Andrzej Elżanowski

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Andrzej Elżanowski (born 21 January 1950) is a Polish paleontologist and vertebrate zoologist specializing in bird phylogeny. Together with Peter Wellnhofer he described a coelurosaur theropod Archaeornithoides in 1992.{{cite journal |last=Elżanowski |first=Andrzej |author2=Wellnhofer, Peter |year=1992 |title=A new link between theropods and birds from the Cretaceous of Mongolia |journal=Nature |volume=359 |issue= 6398|pages=821–823 |doi=10.1038/359821a0}} He works also on Mesozoic birds, especially Archaeopterygiformes – he is author of the chapter "Archaeopterygidae" in book edited by Luis Chiappe and Lawrence Witmer entitled Mesozoic Birds: Above the Heads of Dinosaurs.{{Cite book |first=Andrzej |last=Elżanowski |chapter=Archaeopterygidae |editor=Chiappe, Luis |editor2=Witmer, Lawrence |title=Mesozoic Birds: Above the Heads of Dinosaurs |location=Berkeley |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-20094-4 |year=2002}} In 2001 he determined that Solnhofen specimen of Archaeopteryx represents new species and genus and coined new specific name – Wellnhoferia grandis – for it.{{Cite journal |first=Andrzej |last=Elżanowski |title=A new genus and species for the largest specimen of Archaeopteryx |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=46 |issue=4 |pages=519–532 |year=2001 |url=http://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app46/app46-519.pdf}} He works now in the Faculty of „Artes Liberales” at the University of Warsaw.{{Cite web|url=http://al.uw.edu.pl/kadra/elzanowski-andrzej/|title=Elżanowski Andrzej {{!}} Wydział "Artes Liberales" Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego|website=al.uw.edu.pl|access-date=2019-03-12}}