Andrzej Elżanowski Explained

Andrzej Elżanowski
Birth Date:	1950 1, df=yes

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]

Notes and References

1. Elżanowski . Andrzej . Wellnhofer, Peter . 1992 . A new link between theropods and birds from the Cretaceous of Mongolia . . 359 . 6398. 821–823 . 10.1038/359821a0.
2. Book: Elżanowski, Andrzej . Archaeopterygidae . Chiappe, Luis . Witmer, Lawrence . Mesozoic Birds: Above the Heads of Dinosaurs . Berkeley . University of California Press . 978-0-520-20094-4 . 2002.
3. Andrzej . Elżanowski . A new genus and species for the largest specimen of Archaeopteryx . Acta Palaeontologica Polonica . 46 . 4 . 519–532 . 2001 .
4. Web site: Elżanowski Andrzej Wydział "Artes Liberales" Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. al.uw.edu.pl. 2019-03-12.