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Contact data

Associate Professor
Department of Structural and Functional Biology
Via H.J. Dunant, 3 – 21100 Varese ITALY
Tel: +39 0332 421560
Fax: +39 0332 421330
E-mail:silvio.renesto@uninsubria.it
 

Biography

Born in Monza on December 24, 1958, graduated in Natural Sciences 110/110 magna cum laude, on November 19, 1981, defending a thesis on Triassic fishes, teacher in primary and secondary schools until 1991, then Curator of the Paleontological Collection of the Museum of The Earth Sciences Department of the University of Milan, from 2002 Associate Professor of Paleontology at the department of Structural and Functional Biology of the University of Insubria, Varese.

 

Qualifications and awards

 Degree in Natural Sciences. Editor of the Symposium volume of the Third International Symposium on Lithographic Limestones (1999) and Co-organizer of the Workshop on Triassic reptiles Eudimorphodon 30 years from discovery (2003).
 

Research interests

 Paleobiology and paleobiogeography of Triassic Reptiles from the Tethys margins, both aquatic and terrestrial. My research is aimed to reconstruct the systematic relationships and the mode of Triassic reptiles. My studies of Triassic Reptile faunas from the Southern Calcaroeus Alps are aimed to document the importance of these sites both for the intrinsic value of the findings (e. g. the oldest flying reptiles come from these sites) and to improve our knowledge of the biodiversity, and paleobiogeographic relationships with other localities. For what concerns biodiversity, my morphofunctional studies highlighted the importance of several taxa whose significance was not fully understood allowing to spread to an international audience allowing other researchers to interpret correctly some taxa (found in USA and UK localities) which were considered as enigmatic for decades. For this reason the study of Italian taxa will go along with the comparison with USA and British faunas in order to spot the presence of common taxa, a research which has already given important results. In addition, new important opportunities seem feasibly to come from the new Chinese localities which again share several taxa with our faunas. My studies have been published in several ISI journals and presented in several international symposia and workshops.
 

Teaching experience and appointments

 Courses for the degree in “Analisi e Gestione delle Risorse Naturali” (Analysis and Management of Natural Resources): Paleontology (5credits) Vertebrate Paleontology (5 credits) Functional Morphology of the Vertebrate Skeleton (4 credits) Models of Biodiversity (2 credits) Recent Paleoecology (6 credits) Courses for the degree in “Biology”: Paleobiology (5 credits) Courses for the degree in “Scienze delle Comunicazioni”( Communication Sciences): Scientific Museology (2 credits)
Member of the Commissione Ordinamento, Commissione Paritetica, Commissione Piani di Studio and Diploma Supplement.
 

Representative  publications
1. Renesto S. 1992. The anatomy and relationships of Endennasaurus acutirostris (Reptilia, Neodiapsida), from the Norian (Late Triassic of Lombardy). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 97 (3-4): 409-430.

2. Renesto S. 1993. An isolated sternum of Eudimorphodon (Reptilia, Pterosauria) from the Norian (Late Triassic) of the Bergamo Prealps (Lombardy, Northern Italy). rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 99 (3): 415-422.

6. Renesto, S. 1993. A juvenile Lariosaurus (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Kalkschieferzone (Uppermost Ladinian) near Viggi (Varese, Northern Italy). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 99: 199-212.

7. Renesto S. 1994a. Megalancosaurus, a possibly arboreal archosauromorph (Reptilia) from the Upper Triassic of Northern Italy. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 14(1): 38-52.

8. Renesto S. 1994b. The shoulder girdle and anterior limb of Drepanosaurus unguicaudatus (Reptilia Neodiapsida) from the Upper Triassic (Norian) of Northern Italy. Zoological journal of the Linnean Society 111 (3): 247-264.

9. Renesto S. 1994c. A new Prolacertiform reptile from the Late Triassic of Northern Italy. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 100(2): 285-306.

10. Renesto S. 1995. A sphenodontid from the Norian (Late Triassic) of Lombardy (Northern Italy): A preliminary note. Modern Geology. v. 20 pp. 149-158.

11. Renesto S. 1995. Ecology and Taphonomy of the Reptiles from the Calcare di Zorzino (Norian, Late Triassic, N.Italy). Extended abstract of II International Symposium on Lithographic Limestones, p. 123-130, July 1995, Cuenca.

12. Renesto S. & Paganoni A. 1995. A new Drepanosaurus from The late Triassic of Northern Italy. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paleontologie Abhandlungen.v. 197, n. 1, pp.87-99.

13. Renesto S. & Tintori A. 1995. Functional morphology and mode of life of the Late Triassic placodont Psephoderma alpinum, Meyer from the Calcare di Zorzino (Lombardy, N. Italy). Rivista italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia. v 101 n. 1. pp. 37-48.

14. Renesto S. & Paganoni A. 1998. A phytosaur skull from the Norian (Late Triassic) of Lombardy (Northern Italy). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 104/1:115-122.

15. Renesto S. & Lombardo C. (1999) Structure of the tail of a phytosaur (Reptilia, Archosauria) from the Norian (Late Triassic) of Lombardy (Northern Italy). Riv.It.Paleont.Strat., 105: 135-144.

16. Renesto S. 2000. Bird-like head on a chameleon body: New specimens of the enigmatic diapsid reptile Megalancosaurus from the Late Triassic of Northern Italy. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 106(2): 157-180.

17. Renesto S. & Dalla Vecchia F. 2000. The unusual dentition and feeding habits of the prolacertiform reptile Langobardisaurus (Late Triassic, Northern Italy). Journal of VertebratePaleontology, 20(3): 622-627.

18. Renesto S. (2000) Bird-like head on a chameleon body: new specimens of the enigmatic diapsid reptile Megalancosaurus from the Late Triassic of Northern Italy. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 106(2):157-180. EN

19. Renesto S. and M. Avanzini., 2002. Skin remains in a juvenile Macrocnemus bassanii Nopcsa (Reptilia, Prolacertiformes) from the Middle Triassic of Northern Italy. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Pal‰ontologie, Abhandlungen, 224 (1): 31-48.

20. Renesto S., F. M. Dalla Vecchia & D. Peters 2002 Morphological evidence for bipedalism in the Late Triassic Prolacertiform reptile Langobardisaurus. Senckembergiana Lethaea 82(1): 95-106.

21. Avanzini M. & Renesto S. 2002. A review of Rhynchosauroides tyrolicus Abel, 1926 ichnospecies (Middle Triassic: Anisian-Ladinian) and some inferences on Rhynchosauroides trackmaker. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 108 (1): 51-66.

22. Renesto S. and N. C. Fraser (2003) Drepanosaurid (Reptilia: Diapsida) remains from a Late Triassic fissure infilling at Cromhall Quarry (Avon, Great Britain). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 23(3): 703-705.

23. Renesto S. and R.Posenato (2003) A new lepidosauromorph reptile from the Middle Triassic of the Dolomites. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 109 (463-474).

24. Renesto S. Lombardo C. Tintori A. and G. Danini (2003) Nothosaurid embryos from the Middle Triassic of Northern Italy, an insight on the viviparity of nothosaurus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(4): 957-960.

25. Gozzi E. and Renesto S. (2003) A complete specimen of Mystriosuchus (Reptilia, Phytosauria) from the Norian (Late Triassic) of Lombardy (Northern Italy). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 109 (475-498).

26. Renesto S., Pareo M., Lombardo C. (2004) A new specimen of the sauropterygian reptile Lariosaurus from the Kalkschieferzone (Uppermost Ladinian) of Valceresio (Varese N. Italy). Neues Jahrbuech Geologie Und Palaeontologie Monatshefte 6: 351-369.

27. Muller J. , Renesto S. & Evans S. E. (2005) The marine diapsid reptile Endennasaurus from the Upper Triassic of Italy - Palaeontology 48 : 15-30.

28. Fraser N. C & Renesto S. (2005) Additional drepanosaur elements from the Triassic Fissure Infills of Cromhall Quary England – Jeffersoniana.15:1-16.

29. Renesto S. (2005). A possible find of Endennasaurus (Reptilia, Thalattosauria) from the Late Triassic of Northern Italy, with a comparison with Pachystropheus. Neues Jarhbuch fur Paleontologie und Geologie Monatshefte 2 : 118-128.

30. Renesto S. & Dalla Vecchia F. M. (2005) the sulla and lower jaw of the holotype of Megsalancosaurus preonensis (Diapsida, Drepanosauridae) from the Upper Triassic of Northern Italy Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 111 (247-257).

 
   
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