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). "Professor Associado" 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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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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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…
The research plan presented includes the laboratory preparation of new skeletal parts of Laquintasaura venezuelae, as well as the anatomical and systematic review of this dinosaur. Understanding the anatomy and phylogenetic relationships of La. venezuelae is essential to understand the initial radiation of Ornithischia. In addition to this taxon being one of the oldest forms of the clade,…
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…
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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…
Crocodylomorpha is a group representing big diversity of body plans since the Mesozoic, which keeps relation to equal diversity in terms of diet, physiology, and habitat use (including climatic bands). This is not different between Notosuchia, a predominantly terrestrial group. Diverse studies are based on living crocodilians to estimate the body size and body mass of extinct taxa, but su…
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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…
Ceratosauria is a large and widespread group of theropod dinosaurs with a mainly South America record. However, European species suggest that this clade is older than expected and crossed marine barriers during the Cretaceous. Despite its importance to the knowledge of the group, ceratosaurs from Europe have received less attention than their Gondwanan counterparts. Several specimens need…
Pipoidea is one of the most ancient and well-documented lineages of frogs. Almost all extant species of the group are aquatic (except Rhinophrynus dorsalis). Recently, extinct species of Pipoidea were proposed as fully aquatic, but the knowledge on the evolutionary history of the group redirects for a more complex scenario. We intend to unravel the the ecomorphological evolution of Pipoid…
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