Victoria excavating
scarabaeines.
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Victoria is from Argentina and studied Biology at the Universidad
of Buenos Aires. She is working on her doctoral thesis at the
Ichnology Division of the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales,
Buenos Aires. She is interested in fossil brood balls and other
traces of dung beetles and is currently studying those from
the Cenozoic of Central Patagonia, Argentina. Her works includes
the ichnotaxonomy and the interpretation of trace fossils and
its evolutionary and paleoenvironmetal implications. One of
the aims of her research is to compliment the Scarabaeinae
body fossil record with the ichnological information. She is
also studying the nests, brood balls, and nesting behavior
of extant dung beetles from southern South America and to identify
the possible makers of the fossil brood balls. Her doctoral
thesis also includes studies on traces of other organisms occurring
in fossil brood balls. |
