Andrzej Elżanowski

Andrzej Elżanowski (born January 21, 1950) is a Polish paleontologist and vertebrate zoologist specializing in bird phylogeny. Together with Peter Wellnhofer he described a coelurosaur theropod Archaeornithoides in 1992.[1] He works also on Mesozoic birds, especially Archaeopterygiformes – he is author of the chapter "Archaeopterygidae" in book edited by Luis Chiappe and Lawrence Witmer entitled Mesozoic Birds: Above the Heads of Dinosaurs.[2] In 2001 he determined that Solnhofen specimen of Archaeopteryx represents new species and genus and coined new specific name – Wellnhoferia grandis – for it.[3] He works now in the Institute of Zoology of the University of Wrocław.[4]

References

  1. ^ Elżanowski, Andrzej; Wellnhofer, Peter (1992). "A new link between theropods and birds from the Cretaceous of Mongolia". Nature 359 (6398): 821–823. doi:10.1038/359821a0. 
  2. ^ Elżanowski, Andrzej (2002). "Archaeopterygidae". In Chiappe, Luis and Witmer, Lawrence (eds.). Mesozoic Birds: Above the Heads of Dinosaurs. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520200944. 
  3. ^ Elżanowski, Andrzej (2001). "A new genus and species for the largest specimen of Archaeopteryx". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 46 (4): 519–532. http://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app46/app46-519.pdf. 
  4. ^ "Prof. dr hab. Andrzej Elżanowski" (in Polish). Nauka Polska (Polish scientists database). http://nauka-polska.pl/dhtml/raporty/ludzieNauki?rtype=opis&lang=pl&objectId=27783. Retrieved 2009-06-21.