Department of Environmental Paleobiology


Grzegorz SADLOK M. Sc., Ph.D. Student


Upper Cambrian trace fossils


CURRICULUM VITAE



Personal data

Grzegorz Sadlok 
Born 3 January 1983 in Bielsko-Biała, Poland 
Married, no children


Academic degrees
  • 2005 Bachelor in Geology at University of Silesia (Origin of Birds: theropods-birds relationship)
  • 2007 Master of Sciences at University of Silesia (Paleoecology of Lower Triassic trace fossils from eolian settings in Holy Cross Mountains) 
  • 2008-currently Ph.D. student in Institute of Paleobiology Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw) (Shallow marine Upper Cambrian trace fossils and their paleobiologic significance; supervised by Professor Marcin Machalski IP PAS) 

Research grants
  • 2011 – Trace Fossils from the Upper Cambrian strata of Wiśniówka Wielka quarry in Holy Cross Mountains (central Poland) and their paleobiological significance

Editorial Work

  • 2011 Technical Editor of Central European Journal of Physics 

Teaching

  • lecture for school youth: Introduction to ichnology
  • lecture for school youth: Evolution of the feather 

Research interests
  • Upper Cambrian trace fossils: ichnotaxonomy, paleobiology of tracemakers, taphonomy and biotope analysis (sedimentary environment)
  • Microbially Induced Sedimentary Structures (MISS) in Upper Cambrian siliciclastic depositional settings and their application in paleoenvironment interpretation
  • Trophic interactions between terrestrial Late Triassic vertebrates
  • Vertebrate trace fossils in stratigraphy 
  • Paleoenvironmental significance of Middle Triassic marine trace fossils



Publications

Scientific papers

Sadlok, G. and Bujok A. 2008a. Czy różnice ichnotaksonomiczne między tropami lacertoidów z piaskowca tumlińskiego odzwierciedlają różnice biotaksonomiczne twórców? Przegląd Geologiczny 56: 1005–1010. [in Polish with English abstract]

Sadlok, G., 2008b. Ślad Diplopodichnus biformis Brady, 1947 ze środkowego triasu (Jaworzno, Górny Śląsk)-potencjalny wskaźnik warunków subaeralnych? Przegląd Geologiczny 56: 964–966. [in Polish]

Budziszewska-Karwowska, E., Bujok, A., and Sadlok, G., 2010. Bite Marks on an Upper Triassic Dicynodontid Tibia From Zawiercie, Krakow-Czestochowa Upland, Southern Poland. Palaios 25: 415–421.

Sadlok, G. and Machalski, M., 2010. The trace fossil Rusophycus versans from the Furongian (Upper Cambrian) of central Poland – an example of behavioural convergence amongst arthropods. Acta Geologica Polonica 60: 119–123.

Sadlok, G., 2010. Trace fossil Cruziana tenella from the Furongian (Upper Cambrian) deposits of Poland. Acta Geologica Polonica 60: 349–355.

Sadlok, G., 2011. Wstępne dane o tropach stawonogów z furongu (górnego kambru) Wiśniówki Wielkiej (Góry Świętokrzyskie) i ich tafonomii. Przegląd Geologiczny 59: 82–90. [in Polish]


Conference abstracts and chapters in guide books
 
Bujok, A. and Sadlok G. 2008. Trace fossils from alluvial crevasse splay and eolian interdune pond environ- ment of Buntsandstein, Lower Triassic, Holy Cross Mts, Poland-comparison. In: A. Uchman (ed.), Abstract Book and The Intra-Congress Field Trip Guidebook. The Second International Congress on Ichnology, Cracow, Poland, August 29 – Sptember 8, 2008, Polish Geological Institute, Cracow, Poland, 24–25.

Bujok, A., Sadlok, G., Pieńkowski, G., and Niedźwiedzki, G., 2008. Stop 4 – Baranów, LowerTriassic, Upper Spathian. In: G. Pieńkowski i A. Uchman (eds.), Ichnological sites of Poland: The Holy Cross Mountains and the Carpathian Flysch. The Pre-Congress and Post-Congress Field Trip Guidebook, Polish Geological Institute, Warszawa, 54–59.

Machalski, M. and Sadlok, G., 2008. Rusophycus versans from the Upper Cambrian at Wiśniówka (Holy Cross Mts., Central Poland) – Another analogy linking trilobite and notostracan trace fossils. In: A. Uchman (ed.), Abstract Book and The Intra-Congress Field Trip Guidebook. The Second International Congress on Ichnology, Cracow, Poland, August 29–September 8, 2008, Polish Geological Institute, Warszawa, 73.

Sadlok, G., Bujok, A., Pieńkowski, G., Uchman, A., and Niedźwiedzki, 2008. Stop 5 – Sosnowica, Lower Triassic, Induan. In: G. Pieńkowski i A. Uchman (ed.), Ichnological sites of Poland: The Holy Cross Mountains and the Carpathian Flysch. The Pre-Congress and Post-Congress Field Trip Guidebook, Polish Geological Institute, Warszawa, 60–65.


Popular science exhibits 

Sadlok, G., Bujok, A., i Budziszewska-Karwowska, E., 2010. Ewolucja pióra – wystawa stała Muzeum WNoZ UŚ. Sosnowiec.



Contact


Grzegorz Sadlok
Institute of Paleobiology PAS
ul. Twarda 51/55
PL-00-818 Warsaw, POLAND
e–mail: gsadlok@twarda.pan.pl

phone: (+4822) 697 8850; room 148