Andrzej Elżanowski

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Andrzej Elżanowski (born January 21, 1950 in Przasnysz ) is a Polish ornithologist and paleontologist who deals with Mesozoic birds and Archeopteryx . He is a professor at the Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.

Elżanowski studied biology at the University of Warsaw with a master's degree in 1972 and his doctorate in 1979. He completed his habilitation in 1996 at the University of Wroclaw (Mesozoic evolution and main lines of phylogeny of birds). From 1972 to 1983 he was a lecturer at the University of Warsaw and from 1983 to 1998 he was at various universities in the USA and Germany. From 1998 he was at the University of Wroclaw at the Institute of Zoology, from 2003 as titular professor.

He described earlier finds of birds from the Polish expeditions to Mongolia , for example an embryo and eggs of the enantiornith Gobipteryx in 1981 and, before that, this itself from skull fragments.

In 1992 Elżanowski and Peter Wellnhofer described the small theropod Archaeornithoides deinosauriscus , which was found in the late Cretaceous Mongolia in 1965 and had many bird-like features. With Wellnhofer he wanted to form his own clade with basal birds, Troodontidae and spinosaurs , but this did not prevail.

In 2001 he introduced a new species and genus description ( Wellnhoferia ) for the specimen of the Archeopteryx in the Bürgermeister-Müller-Museum in Solnhofen (first described by Wellnhofer in 1988 ), but this is not generally accepted.

He is also involved in the ethics of animal experiments in Poland.

The lawyer Marek Elżanowski (1941–1994) is his brother.

Fonts

  • Archeopterygidae in Luis Chiappe , Lawrence Witmer (Eds.) Mesozoic Birds: Above the Heads of Dinosaurs , Berkeley: University of California Press 2002
  • Cretaceous birds and avian phylogeny , Cour. Research inst. Senckenb. 181, 1995, 37-53

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Embryonic bird skeletons from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia . Palaeontologia Polonica 42, 1981, 147-176
  2. ^ Palaeognathous bird from the Cretaceous of Central Asia . Nature 264, 1976, 51-53
  3. ↑ Preliminary note on the palaeognathus bird from the upper cretataceous of Mongolia , Palaeontologia Polonica, 29, 1974, 103-109, pdf
  4. ↑ Elzanowski, Wellnhofer: A new link between theropods and birds from the Cretaceous of Mongolia , Nature 359, 1992, 821-823
  5. ↑ Elzanowski, Evo Wiki ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / evolutionwiki.org
  6. ^ A new genus and species for the largest specimen of Archeopteryx , Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 46, 2001, 519-532
personal data
SURNAME Elżanowski, Andrzej
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish ornithologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Przasnysz