Fabio Massimo Petti
Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali
Via Calepina
14 - 38122 Trento
Italy

Holding a PhD in Paleontology, from 2000 to 2006 he was a member of the task group, controlled and coordinated by the Italian Commission on Stratigraphy, that realized an updated “Catalogue of the Italian Geological Formations”, one of the projects connected to the of the new Geological Map of Italy on a scale of 1:50.000 (CARG project). From 2007 he cooperates with the Geology and Paleontology section of the Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali (Trento, NE Italy), benefiting of a post-doc grant funded by the Provincia Autonoma di Trento. The topic of the post-doc project is the study of dinosaur footprints as constraints in the palaeogeographical and palaeoecological reconstructions of the Central Mediterranean area during the Late Triassic-Late Cretaceous interval.