Publications · 2010 – 2025
Six volumes on deep time,
captured at microscopic scale.
From Cambrian trilobites to 99-million-year-old arthropods locked in amber — each book combines rigorous taxonomic documentation with extreme macro photography. Available as signed copies, directly from the author.
• Nikon Small World — Image of Distinction (2022)
• Cover — The Coleopterists Bulletin (2022)
• Gem-A Photographer of the Year — Special Mention (2022 )
• Published in Epsiloon French magazine (www.epsiloon.com) (2023)
• Published in Science (2024)
• Collaborations (2025-2026): University of Silesia, Katowice / University of Bratislava / Palacký University Olomouc, Czechia
• Expositions (2021-2026): Museo Archeologico del Finale (Italy) / INGV (Rome, Italy) / StudioLena (Berlin, Germany) / Elektron – Microcosmo dal Passato (Monza, Italy) / Cambrai (France) / Hanoi Fossil Museum (Hanoi, Vietnam)
• Lectures (2021-2026): GEI (Losanna, Switzerland) / INGV (Rome, Italy) / Hexapoda Insectarium (Waremme, Belgium) / Intermineral (Liège, Belgium) / GEMMA (VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands) / Gruppo Naturalistico di Mestre (Italy)
• See my Researchgate account for more information.
AmberArt II
a journey between Science and Beauty (2025)
–> only 25 copies available @ 01/05/2026 <–
This new second volume of AmberArt follows the same organization as the first but has additional subjects, especially focused on life forms in Myanmar amber.
The topics are arranged alphabetically, beginning with the Amphipoda and ending with the Vertebrata. Also included are fungi and various plants, with a very attractive photo of the flower of Hymenaea protera, the legume tree that produced Dominican amber. Many subjects were photographed in cross-polarized light, giving them a vivid coloration.
Some specimens are entombed in “young” amber, often called copal and in the present volume also referred to as Defaunation resin. Examples are provided with photographs of insects in copal from Madagascar. Lastly an entire chapter on abiotic inclusions is included in this volume. The entire book makes a wonderful read, not only to scientists and artists, but also to those that wish to glimpse a bit of our world as it was 20 to 100 million years ago.
(Preface by G.O. Poinar)
400 full-color pages
More than 290 plates and 480 images
A4 format
Hardcover
English language
Weight: ~2.3kg
Price: 75€ price / copy without postal charges. The fees change in function of the destination country. Due to the weight of the book, I suggest acquiring more volumes in one single package to share the costs.
Are you interested in acquiring more copies (=>5 volumes)? Very good! I can lower the price of a single copy, and you also gain in the postal charges!
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The Back to the Past Museum Guide to TRILOBITES II (2024)
Almost fifteen years have passed since the printing of the first volume in the Italian language published by the Back to the Past Museum.
Encouraged by its success in Italy and abroad, we decided to publish the translated version in English the following year (The Back to the Past Museum Guide to TRILOBITES). This tome, enlarged with updated plates, became a best seller in the paleontological field, obtaining an important worldwide distribution and a particularly positive evaluation by the professional sector.
This overwhelmingly positive response allowed our project to continuously expand the museum’s collections. Additionally, we began implementing research campaigns (always respecting international rules and laws), started an intense collaboration with professionals in the field, and consequently, have published in high-impact scientific journals.
This new volume, compared to the previous one, has not only been enriched with new tables and iconographic sources, but it has also been updated regarding the classification of trilobite orders in accordance with the latest interpretations and studies. Studies that will lead to new interpretations and, consequently, new reorganizations of families and genera within the class of trilobites.
What we hope is that this text will attract the interest of the “warned” collector, the professional or simply the passionate. We would also like to dedicate this work of ours to each one of them, in the hope of reinforcing the thin bridge that exists between public and private, both interdependent for study, field research, the discovery of new species and the evolution of scientific thought.
436 full-color pages
More than 40 new sites and 700 images
21cm x 28cm format
Hardcover
English language
Weight: ~2.3kg
80€ price / copy without postal charges. The fees change in function of the destination country. Due to the weight of the book, I suggest acquiring more volumes in one single package to share the costs.
The books are available directly from me and for US customers, from www.Fossilera.com
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AmberArt
a journey between Science and Beauty (2022)
Frozen in time, captured forever. Extreme macro photography meets amber inclusions.
The resulting images reveal the beauty of nature, giving viewers a close encounter with the biodiversity of the past.
The delicate flapping of wings, a fresh bite into prey, an intricate spider web, and many more intricate wonders of nature, forever fossilized in resin.
AmberArt, a journey between Science and Beauty, takes you on a virtual tour highlighting the beauty of organisms encased in amber. With about 200 plates and more than 300 beautifully photographed animals and plants, you will encounter a mesmerizing world that was once buzzing with life.
300 full-color pages
More than 200 plates and +330 images
A4 format
Hardcover
English language
The book is sold out!
TRILOBITI – Guida essenziale al riconoscimento e classificazione (2019)
Expanded and updated version of the 2009 edition of the Back to the Past Guide to Trilobites (2010).
Contains an updated classification of the orders of Trilobites, additional chapters on ontogeny, colors, origin, new sites that aren’t not included in the English version, and A2 size poster on the Order of Trilobites.
If you miss the first volume of the Back to the Past Guide to TRILOBITES volume I (sold out), this is an excellent replacement (aside from the language, in Italian)
Language(s): Italian.
Format: 486 pages, size 21 x 28cm, flexible cover, printed on glossy paper.
Price: 65€
Spiagge Cambriane – Meduse e tappeti algali (2018)
A must-have for professional paleontologists, collectors, and anyone who wants to discover a world once made up of 98% of water and now engraved on hard stone. A fully illustrated book on fossil jellyfish and relatives, the processes of fossilization that led to their conservation, their relationship with algal mats, and much more…
Focusing on organisms related to cnidarians, from the Chinese lower Ediacaran period up to the Oligocene of the French Provence. You will find astonishing and unpublished fossils, and dioramas reconstructing the environment in which these organisms lived and that led to the development of the current jellyfish.
Besides jellyfish, it covers creatures that shared the same ecological niches a long time ago, such as cnidarians, vendobionts, algae, and sedimentary structures associated with colonies of cyanobacteria, pseudo-fossils and sheds a light on fake fossils.
Language(s): Italian.
Format: 232 pages full color book, size 20x20cm, 40 x 40 cm poster included.
Price: 50€ –> 40€
The Back to the Past Museum Guide to TRILOBITES (2010)
This book is an overview of most of the trilobites on display at the Back to the Past Museum at the Azul Sensatori Hotel in Cancun, Mexico. The book is characterized by two parts, where the first is an extensive introduction to the trilobites (their origin, anatomy, ecology, classification, the Orders…), and the second part, contains the description of more than 30 sites distributed throughout the planet. For each site, there are multiple plates with images in full color of the most important specimens (but also very rare species) exposed in the museum collection, from private collectors, research institutes, and museums. The information in the volume is updated thanks also to the contribution of worldwide specialists in the paleontology domain.
Not only trilobites, but the volume also includes the organisms that shared the same ecological niche, their traces, and some specimens still preserve the remains of soft parts (such as legs and antennae).
The cover is rigid and includes a large folded poster of the trilobite Orders.
Language: English.
Format: 500 pages full color book, size 21×28 cm, poster included.
Price: 90€
The book is sold out. No more volumes are available
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