Vanda Faria dos Santos
University of Coimbra
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Scientific Reports | 2016
Novella L. Razzolini; Oriol Oms; Diego Castanera; Bernat Vila; Vanda Faria dos Santos; Àngel Galobart
A new dinosaur tracksite in the Vale de Meios quarry (Serra de Aire Formation, Bathonian, Portugal)preserves more than 700 theropod tracks. They are organized in at least 80 unidirectional trackways arranged in a bimodal orientation pattern (W/NW and E/SE). Quantitative and qualitative comparisons reveal that the large tridactyl, elongated and asymmetric tracks resemble the typical Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous Megalosauripus ichnogenus in all morphometric parameters. Few of the numerous tracks are preserved as elite tracks while the rest are preserved as different gradients of modified true tracks according to water content, erosive factors, radial fractures and internal overtrack formations. Taphonomical determinations are consistent with paleoenvironmental observations that indicate an inter-tidal flat located at the margin of a coastal barrier. The Megalosauripus tracks represent the oldest occurrence of this ichnotaxon and are attributed to large megalosaurid dinosaurs. Their occurrence in Vale de Meios tidal flat represents the unique paleoethological evidence of megalosaurids moving towards the lagoon, most likley during the low tide periods with feeding purposes.
Historical Biology | 2015
Pedro Callapez; José Manuel Brandão; Ricardo Paredes; Fernando Barroso-Barcenilla; Vanda Faria dos Santos; Manuel Segura
The University of Coimbra holds a large repository of palaeontological collections bought from European mineral dealers, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Among these specimens currently available at the Science Museum stand out three collections acquired from the Krantz house, between 1890 and 1913, for the Section of Mineralogy and Geology of the Natural History Museum. Their taxonomic diversity is high, as well as their geographic and stratigraphic wide-range origins, representing many classical locations and sedimentary formations of the European geology, and overseas countries. These collections have been used since long for teaching in practical classes of Natural Sciences at the University, using hands-on procedures. Together with other contemporary Krantz collections, known by several Iberian institutions, reveal an important heritage with both scientific and historical relevance that should be preserved, studied and reviewed from a scientific point of view.
Journal of Iberian Geology | 2014
Diego Castanera; Bernat Vila; Novella L. Razzolini; Vanda Faria dos Santos; Carlos Pascual; José Ignacio Canudo
Acta Geologica Polonica | 2010
Carlos Neto de Carvalho; Nuno P.C. Rodrigues; Pedro Andrade Viegas; Andrea Baucon; Vanda Faria dos Santos
Cretaceous Research | 2013
Vanda Faria dos Santos; Pedro Callapez; Nuno P.C. Rodrigues
Cretaceous Research | 2016
Manuel Segura; Fernando Barroso-Barcenilla; Mélani Berrocal-Casero; Diego Castanera; José Francisco García-Hidalgo; Vanda Faria dos Santos
Cretaceous Research | 2015
Fernando Barroso-Barcenilla; José Manuel Brandão; Pedro Callapez; Vanda Faria dos Santos
Geodiversitas | 2018
Fernando Barroso-Barcenilla; Miguel Telles Antunes; José Manuel Brandão; Manuel Segura; Vanda Faria dos Santos; Pedro Callapez
Journal of Iberian Geology | 2015
Vanda Faria dos Santos; Pedro Callapez; Diego Castanera; Fernando Barroso-Barcenilla; N.P.C. Rodrigues; C.A. Cupeto
Memórias do carvão : jornadas internacionais | 2014
Pedro Callapez; José M. Soares Pinto; Vanda Faria dos Santos; José Manuel Brandão