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Andrzej Elżanowski

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Andrzej Elżanowski
Born(1950-01-21)21 January 1950

Andrzej Elżanowski (born 21 January 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 Faculty of „Artes Liberales” at the University of Warsaw.[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; Witmer, Lawrence (eds.). Mesozoic Birds: Above the Heads of Dinosaurs. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-20094-4.
  3. ^ Elżanowski, Andrzej (2001). "A new genus and species for the largest specimen of Archaeopteryx" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 46 (4): 519–532.
  4. ^ "Elżanowski Andrzej | Wydział "Artes Liberales" Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego". al.uw.edu.pl. Retrieved 2019-03-12.