Teresa Maryańska

Teresa Maryańska is a Polish paleontologist who has specialized in Mongolian dinosaurs, particularly pachycephalosaurians and ankylosaurians.[1] Peter Dodson (1998 p. 9) claims that in 1974 Maryanska together with Halszka Osmolska were the first "women to describe new kinds of dinosaurs".[2] She is considered not only as one of Poland's[3] but also one of the world's leading experts on dinosaurs.[4]

A member of the 1964, 1965, 1970, and 1971 Polish–Mongolian expeditions to the Gobi Desert,[5] she has described many finds from these rocks, often with Halszka Osmólska. Among the dinosaurs she has described are: Saichania and Tarchia (1977); with Osmólska, Homalocephale, Prenocephale, and Tylocephale (and Pachycephalosauria) (1974), Bagaceratops (1975), and Barsboldia (1981); and with Osmόlska and Altangerel Perle, Goyocephale (1982).[1] Feduccia notes that Maryanska and her colleagues (Osmólska and Wolsan) produced in 2002 the "most impressive analysis of the oviraptorosaurs".[6]

Amongst her many publications are contributions to three chapters of the 2nd edition of the highly respected The Dinosauria: the chapters on the Therizinosauroidea, the Ankylosauria and on the Pachycephalosauria.[7]

As of 2004, she was affiliated with the Muzeum Ziemi of the Polska Akademia Nauk.[8] She was assistant director of Muzeum Ziemi.[9]

Selected publications

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References

  1. 1 2 Lambert, David; the Diagram Group (1990). "Dinosaurologists". The Dinosaur Data Book. New York: Avon Books. p. 280. ISBN 0-380-75896-2.
  2. Dodson, Peter (1998) The Horned Dinosaurs: A Natural History, Princeton University Press
  3. Anthony J. Martins (2006). Introduction to the study of dinosaurs (2nd ed.). Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub. p. 78.
  4. Zofia Kielan-Jaworska (2005). Autobiografia (PDF). p. 26.
  5. Colbert, Edwin H. (2000). "Asiatic dinosaur rush". In Benton, Michael J.; Shishkin, Mikhail A.; Unwin, David M.; Kurochkin, Evgenii N. The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 211–234. ISBN 0-521-55476-4.
  6. Feduccia, Alan (2012) Riddle of the Feathered Dragons: Hidden Birds of China, Yale University Press
  7. D.B. Weishampel, H. Osmólska, and P. Dodson (eds.), The Dinosauria. University of California Press, Berkeley
  8. Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; Osmólska, Halszka, eds. (2004). The Dinosauria (2nd ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 776. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
  9. "dr hab. Teresa Maryańska". Retrieved 9 March 2013.
  • Dodson, Peter (2008). "Polish Women in the Gobi–In Loving Memory of Halszka Osmólska (1930-2008)". American Paleontologist. 16 (3): 3034. 
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