Rocco Zambelli

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Eudimorphodon ranzii, Bergamo Museum

Rocco Zambelli (born May 17, 1916 in Sorisole , † October 12, 2009 in Bergamo ) was an Italian geologist and paleontologist .

Life

Zambelli was initially a priest and in World War II chaplain of the partisans in the Seriana Valley. Afterwards he was involved in the Catholic Action, but besides his profession as a clergyman he always had a passion for natural history. From 1960 he was a technician and from 1976 to 1981, the year of his retirement, he was curator for geology and paleontology at the Natural History Museum E. Caffi in Bergamo .

Among other things, he investigated the underground springs of Lake Endine, was a pioneer of cave exploration in the Bergamo area, was a specialist in vertebrate fossils from the Upper Triassic from the Bergamo area and explored the microclimate of the Valle del Freddo.

He is the first to describe one of the oldest known pterosaurs Eudimorphodon ranzii (Zambelli 1973) from the Upper Triassic and Triassic fish of the Pholidophoridae family .

Rupert Wild named a Triassic pterosaur, Peteinosaurus zambelli (1978), in his honor .

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SURNAME Zambelli, Rocco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Sorisole
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 2009
Place of death Bergamo