[HTML][HTML] Of his bones are crinoid made: taphonomy and deadfall ecology of marine reptiles from a pelagic setting (Middle-Upper Jurassic of Northeastern Italy)

G Serafini, S Danise, EE Maxwell, L Martire… - Rivista Italiana di …, 2024 - riviste.unimi.it
Modern cetaceans are considered the best anatomical and ecological analogue for many
Mesozoic secondary aquatic reptiles. Such similarities extend also after the death of these …

“New” old ichthyosaurs from the Verona Museum: three re-discovered marine reptiles from the Upper Jurassic of Veneto region (Northern Italy)

GD Serafini, L Giusberti, E Maxwell… - Abstract book of the XVI …, 2018 - iris.unipv.it
In 2016, two fossil marine reptiles (V7101 and V7102) were re-discovered in the Verona
Natural History Museum's collections. Both, never mentioned in the literature, were found in …

Reconsidering the extinction of ichthyosaurs

V Fischer - 70th meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2010 - orbi.uliege.be
Despite their extreme adaptation to life in open sea, ichthyosaurs were one of the first major
groups of post-Triassic marine reptiles to disappear, at the end of Cenomanian, whereas …

A distinctive shallow marine crustacean fauna from the early Pleistocene of Poggi Gialli (Tuscany, central Italy): taxonomic inferences and palaeoenvironmental …

A Baldanza, R Bizzarri, A De Angeli… - NEUES JAHRBUCH …, 2017 - research.unipg.it
A rich crustacean fauna from the early Pleistocene of Poggi Gialli quarries (Sinalunga,
Tuscany, central Italy) includes thalassinoid, nephropid, anomuran, and brachyuran …

[HTML][HTML] Tafonomia e successioni ecologiche di deadfall nei rettili pelagici mesozoici da ambienti profondi

G Serafini - 2024 - tesidottorato.depositolegale.it
In modern oceans, sunken carcasses of large pelagic vertebrates (eg whale-falls) play an
essential role in the flux of nutrients in deep oligotrophic settings. Due to such a transfer of …

[HTML][HTML] Refining the marine reptile turnover at the Early–Middle Jurassic transition

V Fischer, R Weis, B Thuy - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
Even though a handful of long-lived reptilian clades dominated Mesozoic marine
ecosystems, several biotic turnovers drastically changed the taxonomic composition of these …

Systematics, taphonomy and palaeobiogeography of a balaenopterid (Cetacea, Mysticeti) from the Early Pleistocene of southern Italy

A Zazzera, A Girone, R La Perna, M Marino… - Geobios, 2022 - Elsevier
An almost complete and partially articulated skeleton of an Early Pleistocene baleen whale
is here described. The fossil, measuring 11 m in length, was discovered in the Calcarenite di …

First biostratigraphic dating for a Cretaceous ichthyosaur from the Apennine Chain (Italy)

A Freschi, A Morigi, S Cau, D Persico, F Garbasi… - Comptes Rendus …, 2023 - air.unipr.it
We report a new fossil-bearing locality from the “Chaotic Complex” units in the Northern
Apennine Chain of the Emilia-Romagna Region (northern Italy). The material collected …

Amphibians and reptiles from Cava Monticino (Ravenna, Italy) in the frame of the late Miocene Italian herpetofaunas

A Villa, L Rook, M Sami, M Delfino - Paleodays 2016. La Società …, 2016 - iris.unito.it
Among the Italian late Miocene localities that have yielded fossils of amphibians and
reptiles, the fissures of Cava Monticino have one of the richest herpetofaunas, both in terms …

Evidence of opportunistic feeding between ichthyosaurs and the oldest occurrence of the hexanchid shark Notidanodon from the Upper Jurassic of Northern Italy

G Serafini, J Amalfitano, M Cobianchi… - Rivista Italiana di …, 2020 - iris.unimore.it
In 2016, two fossil marine reptiles were re-discovered in the collections of the Museo Civico
di Storia Naturale di Verona. Originally recovered near Asiago, Vicenza province (northern …