Department of Evolutionary Paleobiology

RESEARCH TOPICS:

• Evolutionary changes and faunal assemblages at the dawn of dinosaur age
• Evolution of anatomical adaptations of the invertebrate skeletons
• Functional role of the skeleton adaptations in a colony of Silurian graptoloids
• The importance of the stratigraphy in the evolutionary scenarios

Head of the Department:

Ewa OLEMPSKA-RONIEWICZ, Ph.D., D.Sc., Professor
Palaeozoic ostracodes, foraminifers, and problematic microfossils: stratigraphy, paleoecology, evolution

Maria Aleksandra BITNER, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Cretaceous and Cenozoic brachiopods

Jerzy DZIK, Ph.D., D.Sc., Professor
early metazoan: phylogeny and evolution of conodont apparatuses

Anna KOZŁOWSKA, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Silurian graptoloids (retiolitids): phylogeny, evolution, and systematics.

Tomasz SULEJ, Ph.D.
Triassic labyrinthodonts: phylogeny, evolution, and systematics

 

Ph.D. students:

mgr Marek DEC, M.Sc.
Early vertebrates, evolution of paleozoic agnthan

Kinga DOBROWOLSKA , M.Sc.
Skeleton ultrastructures and evolution of Silurian Retiolitidae (Graptolithina)

Dagmara CHMIELARZ, M.Sc.
Morphology, specialization and phylogeny of silurian Monograptidae (Graptolithina)

Kyle FREEMAN, M.Sc.
Morphology and evolution of Theropoda, especially Tyrannosauridae; Quarternary Elephantidae

Dawid MAZUREK, M.Sc.
Early evolution of Metazoa, Cambrian ichnofossils

Piotr SKRZYCKI, M.Sc.
Dipnoan evolution, especially in Mesozoic

Dawid SURMIK, M.Sc.

 

Retired staff:

Magdalena BORSUK-BIAŁYNICKA, Ph.D., D.Sc., Professor
Mesozoic lizards; Triassic diapsids

Zofia KIELAN-JAWOROWSKA, Ph.D., D.Sc., Professor emeritus
Mesozoic mammals; Formerly: trilobites and polychaete jaw apparatuses

Adam URBANEK, Ph.D., D.Sc., Professor emeritus
Graptolites; Fossil and extant pterobranchs; Evolutionary biology; Philosophical aspects of life and earthsciences; Ongoing research: homology of stolon system in pterobranchs and sessile Graptolithina, study on Mastigograptus

Hubert SZANIAWSKI , Ph.D., D.Sc., Professor
Scolecodonts, chaethognaths, and conodonts: phylogeny and evolution