Calcare di Zorzino

Calcare di Zorzino
Stratigraphic range: Norian (Alaunian) ~
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). Pterosaurs and Tanystropheids have been recovered in this formation.

Vertebrate paleofauna

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

Other reptiles

• Aetosaurus ferratus
• Bergamodactylus wildi
• 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

Bibliography

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