Marco Avanzini
Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali
Via Calepina
14 - 38122 Trento
Italy

Curator of the Geology and Palaeontology department of the Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali (Trento, NE Italy). His research focus on stratigraphy and palaeoenvironment reconstruction of Mesozoic ecosystems in the Southern Alps and Southern Europe. In the last 15 years he has mainly focused on vertebrate palaeontology, in particular palaeoichnology and palaeoecology of dinosaurs and other reptiles. Is part of the research group joined by the Italian Geological Survey to review the Italian lithostratigraphical nomenclature (“Catalogue of the Italian Geological Formations”), and to edit the new Geological Map of Italy (CARG Project).