Andrzej Elżanowski
Polish paleontologist and zoologist · Poland · On the map · Academics · Born 1950 · age 76
Andrzej Elżanowski is a Polish paleontologist and vertebrate zoologist specializing in bird phylogeny. Together with Peter Wellnhofer he described a coelurosaur theropod Archaeornithoides in 1992.
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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.
