Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska

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Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska
Born	April 25, 1925 (1925-04-25) (age 83)
Nationality	Polish
Fields	Paleontology
Institutions	Polska Akademia Nauk
Alma mater	Warsaw University

Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (born on April 25, 1925) is a Polish paleobiologist. She was employed by the Instytut Paleobiologii of the Polska Akademia Nauk. She studied at Warsaw University. She worked as a nurse during the Warsaw Uprising.

[edit] Achievements

• study of Devonian and Ordovician trilobites from Central Europe (Poland and Czech Republic).
• leading several Polish-Mongolian paleontological expeditions to the Gobi Desert and discovery of new species of crocodiles, lizards, turtles, dinosaurs, birds and multituberculates.
• coauthor of the book Mammals from the Age of Dinosaurs
• member of PAN, Academia Europea and the Norwegian Sciences Academy

[edit] List of selected publications

• ——— (1979). "Pelvic structure and nature of reproduction in Multituberculata". Nature 277: 402-403. doi:10.1038/277402a0. 
• Lillegraven, J. A., Kielan-Jaworowska, Z. and Clemens, W. A. (eds.), Mesozoic Mammals. The First Two-thirds of Mammalian History. University of California Press, Berkeley: 99-149.
• ——— (1980). "Absence of ptilodonoidean multituberculates in Asia and its paleogeographic implications". Lethaia 13: 169-175. 
• Fosse, G.; ———; Skaale, S. G. (1985). "The microstructure of tooth enamel in multituberculate mammals". Palaeontology 28: 435-449. 
• ———; Presley, R.; Poplin, C. (1986). "Cranial vascular system in taeniolabidoid multituberculate mammals". Transactions of the Royal Society of London , B. Biological Sciences 313: 525-602. 
• ———; Dashzeveg, D.; Trofimov, B. A. (1987). "Early Cretaceous multituberculates from Asia and a comparison with British and North American Jurassic forms". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 32: 3-47. 
• ———; Crompton, A. W.; Jenkins F. A. (1987). "The origin of egg laying mammals". Nature 326: 871-873. doi:10.1038/326871a0. 
• Hopson, J. A.; ———; Allin, E. F. (1989). "The cryptic jugal in multituberculates". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 9: 201-209. 
• ———; Nessov, L. A. (1990). "On the metatherian nature of the Deltatheroida, a sister group of the Marsupialia". Lethaia 23: 1-10. 
• ———; Ensom, P. (1992). "Multituberculate mammals from the Purbeck Limestone Formation (Late Jurassic) of Southern England". Palaeontology 36: 95-126. 
• Krause, D. W.; ———; Bonaparte, J. F. (1992). "Ferugliotherium the first multituberculate from South America". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 12: 351-376. 
• ———; Ensom, P. C. (1994). "Tiny plagiaulacoid multituberculate mammals from the Purbeck Limestone Formation of Dorset, England". Palaeontology 37: 17-31. 
• ——— (1997). "Characters of multituberculates neglected in phylogenetic analyses of early mammals". Lethaia 29: 249-266. 
• ———; Cifelli, R.; Luo, Z. (1998). "Alleged Cretaceous placental from down under". Lethaia 31: 267-268. 
• Luo: Z.-X.; Cifelli, R. L.; ——— (2001). "Dual origin of tribosphenic mammals". Nature 409: 53-57. doi:10.1038/35051023. 
• ———; Hurum, J. H. (2001). "Phylogeny and systematics of multituberculate mammals". Palaeontology 44: 389-429. 
• ———; Cifelli, Richard L.; Zhe-Xi Luo (2004). Mammals from the age of dinosaurs : origins, evolution, and structure. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0231119186.