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The Geoscience Research Group is located in Anillaco (La Rioja, Argentina). For more than 7 years we developed regional research in two main scientific lines:  Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, as well as Vertebrate Paleontology.

The several investigations carried out by the group have regional and international scopes, which have allowed us to develop scientific networks with national and international research groups.

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La Rioja Province, northwest Argentina, is already well-known for its continental Triassic Los Chañares and Los Colorados formations which have a famous vertebrate fossil fauna. Here there has been the origin of turtles, mammals, dinosaurs and crocodiles.

 

However, recently have been reported previously unknown Cretaceous levels in Eastern regions of La Rioja which contain a novel Gondwanan fossil assemblage. In addition, La Rioja province has extensive Miocene outcrops, most completely virgin and unexplored. For this reason, our paleontological researches focus on Triassic, Cretaceous and Miocene faunas from La Rioja province and their paleoenvoronments, its evolution, local taphonomy and regional paleobiogeography.

Paleontological researches are developed in partnership with other Argentinian and abroad groups, performing works with collaborators from several institutions such as the “Bernardino Rivadavia” Museum from Buenos Aires, the Egidio Feruglio Museum from Chubut, the CICYTTP from Entre Ríos, the University of La Plata, the CIPAL from Córdoba, National University of Comahue, General Roca and Carlos Ameghino museums from Río Negro, National University of San Juan, INIBIOMA from Río Negro, National University of San Luis, CENPAT from Chubut, the Museum of Zoology from São Paulo, the Institute of Geosciences (University of Campinas, Brasil), the Field Museum of Chicago, University of Southampton (England), and the Royal British Columbia Museum from Canada.

The group has received several grants for regional projects and has published in important peer-reviewed journals like Palaios, Cretaceous Research, PlosONE and Nature.

 

 

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