An annual appointment in Castell’Arquato, with Pliocenica 2023, to talk about geology, paleontology, museums and protected areas an opportunity to spend a day together in the “cradle” of the Pliocene.

Sunday, September 24 at the Geological Museum “G. Cortesi” of Castell’Arquato
Gruppo Mineralogico Paleontologico Piacentino, Società Piacentina di Scienze Naturali

An annual event to talk about geology, paleontology, museums and protected areas an opportunity to spend a day together in the “cradle” of the Pliocene
Geological Museum “G. Cortesi”, Via Sforza Caolzio, Castell’Arquato, Piacenza

Program:

10.00 Opening in the council chamber of the Palazzo del Podestà

10,10 – 10,30 Cristina Lombardo (University of Milan)

“Paleontology and the classical world: fossils at the origin of myth”.

10,40 – 11,00 Francesca Bosellini (University of Modena-Reggio Emilia)

“Global warming threatens coral reefs: a look to the past to understand the future.”

11,10 – 11,30 Giovanni Serafini (University of Modena-Reggio Emilia)

“The fossil record of marine reptiles of the Rosso Ammonitico Veronese: tafonomy and ecology”.

11,40 – 12,00 Alessandra Fassio (Museo paleontologico territoriale dell’Astigiano)

“Prehistoric whales: an exhibition on the exceptional finds in the hills of Asti”

12,10 – 12,40 Cristiano Dal Sasso (Civic Museum of Natural History of Milan

“Micro and Macrodinosaurs: Scipionyx vs. Spinosaurus”.

12,50 – 13,00 Final communications

Following the official delivery of the Roll of Honour of the Geological Museum