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Re: Is there much variety:



>Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 08:48:29
>To: HopkinsSK@aol.com
>From: Silvio Renesto <renesto@imiucca.csi.unimi.it>
>Subject: Re: Is there much variety:
> Hopkins SK@aol.com asked if there is much variety to Triassic animals in Italy
reply:
>    Yes, we have a lot of good vertebrate localities from the marine Middle
and Late Triassic in Northern Italy, findings consists of fishes,
nothosaurs,prolacertiforms, ichtyosaurs from some localities of the
Middle/Late Triassic.  Fishes, prolacertiforms, pterosaurs, placodonts,
phytosaurs along with strange diapsids often unknown from other localities,
come from Norian localities. These faunas have been studied since last
century but new findings come out almost every year. 
>regards,
>             
>


Dr. Silvio Renesto
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra
Università degli Studi di Milano
via Mangiagalli 34
I 20133 Milano Italy
Fax: + 39-2-70638261  email: renesto@imiucca.csi.unimi.it