Agradecimentos: We extend our gratitude to: the NIPE/IFSULDEMINAS for the financial support; Dr Ismar Carvalho de Souza, for allowing us to participate in the fieldwork and for donating collected specimens; Dr Aline Ghilardi, for the supervision of the research project; Dr Eduardo Rodrigues, for the physical structure for this work; Dra Adriana Santos, for donating us the dentist tools; the students Amanda, Lidiane, Syara and Glauci, for their support with the fossil curation Ver menos

Abstract: Paleontology is an attractive science field, whose study object, the fossils, possesses a high potential to get the public attention. Fossils curation, on its turn, requires a detailed technical process, since its collection at the field. In this study, we carried out the curation of fossils collected in a scientific field campaign to Araripe Basin, Northeastern Brazil, by Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. The fossils were prepared, catalogued and exposed at the Natural History Museum of Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Sul de Minas Gerais. This work is expected to contribute to fossil safeguard and to scientific education and diffusion Ver menos