Andrzej Elżanowski, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Polish paleontologist and zoologist
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Place of Birth: Przasnysz, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
About Andrzej Elżanowski
- Andrzej Elzanowski (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.
- 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.
- In 2001 he determined that Solnhofen specimen of Archaeopteryx represents new species and genus and coined new specific name – Wellnhoferia grandis – for it.
- He works now in the Faculty of „Artes Liberales” at the University of Warsaw.
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