Osteologia de Taubatherium paulacoutoi  Soria & Alvarenga, 1989 (Notoungulata, Leontiniidae) e de um novo Pyrotheria: dois mamíferos fósseis da Formação Tremembé, Brasil (SALMA Deseadense - Oligoceno Superior)

Checklist paleofaunístico da Formação Tremembé (Oligoceno da Bacia de Taubaté, Vale do Paraíba, Brasil)

“…Tremembé Formation is considered the most fossiliferous lithostratigraphic unit from the Taubaté Basin, providing numerous insights into the Paleogene fauna and flora that inhabited the Paraíba Valley in the Brazilian territory millions of years ago and its sediments have a lacustrine origin (Chagas et al, 2009). Based on mammals and birds' macrofossils, it has an age between the Upper Oligocene and Lower Miocene and its rocks outcrop in Pindamonhangaba, Taubaté, and Tremembé municipalities (Couto & Mezzalira, 1971, Lima et al, 1985, Bergqvist & Ribeiro, 1998, Alvarenga, 1990, Couto-Ribeiro, 2010, 2015.…”

“…Comparative analyzes between the mammal fauna of the Tremembé Formation and that of other Oligocene-Miocene geological units from other countries in South America (e.g., Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Peru and Uruguay), have revealed taxonomic similarities, indicating possible correlation among them and highlighting the importance of this geological area (Couto-Ribeiro, 2010, 2015. Previously, Bernardes-de- Oliveira et al (2002), Melo (2007) and Couto-Ribeiro (2010, 2015 reported a remarkable paleo-faunistic record in the Paraíba Valley and, considering the emergence of new fossil descriptions in recent years, the present work aims to provide an updated checklist of all groups of invertebrates and vertebrates described for the Tremembé Formation to improves the perception of its paleo-biodiversity and to subsidizing future dating and correlation studies with other fossiliferous localities. chostraca fossils reported in the world were valve molds found in bentonite clay of the Tremembé Formation (Galego & Mesquita, 2000).…”

“…The Taubaté Basin (Fig. 1) stands out for its expressive paleontological con-tent, preserving a great diversity of extinct groups (Couto-Ribeiro, 2010, 2015. It is part of the Continental Rift of Southeast Brazil, being discovered in the first half of the 19 th century (Pissis, 1842).…”

Potencial didático e científico dos fósseis da Bacia de Taubaté depositados no Centro Universitário Teresa D’Ávila (UNIFATEA)

“…Nessa linha, Ribeiro (2015) Torres ;Pereira;Carvalho (2007) destacam que os fósseis são de vital importância para o estudo dos seres vivos e sua evolução, tendo sua participação em estudos ligados à prospecção de petróleo e nas reconstituições paleoambientais e paleogeográficas.…”