Lecturers on 1st IMERP-XIV EJIP: Fabio Marco Dalla Vecchia

Workshop "Palaeodiversity and evolution in the Mesozoic world" lecturers

Fabio Marco Dalla Vecchia (born 1964) graduated in Geological Sciences at the University of Bologna (Italy), obtained a Ph.D. title in Vertebrate Palaeontology at the University of Modena (Italy) with a dissertation on the Triassic pterosaurs (1994). 

He did post-doctoral work at the University of Padua (Italy) on the Mesozoic terrestrial vertebrates of the northern Adriatic region (1995-97).

He has been Honorary Curator of the Paleontological section of the Museum of Monfalcone (Gorizia, Italy) since1994. He worked at the Institut Català de Paleontologia of Sabadell (Spain) from 2009 to 2013.

He is consultant of the Museo Friulano di Storia Naturale di Udine (Italy) and Ispettore Onorario for Palaeontology for the Soprintendenza Archeologica of Friuli Venezia Giulia Region (Italy). He was field work director at the Cretaceous fossil site of Polazzo (Gorizia) from 1996 to 2014, and scientifical director of the field work at the Villaggio del Pescatore dinosaur site (Trieste, Italy) in 1998-1999. He participated to several field expeditions and surveys in Italy and abroad (Croatia, Romania, Lebanon, Brazil, Iran and Spain).

Author of 32 technical papers on journals with IF, 52 peer-reviewed articles on journals that were without IF at the time of publication, 20 technical articles on journals without peer-review, six peer-review chapters/articles about paleontology in books, 11 non peer-review chapters/articles about paleontology in books, 38 published abstracts, eight books about paleontology and more than 100 divulgative papers.

He was author of scientific projects and texts of several exhibitions on geological and palaeontological matter.

His main scientific interest regards pterosaurs, above all the evolution of the earliest (Triassic) pterosaurs, other Mesozoic sauropsids (mainly Triassic, and in particular archosauriforms - crocodylomorphs included -, protorosaurs, placodonts, eusauropterygians and ichthyosaurs), and the terrestrial ecosystems of the European Archipelago during the Cretaceous, with focus on the hadrosauroid dinosaurs and palaeoichnology. He worked also on dinosaur remains from Northern Africa and Middle East, footprints and nesting structures of Carnian terrestrial reptiles, Miocene mammal footprints, Palaeozoic and Mesozoic chondrichthyes, Mesozoic osteichthyes, Triassic arthropods, and Mesozoic Fossil-Lagerstätten.

He named four new dinosaur species (two as single author -Histriasaurus boscarollii and Tethyshadros insularis- and two as coauthor - Sauroniops pachytholus and Canardia garonnensis); three pterosaur species ('Cearadactylus' ligabuei, Austriadactylus cristatus and Carniadactylus rosenfeldi); a marine reptile (Bobosaurus forojuliensis, the most basal plesiosaur); and one spider and one crustacean species.