Vladimir Prokhorovich Amalitskii (russian: Владимир Прохорович Амалицкий; 1860–1917) (alternative spelling: Amalitzky) was a Russian

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and professor at

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who was involved in the discovery and excavation of the

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from the North Dvina River, Arkhangelsk District, Northern European

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. He made a number of studies of the fossil remains of amphibians and reptiles from Northern Russia.

Partial bibliography

* Amalitskii, V.P., ''Dvinosauridae'' Petrograd : Akademicheskaia tip., 1921. 16 p., 4 leaves of plates : ill. -- (Severodvinskie raskopki professora V.P. Amalitskogo ; * Amalitskii, V.P., ''Seymouridae'', Petrograd : Akademicheskaia tip., 1921. 14 p., leaves of plates : ill. -- (Severodvinskie raskopki professora V.P. Amalitskogo ; 2) * Amalitzky, V.P., 1922, Diagnoses of the new forms of vertebrates and plants from the upper Permian of North Dvina: ''Bulletin de l’Académie des Sciences de l'URSS, Math and Natural Sciences'', 1922, p. 329-340. and in ''Izv. Ross. Akad. Nauk, Ser.'' 6 25 (1), 1–12.

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V. Amalitskii bibliography
in information system "History of Geology and Minimg". 1860 births 1917 deaths People from Zhytomyr Oblast People from Zhitomirsky Uyezd Paleontologists from the Russian Empire Russian science writers University of Warsaw faculty {{Paleontologist-stub