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 Post-Doctoral
Fellow
Ph.D., 2006, Institute
of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
M.S., 1998, University of Warsaw, Poland
Phone: (412) 412 688 8660
Fax: (412) 622 6569 or (412) 622 8837
Email: fostowiczl@CarnegieMNH.org
General
Research Interests
- Lagomorphs and allies: phylogeny, morphology, and paleoecology.
- Functional morphology of mammals.
- Microstructure of bone and teeth (applied to systematics and life style reconstruction).
- Plio-Pleistocene of Eurasia: shaping of small mammal faunas.
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Research Projects
- Phylogeny of the Paleogene leporids of North America.
- Systematics and enamel structure of the Neogene ochotonids of Europe.
Recent
Publications
- Fostowicz-Frelik
L. (in press). Review of the earliest Central European Ochotona
(Mammalia: Lagomorpha), with a description of a new species
from Poland. Mammalia.
- Fostowicz-Frelik
L. 2007. The hind limb skeleton and cursorial adaptations of
the Plio-Pleistocene rabbit Hypolagus beremendensis. Acta
Palaeontologica Polonica 52: 447–476. Click
here for PDF (1320 KB).
- Fostowicz-Frelik
L. 2007. Revision of Hypolagus (Mammalia: Lagomorpha) from
the Plio-Pleistocene of Poland: qualitative and quantitative
study. Annales Zoologici 57: 541–590.
- Fostowicz-Frelik
L. and Gasparik M. 2006. The taxonomic status of leporid remains
from Ördöglyuk Cave, Solymár (Hungary). Acta
zoologica cracoviensia 49A (1-2): 151–161.
- Fostowicz-Frelik,
L. 2003. Species distribution and differentiation of Eurasian
Hypolagus (Lagomorpha: Leporidae). In: Reumer J.W.F. and Wessels
W. (Eds), Distribution and migration of Tertiary mammals in
Eurasia. Deinsea 10: 197–216.
- Fostowicz-Frelik
L. 2003. Lagomorphs (Lagomorpha). In: Valde-Nowak P., Nadachowski
A. and Madeyska T. (Eds), Oblazowa Cave: human activity,
stratigraphy, and palaeoenvironment. Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology,
Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow: 140–143.
- Fostowicz-Frelik
L. 2003. An enigmatic whale tooth from the Upper Eocene of
Seymour Island, Antarctica. Polish Polar Research 24: 13–28.
Click here for PDF (623 KB).
- Fostowicz-Frelik
L. and Kielan-Jaworowska Z. 2002. Lower incisor in zalambdalestid
mammals (Eutheria) and its phylogenetic implications. Acta
Palaeontologica Polonica 47: 177–180. Click
here for PDF (756 KB).
- Fostowicz-Frelik
L. and Gazdzicki A. 2001. Anatomy and histology of plesiosaur
bones from the Late Cretaceous of Seymour Island, Antarctic
Peninsula. In: Gazdzicki A. (Ed.), Paleontological
results of the Polish Polar Expeditions, Part III. Palaeontologia
Polonica 60: 7–31.
- Cyrek K.,
Nadachowski A., Madeyska T., Bochenski Z., Tomek T., Wojtal
P., Miekina B., Lipecki G., Garapich A., Rzebik-Kowalska B.,
Stworzewicz E., Wolsan M., Godawa J., Kosciów R., Fostowicz-Frelik
L. and Szyndlar Z. 2000. Excavation in the Deszczowa Cave (Kroczyckie
Rocks, Czestochowa Upland, Central Poland). Folia Quaternaria 71: 5–84.
Grants and Awards
- 2007 Conference
Grant, Foundation for Polish Science jointly with The Warsaw
Scientific Society.
- 2007 KOLUMB
Programme (Postdoctoral Out-going Fellowships), Foundation
for Polish Science.
- 2005 SYNTHESYS Project (EU 6th Framework Programme
Initiative) at DE-TAF, Museum für Naturkunde,
Berlin.
- 2004–2007 Research Project financed by the Ministry
of Science and Higher Education, Poland (Manager and
Principal Investigator).
- 2004 Domestic Grant for Young Scientists, Foundation for Polish
Science, Warsaw, Poland.
Memberships
- The Systematics
Association, UK.
- International
Society of Vertebrate Morphology.
- The Society
of Vertebrate Paleontology, USA.
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