Calcare di Zorzino explained

Calcare di Zorzino
Type:	Geological formation
Period:	Norian
Age:	Norian (Alaunian) ~
Prilithology:	Limestone
Otherlithology:	Marl
Namedfor:	Zorzino
Region:	Lombardy
Country:	Italy
Coordinates:	45.8°N 9.8°W
Paleocoordinates:	27.1°N 13.8°W
Underlies:	Argilliti di Riva di Solta
Overlies:	Dolomia Principale

The Calcare di Zorzino, Italian for Zorzino Limestone is a Late Triassic (Norian) geological formation in Italy (Cene and).^[1] Pterosaurs and Tanystropheids have been recovered in this formation.

Vertebrate paleofauna

Pterosaurs of the Zorzino Limestone
Taxa	Presence	Notes	Images
Genus: Eudimorphodon^[2] E. ranzii	Cene
Genus: Peteinosaurus P. zambellii	Cene
Genus: ?Preondactylus Possible Preondactylus remains of indeterminate species	Endenna
Genus: Sclerostropheus^[3] 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

Notes and References

1. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayStrata&geological_group=&formation=Zorzino%20Limestone&group_formation_member=Zorzino%20Limestone Zorzino Limestone
2. Wellnhofer, 1991, p.67
3. Spiekman & Scheyer, 2019