mgr Wojciech Pawlak
Research interests
- Evolution, biology, and functional antomy of bony fish (Osteichthyes)
- Ecology of aquatic ecosystems
- Vertebrate fossils as indicators of paleoenvironment
- Geochemical and sedimentological methods in studies on the mode of life of fossil vertebrates
Research projects
ongoing projects
- Permian to Triassic diversification and evolution of ray-finned fish (PhD project)
- Palaeogeographic maps of the Permian non-marine basins of Central Europe (NCN Harmonia 9, 2017/26/M/ST10/00646)
- The enigma of Cheilonipus ispp.: Middle Triassic turtles or locomotor convergence? (NCN OPUS 20, 2020/39/B/NZ8/01074)
previous projects
- Ecological diversity of the Triassic fishes in the light of geochemical methods (principal investigator, Microgrant EIRU UW)
Collaborations
- Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
- Polish Geological Institute – Polish Research Institute (Poland)
- University of Wrocław (Poland)
- Uppsala University (Sweden)
Publications
2022
Triassic fish faunas from Miedary (Upper Silesia, Poland) and their implications for understanding paleosalinity Journal Article
In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, vol. 590, pp. 110860, 2022, ISSN: 0031-0182.
2021
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.
2020
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.
2019
Przegląd skamieniałości krcegowców i flory z terenów dzisiejszej Polski zgromadzonych w Muzeum Historii Naturalnej w Wiedniu Journal Article
In: Przegląd Geologiczny, vol. 67, no. 1, pp. 48, 2019, ISSN: 0033-2151.
Selected conference abstracts
- Pawlak, W. 2021. The increasing diversity of fossil lungfish. Recent findings from the Late Triassic of Greenland and Poland. 3rd Virtual Palaeontological Congress. Online.
- Pawlak, W., Tałanda, M., Sulej, T. & Niedźwiedzki, G. 2021. Lungfish from the Upper Triassic of Greenland and remarks about palaeobiogeography 5th International Meeting of Early-stage Researchers in Paleontology. Online.
- Czepiński, Ł., Sulej, T., Szczygielski, T., Lewczuk, A., Dróżdż, D. & Pawlak, W. 2019. New data on the Late Triassic vertebrate locality with archosaur and turtle remains in Kocury, Poland. 4th International Meeting of Early-Stage Researchers in Palaeontology. Cuenca, Spain.
- Lewczuk, A. & Pawlak, W. 2019. The origin and geochemistry of bone-bearing beds in Miedary. 20th Czech-Polish-Slovak Palaeontological Conference. Chęciny, Poland.
- Czepiński, Ł., Pawlak, W., Świś, P., Majchrzyk, A. & Lewczuk, A. 2019. New vertebrate material from the Upper Cretaceous Kem Kem beds of Morocco. 20th Czech-Polish-Slovak Palaeontological Conference. Chęciny, Poland.
- Majchrzyk, A., Świś, P., Pawlak, W., Lewczuk, A. & Czepiński, Ł. 2019. Undescribed carbonate buildups from Devonian/Carboniferous transition from Tafilalt Basin (Anti-Atlas, Morocco). 20th Czech-Polish-Slovak Palaeontological Conference. Chęciny, Poland.
- Czepiński, Ł., Sulej, T., Szczygielski, T., Pawlak, W., Dróżdż, D. & Lewczuk, A. 2019. The Late Triassic vertebrate locality with archosaur and turtle remains in Kocury, Poland. 17th Conference of the European Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists. Brussels, Belgium.
- Rozwalak, P. & Pawlak, W. 2019. A middle Triassic fish microremains from Miedary locality, Silesia. 6th Young Natural History Scientists’ Meeting. Paris, France.
- Majchrzyk, A., Lewczuk, A., Czepiński, Ł., Pawlak, W., Staniszewski, K. & Mazur, P. 2018. Geochemical analysis of the Devonian fossilized fauna from Hamar Laghdad Massif (Anti-Atlas, Morocco). 5th Young Natural History Scientists’ Meeting. Paris, France.
- Majchrzyk, A., Hałubek, D., Czepiński, Ł., Lewczuk, A., Mazur, P., Pawlak, W., & Staniszewski, K. 2017. Devonian fauna from Hamar Laghdad Formation (Antiatlas, Morocco). Conference of Young Evolutionary Biologists 2017. Cracow, Poland.
- Pawlak, W. & Świś, P. 2017. The diversity of microfossils among the Late Devonian Annulata event in the Holy Cross Mountains. Conference of Young Evolutionary Biologists 2017. Cracow, Poland.