Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska

Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (born on April 25, 1925) is a Polish paleobiologist. In the mid-1960s Kielan-Jaworowska led a series of Polish-Mongolian paleontological expeditions to the Gobi Desert. Kielan-Jaworowska was the first woman to serve on the executive committee of the International Union of Geological Sciences.^[1]

Early life and education

Kielan-Jaworowska earned a Masters Degree in zoology and a paleontology doctorate at Warsaw University, where she later became a professor. She married Zbigniew Jaworowski, a professor of radiobiology, in 1958.^[1]

Paleobiologist career

Kielan-Jaworowska was employed by the Instytut Paleobiologii of the Polska Akademia Nauk. She held a number of functions in professional organizations in Poland and the United States, and was the first woman to serve on the executive committee of the International Union of Geological Sciences.^[1]

Kielan-Jaworowska's work included the study of Devonian and Ordovician trilobites from Central Europe (Poland and Czech Republic), leading several Polish-Mongolian paleontological expeditions to the Gobi Desert, and the discovery of new species of crocodiles, lizards, turtles, dinosaurs, birds and multituberculates. She is a coauthor of the book Mammals from the Age of Dinosaurs

She is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.^[2]

List of selected publications

• ——— (1979). "Pelvic structure and nature of reproduction in Multituberculata". Nature 277 (5695): 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 (2): 169–175. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1980.tb01047.x. 
• 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 (1164): 525–602. doi:10.1098/rstb.1986.0055. 
• ———; 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 (6116): 871–873. doi:10.1038/326871a0. 
• Hopson, J. A.; ———; Allin, E. F. (1989). "The cryptic jugal in multituberculates". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 9 (2): 201–209. doi:10.1080/02724634.1989.10011754. 
• ———; Nesov, L. A. (1990). "On the metatherian nature of the Deltatheroida, a sister group of the Marsupialia". Lethaia 23 (1): 1–10. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1990.tb01776.x. 
• ———; 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 (3): 351–376. doi:10.1080/02724634.1992.10011465. 
• ———; 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 (3): 249–266. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1996.tb01658.x. 
• ———; Cifelli, R.; Luo, Z. (1998). "Alleged Cretaceous placental from down under". Lethaia 31 (3): 267–268. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1998.tb00516.x. 
• Luo: Z.-X.; Cifelli, R. L.; ——— (2001). "Dual origin of tribosphenic mammals". Nature 409 (6816): 53–57. doi:10.1038/35051023. PMID 11343108. 
• ———; Hurum, J. H. (2001). "Phylogeny and systematics of multituberculate mammals". Palaeontology 44 (3): 389–429. doi:10.1111/1475-4983.00185. 
• ———; Cifelli, Richard L.; Zhe-Xi Luo (2004). Mammals from the age of dinosaurs : origins, evolution, and structure. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0231119186. 

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