Marco Marzola
PhD Student - Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia - Universidade Nova de Lisboa
PhD Candidate. Topic: Triassic vertebrates of Greenland
Dinoeggs Project' researcher since July, 2013.
Marco Marzola was born in Italy in 1983, and showed a great passion about dinosaurs since he was five-years-old. Pupil of the Università degli Studi di Ferrara (University of Study of Ferrara), he got the Bachelor degree in Natural Science in October, 2009, and the Master's degree in Evolution in March, 2012, both 'cum Laudae'. Both theses were about dinosaurian footprints from the Lower Jurassic and the Upper Triassic of Italy.
Since November, 2012, he lives in Lourinhã (Portugal), where collaborates with the Museum da Lourinhã on the preparation of some specimens of dinosaurs. By July, 2013, he become researcher for the 'Dinoeggs Project', with focus on Late Jurassic dinosaur and crocodile eggs and embryos from Portugal.
Papers:
- Marzola M., & Dalla Vecchia F.M. (2014). New dinosaur tracks from the Dolomia Principale (Upper Triassic) of the Carnic Prealps (Friuli-Venezia Giulia, NE Italy). Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana, 53, i-xviii (http://paleoitalia.org/archives/published-online/#article-326) PDF
- Marzola M., Russo J., & Mateus O. (2014). Identification and comparison of modern and fossil crocodilian eggs and eggshell structures. Historical Biology, ahead-of-print, 1-19 (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08912963.2013.871009#.UyMswfl_uv4)
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