Sergei_Kurzanov

Sergei Kurzanov

Sergei Kurzanov

Russian paleontologist

Sergei Mikhailovich Kurzanov (Сергей Михайлович Курзанов, born 1947) is a Russian (formerly Soviet) paleontologist at the Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is known mainly for his work in Mongolia and the ex-Soviet republics in Central Asia. In 1976, he announced the discovery of Alioramus. In 1981, he announced the discovery of Avimimus.[1]

In 1998 a species of iguanodont dinosaur from Mongolia was named Altirhinus kurzanovi in his honor.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    Chiappe, Luis M.; Witmer, Lawrence M. (5 December 2002). Mesozoic Birds. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520200944.
  2. [2]
    Norman, David B. (1998). "On Asian ornithopods (Dinosauria, Ornithischia). 3. A new species of iguanodontid dinosaur". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 122 (1–2): 291–348. doi:10.1006/zjls.1997.0122.


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