil 56 Estudo da chuva polínica do Parque Estadual Serra do Mar- Núcleo Itutinga-Pilões, SP-Brasil 56 Afinidades de esporos de fungos quaternários da Bacia da Foz do Amazonas: implicações 57 paleoecológicas Palinofácies de sequências turbidíticas do Grupo Itararé em Itaiópolis, Santa Catarina 57 Radiolários miocênicos do Site 358 (DSDP Leg 39), Bacia Argentina, Atlântico sul ocidental 57 Morfologia polínica dos gêneros Pseudobombax Dugan e Spirotheca Ulbr subfamília 59 Bombacoideae Burnett (Malvaceae, Malvales) PALEOBOTÂNICA Posição estratigráfica de gimnospermas fósseis da Floresta Petrificada do Tocantins por meio 60 de sincronização entre padrões de crescimento lenhoso e litologia: resultados preliminares Paleobotanical and palynological studies of the Brazilian late Paleozoic Gondwanan floras 60 and their correlations with the Indian counterparts Successive palaeowildfires events in Rio Bonito Formation levels, Lower Permian, Paraná 61 Basin Presença de carvão vegetal macroscópico em níveis permianos do afloramento Andradina, 61 Bacia do Parnaíba, Tocantins, Brasil Primeiras ocorrências de gimnosperma em sítio arqueológico no Vale do Taquari – 62 abordagem antracológica Carvão vegetal macroscópico em níveis clásticos da Formação Rio do Sul, Grupo Itararé, 63 Permiano Inferior da Bacia do Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil Identificação e tafonomia preliminares de madeiras fósseis holocenas do Vale do Rio Parateí, 63 5 estado de São Paulo, Brasil Suposto estróbilo de licófita do afloramento Morro Papaléo, Formação Rio Bonito, Bacia do 64 Paraná ‘Rhodeopteridium’ sp.: Um novo registro de monilófitas para o afloramento Quitéria, 65 Permiano Inferior da Bacia do Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil INVERTEBRADOS Considerações sobre a taxonomia dos Discinidae (Brachiopoda: Linguliformea) do 66 Devoniano da Bacia do Paraná, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil Tentaculitoideos do Devoniano Médio da Sub-Bacia Alto Garças (Bacia do Paraná) na região 66 de Doverlândia, Goiás Epibiose em Gidadiscina sp. (Formação de Ponta Grossa, Rio Verde, MS) 67 Indícios de parasitismo em bivalves (não ostreidaes) marinhos do Quaternário do Rio Grande 67 do Sul Identificação e descrição dos rudistas do calcário lioz encontrados em edifícios históricos na 68 cidade do Rio de Janeiro Primeiro registro de Leptopodomorpha (Hemiptera) para a Formação Santana (Cretáceo 69 Inferior), Bacia do Araripe, Brasil Descrição preliminar de centrodorsais de Crinoidea (Echinodermata) da Formação Pirabas 69 (Mioceno Inferior), estado do Pará O estudo de actuopaleontologia de gastrópodes no litoral de São Paulo e Rio de Janeiro: 70 desafios e perspectivas First FTIR characterization
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