Teresa Maryańska

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Teresa Maryańska (born May 27, 1937 in Warsaw ; † October 3, 2019 ibid) was a Polish paleontologist who studied dinosaurs and was considered one of the world's leading experts.

Career

Maryańska studied in Warsaw with a degree in geology in 1960 and a doctorate in paleontology (bryzozoa of the tertiary) in 1967.

From 1961 until her retirement in 2006 she was at the Museum der Erde (Warsaw) , where she was deputy director from 1976.

She dealt in particular with dinosaurs from Mongolia (Gobi Desert), where she was involved in several large expeditions (1964, 1965, 1970, 1971). She often worked with Halszka Osmólska . In particular, she dealt with ankylosaurs , but also protoceratopsids , hadrosaurs , oviraptors and introduced the taxon pachycephalosauria with Osmólska .

Fonts

  • with H. Osmólska. Pachycephalosauria, a new suborder of ornithischian dinosaurs. Palaeontologia Polonica 30, 1974, 45-102.
  • with H. Osmólska: Protoceratopsidae (Dinosauria) of Asia , Palaeontologica Polonica 33, 1975, 133-181
  • with H. Osmolska: Ankylosauridae (Dinosauria) from Mongolia , Palaeontologia Polonica 37, 1977, 85-151.
  • Article Pachycephalosauria, Therizinosauroidea, Ankylosauria (with Vickaryous, Weishampel) in: DB Weishampel, H. Osmólska, P. Dodson (eds.): The Dinosauria . University of California Press, Berkeley, 1990
  • Sauropods from Mongolia and the former Soviet Union. In: MJ Benton, MA Shishkin, DM Unwin, EN Kurochkin (eds.): The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia. Cambridge University Press, 2000
  • with Pachycephalosauria (with Ralph E. Chapman, David Weishampel), Therizinosauroidea (with James M. Clark , Rinchen Barsbold ), Ankylosauria (with David Weishampel, Matthew Vickaryous), in Weishampel, Osmolska, Dodson The Dinosauria , University of California Press, 2 , Edition 2004

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life and career data according to Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska In pursuit of early mammals , Indiana University Press 2013, p. 38
  2. ↑ Obituary. Retrieved October 23, 2019 (Polish).
personal data
SURNAME Maryańska, Teresa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH 3rd October 2019
Place of death Warsaw