PhD(Geosciencesand Environment)
南京市栖霞区仙林大道163号朱共山楼A166 Birthdate: 09/09/1994
Maritalstatus:Single
Pho: +86 15051895718
E-mail: victor.r.silva@nju.edu.cn
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Victor_Ribeiro_Da_Silva2
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3965-7192
• 2025-Present: Post Doctoral fellow at the School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, Xianlin Campus.
• 2020-2024: PhD researcher at the Institute of Geosciences and Exact Sciences (State UniversityofSãoPaulo–RioClarocampus)financedbyFAPESP(SãoPaulo Research Foundation).
• 2018-2019: MSc researcher at the Institute of Geosciences and Exact Sciences (State UniversityofSãoPaulo–RioClarocampus)financedbyFAPESP(SãoPaulo Research Foundation).
• 2015-2017: BScresearcherattheInstituteofBiosciences(StateUniversityofSãoPaulo – Botucatu campus) financed by FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation).
• 2014-2015: Exchange researcher/student at the University of St. Andrews (Scotland, UK), financed by CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development).
• 2013-2014: Teacher(HistoryandPoliticalStudies)attheEukaipiaCommunityCourse financedbyCAPES(CoordinationfortheImprovementofHigherEducationPersonnel).
• 2012-2013: InternattheAnimalGeneticsLab(StateUniversityofSãoPaulo–Botucatu campus).
• 2024: PhD thesis entitled “Systematics of the freshwater bivalve mollusks from the Lower Cretaceous of northeastern Brazil and their paleoenvironmental implications” underthesupervisionofMarcelloSimões(StateUniversityofSãoPaulo),thusacquiring the title of Philosophic Doctor (Geosciences and Environment).
• 2019: M.Sc. dissertation entitled “Systematics of the bivalves (Mollusca) of Crato Formation(LowerCretaceous),northeastern Brazil,and their paleoenvironmental significance” under the supervision of Marcello Simões (State University of São Paulo), thus acquiring the title of Master of Science (Geosciences and Environment).
• 2017: Final course assignments about “Bivalves of the Crato Formation (Cretaceous), Araripe Basin and their paleoenvironmental and paleogeographic implications”, and “Drilling predation in recent echinoids (Clypeasteroidea, Mellitidae) from the northern coast of the Brazilian shelf, south Atlantic” under the supervision of Marcello Simões (StateUniversityofSãoPaulo),thus acquiring the title of Bachelor of Science (Biology).
• 2015: Sandwich BSc in Biology at the University of St.Andrews (Scotland, UK),with contributions to research on Orthoptera sexual behavior under the supervision of Nathan Bailey (Centre for Biological Diversity).
Current main research focuses are systematics, taphonomy and paleoecology of fossil lacustrine mollusks from the Early Cretaceous of China, having had wide experience in the Early Cretaceous of northeastern Brazil.I began working with mollusk systematics in 2015, during my biology undergraduate course, where I, along with my colleagues,have described,for the first time,three new bivalve morphotypes for the Crato Formation (Araripe Basin). This line of work extended itself up to my Master’s in Geosciences,in which the resulting dissertation contained the all-new formal description and taxonomic classification of these bivalves, as well as observations about their taphonomy and paleoenvironmental and paleogeographic implications.
Recently, I have finished a PhD thesis on the freshwater bivalves of northeastern Brazil,focusin g on the description of new taxa,as well as reviewing previously described species, along with the paleoenvironmental and paleoecologic aspects of the mollusk fauna from the Araripe, Recôncavo and Parnaíba basins.
Also, during the undergraduate course, a parallel scientific project, concerning drilling predation in the recent echinoid record, was conducted. The main objectives included predation rate evaluation and comparison with other invertebrate death assemblages. Data analysis provided information about the higher predation rate in echinoids, their predators and, most importantly, how an actuopaleontological (sensu Kowalewski, 1999) approach allows us to use the recent record to understand ancient ones.
Future goals include to conduct relevant research on Early Cretaceous lacustrine mollusks from China, including, but not limited to, the world-famous Jehol Biota. That way, hopefully, enhance knowledge on taxonomy, ecology and taphonomy of fossil invertebrates in wide cooperation with fellow researchers.
• Silva,V.R;Varejão,F.G.;Matos,S.A.;Fürsich,F.T.;Skawina,A.;Schneider,S.; Warren, L.V.; Assine, M.L.; Simões, M.G. Cratonaia novaolindensis gen. et sp. nov. (Unionida, Silesunionoidea) from the Aptian of Brazil (Araripe Basin), and its implications for the early evolution of freshwater mussels.Cretaceous Research107,
p. 104275, 2020.
• Silva,V.R.;Varejão,F.G.;Matos,S.A.;Rodrigues,M.;Fürsich,F.T.;Skawina, A.; Schneider, S.; Warren, L.V.;Assine, M.L.; Simões, M.G. New freshwater mussels (Bivalvia,Unionida) with potential trigonioidid and hyriid affinities from the Early Cretaceous of Brazil. Gebios 61, p. 41-54, 2020.
• Varejão,F.G.;Silva,V.R.;Assine,M.L.;Warren,L.V.;Matos,S.A.;Rodrigues, M.G.;Fürsich,F.T.;Simões,M.G.The Caldas Bed:a regional marker bed in the Crato Formation (Araripe Basin,NE Brazil).Brazilian Journal of Geology,51(1),e2020009, 2020.
• Silva,V.R.;Varejão,F.G.;Matos,S.A.;Rodrigues,M.G.;Warren,L.V.;Assine, M.L.; Fürsich, F.T.; Simões, M.G. A new condensed freshwater-brackish water bivalve-dominated assemblage in theAptian Crato Formation,Araripe Basin, NE Brazil and its paleoenvironmental significance. Cretaceous Research 154, p. 105748, 2024.
•Simões,M.G.;Guerrini,V.B.;Silva,V.R.;Varejão,F.G.;Matos,S.A.;Rodrigues, M.G.; Warren, L.V.; Assine, M.L.; Fürsich, F.T. Tides of rebirth: A stratigraphic perspective on the Lazarus effect in freshwater bivalves in the Aptian-Albian Romualdo Formation, Araripe Basin, Brazil. Cretaceous Research 175, p. 106165, 2025.
• Silva, V.R.; Varejão, F.G.; Matos, S.A.; Rodrigues, M.G.; Simões, M.G. Taphonomy of freshwater bivalves of the Caldas Bed,Aptian Crato Formation,Araripe Basin: preliminary remarks and paleoenvironmental implications. In: XXVII Brazilian Congress of Paleontology, 2022. Paleontologia em destaque, 37, p. 73.
• Silva,V.R.;Matos,S.A.;Rodrigues,S.;Fürsich,F.T.,Kowalewski,M.;Simões,
M.G. Drilling predation in recent echinoids (Clypeasteroidea, Mellitidae) from the northern coast of the Brazilian shelf, south Atlantic. In: 2nd Workshop on Actualistic Taphonomy, 2021, PortoAlegre. … abstracts, p. 48.
• Silva,V.R.;Matos,S.A.;Fürsich,F.T;Warren,L.V.;Assine,M.L.;Simões,M.G. First record of Silesunionina (Order Unioida) bivalves in SouthAmerica: Aptian Crato Formation,northeastern Brazil.In:11th North American Paleontological Conference, 2019, Riverside. … program w/ abstracts, v. 36, p. 236-237.
•Silva,V.R.;Matos,S.A.;Fürsich,F.T.;Simões,M.G.Drilling predation on recent clypeasteroid echinoids,northern coast of São Paulo state,south Atlantic Ocean.In:XXV Brazilian Congress of Paleontology, 2017. Paleontologia em destaque, 32, p. 320.