Teresa Maryańska

Teresa Maryańska (1937 – 3 October 2019) was a Polish paleontologist who specialized in Mongolian dinosaurs, particularly pachycephalosaurians and ankylosaurians.^[1] She is considered not only as one of Poland's^[2] but also one of the world's leading experts on dinosaurs.^[3]

Teresa Maryańska
Born	1937
Died	3 October 2019
Citizenship	Poland
Scientific career
Fields	Paleontology

Career

Initially, Mary's studies were regarding invertebrate paleontology.^[4] However, she became a member of the 1964, 1965, 1970, and 1971 Polish–Mongolian expeditions to the Gobi Desert,^[5] and changed her focus. She described many finds from these fossils, often with Halszka Osmólska.^[6]

In 1974, Maryanska and Halszka Osmólska were among the first "women to describe new kinds of dinosaurs".^[7]

Since 1961,^[4] Maryańska was affiliated with the Muzeum Ziemi of the Polska Akademia Nauk^[8]: 776 and was vice-director there from 1976 to 2006, when she retired.^[4][9]

Some of the dinosaurs she described:

• Homalocephale (1974), with Halszka Osmólska
• Prenocephale (1974), with Halszka Osmólska
• Tylocephale (1974), with Halszka Osmólska
• Pachycephalosauria (1974), with Halszka Osmólska
• Bagaceratops (1975), with Halszka Osmólska
• Saichania (1977)
• Tarchia (1977)
• Barsboldia (1981), with Halszka Osmólska
• Goyocephale (1982), with Halszka Osmólska and Altangerel Perle^[1]

Alan Feduccia notes that Maryanska and her colleagues (Osmólska and Wolsan) produced in 2002 the "most impressive analysis of the oviraptorosaurs".^[10]

Amongst her many publications are contributions to three chapters of the 2nd edition of The Dinosauria: the chapters on the Therizinosauroidea, the Ankylosauria and on the Pachycephalosauria.^[8]

She was a member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Paleobiology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw from 1981 to 2006.^[4]

Personal life and demise

Maryańska was known for her fondness for literature.^[4]

She died on 3 October 2019 at age 82.^[11]

Selected publications

Books

• T. Maryańska (1970). O gadach bez sensacji. Wydawnictwa Geologiczne.

Articles

• T. Maryańska (1970). Remains of armoured dinosaurs from the uppermost Cretaceous in Nemegt Basin, Gobi Desert. Palaeontologia Polonica 21:23-32.
• T. Maryańska (1971). New data on the skull of Pinacosaurus grangeri (Ankylosauria). Palaeontologia Polonica 25:45-53.
• T. Maryańska and H. Osmólska (1974). Pachycephalosauria, a new suborder of ornithischian dinosaurs. Palaeontologia Polonica 30:45-102.
• T. Maryańska and H. Osmólska (1975). Protoceratopsidae (Dinosauria) of Asia. Palaeontologica Polonica 33:133-181.
• T. Maryańska (1977). Ankylosauridae (Dinosauria) from Mongolia. Palaeontologia Polonica 37:85-151.
• T. Maryańska and H. Osmólska (1981). First lambeosaurine dinosaur from the Nemegt Formation, Upper Cretaceous, Mongolia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 26(3-1):243-255.
• T. Maryańska and H. Osmólska (1981). Cranial anatomy of Saurolophus angustirostris with comments on the Asian Hadrosauridae (Dinosauria). Palaeontologia Polonica 42:5-24.
• A. Perle, T. Maryańska, and H. Osmólska (1982). Goyocephale lattimorei gen. et sp. n., a new flat-headed pachycephalosaur (Ornithischia, Dinosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 27(1-4):115-127.
• T. Maryańska and H. Osmólska (1984). Postcranial anatomy of Saurolophus angustirostris with comments on other hadrosaurs. Palaeontologia Polonica 46:119-141.
• T. Maryańska and H. Osmólska (1985). On ornithischian phylogeny. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 30(3-4):137-149.
• T. Maryańska (1990). Pachycephalosauria. In: D.B. Weishampel, H. Osmólska, and P. Dodson (eds.), The Dinosauria. University of California Press, Berkeley 564-577.
• T. Maryańska (2000). Sauropods from Mongolia and the former Soviet Union. In: M.J. Benton, M.A. Shishkin, D.M. Unwin, and E.N. Kurochkin (eds.), The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 456-461.
• T. Maryańska, H. Osmólska, and M. Wolsan (2002). Avialan status for Oviraptorosauria. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 47(1):97-116.
• J.M. Clark, T. Maryańska, and R. Barsbold (2004). Therizinosauroidea. In: D.B. Weishampel, P. Dodson, and H. Osmólska (eds.), The Dinosauria (second edition). University of California Press, Berkeley 151-164.
• M.K. Vickaryous, T. Maryańska, and D.B. Weishampel (2004). Ankylosauria. In: D.B. Weishampel, P. Dodson, and H. Osmólska (eds.), The Dinosauria (second edition). University of California Press, Berkeley 363-392.

See also

• List of biologists
• List of geologists
• Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska