Halszka Osmólska

Halszka Osmólska
Born (1930-09-15)September 15, 1930
Poznań, Poland
Died March 31, 2008(2008-03-31) (aged 77)
Poland
Occupation Paleontologist

Halszka Osmólska (September 15, 1930 – March 31, 2008) was a Polish paleontologist who had specialized in Mongolian dinosaurs.[1]

She was born in Poznań. A member of the 1965 and 1970 Polish–Mongolian expeditions to the Gobi Desert,[2] she described many finds from these rocks, often with Teresa Maryańska. Among the dinosaurs she described are: Elmisaurus (and Elmisauridae (1981), Hulsanpes (1982), Borogovia (1987), and Bagaraatan (1996); with Maryańska, Homalocephale, Prenocephale, and Tylocephale (and Pachycephalosauria) (1974), Bagaceratops (1975), and Barsboldia (1981); with Maryańska and Altangerel Perle, Goyocephale (1982); with Ewa Roniewicz, Deinocheirus (1967); with Roniewicz and Rinchen Barsbold, Gallimimus (1972);[1] with Kurzanov, Tochisaurus (1991); and with several other authors, Nomingia (2000). Her other work included discussions of the paleobiology of hadrosaurids, and co-editing the two editions of The Dinosauria.[3][4] As of 2004, she was affiliated with the Instytut Paleobiologii of the Polska Akademia Nauk.[5] She is recognized for her work in the names of the Mongolian oviraptorid Citipati osmolskae, the Chinese dromaeosaurid Velociraptor osmolskae, the archosauriform reptile Osmolskina czatkowicensis, and the Polish Pliocene lagomorph Prolagus osmolskae.[6]

Osmólska was, in recognition of her scientific work, a recipient of a number of awards including the Polish Cross of Merit.[7]

Selected publications

Other sources

Borsuk-Białynicka, M. and Maryańska, T. Halszka Osmólska (1930-2008) In Memoriam. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53, 2, 206.cp.

Dodson, Peter (2008) "Polish Women in the Gobi–In Loving Memory of Halszka Osmólska (1930-2008)." American Paleontologist 16.3: 30

References

  1. 1 2 Lambert, David; the Diagram Group (1990). "Dinosaurologists". The Dinosaur Data Book. New York: Avon Books. p. 281. ISBN 0-380-75896-2.
  2. ↑ Colbert, Edwin H. (2000). "Asiatic dinosaur rush". In Benton, Michael J.; Shishkin, Mikhail A.; Unwin, David M.; and Kurochkin, Evgenii N. The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 211–234. ISBN 0-521-55476-4.
  3. ↑ Weishampel, David B.; Osmólska, Halszka; and Dodson, Peter (eds.), ed. (1990). The Dinosauria (1st ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-06727-4.
  4. ↑ Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.), ed. (2004). The Dinosauria (2nd ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
  5. ↑ Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.), ed. (2004). The Dinosauria (2nd ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 776. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
  6. ↑ Fostowicz-Frelik, Ł. 2010. A new species of Pliocene Prolagus (Lagomorpha, Ochotonidae) from Poland is the northernmost record of the genus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30 (2): 609-612.
  7. ↑ Moody, R., & Geological Society of London. (2010). Dinosaurs and other extinct saurians: A historical perspective. London: Geological Society.
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