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Halszka Osmólska

Halszka Osmólska(September 15, 1930 – March 31, 2008) was aPolishpaleontologistwho had specialized inMongoliandinosaurs.[1]

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

Biography

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She was born in 1930 inPoznań.In 1949, she began to study biology at Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences of theUniversity of Poznańbefore moving toWarsawand studying at theUniversity of Warsaw,which she graduated from in 1955. Since then she worked at the Institute of Paleobiology of thePolish Academy of Sciences(PAN). Between 1983–1988, she served as the institute's director.[2]

She was a member of the Polish–Mongolian expeditions to theGobi Desert[3](1963–1965 and 1967–1971) and she described many finds from these rocks, often withTeresa Maryańska.Among the dinosaurs she described are:

Her other work included discussions of thepaleobiologyofhadrosaurids,and co-editing the two editions ofThe Dinosauria.[4][5]

She is recognized for her work in the names of the MongolianoviraptoridCitipati osmolskae,theChinesedromaeosauridVelociraptor osmolskae,theMongoliandromaeosauridHalszkaraptor escuilliei,thearchosauriformreptileOsmolskina czatkowicensis,and the PolishPliocenelagomorphProlagus osmolskae.[6]

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

Selected publications

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  • H. Osmólska and E. Roniewicz (1970). Deinocheiridae, a new family of theropod dinosaurs.Palaeontologica Polonica21:5-19.
  • H. Osmólska, E. Roniewicz, and R. Barsbold (1972). A new dinosaur,Gallimimus bullatusn. gen., n. sp. (Ornithomimidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia.Palaeontologia Polonica27:103-143.
  • H. Osmólska (1972). Preliminary note on a crocodilian from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia.Palaeontologia Polonica27:43-47.
  • T. Maryańska and H. Osmólska (1974). Pachycephalosauria, a new suborder of ornithischian dinosaurs.Palaeontologia Polonica30:45-102.
  • T. Maryańska and H. Osmólska (1975). Protoceratopsidae (Dinosauria) of Asia.Palaeontologica Polonica33:133-181.
  • H. Osmólska (1976). New light on the skull anatomy and systematic position ofOviraptor.Nature262:683-684.
  • H. Osmólska (1981). Coossified tarsometatarsi in theropod dinosaurs and their bearing on the problem of bird origins.Palaeontologica Polonica42:79-95.
  • T. Maryańska and H. Osmólska (1981). First lambeosaurine dinosaur from the Nemegt Formation, Upper Cretaceous, Mongolia.Acta Palaeontologica Polonica26(3-1):243-255.
  • T. Maryańska and H. Osmólska (1981). Cranial anatomy ofSaurolophus angustirostriswith comments on the Asian Hadrosauridae (Dinosauria).Palaeontologia Polonica42:5-24.
  • H. Osmólska (1982).Hulsanpes perlein.g. n.sp. (Deinonychosauria, Saurischia, Dinosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous Barun Goyot Formation of Mongolia.Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Monatshefte1982(7):440-448.
  • A. Perle, T. Maryańska, and H. Osmólska (1982).Goyocephale lattimoreigen. et sp. n., a new flat-headed pachycephalosaur (Ornithischia, Dinosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia.Acta Palaeontologica Polonica27(1-4):115-127.
  • T. Maryańska and H. Osmólska (1984). Postcranial anatomy ofSaurolophus angustirostriswith comments on other hadrosaurs.Palaeontologia Polonica46:119-141.
  • T. Maryańska and H. Osmólska (1985). On ornithischian phylogeny.Acta Palaeontologica Polonica30(3-4):137-149.
  • H. Osmólska (1987).Borogovia gracilicrusgen. et sp. n., a new troodontid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia.Acta Palaeontologica Polonica32(1-2):133-150.
  • R. Barsbold, H. Osmólska, and S.M. Kurzanov (1987). On a new troodontid (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia.Acta Palaeontologica Polonica32(1-2):121-132.
  • S. M. Kurzanov and H. Osmólska (1991).Tochisaurus nemegtensisgen. et sp. n., a new troodontid dinosaur (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from Mongolia.Acta Palaeontologica Polonica36(1):69-76.
  • H. Osmólska (1996). An unusual theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Nemegt Formation of Mongolia.Acta Palaeontologica Polonica41(1):1-38.
  • R. Barsbold and H. Osmólska (1999). The skull ofVelociraptor(Theropoda) from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia.Acta Palaeontologica Polonica44(2):189-219.
  • R. Barsbold, H. Osmólska, M. Watabe, P.J. Currie, and K. Tsogtbaatar (2000). A new oviraptorosaur (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from Mongolia: the first dinosaur with a pygostyle.Acta Palaeontologica Polonica45(2):97-106.
  • T. Maryańska, H. Osmólska, and M. Wolsan (2002). Avialan status for Oviraptorosauria.Acta Palaeontologica Polonica47(1):97-116.
  • H. Osmólska, P.J. Currie, and R. Barsbold (2004). Oviraptorosauria. In: D.B. Weishampel, P. Dodson, and H. Osmólska (eds.),The Dinosauria(second edition). University of California Press, Berkeley 165-183.

References

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  1. ^abLambert, David; the Diagram Group (1990)."Dinosaurologists".The Dinosaur Data Book.New York: Avon Books. pp.281.ISBN0-380-75896-2.
  2. ^Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; Osmólska, Halszka, eds. (2004).The Dinosauria(2nd ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 776.ISBN0-520-24209-2.
  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.ISBN0-521-55476-4.
  4. ^Weishampel, David B.; Osmólska, Halszka; Dodson, Peter, eds. (1990).The Dinosauria(1st ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press.ISBN0-520-06727-4.
  5. ^Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; Osmólska, Halszka, eds. (2004).The Dinosauria(2nd ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press.ISBN0-520-24209-2.
  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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