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Paleontologia Em Destaque Paleontologia em Destaque Boletim Informativo da SBP Ano 32, n° 70, 2017 · ISSN 1807-2550 PALEO 2016 RESUMOS SOCIEDADE BRASILEIRA DE PALEONTOLOGIA Presidente: Dr. Renato Pirani Ghilardi (UNESP/Bauru) Vice-Presidente: Dr. Annie Schmaltz Hsiou (USP/Ribeirão Preto) 1ª Secretária: Dra. Taissa Rodrigues Marques da Silva (UFES) 2º Secretário: Dr. Rodrigo Miloni Santucci (UnB) 1º Tesoureiro: Me. Marcos César Bissaro Júnior (USP/Ribeirão Preto) 2º Tesoureiro: Dr. Átila Augusto Stock da Rosa (UFSM) Diretor de Publicações: Dr. Sandro Marcelo Scheffler (UFRJ) 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 32, n° 70, Dezembro/2017 · ISSN 1807-2550 Web: http://www.sbpbrasil.org/, Editor: Juan Carlos Cisneros Agradecimentos: Leonardo Avilla (Unirio), Fabiana Rodrigues Costa Nunes (UNIFESP), Karen Adami Rodrigues (UFPel), Carolina Zabini (UTFPR) Capa: Floresta Petrificada do Rio Poti (Permiano: Cisuraliano), Teresina, Piauí; foto: Juan Carlos Cisneros. 1. Paleontologia 2. Paleobiologia 3. Geociências Distribuído sob a Licença de Atribuição Creative Commons. R E S U M O S ENSINO / DIVULGAÇÃO Impacto socio-educacional de ensino-aprendizagem da mostra “Costela de Notiomastodon 13 platensis” – evidência de marcas de corte de ação humana Divulgação da Paleontologia no município de Rio Grande, RS 14 Atividades de extensão no Laboratório de Estratigrafia e Paleobiologia da UFSM em 2016 14 Inventário da coleção paleontológica da Universidade Federal do Pampa 15 Inventário da coleção didática do Laboratório de Paleontologia do Instituto de Biologia da 16 Universidade Federal de Uberlândia Os ictiólitos do Araripe e a construção do saber paleontológico no ensino básico 16 Impressão 3D de réplicas fósseis: uma alternativa para o melhoramento da coleção didática do centro de geociências da UFVJM 17 Divulgação científica da Paleontologia através da exposição itinerante "Dinossauros do Brasil Central" 17 Paleontologia e educação: Reconstituição paleoartística de Mesosaurus brasiliensis como recurso didático no Museu de História Natural Prof. Laércio Loures (MHNPL), 18 IFSULDEMINAS – Campus Inconfidentes Rapsódia Geológica: desenvolvimento de novas metodologias para o ensino de Geologia e Paleontologia 19 Divulgando a Paleontologia do Vale do Guaribas: exposição de fósseis como incentivo à preservação do patrimônio paleontológico do município de Picos, Piauí 19 A Paleontologia na educação: Uma proposta lúdica e pedagógica no município de Pastos Bons, Maranhão 20 Valorização do patrimônio paleontológico: desenvolvimento de material paradidático para alunos do ensino fundamental 20 Uma experiência de ensino com Paleontologia numa escola potiguar 21 Escavação de saberes: uma perspectiva interdisciplinar do ensino de Paleontologia no ensino fundamental 22 Desenvolvimento da Paleontologia brasileira através da análise das coleções e exposições do Museu Nacional 22 O passado do Pampa – a Paleontologia como ferramenta na divulgação e popularização das ciências 23 A evolução do personagem-título em “o dinossauro que fazia au-au” 24 Calendário da Terra: O ensino do tempo geológico através de atividade lúdica 24 O ensino da Paleontologia nas escolas públicas da Paraíba – NE, Brasil 25 História geológica da Amazônia: Correlações entre as mudanças da geodiversidade e biodiversidade ao longo do tempo geológico 25 Invertebrados da Bacia do Amazonas: divulgação da paleofauna devoniana através do sabor Maecuru 26 Paleontologia cultural: uma análise sobre fósseis e monstros da Amazônia – O Mapinguari 27 O acervo paleontológico do Museu Anchieta de Ciências Naturais 27 Aspectos didáticos e metodológicos da exposição itinerante "Dinossauros do Brasil Central" 28 Preservação de fósseis no Geossítio Caieira – Uberaba/MG: Uma abordagem de ensino 29 3 Observação de um grupo de paleontólogos durante um trabalho de campo 29 ACERVOS / GEOCONSERVAÇÃO Localidades fossilíferas na região do Triângulo Mineiro-MG: geossítios potenciais para a 31 prática do geoturismo? Importância da coleção de fósseis do Laboratório de Zoologia/Paleontologia CCA/UFPB no processo de ensino-aprendizagem 31 Coleção de invertebrados fósseis do Laboratório de Geociências e Paleontologia da UFPI, Campus de Floriano 32 Quantificação da geodiversidade como estratégia de geoconservação no Geopark Araripe 32 O museu de geologia da Universidade Federal do Piauí: sua história e acervo 33 Os primeiros laboratórios de Paleontologia da Petrobras na década de 1950 33 The qualitative valuation of the Lajedo do Rosário geosite, Rio Grande do Norte State, Brazil 34 Fósseis da Formação Jandaíra: do Cretáceo da Bacia Potiguar para o Museu do Amanhã 35 PALINOLOGIA / MICROPALEONTOLOGIA / MICROBIALITOS Análise dos foraminíferos recentes da plataforma continental de Pernambuco, NE, Brasil 36 Palynological analysis of teeth calculi of the gomphothere notiomastodon platensis (Mammalia: Proboscidea) from northeastern and southern lowlands of Brazil 36 Registro paleoambiental preliminar de turfeiras do município de Cacequi, Rio Grande do Sul, desde 14.000 A.P. 37 Uso de algas Chara como bioindicadores paleoambientais na Formação Caatinga, Bacia Campo Formoso, centro-norte, BA 38 Uma nova espécie de actinomiceto (Bacteria, Actinomycetes) encontrada em um coprólito de vertebrado do Guadalupiano do Brasil 38 Análise da chuva polínica na Floresta Nacional de Chapecó 39 Indicadores paleoecológicos do clima e da vegetação durante o Último Máximo Glacial (LGM) no Brasil Centro-Norte, com comentários sobre a fauna associada 39 Análise de foraminíferos bentônicos de um testemunho de sondagem do Complexo Deltaico do Rio Paraíba do Sul 40 Análise interna de Pyrgo depressa (d’Orbigny, 1826) (Foraminifera) utilizando técnica tridimensional 41 Contribuição para o conhecimento da evolução paleoambiental da Margem Continental NW Ibérica desde a Última Glaciação 41 Caracterização paleoambiental das lagunas costeiras do PARNA da Restinga de Jurubatiba, RJ, com base em foraminíferos bentônicos 42 Ostracodes da Bacia de Sergipe-Alagoas, Nordeste do Brasil 43 Reconstrução paleoambiental a partir de conchostráceos neocomianos da Formação Sousa, Povoado de Umari, PB 43 Blooms de Guembilitria sp. (Classe Foraminifera) no Daniano da Bacia Paraíba: Implicações paleocológicas e paleoambientais 44 Correlação bioestratigráfica das bacias de Jatobá e Sergipe-Alagoas com base em ostracodes não-marinhos do Andar Dom João (Jurássico Superior) 44 Análise dos bioclastos marinhos da região sul da plataforma continental de Pernambuco, 45 4 Brasil Ostracodes do Cretáceo Superior da Porção Central da Bacia Potiguar 45 Ocorrência de algas calcárias na Formação Jandaíra (Bacia Potiguar), região de Apodi, RN 46 Conchostráceos da Formação Malhada Vermelha, Bacia de Lima Campos, Cretáceo Inferior, Ceará 46 Caracterização micropaleontológica preliminar dos sedimentos da Praia do Morro, Guarapari, ES 47 Evolução do Holoceno Tardio da região inter-marés Nordeste da Baía de Sepetiba, Rio de Janeiro (Brasil) 47 Preliminary study of sedimentary organic matter of the Neogene, Solimões Basin, north Brazil 48 Inferências paleoambientais e paleoclimáticas preliminares a partir da análise de palinofácies da seção holocênica Wila Lojeta, Vale Hichiu Kkota (Altiplano Boliviano) 49 Conchostráceos como possíveis paleoindicadores ambientais do Triássico Superior, Santa Maria, RS, Brasil 50 Estrutura das comunidades fitoplanctônicas dos últimos ~3.500 anos do Lago Dom Helvécio, Parque Florestal do Rio doce, Minas Gerais 50 Ostracodes do Aptiano-Albiano da Bacia do Araripe, Nordeste do Brasil 51 Análise de palinofácies preliminar da borda noroeste da Bacia do Paraná (Devoniano): inferências paleoambientais 51 Potencialidades da aplicação das assembleias de foraminíferos bentônicos em estudos de reconstituição paleoceanográfica no Embaiamento de São Paulo 52 PALEOBOTÂNICA Estudo espectroscópico e microscópico em um vegetal fóssil da Formação Ipubi, Bacia do Araripe 54 Novo sítio paleobotânico do Permiano da Bacia do Parnaíba, Município de Porto Alegre do Piauí 54 Descrição de raízes fósseis do Pensilvaniano da Bacia do Parnaíba 55 Troncos fossilizados da Formação Botucatu (Eocretáceo): panorama e perspectivas dos únicos fósseis encontrados em Uberlândia e Araguari-MG 55 Interação artrópode-planta de alta intensidade na Formação Rio Bonito, Bacia do Paraná 56 Palaeostigma sewardii Kräusel & Dolianiti, 1957 no Devoniano da Bacia do Parnaíba, Picos, Piauí 56 INVERTEBRADOS Caracterização de fósseis de moluscos preservados em depósitos marinhos da Barreira III no sul da planície costeira do Rio Grande do Sul 58 Primeiro relato de Cornulites sp. nas camadas devonianas da Sub-Bacia Apucarana, Paraná, Brasil 58 Identificação taxonômica dos moluscos fósseis da Formação Piauí (Pensilvaniano), Bacia do Parnaíba 59 Late cretaceous Bivalvia (Mollusca) from the Marília Formation at the northern border of the Baurú Basin 59 Morfologia e Paleoecologia dos moluscos bivalves da Formação Crato, Cretáceo Superior, Bacia do Araripe 60 5 Novo registro de ninfa de libélula (Odonata, Anisoptera) proveniente da Formação Crato (Bacia do Araripe) 61 Primeiros corais fósseis (Scleractinia, Rhizangiidae) da Bacia de São Luís: uma discussão 61 Sobre o registro da família Naucoridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) no Membro Crato, Cretáceo da Bacia do Araripe, Nordeste do Brasil 62 Primeira Ocorrência da Família Ochteridae Para o Cretáceo Inferior do Gondwana, Bacia do Araripe, Membro Crato - CE 63 Ocorrências da família Vermetidae (Gastropoda, Mollusca) na Formação
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