title: Preliminar results of paleontological salvage at Belo Monte Powerplant construction.
abstract: In this paper some preliminary fossil specimens are presented. They represent a collection sampled by Belo Monte's Programa de Salvamento do Patrimônio Paleontológico (PSPP), which includes unprecedented invertebrate fauna and fossil vertebrates from Pitinga, Jatapu, Manacapuru, Maecuru e Alter do Chão formations from Amazonas basin, Brazil. The Belo Monte paleontological salvage was able to recover 495 microfossil samples and 1744 macrofossil samples on 30 months of sampling activities, and it is still ongoing. The macrofossils identified are possible plant remains, ichnofossils, graptolites, brachiopods, molluscs, athropods, Agnatha, palynomorphs (miosphores, acritarchs, algae cysts, fungi spores and unidentified types) and unidentified fossils. However, deep scientific research is not part of the scope of the program, and this collection must be further studied by researchers who visit Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, where the fossils will be housed. More material will be collected until the end of the program. The collection sampled allows a mosaic composition with the necessary elements to assign, in later papers, taxonomic features which may lead to accurate species identification and palaeoenvironmental interpretations.
authors.affiliation: Divisão de Paleontologia, Terragraph: Planejamento, Estratégia e Decisão, Brasília, DF, Brazil.
authors.forename: H Z
authors.initials: HZ
authors.lastname: Tomassi
authors.affiliation: Divisão de Paleontologia, Terragraph: Planejamento, Estratégia e Decisão, Brasília, DF, Brazil.
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Almeida
authors.affiliation: Divisão de Paleontologia, Terragraph: Planejamento, Estratégia e Decisão, Brasília, DF, Brazil.
authors.forename: B C
authors.initials: BC
authors.lastname: Ferreira
authors.affiliation: Divisão de Paleontologia, Terragraph: Planejamento, Estratégia e Decisão, Brasília, DF, Brazil.
authors.forename: M B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Brito
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Biologia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, Goiânia, GO, Brazil.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Barberi
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Biologia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, Goiânia, GO, Brazil.
authors.forename: G C
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Rodrigues
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Biologia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, Goiânia, GO, Brazil.
authors.forename: S P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Teixeira
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Biologia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, Goiânia, GO, Brazil.
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Capuzzo
authors.affiliation: Divisão de Paleontologia, Terragraph: Planejamento, Estratégia e Decisão, Brasília, DF, Brazil.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Gama-Júnior
authors.affiliation: Divisão de Paleontologia, Terragraph: Planejamento, Estratégia e Decisão, Brasília, DF, Brazil.
authors.forename: M G K G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Santos
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001938:Brazil; D005580:Fossils; D007448:Invertebrates / Q000145:classification*; D010163:Paleontology; D010944:Plants / Q000145:classification*; D011210:Power Plants; D045483:Rivers; D014714:Vertebrates / Q000145:classification*