Cristiano Dal Sasso
Cristiano Dal Sasso | |
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Monza, Italy | |
| Alma mater | University of Milano-Bicocca |
| Occupation(s) | Scientific popularizer Paleontologist |
Cristiano Dal Sasso (born 12 September 1965) is an Italian
paleontologist
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Biography
He was born in
Ichthyosaurs, the Besanosaurus with embryos in the belly, published in 1996 along with Giovanni Pinna.[1]
He studied Scipionyx, the first dinosaur found in Italy at Pietraroja, whose description appeared in Nature in 1998.[2] This small theropod dinosaur, nicknamed "Ciro", generated much publicity because of the unique preservation of large areas of petrified soft tissue and internal organs such as muscles and intestines. The fossil shows many details of these, even the internal structure of some muscle and bone cells.
Cristiano Dal Sasso also described Saltriovenator, considered as the earliest known Ceratosauria and largest Early Jurassic theropod, discovered in 1996 in a quarry in Saltrio, in northern Italy.
Bibliography
- Dal Sasso, Cristiano (2004). Dinosaurs of Italy. Vol. 81 (Life of the Past ed.). Indiana University Press. p. 387. )
References
- ^ Dal Sasso, Cristiano; Pinna, Giovanni (January 1996). Besanosaurus leptorhynchus n. gen. n. sp., a new shastasaurid ichthyosaur from the Middle Triassic of Besano (Lombardy, N. Italy) (Paleontologia Lombarda, Nuova Serie, Volume IV ed.). Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali & Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milano.
- S2CID 4325093.
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