WHO ARE WE?

The establishment of the Diversity, Ichnology and Osteohistology Research Group followed the arrival of Prof. Dr. Aline Marcele Ghilardi at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). The group is currently based in the Paleontology and Paleoecology Laboratory (LPP), at the Geology Department of this institution, also coordinated by Prof. Ghilardi.

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The DInO research group currently has a very heterogeneous group of undergraduate and graduate students working on various topics. Most undergraduates are linked to the Geology and Biological Sciences courses at UFRN, while the graduate students are mostly from the Postgraduate Program in Geodynamics and Geophysics (PPGG) and Systematics and Evolution (PPGSE) at the same institution.

The research group specialties are paleoecology, paleoichnology, fossil petrography and paleohistology. However, we also study other topics related to paleontology.

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