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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Life in a Devonian marine lagoon

The article presents an overview of marine environments that existed in the area of present-day Poland around 380–360 million years ago, during the Devonian period, when this region was covered by an extensive shallow and warm sea. This sea was oversaturated with calcium, a component of the common biomineral calcite.

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A Miocene sedge from Hungary

The authors performed a taxonomic revision (in other words, a restudy) of silicified plant remains from the Miocene of Tokaj Mountains (Hungary). These are rhizomes, roots, and pseudostems, classified as Rhizocaulon huberi H.-J.Gregor.

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Silurian erratic boulder travelling from Thuringia to England

An erratic chert pebble discovered in an exposure of the Pleistocene till in Norfolk, UK, contains graptolites and microfossils preserved three-dimensionally in silica. Graptolites indicate a Silurian (Llandovery) age.

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Rudists: Extreme climate witnesses

Rudists, extinct bivalves with massive shells,  built vast reefs in the tropical Cretaceous seas. Clumped-isotope analyses of well-preserved shells from Oman, were used to reconstruct seawater temperatures from 75 million years ago.

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Crinoids with unusual morphology

In the prestigious series Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, a chapter was released that synthesizes data on the functional morphology and paleoecology of crinoids with unusual morphologies. It illustrates how, over more than 485 million years, they repeatedly deviated from their original body plan: from benthic forms to pelagic species.

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