Natalia Rybczynski

Natalia Rybczynski (born 1971 ) is a Canadian palaeontologist and high school teacher.

Life and work

In 1994, she earned a Bachelor of Science at Carleton University in 1996 and Master of Science at the University of Toronto. Natalia Rybczynski worked for the Canadian Museum of Nature and has been a professor at Carleton University in Ottawa. Your doctoral degree she obtained in 2003 at Duke University with a dissertation on evolution of Wood -cutting in Castorids. Its focus is on the evolutionary functional morphology, partially in polar climate. She became famous by the discovery of an Arctic camel, which represents a missing link between the original form and the modern camel. Rybczynskis team discovered in 2007 the Seelöwenart Puijila darwini on Devon Iceland in the Canadian Arctic. Rybczynski also participated in studies of the tooth structure and chewing behavior of early mammalian Suminia getmanovi.

Writings (selection )

  • Cranial morphology and phylogenetic Significance of Suminia getmanovi, a late permian anomodont from Russia Thesis ( M. Sc.). Microform, Toronto 1996.
  • Cranial anatomy and phylogenetic position of Suminia getmanovi, a basal anomodont ( Amniota: Therapsida ) from the Late Permian of Eastern Europe. In: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. Vol 130, No. 3, 2000, pp. 329-373, doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2000.tb01634.x.
  • Together with Robert Rafael Reisz: Earliest evidence for efficient oral processing in a terrestrial herbivore. In: Nature. Vol 411, 2001, pp. 684-687, doi: 10.1038/35079567.
  • Together with Ashley P. Ballantyne, Paul Arthur Baker, Charles Richard Harington, Don White: Pliocene Arctic temperature constraints from the growth rings and isotopic composition of fossil larch wood. In: palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. Vol 242, 2006, pp. 188-200 ( online ( PDF, 671 kB), accessed on March 9, 2013).
  • Castorid Phylogenetics: Implications for the Evolution of Swimming and Tree - Exploitation in Beavers. In: Journal of Mammalian Evolution. Vol 14, No 1, 2007, pp. 1-35, doi: 10.1007/s10914-006-9017-3.
  • Together with Alex Tirabasso, Paul Bloskie, Robin Cuthbertson, Casey Holliday: A 3D animation model of Edmontosaurus ( Hadrosauridae ) skull for testing chewing hypotheses. In: Palaeontologia Electronica. No 11.2.9A, 2008, pp. 1-14 ( online ( PDF, 1.2 MB), accessed on March 9, 2013).
  • Woodcutting behavior in beavers ( Castoridae, Rodentia ): estimating ecological performance in a modern and a fossil taxon. In: Paleobiology. Vol 34, No. 3, 2008, pp. 389-402, doi: 10.1666/06085.1.
  • Together with Mary R. Dawson, Richard H. Tedford: A semi-aquatic Arctic mammalian carnivore from the Miocene epoch and origin of Pinnipedia. In: Nature. Vol 458, No. 7241, 209, pp. 1021-1024, doi: 10.1038/nature07985 ( online ( PDF, 643 kB), accessed 11 March 2013 ).
  • Together with Ashley P. Ballantyne, David R. Greenwood, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, Zoltan Adam Csank, Jaelyn Eberle Joy: Significantly warmer Arctic surface temperatures applications falling on the Pliocene Indicated by multiple independent proxies. In: Geology. Vol 38, No. 7, 2010, pp. 603-606, doi: 10.1130/G30815.1.
  • Along with Elizabeth M. Ross, Joshua X. Samuels, William W. Korth: Re -evaluation of Sino Castor ( Rodentia: Castoridae ) with implications on the origin of modern beavers. In: PLoS ONE. Vol 5, No. 11, 2010 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013990.
  • Together with Janet E. Fontanella, Frank E. Fish1, Martin T. Nweeia, Darlene R. chains: Three-dimensional geometry of the narwhal ( Monodon monoceros ) flukes in relation to hydrodynamics. In: Marine Mammal Science. Vol 27, No. 4, 2011, pp. 889-898, doi: 10.1111/j.1748-7692.2010.00439.x.
  • Together with Adam Z. Csanka, Aradhna K. Tripatib, William P. Patterson, Robert A. Eagle, Ashley P. Ballantyne, John M. Eiler: Estimates of Arctic surface temperatures applications falling on the country early Pliocene from two novel proxies. In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Vol 304, No. 3-4, 2011, pp. 291-299, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.02.030.
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