Cristiano Dal Sasso

Cristiano Dal Sasso
Born (1965-09-12) September 12, 1965
Monza, Italy
Nationality Italian

Cristiano Dal Sasso (born in Monza, 12 September 1965) is an Italian paleontologist.

Biography

He has been working since 1991 for the Milan Natural History Museum where he is the curator of fossil reptiles and birds. He was the technical coordinator of the excavations of Besano, which brought to light the complete skeleton of a Middle Triassic marine reptile of the order of 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 Saltriosaurus, considered as the earliest known Tetanuran of Europe, discovered in 1996 in a quarry in Saltrio, in northern Italy.

Bibliography

  • Dal Sasso, Cristiano; Brillante, Guiseppe (2004). Dinosaurs of Italy (Life of the Past ed.). Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253345146. Retrieved 16 October 2017.

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ Dal Sasso, Cristiano; Signore, Marco (26 March 1998). "Exceptional soft-tissue preservation in a theropod dinosaur from Italy". www.nature.com. Nature (Vol. 392). pp. 383–387. doi:10.1038/32884. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
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