Hunting Therapsids In Brazil

[Oxytropidoceras]

There are a series of articles about conducting

paleontological / fossil hunting in Brazil in the

Scientist at Work: Notes form the Field in the

New York Times. The articles published so far are:

Have You Seen This Animal?

New York Times, April 11, 2012

http://scientistatwo...en-this-animal/

On the Origin of Therapsids

New York Times, April 12, 2012

http://scientistatwo...-of-therapsids/

How Old is the ‘Fire Stone’? By Ken Angielcyzk

New York Times, April 13, 2012

http://scientistatwo...the-fire-stone/

From Brazil’s Book of Rocks

New York Times, April 17, 2012

http://scientistatwo...-book-of-rocks/

Unearthing Dwellers of an Aquatic Past

New York Times, April 18, 2012

http://scientistatwo...n-aquatic-past/

Fossil Hunting Near ‘New York,’ Brazil

New York Times, April 20, 2012

http://scientistatwo...ew-york-brazil/

Back to the Scene of a Former Fossil Site

New York Times, April 24, 2012

http://scientistatwo...er-fossil-site/

Related paper:

Brito, D., R. Rohn, J. Carneiro de Castro, Ricardo

R. Dias, and R. Rössler, 2009, The Northern

Tocantins Petrified Forest, State of Tocantins –

The most luxuriant and important Permian

tropical-subtropical floristic record in the

Southern Hemisphere. in M. Winge and others

Sítios Geológicos e Paleontológicos do Brasil.

Brasília: CPRM

PDF file (English) at http://vsites.unb.br/ig/sigep/sitio104/sitio104english.pdf

PDF file (Spanish) at http://vsites.unb.br/ig/sigep/sitio104/sitio104.pdf

Best wishes,

Paul H.

Edited April 24, 2012 by Oxytropidoceras