Project 1. Fossilized pigments of Vertebrates in the Araripe and Taubaté Basin, Brazil: Taphonomical and Palaeoecological aspects
This project, is the main core of my master's degree, who I'm under the supervision of the top brazilian geologist/paleontologist, Prof. Dr. Setembrino Petri who have more than 50 years of experience in paleontology, sedimentology and stratigraphy of Brazil with uncountable contributions to the brazilian paleontology and geology.
I also count with the help of several colleagues, from different institutions, such as: Institute of Physics of University of São Paulo (IF-USP), Institute of Chemistry of University of São Paulo (IQ-USP), Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS); Federal University of São Carlos from Sorocaba (UFSCAR), Federal University of Pará (IGc-UFPA), and São Paulo State University (UNESP).
Project 2. Taphonomy and Palaeoecology of the Taubaté Basin biota, SE, Brazil
This project aims to investigate the processes of preservation of vertebrate, invertebrate and plant fossils, describing the external and internal morphologies that may affect evolutionary and paleoecological context of this Brazilian Cenozoic Konservat-Lagerstätte.
This project is coordinated by my colleague Bruno Becker-Kerber (UFSCAR) and me (Gustavo), which also include a diverse collaborators, from Institute of Chemistry of University of São Paulo (IQ-USP), Institute of Geosciences of University of São Paulo (IGc-USP), Institute of Physics of University of São Paulo (IF-USP), Federal University of Pará (IGc-UFPA), and Brazilian Light Synchrotron Laboratory (LNLS).
Project 3. Exceptional preservation of the Crato Formation biota (Aptian, Araripe Basin), Brazil: Paleobiological and taphonomical investigations.
In this project we aim to investigate the taphonomic pathways that were responsible for the exceptional fossil preservation of the Crato Formation fossils. We are Interested to understand better the geochemical processes in this unit, and how much fidelity of the paleobiology and paleoecology can be inferred from them.
This project is coordinated by my graduate colleague, Gabriel Ladeira Osés with the participation of several others, from the Institute of Physics of University of São Paulo (IF-USP), Institute of Chemistry of University of São Paulo (IQ-USP), Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS); Federal University of São Carlos from Sorocaba (UFSCAR), Federal University of Pará (IGc-UFPA), and São Paulo State University (UNESP).
Projects that I'm curretly involved
