Inventário da Coleção Paleontológica da Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco (UFRPE) - Recife/PE

Abstract

Paleontology is the science that studies fossils, which are parts of bodies, remains, or biological activities that have undergone fossilization processes. These specimens go through a rigorous system of collection, transportation, identification and classification, to define age and formation found, entering later in a collection, where they will be under the curatorship that will preserve the piece collected. The present work aims to make an inventory of the fossils deposited in the paleontology collection of the Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco (UFRPE). To achieve this goal, the collection's ledger was digitalized and then all specimens were organized into eight groups: Invertebrates, vertebrates, plantae, thalassinoids, indeterminates, coprolites, missing data and miscellaneous. In total, the collection has 4,247 fossils: 3,280 Invertebrates (04 cnidaria, 2,861 mollusca, 125 echinodermata, 24 Insecta, 266 crustacea), 530 Vertebrates (267 Pisces, 238 mammalia and 14 sauropsida), 143 from the missing data group; 129 thalassinoids, 113 indeterminate, 19 from the Ppantae group, 24 coprolites and 9 from the miscellaneous group. All collected from 27 different sites, 10 formation types and 11 ages. We conclude that the UFRPE collection has a great diversity of fossils from a wide area of distribution and with a great scientific potential coming from the gaps to be filled.