Plastic, as a “flagship species”, represents how deeply humans impact the environment.
Although scarce, the presence of plastic and other anthropogenic materials in rocks has …

This book is the first to give a complete overview of the current knowledge of annual fishes,
covering their life cycle, reproductive biology, evolutionary ecology, reproductive behavior …

The fossiliferous deposits in the coastal plain of the Rio Grande do Sul State, Southern
Brazil, have been known since the late XIX century; however, the biostratigraphic and …

Stable isotopes (δ13C, δ18O) in teeth of extinct mammals have been used as indicators of
diets and climate conditions, which in turn are used for paleoenvironmental reconstructions …

Abstract The Coastal Plain of Rio Grande do Sul state (CPRS), in southern Brazil,
encompasses four barrier-lagoon depositional systems formed by marine highstands during …

Fossils of terrestrial mammals preserved in submarine environment have been recorded in
several places around the world. In Brazil such fossils are rather abundant in the …

The coastal plain of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, in southern Brazil, includes four barrier-
lagoon depositional systems formed by successive Quaternary sea-level highstands that …

Whether humans or climate change caused the extinction of megafaunal populations is
actively debated. Caves in the Lagoa Santa provide mixed assemblages of megafauna and …

Loess consists of silt-dominated sediments that cover~ 10% of the Earth's surface. In
southern South America it occurs in Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay, and its …

Abstract The Santa Vitória Formation is a lithostratigraphic unit known for its fossil
assemblage of Pleistocene mammals, established in 1973 from sediments exposed along …