Department of Evolutionary Paleobiology

CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal data

Adam T. Halamski
Born in Warszawa (Warsaw), Poland in 1975


Titles and memberships

• 2016 D. Sc. (Doctor habilitatus) degree in geology, Faculty of Geology, University of Warsaw
• 2004 Ph. D., Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw / docteur ès sciences de la Terre, Université Lyon 1 (tutors: Andrzej Baliński and Patrick R. Racheboeuf)[Summary] 
• 2001 member of the Lyons Linnaean Society (Société linnéenne de Lyon)
• 1999 M. Sc. summa cum laude in palaeontology at Warsaw University (Middle Devonian Brachiopods of the Świętomarz-Śniadka section)
• 1996 B. Sc. in biology and earth sciences at Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie (Paris VI)

Research grants

• 2017–2022 Evolution and palaeobiogeography of Devonian brachiopod faunas on the South Polish shelf before and after the global Taghanic event – National Science Centre, Poland, 2016/23/B/ST10/02744 (principal investigator: Professor Andrzej Baliński, Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences; co-investigators: Dr hab. Adam T. Halamski; Professor Grzegorz Racki, University of Silesia). [completed]
• 2017–2020 The Late Cretaceous flowering plant expansion in the context of the transgression of the Central European Sea – National Science Centre, Poland, 2016/21/B/NZ8/02443 (principal investigator: Dr hab. Adam T. Halamski; co-investigators: Dr Jiří Kvaček, National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic; Dr Zuzana Heřmanová, National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic; PD Dr Barbara Mohr, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany; Dr Ewa Durska, Faculty of Geology, University of Warsaw, Poland; Dr Marcela Svobodová, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic). [completed]
• 2017    Understanding the diversity of Late Cretaceous fossil plants and palaeocommunities – the Brezno Formation megaflora (SYNTHESYS, CZ-TAF-6600, European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007–2013 under grant agreement no. 226506).
• 2017    Multi-disciplinary analysis of a Santonian (Late Cretaceous) fossil flora from northern Skåne, Sweden (SYNTHESYS, SE-TAF-6604, European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007–2013 under grant agreement no. 226506).
• 2015    The Late Cretaceous megaflora from Scania in comparison with coeval floras from central Europe (SYNTHESYS, SE-TAF, European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007–2013 under grant agreement no. 226506).
• 2014    The Ceska Lipa megaflora in light of contemporary floras of central Europe (SYNTHESYS, CZ-TAF-3553, European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007–2013 under grant agreement no. 226506).
• 2012–2014   The Coniacian stage in the evolution of Late Cretaceous floras in Central Europe – National Science Centre, Poland, 2011/03/B/NZ8/02206 (leader: Dr Adam T. Halamski; principal investigator: Dr Jiří Kvaček, National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic). [completed]
  
• 2010–2012     Biotic and functional structure of submarine vent ecosystems in the Devonian of Morocco – Ministry of Science, Poland, N307 016237 (leader: PhD DSc Błażej Berkowski). [completed]
• 2009–2011     Dynamics, palaeoecology, and systematic composition of latest Cretaceous leaf floras from southern and south-eastern Poland – Ministry of Science, Poland, N N303 151637 (leader: Dr Adam T. Halamski). [completed]
  
  

Teaching

• 2012- Evolutionary biology – lecture for biology students (3rd year) at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences (formerly Faculty of Agriculture, SGGW) [info]
  
• 2012- Palaeobotany – practical course for palaeontology students (4th year) at the Faculty of Geology (Warsaw University) [info]
  
• 2011- Plant and Earth’s vegetation evolution – lecture for Ph.D. students (2nd year) at the Institute of Paleobiology [info]
  
• 2006-2011 Plant Evolution – a part of the Evolutionary biology lecture for biology students (3rd year) at the Faculty of Agriculture in Warsaw (SGGW)
• 2001-2005 co-tutor of Students’ of Field Palaeobiology Learned Society at Warsaw University (Koło Naukowe Paleobiologów Terenowych UW)
• 1999 teaching during the field course for the Ist year students (Warsaw University, Faculty of Geology): general geology, elements of palaeontology, regional geology of the Holy Cross Mountains

Research interests

• Cretaceous leaf floras from central and northern Europe (incl. grant 2016/21/B/NZ8/02443, see above)
• Middle to earliest Late Devonian brachiopods from Europe and Africa – taxonomy, evolution, palaeobiogeography (incl. grant 2016/23/B/ST10/02744, see above)
• Jurassic brachiopods from Europe and Africa
• Microspecies of the Ranunculus auricomus complex
• Biological nomenclature
   
  

Publications

Monographs

Halamski, A. T. & Kvaček, J. 2015. The Late Cretaceous (Coniacian) leaf and cone flora from the Sudetes. Palaeontographica, Abteilung B, 292 (4–6): 95–171. [Abstract]

Halamski, A. T., 2009. Middle Devonian Brachiopods from the northern Part of the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland in relation to selected coeval faunas. Part I: Introduction, Lingulida, Craniida, Strophomenida, Productida, Protorthida, Orthida.  Palaeontographica, Abteilung A, 287 (1/3): 41–98, pls 1–16.  [Abstract]

Scientific papers

Brychcy, A., Zatoń, M., Nawrot, R., Halamski, A.T. & Rakociński, M. 2023. Middle Devonian brachiopod-hosted sclerobiont assemblage from the southern shelf of Laurussia, Holy Cross Mountains, Poland. Lethaia, 56 (4): 1–24. [Open access full text]

Halamski, A.T. 2023. De la récolte des fossiles à la reconstruction des écosystèmes fossiles – Les prairies à brachiopodes du Dévonien des monts Sainte-Croix [From fossil collecting to reconstructing fossil ecosystems – Brachiopod meadows in the Devonian of the Holy Cross Mountains]. Bulletin de la Société linnéenne de Lyon, 92 (9–10): 271–280. [Summary]

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Middle Devonian biota and environments of the Łysogóry Region (Poland)

[Part 1] Halamski, A.T. (ed.)
[Part 2]

Halamski, A.T. 2022. Middle Devonian biota and environments of the Łysogóry Region (Poland): Introduction. Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae, 92 (4): 317–321. [Open access full text]

Halamski, A.T., Baliński, A., Racki, G., Amler, M.R.W., Basse, M., Denayer, J., Dubicka, Z., Filipiak, P., Kondas, M., Krawczyński, W., Mieszkowski, R., Narkiewicz, K., Olempska, E., Wrzołek, T., Wyse Jackson, P.N., Zapalski, M.K., Zatoń, M. & Kozłowski, W., 2022. The pre-Taghanic (Givetian, Middle Devonian) ecosystems of Miłoszów (Holy Cross Mts, Poland). Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae, 92 (4): 323–379. [Abstract] [Open access full text]

Racki, G., Wójcik, K., Halamski, A.T. & Narkiewicz, M. 2022. Middle Devonian Skały Formation in the Holy Cross Mountains (Poland) – formal description and subdivision based on new field data. Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae, 92 (4): 425–444. [Abstract] [Open access full text]

Woźniak, P., Halamski, A.T. & Racki, G. 2022. Cyclic ecological replacement of brachiopod assemblages in the top-Eifelian Dobruchna Brachiopod Shale Member (Skały Formation) of the Holy Cross Mountains (Poland). Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae, 92 (4): 445–463. [Abstract] [Open access full text]

Baliński, A. & Halamski, A.T. 2023. Pre-Taghanic (Lower to lower Middle Givetian) brachiopods from Miłoszów in the Holy Cross Mountains (Poland). Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae, 93 (1): 3–102. [Abstract] [Open access full text]

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Barbacka, M., Pacyna, G. & Halamski, A.T. 2022. Polish palaeobotany: 750 million years of plant history as revealed in a century of studies. Mesozoic macroflora. Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae, 91, e9126. [Open access full text]

Halamski, A.T. & Taylor, P.D. 2022. Angiosperm tree leaf as a bryozoan substrate: a case study from the Cretaceous and its taphonomic consequences. Lethaia, 55 (1.9): 1-7. [Open access full text]

Halamski, A.T., Baliński, A. & Koppka, J. 2022. Middle Devonian brachiopods from northern Maïder (eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco). Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae, 92 (1): 1–86. [Abstract] [Open access full text]

Zapalski, M.K., Król, J.J., Halamski, A.T., Wrzołek, T., Rakociński, M. & Baird, A.H. 2021. Coralliths of tabulate corals from the Devonian of the Holy Cross Mountains (Poland). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 585: 110745. [Open access full text]

McLoughlin, S., Halamski, A.T., Mays, C. & Kvaček, J. 2021. Neutron tomography, fluorescence and transmitted light microscopy reveal new insect damage, fungi and plant organ associations in the Late Cretaceous floras of Sweden. GFF, 143 (2–3): 248–276. [Open access full text]

Halamski, A.T., Kvaček, J., Svobodová, M., Durska, E. & Heřmanová, Z. 2020. Late Cretaceous mega-, meso-, and microfloras from Lower Silesia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 65 (4): 811–878. [Abstract] [Open access full text]

Heřmanová, Z., Kvaček, J., Dašková, J. & Halamski, A.T. 2020. Plant reproductive structures and other mesofossils from Coniacian/Santonian of Lower Silesia, Poland. Palaeontologia Electronica, 23 (3): a61. [Abstract and open access full text] [Résumé en français]

Halamski, A.T., Baliński, A. & Jansen, U. 2020. Middle Devonian uncinuloids (Brachiopoda, Rhynchonellida) from North Africa and Central Europe. Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae, 90 (1): 51–73.[Abstract] [Open access full text]

Heřmanová, Z., Kvaček, J., Halamski, A.T., Zahajská, P. & Šilar, J. 2019. Reinterpretation of fossil reproductive structures Zlivifructus microtriasseris (Normapolles complex, Fagales) from the Czech and Polish Late Cretaceous. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 268: 88–94.
[Abstract]

Halamski, A.T. and Baliński, A. 2019. Thomasaria vs. Pyramidalia conundrum in Devonian brachiopod systematics solved: An argument to formalize epitypification under the ICZN. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 64 (2): 399-408. [Abstract] [Open access full text]

Halamski, A.T., Dunkel, F.G. & Temsch, E.M., 2019. Ranunculus kobendzae, a new species of the R. auricomus complex (Ranunculaceae) from Poland. Annales Botanici Fennici, 56: 123–134.  [Abstract]

Halamski, A.T. & Baliński, A. 2018. Early Dalejan (Emsian) brachiopods from Hamar Laghdad (eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco). – In: Klug, C. & Korn, D. (eds): Palaeontology of the Devonian of Hamar Laghdad. Special volume honouring Jobst Wendt. – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 290 (1–3): 127–152. [Abstract]

Halamski, A.T. & Baliński, A., 2018. Eressella, a new uncinuloid brachiopod genus from the Middle Devonian of Europe and Africa. Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae, 88 (1): 21–35. [Abstract] [Open access full text]

Ronikier, A. & Halamski, A.T. 2018. Is Myxomycetes (Amoebozoa) a truly ambiregnal group? A major issue in protist nomenclature. Protist, 169 (4): 484–493. [Abstract] [Full text]

Halamski, A. T., Kvaček, J. & Svobodová, M. 2018. Fossil mega- and microflora from the Březno beds s.s. (Bohemian Cretaceous Basin, Coniacian). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 253: 123–138. [Abstract]

Halamski, A. T. & Cherif, A. 2017. Oxfordian brachiopods from the Saïda and Frenda mountains (Tlemcenian Domain, north-western Algeria). Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae, 87 (2): 141–156. [Abstract] [Open access full text]

Baliński, A., Racki, G. & Halamski, A. T. 2016. Brachiopods and stratigraphy of the Upper Devonian (Frasnian) succession of the Radlin Syncline (Holy Cross Mountains, Poland). Acta Geologica Polonica, 66 (2): 107–156, pls 1–20. [Abstract] [Open access full text]

Halamski, A. T. & Kvaček, J. 2016. The Coniacian leaf flora from the north-eastern part of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin. Bulletin of Geosciences, 91 (2): 297–318.
[Abstract] [Open access full text]

Halamski, A. T., Kvaček, J. & Vajda, V. 2016. Late Cretaceous (Campanian) leaf and palynoflora from southern Skåne, Sweden. In: Kear, B. P., Lindgren, J., Hurum, J. H., Milàn, J. & Vajda, V. (eds) Mesozoic Biotas of Scandinavia and its Arctic Territories. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 434: 207–229. [Abstract] [Open access full text]

Halamski, A. T., Bitner, M., Kaim, A., Kolar-Jurkovšek, T. & Jurkovšek, B., 2015. Unusual brachiopod fauna from the Middle Triassic algal meadows of Mt. Svilaja (Outer Dinarides, Croatia). Journal of Paleontology, 89 (4): 553–575. [Abstract] [See also Addendum]

Kvaček, J., Halamski, A. T., Svobodová, M. & Durska, E., 2015. Coniacian flora of the Sudetes (south-western Poland): Palaeoecological and palaeoclimatic interpretations. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 436: 178–187. [Abstract]

Piwowarczyk, R., Halamski, A. T. & Durska, E., 2014. Seed and pollen morphology in the Orobanche alsatica complex (Orobanchaceae) from central Europe and its taxonomic significance. Australian Systematic Botany, 27 (2): 145–157. [Abstract] 

Halamski, A.T. and Baliński, A., 2013. Middle Devonian brachiopods from the southern Maïder (eastern Anti- Atlas, Morocco). Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae, 83: 243–307. [Full Text]

Halamski, A.T. and Kvaček, J., 2013. The type of Debeya (Dewalquea) haldemiana rediscovered. Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae, Series B – Historia Naturalis, 69 (1–2): 83–86. [Open access full text]

Greguš, J., Kvaček, J. and Halamski, A.T., 2013. Revision of Protopteris and Oncopteris tree fern stem casts from the Late Cretaceous of Central Europe. Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae, Series B – Historia Naturalis, 69 (1–2): 69–82. [Open access full text]

Halamski, A. T., 2013. Frasnian Atrypida (Brachiopoda) from Silesia (Poland) and the age of the eo-Variscan collision in the Sudetes. Geodiversitas 35 (2): 289–308. [Abstract][Full Text]

Halamski, A. T., 2013. Latest Cretaceous leaf floras from south-eastern Poland and western Ukraine. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 58 (2): 407–443. [Open access full text]

Halamski, A. T., 2013. Dead language still alive for botanists. Nature 493 (7434): 609. [Full Text]

Halamski, A. T., 2012. Diversity of the Schizophoria lineage (Brachiopoda: Orthida) in the Lower and Middle Devonian of Poland and adjacent areas. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 86 (4): 347–365. [Open access full text]

Halamski, A. T., 2011. Orobanche hederae Vaucher ex Duby (Orobanchaceae) – phenotypic plasticity and seed micromorphology. Bulletin mensuel de la Société linnénne de Lyon, 80: 170–178. [Open access full text] [Other text]

Halamski A. T. & Baliński A., 2009. Latest Famennian brachiopods from Kowala, Holy Cross Mountains, Poland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 54 (2): 289-306.[Abstract][Full Text]

Halamski, A. T. & Piwowarczyk R., 2008. Graines d’Orobanches comme critère taxonomique - information sur les travaux en cours. (Orobanches - seeds and taxonomy.) Bulletin mensuel de la Société linnéenne de Lyon, 77 (3-4): 37-40. [Open access full text] [Other text]

Halamski, A. T., 2008. Palaeobiogeographical Signature of the Middle Devonian Łysogóry Region Brachiopod Fauna. Fossils and Strata, 54: 87-98. [Open Access full text]

Halamski, A. T., Zapalski, M. K., Brice, D., & Mistiaen, B., 2007. Brachial apparatus of brachiopods - G. Dubar’s (1896-1977) collection. Przegląd Geologiczny, 55 (12/2): 1117-1118, 1172. [Text][Plate]

Halamski, A. T. & Segit, T., (2006). A transitional stringocephalid from the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland, and its evolutionary and stratigraphic significance. Acta Geologica Polonica, 56 (2): 171-176. [Abstract][Open access full text]

Halamski, A. T. & Zapalski M. K., 2006. Les schistes à brachiopodes de Skaly – un niveau exceptionnel. Première partie : Inventaire faunistique. Bulletin mensuel de la Société linnénne de Lyon 75 (3): 145–150. [Text-pdf][Open access full text][Other text]

Halamski, A. T., 2006. Orobanche lucorum introduced in the Botanical Garden of the Warsaw University. Biuletyn Ogrodów Botanicznych, Muzeów i Zbiorów, 14: 115-117. [Open access full text]

Halamski, A. T. & Racki, G., 2005. Supplements 2005. In: K. Weddige (ed.), Devonian Correlation Table. With 24 Table-columns. Senckenbergiana lethaea, 85 (1): 191–200. [Full Text]

Halamski, A. T., 2005. Annotations to the Devonian Correlation Table, R220dm05: Poland; Holy Cross Mts; Łysogóry Region. Senckenbergiana lethaea, 85 (1): 185-187. Frankfurt am Main. [Full Text]

Halamski, A. T., 2005. Contribution à la connaissance de la flore de la région lyonnaise. Bulletin mensuel de la Société linnénne de Lyon, 74 (4): 148–149. [Open access full text][Other text]

Halamski, A. T., 2004. Deliella, a new Devonian craniid brachiopod. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte, 2004 (3): 181–192.

Halamski, A. T. & Religa, D., 2004. Polish journals have an international impact. Nature, 427 (6976): 677. [Text-journal site][Abstract]

Halamski, A. T., 2003. Deux approches de la paléontologie. Deuxième partie : Paléontologie comme science nomothétique. Bulletin mensuel de la Société linnénne de Lyon, 72 (1): 13-16. [Open access full text][Other text]

Halamski, A. T., 2002. Deux approches de la paléontologie. Première partie : Paléontologie comme science idiographique. Bulletin mensuel de la Société linnénne de Lyon, 71 (3): 102-104. [Open access full text][Other text]
 

Book reviews

Meyer, J. 2021. Identifier les roches. Clés d’identification pratiques. Delachaux et Niestlé, Paris. 140 pp. ISBN: 978-2-603-02669-4. Review by A.T. Halamski (in French, 2023): Bulletin de la Société linnéenne de Lyon, 92 (1–2): 57–58.

Sell, P. & Murrell, G. 2018. Flora of Great Britain and Ireland. Volume 1: Lycopodiaceae – Salicaceae. Cambridge University Press. lxii + 787 p. ISBN: 978-0-521-55335-3. Review by A.T. Halamski (in French, 2021): Bulletin de la Société linnéenne de Lyon, 90 (9–10): 301–303. [Open access full text]

Poyato-Ariza, F.J. & Buscalioni, Á.D. (eds.) 2016. Las Hoyas: a Cretaceous wetland. A multidisciplinary synthesis after 25 years of research on an exceptional fossil Lagerstätte from Spain. 262 pp. Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München. ISBN 978-3-89937-153-6. Review by A.T. Halamski (2020): Acta Palaeobotanica, 60 (2): 454–455. [Open access full text]

Giribet, G. & Edgecombe, G.D. 2020. The Invertebrate Tree of Life. xvi + 589 pp. Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford. ISBN 9780691170251. Review by A.T. Halamski (entitled A compendium of zoology, 2020): Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 65 (4): 732. [Open access full text]

Shaw, M.M. 2020. Hawkweeds of south-east England. BSBI Handbook 20. Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland, Durham. iv + 250 p. ISBN: 978-0- 901158-57-4. Review by A.T. Halamski (in French, 2020): Bulletin de la Société linnéenne de Lyon, 89 (9–10): 289–290. [Open access full text]

Müller, F., Ritz, Ch.M., Welk, E. & Wesche, K. (eds) 2016. Rothmaler Exkursionsflora von Deutschland. Gefäßpflanzen: Kritischer Ergänzungsband. 11. Auflage. Springer Spektrum, Berlin–Heidelberg. 2016. Review by A.T. Halamski (in French, 2018): Bulletin de la Société linnéenne de Lyon, 87 (9–10): 307–310. [Open access full text].

Fischer, E. & Frey, W. (with contributions of Theisen, I.) 2015. Syllabus of Plant Families. 13th ed. Part 4: Pinopsida (Gymnosperms), Magnoliopsida (Angiosperms) p.p. Borntraeger Science Publishers, Stuttgart. Review by A.T. Halamski (2017): Acta Palaeobotanica 57 (2): 423–424. [Open access full text]

Meunier, A. 2014. La naissance de la Terre. De sa formation à l’apparition de la vie. Dunod, Paris. Review by A.T. Halamski (in French, 2017): Bulletin de la Société linnéenne de Lyon, 86 (7–8): 260–262. [Open access full text]

Dyer, B.D. 2003. A Field Guide to Bacteria. Comstock Publ. Associates, a division of Cornell University Press, Ithaca & London. Review by A.T. Halamski (in French, 2016): Bulletin de la Société linnéenne de Lyon, 85 (9–10): 277.

Turland N. 2013. The Code Decoded. A user’s guide to the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants. (Regnum Vegetabile volume 155). Review by A.T. Halamski (2015). Acta Palaeobotanica, 55 (1): 119–120. [Open access full text]

Cantrill D.J. & Poole, I., 2012. The Vegetation of Antarctica through Geological Time. Cambridge University Press. Review by A.T. Halamski (2013). Polish Polar Research 34 (3): 322–324.[Open access full text]

Takhtajan, A., 2009. Flowering Plants. Springer. Review by A.T. Halamski (in French, 2010): Bulletin mensuel de la Société linnénne de Lyon, 79: 179–182. [Open access full text] [Other text]

Babin, C., 2005. Autour du catastrophisme. Des mythes et légendes aux sciences de la vie et de la terre. Librairie Vuibert ADAPT, Paris. Review by A.T. Halamski (in French, 2006): Géobios, 39 (4): 585–586. [Text]

Other

Halamski, A.T. 2019. Eighth International Brachiopod Congress, Milan, Italy, 11th – 14th September, 2018. [Published on the BRACHNET webpage] [See also BRACHNET, Brachiopoda and brachiopodologists]

Halamski, A. T. 2016. Seventh International Brachiopod Congress, Nanjing, China, 22-25 May 2015. [Published on the BRACHNET webpage] [See also BRACHNET, Brachiopoda and brachiopodologists]

Halamski, A. T. & Baliński, A. 2016. In memoriam: Gertruda Biernat (1923–2016). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 61 (2): 362. [Text]

Halamski, A. T. 2016. Gertruda Biernat 1923–2016. [Published on the BRACHNET webpage] [See also BRACHNET, Brachiopoda and brachiopodologists] 

Contact

Adam T. Halamski
Institute of Paleobiology PAS
ul. Twarda 51/55
00-818 Warsaw, POLAND
e-mail: ath@twarda.pan.pl
phone (+4822) 6978-875; room 125