Abstract
In this paper some preliminary fossil specimens are presented. They represent a collection sampled by Belo Monte's Programa de Salvamento do Patrimônio Paleontológico (PSPP), which includes unprecedented invertebrate fauna and fossil vertebrates from Pitinga, Jatapu, Manacapuru, Maecuru e Alter do Chão formations from Amazonas basin, Brazil. The Belo Monte paleontological salvage was able to recover 495 microfossil samples and 1744 macrofossil samples on 30 months of sampling activities, and it is still ongoing. The macrofossils identified are possible plant remains, ichnofossils, graptolites, brachiopods, molluscs, athropods, Agnatha, palynomorphs (miosphores, acritarchs, algae cysts, fungi spores and unidentified types) and unidentified fossils. However, deep scientific research is not part of the scope of the program, and this collection must be further studied by researchers who visit Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, where the fossils will be housed. More material will be collected until the end of the program. The collection sampled allows a mosaic composition with the necessary elements to assign, in later papers, taxonomic features which may lead to accurate species identification and palaeoenvironmental interpretations.
Highlights
ObjectivesThe objective of this article is to preliminarily present the collection sampled at Programa de Salvamento do Patrimônio Paleontológico (PSPP) scope in order to illustrate the diversity of the collection produced by it and to publicize this material which presents high potential for paleontological research
Paleontological salvage programs are relatively new on Brazilian territory
Assuming that marine Silurian deposits in other Brazilian basins is unrepresentative regard to fossils preservation, through this paleontology mitigation work, the Silurian in the Amazon Basin has become a reference for the study of fossils of this period in Brazil and Southern Hemisphere, especially in the field of trace fossils and brachiopods
Summary
The objective of this article is to preliminarily present the collection sampled at PSPP scope in order to illustrate the diversity of the collection produced by it and to publicize this material which presents high potential for paleontological research. Our goal is to make an exhaustive sampling of as many fossils as possible because engineering excavations at construction sites are fast made and buried and the paleontological team must always promptly work on those places to avoid fossil lost
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