Palaeontology: extraordinary findings in the Agordino Dolomites

Recent palaeontological explorations, conducted in June in the Casera di Pelsa area, in the Agordino Dolomites (Belluno Province), have led to new discoveries that will contribute to the study of faunal recovery following the greatest extinction in the Earth's history, the Permian-Triassic extinction that occurred around 252 million years ago.
The research was conducted by Prof. Andrea Tintori and Davide Conedera, a PhD student at the Department of Geosciences of the University of Padova, in collaboration with the Gruppo Agordino Mineralogico e Paleontologico (GAMP). The interest in this area was rekindled about ten years ago with the discovery by Prof. Tintori of a flying fish, which is still being studied, similar to Chinese fossils.
The new exploration campaign has confirmed that the Casera Pelsa area is the most important marine vertebrate deposit in the entire Dolomite region and that studies still have much to offer.
In this video Davide Conedera explains more about the new findings.
Video by Barbara Paknazar