Stoycho Vassilev Breskovski Explained

Stoycho Vassilev Breskovski
Native Name:	Стойчо Василев Бресковски
Native Name Lang:	bg
Birth Date:	25 December 1934
Birth Place:	Granit, Stara Zagora Province, Bulgaria
Death Place:	Sofia, Republic of Bulgaria
Nationality:	Bulgarian
Citizenship:	Bulgaria
Parents:	Vassil Stoychev Breskovski (father) Paraskeva Breskovska (mother)
Relatives:	Vesselina Breskovska (sister)
Field:	Barremian Palaeontology Stratigraphy
Alma Mater:	Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"
Doctoral Advisor:	Vassil Tzankov
Thesis Title:	Bulgarian: Биостратиграфия на баремския етаж в част от Североизточна България (An Essay on Biostratigraphy of the Barremian Stage in a Part of Northeastern Bulgaria)
Thesis Year:	1974
Author Abbrev Zoo:	Breskovski

Stoycho Vassilev Breskovski (Bulgarian: Стойчо Василев Бресковски; December 25, 1934, in Granit, Stara Zagora Province, Bulgaria – January 15, 2004, in Sofia, Bulgaria) was a Bulgarian paleontologist.^{[1] [2]}

Biography

Stoycho Breskovski was the only son of educators Vassil Stoychev Breskovski (1902 - 1978) and Paraskeva Breskovska (1906 - 1988). After receiving his primary and secondary education in Plovdiv, he studied geology at Sofia University and graduated in 1958.^[2] Then, he took active part in Bulgarian geological survey and in the preparation of the geologic map of Bulgaria at scale of 1:200,000. Later Dr. Breskovski was noted for his research on Lower Cretaceous, Barremian fauna.^[3] He was also credited for discovering, identifying and discerning several families, subfamilies, genera and species of ammonites.

From 1974 to 1995 Breskovski had been research associate and curator of the paleontology collection at the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia.^{[4] [2]} He contributed to the collections at the natural history museums in the Bulgarian cities of Elena, Rousse, Razgrad, and Shumen. In later age he tried to reconcile his various hobbies of collecting stamps, pocket calendars, phillumeny and philately with science. His older sister, Vesselina Breskovska, was professor of mineralogy, dean and vice rector at Sofia University. He was survived by his wife of 42 years and fellow paleontologist, Nona Motekova,^[5] a son and a daughter, a granddaughter and a grandson, and a siamese cat.

Honors

A genus and two species of Lower Cretaceous ammonites bear his name.^{[6] [7] [8] [9]}

Selected bibliography

• V. Tzankov, S. Breskovski (1985), Ammonites des familles Holcodiscidae Spath, 1924 et Astieridiscidae Tzankov & Breskovski, 1982. II. Description paléontologique, Geologica Balcanica, 15.5, 3-53.
• V. Tzankov, S. Breskovski (1985), Ammonites des familles Holcodiscidae Spath, 1924 et Astieridiscidae Tzankov & Breskovski, 1982. I. Stratigraphie et notes phylogénétiques, Geologica Balcanica, 15.3, 45-62.
• V. Tzankov, S Breskovski (1982), Volume et contenu de la famille Holcodiscidae Spath, 1924, C.R. Acad. bulg. Sci., 35, 4, 491-93.
• St. Breskovski (1980), Des genres nouveaux du Crétacé inférieur de la famille Desmoceratidae Zittel, 1895 (Ammonoidea). C.R. Acad. bulg. Sci., 33, 2; 245-48.
• St Breskovski (1977), Sur la classification de la famille Desmoceratidae Zittel, 1895 (Ammonoidea, Crétacé), C. R. Acad. bul. sci, 30, 6: 891-4.
• St. Breskovski (1977), Genres nouveaux du Crétacé inférieur de la famille Desmoceratidae Zittel, 1895 (Ammonoidea). C.R. Acad. bulg. Sci., 30, 10; 1463-65.
• S. Breskovski (1975), Les zones et sous-zones ammonitiques dans l'étage Barrémien en Bulgarie du Nord-Est, Geologica Balcanica, N.S., 5, 46-66.
• St. Breskovski (1967), Eleniceras - genre nouveau d'ammonites hautériviens, Bull. Geol. Inst., Ser. Paleontology, 16: 47-52.
• T. Nikolov, St. Breskovski, (1969), Abrytusites – nouveau genre d’ammonites barrémiennes. Bull. Geol. Inst., ser. Paleontology, 18, 91-96.
• Стойчо Бресковски (1966), Биостратиграфия на барема южно от Брестак, Варненско [Biostratigaphie du Barrémien au Sud du village de Brestak, dans la région de Varna<nowiki>], Тр. Геолог Бълг., сер. Палеонтология, 8, 71-121].

References

• Book: [[Claud William Wright|Wright C.W. ]] with J.H. Callomon and M.K. Howarth . 1996 . Mollusca 4 Revised: Cretaceous Ammonoidea . 4 . Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part L . Roger L. Kaesler . Boulder, Colorado and Lawrence, Kansas . The Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press . https://archive.org/details/treatiseoninvert0000join/page/n3/mode/2up?view=theater . registration . Internet Archive.
• Jost Wiedmann, Cretaceous Ammonoidea, in M.R. House and J.R. Senior eds (1981), Ammonoidea, Environment, Ecology and Evolutionary Change, London: Academic Press, Systematics Association Special Volume. 18.
• Book: Dimitrova, Natalia . Fossils of Bulgaria. IV. . 1967 . Lower Cretaceous - Cephalopoda (Nautiloidea & Ammonoidea) . Sofia . Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 424 p., 93 pl. . Bulgarian, French . 256251301.
• Maria B. Aguirre-Urreta, Peter F. Rawson (2003), Lower Cretaceous ammonites from the Neuquén Basin, Argentina: The Hauterivian genus Holcoptychites, Cretaceous Research 24, 589-613.
• M. Matsukawa, I. Obata & K. Sato (2007), Barremian Ammonite Fauna of the Lower Ishido Formation, eastern part of Sanchu Cretaceous, Japan, Bull. of Tokyo Gakugei Univ. Nat. Sci., 59, 77-87.
• Hosni Hamama (2010), Barremian and Aptian Mollusca of Gabal Mistan and Gabal Um Mitmani, Al-Malghara Area, Northern Sinai, Egypt, Journal of American Science, 6(12), at 1704.
• Zdeněk Vašíček (2010), Early Cretaceous ammonites from the Butkov Quarry (Manin Unit, Central Western Carpathians, Slovakia), Acta Geologica Polonica, Vol. 60, No.3, 393-415.
• Peter F. Rawson, M. Beatriz Aguirre-Urreta (2012), Lower Cretaceous ammonites from the Neuquén Basin, Argentina: The Hauterivian genus Spidiscus, Cretaceous Research 33, 97-105.

External links

• Web site: Paleontology Hall. National Museum of Natural History, Sofia, Bulgaria . Bulgarian .
• Web site: Museum of Paleontology in Elena, Bulgaria . bulgariatravel.org.
• Web site: Breskovski . Repository of "Index to Organisms Names" (ION) in Global Names Index (GNI).
• Web site: †Eleniceras Breskovski 1967 (ammonite) . The Paleobiology Database.
• Web site: Eleniceras Breskovski, 1967 . Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).
• Web site: Breskovski. Universal Biological Indexer & Organizer (uBio).
• Web site: Abrytusites, Nikolov & Breskovski 1969 . Nomenclator Zoologicus; uBio Database.

Notes and References

1. Book: International Palaeontological Union (I.P.U.) . 1968 . Westermann . G.E.G.. Directory of Palaeontologists of the World (excl. Soviet Union & continental China) . 2. McMaster University . Hamilton, Ontario . 14, 186 . 21 December 2016 . Internet Archive .
2. Tchoumatchenco . Platon . Nikolov, Todor . Review of the Bulgarian Geological Society . Compendium of Bulgarian Palaeontologists (1896-December 31, 2015). Part I. A-K . 77 . 1 . 2016 . 114–115 . bg, en.
3. See Vašíček . Zdeněk . Rabrenović, Dragoman . Radulović, Vladan J. . Radulović, Barbara V. . Mojsić, Ivana . Cretaceous Research . Ammonoids (Desmoceratoidea and Silesitoidea) from the Late Barremian of Boljetin, eastern Serbia . 41 . April 2013 . 10.1016/j.cretres.2012.10.002 . 41–42 .
4. Book: National Natural History Museum (NNHM) . Earth & Astronomical Sciences Research Centres: A World Directory of Organizations and Programmes . Cartermill . 1995 . https://books.google.com/books?id=L0JRAAAAMAAJ&q=Beron+Breskovski . 47 . 9781561590964 .
5. Book: Tzankov, V. . Pamouktchiev, A. . Tchechmedjeva, V. . Motekova, N. . Les fossiles de Bulgarie: Crétacé supérieur. Grandes foraminifères, Anthozoaires, Gastéropodes, Bivalvia . Sofia . Éditions de L'Académie bulgare des sciences . bg, fr . . 1981. 31018111 .
6. VERMEULEN . J. . LAZARIN P. . Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Nice . Nouvelles données sur les Ancyloceratoidea Gill, 1871 (Ancyloceratina Wiedmann, 1966 emend Vermeulen, 2005) du Barrémien supérieur et de l'Aptien inférieur . XXII . 2007 . Nice. 27–86.
7. Vermeulen, Jean . Damais, Laurent . Lépinay, Patrick . 2015 . Nouvelles données sur le genre Breskovskiceras Vermeulen & Lazarin, 2007 et sur son espèce-type . Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Nice . XXX . 13–28 .
8. Web site: Plesiospitidiscus breskovskii Cecca et al., 1998 . Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) . 19 June 2022 .
9. Web site: Montanesiceras breskovskii Vašíček et al., 2013 . mindat.org . 19 June 2022.