Mikhail Alexandrovich Fedonkin

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Mikhail Alexandrowitsch Fedonkin ( Russian Михаил Александрович Федонкин , often quoted from the English transcription Mikhail A. Fedonkin ; born June 19, 1946 in Orechowo-Sujewo ) is a Russian paleontologist and pioneer of research into soft-body Precambrian.

life and work

Fedonkin studied geology at Lomonosov University and has been at the Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow since 1978 . In 1978 he received his doctorate (candidate title) with the thesis Soft Body Fauna and Fossil Traces of the Vendium in the Northern Russian Platform and in 1985 he received his habilitation (Russian doctorate) with the work Soft Body Fauna of the Vendium and its place in the evolution of the metazoa . Since 1985 he has been a senior scientist and since 1992 he has headed the Laboratory for Precambrian Organisms at the Paleontological Institute. He also heads the Bio-Geochemistry Department. He is an Honorary Research Fellow at Monash University .

He organized more than 40 expeditions (including Russia to Canada, Australia, Norway, Poland, Spain and the USA) and published more than 200 research papers, including 11 monographs.

In addition to Proterozoic and Cambrian paleobiology and stratigraphy, he is also concerned with the paleoecology and bio-geochemistry of early organisms, including paleoclimatology and history of the metabolism and enzyme system of early organisms.

In 1997 he became a corresponding member and in 2008 a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is Deputy Academy Secretary for Geosciences. He is the deputy chairman of the national geological committee in Russia and, from the Russian side, in various international geoscientific committees, including at UNESCO .

He is the first to describe some fossils of the Ediacara fauna such as Hiemalora stellaris (1982), Onega stepanovi (1976), Nimbia occlusa (1980) and Horodyskia moniliformis (2000, with Ellis Yochelson ).

In 1997 he received the Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal .

Fonts

  • Biota of the White Sea from the Vendian (Precambrian soft body fauna from the North Russian platform) , treatises from the Geological Institute, Moscow, Nauka, Volume 342, 1981, pp. 1–100 (Russian)
  • Organic World of Vendium , Moscow, VINITI 1983, pp. 1–128 (Russian)
  • Soft-body fauna and its place in the evolution of the metazoa , Treatises of the Paleontological Institute, Volume 226, 1987 (Russian)
  • with James Gehling, Kathleen Gray, Guy Narbonne, Patricia Vickers-Rich The rise of animals - evolution of diversification of the kingdom Animalia , The Johns Hopkins University Press 2007
  • Precambrian metazoans , in DEG Briggs, PR Crowther (editor) Palaeobiology. A Synthesis , Blackwell Scientific Publ., 1990, pp. 17-24.
  • Fedonkin, Runnegar Proterozoic metazoan trace fossils , in J. William Schopf , Cornelius Klein (editors) Proterozoic biosphere. A multidisciplinary study , Cambridge University Press 1992
  • with TP Crimes Evolution and dispersal of deepsea traces , Palaios, Volume 9, 1994, pp. 74-83
  • Geobiological trends and events in the Precambrian biosphere . in OH Walliser (editor: Global Events and Event Stratigraphy in the Phanerozoic: Results of the International Interdisciplinary Cooperation in the IGCP-Project 216 "Global Biological Events in Earth History") , Springer-Verlag, 1996, pp. 89-112.
  • with JH Lipps, AG Collins: Evolution of biological complexity: Evidence from geology, paleontology and molecular biology , in RB Hoover (editor) Instruments, Methods, and Missions for Astrobiology . Proceedings of The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 3441, 1998, pp. 138-148.
  • Fedonkin The origin of the Metazoa in the light of the proterozoic fossil record , Paleontological Research, Volume 7, 2003, pp. 9-41

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website at Monash University ( memento of the original from July 24, 2011 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 / www.geosci.monash.edu.au
  2. ↑ Fedonkin, Yochelson Middle proterozoic (1.5 Ga) Horodyskia moniliformis Yochelson and Fedonkin, the oldest known tissue grade colonial eucaryote , Smithsonian Institution Press 2002, 4.6 MB, pdf
personal data
SURNAME Fedonkin, Mikhail Alexandrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fedonkin, Mikhail A .; Федонкин, Михаил Александрович (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Orechowo-Sujewo