Calcare di Zorzino

Calcare di Zorzino
Stratigraphic range: Norian (Alaunian)[1] ~216.6–212 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
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
Calcare di Zorzino (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.

Vertebrate paleofauna

Pterosaurs of the Zorzino Limestone
Taxa	Presence	Notes	Images
Genus: Eudimorphodon[1] E. ranzii[1]	Cene[1]
Genus: Peteinosaurus[1] P. zambellii[1]	Cene[1]
Genus: ?Preondactylus[1] Possible Preondactylus remains of indeterminate species[1]	Endenna[1]
Genus: Sclerostropheus[3] S. fossai (originally Tanystropheus fossai)[3]
Genus: Bergamodactylus[4]

Other reptiles

• Aetosaurus ferratus
• 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

• Brembodus ridens
• Dandya ovalis
• Dapedium noricum
• Gibbodon cenensis
• Legnonotus krambergeri
• Parapholidophorus nybelini
• Pholidoctenus serianus
• Pholidorhynchodon malzannii
• Pseudodalatias barnstonensis
• Sargodon tomicus

References

1. Wellnhofer, 1991, p.67
2. Zorzino Limestone at Fossilworks.org
3. Spiekman & Scheyer, 2019
4. Kellner, Alexander W.A. (2015). "Comments on Triassic pterosaurs with discussion about ontogeny and description of new taxa". Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências. 87 (2): 669–689. doi:10.1590/0001-3765201520150307. ISSN 0001-3765.

Bibliography

• Spiekman, Stephan; Scheyer, Torsten (2019), "A taxonomic revision of the genus Tanystropheus (Archosauromorpha, Tanystropheidae)", Palaeontologia Electronica, doi:10.26879/1038
• Wellnhofer, Peter (1991), Summary of Triassic Pterosaurs, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Pterosaurs, London, UK: Salamander Books Limited, p. 67, ISBN 0-86101-566-5
• Pinna, G.; Nosotti, S. (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