Museu de Ciências Naturais da Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul

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Museum of Natural Sciences
Museu de Ciências Naturais da Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul
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Established 1954
LocationRua Salvador França 1427.
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Coordinates 30°03′06″S51°10′38″W / 30.05167°S 51.17722°W / -30.05167; -51.17722 Coordinates: 30°03′06″S51°10′38″W / 30.05167°S 51.17722°W / -30.05167; -51.17722
Type Paleontology, Natural history museum.
Website http://www.fzb.rs.gov.br/museu/
Porto Alegre Botanical Garden Jardim botanico poa4.jpg
Porto Alegre Botanical Garden

The Museu de Ciências Naturais da Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul ("Museum of Natural Sciences of the Rio Grande do Sul Zoobotanical Foundation"), is a Brazilian museum located inside the Porto Alegre Botanical Garden. Open from Monday to Sunday 9am to 12pm and from 13h30 to 17h.

Porto Alegre Botanical Garden

The Porto Alegre Botanical Garden is a Foundation of Rio Grande do Sul located on the street Salvador França, in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

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Emerged in 1954 from the breakup of a natural history collection of the Júlio de Castilhos Museum. [1]

Júlio de Castilhos Museum

Júlio de Castilhos Museum is a museum located in the city of Porto Alegre. It is the oldest museum in Rio Grande do Sul state.

The permanent exhibition features 49 windows, that approach the richness of species native to Rio Grande do Sul, both flora and fauna. The show is organized in an evolutionary sequence: plant today, groups of animals and paleontological showcases. In this way, show the characteristic fauna of various ecosystems of the state: swamp, field and forest.

Rio Grande do Sul State of Brazil

Rio Grande do Sul is a state located in the southern region of Brazil. It is the fifth most populous state and the ninth largest by area. Located in the southernmost part of the country, Rio Grande do Sul is bordered clockwise by Santa Catarina to the north and northeast, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, the Uruguayan departments of Rocha, Treinta y Tres, Cerro Largo, Rivera and Artigas to the south and southwest, and the Argentine provinces of Corrientes and Misiones to the west and northwest. The capital and largest city is Porto Alegre. The state has the highest life expectancy in Brazil, and the crime rate is considered to be low.

Paleontology

Here is an exhibition of fossils found in the geopark of paleorrota, besides contributing to publications on the subject.

Geopark

A geopark is a unified area that advances the protection and use of geological heritage in a sustainable way, and promotes the economic well-being of the people who live there. There are global geoparks and national geoparks.

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References

  1. ↑ NEDEL, Letícia Borges. Breviário de um museu mutante. Horizontes Antropológicos, Porto Alegre, ano 11, n. 23, p. 87-112, jan/jun 2005.
<i>Decuriasuchus</i> species of reptile

Decuriasuchus is an extinct genus of prestosuchid rauisuchian from the Middle Triassic period. It is a carnivorous archosaur that lived in what is now southern Brazil, in Paleorrota. It was first named by Marco Aurélio G. França, Jorge Ferigolo and Max C. Langer in 2011 and the type species is Decuriasuchus quartacolonia. The generic name means "legion of ten crocodile" in Greek in reference to the ten known specimens and the animal's possible group behavior. The specific name refers to the Quarta Colonia region where the fossils were collected.


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