# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elga-mark-kurik
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:16:37.609Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elga-mark-kurik"
name: "Elga Mark-Kurik"
slug: "elga-mark-kurik"
description: "Elga Mark-Kurik was an Estonian geologist and paleontologist. With over 130 articles published, Mark-Kurik is particularly known for the discovery of Livoniana, a fossil sometimes described as \"missing link\" between fish and tetrapods."
tagline: "Estonian geologist and paleontologist (1928-2016)"
gender: "female"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1928-12-26"
deathDate: "2016-11-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.09
  momentum:             11.05263157894737
  historical:           5.936897333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  25
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Elga Mark-Kurik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elga_Mark-Kurik"
    title: "Elga Mark-Kurik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elga_Mark-Kurik"
    title: "Elga Mark-Kurik"
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  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elga_Mark-Kurik"
    title: "Elga Mark-Kurik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elga_Mark-Kurik"
    title: "Elga Mark-Kurik"
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  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elga_Marka-Kurika"
    title: "Elga Marka-Kurika"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elga_Mark-Kurik"
    title: "Elga Mark-Kurik"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16404659"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump