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PhD student in Palaeontology and Laboratory manager of the Vertebrate palaeontology lab at University of Florence
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November 2021 - present
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Geo-palaeontological sites are essential for scientific inquiry, education, conservation, cultural preservation,
and even economic development. This study revisits 30 geo-palaeontological sites in the Piemonte region,
originally assessed in 2004 thanks to the collaboration of the Department of Earth Sciences at the University
of Turin, the Museo Pa...
The Vallparadís Section encompasses various geological layers that span a significant chronological range, extending from the latest Early Pleistocene to the early Middle Pleistocene, covering a timeframe from approximately 1.2 to 0.6 Ma. This period holds particular importance as it coincides with a significant climatic transition known as the Ear...
Otters, subfamily Lutrinae (Mustelidae), are predators that thrive in aquatic environments, and have
a semiaquatic to fully aquatic lifestyle. While modern otters are found across the globe, their fossil history is limited,
primarily documented by fragmented dentognathic remains. In this work, we report on and describe new dental remains
of a mediu...
Fossil badgers of the genus Meles are known in Eurasia since the Late Pliocene but their record is utterly scarce, often represented by isolated remains. This led to taxonomic confusion and hindered phylogenetic reconstruction of the genus. Here we describe in detail all the material attributed to M. thorali from the Early Pleistocene locality of S...
Introduction: Paleontological heritage rarely receives the same legislative attention as archeological heritage. Part of the problem seems to be, at least in some contexts (e.g., Italy), the difficulty of acknowledging fossils as distinct assets from other cultural heritage objects and the lack of expertise among the administrative functionaries. T...
The uppermost Miocene sedimentary record from the Italian peri-Tyrrhenian areas, specifically Tuscany
and Sardinia, reveals the occurrence of a unique paleobiogeographic region. This region stands out for its
peculiar vertebrate ecosystem, displaying endemic features that differentiate it from the
contemporaneous mammal faunas of Europe and Africa...
It has been 150 years since the discovery of Oreopithecus bambolii Gervais, 1872, a Miocene primate that inhabited the Tusco-Sardinian archipelago around 8.3 to 6.7 million years ago. The most complete specimen of O. bambolii, known as "Sandrone" (IGF 11778), was found in a lignite mine in Baccinello (Grosseto, Italy). Despite its completeness and...
I geositi sono luoghi di importanza geo-paleontologica e la raccolta di dati
inerenti ad essi può dare impulso a future indagini per la loro gestione e
conservazione.
Qui viene applicata a due siti piemontesi, Cava Ex Fornace RDB e Valle Botto
(Pavia et al. 2004), un’innovativa procedura per la valutazione analitica della
rilevanza di siti fossilif...
Every year, hundreds of square kilometres are affected by land development projects that may result in the
destruction of everything preserved in the sediments. Geopalaeontological heritage, however, rarely receives
the same legislative attention reserved to the archaeological one. Part of the problem seems to be, at least in
some contexts, the dif...
In recent years, Italian scientific paleontological community and administrations are progressively rethinking their approaches and actions to the management of the national paleontological heritage. For this purpose, pivotal research has been organized at the Earth Science Dept. of the University of Florence (a PhD project and a Research grant wit...
In Italia la normativa che regola la raccolta, lo scavo e la conservazione dei beni paleontologici risulta inadeguata a far fronte alle necessità di tutela del patrimonio paleontologico. Il progetto PaleoValRis (acronimo di “Sviluppo di uno strumento innovativo per la Valorizzazione del patrimonio PALEOntologico in Toscana e la Valutazione del suo...
Sexual dimorphism has been poorly evaluated or investigated in Pleistocene Eurasian
Stephanorhinus species, leaving a gap in our knowledge about their morphometric variability. Among
the representatives of this genus, S. etruscus is the most abundant species, with several remains
collected from Western European localities, allowing us to investigat...
Il bacino del Valdarno Superiore, situato a sud-est di Firenze, rappresenta una delle più importanti aree fossilifere villafranchiane d’Europa i cui fossili sono stati raccolti, collezionati e studiati fin dal Rinascimento (Rook et al., 2013). I rinoceronti sono un’elemento comune della fauna villafranchiana del Valdarno Superiore, con due diverse...
During the Early Pleistocene three different species of rhinos, belonging to the genus Stephanorhinus,
occurred in Europe: S. jeanvireti, S. etruscus and S. hundsheimensis. The identification of postcranial remains
referable to these species is usually debated and new studies on their morphometric variability are being
approached. In this contribut...
The last five millennia, in Europe, have been characterized by an alternation of warm and cool intervals, but the driving mechanism that leads these climatic variations is still uncertain. One of the possible causes of the European climatic variations is the influence of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). The planktonic foraminiferal assemblages...
