Tomasz Sulej

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tomasz Sulej (born August 6, 1974 in Warsaw ) is a Polish paleontologist who specializes in the study of basal archosauria , amphibious temnospondyli and the palaeontology of the Triassic .

Life

Tomasz Sulej studied biology at the University of Warsaw from 1993 to 1998 and graduated with a master's degree . In 2006 he received his doctorate under Jerzy Dzik at the Institute of Paleontology of the Polish Academy of Sciences ( PAN ). In 2011 he became head of the Museum for Evolution of the Paleontological Institute of the PAN and is still today (as of 2018). His habilitation followed in 2014 . In 2018 he published his discovery of Lisowicia bojani together with Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki . This elephant-sized dicynodon was discovered during an excavation near Lisowice in 2008 and lived in the Upper Triassic about 210 million years ago .

Tomasz Sulej is married and has three children.

Works

Books

  • Krasiejów. Sensacyjne odkrycia triasowych pra-dinozaurów , Przygoda Studio, Opole 2003
    • Sensational discoveries of ancient Triassic dinosaurs , translation by Grzegorz Jureczko, Opole 2004
    • Krasiejów. The ramarkable discovery of Triassic pre-dinosaurs , translation by Michał Brodacki and Anna Kondarewicz, Opole 2004
  • Pierwszy Polski dinozaur , with Jerzy Dzik, Śląskie Wydawnictwo ADA, Opole 2004

Scientific papers

  • Osteology, variability and evolution of Metoposaurus, temnospondyl from the Late Triassic of Poland (PhD thesis), 2006
  • Species discrimination of the Late Triassic labyrinthodont Metoposaurus diagnosticus , Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2002, pp. 535-546
  • The temnospondyl amphibian Cyclotosaurus from the Late Triassic of Poland , with D. Majer, Palaeontology 48, 2005, pp. 157-170
  • The taxonomy and anatomy of rauisuchian archosaurs from the Late Triassic of Germany and Poland , with SL Brusatte, et al., Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 54, pp. 221-230
  • Basal dinosauriform and theropod dinosaurs from the middle-late Norian (Late Triassic) of Poland: implications for Triassic dinosaur evolution and distribution , with G. Niedźwiedzki et al., Palaeontology 57, 2014, pp. 1121–1142
  • An early Late Triassic long-necked reptile with a bony pectoral shield and gracile appendages , with Jerzy Dzik, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 61, pp. 805–823
  • An elephant-sized Late Triassic synapsid with erect limbs , Tomasz Sulej, Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki , in Science , November 2018, Online

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ ORCiD, Tomasz Sulej , accessed on November 23, 2018
  2. ↑ a b c Website of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Zakład Paleobiologii Ewolucyjnej - Tomasz Sulej , accessed on November 23, 2018
  3. ^ Spiegel Online, As big as an elephant Researchers discover enigmatic prehistoric cattle in Poland , November 23, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Sulej, Tomasz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw