Stefano DOMINICI

Ruolo attuale:: Personale tecnico/amministrativo
Afferenza organizzativa:: Settore Museale di Geologia e Paleontologia – Museo di Storia Naturale – Sede La Pira

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Stefano DOMINICI

Orario di ricevimento (aggiornato al 16/06/2017)

Lunedì ore 8.00-9.00 (periodo Settembre-Dicembre)

Stefano DOMINICI

Interessi

Tafonomia, paleoecologia ed evoluzione di invertebrati cenozoici. Comunità marine di ambienti estremi. Storia della scienza.

Stefano DOMINICI

Pubblicazioni

Legenda

Contributo su rivista |

Articolo su libro |

Libro |

Contributo in atti di convegno (proceeding) |

Brevetto |

Curatela | Altro

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Tesi di Dottorato

Dominici, Stefano; Benvenuti, Marco; Di Chiara, Anita; Girone, Angela; Maiorano, Patrizia; Florindo, Fabio; Alba, Raquel Bonilla; Abramov, Ivan; Spagnuolo, Lilla; Sorice, Alfredo; Danise, Silvia (2026). Chronostratigraphy of the Pliocene at Legoli (Valdera-Volterra Basin; Tuscany, Italy). ITALIAN JOURNAL OF GEOSCIENCES, vol. 145, pp. 1-17, ISSN:2038-1719 DOI

Moggi Cecchi, V.; Pezzotta, F.; Dominici, S.; Savorelli, A.; (2025). The “Quattro Evangelisti” pegmatitic blocks of the Museo La Specola: a restoration and re-exhibition project_Congresso congiunto SIMP-SGI 2025 - Geosciences and the Challenges of the 21st Century. In: Geosciences and the Challenges of the 21st Century - Congresso congiunto SIMP-SGI 2025, Società Geologica Italiana, pp. 0-0. DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Dominici, Stefano; Danise, Silvia; Tintori, Andrea (2024). A Middle Triassic Cassian‐type fauna (Pelsa‐Vazzoler Lagerstätte) and the adaptive radiation of the Modern evolutionary fauna. PAPERS IN PALAEONTOLOGY, vol. 10, pp. 0-0, ISSN:2056-2802 DOI

Danise, Silvia; Giachetti, Giada; Baneschi, Ilaria; Casalini, Martina; Miniati, Francesco; Dominici, Stefano; Boschi, Chiara (2024). Sclerochronology of the large scallops Gigantopecten latissimus and Pecten jacobaeus in a Pliocene warmer Mediterranean Sea. PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY, vol. 654, pp. 0-0, ISSN:0031-0182 DOI

Dominici S.; Benvenuti M. (2024). Two alternative ages for the Montebamboli Oreopithecus (Late Miocene, Tuscany). BOLLETTINO DELLA SOCIETÀ PALEONTOLOGICA ITALIANA, vol. 63, pp. 119-136, ISSN:0375-7633 DOI

Mondanaro, Alessandro; Dominici, Stefano; Danise, Silvia (2024). Response of Mediterranean Sea bivalves to Pliocene–Pleistocene environmental changes. PALAEONTOLOGY, vol. 67, pp. 0-0, ISSN:0031-0239 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Benvenuti M., Dominici S., Bartolozzi L. (2023). A global approach for natural history museum collections. SCIENCE, vol. 379, pp. 1192-1194, ISSN:1095-9203 DOI

Silvia Danise; Stefano Dominici (2023). Biodiversity change and extinction risk in Plio-Pleistocene Mediterranean bivalves: the families Veneridae, Pectinidae and Lucinidae. In: Nawrot, R., Dominici, S., Tomašových, A. and Zuschin, M. (eds). Conservation Palaeobiology of Marine Ecosystems, pp. 0-0 Geological Socie, London. DOI

Dominici, Stefano; Danise, Silvia (2022). Mediterranean onshore–offshore gradient in the composition and temporal turnover of benthic molluscs across the middle Piacenzian Warm Period. In: Nawrot, R., Dominici, S., Tomašových, A. and Zuschin, M. (eds). Conservation Palaeobiology of Marine Ecosystems, pp. 0-0 Geological Society, London. DOI

STEFANO DOMINICI; MAURIZIO FORLI; CESARE BOGI; ANDREA GUERRINI; MARCO BENVENUTI (2020). PALEOBIOLOGY FROM MUSEUM COLLECTIONS: COMPARING HISTORICAL AND NOVEL DATA ON UPPER MIOCENE MOLLUSCS OF THE LIVORNO HILLS. RIVISTA ITALIANA DI PALEONTOLOGIA E STRATIGRAFIA, vol. 126, pp. 65-109, ISSN:2039-4942 DOI

Dominici S.; Benvenuti M.; Garilli V.; Uchman A.; Pollina F.; David A. (2020). Pliocene-pleistocene stratigraphic paleobiology at altavilla milicia (palermo, sicily): Tectonic, climatic and eustatic forcing. BOLLETTINO DELLA SOCIETÀ PALEONTOLOGICA ITALIANA, vol. 59, pp. 57-83, ISSN:0375-7633 DOI

Aldinucci M.; Benvenuti M.; Andreetta A.; Dominici S.; Foresi L.M.; Carnicelli S.; Martini I. (2019). Composite sequence stratigraphic patterns in alluvial to shallow-marine successions: Examples from the Piacenzian of the Valdelsa Basin (Central Italy). SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY, vol. 388, pp. 99-113, ISSN:0037-0738 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Dominici S.; Benvenuti M.; Forli M.; Bogi C.; Guerrini A. (2019). Upper Miocene molluscs of Monti Livornesi (Tuscany, Italy): Biotic changes across environmental gradients. PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY, vol. 527, pp. 103-117, ISSN:0031-0182 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Dominici, Stefano; Danise, Silvia; Benvenuti, Marco (2018). Pliocene stratigraphic paleobiology in Tuscany and the fossil record of marine megafauna. EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS, vol. 176, pp. 277-310, ISSN:0012-8252 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Danise, Silvia; Bertolaso, Luca; Dominici, Stefano (2016). Whale fall Italiana dominata da bivalvi della sottofamiglia Bathymodiolinae. BOLLETTINO DELLA SOCIETÀ PALEONTOLOGICA ITALIANA, vol. 55, pp. 47-53, ISSN:0375-7633 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

M. Benvenuti;S. Del Conte;N. Scarselli;S. Dominici (2014). Hinterland basin development and infilling through tectonic and eustatic processes: latest Messinian-Gelasian Valdelsa Basin, Northern Apennines, Italy. BASIN RESEARCH, vol. 26, pp. 387-402, ISSN:0950-091X DOI

Danise, Silvia; Dominici, Stefano (2014). A record of fossil shallow-water whale falls from Italy. LETHAIA, vol. 47, pp. 229-243, ISSN:0024-1164 DOI Accesso ONLINE all'editore

Danise, Silvia; Dominici, Stefano; Glover, Adrian G.; Dahlgren, Thomas G. (2013). Molluscs from a shallow-water whale-fall and their affinities with adjacent benthic communities on the Swedish west coast. MARINE BIOLOGY RESEARCH, vol. 10, pp. 3-16, ISSN:1745-1000 DOI

S. Danise; B. Cavalazzi; S. Dominici; F. Westall; S. Monechi; S. Guioli (2012). Evidence of microbial activity form a Miocene shallow water whale fall (Voghera, northern Italy). PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY, vol. 317-318, pp. 13-26, ISSN:0031-0182 DOI

Dominici, Stefano; Bartalini, M.; Benvenuti, Marco; Balestra, B. (2011). Large kings with small crowns: a Mediterranean Pleistocene whale barnacle. BOLLETTINO DELLA SOCIETÀ PALEONTOLOGICA ITALIANA, vol. 50, pp. 95-101, ISSN:0375-7633

Danise, Silvia*; Dominici, Stefano; Betocchi, Ubaldo (2010). Mollusk species at a Pliocene shelf whale fall (Orciano Pisano, Tuscany). PALAIOS, vol. 25, pp. 449-456, ISSN:0883-1351 DOI

Dominici S.; Bertini A.; Bianucci G.; Bisconti M.; Cioppi E.; Foresi L.; Landini W.; Manganelli G.; Monechi S.; Rook L.; Sorbini C.;Valleri G. (2009). Six Paleontological Sites in Tuscany.. In: Geoitalia 2009, VII Forum Italiano di Scienze della Terra., Rimini, 9-11 Settembre, vol. Geoitalia 2009, pp. 357-358.

Dominici S.; Cioppi E.; Danise S.; Betocchi U.; Gallai G.; Tangocci F.; Valleri G.; Monechi S. (2009). Mediterranean fossil whale falls and the adaptation of mollusks to extreme habitats. GEOLOGY, vol. 37, pp. 815-818, ISSN:0091-7613

Dominici S.; Cioppi E.; Monechi S.; Valleri G. (2008). Il sito di Orciano Pisano: stratigrafia, paleontologia e collezioni museali.. In: Convegno Società Paleontologica Italiana, Roma, 6-7 giugno 2008, vol. I fossili come memoria della terra e della vita. Prospettive e problemi, pp. 13-14.

M. Benvenuti; A. Bertini; C. Conti; S. Dominici (2007). Integrated analyses of litho- and biofacies in a Pliocene cyclothemic, alluvial to shallow marine succession (Tuscany, Italy). GEOBIOS, vol. 40 (2), pp. 143-158, ISSN:0016-6995 DOI

L. Abbazzi; M. Benvenuti; G. Boschian; S. Dominici; F. Masini; C. Mezzabotta; L. Piccini; L. Rook; G. Valleri; D. Torre. (1996). Revision of the Neogene and Pleistocene of the Gargano region (Apulia, Italy). The marine and continental successions and the mammal fauna assemblages in an area between Apricena and Poggio Imperiale (Foggia).. In: 77° Congresso Società Geologica Italiana, Bari, 1994, Società Geologica Italiana, vol. 51, pp. 383-402.

Dominici S.; Rook L.; Benvenuti M.; Abbazzi L. (1995). Tapir remains in paralic depositsof Pliocene age in lower valdarno (Tuscany, Italy): Facies analysis and taphonomy. GEOBIOS, vol. 28 supplement 1, pp. 131-135, ISSN:0016-6995

M. Benvenuti; A. Bertini; C. Conti; S. Dominici; D. Falcone (1995). Analisi stratigrafica e paleoambientale integrata del Pliocene dei dintorni di San Miniato. QUADERNI DEL MUSEO DI STORIA NATURALE DI LIVORNO, vol. 14, supplemento n. 1, pp. 29-49, ISSN:0393-3377

Benvenuti, Marco; Dominici, Stefano (1992). Facies analysis, paleoecology and sequence stratigraphy in a Pliocene siliciclastic succession, San Miniato (Pisa, Italy). BOLLETTINO DELLA SOCIETÀ PALEONTOLOGICA ITALIANA, vol. 31, pp. 241-259, ISSN:0375-7633

Stefano DOMINICI

Curriculum

Work experience

2015-Present: Lecturer at the Earth Science Department, University of Florence, Italy.

2014-Present: Head of the Geology and Palaeontology Section, Natural History Museum, University of Florence, Italy.

2006-Present: Curator at the Geology and Palaeontology Section, Natural History Museum, Universita degli Studi di Firenze (permanent position). Activities and responsibilities: promote science knowledge through exhibitions, and education and outreach activities; actively research in palaeontology and stratigraphic paleobiology; manage fossil invertebrate collections.

1996-2006: High-School teacher (Life Sciences, Earth Sciences).

Education and training

1995-1996: Universita degli Studi di Parma, Italy, post-doctoral fellowship in stratigraphic paleobiology (co-advisored by Emilano Mutti).

1991-1994: Universita degli Studi di Parma, Italy, Ph.D. in Palaeontology (co- advisored by Emiliano Mutti).

1982-1989: Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Italy, Master Degree in Geology

Selected publications

DOMINICI S., DANISE S. AND BENVENUTI M. (2018). Pliocene stratigraphic paleobiology in Tuscany and the fossil record of marine megafauna. Earth-Science Reviews 176: 277-310; doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.09.018.

DOMINICI S., AND ZUSCHIN M. (2016). Palaeocommunities, diversity and sea-level change from middle Eocene shell beds of the Paris Basin. Journal of the Geological Society doi: 10.1144/jgs2015-150.

CHATTOPADHYAY D., ZUSCHIN M., DOMINICI S. AND SAWYER J. (2016). Patterns of drilling predation in relation to stratigraphy, locality and sieve size: Insights from the Eocene molluscan fauna of the Paris Basin. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 459: 86–98.

VESCOGNI A., BOSELLINI F., PAPAZZONI C.A., GIUSBERTI L., ROGHI G., FORNACIARI E:, DOMINICI S. AND ZORZIN R. (2016). Coralgal buildups associated with the Bolca fossil-lagersta?tten: new evidence from the Ypresian of Monte Postale (NE Italy). Facies 62: 1-20.

DANISE S., BERTOLASO L. AND DOMINICI S. (2016). Bathymodioline mussel dominated Miocene whale fall from Italy. Bollettino della Societa? Paleontologica Italiana 55: 47-53.

DOMINICI S., BENVENUTI M. AND DANISE S. (2015). The stratigraphic distribution of large marine vertebrates and shell beds in the Pliocene of Tuscany. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 17, EGU 2015.

TOMAS?OVYTCH A., DOMINICI S., ZUSCHIN M. AND MERLE D. (2014). Onshore- offshore gradient in metacommunity turnover emerges only over macroevolutionary time scales. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 281: 20141533.

DOMINICI S. AND KOWALKE T. (2014). Early Eocene Cerithioidean gastropods of mangrove-fringed coasts (South-central Pyrenees, Spain). Bollettino della Societa? Paleontologica Italiana 53: 137-162.

DOMINICI S. AND KOWALKE T. (2014). Early Eocene Cerithioidean gastropods from a subtropical coast environment (South–Central Pyrenees, Spain). In Rocha et al. (eds.), STRATI 2013, First International Congress on Stratigraphy: at the cutting edge of stratigraphy: 85-88.

DOMINICI S. (2014). The mollusk fauna of the Monte Postale. In Papazzoni C. et al. (eds.), The Bolca Fossil-Lagersta?tten: A window into the Eocene World - CBEP 2014- EPPC 2014-EAVP 2014-Taphos 2014 Excursion guidebook. Rendiconti della Societa? Paleontologica Italiana 4: 89-94.

BENVENUTI M., SCARSELLI N., DEL CONTE S. AND DOMINICI S. (2014). Hinterland basin development and infill through tectonism and eustasy (latest Messinian-Gelasian Valdelsa Basin, Northern Apennines, Italy). Basin Research 26, 387–402.

DANISE S. AND DOMINICI S. (2014). A record of fossil shallow-water whale falls from Italy. Lethaia 47, 229-243.

DANISE S., DOMINICI S., GLOVER A. AND DAHLGREN T. (2014). Molluscs from a shallow-water whale-fall and their affinities with adjacent benthic communities on the Swedish west coast. Marine Biology Research 10, 3-16.

DOMINICI S. AND CIOPPI E. (2012). Evolutionary Theory and the Florence Paleontological Collections. Evolution: Education and Outreach 5, 9-13.

DANISE S., CAVALAZZI B., DOMINICI S., WESTALL F., MONECHI S. AND GUIOLI S. (2012). Evidence of microbial activity from a shallow water whale fall (Voghera, northern Italy). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 317-318, 13-26.

HIGGS N., LITTLE C., GLOVER A., DAHLGREN T., SMITH C. AND DOMINICI S. (2012). Evidence of Osedax worm borings in Pliocene (~3 Ma) whale bone from the Mediterranean. Historical Biology 24, 269-277.

DOMINICI S., BARTALINI M., BENVENUTI M. AND BALESTRA B. (2011). Large kings with small crowns: a Mediterranean Pleistocene whale barnacle. Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 50, 95-101.

ISLAMOG?LU Y., DOMINICI S. AND KOWALKE T. (2011). Early Eocene Caenogastropods (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from Haymana-Polatl Basin, Central Anatolia (Turkey): taxonomy and palaeoecology. Geodiversitas 33, 303-330.

PERVESLER P., UCHMAN A., HOHENEGGER J. AND DOMINICI S. (2011). Ichnological record of environmental changes in early Quaternary (Gelasian–.Calabrian) marine deposits of the Stirone Section, northern Italy. Palaios 26, 578–593.

DOMINICI S. (2010). History of Tuscany, history of the Earth. In Monechi M. and Rook L. (Eds.), The Museum of Natural History of the University of Florence. The Geological and Paleontological Collections. Firenze University Press, Firenze, 3-17.

CIOPPI E. & DOMINICI S. (2010). Origin and development of the geological and paleontological collections. In Monechi M. & Rook L. (Eds.), The Museum of Natural History of the University of Florence. The Geological and Paleontological Collections. Firenze University Press, Firenze, 18-55.

DOMINICI S. (2010). Paleontological collections and paleobiology. In Monechi M. and Rook L. (Eds.), The Museum of Natural History of the University of Florence. The Geological and Paleontological Collections). Firenze University Press, Firenze, 299-305.

DOMINICI S. (2010). Brocchi’s Subapennine Fossil Conchology. Evolution: Education and Outreach 3, 585–594.

DOMINICI S & ELDREDGE N. (2010). Brocchi, Darwin, and Transmutation: Phylogenetics and Paleontology at the Dawn of Evolutionary Biology. Evolution: Education and Outreach 3, 576-584.

DANISE S., DOMINICI S. AND BETOCCHI U. (2010). Mollusk species at a Pliocene shelf whale fall (Orciano Pisano, Tuscany). Palaios 25: 449-456.

DOMINICI S. (2009). Steno, Targioni, and the two forerunners. Journal of Mediterranean Earth Sciences 1, 101-110.

DOMINICI S., CIOPPI E., DANISE S., BETOCCHI U., GALLAI G., TANGOCCI F., VALLERI G. AND MONECHI S. (2009). Mediterranean fossil whale falls and the adaptation of mollusks to extreme habitats. Geology 37, 815-818.

CIOPPI E. AND DOMINICI S. (2009). How much are we willing to pay for a fossil? Nature 462, 984-985.

DOMINICI S., CONTI C. AND BENVENUTI M. (2008). Foraminifer communities and environmental change in marginal marine sequences (Pliocene, Tuscany, Italy). Lethaia 41, 447-460.

BENVENUTI M., BERTINI A., CONTI C. AND DOMINICI S. (2007). Integrated analyses of litho- and biofacies in a Pliocene cyclothemic, alluvial to shallow marine succession (Tuscany, Italy). Geobios 40, 143-158.

DOMINICI S. AND KOWALKE T. (2007). Depositional dynamics and the record of ecosystem stability: early Eocene faunal gradients in the Pyrenean foreland, Spain. Palaios 22: 268-284.

DOMINICI S. AND ZUSCHIN M. (2007). Sea-level change and the structure of marine ecosystems. Palaios 22: 225-227.

DOMINICI S. AND ZUSCHIN M. (2005). Infidelities of fossil assemblages. Lethaia 38, 381-382.

DOMINICI S. (2004). Quantitative taphonomy in sandstones from an ancient fandelta system (Lower Pleistocene, Western Emilia, Italy). Palaios 19, 193-205.

DOMINICI S. (2001). Taphonomy and paleoecology of shallow marine macrofossil assemblages in a collisional setting (Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene, Western Emilia, Italy). Palaios 16, 336-353.

BENVENUTI M., DOMINICI S. AND ROOK L. (1995). Inquadramento stratigrafico deposizionale delle faune a mammiferi villafranchiane (unita` faunistiche Triversa e Montopoli) del Valdarno Inferiore nella zona a Sud dell'Arno. Il Quaternario 8, 457-464.

DOMINICI S., ROOK L., BENVENUTI M. AND ABBAZI L. (1995). Tapir remains in paralic depositsof Pliocene age in lower valdarno (Tuscany, Italy): Facies analysis and taphonomy. Geobios 28 (Supplement 1), 131-135.

DOMINICI S. (1994). Regressive-transgressive cycles from the Pliocene of the San Miniato area (Tuscany, Italy): paleoecology and sequence stratigraphy. Bollettino Societa Paleontologica Italiana, Supplement 2, 117-126.

BENVENUTI, M. AND DOMINICI, S. (1992). Facies analysis, paleoecology and sequence stratigraphy in a Pliocene siliciclastic succession, San Miniato (Pisa, Italy). Bollettino Societa Paleontologica Italiana 31, 241-259.

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Stefano DOMINICI

Interest

Taphonomy, paleoecology and evolution of Cenozoic invertebrates. Marine communities of extreme environments. History of science.