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Laureato in Geologia (biostratigrafia e sedimentologia) nel 2005, ho ottenuto il mio dottorato nel 2009 con una tesi sulle tracce di dinosauri del Giurassico superiore del Marocco. Da allora, il mio lavoro si è concentrato sull'icnologia dei vertebrati, specialmente -ma non solo - i dinosauri. Fin dal tempo del dottorato, sono stato affascinato dai nuovi metodi di digitalizzazione e dalla loro applicazione alle tracce, e nel tempo ho avuto modo di testarni molti. Negli ultimi anni, i progetti in cui sono stato coinvolto mi ha dato un forte background e competenze nell'applicazione della fotogrammetria alla paleontologia, permettendo la definizione di procedure standard per l'applicazione del metodo a qualsiasi campione paleontologico. Dopo un postod al Museum fuer Naturkunde Berlin, ho lavorato presso la Paléontologie A16 (Porrentruy, Svizzera) utilizzando metodi classici e innovativi per studiare la più grande collezione di impronte dinosauri al mondo (circa 1300 m2 di superfici originali e calchi, più di 1000 impronte) . Negli ultimi anni, sono anche stato coinvolto nello sviluppo e nel test del software itnologico freeware DigTrace, sviluppato dalla Bournemouth University dove ho trascorso un periodo come Visiting researcher. Dal 2020 al 2023 sono stato Ricercatore RTD-b presso l'Università di Firenze, dove ora ricopro il ruolo di Professore Associato
I miei interessi di ricerca spaziano dall'icnologia dei dinosauri, all'icnologia dei vertebrati, ai metodi di digitalizzazione, all'uso dei dati paleontologici digitali per scopi museali, di ricerca e di divulgazione.
EDUCAZIONE
2006-2009 Dottorato in Scienze della Terra. Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova (Italia). Tesi: Ichnological researches in the Upper Jurassic dinosaur tracks in the Iouaridène area (Demnat, central High-Atlas, Morocco).
1999-2005 Laurea in Scienze Geologiche. Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova (Italia). Tesi: Aspetti stratigrafici e biostratigrafici del limite Ladinico/Carnico della Conca di Saooada. Voto: 110/110 con lode.
ESPERIENZA LAVORATIVA
2023- Professore Associato (SSD GEOS-02/A) Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Firenze.
2020-2023 Ricercatore a tempo determinato tipo B (Legge 240/10), Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Firenze.
2019-2020 Libero professionista, digitalizzazione 3D con focus su collezioni museali, formatore in fotogrammetria.
2016-2019 Responsable d’étude, ichnologie des dinosaures, Paléontologie A16, Porrentruy (CH).
2015-2016 Research Assistant, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (D). Progetto: Mass digitization of long bones from the Tendaguru collection.
2013-2015 A. von Humboldt-Stiftung Fellow (Postdoc), Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (D). Progetto: 3D Tracking – Bird tracks and 21st century vertebrate ichnology.
2012-2013 Esperto freelance nella creazione di modelli 3D
2011-2012 Postdoc (Assegnista di ricerca senior), Dipartimento di Geoscienze, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova. Progetto: Tracking the rise of dinosaurs: investigations on the Upper Triassic footprints in the Dolomites
2009-2010 Postdoc (Assegnista di ricerca), Dipartimento di Geoscienze, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova. Progetto: Stratigraphical correlation of the “couches rouges” of the High Atlas (Late Jurassic, Morocco)
2006-2012 Professore a contratto (assistente), Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova – totale di 175 ore.
2005 Rappresentante e dimostratore, Tyrolit-Vincent Spa, Thiene (Italy)
CAPACITÀ LINGUISTICHE
Italiano: madrelingua; Inglese: avanzato; Francese: molto buono; Tedesco: principiante
SEMINARI E WORKSHOP SU INVITO
2020 Seminario: Vertebrate Ichnology. Per il Master in Paleontology, FCT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbona (P).
2018 Seminario: Dinosaur ichnlogy 2.0. ISLHE, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth (UK).
2017 Workshop: Photogrammetry basics and its application to ichnology. 2nd ICCI, Citta del Capo (ZA).
2017 Workshop: Photogrammetry basics for palaeontologists. In conpresenza con Dr H. Mallison.XV EAVP, Monaco (D).
2016 Seminario: Dinoichnlogy 2.0. Dinosaur ichnology in the 21st century. Dipartimento di Geoscienze, Università di Padova, Padova
2015 Seminario: Vertebrate ichnology. Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton.
2015 Seminario: Dinotrack Advanced. Ruhr Universität Bochum, Bochum (D).
2014 Seminario: 3D Vertebrate Ichnology. Institut für Geologische Wissenschaften Tektonik und Sedimentäre Geologie, Freie Universität, Berlin (D).
2013 Seminario: Vertebrate ichnology, driving a renovation. Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton (UK).
SERVIZI PROFESSIONALI
dal 2024 Vice Presidente EAVP
2021-2024 Segretario EAVP
2025 Co-organizzatore 22nd EAVP, Karkow
2022 Organizzatore 19th EAVP, Benevento.
2021 Organizzatore 18th EAVP, Onine.
2020 Co-organizzatore 18th EAVP, Benevento – Annullato per Covid-19
dal 2018 Alternate Editor-in-Chief: Journal of Paleontological Techniques
dal 2018 ‘Expert’ per l’Unione Europea, Ricerca e Innovazione con compito di peer-reviewer di progetti da finanziare
dal 2017 Istruttore e organizzatore workshop di digitalizzazione materiali paleontologici, organizzato duranti vari congressi (EAVP 2017, ICCI 2017, EAVP 2018)
2018 Membro comitato scientifico, 16th EAVP, Caparica (Portugal)
2017 Membro comitato scientifico, 15th EAVP, Munich (Germany).
2017 Ospite invitato dalla Bournemouth University alla Royal Society Summer Science Exhibit, Londra (UK)
dal 2015 Associate Editor: Journal of Paleontological Techniques; Scientific Reports
dal 2015 Communication officer e Membro del direttivo dell’EAVP (European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontolgists)
2014 Co-organizzatore del Digital Specimen 2014 meeting, Berlino (Germania).
2009 Membro comitato scientifico, NAVEP1, Marrakech (Morocco).
dal 2008 Revisore: Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society; Historical Biology; New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science; Ichnos; Indiana University Press; Journal of Paleontological Techniques; Journal of Systematic Paleontology; Journal of Sedimentary Research; Palaeoworld; Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology; Palaios; PlosOne; Swiss Journal of Paleontology; Revista Española de Paleontología, Science, Scientific Reports, etc.
CORSI DI FORMAZIONE
2018 Gestion de projects d’exoposition, ICOM Suisse
2018 Care and Management of Natural History Collections, Transmitting Science
2009 Corso di Fotogrammetria, Dipartimento di Geoscienze, Università di Padova.
2008 Quantitative Paleontology 2008, Università di Bologna, International Summer School Programme 2008.
2007 Chemostratigraphy; applications, limitations and implications for environmental change, Università di Trieste e OGS.
2007 Corso di Perfezionamento in Statistica Avanzata – Modulo I: Paleostatistica ed Analisi Ecologica, Istituto di Geologia e Centro di Geobiologia, Università di Urbino “Carlo Bo”.
PREMI OTTENUTI
SYNTHESYS, Call 2 2014: visita di studio al Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle Paris (15-21.03.2015); Fondazione G. Angelini - Centro Studi sulla Montagna per il 2011 e 2012 (5000 EUR); Jurassic Foundation Grant, Spring 2008 (2000 USD) e Spring 2007 (1000 USD).
INSEGNAMENTO E TUTORAGGIO UNIVERSITARIO
dal 2020 Relatore di 6 studenti delle Lauree Triennali in Scienze Naturali e Scienze Geologiche, correlatore di 2 studenti delle Lauree Triennali in Scienze Naturali e Scienze Geologiche, relatore 1 studente di laurea Magistrale in Scienze e Tecnologie Geologiche, supervisore di 1 assegno di ricerca e 2 dottorati di ricerca del dottorato in Earth and Planetary Science (in corso)
2006-2012 Professore a Contratto (Assistente alla didattica), Università di Padova; totale: 175 ore di lezioni, escluse le uscite didattiche.
Correlatore di 6 studenti della Laurea Triennale in Scienze Geologiche e di una di Scienze dell’Educazione, e di due studenti della specialistica (Laurea Specialistica in Geologia, UniPD; Master BioGéosciences Université de Rennes 1)
2012 Geologia (Prof. C. Stefani) per LT in Scienze Naturali (25 ore); 2011 Geologia (Prof. C. Stefani) per LT in Scienze Naturali (25 ore); 2010 Introduzione alle Scienze della Terra (Prof. S. Martin) per LT in Scienze Geologiche (12 ore), Introduzione alla Geologia del Sedimentario (Prof. C. Stefani) per LT in Scienze Geologiche (13 ore); 2009 Complementi di Geologia (Prof. S. Martin) per LT in Scienze Geologiche (25 ore); 2008 Rilevamento Geologico 2 (Prof. D. Zampieri) for per LT in Scienze Geologiche (25 ore); 2007 Rilevamento Geologico 2– Modulo B (Prof. F. Massari) for per LT in Scienze Geologiche (12 ore); Rilevamento Geologico 2– Modulo A (Prof. D. Zampieri) for per LT in Scienze Geologiche (13 ore); 2006 Geologia 1 (Prof. V. De Zanche) per LT in Scienze Geologiche (25 ore)
PUBBLICAZIONI
VOLUMI EDITATI E PREFAZIONI
Díez Díaz V. Cuesta E. Vidal D., Belvedere, M. (eds.). 2022: Technological Frontiers in Dinosaur Science Mark a New Age of Opportunity for Early Career Researchers. Frontiers in Earth Sciences, 10. Link
Díez Díaz V. Cuesta E. Vidal D., Belvedere, M. 2022. Editorial: Technological Frontiers in Dinosaur Science Mark a New Age of Opportunity for Early Career Researchers. Frontiers in Earth Sciences, 10, 973459. Doi: : 10.3389/feart.2022.973459
Bordy E., Meyer C.A., and Belvedere M. (eds.) 2018. Special Volume on Continental Ichnology. Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae, 88 (2), 87-241 (154 pp.). Link
Bordy E., Meyer C.A., and Belvedere M. 2018. Foreword to the Special Volume of Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae (ASGP). Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae, 88 (2), 87-90. Doi: 10.14241/asgp.2018.016
PUBBLICAZIONI PEER-REVIEWED
Foster, J.R., Harris, J.D., Milner A.R.C., Bordy E.M., Sciscio L., Castanera D., Belvedere M., Xing L., Lockley M.G. 2024. Jurassic vertebrate tracks and traces. In: Lucas S.G., Hunt A.P., Klein H (eds.), Vertebrate Ichnology. Tetrapod Tracks and Trackways. Elsevier, p.265-478 Doi: 10.1016/b978-0-443-13837-9.00015-9
Faria dos Santos V., Moratalla J.-J., Royo-Torres R., Belvedere M., Castanera D., Ceríaco L., Mocho P., Merino M., Meyer C.A., Sciscio L. 2024. A revised name and new insights into the Middle Jurassic sauropod trackways from Portugal. A correction of Santos et al. 2009. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 69, 587-590. Doi: 10.4202/app.01167.2024
Belvedere M., Bertozzo F., Botfalvai G., Pandolfi L. 2024. First evidence of ichnopathologies in Rhinoceripeda tasnadyi tracks from the Miocene of Hungary. Geobios, 88-89, 25-33. Doi: 10.1016/j.geobios.2024.08.009
Pandolfi L., Martino R., Belvedere M., Martínez-Navarro B., Medin T., Libsekal Y., Rook L. 2023. The latest Early Pleistocene hippopotami from the human-bearing locality of Buia (Eritrea). Quaternary Science Reviews, 308, 108039. Doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108039.
Wiseman A.L.A., Viceri D., Belvedere M., Dr Groote I. 2022. Neolithic Track-sites From Formby Point, England: new data and insights. Journal of Archeological Sciences, 44, 103546. Doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103546
Sciscio L., Belvedere M., Meyer C.A., Marty D. 2022. Sauropod Trackway Morphometrics: An Exploratory Study Using Highway A16 Excavation at the Courtedoux-Tchâfouè Track Site (Late Jurassic, NW Switzerland). Frontiers in Earth Sciences, 10, 805442. Doi:10.3389/feart.2022.805442
Bennett M.R., Budka M., Belvedere M., Reynolds S.C. 2022. Deploying augmented reality to help engage the public with palaeontological applications. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association, 133, 22-31. Doi: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2021.10.001
Meyer C.A., Belvedere M., Englich B., Lockley M.G. 2021. A reevaluation of the Late Jurassic dinosaur tracksite Barkhausen (Wiehengebirge, Northern Germany). Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 95 (7), 537-558. Doi: 10.1007/s12542-021-00562-x
Belvedere M., Budka M., Wiseman A.L.A., Bennett M.R. 2021. When is enough, enough? Questions of sampling in vertebrate ichnology. Palaeontology, 64, 661-672. Doi:10.1111/pala.12566
Marchetti L., Collareta A., Belvedere M. and Leonardi G. 2021. Ichnotaxonomy, biostratigraphy and palaeoecology of the Monti Pisani tetrapod ichnoassociation (Tuscany, Italy) and new insights on Middle Triassic Dinosauromorpha. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 567, 110235. Doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110235
Meyer C.A., Marty D., Thüring B., Thüring S. and Belvedere M. 2020. The Late Cretaceous dinosaur track record of Bolivia – Review and perspective. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 106, 102992. Doi: 10.1016/j.jsames.2020.102992
Castanera D., Malafaia E., Silva B., Santos V. and Belvedere M. 2021. New dinosaur, crocodylomorph and swim tracks from the Late Jurassic of the Lusitanian Basin: implications for ichnodiversity. Lethaia. Doi: 10.1111/let.12402
Marchetti L., Belvedere M., Voigt S., Klein H., Castanera D., Díaz-Martínez I., Marty D., Xing L., Feolai S., and Melchor R.N. 2019. Reply to discussion of “Defining the morphological quality of fossil footprints. Problems and principles of preservation in tetrapod ichnology with examples from the Palaeozoic to the present” by Marchetti et al. (2019). Earth-Science Reviews, 208, 103319. Doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103319
Antonelli M., Avanzini M., Belvedere M., Bernardi M., Ceoloni P., Citton P., Conti M.A., Dalla Vecchia F.M., D’Orazi Porchetti S., Gianolla P., Leonardi G., Manni R., Marchetti L., Mariotti N., Massari F., Mietto P., Muscio G., Palombo M.R., Panarello A., Petruzzelli M., Petti F.M., Pignatti J., Pillola G.L., Piubelli D., Raia P., Romano M., Ronchi A, Sacchi E., Sacco E., Salvador I., Santi G., Schirolli P., Valentini M., Wagensommer A., Zoboli D.. 2020. Updated Italian Tetrapo Ichnology Reference List. Journal of Mediterranean Earth Sciences, 12, 233-265. Doi: 10.3304/jmes.2020.17069
Mietto P., Avanzini M., Belvedere M., Bernardi M., Dalla Vecchia F.M., D'Orazi Porchetti S., Gianolla P., Petti F.M. 2020. Triassic tetrapod ichnofossils from Italy: the state of the art. Journal of Mediterranean Earth Sciences, 12, 83-136. Doi: 10.3304/jmes.2020.17066
Castanera D., Silva B.C., Santos V.F., Malafaia E., and Belvedere M. 2020. Tracking Late Jurassic ornithopods in the Lusitanian Basin of Portugal: Ichnotaxonomic implications. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 65 (2), 399-412. Doi: 10.4202/app.00707.2019
Urban T., Bennett M.R., Bustos D., Manning S., Reynolds S., Belvedere M., Odess D., and Santucci V. 2019. 3-D radar imaging unlocks the untapped behavioral and biomechanical archive of Pleistocene ghost tracks. Scientific Reports, 9, 16470. Doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-52996-8
Belvedere M., Castanera D., Meyer C.A., Marty D., Mateus O., Silva B.C., Santos V.F., and Cobos A. 2019. Late Jurassic globetrotters compared: a closer look at large and giant theropod tracks of North Africa and Europe. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 158, 103547. Doi: 10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2019.103547
Bennett M.R., Bustos D., Belvedere M., Martinez P., Reynolds S., and Urban T. 2019 Soft-sediment deformation below mammoth tracks at White Sands National Monument (New Mexico) with implications for biomechanical inferences from tracks. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 527, 23-38. Doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.04.023
Marchetti L., Belvedere M., Voigt S., Klein H., Castanera D., Díaz-Martínez I., Marty D., Xing L., Feolai S., Melchor R.N., and Farlow J.O. 2019. How to define the morphological quality of vertebrate footprints? Principles of ichnology and examples from the Palaeozoic to the present time. Earth-Science Reviews, 193, 109-145. Doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.04.008
Meyer C.A, Marty D., and Belvedere M. 2018. Titanosaur trackways from the Late Cretaceous El Molino Formation of Bolivia (Cal Orck’o, Sucre). Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae, 88 (2), 123-142. Doi: 10.14241/asgp.2018.018
Falkingham P, Bates K. T., Avanzini M., Bennett M., Bordy E., Breithaupt B. H., Castanera D., Citton P., Díaz-Martínez I., Farlow J.O., Fiorillo A.R., Gatesy S. M., Getty P., Hatala K. G., Hornung J. J., Hyatt J. A., Klein H., Lallensack J. N., Martin A. J., Marty D., Matthews N. A., Meyer Ch. A., Milàn J., Minter N. J., Razzolini N.L., Romilio A., Salisbury S.W., Sciscio L., Tanaka I., Wiseman A.L.A., Xing, L. D., and Belvedere M. 2018. A standard protocol for documenting modern and fossil ichnological data. Palaeontology, 61 (4), 469-480. Doi: 10.1111/pala.12373
Castanera D., Belvedere M., Marty D., Paratte G., Lovis C., Lapaire-Cattin M., and Meyer C.A. 2018. A walk in the maze: variation in Late Jurassic tridactyl dinosaur tracks from the Swiss Jura Mountains (NW Switzerland). PeerJ, 6, e4579. Doi: 10.7717/peerj.4579
Belvedere M., Bennett M.R.., Marty D., Budka M., Reynolds S.C., and Bakirov R. 2018. Stat-tracks and mediotypes: powerful tools for modern ichnology based on 3D models. PeerJ, 6, e4247. Doi: 10.7717/peerj.4247
Marchetti L., Belvedere M., and Mietto P. 2017. Lopingian tetrapod footprints from the Venetian Prealps (Italy): new discoveries in a largely incomplete panorama. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 62 (4), 801-817 Doi: 10.4202/app.00392.2017
Razzolini N.L., Belvedere M., Marty D., Paratte G., Lovis C., Cattin M., and Meyer C.A. 2017. Megalosauripus transjuranicus ichnosp. nov. A new Late Jurassic theropod ichnotaxon from NW Switzerland and implications for tridactyl dinosaur ichnology and ichnotaxomy. PlosOne, 12 (7), e0180289. Doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0180289
Marty D., Belvedere M., Razzolini N.L., Lockley M.G., Paratte G., Lovis C., Cattin M., and Meyer C.A. 2018 (2017). The tracks of giant theropods (Jurabrontes curtedulensis ichnogen. & ichnosp. nov.) from the Late Jurassic of NW Switzerland: palaeoecological & palaeogeographical implications. Historical Biology, 30 (7), 928-956, Doi: 10.1080/08912963.2017.1324438.
Belvedere M., Sauro F., Franceschi M., and Mietto P. 2017. Dinosaur footprints from the top of Monte Pelmo: new data for Early Jurassic palaeogeography of the Dolomites (NE Italy). Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana, 56 (2), 199-206. Doi: 10.4435/BSPI.2017.10
Panarello A., Santello L., Belvedere M., and Mietto P. 2017. Anthropic artefacts and donkey horseshoe traces mimicking fossil human footprints: a case study from the Roccamonfina volcano (Central Italy) and implication for human ichnology. Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana, 56 (2), 277-288. Doi: 10.4435/BSPI.2017.23
Panarello A., Santello L., Belvedere M. and Mietto P. 2017. Is it human? Discriminating between real tracks and track-like structures. Ichnos. Doi: 10.1080/10420940.2017.1337010
Belvedere M. and Farlow J. 2016. Introducing a numerical scale to quantify the preservation grade of vertebrate track. In: Falkingham P., Marty D., Richter A. (Eds.), Dinosaur tracks – Next steps. Indiana University Press. 92-99.
Xing L., Lockley M.G., Marty D., Zhang J., Wang Y., Klein H., McCrea R.T., Buckley L.G., Belvedere M., Mateus O., Gierliński G.D., Persons IV W.S., Wang F., Ran H., Dai H. and Xie X. 2015. An ornithopod-dominated tracksite from the Lower Cretaceous Jiaguan Formation (Barremian–Albian) of Qijiang, Southwest China: new discoveries, ichnotaxonomy, preservation and palaeoecology. PLoS One, 10 (10): e0141059. Doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0141059
Xing L., Belvedere M., Buckley L.G., Falk A.R., Lockley M.G., Klein H., Abbassi N., Zhang X.,Tang Y. 2014. First Record of Bird Tracks from Paleogene of China (Guangdong Province). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 414, 415-425. Doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.08.031
Marty D., Meyer C.A., Belvedere M., Ayer J. and Schäfer K.L. 2013. Rochefort – Les Grattes: an Early Tithonian dinosaur tracksite from the Canton Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Revue de Paléobiologie, 32 (2), 373-384.
Belvedere M., Jalil N-E., Breda A., Gattolin G., Bourget H., Khaldoune F., and Dyke G. 2013. Vertebrate footprints from the Kem Kem beds (Morocco): A novel ichnological approach to faunal reconstruction. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 383-384, 52-58. Doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.04.026
Schulp A., Belvedere M., Nasir, S. and Wheeler M. 2011. An artiodactyl tracksite at Musandam Peninsula, Sultanate of Oman. Ichnos, 18 (4), 192–196. Doi: 10.1080/10420940.2011.632659
Belvedere M., Morsilli M., Franceschi M., Zoccarato L. and Mietto P. 2011. Fish feeding traces from Middle Eocene limestones (Gargano promontory, Apulia, Southern Italy). Palaios, 26 (11), 693–699. Doi: 10.2110/palo.2010.p10-136r
Belvedere M., Ishigaki S., Hadri M. and Dyke G. 2011. A revision of the famous bird-like track from the lower Jurassic of Morocco. Gondwana Research, 19 (2), 542-549. Doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2010.08.004
Belvedere M., Mietto P. and Ishigaki S. 2010. A Late Jurassic diverse ichnocoenosis from the siliciclastic Iouaridène Formation (Central High Atlas, Morocco). Geological Quarterly, 54 (3), 367–380. ISSN: 1641-7291. Link
Marty D., Belvedere M., Meyer C.A., Mietto P., Paratte G., Lovis C. and Thüring B. 2010. Comparative analysis of Late Jurassic sauropod trackways from the Jura Mountains (NW Switzerland) and the central High Atlas Mountains (Morocco): implications for sauropod ichnotaxonomy. Historical Biology, 22 (1-3), 109–133. Doi: 10.1080/08912960903503345.
Belvedere M. and Mietto P. 2010. First evidence of stegosaurian Deltapodus footprints in North Africa (Iouaridène Formation, Upper Jurassic, Morocco). Palaeontology, 53 (1), 233-240. Doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2009.00928.x
Belvedere M., Mietto P., Avanzini M. and Rigo M. 2008. Norian dinosaur footprints from the “Strada delle Gallerie” (Monte Pasubio, NE Italy). Studi Tridentini Scienze Naturali, Acta Geologica, 83, 267-275. ISSN 2035-7699. Link
Petti F.M., Avanzini M., Belvedere M., De Gasperi M., Ferretti P. Girardi S., Remondino F. and Tomasoni R. 2008. Digital 3D modelling of dinosaur footprints by photogrammetry and laser scanning techniques: evaluation of the integrated approach at the Coste dell’Anglone tracksite (Lower Jurassic, Southern Alps, Northern Italy). Studi Tridentini Scienze Naturali, Acta Geologica, 83, 303-315. ISSN 2035-7699. Link
Belvedere M., Mietto P. and Lovato G. 2008. Tetrapod traces in the Dolomia Principale (Upper Triassic) of the Val Pegolera (Southern Alps). Rendiconti online Soc. Geol. It., 4 (2008), 19-20.
Belvedere M. and Bizzarrini F. 2005. Prima segnalazione di Poriferi nel Carnico (Triassico superiore) dei dintorni di Sappada. Gortania - Atti Museo Friulano di Storia Naturale, 27,17-24. ISSN 0391-5859.
LIBRI DIVULGATIVI e RECENSIONI LIBRI SCIENTIFICI
Mietto P., Belvedere M., Barbuni M and Manucci F. 2012. Dinosauri nelle Dolomiti – Recenti scoperte sulle impronte di dinosauri nelle Dolomiti. Belluno. Fondazione Angelini. 109 pp. ISBN: 978-88-86106-37-5. (Updated 2nd edition, 2014).
Mietto P., Panarello A., Avanzini M., Sirano M., Santello L., Belvedere M., Rolandi G. and De Angelis M. 2013. Ciampate del Diavolo – le impronte dei primi uomini sul vulcano Roccamonfina. 43 pp. ISBN 978-88-89172-19-3.2
Belvedere M. 2018. Dinosaur tracks: the next steps, Edited by Falkingham P.L., Marty D., & Richter A., 2016. Indiana University Press, Bloomington & Indianapolis, 428 p./ISBN 978-0-253-02102-1. Swiss Journal of Paleontology Doi: 10.1007/s13358-018-0148-y
PRESENTAZIONI A CONGRESSI INTERNAZIONALI
Borchi F., Belvedere M.*,Alberti I., Danise S., Savorelli A. 2024. From physical to digital and back. Developing and testing 3D-based educational activities. 21st EAVP 2024, Longyearbyen, Norway. Talk
Gesualdi V., Belvedere M., Yurac Diaz M., Hippler D., Hurem N., Salazar C., Mendez J., Meyer C.A. 2024. High theropod track diversity from the Chacarilla Formation of the Quebrada de Arcas in NE Chile. 21st EAVP 2024, Longyearbyen, Norway. Talk
Alberti I., Borchi F., Savorelli A., Danise S., Belvedere M. 2024. Application of flipped learning to museum activities starting from Poggio Rosso’s “Hyenas’ den” from the Pleistocene of Upper Valdarno. XXIV Giornate di Paleontologia, Pisa, Italy. Talk
Borchi F., Cirilli O., Alberti I., Parparousi E., Bellucci L., Sorbelli L., Cherin M., Danise S., Belvedere M. 2024. Much ado about Linda: revision and valorisation of the fossil fauna from the Farneta Faunal Unit in its type area. XXIV Giornate di Paleontologia, Pisa, Italy. Talk
Furlanetto E., Belvedere M., Miniati F., Serafini G., Chelazzi L., Danise S. 2024. The first Osedax traces on Miocene whale bone form the Northern Apennines, Italy. XXIV Giornate di Paleontologia, Pisa, Italy. Talk
Gesualdi V., Belvedere M., Yurac Diaz M., Hurem N., Hippler D., Salazar C., Mendez J., Meyer C.A. 2024. The Quebrada des Aracas tracksite reveals giant theropod tracks from the Chacarilla Fm. (Jurassic-Cretaceous, NE Chile). XXIV Giornate di Paleontologia, Pisa, Italy. Talk
Parparousi E., Azzarà B., Bellucci L., Belvedere M., Borchi F., Breda M., Sorbelli L., Cherin M. 2024. The Dama-like deer from Pietrafitta (Umbria): preliminary analysis and comparisons with the material from Farneta (Tuscany). XXIV Giornate di Paleontologia, Pisa, Italy. Talk
Granata V., Belvedere M., Marchetti L., Molli G., Landini W., Collareta A. 2024. Estimating the impact of erosion on a dinosaur footprint-bearing surface: the case of the Lerici Triassic ichnosite. XXIV Giornate di Paleontologia, Pisa, Italy. Poster
Meyer C.A., Sciscio L., Lockley M.G., Schumacher B.A., Belvedere M. 2023. The preservation of dinosaur tracks in a wetland system—an example from the Late Jurassic of North America (Morrison Formation; Purgatoire Valley, Colorado, USA. 20th EAVP 2023, Barcelona, Spain. Talk
Sciscio L., Belvedere M., Meyer C.A., Dos Santos V.F. 2023. Sauropod foot care: An unusual digit and ungual trace from the Polyonyx gomesi holotype, Galinha tracksite (Portugal). 20th EAVP 2023, Barcelona, Spain. Poster
Sciscio L., Meyer C.A., Belvedere M., Lockley M.G., Schumacher B.A. 2023. Late Jurassic sauropod trackway comparisons—examples from the Purgatoire Valley (USA) and Jura (Switzerland) tracksites. 20th EAVP 2023, Barcelona, Spain. Poster
Borchi F., Maganuco S., Zouhri S., Belvedere M., Rook L.. 2023.Analysis of fossil remains from five Kem Kem localities (South-eastern Morocco) with inferences on paleoecology. Preliminary results. 20th EAVP 2023, Barcelona, Spain. Poster
Belvedere M., Gesualdi V., Yurac Diaz M., Mendez J., Hurem N., Hippler D., Salazar C., Meyer C.A. 2023. Updating the ichnological Mesozoic record of northern Chile: New data from Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous tracksites. 20th EAVP 2023, Barcelona, Spain. Poster
Belvedere M., Bertozzo F., Botfalvai G., Pandolfi L. 2023. About palaeopathologies in ichnology. The case study of hungarian miocene rhino tracks. 4th Palaeontological Virtual Congress, Online. Talk
Dróżdż D., Belvedere M., Böhmer C., Vergara E.B., Díez Díaz V., Ferreira G.S., van Heteren A.H., Iannucci A., Malafaia E., Heinrich Mallison H., Marigó J., Miedema F., Mujal E., Pardo-Pérez J., Perillo M., Sciscio L., Spiekman S.N.F., Tschopp E., Vila B., Vlachos E. 2022. How to bring taxonomy into the third dimension: best practices and guidelines for the creation and use of 3D data in palaeontology (3DigiPal working group). 6th IPC, Khon Kaen, Thailand
Yurac Diaz M., Salazar C., Belvedere M., Méndez J., Meyer C.A., 2022. A reappraisal of the dinosaur footprint record of Northern Chile: preliminary results. 2nd Congreso Chileno de Paleontologia, San vicente de Tagua Tagua, Chile. Talk
Cirilli O., Bartolini-Lucenti S., Calcabrini N., Melchionna M., Raia P., O’Connor J., Schulp A., Belvedere M. 2022. A computer-aided protocol for the virtual reconstruction of theropod dinosaur skulls. Tyrannosaurus rex as an iconic case study. 19th EAVP 2022, Benevento/Pietraroja, Italy. Talk
Sciscio L., Belvedere M., Becker D., Meyer C.A. 2022. Inference of sauropod population ecology from trackways? – assessment of the Swiss Jura track sites. Talk
Yurac Diaz M., Salazar C., Meyer C.A., Suárez M.E, Belvedere M. 2022. The dinosaur ichnological record of northern Chile: a review and its potential development. ). 19th EAVP 2022, Benevento/Pietraroja, Italy. Poster
Meyer C.A., Alem A., Carvalho I.S., Belvedere M., Hippler D., Lockley M.G., Salazar C., Yurac M., Zalles Grebetskaya 0. 2022. Dinosaur tracks, sedimentary environments and palaeoclimate of the late cretaceous El Molino Formation in Bolivia (Maastrichtian, Bolivia; Toro Toro National Park). 19th EAVP 2022, Benevento/Pietraroja, Italy. Talk
Díez Díaz V., Belvedere M., Böhmer C. et al. 2021. How to bring taxonomy into the third dimension: developing guidelines for the use of 3d data in taxonomical practice. 3rd Paleontological Virtual Congress, Online. Talk
Díez Díaz V., Mallison H., Belvedere M. 2021. Cybertaxonomy in vertebrate Paleontology. 18th EAVP 2021, Online. Talk
Fabre E. Belvedere M., Legal S., Coster P. 2021. Mammal tracks and trackways from the Early Oligocene of Saignon (Vaucluse, SE France). 18th EAVP 2021, Online. Poster
Sciscio L., Belvedere M., Meyer C.A., Marty D. 2021. Late Jurassic Jura sauropod tracks: a preliminary study of the Tchâfouè tracksite using Geometric Morphometrics. 18th EAVP 2021, Online. Poster
Belvedere M., Fabre E. Legal S., Coster P. 2020. Walking into the Oligocene: a revision of the early Oligocene Saignon tracksite (southeast France). PalAss 2020, Oxford – Online. Poster
Fabre E., Belvedere M., Legal S., Coster P. 2020. Mammal tracks and trackways from the early Oligocene of Saignon (Vaucluse, SE France). 3rd IVP Days 2020, Online. Talk
Belvedere M., Bennett M.R., Budka M. 2019. Artificial tracker: applying Machine Learning to fossil footprints. 9th Bonn Humboldt Award Winners' Forum "Frontiers in Biogeography, Ecology, Anthropology, and Evolution. Humboldt and the 'Cosmos' Revisited in the 21st century". Bonn, Germany. Poster + Flash Talk
Breithaupt B. H., Matthews N. A., Green T. L., Belvedere M. 2019. Insights into dinosaur tracking in the 21st century using photogrammetric ichnology and neoichnology of emus. 79th SVP, Brisbane, Australia. Poster
Castanera D., Silva C.B., Santos V.F., Malafaia E., Belvedere M. 2019. New dinosaur tracks from the Late Jurassic of the Lusitanian Basin (Portugal). 17th EAVP 2019, Bruxelles, Belgium. Poster
Meyer C.A., Klein H., Belvedere M. 2019. Enigmatic tetrapod tracks from the Early Jurassic Zagaje Formation of Poland. 17th EAVP 2019, Bruxelles, Belgium. Talk
Mallison H., Belvedere M. 2019. Photogrammetry basics for palaeontologists: A workshop on how to take pictures and create a 3D model. 17th EAVP 2019, Bruxelles, Belgium. Workshop INVITED
Meyer C.A. and Belvedere M. 2018. Tracking dinosaurs across the Jurassic-Cretaceous Boundary. JK2018, Geneva, Switzerland.Talk
Mallison H., Belvedere M. 2018. Quick, cheap, and not dirty at all: extremely rapid photogrammetry techniques for mass digitizing in vertebrate collections. 77th SVP, Albuquerque, USA. Talk
Meyer C.A., Belvedere M., Marty D. 2018. Sauropod trackway tango: a new look at trackway gauge through time. 77th SVP, Albuquerque, USA. Talk
Mallison H., Belvedere M. 2018. Photogrammetry basics for palaeontologists: A workshop on how to take pictures and create a 3D model. 16th EAVP 2018, Caparica, Portugal. Workshop INVITED
Meyer C.A., Belvedere M., Klein H., Lallensack J., Wings O., and Lucas S.G. 2018. Tracking early sauropodomorphs. 16th EAVP 2018, Caparica, Portugal. Talk
Belvedere M., Castanera D., Marty D., and Meyer C.A. 2018. A walk in the maze: discriminating small tridactyl tracks from the Late Jurassic of Jura (NW Switzerland). 16th EAVP 2018, Caparica, Portugal. Poster
Belvedere M., Bennett M.R., Marty D., Budka M., Reynolds S.C., and Bakirov R. 2017. Introducing the Mediotype concept: an innovative tool for modern vertebrate ichnology. International Congress on Continental Ichnology, 2017. Cape Town, South Africa. Talk INVITED
Meyer C.A., Belvedere M., Marty D.2017.Titanosaurid trackways from the El Molino Formation (Maastrichtian) of Bolivia (Cal Orck’o, Sucre, Dep. Chuquisaca). International Congress on Continental Ichnology, 2017. Cape Town, South Africa. Talk
Belvedere M. 2017. Photogrammetry and 3D model handling for ichnology. International Congress on Continental Ichnology, 2017. Cape Town, South Africa. WorkshopINVITED
Castanera D., Belvedere M., Silva B., Marty D., Razzolini N.L., Meyer C., Santos V. 2017. New Megalosauripus tracks in the Late Jurassic of Portugal. 15th EAVP 2017, Munich, Germany. Poster
Mallison H., Belvedere M. 2017. Photogrammetry basics for palaeontologists: A workshop on how to take pictures and create a 3D model. 15th EAVP 2017, Munich, Germany. WorkshopINVITED
Belvedere M., Marty D., Stevens K., Ernst S., Razzolini N.L., Paratte G., Cattin M., Lovis C., Meyer C.A. 2016. Minute sauropod tracks from the Late Jurassic of Canton Jura: babies or dwarfs? Morphological and behavioural evidences. 14th Swiss Geological Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland. Talk
Mallison H., Belvedere M., Schurian B., Schwarz D. 2016. "Liberation from the Bone Cellar"—low tech, high quality—how to cheaply 3D digitize a collection of vertebrate macrofossils. 76th SVP, Salt Lake City, USA. Talk
Belvedere M., Marty D., Stevens K., Ernst S., Razzolini N.L., Paratte G., Cattin M., Lovis C., Meyer C.A. 2016. The first unequivocal evidence of gregarious behaviour in baby sauropods (Late Jurassic, NW Switzerland). 14th EAVP 2016, Haarlem, Netherlands. Talk
Belvedere M., Mallison H., Schurian B., 2016. Paleontological mass 3D digitizing: learning by doing the MfN’s Digis 2015 project ‘Liberation from the Bone Cellar’. 14th EAVP 2016, Haarlem, Netherlands. Talk
Belvedere M., Ernst S., Marty D. 2016. The precision of outline drawings: a comparison based on dinosaur tracks. 4th Ichnia, Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal. Talk
Marty D., Belvedere M., Meyer C.A., Razzolini N.L., Paratte G., Lovis C., Cattin M. 2016. Terror at the beach: huge theropod tracks on the Jura carbonate platform (Late Jurassic, Switzerland). 4th Ichnia, Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal. Talk
Belvedere M. and Mallison H. 2015. It is time for an ichnological database theoretical considerarions, benefits and testing sample with EasyDB. 2015 GSA, Baltimore, USA. Talk
Díaz-Martínez I., de Valais S., Cónsole-Gonella C., Pereda-Suberbiola X., Belvedere M., Giraldo C. 2015. Late Cretaceous avian footprints from the Angostura Colorada Formation (Río Negro province, Patagonia, Argentina). 1º Congresso Internacional - As Aves na História Natural, na Pré-História e na História, Lisbon, Portugal. Talk
Belvedere M. and Mallison H. 2015. Developing an ichnological database: testing examples in EasyDB. 13th EAVP 2015, Opole, Poland. Talk
Mallison H. and Belvedere M. 2015. Developing an ichnological database: theoretical considerations of user roles, demands and benefits. 13th EAVP 2015, Opole, Poland. Talk
Belvedere M., Sauro F., Franceschi M. and Mietto P. 2015. Early Jurassic dinosaur tracks from M. Pelmo (Italy): new insights for the regional paleogeography. 13th EAVP 2015, Opole, Poland. Poster
Belvedere M. and Jalil N-E. 2015. Carnian tetrapod tracks from the Argana basin (Morocco): the Dutuit collection at MNHN Paris. 13th EAVP 2015, Opole, Poland. Poster
Marchetti L., Belvedere M. and Mietto P. 2015. Late Permian footprints from the Venetian Prealps (North-East Italy): new discoveries in a largely incomplete panorama. 13th EAVP 2015, Opole, Poland. Poster
Belvedere M. and Mallison H. 2014. Metatarsal impression in modern ratites: gait, behaviour and posture influences. 74th SVP meeting, Berlin, Germany. Poster
Marty D., Belvedere M., Díaz-Martínez I., Mallison H. and Menkveld-Gfeller U. 2014. Stork-neoichnology for a better understanding of Cenozoic, large, anisodactyl bird tracks. 74th SVP meeting, Berlin, Germany. Poster
Belvedere M. and Rovelli F. 2014. The relief of Beethoven manuscripts: macro photogrammetry as a tool to analyse the writing layer. DigitalSpecimen 2014, Berlin, Germany. Talk
Belvedere M., Mietto P. and Meyer C.A. 2014. Timing and ichnotaxonomy of the oldest dinosaur tracks from the shores of the Northern Tethys (Italy, Switzerland). 12th EAVP 2014, Torino, Italy. Talk
Belvedere M. and Mallison H. 2014. Behavioural influences in track formation in modern ratites. 12th EAVP 2014, Torino, Italy. Talk
Belvedere M. and Farlow J. 2014. A numerical scale for quantifying the quality of preservation of vertebrate tracks. 12th EAVP 2014, Torino, Italy. Poster
Marty D., Belvedere M., Díaz-Martínez I. and Menkveld-Gfeller U. 2014. New bird tracks from Oligocene subalpine molasse deposits of Schangnau (Central Switzerland). 12th EAVP 2014, Torino, Italy. Talk
Belvedere M. and Falkingham P. 2012. 3D dinosaur ichnology: where we are, where we can go. China 1st International Dinosaur Track Symposium, Qijiang, Chongqing City, China. Talk. INVITED
Belvedere M., Baucon A., Neto de Carvalho C., Venturini C.,Felletti F. and Muttoni G. 2012. To (laser) scan or not to scan? Hamletic question at the Pramollo ichnolagerstätte (Carboniferous, Italy-Austria). DigitalFossil 2012, Berlin, Germany. Talk. INVITED
Pond S., Belvedere M. and Dyke G.J. 2012. The ichnologist’s guide to 3D models: from the field to the cloud. DigitalFossil 2012, Berlin, Germany. Talk. INVITED
Belvedere M., Pond S., Downers D., Simpson M. and Dyke G.J. 2012. Variety and interpretation of dinosaur tracks from the Isle of Wight (Lower Cretaceous, Southern UK). 10th EAVP meeting, Teruel, Spain. Poster
Belvedere, M., Baucon A., Furin S., Mietto P. and Muttoni G. 2011. Sharing ichnological data: from the theoretical model to the development of ICHNOBASE. SVP 71st Annual Meeting. Las Vegas, USA. Poster
Jalil N-E., Belvedere M., Breda A., Gattolin G. and Dyke G. 2011. A varied ichnocoenosis in the Cretaceous Kem Kem Beds of Morocco. SVP 71st Annual Meeting. Las Vegas, USA. Poster
Baucon A., Belvedere, M., Furin S., Felletti F., Muttoni G. and Mietto P. 2011. ICHNOBASE: the first ichnological database. 28th IAS Meeting of Sedimentology. Abstract Volume. Zaragoza, Spain. Poster
Baucon A., Belvedere M., Furin S., Felletti F. and Muttoni, G. 2011. Sharing Ichnofabrics: theory, design and implementation of an open-acess ichnological database (Ichnobase). XI International Ichnofabric Workshop. Abstract Book. Colunga, Spain. Poster
Belvedere M., Baucon A., Furin S., Mietto P., Felletti F. and Muttoni G. 2011. The ICHNOBASE project: development of a sharing tool for ichnological data. In: 9th Annual EAVP Meeting 2011. Abstract Volume. Iraklion, Greece. Poster
Baucon A., Neto de Carvalho C., Belvedere M., Furin S., Muttoni G., Felletti F. and Mietto P. 2011. L'Ichnolagerstätte di Pramollo: morfologie individuali ed icnoassociazioni all'occhio del laserscanner (Carbonifero; Alpi Carniche, Italia-Austria). Giornate di Paleontologia 2011. Abstract Book. Brusino Arsizio, Switzerland. Talk
Baucon A., Belvedere M., Furin S., Muttoni G., Felletti F. and Mietto P. 2011. ICHNOBASE: l'icnologia nell'era del Web 2.0. Giornate di Paleontologia 2011. Abstract Book. Brusino Arsizio, Switzerland. Poster
Belvedere M., Baucon A., Furin S., Mietto P., Felletti F. and Muttoni G. 2011. The impact of the digital trend on ichnology: ICHNOBASE. Dinotrack Symposium, Obernkirchen, Germany. Poster
Belvedere M., Rigo, M., Marchetti, L. and Mietto, P. 2010. Upper Triassic dinosaur tracks from the Dolomites: new dating and material. 8th Annual EAVP Meeting 2010, Abstract Volume, 13, Aix-en-Provence, France. Talk
Belvedere M. and Mietto P. 2009. The Iouaridène tracksite (High-Atlas, Morocco): evidence of a Jurassic land-bridge between Africa and Europe. 69th Annual Meeting Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 29 (sup. 3) Abstract, 61A, Bristol, UK. Poster
Belvedere M., Mietto P., Avanzini M. and Rigo M. 2009. Ichnological discoveries and Great War military digs: the “Strada delle Gallerie” (M. Pasubio, NE Italy) case. In: Geoitalia 2009, Epitome, 3, 377, Rimini, Italy. Poster
Santello L., Mietto P., Belvedere M., Panarello A. and Avanzini M. 2009. Following Pleistocene human tracks: genesis and interpretation of the trampled Brown Leucitic Tuff (Roccamonfina Volcano, Southern Italy). In: Geoitalia 2009, Epitome, 3, 232, Rimini, Italy. Talk
Santello L., Mietto P., Belvedere M., Panarello A. and Avanzini M. 2009. Preservation of human footprints on volcanic tuffs: the Roccamonfina case (Caserta, Southern Italy). In: Geoitalia 2009, Epitome, 3, 290, Rimini, Italy Talk
Belvedere M., Gozzer L. and Mietto P. 2009. Landmark analysis on tridactyl footprints: still a waste of time? In: 7th Annual EAVP Meeting 2009, Abstract Volume, 12, Berlin, Germany. Talk
Rigo M., Roghi G., Breda A., Belvedere M., Gianolla P., Furin S. and Mietto P. 2009. The nektonic life of Epigondolella praeslovakensis and Mockina slovakensis conodont-animals: surface-water dwellers of peritidal to basinal environments. ICOS 2009, International Conodont Symposium, Permophiles, 53 (1), 42-43, Calgary, Canada. Talk
Santello L., Belvedere M. and Mietto P. 2009. Following Pleistocene human tracks: genesis and interpretation of the trampled Brown Leucitic Tuff (Roccamonfina Volcano, Southern Italy). In: INGV, Conferenza A. Rittmann: “La vulcanologia italiana: stato dell’arte e prospettive future”, Abstract Book, 144-145, Nicolosi, Italy. Poster
Marty D., Belvedere M., Meyer C.A., Mietto P. and Thüring B. 2009. Comparison of Late Jurassic narrow-gauge sauropod trackways from the central High Atlas (Morocco) and the Jura Mountains (NW Switzerland). NAVEP1, 1st International Congress on North African Vertebrate Palaeontology, Abstract Book, 33, Marrakech, Morocco. Talk
Belvedere M. and Mietto P. 2009. First African record of the ichnogenus Deltapodus from the Upper Jurassic Iouaridène Fm. (Central High-Atlas, Morocco). In: NAVEP1, 1st International Congress on North African Vertebrate Palaeontology, Abstract Book, 56-57, Marrakech, Morocco. Poster
Belvedere M., Mietto P., Avanzini M. and Rigo M. 2008. Dinosaurs stepping on the conodont animals. In: 52nd Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Association. The Palaeontological Association Newsletter, 69, Abstracts, 44, Glasgow, UK. Poster
Belvedere M. and Mietto P. 2008. First complete report of the dinosaur ichnofauna of the Iouaridène formation (Central High-Atlas). Ichnia 2008. The Second International Congress on Ichnology. Abstract book, 17. Krakow, Poland. Talk
Petti F.M., Avanzini M., Franceschi M., Girardi S., Remondino F., Belvedere M., Ferretti P. and Tommasoni R. 2008. New approaches to study dinosaur tracks: 3D digital modelling by photogrammetry and active sensors. In: Ichnia 2008. The Second International Congress on Ichnology. Abstract book, 105, Krakow, Poland. Talk
Belvedere M., Mietto P. and Lovato G. 2008. Tetrapod traces in the Dolomia Principale (Upper Triassic) of the Val Pegolera (Agordo, Southern Alps). In: 100 anni di Geologia Feltrina. Abstract book. Rendiconti online Società Geologica Italiana, 4, Feltre, Italy. Talk
Belvedere M., Mietto P. and Mehdi M. 2007. Dinosaur tracks from the Upper Jurassic Iouaridène Formation (Demnat, Morocco). In: Geoitalia 2007, Epitome, 2, 306, Rimini, Italy.Poster
Icnologia dei dinosauri, degli uccelli e dei mammiferi
Tecniche di digitalizzazione, fotogrammetria close-range a da drone
Icnologia e paleontologia computazionele
Paleontologia virtuale, Cybertassonomia
Utilizzo dati paleontologici digitali per le collezioni museali, la loro valorizzazione e fruizione da parte del pubblico
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Legenda
Graduated in Geology (biostratigraphy and sedimentology) in 2005, I was awarded my PhD in 2009 with a thesis on dinosaur tracks from the Late Jurassic of Morocco. Since then, the focus of my work has been vertebrate ichnology, especially -but not only- dinosaurs. Since the doctoral period, I have been fascinated by the new digitization methods and their application to track, and I have tested many of them. In the last years, the projects I was involved gave me a strong background and skills in the application of photogrammetry to palaeontology, allowing the definition of standard procedures for the application of the method to any paleontological sample. After a postdoc at the Museum fuen Naturkunde Berlin, I worked at the Paléontologie A16 (Porrentruy, Switzerland) using classical and innovative methods to study the largest dinosaur track collection of the world (ca. 1300 m2 of original surfaces and casts, more than 1000 footprints). In the latest years, I was involved in the development and testing of the freeware ichnological software DigTrace, developed by the Bournemouth University where I have spent a period as Visiting researcher. From 2020 to 2023 I have been Ricercatore RTD-b (Senior Lecturer) at the University of Florence, where now I'm enrolled as Associate Professor.
My research interetst ranges from dinosaur ichnology, vertebrate ichnology, digitization methods, use of digital paleontological data for museum dispaly, reserach and outreach purposes.
EDUCATION
2006-2009 PhD in Earth Sciences. University of Padua, Padua (Italy). Thesis: Ichnological researches in the Upper Jurassic dinosaur tracks in the Iouaridène area (Demnat, central High-Atlas, Morocco).
1999-2005 Degree in Geological Sciences. University of Padua, Padua (Italy). Thesis: Stratigraphic and biostratigraphic aspects of the Ladinian/Carnic limit of the Saooada Basin. Grade: 110/110 laude.
2023- Associate Professor in Paleontology and Paleoecology, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Florence.
2020-2023 Ricercatore tempo Determinato - tipo B (Senior Lecturer), Department of Earth Sciences, University of Florence.
2019-2020 Freelancer, 3D digitization with focus on museum collections, trainer in photogrammetry.
2016-2019 Responsable d’étude, ichnologie des dinosaures, (researcher, dinosaur ichnology) Palaeontology A16, Porrentruy (CH).
2015-2016 Research Assistent, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (D). Progetto: Mass digitization of long bones from the Tendaguru collection.
2012-2013 Freelance expert in the creation of 3D models
2011-2012 Postdoc (Senior Research Fellow), Department of Geosciences, University of Padua, Padua. Project: Tracking the rise of dinosaurs: investigations on the Upper Triassic footprints in the Dolomites
2009-2010 Postdoc (Research Fellow), Department of Geosciences, University of Padua, Padua. Project: Stratigraphical correlation of the "couches rouges" of the High Atlas (Late Jurassic, Morocco)
2006-2012 Adjunct Professor (assistant), University of Padua, Padua – total of 175 hours.
2005 Salesman and demonstrator, Tyrolit-Vincent Spa, Thiene (Italy)
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Italian: mother tongue; English: advanced; French: very good; German: Beginner
SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS BY INVITATION
2020 Seminar: Vertebrate Ichnology. For the Master in Paleontology, FCT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon (P).
2016 Seminar: Dinoichnlogy 2.0. Dinosaur ichnology in the 21st century. Department of Geosciences, University of Padua, Padua
2015 Seminario: Dinotrack Advanced. Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum (D).
2014 Seminario: 3D Vertebrate Ichnology. Institute of Geological Sciences, Tectonics and Sedimentary Geology, Freie Universität, Berlin (D).
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
2024- Vice President of the EAVP
2021-2024 Secretary of the EAVP
2025 Co-organizer 22nd EAVP, Karkow
2022 Organizer 19th EAVP, Benevento.
2021 Organizer 18th EAVP, Onine.
2020 Co-organizer 18th EAVP, Benevento – Canceled due to Covid-19
since 2018 'Expert' for the European Union, Research and Innovation with the task of peer-reviewer of projects to be funded
since 2017 Instructor and organizer of workshops on the digitization of paleontological materials, organized during various congresses (EAVP 2017, ICCI 2017, EAVP 2018)
2018 Member of the Scientific Committee, 16th EAVP, Caparica (Portugal)
2017 Member of the Scientific Committee, 15th EAVP, Munich (Germany).
2017 Invited guest from Bournemouth University at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibit, London (UK)
since 2015 Communication officer and Member of the board of EAVP (European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontolgists)
2014 Co-organizer of the Digital Specimen 2014 meeting, Berlin (Germany).
2009 Member of the Scientific Committee, NAVEP1, Marrakech (Morocco).
TRAINING COURSES
2018 Exoposition Project Management, ICOM Switzerland
2009 Course in Photogrammetry, Department of Geosciences, University of Padua.
2007 Postgraduate Course in Advanced Statistics – Module I: Paleostatistics and Ecological Analysis, Institute of Geology and Center for Geobiology, University of Urbino "Carlo Bo".
AWARDS EARNED
SYNTHESYS, Call 2 2014: study visit to the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle Paris (15-21.03.2015); Fondazione G. Angelini - Centro Studi sulla Montagna for 2011 and 2012 (5000 EUR); Jurassic Foundation Grant, Spring 2008 (2000 USD) and Spring 2007 (1000 USD).
since 2020 Supervisor of 6 students of the Bachelor's Degrees in Natural Sciences and Geological Sciences, co-supervisor of 2 students of the Bachelor's Degrees in Natural Sciences and Geological Sciences, supervisor 1 Master's degree student in Geological Sciences and Technologies, supervisor of 1 research grant and 2 PhDs of the PhD in Earth and Planetary Science (ongoing)
Until 2020 Co-supervisor of 6 students of the Bachelor's Degree in Geological Sciences and one of Educational Sciences, and of two students of the Master's Degree (Master's Degree in Geology, UniPD; Master BioGéosciences Université de Rennes 1)
2006-2012 Adjunct Professor (Teaching Assistant), University of Padua; Total: 175 hours of lessons, excluding educational trips: 2012 Geology (Prof. C. Stefani) for LT in Natural Sciences (25 hours); 2011 Geology (Prof. C. Stefani) for LT in Natural Sciences (25 hours); 2010 Introduction to Earth Sciences (Prof. S. Martin) for LT in Geological Sciences (12 hours), Introduction to Sedimentary Geology (Prof. C. Stefani) for LT in Geological Sciences (13 hours); 2009 Complements of Geology (Prof. S. Martin) for LT in Geological Sciences (25 hours); 2008 Geological Survey 2 (Prof. D. Zampieri) for LT in Geological Sciences (25 hours); 2007 Geological Survey 2 – Module B (Prof. F. Massari) for LT in Geological Sciences (12 hours); Geological Survey 2 – Module A (Prof. D. Zampieri) for LT in Geological Sciences (13 hours); 2006 Geology 1 (Prof. V. De Zanche) for LT in Geological Sciences (25 hours)
PUBLICATIONS
EDITED VOLUMES AND PREFACES
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
POPULAR BOOKS and SCIENTIFIC BOOK REVIEWS
PRESENTATIONS AT INTERNATIONAL CONGRESSES
Dinosaur ichnology, bird ichnology, mammal ichnology
Digitization techniques, close-rance and drone photogrammetry
Computational ichnology and paleontology
Virtual paleontology, Cybertaxonomy
Use of digital data for museum collection management, valorisation and outreach
