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Massimo Delfino

Massimo Delfino

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Overview

Massimo Delfino is affiliated with the University of Turin in Italy and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research primarily intersects with paleontology, focusing on evolutionary biology and the study of ancient life forms.

The main subfields of their work include:

  • Paleontology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Ecology

The primary topics under investigation in Delfino's publications cover:

  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Amphibian and Reptile Biology
  • Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Turtle Biology and Conservation
  • Ichthyology and Marine Biology
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change

Delfino's recent contributions include several papers published between 2020 and 2021, such as:

  • Old African fossils provide new evidence for the origin of the American crocodiles, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Virtual reconstruction of the skull of Bernissartia fagesii and current understanding of the neosuchian-eusuchian transition, 2020, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology
  • Biogeography of Italy revisited: genetic lineages confirm major phylogeographic patterns and a pre-Pleistocene origin of its biota, 2021, Frontiers in Zoology
  • A Pliocene-Pleistocene continental biota from Venezuela, 2021, Swiss Journal of Palaeontology
  • A Review of the Fossil Record of Afro-Arabian Turtles of the Clade Testudinoidea, 2021, Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Delfino include:

  • Andrea Villa
  • Georgios L. Georgalis
  • Loredana Macaluso
  • Giorgio Carnevale
  • Marco Pavia

Their work is often published in scientific venues such as:

  • Swiss Journal of Palaeontology
  • Historical Biology
  • Geobios
  • Journal of Systematic Palaeontology
  • Journal of Morphology

Best Publications

  • Crocodylian diversity peak and extinction in the late Cenozoic of the northern Neotropics

    T. M. Scheyer;O. A. Aguilera;M. Delfino;M. Delfino;D. C. Fortier

  • Turtles and Tortoises of the World During the Rise and Global Spread of Humanity: First Checklist and Review of Extinct Pleistocene and Holocene Chelonians

    Anders G. J. Rhodin;Scott Thomson;Georgios L. Georgalis;Hans Volker Karl

  • A Complete Skull of Allodaposuchus precedens Nopcsa, 1928 (Eusuchia) and a Reassessment of the Morphology of the Taxon Based on the Romanian Remains

    Massimo Delfino;Vlad Codrea;Annelise Folie;Paul Dica

  • PLIO-PLEISTOCENE FOSSIL VERTEBRATES OF MONTE TUTTAVISTA (OROSEI, EASTERN SARDINIA, ITALY), AN OVERVIEW

    Laura Abbazzi;Chiara Angelone;Marisa Arca;Giancarlo Barisone

  • First joint record of Mesopithecus and cf. Macaca in the Miocene of Europe.

    David M. Alba;David M. Alba;Eric Delson;Eric Delson;Giorgio Carnevale;Simone Colombero

  • A new species of Acynodon (Crocodylia) from the upper cretaceous (Santonian–Campanian) of Villaggio del Pescatore, Italy

    Massimo Delfino;Jeremy E. Martin;Eric Buffetaut

  • First European evidence for transcontinental dispersal of Crocodylus (late Neogene of southern Italy)

    Massimo Delfino;Madelaine Böhme;Lorenzo Rook

  • NEW DATA ON THE VERTEBRATE ASSEMBLAGE OF FIUME SANTO (NORTH‐WEST SARDINIA, ITALY), AND OVERVIEW ON THE LATE MIOCENE TUSCO‐SARDINIAN PALAEOBIOPROVINCE

    Laura Abbazzi;Massimo Delfino;Gianni Gallai;Luciano Antonio Trebini

  • Recent advances in the comprehension of the biogeography of Cretaceous European eusuchians

    Jeremy E. Martin;Jeremy E. Martin;Massimo Delfino;Massimo Delfino

  • Anatomy and phylogeny of the gavialoid crocodylian Eosuchus lerichei from the Paleocene of Europe

    Massimo Delfino;Paolo Piras;Thierry Smith

  • Italian Cenozoic crocodilians: taxa, timing and palaeobiogeographic implications

    T Kotsakis;M Delfino;P Piras

  • Fossil amphibians and reptiles from the Neogene locality of Maramena (Greece), the most diverse European herpetofauna at the Miocene/Pliocene transition boundary

    Georgios L. Georgalis;Andrea Villa;Martin Ivanov;Davit Vasilyan

  • Late persistence and deterministic extinction of "humid thermophilous plant taxa of East Asian affinity" (HUTEA) in southern Europe

    Edoardo Martinetto;Arata Momohara;Roberto Bizzarri;Angela Baldanza

  • Phylogenetic position of the crocodylian Megadontosuchus arduini (de Zigno, 1880) and tomistomine palaeobiogeography.

    P. Piras;Massimo Delfino;L. Del Favero;T. Kotsakis

  • The Late Pliocene amphibians and reptiles from “Capo Mannu D1 Local Fauna” (Mandriola, Sardinia, Italy)

    Massimo Delfino;Salvador Bailon;Gaetano Pitruzzella

  • Late Palaeocene eusuchian remains from Mont de Berru, France, and the origin of the alligatoroid Diplocynodon

    Jeremy E. Martin;Jeremy E. Martin;Thierry Smith;Francois Escuillié

  • Fossil lizards and worm lizards (Reptilia, Squamata) from the Neogene and Quaternary of Europe: an overview

    Andrea Villa;Massimo Delfino;Massimo Delfino

  • Paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental context of the Early Pleistocene hominins from Dmanisi (Georgia, Lesser Caucasus) inferred from the herpetofaunal assemblage

    Hugues-Alexandre Blain;Jordi Agustí;David Lordkipanidze;Lorenzo Rook

  • Pleistocene environments and human presence in the middle Atbara valley (Khashm El Girba, Eastern Sudan)

    Ernesto Abbate;Andrea Albianelli;Amel Awad;Paolo Billi

  • Osteology and affinities of Dollo's goniopholidid (Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Early Cretaceous of Bernissart, Belgium

    Jeremy E. Martin;Massimo Delfino;Thierry Smith

  • The Upper Valdarno Plio-Pleistocene vertebrate record: an historical overview, with notes on palaeobiology and stratigraphic significance of some important taxa

    Lorenzo Rook;Roman Croitor;Massimo Delfino;Massimo Delfino;Marco P. Ferretti

  • A COMPLETE SKULL OF ALLODAPOSUCHUS PRECEDENS NOPCSA, 1928 (EUSUCHIA) AND A REASSESSMENT OF THE MORPHOLOGY OF THE TAXON BASED ON THE

    Romanian Remains;Massimo Delfino;Vlad Codrea;Annelise Folie

Frequent Co-Authors

Lorenzo Rook
Lorenzo Rook University of Florence
David M. Alba
David M. Alba Autonomous University of Barcelona
Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra
Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra University of Zurich
Massimiliano Ghinassi
Massimiliano Ghinassi University of Padua
Thierry Smith
Thierry Smith Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Hugues-Alexandre Blain
Hugues-Alexandre Blain Rovira i Virgili University
Marco Ferretti
Marco Ferretti University of Camerino
Raffaele Sardella
Raffaele Sardella Sapienza University of Rome
Uwe Fritz
Uwe Fritz American Museum of Natural History
Federico Sani
Federico Sani University of Florence

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