Halszka Osmólska

**Halszka Osmólska** (September 15, 1930 – March 31, 2008) was a Polish paleontologist who had specialized in Mongolian dinosaurs.

She was born in Poznań. A member of the 1965 and 1970 Polish–Mongolian expeditions to the Gobi Desert, she described many finds from these rocks, often with Teresa Maryańska. Among the dinosaurs she described are: *Elmisaurus* (and Elmisauridae (1981), *Hulsanpes* (1982), *Borogovia* (1987), and *Bagaraatan* (1996); with Maryańska, *Homalocephale*, *Prenocephale*, and *Tylocephale* (and Pachycephalosauria) (1974), *Bagaceratops* (1975), and *Barsboldia* (1981); with Maryańska and Altangerel Perle, *Goyocephale* (1982); with Ewa Roniewicz, *Deinocheirus* (1967); with Roniewicz and Rinchen Barsbold, *Gallimimus* (1972); with Kurzanov, *Tochisaurus* (1991); and with several other authors, *Nomingia* (2000). Her other work included discussions of the paleobiology of hadrosaurids, and co-editing the two editions of *The Dinosauria*. As of 2004, she was affiliated with the Instytut Paleobiologii of the Polska Akademia Nauk. She is recognized for her work in the names of the Mongolian oviraptorid *Citipati osmolskae*, the Chinese dromaeosaurid *Velociraptor osmolskae*, the archosauriform reptile *Osmolskina czatkowicensis*, and the Polish Pliocene lagomorph *Prolagus osmolskae*.

Osmólska was, in recognition of her scientific work, a recipient of a number of awards including the Polish Cross of Merit.

## Selected publications

* H. Osmólska and E. Roniewicz (1970). Deinocheiridae, a new family of theropod dinosaurs. *Palaeontologica Polonica* **21**:5-19.

* H. Osmólska, E. Roniewicz, and R. Barsbold (1972). A new dinosaur, *Gallimimus bullatus* n. gen., n. sp. (Ornithomimidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia. *Palaeontologia Polonica* **27**:103-143.

* H. Osmólska (1972). Preliminary note on a crocodilian from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia. *Palaeontologia Polonica* **27**:43-47.

* 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.

* H. Osmólska (1976). New light on the skull anatomy and systematic position of *Oviraptor*. *Nature* **262**:683-684.

* H. Osmólska (1981). Coossified tarsometatarsi in theropod dinosaurs and their bearing on the problem of bird origins. *Palaeontologica Polonica* **42**:79-95.

* 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.

* H. Osmólska (1982). *Hulsanpes perlei* n.g. n.sp. (Deinonychosauria, Saurischia, Dinosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous Barun Goyot Formation of Mongolia. *Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte* **1982**(7):440-448.

* 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.

* H. Osmólska (1987). *Borogovia gracilicrus* gen. et sp. n., a new troodontid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. *Acta Palaeontologica Polonica* **32**(1-2):133-150.

* R. Barsbold, H. Osmólska, and S.M. Kurzanov (1987). On a new troodontid (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia. *Acta Palaeontologica Polonica* **32**(1-2):121-132.

* S. M. Kurzanov and H. Osmólska (1991). *Tochisaurus nemegtensis* gen. et sp. n., a new troodontid dinosaur (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from Mongolia. *Acta Palaeontologica Polonica* **36**(1):69-76.

* H. Osmólska (1996). An unusual theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Nemegt Formation of Mongolia. *Acta Palaeontologica Polonica* **41**(1):1-38.

* R. Barsbold and H. Osmólska (1999). The skull of *Velociraptor* (Theropoda) from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. *Acta Palaeontologica Polonica* **44**(2):189-219.

* R. Barsbold, H. Osmólska, M. Watabe, P.J. Currie, and K. Tsogtbaatar (2000). A new oviraptorosaur (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from Mongolia: the first dinosaur with a pygostyle. *Acta Palaeontologica Polonica* **45**(2):97-106.

* T. Maryańska, H. Osmólska, and M. Wolsan (2002). Avialan status for Oviraptorosauria. *Acta Palaeontologica Polonica* **47**(1):97-116.

* H. Osmólska, P.J. Currie, and R. Barsbold (2004). Oviraptorosauria. In: D.B. Weishampel, P. Dodson, and H. Osmólska (eds.), *The Dinosauria* (second edition). University of California Press, Berkeley 165-183.

## Other sources

Borsuk-Białynicka, M. and Maryańska, T. Halszka Osmólska (1930-2008) In Memoriam. *Acta Palaeontologica Polonica* 53, 2, 206.cp.

Dodson, Peter (2008) "Polish Women in the Gobi–In Loving Memory of Halszka Osmólska (1930-2008)." *American Paleontologist* 16.3: 30

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lambert, David; the Diagram Group (1990). "Dinosaurologists". *The Dinosaur Data Book*. New York: Avon Books. p. 281. ISBN 0-380-75896-2.
2. ↑ Colbert, Edwin H. (2000). "Asiatic dinosaur rush". In Benton, Michael J.; Shishkin, Mikhail A.; Unwin, David M.; and Kurochkin, Evgenii N. *The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 211–234. ISBN 0-521-55476-4.
3. ↑ Weishampel, David B.; Osmólska, Halszka; and Dodson, Peter (eds.), ed. (1990). *The Dinosauria* (1st ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-06727-4.
4. ↑ Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.), ed. (2004). *The Dinosauria* (2nd ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
5. ↑ Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.), ed. (2004). *The Dinosauria* (2nd ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 776. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
6. ↑ Fostowicz-Frelik, Ł. 2010. A new species of Pliocene Prolagus (Lagomorpha, Ochotonidae) from Poland is the northernmost record of the genus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30 (2): 609-612.
7. ↑ Moody, R., & Geological Society of London. (2010). *Dinosaurs and other extinct saurians: A historical perspective*. London: Geological Society.

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