Franciszek Adamczak Explained

Franciszek Adamczak (1 March 1927 – 16 July 2000) was a Polish–Swedish palaeontologist who made major contributions to the study of Palaeozoic ostracods.

Biography

Born in Poland, Franciszek J. Adamczak studied geology at the University of Warsaw. He worked there for ten years, starting in 1954. In 1964 he emigrated to Sweden, took Swedish nationality, and worked at the Stockholm University; he also became a member of the Swedish Geological Society.[1] At the end of life he participated in a project aiming at producing a new edition of the ostracod volume (Part Q) of the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. As this project did not come to fruition, his papers were published posthumously by a collaborator, German ostracodologist Gerhard Becker.[2]

Research

Overview

Franciszek Adamczak worked on the morphology, systematics, and evolution of Palaeozoic ostracods. Among his discoveries, one may note the description of Eridostraca (= Eridostracina Adamczak, 1961),[3] interpreted either as a primitive suborder of ostracods or as a different group of microcrustaceans.[4] Franciszek Adamczak also described several ostracod genera, like Kuresaaria Adamczak, 1967[5] or Guerichiella Adamczak, 1968.[6]

Selected publications

Eponymy

The following ostracod genera are named in Franciszek Adamczak's honour:

Notes and References

  1. December 1988 . Membership supplement . Geologiska Föreningen i Stockholm Förhandlingar . en . 110 . 4 . i–vi . 10.1080/11035898809452663 . 0016-786X.
  2. Becker . Gerhard . 2003 . In memoriam Franciszek Adamczak . Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen . 229 . 3 . 340–348.
  3. Adamczak . Franciszek . 1961 . Eridostraca, a new suborder of ostracods and its phylogenetic significance . . 6 . 1 . 75–116.
  4. Jones . Peter J. . Olempska . Ewa . 2013 . The ostracode suborder Eridostracina Adamczak, 1961 . Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen . 267 . 3 . 341–352. 10.1127/0077-7749/2013/0315 .
  5. Web site: World Ostracoda Database - Kuresaaria Adamczak, 1967 †. 2023-05-16 . www.marinespecies.org.
  6. Web site: World Ostracoda Database - Guerichiella Adamczak, 1968 †. 2023-05-16 . www.marinespecies.org.
  7. Adamczak . Franciszek . 1956 . Polyzygia Gürich, an ostracod genus from the Givetian of the Holy Cross Mountains . Acta Palaeontologica Polonica . 1 . 1 . 35–38.
  8. Adamczak . Franciszek . 1968 . Palaeocopa and Platycopa Ostracoda from Middle Devonian rocks in the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland . Stockholm Contributions in Geology . 17 . 1–109 . 0585-3532.
  9. Adamczak . Franciszek . 1976 . Middle Devonian Podocopida (Ostracoda) from Poland: their morphology, systematics and occurrence . Senckenbergiana Lethaea . 57 . 4/6 . 265–467.
  10. Adamczak . Franciszek✝ . 2006 . Contributions to Palaeozoic Ostracod Classification. "Non-kloedenellacean" ostracods. 3. Family Glyptopleuridae GIRTY, 1910. Ambigous forms . Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen . 241 . 1–24. 10.1127/njgpa/241/2006/1 .
  11. Web site: IRMNG - Adamczakiella Becker & Sanchez de Posada, 1977 † . 2023-05-16 . www.irmng.org.
  12. Web site: IRMNG - Adamczakellus Groos-Uffenorde in Feist & Groos-Uffenorde, 1979 † . 2023-05-16 . www.irmng.org.
  13. Web site: World Ostracoda Database - Adamczakia Schallreuter, 1986 † . 2023-05-16 . www.marinespecies.org.
  14. Olempska . Ewa . 1994 . Ostracods of the Mójcza limestone . Palaeontologia Polonica . 54 . 129–212.

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