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The Bauru Basin bears one of the best sampled tetrapod paleofaunas of Brazil, with about 70% of this diversity collected from its deposits in São Paulo. Its fossils are known since the beginning of the 20th century, coming from all stratigraphic units of the Basin cropping-out in the state, i.e., Santo Anastácio, Araçatuba, Adamantina (alternatively divided into Vale do Rio do Peixe, Presidente Prudente, and São José do Rio Preto formations), and Marília formations. Identified taxa include rare anurans, mammals, and squamates, an important set of testudines, theropods (including birds), and sauropods, in addition to one of the most diverse crocodyliform faunas known worldwide. This congregates more than fifty unique taxonomic entities, including 42 formally described species. Based on biostratigraphic correlations (including tetrapods), on few absolute ages, and other sources of evidence, the Bauru Basin deposits in São Paulo seem to be chronologically restricted to the Late Cretaceous, but further investigation is much needed. Finally, the history of research with such fossils highlights the importance of public funding for research and decentralization of university education for the advancement of science.

Funding Information: The authors thank the editors of Derbyana, especially its Editor-in-Chief Silvio T. Hiruma, for the invitation to participate in this volume dedicated to “Advances in Paleontology”. This contribution results from FAPESP grant 2020/07997-4, to which most of the authors are affiliated. We also thank the Derbyana ad-hoc reviewers, Drs. Agustin Martinelli and Fabiano Iori, for their helpful comments to the manuscript. FIGURE 6 – Cumulative chronological distribution of the tetrapod fossil record in the Bauru Basin of São Paulo (1913-2022) compared to science and technology funding metrics and events: A – For all tetrapods; grey bars indicate total records of tables 1-5; green line indicates taxonomic richness (grey lines in Tables 1-5); pink line indicates FAPESP budget in billions of reais between 1976 and 2021 (FAPESP 2022); blue line indicates CNPq, CAPES, and FINEP budget in millions of reais between 1996 and 2018 (ESCOBAR 2019). Events indicated by arrows correspond, in chronological sequence, to the foundations of USP, “Instituto Geográfico e Geológico”, FAPESP, Unicamp, UNESP, “Instituto Geológico”, and Monte Alto Museum of Paleontology, the implementations of the Qualis list, the Lattes curriculum, the CAPES Portal de Periódicos, and the CNPq “grant”, the foundation of the Marília Museum of Paleontology, the release of the first MCT/CNPq public call for “Strengthening National Paleontology”, and the foundation of “Pedro Candolo” Museum of Paleontology. B – Separately for each recorded tetrapod group, coloured lines indicate total of records in tables 1-5 of Anura = light blue, Crocodyliformes = red, Mammalia = purple, Sauropoda = green, Squamata = yellow, Testudines = orange, and Theropoda = dark blue. Publisher Copyright: Copyright © 2022 The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers. The Bauru Basin bears one of the best sampled tetrapod paleofaunas of Brazil, with about 70% of this diversity collected from its deposits in São Paulo. Its fossils are known since the beginning of the 20th century, coming from all stratigraphic units of the Basin cropping-out in the state, i.e., Santo Anastácio, Araçatuba, Adamantina (alternatively divided into Vale do Rio do Peixe, Presidente Prudente, and São José do Rio Preto formations), and Marília formations. Identified taxa include rare anurans, mammals, and squamates, an important set of testudines, theropods (including birds), and sauropods, in addition to one of the most diverse crocodyliform faunas known worldwide. This congregates more than fifty unique taxonomic entities, including 42 formally described species. Based on biostratigraphic correlations (including tetrapods), on few absolute ages, and other sources of evidence, the Bauru Basin deposits in São Paulo seem to be chronologically restricted to the Late Cretaceous, but further investigation is much needed. Finally, the history of research with such fossils highlights the importance of public funding for research and decentralization of university education for the advancement of science. publishersversion published

A política externa foi um dos eixos principais do projeto político dos governos Lula. Mudanças nesta agenda proporcionaram a construção de imagem positiva do país no meio internacional, que se perpetuou durante os mandatos de sua sucessora, Dilma Rousseff. Ao mesmo tempo, esse governo aprofundou a agenda social no plano doméstico, sendo o Ministério do Desenvolvimento Social e Combate à Fome (MDS) arena institucional privilegiada no processo de formulação, implementação, avaliação e difusão de políticas sociais nos governos petistas. Este trabalho teve como objetivo construir análise transversal da articulação entre essas duas agendas de política externa e de combate à fome e à pobreza que se imbricam em processos de difusão internacional de políticas sociais brasileiras. Para tanto, a estratégia metodológica envolveu triangulação entre a literatura especializada, documentos governamentais e entrevistas semiestruturadas, de maneira a mapear elementos referentes a essa articulação, assumindo analiticamente que a circulação de determinados atores chave e suas ideias em arenas institucionais fizeram a diferença neste processo de articulação. A base teórica é oriunda da análise de políticas públicas, na forma de uma caixa de ferramentas de categorias analíticas mobilizadas para este estudo. Buscou-se elucidar, por meio de análise descritiva dos arranjos institucionais envolvidos na atuação internacional e na difusão internacional das políticas sociais do MDS, de que forma essa pasta organizava sua área internacional e quais foram as ferramentas mais importantes para sua operação. Observou-se que a produção da política externa nos oito anos de governo Lula teve influência da trajetória de seus principais formuladores e que a atuação da Agência Brasileira de Cooperação (ABC) foi essencial para o processo de difusão internacional dos programas do MDS, principalmente no contato entre demandas externas e esta pasta e no desenvolvimento de projetos de cooperação Sul-Sul. Ademais, existem indícios de que a relação entre as agendas de política externa e de combate à fome e à pobreza se deu, até certo ponto, de maneira planejada, sobretudo no plano paradigmático, ao mesmo tempo que, no plano das estratégias e articulação de instrumentos, o componente incremental parece ser mais relevante para explicar este processo Foreign policy was one of the main center lines of the Lula administration\'s political project. Changes in this agenda allowed for constructing a positive image of the country in the international environment, sustained during his successor\'s, Dilma Rousseff, terms. At the same time, this government deepened the social agenda at the domestic level, with the Ministry of Social Development and Fight against Hunger (MDS) being the privileged institutional arena in the formulation, implementation, evaluation, and diffusion processes of social policies in the PT governments. The research aimed to construct a cross-cutting analysis of the articulation between these two agendas - foreign policy and the fight against hunger and poverty - intertwined in processes of international diffusion of Brazilian social policies. To this end, the methodological strategy involved the triangulation between specialized literature, government documents, and semi-structured interviews to map elements concerning this articulation, analytically assuming that the circulation of certain key actors and their ideas in institutional arenas made a difference in this articulation process. The theoretical base comes from public policy analysis, in the form of a \"toolbox\" of analytical categories mobilized for this study. Through a descriptive analysis of the institutional arrangements involved in international action and the dissemination of MDS social policies, we sought to elucidate how this portfolio organized its international area and which were the most important tools for its operation. It was observed that the trajectory of its central formulators influenced foreign policy production during the eight years of Lula\'s administration and that the Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC) activities were essential to the process of international dissemination of MDS\' programs, especially for the contact between external demands and this portfolio, and the development of South-South cooperation projects. Furthermore, there are indications that the relationship between the agendas of foreign policy and the fight against hunger and poverty took place, to a certain extent, in a planned manner, especially at the paradigmatic level, while at the level of strategies and articulation of instruments, the incremental component seems to be more relevant to explain this process