Halszka Osmólska

Halszka Osmólska
Born(1930-09-15)September 15, 1930
Poznań, Poland
DiedMarch 31, 2008(2008-03-31) (aged 77)
Poland
NationalityPolish
Alma materUniversity of Warsaw
Adam Mickiewicz University
OccupationPaleontologist

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

Biography

She was born in 1930 in Poznań. In 1949, she began to study biology at Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences of the University of Poznań before moving to Warsaw and studying at the University of Warsaw, which she graduated from in 1955. Since then she worked at the Institute of Paleobiology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN). Between 1983–1988, she served as the institute's director.

She was a member of the Polish–Mongolian expeditions to the Gobi Desert (1963–1965 and 1967–1971) and she described many finds from these rocks, often with Teresa Maryańska. Among the dinosaurs she described are:

Her other work included discussions of the paleobiology of hadrosaurids, and co-editing the two editions of The Dinosauria.

She is recognized for her work in the names of the Mongolian oviraptorid Citipati osmolskae, the Chinese dromaeosaurid Velociraptor osmolskae, the Mongolian dromaeosaurid Halszkaraptor escuilliei, the archosauriform reptile Osmolskina czatkowicensis, and the Polish Pliocene lagomorph Prolagus osmolskae.

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

Selected publications

References

  1. ^ a b Lambert, David; the Diagram Group (1990). "Dinosaurologists". The Dinosaur Data Book. New York: Avon Books. pp. 281. ISBN 0-380-75896-2.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Colbert, Edwin H. (2000). "Asiatic dinosaur rush". In Benton, Michael J.; Shishkin, Mikhail A.; Unwin, David M.; Kurochkin, Evgenii N. (eds.). The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 211–234. ISBN 0-521-55476-4.
  4. ^ Weishampel, David B.; Osmólska, Halszka; Dodson, Peter, eds. (1990). The Dinosauria (1st ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-06727-4.
  5. ^ Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; Osmólska, Halszka, eds. (2004). The Dinosauria (2nd ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. 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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