Pignatti Johannes
Paleontology and Paleoecology
Sapienza University of Rome
Italy
Biography
"PhD in Paleontology (1990). Royal Society Scholarship (1990) at the Natural History Museum (London). Postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Basel, Switzerland (1991). CNR fellowship (1992-3). University Researcher in Paleontology and Paleoecology (scientific sector D01A-GEO/1) at ""La Sapienza"" University (Rome) from 1994 to 2001. Associate professor in Paleontology and Paleoecology at the same university since 2001. Since 2009, Head of the Master of Science in Exploration Geology degree at La Sapienza University. Member of the Editorial Board of the Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana, Geologica Romana (up to 2008), the Journal of the Indian Palaeontological Society, and the Mediterranean Journal of Earth Sciences."
Research Interest
"Systematics, paleobiogeography and paleoecology of Late Cretaceous-Miocene Neo-Tethyan larger foraminifera, Biostratigraphy and paleoenvironmental analysis of Paleogene carbonate deposits, Systematics and ecology of recent benthic foraminifera, with special reference to the Indo-Pacific and Mediterranean domains, Systematics, biostratigraphy and structure of Mesozoicaulacocerid coleoid cephalopods."
Publications
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Benedetti A, Pignatti J. Conflicting evolutionary and biostratigraphical trends in Nephrolepidina praemarginata (Douvillé, 1908)(Foraminiferida). Historical biology. 2013 Jun 1;25(3):363-83.
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Esu DA, Girotti OD, Pignatti JO. Late Oligocene-? Miocene mollusc and foraminiferal assemblages from the vicinity of Otranto (Southern Apulia, Italy): a non-marine to marine transition. Rendiconti Soc. Paleont. Ital. 2005;2:75-85.
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Di Bella L, Carboni MG, Pignatti J. Paleoclimatic significance of the Pliocene Amphistegina levels from the NE Tyrrhenian margin of Central Italy. BOLLETTINO-SOCIETA PALEONTOLOGICA ITALIANA. 2005;44(3):219.
