For over 70 years, the Roman Kozłowski Institute of Paleobiology has been conducting in-depth studies of the history of life on Earth. Every year, the Institute publishes dozens of peer-reviewed articles, organizes conferences, foreign expeditions and excavations in new paleontological sites. We educate PhD students, publish the best paleontological journal in Poland (Acta Palaeontologica Polonica) and popularize science.
The staff and laboratories are open to cooperation with other research centers and interdisciplinary projects. An essential part of our Institute is the Paleontological Collection, gathering the largest fossil collections in Poland (hundreds of thousands of specimens), partly exhibited in the Museum of Evolution.

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First remains of Miocene reptiles from Moravia

The paper describes the first remains of a crocodile and a sea turtle from the Middle Miocene locality of Kienberg in the Moravian part of Czechia.

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Ancestors of Neogastropoda – old problem, new data

Neogastropods are a diverse group of carnivorous sea snails found worldwide but with the largest diversity in tropical regions.

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New Jurassic plesiosaurs from Germany

The Pliensbachian (Early Jurassic, ∼192.9–184.2 Ma) plesiosaurs are poorly understood, with only three taxa established worldwide.

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Oxygen isotope changes in foram tests

Fossilized marine calcifiers provide key data for reconstructing ancient seawater temperatures, but diagenesis can bias their isotope and trace-element records.

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Wilhelm Friedberg’s collections at Lviv

Wilhelm Friedberg (1873–1941) was a Polish naturalist focussing on Miocene geology and palaeontology of today’s Poland and Western Ukraine.

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Ecosystem recovery after the Taghanic extinction

Kyrtatrypa pauli, a new Givetian brachiopod species from Świętomarz and Laskowa in the Holy Cross Mountains, is described.

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