Leonid Sergeevich Glikman

Leonid Sergejewitsch Glikman (born January 23, 1929 in Leningrad , † January 31, 2000 in Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian paleichthyologist. In his scientific publications he preferred the transliteration Glickman or Glückman of his family name. His main research interests were the sharks of the Cretaceous and Cenozoic Era .

Life

Glikman was the son of the chemist Sergei Abramowitsch Glikman (1892-1966). In 1939 the family moved from Leningrad to Kiev . At the beginning of the German-Soviet War in 1941, they were evacuated to Tashkent in Uzbekistan . From 1945 to 1950 the Glikmans (father and son) lived in Saratov , where Glikman graduated from middle school and completed a four-year course at the Faculty of Biology at Saratov State University . In 1945, at the age of 16, Glikman began collecting vertebrate fossils from the Upper Cretaceous near Saratov. In 1950 he moved to the Leningrad State University , which he completed in 1952 with a graduate thesis on the marine vertebrates of the Upper Cretaceous in the Saratov- Volga region. In 1953 Glickman published his first scientific paper on his cartilage fish collection, which consisted of 10,000 to 40,000 individual pieces. From 1952 to 1963 he worked at the geological museum named after Alexander Petrovich Karpinsky , which after 1967 became part of the Institute for Geology and Geochronology of the Precambrian in Leningrad. Glikman's research focused primarily on the order of the mackerel shark-like (Lamniformes) of the Cretaceous and Cenozoic periods. He carried out intensive field work in the entire territory of the USSR, especially in the European part of Russia, in Ukraine, on the Crimea peninsula , in western Kazakhstan , on the Mangyschlak peninsula , in Turkmenistan , in the Ferghana Valley and in the Aral Sea region. He brought together a large collection of shark teeth (the largest fossil shark tooth collection in the Soviet Union with around 200,000 individual pieces ) from the Cretaceous and Cenozoic Era, which is now kept in the State Darwin Museum in Moscow. In 1958 Glikman received his doctorate with a doctoral thesis on the classification of sharks as a candidate of the sciences .

In 1964 Glikman's first monograph Akuly paleogena i ich stratigrafičeskoe značenie ( Sharks of Paleogene and their stratigraphic significance ) was published. In the same year he wrote the chapter on the Plattenkiemer in the eleventh volume of the book series Osnovy Paleontologii ( Fundamentals of Paleontology ) by the paleontologist Dmitri Vladimirovich Obruchev (1900-1970).

Glikman described several fossil shark genera, including Macrorhizodus , Striatolamia , Paraisurus , Pseudoisurus , Paraorthacodus , Cretolamna, and Eostriatolamia . In 1958 he set up the Cretoxyrhinidae family and in 1964 the Otodontidae family , which may include Megalodon .

From 1970 to 1982 Glikman worked at the Institute of Marine Biology of the Far Eastern Branch of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Vladivostok . Here he conducted morphological studies on the salmon of the Kamchatka Peninsula. In 1980 his monograph Ėvoli︠u︡t︠s︡ii︠a︡ melovykh i kaĭnozoĭskikh lamnoidnykh akul ( Evolution of the Cretaceous and Cenozoic Lamnoid sharks ) was published. From 1982 until his death in January 2000 Glikman lived in Leningrad (after 1991 Saint Petersburg) with very limited research opportunities. In 1999, at the age of 70, he made his last paleontological excursion to western Kazakhstan.

Dedication names

The fossil plate- gill genera Glickmanodus , Glikmania , Glikmanius and Glueckmanotodus are named after Glikman . In 1964 Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Voronzow (1934-2000) named the fossil mouse species Tachyoryctoides glikmani (originally described as Aralomys glikmani ) after Glikman.

literature

• EV Popov: An annotated bibliography of the soviet palaeoichthyologist Leonid Glickman (1929-2000). Proceedings of the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 320 (1), 2016: p. 25–49 (English, biography and bibliography about LS Glikman)
• EV Popov: The life and scientific heritage of Leonid Sergeyevich Glickman (1929-2000). Proceedings of the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 320 (1), 2016: p. 4–24 (biography, Russian with English summary)

Individual evidence

1. ^ LA Nessov: In LB Goloneva & AO Averianov (ed.), Nemorskiye Pozvonochnyye Melovogo Perioda Severnoy Yevrazii [Cretaceous Non-Marine Vertebrates of Northern Eurasia], 1997, pp. 1-218
2. ↑ GR Case, NI Udovichenko, LA Nessov, AO Averianov, & PD Borodin: A Middle Eocene selachian fauna from the White Mountain Formation of the Kizylum Desert, Uzbekistan , CIS Palaeontographica Department A 242 (Lfg. 4-6), 1996: p 99-126
3. ↑ Ginter, M., Ivanov, A. & Lebedev, O .: The revision of "Cladodus" occidentalis, a late Palaeozoic ctenacanthiform shark . Acta Palaeontologica Polonica: Vol. 50, No. 3, 2005, pp. 623-631
4. ↑ VI Zhelezko & VA Kozlov III. Genus Glueckmanotodus Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekkaterinburg, 1999
5. ↑ NN Vorontsov: Aralomys glikmani - A new species of Cricetidae In: International Geology Review Volume 6, Issue 12, 1964