Zorzino Limestone
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The Zorzino Limestone, also known as the Calcare di Zorzino is a geological formation in Europe.

Paleofauna

Pterosaur
Pterosaur
Pterosaurs were flying reptiles of the clade or order Pterosauria. They existed from the late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous Period . Pterosaurs are the earliest vertebrates known to have evolved powered flight...

s of the Zorzino Limestone
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Genus:
  • Eudimorphodon
    Eudimorphodon
    Eudimorphodon was a pterosaur that was discovered in 1973 by Mario Pandolfi near Bergamo, Italy and described the same year by Rocco Zambelli. The nearly complete skeleton was retrieved from shale deposited during the Late Triassic , making Eudimorphodon the oldest pterosaur then known...

  1. E. ranzii
  • Found in Cene
    Cene
    Cene is a comune in the Province of Bergamo in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about 60 km northeast of Milan and about 15 km northeast of Bergamo...

     comune
    Comune
    In Italy, the comune is the basic administrative division, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality.-Importance and function:...

    , Italy.


  • Genus:
    • Peteinosaurus
      Peteinosaurus
      Peteinosaurus was a prehistoric reptile genus belonging to the Pterosauria. It lived in the late Triassic period in the middle Norian .-Name:...

    1. P. zambellii
  • Found in Cene
    Cene
    Cene is a comune in the Province of Bergamo in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about 60 km northeast of Milan and about 15 km northeast of Bergamo...

     comune
    Comune
    In Italy, the comune is the basic administrative division, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality.-Importance and function:...

    , Italy.

  • Genus:
    • ?Preondactylus
      Preondactylus
      Preondactylus is a genus of long-tailed pterosaur from the Late Triassic that inhabited what is now Italy. It was discovered by Nando Buffarini in 1982 near Udine in the Preone valley of the Italian Alps.-Anatomy:...

    1. Possible Preondactylus remains of indeterminate species.
  • Found in Endenna, Italy.
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