Conference Abstracts

  1. Salvador C., Fanti F. & Catuneanu O., 2024. Depositional architecture and provenance analysis of the non-marine deposits of the Oldman Formation (Campanian, Belly River Group) at the U.S.-Canada border. SGI-SIMP 2024 - Geology for a sustainable management of our Planet, Bari
  2. Giamborino A., Petti F.M., Innamorati G. & Zuccari A., 2024. The Time Machine Project - A travel into Deep Time. SGI-SIMP 2024 - Geology for a sustainable management of our Planet, Bari
  3. Bonadonna D., 2024. Depicting the unknown. SGI-SIMP 2024 - Geology for a sustainable management of our Planet, Bari
  4. Muscioni M., Arbulla D., Fanti F., 2024. The relevance and current state of the Villaggio del Pescatore lagerstätte (Campanian, Italy). SGI-SIMP 2024 - Geology for a sustainable management of our Planet, Bari
  5. Baldassarri L., Fanti F., Dinelli E. & Bais G., 2024. Geochemical analysis and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the laminated limestones from the Villaggio del Pescatore fossil site (Trieste, Italy). SGI-SIMP 2024 - Geology for a sustainable management of our Planet, Bari
  6. Furlan A., Contessi M. & Fanti F., 2024. Taxonomic diversity of fossil vertebrates from the quaternary deposits of the Karst Pit of Cà Negra (Croatia). SGI-SIMP 2024 - Geology for a sustainable management of our Planet, Bari
  7. Contessi M., Balzani R., Fanti F., Caruso C. & Managlia A, 2024. From a XIX century museum to a 3D digital experience: the challenges of making a geological museum appealing to modern audience. SGI-SIMP 2024 - Geology for a sustainable management of our Planet, Bari
  8. Magi C., Contessi M., Fanti F., 2024. Esemplare giovanile di Cymbospondylus buchseri e nuovi resti di Besanosaurus leptorhynchus nella Collezione di Geologia “Museo Giovanni Capellini” di Bologna. SPI Paleodays 2024, Pisa.
  9. Furlan A., Contessi M., Fanti F., 2024. Taxonomic Diversity of Fossil Vertebrates from the Quaternary Deposits of the Karst Pit of Cà Negra (Croatia). SPI Paleodays 2024, Pisa.
  10. Muscioni M., Kustatscher E., Arbulla D., Fanti F., 2024. A new census of the paleodiversity of the Villaggio del Pescatore lagerstätte (Campanian, Trieste). SPI Paleodays 2024, Pisa.
  11. Contessi M,. Tonetti L., 2024. Mary Anning, Georges Cuvier and Camillo Ranzani: ichthyosaurus across Europe. SPI Paleodays 2024, Pisa.
  12. Giamborino A. & Fanti F., 2023- SADP. Southern Alberta Dinosaur Project (Canada). SGI 2023 Potenza.
  13. Bamforth, E., Vavrek, M., Sullivan, C., Sissons, R., Sweder, J., Campione, N., Fanti, F., Bell, P., 2023. Deadfall Hills: A New Edmontosaurus sp. Bonebed from Northwest Alberta's Late Cretaceous Wapiti Formation, With Implications for Boreal Hadrosaurid Diversity.
  14. Sullivan, C., Hamilton, S, Paparella, I., Bell, P., Campione, N., Fanti, F., Larson, D., Sissons, R., Vavrek, M., Balsai, M. A specimen of the taxonomically precarious monstersaurian lizard Palaeosaniwa canadensis from the Upper Cretaceous Wapiti Formation of northern Alberta, Canada. SVP 2023 Cincinnati.
  15. Muscioni, M., Rotatori, F.M., Fanti, F., 2023. The rostral neurovascular system of Tethyshadros insularis (Ornithischia, Hadrosauroidea). EAVP 2023 Sabadell.
  16. Muscioni, M., Dreossi, D., Fanti, F., 2023. Synchrotron tomography provides novel insights into the dental anatomy of Acynodon adriaticus (Eusuchia, Hylaeochampsidae). SPI Paleodays 2023, Lecce.
  17. Kimit, R., Rodriguez, M., Sullivan, C., Sissons, R., Bell, P., Campione, N., Fanti, F., Zonneveld, J-P., Gingras, M., 2022. Enigmatic vertebrate traces from flood deposits of the Wapiti Formation, Nothern Alberta, Canada. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol 54, No. 5
    doi: 10.1130/abs/2022AM-381393
  18. A.A. Chiarenza, M. Fabbri, L. Consorti, M. Muscioni, D. Evans, Fanti, F., 2021. Unfolding the paleodiversity, age and paleoecology of the first multi-individual dinosaur-bearing locality of Italy. SVP 2021.
  19. Fanti, F., Consorti, L., Chiarenza, A., Fabbri, M., Muscioni, M., Evans, D., 2021. There is more than meet the eyes: unfolding the diversity, age, and ecology of the Late Cretaceous Villaggio del Pescatore site (Trieste, Italy). SPI 2021.
  20. Chiarenza, A., Fabbri, M., Consorti, L., Muscioni, M., Evans, D., Cantalapiedra, J., Fanti, F., 2021: Body-size evolution and biogeographic history in the Late Cretaceous European ‘archipelago’ enlightened by the first Italian multi-individual dinosaur locality. EAVP 2021.
  21. Rotatori, F., Zeppilli, C., Durante, S., Angielczyk, K., Miyashita, T., Fanti, F., 2021. Abnormal development of paired enigmatic structures in the derived dicynodont Lystrosaurus murrayi (Therapsida, Anomodontia). EAVP 2021.
  22. Hudgins, M., Bell, P., Campione, N., Fanti, F., Sissons, R., Vavrek, M., Larson, D., Sullivan, C., 2021. New Thescelosaurid (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) Material from the Wapiti Formation (Campanian) of Northern Alberta. SVP 2021.
  23. Sullivan, C., Bell, P., Campione, N., Fanti, F., Larson, D., Sissons, R., Vavrek, M., 2021. Fused Caenagnathid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) dentaries from the Wapiti Formation of Northern Alberta, and the ontogeny of mandibular features in caenagnathidae. SVP 2121 poster.
  24. Chiarenza, A., Fabbri, M., Muscioni, M., Evans, D., Fanti, F. The first multi-individual assemblage of a Mesozoic dinosaur from Italy: systematic, osteohistological and morphological re-evaluations of Tethyshadros insularis (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda). PalAss 2020.
  25. Brayden, H., Campione, N., Bell, P., Fanti, F., Vavrek, M., Sissons, R., Wang, Y-Y., Hamilton, S., Sullivan, C. A juvenile lambeosaurine bonebed from the Wapiti Formation of Northwestern Alberta, Canada. SVP 2020.
  26. Hudgins, M., Bell, P., Campione, N., Fanti, F., Sissons, R., Vavrek, M., Larson, D., Sullivan, C., New thescelosaurid (Dinosauria:Ornithischia) material from the Wapiti Formation (Campanian) of northern Alberta, Canada. SVP 2020.
  27. Sullivan, C., Bell, P., Campione, N., Sissons, R., Fanti, F., Larson, D., Vavrek, M., Funston, G., Caenagnathid (Theropoda: Oviraptorosauria) dinosaur specimens from the Upper Cretaceous Wapiti Formation of Northern Alberta. SVP 2020.
  28. Zubalich, R., Capozzi, R., Fanti, F., 2019: Tracing marine ingressions in continental deposits: the Bearpaw sea of west-central Alberta. IAS Meeting of Sedimentology, Rome Sept. 10-13.
  29. C. Sullivan, Fanti, F., D. W. Larson, P. Bell, N. E. Campione, R. Sissons, M. Vavrek, 2019. The Upper Cretaceous Wapiti Formation of northern Alberta, Canada as a unique window into the continental vertebrate fauna of boreal Laramidia during Bearpaw times. 79th Symposium of Vertebrate Paleontology, Annual Meeting, Brisbane..
  30. N. J. Enriquez, N. E. Campione, M. White, C. Sullivan, Fanti, F., M. J. Vavrek, R. Sissons, P. Bell, 2019. A high-latitude ornithopod and theropod ichnofauna from the Late Cretaceous Wapiti Formation of Alberta, Canada. 79th Symposium of Vertebrate Paleontology, Annual Meeting, Brisbane
  31. Sullivan C., Campione, N., Bell, R., Sissons, R., Fanti, F., Vavrek, M., Larson, D., 2019. A juvenile lambeosaurine dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Wapiti Formation of northern Alberta. Canadian Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, P.J. Currie Museum, Grande Prairie (Alberta), May 10-13, 2019.
  32. Koppelhus, E., Fanti, F., 2019. Rare, non-marine deposits during the deposition of the Bearpaw Formation: Interpreting the Palaeoenvironment of the DC bonebed (Wapiti Formation) using palynology and palaeobotany. Canadian Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, P.J.Currie Museum, Grande Prairie (Alberta), May 10-13, 2019.
  33. Bell, P., Fanti, F., Hart, L., Milan, L., Craven, S., Brougham, T., Smith, E., 2018. Revised age and palaeoecology of the dinosaur-bearing Griman Creek Formation at Lightining Ridge, NSW, Australia. 78th SVP – Annual Meeting Albuquerque.
  34. Campione, N., Bell, P., Sissons, R., Fanti, F., Sullivan, C., Vavrek, M., 2018. A juvenile Corythosaur (Lambeosaurine) from the Wapiti Formation of western Alberta, Canada. 78th SVP – Annual Meeting Albuquerque.
  35. Hamilton, S., Paparella, I., Bell, P., Campione, N., Fanti, F., Larson, D., Sissons, R., Vavrek, M., Sullivan, C., 2018. A monstersaurian lizard fromtal from the Campanian Wapiti Formation of Alberta Canada. 78th SVP – Annual Meeting Albuquerque (poster).
  36. Larson, D., Vavrek, M., Bell, P., Campione, N., Fanti, F., Sissons, R., Sullivan, C., 2018. A high-latitude assemblage of fossil turles (Testudines) from the Late Campanian of Alberta, Canada. 78th SVP – Annual Meeting Albuquerque (poster).
  37. Sullivan, C., Bell, P., Campione, N., Fanti, F., Larson, D., Sissons, R., Vavrek, M., 2018. Fused caenagnathid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) dentaries from the Wapiti Formation of northern Alberta, and the ontogeny of mandibular features in Caenagnathidae. 6th Annual Meeting Canadian Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology, May 14th-16th, 2018.
  38. Hamilton, S, Paparella, I., Bell, P., Campione, N., Fanti, F., Larson, D., Sissons, R., Vavrek, M., Sullivan, C., 2018. A monstersaurian frontal from the Wapiti Formation (Campanian) of central-western Alberta. 6th Annual Meeting Canadian Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology, May 14th-16th, 2018.
  39. Larson, D., Vavrek, M., Bell, P., Campione, N., Fanti, F., Sissons, R., Sullivan, C., 2018.  A diverse assemblage of Campanian turtles (Testudines) from Northern Alberta. 6th Annual Meeting Canadian Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology, May 14th-16th, 2018.
  40. Vanni, V., Belcastro, M.G., Fanti, F., 2018. The South American mammals collection at the Museo Geologico Giovanni Capellini (Bologna, Italy). 5th International Palaeontological Congress, Paris July 9-13th.
  41. Sansonetti, M., Fanti, F., Thoury, M., Gueriau, P., Sciutto, G., Prati, S., 2017. Polychromatic UV-induced photoluminescence provides new insights into the fossilization of hard and soft tissues in Pesciara di Bolca fossils. 017 International Workshop on Konservat-Lagerstatten. 
  42. Currie, P., Fanti, F., 2017. Taxonomic implications of the rediscovery of the type localities of the Late Cretaceous Mongolian sauropods Nemegtosaurus mongoliensis and Opisthocoelicaudia skarzynskii. 5th Annual Meeting Canadian Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology, pp. 16-18. DOI 10.18435/B5S3D
  43. Fanti, F.,  Tighe, M., Bell, P., Milan, L., Dinelli, E., 2017. Geochemical ‘fingerprinting’ of Gobi Dinosaurs: a novel tool for repatriating poached dinosaur fossils in Mongolia. 77th SVP – Annual Meeting Calgary.
  44. Eberth, D.A., Fanti, F., 2017. Composite stratigraphy and sedimentologic evolution of the dinosaur-rich Baruungoyot-Nemegt succession (Upper Cretaceous), Nemegt Basin, southern Mongolia. 77th SVP – Annual Meeting Calgary.
  45. Fanti, F., 2017. Basinward: regressive depositional architecture in the Oldman and Wapiti formations (Campanian, Western Interior Seaway). Geological Society of America Rocky Mountain Section Meeting, 69th Annual Meeting, Calgary, Alberta, Canada 9-10 June 2017.
  46. Giamborino A., Coppola T., 2016. The Story of Earth through the fun and entertainment: the playful aspect of fossils. 88° Congresso Nazionale della Società Geologica Italiana, Napoli, Italy, 7-9 September 2016.
  47. Chiba, K., Ryan, M. J., Loewen, M.A., Fanti, F., Evans, D.C., 2016. New material of the centrosaurine Medusaceratops lokii (Dinosauria: Ornithischia). 76th SVP – Annual Meeting Salt Lake City (poster).
  48. Miyashita, T., Fanti, F., Minelli, D., La Rocca Conte, G., 2015. An exceptionally preserved Eocene shark and the rise of modern predatory-prey interactions in the coral reef food web. 75th SVP – Annual Meeting Dallas.
  49. Vavrek, M., Campione, N., Bell, P., Fanti, F., 2015. Palaeoarctic turtles from the Wapiti Formation (Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada) and their implications for Late Cretaceous biogeography. 75th SVP – Annual Meeting Dallas.
  50. Minelli, D., Fanti, F., Zorzin, R., 2015. Understanding the rise of modern elasmobranchs and predator-prey interactions in ancient coral reef food web: an example of scientific research in University Museums. VI Congress of the Italian Society for Evolutionary Biology, Bologna August 31-September 3.
  51. Chiarenza, A.A., Cau, A., Fanti, F., 2015. ‘Cetiosaurus’ strikes back: morphometric and comparative analysis of the tail of Tataouinea hannibalis (Dinosauria: Sauropoda). XV Edizione delle Giornate di Paleontologia, 27-29 Maggio 2015 - Volume dei Riassunti.
  52. Fanti, F., La Perna, R., Minervini, L., Petruzzelli, M., Sabato, L., Spalluto, L., Tropeano, M., 2014. Le orme di dinosauri di Cava San Leonardo (Molfetta) (Dinosaur footprints from the Cava San Leonardo, Molfetta). Paleodays 2014 – Field trip volume.
  53. Candeiro, C., Fanti, F., Lamanna, M., Cau, A., 2013. The Late Cretaceous Diversification of Abelisauridae (Theropoda: Ceratosauria): An Overview. First Brazilian Dinosaur Symposium. Paleontologia em Destaque – Special Edition, p. 34.
  54. Fanti, F., Contessi, M., Cau, A., 2012: A new Rebbachisaurid sauropod from Tunisia. Poster- SVP Annual Meeting, Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.A.
  55. Contessi, M., Cantelli, L., Fanti, F., Gabbianelli, G., Hassine, M., 2012: Southern Tunisia as an example of international partnership in cultural and geological heritage conservation. Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 14, EGU2012-11772, 2012 EGU General Assembly 2012.
  56. Bell, P., Fanti, F., Sissons, R., Burns, M., Currie, P., 2011: A possible new hadrosaurine from the Wapiti Formation (Campanian-Maastrichtian), northwestern Alberta. 2011 International Hadrosaur Symposium, Royal Tyrrell Museum, Drumheller, Alberta, Canada.
  57. Contessi, M., Fanti. F., Aljane, H. 2011. New dinosaur-dominated tracksites in the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous of southern Tunisia. Poster - SVP Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A.
  58. Fanti, F., Contessi, M., Nigarov, A. 2011. New data on two large dinosaur tracksites from the Middle Jurassic of Eastern Turkmenistan, Central Asia. Poster - SVP Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A.
  59. Contessi, M., Fanti, F., Hassine, M., Aljane, H., Handoura, M. 2011. Les empreintes des dinosaures dans la region de Tataouine. 4ème Colloque National du Patrimoine Géologique, Résumés et livret guide de l’excursion. Tabarka, Tunisia. Office National des Mines. Pp. 9.
  60. Miyashita, T. and Fanti, F. 2009: Sample size, taxonomic resolution, and provincialism / gradient in vertebrate palaeobiogeography: examples from the Late Cretaceous of western North America. In: Fanti F., Spalletta, C. (Eds.) International conference on Vertebrate Palaeobiogeography and continental bridges across Tethys, Mesogea, and Mediterranean Sea – Abstract Book, 2 pp.
  61. Fanti, F., 2009: Cretaceous continental bridges, insularity, and vicariance in the southern hemisphere: which route did dinosaur take? In: Fanti F., Spalletta, C. (Eds.) International conference on Vertebrate Palaeobiogeography and continental bridges across Tethys, Mesogea, and Mediterranean Sea – Abstract Book, 2 pp.
  62. Balzani, M., Fanti, F., Ferrari, F., Vai, G.B., Vanucci, C. 2009: Collection of palaeontologic types in the Museo Geologico Giovanni Capellini: creation of digital database on morphometries acquired with 3D survey technologies for the study of fossils. In: Fanti F., Spalletta, C. (Eds.) International conference on Vertebrate Palaeobiogeography and continental bridges across Tethys, Mesogea, and Mediterranean Sea – Abstract Book, 4 pp.
  63. Nydam, R., Caldwell, M., and Fanti, F. 2009: Articulated lizard skulls from the Wapiti Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of west-central Canada. Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology 29(3), 157A.
  64. Gabbianelli, G., Aljane, H., Belhedi, H., Cantelli, L., Casolini, F., Fanti, F., and Hajer, M. 2009: Protection and enhancement of the geodiversity of Beni Ghedir valley (Tataouine, south-east Tunisia). Geoitalia 2009 – Settimo forum Italiano di Scienze della Terra.
  65. Fanti, F., 2008: Life and Ideas of Giovanni Capellini: the palaeontological revolution in Italy. In: Moody, R., Buffetaut, E., Martill, D., Naish, D. (Eds.), Dinosaurs (and other extinct saurians): a historical perspective. Abstracts of the Meeting held on the 6-7 May 2008, Geological Society London, 6-7.
  66. Fanti, F. 2008: Unfolding the geological history of the North: new comprehensive survey of the Wapiti Formation, Alberta, Canada. Alberta Palaeontological Society, Twelfth Annual Symposium, Abstract Volume, pp. 24.
  67. Fanti, F. and Currie, P. 2007: A Pachyrhinosaurus bonebed from the Late Cretaceous Wapiti Formation. Alberta Palaeontological Society, Twelfth Annual Symposium, Abstract Volume, pp. 25.
  68. Fanti, F., Currie, P. Graber, S., Ormay, K., Hunt, R. 2007: Exploration and discovery in Northwest Alberta’s Peace Country. Alberta Paleontological Society Bulletin, 22(3), 15-18
  69. Fanti, F. 2007: Unfolding the geological history of the North: new comprehensive survey of the Wapiti Formation, Alberta, Canada. In: Braman (Ed.), Ceratopsian Symposium, Short papers, Abstracts and Programs, pp. 33-38.
  70. Fanti, F. and Currie, P. 2007: A new Pachyrhinosaurus bonebed from the Late Cretaceous Wapiti Formation. In: Braman (Ed.), Ceratopsian Symposium, Short papers, Abstracts and Programs, pp. 39-43.