Lunedì ore 8.00-9.00 (periodo Settembre-Dicembre)
Tafonomia, paleoecologia ed evoluzione di invertebrati cenozoici. Comunità marine di ambienti estremi. Storia della scienza.
Legenda
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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Taphonomy, paleoecology and evolution of Cenozoic invertebrates. Marine communities of extreme environments. History of science.
