Calcare_di_Zorzino
Calcare di Zorzino
Geological formation in Italy
The Calcare di Zorzino, Italian for Zorzino Limestone is a Late Triassic (Norian) geological formation in Italy (Cene and Endenna [it]).[2] Pterosaurs and Tanystropheids have been recovered in this formation.
Quick Facts Type, Underlies ...
| Calcare di Zorzino | |
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| Stratigraphic range: Norian (Alaunian)[1] ~216.6–212 Ma | |
| Type | Geological formation |
| Underlies | Argilliti di Riva di Solta |
| Overlies | Dolomia Principale |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Limestone |
| Other | Marl |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 45.8°N 9.8°E / 45.8; 9.8 |
| Approximate paleocoordinates | 27.1°N 13.8°E / 27.1; 13.8 |
| Region | Lombardy |
| Country | Italy |
| Type section | |
| Named for | Zorzino |
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More information Pterosaurs of the Zorzino Limestone, Taxa ...
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Cene[1] |  | ||
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Endenna[1] | |||
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Other reptiles
- Aetosaurus ferratus
- Bergamodactylus wildi
- Drepanosaurus unguicaudatus
- Endennasaurus acutirostris
- Langobardisaurus pandolfii
- Megalancosaurus endennae
- M. preonensis
- Mystriosuchus planirostris
- Psephoderma alpinum
- Vallesaurus cenensis
- V. zorzinensis
- Diphydontosaurus sp.
- ?Mystriosuchus sp.
- ?Theropoda indet.
Fish
- Wellnhofer, 1991, p.67
- Zorzino Limestone at Fossilworks.org
- Spiekman & Scheyer, 2019
Bibliography
- Spiekman, Stephan, and Torsten Scheyer. 2019. A taxonomic revision of the genus Tanystropheus (Archosauromorpha, Tanystropheidae). Palaeontologia Electronica .. _. . doi:10.26879/1038
- Wellnhofer, Peter. 1991. Summary of Triassic Pterosaurs, 67. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Pterosaurs, London, UK: Salamander Books Limited. ISBN 0-86101-566-5
- Pinna, G., and S. Nosotti. 1989. Anatomia, morfologia funzionale e paleoecologia del rettile placodonte Psephoderma alpiunum Meyer, 1858. Memorie della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale de Milano 25. 1–50. .
- Zambelli, R. 1973. Eudimorphodon ranzii gen. nov., sp. nov., uno pterosauro Triassico. Rendiconti Scienze di Instituto Lombardo, B 107. 27–32. .