Andrzej Elżanowski

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 Institute of Zoology of the University of Wrocław.^[4]

References

1. Elżanowski, Andrzej; Wellnhofer, Peter (1992). "A new link between theropods and birds from the Cretaceous of Mongolia". Nature 359 (6398): 821–823. doi:10.1038/359821a0.
2. Elżanowski, Andrzej (2002). "Archaeopterygidae". In Chiappe, Luis and Witmer, Lawrence (eds.). Mesozoic Birds: Above the Heads of Dinosaurs. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-20094-4.
3. Elżanowski, Andrzej (2001). "A new genus and species for the largest specimen of Archaeopteryx" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 46 (4): 519–532.
4. "Prof. dr hab. Andrzej Elżanowski" (in Polish). Nauka Polska (Polish scientists database). Retrieved 2009-06-21.