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Fabio Marco Dalla Vecchia
Summary
Fabio Marco Dalla Vecchia (born 1964) graduated in Geological Sciences at the University of Bologna (Italy), got a Ph.D. 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 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 participated to many 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, 8 books about paleontology and more than 100 divulgative papers.
Main scientific interests: pterosaurs, above all the evolution of the earliest (Triassic) pterosaurs, other Mesozoic sauropsids (mainly Triassic), and the terrestrial ecosystems of the European Archipelago during the Cretaceous, with focus on the hadrosauroid dinosaurs and palaeoichnology.