Vladimir Prokhorovich Amalitsky

Vladimir Amalitsky

Vladimir Prochorowitsch Amalizki , Russian Владимир Прохорович Амалицкий , scientific transliteration Vladimir Prochorovič Amalickij, also Amalitzky, Amalitskii transcribed (born July 1, ^jul. / 13. July  1860 ^greg. In Stariki ; † 28 December 1917 in Kislovodsk ) was a Russian paleontologist .

Life

Amalizki studied at the University of Saint Petersburg , where he got to know the Permian fauna of the Nizhny Novgorod area on an excursion under Vasily Vasilyevich Dokuchayev , on which he wrote his thesis ( Permian deposits of the Oka-Volga basin . 1887). That was the beginning of his preoccupation with the Russian Permian, which at that time was still considered to be low in fossils. In 1886 he became a conservator in the geological cabinet of the university and from 1889 he taught paleontology. In 1890 he became a professor at the then Russian University of Warsaw and in 1904 at the Polytechnic there. Amalizki hoped to make similar finds in the Russian Permian as the amphibian and reptile fauna in the Karoo of South Africa, which he knew from the British Museum . In 1898 he discovered in Permian deposits on the Suchona River with well-preserved Labyrinthodontia , Pareiasauridae and Dicynodontia as well as the typical Glossopteris flora of Gondwana . His finds are in the Paleontological Museum in Moscow. In 1908 he became director of the Warsaw Polytechnic. He was active in the university reform in the Russian Empire, which led to the establishment of the Saratov University (1909).

He was a founding member of the Russian Paleontological Society, foreign member of the Geological Society of London .

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