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- Title
Na Ribeira do Acaraú: João Batista de Azevedo Coutinho de Montaury e a descoberta documentada de megafauna no Ceará em 1784.
- Authors
Sequeira Fernandes, Antonio Carlos; Lira Ximenes, Celso; Telles Antunes, Miguel
- Abstract
Bone fragments from the Brazilian Northeastern Pleistocene megafauna were discovered close by Acaraú River valley in the northwestern part of the Ceará state. Bones were sent to Fortaleza, then sent to Portugal by the governor João Batista de Azevedo Coutinho de Montaury. The concerned specimens, deposited at the Ajuda Royal Museum in Lisbon, were subsequently lost. The fossils reported to the governor had been discovered during the excavation of a well in a natural depression. This is the first record of megafauna in Brazil, even if the exact locality from which these remnants were found remains unknown. Field research in the above referred area shed a new light on the issue. On the basis of historical documents and geological observations at Sobral, where there are granite outcrops, we may conclude that Pajé farm (which belonged then to Jerónimo Machado Freire) is the most probable site to have yielded the fossils.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; DE Azevedo Coutinho de Montaury, Joao Batista; FOSSIL classification; PLEISTOCENE paleontology; PALEONTOLOGY; BRAZILIAN history, 1763-1822
- Publication
Philosophy & History of Biology / Filosofia e História da Biologia, 2013, Vol 8, Issue 1, p21
- ISSN
1983-053X
- Publication type
Article