Franciszek Adamczak
Franciszek Adamczak was a Polish–Swedish palaeontologist who made major contributions to the study of Palaeozoic ostracods.
Biography
Born in Poland, Franciszek J. Adamczak studied geology at the University of Warsaw. He worked there for ten years, starting in 1954. In 1964 he emigrated to Sweden, took Swedish nationality, and worked at the Stockholm University; he also became a member of the Swedish Geological Society. At the end of life he participated in a project aiming at producing a new edition of the ostracod volume of the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. As this project did not come to fruition, his papers were published posthumously by a collaborator, German ostracodologist Gerhard Becker.Research
Overview
Franciszek Adamczak worked on the morphology, systematics, and evolution of Palaeozoic ostracods. Among his discoveries, one may note the description of Eridostraca, interpreted either as a primitive suborder of ostracods or as a different group of microcrustaceans. Franciszek Adamczak also described several ostracod genera, like Kuresaaria Adamczak, 1967 or Guerichiella Adamczak, 1968.Selected publications
- Polyzygia Gürich, an ostracod genus from the Givetian of the Holy Cross Mountains Eridostraca, a new suborder of ostracods and its phylogenetic significance Palaeocopa and Platycopa Ostracoda from Middle Devonian rocks in the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland Middle Devonian Podocopida from Poland: their morphology, systematics and occurrence
- ''Contributions to Palaeozoic Ostracod Classification''