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Maria Somália Sales Viana
Researcher at Universidade Estadual do Vale do Acaraú
Publications - 27
Citations - 187
Maria Somália Sales Viana is an academic researcher from Universidade Estadual do Vale do Acaraú. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cretaceous & Geology. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 23 publications receiving 157 citations. Previous affiliations of Maria Somália Sales Viana include Museo Nacional Del Prado.
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New dyrosaurid crocodylomorph and evidences for faunal turnover at the K-P transition in Brazil.
TL;DR: This discovery suggests that on the coast of northeastern Brazil, dyrosaurids replaced the pre-existing Late Cretaceous fauna of diversified mosasaurs, a group of marine lizards, after the K–P extinction event, becoming the main predators, together with sharks, in shallow marine Palaeocene environments.
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First Ediacaran Fauna Occurrence in Northeastern Brazil (Jaibaras Basin, ?Ediacaran-Cambrian): Preliminary Results and Regional Correlation
Francisco Rony Gomes Barroso,Maria Somália Sales Viana,Mário Ferreira de Lima Filho,Sonia Agostinho +3 more
TL;DR: This study reports the first known occurrence of the Ediacaran fauna in northeastern Brazil (at Pacujá Municipality, northwestern state of Ceará) and presents preliminary interpretations of its significance.
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Fauna de vertebrados eocretácicos de um afloramento da bacia de Lima Campos, Ceará, Brasil
Felipe L. Pinheiro,Ana Emilia Q. de Figueiredo,Daniel C. Fortier,Maria Somália Sales Viana,Cesar Leandro Schultz +4 more
TL;DR: In this article, a Neocomian (Early Cretaceous) vertebrate finds from an outcrop near the locality of Cascudo, Municipality of Ico, Ceara State, Brazil, are added to the abundant and well-known remains of ganoid scales attributed to Lepidotes sp. in the Lima Campos Basin.
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Tayassuidae, cervidae e tapiridae da gruta do urso fóssil, holoceno, parque nacional de ubajara, ceará, brasil
Paulo Victor de Oliveira,Ana Maria Ribeiro,Celso Lira Ximenes,Maria Somália Sales Viana,Elizete Celestino Holanda +4 more
TL;DR: Tayassuidae, CERVIDAE, and TAPIRIDAE from the Gruta do Urso Fossil, Ubajara National Park, Northwest of the State of Ceara, Brazil as mentioned in this paper were described syncranial and postcranial fragments of the holartic ungulates.
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Lizards and snakes (Lepidosauria, Squamata) from the late Quaternary of the state of Ceara´ in northeastern Brazil
TL;DR: In this article, the first formal report on the squamate assemblage from Parque Nacional de Ubajara is presented, which includes Tropidurus sp., Ameiva sp., cf. Epicrates, and cf. Crotalus durissus, adding to the knowledge of the Brazilian Quaternary squamate fauna as a whole.