Norian in Lombardy

At the beginning of the seventies, the first fossil locality in the upper Calcare di Zorzino (Zorzino Limestone = ZZ) was discovered near Cene (Bergamo), and it was thought to be a lucky, but single event. Several hundreds of fishes and crustaceans and a few reptiles, among which the oldest known pterosaurs, saw the light from a 6 cm bed, that had been exposed when the overlying layers slided down during quarry works. Most specimens were recovered by the staff of the Bergamo Museo di Scienze Naturali 'Caffi' and of the UNIMI...


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