Cene, Seriana Valley: Alaunian, Italy
collected by Zambelli, Pandolfi 1970-

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Penaeidae
Pinna 1974 43 specimens
Holotype MCSNB 3422
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Aegeridae
? Aeger sp. Munster 1839
Pinna 1974 1 specimen
MCSNB 3160
Pinna 1974 149 specimens
Holotype MCSNB 3380
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Palinuridae
Pinna 1974 3 specimens
MCSNB 3100, 3108, D2176
Malacostraca - Decapoda
Pinna 1974 1 specimen
MCSNB 3109
Pinna 1974 1 specimen
MCSNB 3156
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Glaessnericarididae
Pinna 1974 9 specimens
MCSNB 3186, 3155, 3183, 3187, 3188, 3194, MSNM i4475, i4479
Thylacocephala - Concavicarida - Microcarididae
Pinna 1974 6 specimens
MCSNB 3139, 3140, 3439, E3176, 3438, MSNM i4478
Actinopteri - Pycnodontiformes - Brembodontidae
Tintori 1981 1 specimen
MCSNB 3317
Actinopteri - Pholidophoriformes - Pholidophoridae
Arratia 2013 55 specimens
MCSNB 3067, 2875-2877, 3012, 3034-63, 3064a-m, 3065, 3066, 3068-70, 3095, 3097, 3099, 3312-15, 3357, 3373-78
Arratia 2013 45 specimens
MCSNB 3013, 3200, 431, 2889-2897, 2898, 2900, 2920, 2938, 2959, 2962, 2963, 2966, 2978, 2982, 2985, 2992, 3001, 3005, 3011, 3072, 3090, 3213, 3220, 4797g, 2967, 2970-2, 2974-7, 2981, 2986, 2988, 2990
Actinopteri - Pholidophoriformes - Ankylophoridae
Zambelli 1980 32 specimens
MCSNB 3385, 3164, 3284, 3355, 3887, 3283, 3841, 3286, 3833, 3243, 3385, 4034, 3848, 3920, 3922
Actinopteri - Dapediidae
Tintori 1983
Tintori 1983 4 specimens
MCSNB 3316,4874a/b,4876,4888
Actinopteri - Semionotiformes - Semionotidae
Sargodon tomicus Plieninger 1847
Tintori 1983 5 specimens
MCSNB 3821,3826,3827,4877,4889
Actinopteri - Semionotiformes - Macrosemiidae
Tintori and Renesto 1983 4 specimens
MCSNB 4752,4853,5117,5118
Reptilia
Renesto 1995 1 specimen
MCSNB 4862, nearly complete skeleton
Renesto et al. 2010 1 specimen
MCSNB 4783, vertebrae and hindlimbs
Renesto and Binelli 2006 1 specimen
MCSNB 4751, nearly complete skeleton
Reptilia - Tanystropheidae
Renesto 1994 2 specimens
MCSNB 2883, 4860
Reptilia - Pterosauria
Pterosauria indet. (Kaup 1834)
Renesto 1993 1 specimen
MCSNB 4562, partial wing finger
Reptilia - Pterosauria - Dimorphodontidae
Wild 1978 2 specimens
MCSNB 2886 (holotype), partial skeleton. MCSNB 3496, partial skeleton
Dalla Vecchia 2003 1 specimen
MCSNB 3359, partial postcranial skeleton
Reptilia - Pterosauria - Campylognathoididae
Dalla Vecchia 2009 1 specimen
MPUM 6009, nearly complete skeleton.
    = Bergamodactylus wildi n. gen., n. sp. Kellner 2015
Kellner 2015
3 specimens
MCSNB 2888 (holotype), skeleton. MCSNB 2887, partial disarticulated skeleton. MCSNB 3345, isolated tooth
Reptilia - Theropoda
Renesto et al. 2005 1 specimen
tooth MCSNB 4863
Reptilia
Wild 1989 1 specimen
MCSNB 4864, articulated fragments of dorsal armour
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Pseudodalatiidae
Tintori 1980 5 specimens
MCSNB 4557-60,4564
see common names

Geography
Country:Italy State/province:Lombardia County:Bergamo
Coordinates: 45.8° North, 9.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:22.4° North, 28.0° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:385 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Triassic Epoch: Late Triassic
Stage: Norian 10 m.y. bin: Triassic 4
Key time interval: Alaunian
Age range of interval: 215.38 - 211.18 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Zorzino Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: uppermost Zorzino Limestone (Calcare di Zorzino); uppermost Alaunian on the basis of palynomorphs; most specimens collected from a single 15 cm thick bed 20-30 m below the overlying Argilliti di Riva di Solta
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:planar lamination,black lithified muddy "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "vertebrates are yielded by laminated limestones and marly-limestones"
Environment:basinal (carbonate)
Geology comments: "deposited in basins surrounded by the Dolomia Principale plaform. The basins were tens to hundreds of meters deep and many square kilometres wide. ...and often surrounded by small islands"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:variable
Fragmentation:occasional
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:mechanical,field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Zambelli, Pandolfi Collection dates:1970s-
Collection method comments: Repository: Museum Civico di Scienze Naturali di Bergamo (MCSNB)
Metadata
Database number:59639
Authorizer:M. Carrano, M. Clapham, R. Butler Enterer:K. Maguire, M. Clapham, M. Carrano, R. Butler, P. Vazquez
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-04-05 10:37:42 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2006-04-05 10:37:42
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
32008. R. Zambelli. 1973. Eudimorphodon ranzii gen. nov., sp. nov., uno pterosauro Triassico. Rendiconti Scienze di Instituto Lombardo, B 107:27-32 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]

Secondary references:

49362 G. Arratia. 2013. Morphology, taxonomy, and phylogeny of Triassic Pholidophorid fishes (Actinopterygii, Teleostei). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33:1-138 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez]
27999 F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 2003. New morphological observations on Triassic pterosaurs. E. Buffetaut and J.-M. Mazin, eds., Evolution and Palaeobiology of Pterosaurs. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 217:23-44 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
30565 F. M. Dalla Vecchia. 2009. Anatomy and systematics of the pterosaur Carniadactylus gen. n. rosenfeldi (Dalla Vecchia, 1995). Revista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 115:159-188 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
55720 A. W. A. Kellner. 2015. Comments on Triassic pterosaurs with discussion about ontogeny and description of new taxa. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 87(2):669-689 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
81932 G. Pinna. 1974. I crostacei della fauna Triassica di Cene in Val Seriana (Bergamo). Memorie della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 21:7-33 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
32011 S. Renesto. 1993. An isolated sternum of Eudimorphodon (Reptilia, Pterosauria) from the Norian (Late Triassic) of the Bergamo Prealps (Lombardy, northern Italy). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 99:415-422 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
35061ETE S. Renesto. 1994. A new prolacertiform reptile from the Late Triassic of northern Italy. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 100(2):285-306 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
35611 S. Renesto. 1995. A sphenodontid from the Norian (Late Triassic) of Lombardy (northern Italy): a preliminary note. Modern Geology 20:149-158 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
32242 S. Renesto and G. Binelli. 2006. Vallesaurus cenensis Wild 1991, a drepanosaurid (Retilia, Diapsida) from the Late Triassic of northern Italy. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 112:77-94 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
17072ETE S. Renesto, E. Gozzi, and A. Tintori. 2005. Archosaur (possibly theropod) teeth from the Norian (Late Triassic) of Lombardy (Northern Italy). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 2005(9):529-546 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]
32240 S. Renesto, J. A. Spielmann, S. G. Lucas and G. T. Spagnoli. 2010. The taxonomy and paleobiology of the Late Triassic (Carnian-Norian: Adamanian-Apachean) drepanosaurs (Diapsida: Archosauromorpha: Drepanosauromorpha). New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Bulletin 46:1-81 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
38814 A. Tintori. 1980. Teeth of the selachian genus Pseudodalatias (Sykes, 1971) from the Norian (Upper Triassic) of Lombardy. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 86(1):19-30 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
38812 A. Tintori. 1981. Two new pycnodonts (Pisces, Actinopterygii) from the Upper Triassic of Lombardy (N. Italy). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 86(4):795-824 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
38813 A. Tintori. 1983. Hypsisomatic Semionotidae (Pisces, Actinopterygii) from the Upper Triassic of Lombardy (N. Italy). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 88(3):417-442 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
38811 A. Tintori and S. Renesto. 1983. The Macrosemiidae (Pisces, Actinopterygii) from the Upper Triassic of Lombardy (N. Italy). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 89(2):209-222 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
32009 R. Wild. 1978. Die Flugsaurier (Reptilia, Pterosauria) aus der Oberen Trias von Cene bei Bergamo, Italien. Bolletino della Societa Paleontologia Italiana 17:176-257 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
31019 R. Wild. 1989. Aetosaurus (Reptilia: Thecodontia) from the Upper Triassic (Norian) of Cene near Bergamo, Italy, with a revision of the genus. Revista del Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali "Enrico Caffi" 14:1-24 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
42409 R. Zambelli. 1980. Note sui Pholidophoriformes: IV Contributo: Pholidohynchodon malzannii gen. nov. sp. nov. Rivista del Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali "Enrico Caffi" 2:129-169 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez/M. Clapham]