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dr Mateusz Tałanda

Scientific interests

  • Evolution of reptiles
  • Triassic ecosystems
  • Biogeography

Didactics

  • Zoology (classes)
  • Biodiversity
  • History of Life (classes)
  • Field paleobiology
  • MSc workshop

Research projects

ongoing projects

  • New Miocene land vertebrates from the northwestern Paratethys shores and their implications for Eurasian faunal exchange (principal investigator, NCN OPUS-24)

previous projects

  • The early evolution of squamate and rynchocephalian skull (Wczesna ewolucja czaszki jaszczurek i hatterii, PRELUDIUM, NCN)

Internships

  • 2018-2019 University College London (MOBILNOŚĆ PLUS)

Collaborators

  • Institute of Paleobiology PAS
  • Uppsala University
  • University College London
  • University of Oxford

Selected publications

2024

Jiménez-Mejías, Pedro; Manzano, Saúl; Gowda, Vinita; Krell, Frank-Thorsten; Lin, Mei-Ying; Martín-Bravo, Santiago; Martín-Torrijos, Laura; Nieto Feliner, Gonzalo; Mosyakin, Sergei L; Naczi, Robert F C; Acedo, Carmen; Álvarez, Inés; Crisci, Jorge V; Luceño Garcés, Modesto; Manning, John; Moreno Saiz, Juan Carlos; Muasya, A Muthama; Riina, Ricarda; Sánchez Meseguer, Andrea; Sánchez-Mata, Daniel; additional 1543 coauthors,

Protecting stable biological nomenclatural systems enables universal communication: A collective international appeal Journal Article

In: BioScience, pp. biae043, 2024.

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Rytel, Adam; Böhmer, Christine; Spiekman, Stephan N. F.; Tałanda, Mateusz

Extreme neck elongation evolved despite strong developmental constraints in bizarre Triassic reptiles—implications for neck modularity in archosaurs Journal Article

In: Royal Society Open Science, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 240233, 2024.

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Sulej, Tomasz; Machalski, Marcin; Tałanda, Mateusz

New finds of Olenekian, Early Triassic, trematosaurid amphibians and prolocophonid reptiles from Poland Journal Article

In: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, vol. 69, no. 1, pp. 49–56, 2024.

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2023

Czepiński, Łukasz; Pawlak, Wojciech; Rytel, Adam; Tałanda, Mateusz; Szczygielski, Tomasz; Sulej, Tomasz

A new Middle Triassic vertebrate assemblage from Miedary (southern Poland) Journal Article

In: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 0, no. 0, pp. e2265445, 2023.

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2022

Tałanda, Mateusz; Fernandez, Vincent; Panciroli, Elsa; Evans, Susan E; Benson, Roger J

Synchrotron tomography of a stem lizard elucidates early squamate anatomy Journal Article

In: Nature, vol. 611, no. 7934, pp. 99-104, 2022.

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2021

Czepiński, Łukasz; Dróżdż, Dawid; Szczygielski, Tomasz; Tałanda, Mateusz; Pawlak, Wojciech; Lewczuk, Antoni; Rytel, Adam; Sulej, Tomasz

An Upper Triassic Terrestrial Vertebrate Assemblage from the Forgotten Kocury Locality (Poland) with a New Aetosaur Taxon Journal Article

In: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, pp. e1898977, 2021.

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2020

Sulej, Tomasz; Krzesiński, Grzegorz; Tałanda, Mateusz; Wolniewicz, Andrzej S.; Błażejowski, Błażej; Bonde, Niels; Gutowski, Piotr; Sienkiewicz, Maksymilian; Niedźwiedzki, Grzegorz

The earliest-known mammaliaform fossil from Greenland sheds light on origin of mammals Journal Article

In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 117, no. 43, pp. 26861-26867, 2020.

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Sulej, Tomasz; Niedźwiedzki, Grzegorz; Tałanda, Mateusz; Dróżdż, Dawid; Hara, Ewa

A new early Late Triassic non-mammaliaform eucynodont from Poland Journal Article

In: Historical Biology, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 80-92, 2020.

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Piechowski, Rafał; Tałanda, Mateusz

The locomotor musculature and posture of the early dinosauriform Silesaurus opolensis provides a new look into the evolution of Dinosauromorpha Journal Article

In: Journal of Anatomy, vol. 236, no. 6, pp. 1044-1100, 2020.

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Pindakiewicz, Maciej; Tałanda, Mateusz; Sulej, Tomasz; Niedźwiedzki, Grzegorz; Sennikov, A G; Bakayev, A; Bulanov, V V; Golubev, V; Minikh, A V

Feeding convergence among ray-finned fishes: teeth of the herbivorous actinopterygians from the latest Permian of East European Platform, Russia Journal Article

In: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, vol. 65, no. 1, pp. 71–79, 2020.

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Pawlak, Wojciech; Tałanda, Mateusz; Sulej, Tomasz; Niedźwiedzki, Grzegorz

Dipnoan from the Upper Triassic of East Greenland and remarks about palaeobiogeography of Ptychoceratodus Journal Article

In: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, vol. 65, pp. 561-574, 2020.

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2019

Qvarnström, Martin; Wernström, Joel Vikberg; Piechowski, Rafał; Tałanda, Mateusz; Ahlberg, Per E; Niedźwiedzki, Grzegorz

Beetle-bearing coprolites possibly reveal the diet of a Late Triassic dinosauriform Journal Article

In: Royal Society Open Science, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 181042, 2019, (Publisher: The Royal Society).

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Piechowski, Rafał; Niedźwiedzki, Grzegorz; Tałanda, Mateusz

Unexpected bird-like features and high intraspecific variation in the braincase of the Triassic relative of dinosaurs Journal Article

In: Historical Biology, vol. 31, no. 8, pp. 1065–1081, 2019, (Publisher: Taylor & Francis _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2017.1418339).

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2018

Simões, Tiago R; Caldwell, Michael W; Tałanda, Mateusz; Bernardi, Massimo; Palci, Alessandro; Vernygora, Oksana; Bernardini, Federico; Mancini, Lucia; Nydam, Randall L

X-ray computed microtomography of Megachirella wachtleri Journal Article

In: Scientific Data, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 180244, 2018, ISSN: 2052-4463.

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Tałanda, Mateusz

An exceptionally preserved Jurassic skink suggests lizard diversification preceded fragmentation of Pangaea Journal Article

In: Palaeontology, vol. 61, no. 5, pp. 659–677, 2018, (_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/pala.12358).

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Simões, Tiago R; Caldwell, Michael W; Tałanda, Mateusz; Bernardi, Massimo; Palci, Alessandro; Vernygora, Oksana; Bernardini, Federico; Mancini, Lucia; Nydam, Randall L

The origin of squamates revealed by a Middle Triassic lizard from the Italian Alps Journal Article

In: Nature, vol. 557, no. 7707, pp. 706–709, 2018, ISSN: 1476-4687.

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Skrzycki, Piotr; Niedźwiedzki, Grzegorz; Tałanda, Mateusz

Dipnoan remains from the Lower-Middle Triassic of the Holy Cross Mountains and northeastern Poland, with remarks on dipnoan palaeobiogeography Journal Article

In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, vol. 496, pp. 332–345, 2018, ISSN: 0031-0182.

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2017

Tałanda, Mateusz; Bajdek, Piotr; Niedźwiedzki, Grzegorz; Sulej, Tomasz

Upper Triassic freshwater oncoids from Silesia (southern Poland) and their microfossil biota Journal Article

In: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen, vol. 284, no. 1, pp. 43–56, 2017, (Place: Stuttgart, Germany Publisher: Schweizerbart Science Publishers).

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Tałanda, Mateusz

Evolution of postcranial skeleton in worm lizards inferred from its status in the Cretaceous stem-amphisbaenian Slavoia darevskii Journal Article

In: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, vol. 62, no. 1, pp. 9–23, 2017, ISSN: 0567-7920.

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Skawiński, Tomasz; Ziegler, Maciej; Czepiński, Łukasz; Szermański, Marcin; Tałanda, Mateusz; Surmik, Dawid; Niedźwiedzki, Grzegorz

A re-evaluation of the historical ‘dinosaur’ remains from the Middle-Upper Triassic of Poland Journal Article

In: Historical Biology, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 442–472, 2017, (Publisher: Taylor & Francis _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2016.1188385).

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Soussi, Mohamed; Niedźwiedzki, Grzegorz; Tałanda, Mateusz; Dróżdż, Dawid; Sulej, Tomasz; Boukhalfa, Kamel; Mermer, Janusz; Błażejowski, Błażej

Middle Triassic (Anisian-Ladinian) Tejra red beds and Late Triassic (Carnian) carbonate sedimentary records of southern Tunisia, Saharan Platform: Biostratigraphy, sedimentology and implication on regional stratigraphic correlations Journal Article

In: Marine and Petroleum Geology, vol. 79, pp. 222–256, 2017, ISSN: 0264-8172.

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2016

Tałanda, Mateusz

Cretaceous roots of the amphisbaenian lizards Journal Article

In: Zoologica Scripta, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 1–8, 2016, (_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/zsc.12138).

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2015

Skawiński, Tomasz; Tałanda, Mateusz

Integrating developmental biology and the fossil record of reptiles Journal Article

In: The International journal of developmental biology, vol. 58, no. 10-12, pp. 949–960, 2015, ISSN: 0214-6282.

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2014

Sulej, Tomasz; Wolniewicz, Andrzej; Bonde, Niels; Błażejowski, Błażej; Niedźwiedzki, Grzegorz; Tałanda, Mateusz

New perspectives on the Late Triassic vertebrates of East Greenland: preliminary results of a Polish−Danish palaeontological expedition Journal Article

In: no. 4, 2014, (Type: Artykuły / Articles).

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Piechowski, Rafał; Tałanda, Mateusz; Dzik, Jerzy

Skeletal variation and ontogeny of the Late Triassic Dinosauriform Silesaurus opolensis Journal Article

In: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 1383–1393, 2014.

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2011

Sulej, Tomasz; Bronowicz, Robert; Tałanda, Mateusz; Niedźwiedzki, Grzegorz

A new dicynodont–archosaur assemblage from the Late Triassic (Carnian) of Poland Journal Article

In: Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, vol. 101, no. 3-4, pp. 261–269, 2011, (Publisher: Royal Society of Edinburgh Scotland Foundation).

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Tałanda, Mateusz; Dzięcioł, Szymon; Sulej, Tomasz; Niedźwiedzki, Grzegorz

Vertebrate burrow system from the Upper Triassic of Poland Journal Article

In: Palaios, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 99 – 105, 2011, (Publisher: Society for Sedimentary Geology).

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