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(3.) The Bryozoans and Corals Laboratory under I. P. Morozova, D. Sci.,
researches the morphogenesis, systematics, phylogeny and stratigraphic
significance of bryozoans, rugozes, corals and stromatoporoids;
(4.) The Laboratory of Paleoecology of Marine Faunas headed by L. A.
Nevesskaia (aya), D. Sci., studies the composition, evolution and distribution of
bivalved mollusks and gastropods. Work in the laboratory on the ecology of the
principal benthic animals in the Paleozoic epicontinental seas on the evolution of
those communities is under Professor R. Th. Hecker;
(5.) The Laboratory of Cephalopods under V. I. Bogoslovskii, D. Sci., investigates
Paleozoic cephalopods, mainly ammonoids, nautiloids, and related groups;
(6.) The Laboratory of Brachiopods under G. A. Afanas'eva, C. Sci., does
morpho-functional analysis in problems of Carboniferous and Permian
biogeography as well as producing the biostratigraphy of the Carboniferous and
Permian areas of Russia;
(7.) The Arthropods Laboratory under A. R. Rasnitsin, D. Sci., researches in paleoentomology
of the Mesozoic biocenotic assemblages; and
(8.) The Laboratory of Paleontology History under V. N. Shimanskii, D. Sci.,
studies the history of paleontological institutions and societies and the development
of paleontological studies and investigations in Russia and the world.
The Department of Fossil Vertebrates and Fossil Plants is under L. I.
Novitskaia (aya), D. Sci., and conducts studies on the fossil fishes from the Lower
Paleozoic to the Neogene inclusive. The department has three laboratories in it that
include:
(1.) The Laboratory of Lower Tetrapods is headed by academician L. P. Tatarinov,
D. Bio. S., who is also the Director of the institute. Its scientists study Upper
Paleozoic and Mesozoic reptiles, problems of terrestrial vertebrates in the Permian
and Triassic areas, as well as the faunistic relations of ancient continents;
(2.) The Laboratory of the Amphibians under M. A. Shiskin, D. Sci. studies the
anatomy and morphogenesis of labyrinthodonts and the evolution of ontogeny;
(3.) The Laboratory of Mammals under V. A. Trofimov, C. Sci. is concerned with
the most import and best represented fossil mammalian groups and works in the
fields of paleozoogeography, paleofaunistics, and paleo-ornithology (a speciality of
E. N. Kurochkin).
The institute carries out expeditions with Mongolian paleontologists, and since 1974, over
40 volumes of these expeditions have been published by the Institute. Since 1932,
in fact, over 230 volumes of Transactions of the Institute have been published. The
institute has published Trudy since 1932. In 1992, the staff of the Paleontology
Institute and Museum totaled 250 persons, of whom scientific personnel numbered
130 persons. Leonid P. Tatarinov, D. Bio. S., was Director from 1975 until
replaced by Professor Aleksei I. Rozanov, the current Director.
(Information supplied by letter dated 13 July 1992, from Director
Tatarinov. See also: PalaeontonlogicaInstitute. Moscow: Scientific
Publishing House No. 3496, 1983, 36 pp.)
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5. N. U. Tsitsin Botanical Garden (Main) in Moscow.
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