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KORDIKOVA, Elena Georgiyevna (b. June, 22, 1963, Krasnodar) - Russian & Kazakhstan palaeontologist, Cosmic geologist, mathematician, archaeologist.

STUDIES:

1985: Graduated from the Biology Faculty of the Moscow State University named in honour of M.V. Lomonosov (1980-1985), speciality - zoology, botany. Сourse work: "Zooarchaeology of Scythian horses of Kirkinitida (Eupatoria) and Chersonese Taurian (Sevastopol')”. Thesis work: "Functional Morphology of the Oligocene swamp rhinos of Mongolia”. Scientific leaders & colleagues - S.P. Maslov, J. F. Dzerzhinsky, V.Yu. Reshetov, P.P. Gambaryan.

1990: Graduated from the Geological and Prospecting Faculty of the Kazakh National Technical University named after K. Satpayev (1984-1990), speciality - geology, prospecting and exploration of mineral deposits. Student projects: "Reconstruction of the Oligocene and Miocene biogeooriktocenoses of the Zaisan Basin, Eastern Kazakhstan: Paleontology and stratigraphy”. Scientific leaders & colleagues - M.A. Zhukov, A. Yarmak, V. Malinovskaya, I. Radchenko, Shegay.

1991: Graduated of the Institute of paleobiology of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (1990-1991). Host professor - academician of the Academy of Sciences of Georgia, Prof. Dr. L.K. Gabunia.

Ph.D. THESIS (DOCTORAL DISSERTATION):

Theme of Ph.D. thesis: "The fossil turtles of Kazakhstan" (Ph.D. - 30.12.1991, Institute of Geology of the Academy of Sciences of Georgia; approval of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, 8.05.1992).

WORK:

Since 1985 - work in the Institute of Zoology of the Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan.

Since 1997 - work in the Kapchagay Geological & Prospecting Expedition of Kazakhstan.

Since 1998 - Scholarships in Germany (DAAD, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Volkswagen Foundation).

SCIENTIFIC PROJECTS:

Dr. Elena G. Kordikova - Director, scientific director and supervisor (Principal Investigator) of joint scientific projects:

1995: of the joint Kazakhstan-French palaeontological expedition (1995) together with Prof. Dr. L. de Bonis and M. Brunet (Université de Poitiers, France);

1995: of the joint Kazakhstan-American paleontological expedition (1995) together with Dr. G. Gunnel (University of Michigan, USA), Dr. P.D. Polly (University of London, Queen Mary and Westfield College, the UK);

1999: of the joint Kazakhstan-German-(Dutch) paleontological expedition (1999) together with Dr. E.P.J. Heizmann (Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde, Stuttgart, Germany) and Dr. H. de Bruijn (Utrecht University, the Niederlands);

1999: of the joint Kazakhstan-Chinese paleontological expedition (1999) together with Prof. Dr. Zheng, Dr. W. Wu (Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Beijing, China), etc.

Subject of the scientific investigations: discovery and study of numerous Cretaceous, Paleogene and Neogene faunas of vertebrates in Southern, South-Eastern and Western Kazakhstan, their systematics, biodiversity, biostratigraphy, palaeoecology, palaeogeography and palaeoreconstruction.

POSTDOCTORAL DISSERTATION:

Theme of the Postdoctoral dissertation: "Ways and regularities of evolution of Testudinata” (approval diploma from the Alexander of Humboldt Foundation, Bonn, 28.02.2001).

SCHOLARSHIPS:

Scholarship-winner of DAAD (1998): Host Institut: Stuttgart University, Institut fuer Geologie u. Palaeontologie. Host Professors - Prof. Dr. R. Leinfelder, Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde, Stuttgart, Dr. E.P.J. Heizmann.

Seven-time scholarship-winner of the International scientific Alexander von Humboldt Foundation: scholarships in Germany: 1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2003, and four European International research scholarships of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation: work in Poland (2000), France (2000), Switzerland (2000) and in the UK (2000-2001). Host Institut: Tuebingen University, Institut fuer Geologie u. Palaeontologie, Museum fuer Geologie und Palaeontologie in Tuebingen, Sigwartstraße 10; Host Professor - Prof. Dr. W.-E. Reif.

Scholarship-winner of the International research Volkswagen Foundation (2001- 2004): Stuttgart University, Institut fuer Geologie u. Palaeontologie, Host Professors - Prof. Dr. H. Seyfried; Dr. E.P.J. Heizmann, Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde, Stuttgart.

Dr. Elena G. Kordikova - the author of more than 12 scientific monographs on palaeontology and stratigraphy of the Cretaceous, Palaeogene and Neogene of Kazakhstan (written in English), numerous research papers, etc.

SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE:

Kordikova, E.G., Heizmann, E.P.J. & de Bruijn H. 2004. Early - Middle Miocene vertebrate faunas from Western Kazakhstan. Part 1. Rodentia, Insectivora, Chiroptera, and Lagomorpha. (With 13 figures and 5 tables). - N. Jb. Geol. Paläont. Abh., 231, 2: 219¬276; Stuttgart.

Kordikova, E.G., Heizmann, E.P.J. & Pronin, V.G. 2003. Tertiary litho- and biostratigraphic sequence of the Ustyurt Plateau area, SW Kazakhstan, with the main focus on vertebrate faunas from the Early to Middle Miocene (with 9 figures and 4 tables). - N. Jb. Geol. Paläont. Abh., 227, 3, 381-447; Stuttgart.

Kordikova, E.G. (in press). Heterochrony in the evolution of the shell of Testudinata. Part 2. Chelydroidea, Dermatemydoidae, Testudinoidea and Emydoidea. - N. Jb. Geol. Paläont. Abh.; Stuttgart. (100 figures and tables)

Kordikova, E.G. (in press). Heterochrony in the evolution of the shell of Testudinata. Part 3. Pelomedusoides and Chelidoidea. - N. Jb. Geol. Paläont. Abh.; Stuttgart. (100 figures and tables)

Kordikova, E.G. & Heizmann, E.P.J. (in press): Early - Middle Miocene vertebrate faunas from Western Kazakhstan. Part 2. Carnivora, Perissodactyla, Artiodactyla, Proboscidea. - N. Jb. Geol. Paläont. Abh.; Stuttgart.

Kordikova, E.G. 2003. Heterochrony in the shell of sea turtles. - 12th Ordinary General Meeting Societas Europaea Herpetologia (SEH), August, 12-16, 2003, p.82-83; St-Petersburg.

Kordikova, E.G. & Reif, W.-E. 2003. Some regularities of the evolution of the sea turtles. - 12th Ordinary General Meeting Societas Europaea Herpetologia (SEH), August, 12-16, 2003, p.83; St-Petersburg.

Kordikova, E.G. 2002. Heterochrony in the evolution of the shell of Testudinata. Part 1. Nomenclature. Cheloniidae, Dermochelyidae, Trionychoidea (Trionychidae, Cyclanorbidae) and Carettochelyidae. - N. Jb. Geol. Paläont. Abh., 226, 3: 343-417; Stuttgart.

Kordikova, E.G. 2002. Comparative morphology of the palate dentition in Proganochelys quenstedti BAUR 1887 from the Upper Triassic of Germany and Chelonian ancestry. - N. Jb. Geol. Paläont. Abh., 225, 2: 195-249; Stuttgart.

Kordikova, E.G. & Heizmann, E.J. 2002. Biodiversity dynamics in the Late Oligocene - Middle Miocene mammalian faunas of SW Kazakhstan. - Geo2002, 1-5, October, 2002, pp.199-200; Würzburg.

[About Dr. E.G. Kordikova and the VW project] Simm, M. 2002. Beschwerliche Fieldarbeit zwischen Orient uund Okzident. Auf den Spuren den Saeugetiere im Kasachstan des Miozaens. - Impulse-2002, 28-31.

Kordikova, E.G. & Bruijn, de, H. 2001. Early Miocene rodents from the Aktau Mountains (South-Eastern Kazakhstan). - Senckenbergiana lethaea, 81, 2: 391-405.

Kordikova, E.G. & Khlyupin, A.J. 2001. First evidence of a neonate dentition in pareiasaurs from the Upper Permian of Russia. - Acta palaeontologica Polonica, 46, 4: 589-594; Warsaw.

Kordikova, E.G. 2001. Palate morphology of Proganochelys quenstedti Baur, 1887 from the Upper Triassic of Germany and ancestry of turtles. - J. of Morphology, 248, 3, pp. 249-250.

Kordikova, E.G. & Reif, W.-E. 2001. Adaptational strategies, shell patterns and heterochrony in Testudinata. - J. of Morphology, 248, 3, p. 249.

Kordikova, E.G. 2001. Paedomorphosis and ancestry of turtles. - Biota, 2, Suppl., p. 82.

Kordikova, E.G. 2001. Palate dentition in Proganochelys and some Paleozoic and Mesozoic tetrapods. - Biota, 2, Suppl., pp. 80-81.

Kordikova, E.G., Polly, P.D., Gunnell, G.F., Roček, Z., Alifanov, V. & Averianov, A.O. 2001. Small vertebrates from the Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary of the northeastern Aral Sea region, Kazakhstan. - J. of Vertebrate Paleontology, 75, 2: 390-400.

Kordikova, E.G. 2001. Remarks on the Oligocene-Miocene mammal paleontology and sequence stratigraphy of South-Western Betpakdala Steppe, South Kazakhstan. - N. Jb. Geol. Paläont. Abh., 221, 1: 35-79; Stuttgart.

Kordikova, E.G. & Vorobyeva, E.I. 2000. Phenomenon of paedomorphosis in extinct and extant Testudinata: the example of the Trionychidae. - Doklady Rossiyskoy Akademii Nauk, 373, 3: 1-4; Moscow. [In Russian].

Kordikova, E.G. 2000. Paedomorphosis in the shell of fossil and living turtles. - N. Jb. Geol. Paläont. Abh., 218, 3: 399-446; Stuttgart.

Kordikova, E.G. & Khlyupin, A.J. 2000. First evidence of an embryonic or neonate dentition in pareiasaurs from the Upper Permian of Russia. - J. of Vertebrate Paleontology, 20, 3: 52A; Chicago.

Kordikova, E.G. 2000. Insectivora (Mammalia) from the Lower Miocene of the Aktau Mountains, South-Eastern Kazakhstan. - Senckenberg. Lethaea, 80, 1: 67-79.

Heizmann, E. & Kordikova, E.G. 2000. Zur systematischen Stellung von „Amphicyon“ intermedius H.v.Meyer, 1849 (Carnivora, Amphicyonidae). - Carolinea, 58: 69-82.

Kordikova, E.G., Heizmann, E. & Mavrin, A.V. 2000. Early Middle Miocene Carnivora of Aktau Mountains, South-Eastern Kazakhstan. - Paläontol. Zeitschrift, 74, 1/2: 195-204.

Kordikova, E.G., Shilin P.V., Gunnell G.F. & Polly P.D. 1999. Biotic change in the Turonian-Campanian of the Northeast Aral sea region, South Kazakhstan. - Abstracts VII Intern. Symposium on Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems, p. 33; Buenos Aires.

Kordikova, E.G. & Heizmann, E.P.J. 1999. Early Miocene Carnivora of Aktau Mountains, Dzhungarian Alatau, Kazakhstan. - J. Vert. Paleont., 19, 3, Suppl., 57A; Lawrence.

Kordikova, E.G. 1999. Paedomorphosis in the shell of mesozoic chelonians. - Abstracts VII Intern. Symposium on Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems, Buenos Aires, p. 34.

Kordikova, E.G., Rocek, Z., Gunnell, G.F. & Polly, P.D. 1998. First record of a discoglossid anuran (Amphibia, Anura, Discoglossidae) from the Late Cretaceous of North-Eastern Aral Sea region, Kazakhstan. - Annual Report, Institute of Geology of Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Department of stratigraphy and palaeontology, p. 25.

Bruijn, H. de & Kordikova, E.G. 1998. Micromammals from the Middle Miocene of Aktau Mountains, S.E. Kazakhstan. - J. of Vertebrate Paleontology, 18, 3: 38A.

Kordikova, E.G., Bonis, de, L., Brunet, M. & Mavrin, A.V. 1998. New data on rhinoceroses of South-Western Betpakdala. - J. of Vertebrate Paleontology, 18, 3: 56A.

Mavrin, A.V. & Kordikova, E.G. 1998. A new Eocene vertebrate fauna from South-Eastern Kazakhstan (Aktau Mountains, Dzhungarian Alatau). - J. of Vertebrate Paleontology, 18, 3: 61A.

Kordikova, E.G. 1998.Paedomorphic features in fossil and living turtles. - Abstracts of the Third Asian Herpetological Meeting, Almaty, 1-5 September, 1998, 23-24.

Kordikova, E.G., L. Bonis, de, M. Brunet, and A.V. Mavrin. 1998.  New data on turtles of South-Western Betpakdala. - Abstracts of the Third Asian Herpetolog. Meeting, 1-5 September, 1998, pp.22-23; Almaty.

Kordikova, E.G. 1998. Herpetofauna in the Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic of  Kazakhstan. - Vestnik KazGU, 6: 61-109; Almaty [English].

Kordikova, E.G., Brushko, Z.K. & Kubykin, R.A. 1998. Distribution of some fossil amphibians and reptiles and their extant geographical range. - Vestnik KazGU, 6: 35-54; Almaty [English].

Kordikova, E.G. 1998. A new Eocene vertebrate fauna from South-eastern Kazakhstan (Aktau Mountains, Dzhungarian Alatau). - Vestnik KazGU, 5: 180-185; Almaty [English].

Kordikova, E.G. 1998. Main stages in the development of mammalian faunas in the Oligocene and Miocene of Kazakhstan. - Vestnik KazGU, 5: 167-180; Almaty [English].

Lucas, S.G., Kordikova, E.G. & Emry, R.J. 1998. Oligocene stratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy and mammalian biochronology north of the Aral Sea, Western Kazakhstan. - Bull. Carn. Mus. Nat. Hist., 34: 313-348.

De Bonis, L., Brunet M., Kordikova E.G. & Mavrin, A,V. 1997. Oligocene-Miocene sequence stratigraphy and vertebrate paleontology of western and southern Betpakdala Steppe, South Kazakhstan. – In: J.-P.Aguilar, S.Legendre, J.Michaux (Eds.): Actes du Congrès Biochrom'97, Montpellier, 14-17 Avril, 1997, pp. 225-240.

Kordikova, E.G., Alifanov, V.R., Polly, P.D. & Gunnell, G.F. 1997. First known occurrence of varanoid and scincomorph lizards in the Upper Cretaceous of South-Western Kazakhstan. - Abstracts of the 3rd World Congress of Herpetology, Prague, 2-10 August, 1997, p. 249.

Kordikova, E.G., Kurzanov, S.M. & Gunnell, G.F. 1997. Unusual claw dinosaur phalanxes from the Upper Cretaceous of the North-Eastern Aral Sea region, Kazakhstan. - J. of Morphology, 232, 3: 278.

Bonis L., Brunet, M., Kordikova, E.G. & Mavrin, A.V. 1997.Oligocene-Miocene sequence stratigraphy and vertebrate paleontology of Betpakdala Steppe, South Kazakhstan. - Biochrom, April, 14-17, 1997, p. 34.

Kordikova E.G., Bonis, de, L., Brunet, M. & Mavrin, A.V. 1997. New data on rhinoceroses of South-Western Betpakdala. - J. of Vertebrate Paleontology, 17, 3.

Kordikova, E.G. & Mavrin, A.V. 1996. Stratigraphy and Oligocene-Miocene mammalian biochronology of the Aktau Mountains, Dzhungarian Alatau Range, Kazakhstan. - Palaeovertebrata, 25, 2-4: 141-174; Montpellier.

Kordikova, E.G. & Mavrin, A.V. 1996. Early Miocene Mammalian fauna of Aktau Mountains, Dzhungarian Alatau, Kazakhstan. - J. of Vertebrate Paleontology, 16, 3: 46A.

Kordikova, E.G., Gunnell, G.F., Polly, D. & Kovrizhnykh, Yu.B. 1996. Late Cretaceous and Paleocene vertebrate paleontology and stratigraphy in the North-eastern Aral Sea region, Kazakhstan. - J. of Vertebrate Paleontology, 16, 3: 46A.

Kordikova, E.G. 1995. Herpetofauna in the Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras of Kazakhstan. - 75th Ann. Meeting of the Americ. Soc. of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Edmonton, p. 131.

Kordikova, E.G. 1995. Formation of herpetofauna in Kazakhstan. - Abstracts of the Second Asian Herpetolog. Meeting., pp. 33-34; Ashgabat.

Kordikova, E.G. 1995. Giant rhinoceroses of the Oligocene of Central Kazakhstan. - J. of Vertebrate Paleontology, 15, 3: 39A-40A.

Lucas, S.G., Kordikova, E.G. & Emry, R.J. 1995. Upper Cretaceous-Paleocene stratigraphy and vertebrate paleontology in the Zaysan Basin, Kazakhstan. - J. of Vertebrate Paleontology, 15, 3: 41A.

Kordikova, E.G. 1994. Review of fossil Trionychid Localities in the Soviet Union. - Cour. Forsch.- Inst. Senckenberg., 173: 341-358; Frankfurt-a-Main.

Kordikova, E.G. 1994. About systematics  of  fossil trionychids of Kazakhstan. - Selevinia, 2: 3-10.

Kordikova, E.G. 1994. New data about fossil trionychids of Kazakhstan. - Selevinia, 4: 72.

Kordikova, E.G. 1994. Morphofunctional peculiarities of skull in Cadurcodon ardynensis [Morfofunktsional'nyye osobennosti cherepa Cadurcodon ardynensis]. - Teriologiya, pp. 183-202; Moscow (Nauka).

Kordikova, E.G. 1994. Oligocene vertebrate assemblages in Central Kazakhstan. - Historical Biology (E. Buffetaut, Ed.), 8: 191-208.

Kordikova, E.G. 1993. Peculiarities of postnatal ontogenesis of skeleton in trionychids (Cryptodira, Trionychidae) [Osobennosti postnatal'nogo ontogeneza skeleta tryokhkogotnykh cherepakh (Cryptodira, Trionychidae)]. - Deponir. in VINITI, 1993, N1716-B93: 1-55.

Kordikova, E.G. 1993. Preliminary data about paleontology and stratigraphy of the southern and eastern parts of Aktau Mountains, South-Eastern Kazakhstan. - Evolution-93, Fourth Congress of the European Society for Evolut. Biology, p. 226; Montpellier.

Kordikova, E.G. 1993. About the question of the homology of carapace elements in trionychids and other turtles. - Second Internat. Herpetolog. Congress, Adelaide, p. 141.

Kordikova, E.G. 1993. Peculiarities of postnatal and individual  ontogenesis  of  trionychid skeletons. - Second Internat. Herpetol. Congress. Adelaide, pp. 141-142.

Kordikova, E.G. 1993. Fossil trionychids of Kazakhstan. - Second Internat. Herpetol. Congress, Adelaide, pp. 142-143.

Kordikova, E.G., Prizemlin, B.V., Tleuberdina, P.A. & Chkhikvadze, V.M. 1993. Baytuma - a new locality of the Cretaceous reptiles in Dzhungarian Alatau  [Baytuma - novoye mestonakhozhdeniye melovykh presmykayushchikhsya v Dzhungarskom Alatau]. - Izvest. Akad. Nauk Resp. Kazakh., ser. biol., 4: 84-86.

Kordikova, E.G. 1992. Review of fossil trionychids of Soviet Union [Obzor iskopayemykh tryokhkogotnykh cherepakh Sovetskogo Soyuza]. - Izv. Akad. Nauk Gruzii, ser.biol., 18, 2: 131-141.

Kordikova, E.G. 1992. Preliminary data about time and prohoreses ways of fossil  trionychids in Kazakhstan [Predvaritel'nyye dannyye o vremeni i putyakh  prokhorezov iskopaemykh tryokhkogotnykh cherepakh Kazakhstana]. - Soobshchen. Akad. Nauk Gruzii, 145, 3: 647-650.

Kordikova, E.G. 1992. Morphofunctional peculiarities of skeleton of Indricotherium minus Borissiak, 1923 (Ceratomorpha, Indricotheriidae) from the Oligocene deposits of Turgay Depression [Morfofunktsional'nyye  osobennosti skeleta Indricotherium minus  Borissiak,  1923  (Ceratomorpha, Indricotheriidae) iz oligotsenovykh otlozheniy Turgayskogo progiba]. - Deponir. in VINITI, 1992, N2955-92: 1-159.

Kordikova, E.G. 1991. Taxonomic significance of the nuchalia and first costalia of  Fossil  trionychids  of  Kazakhstan [Taksonomicheskoye  znacheniye  nukhal'nykh    i pervykh kostal'nykh plastinok iskopayemykh tryokhkogotnykh cherepakh Kazakhstana]. - Soobshch. Akad. Nauk GruzSSR, 82, 2: 425-428.

Kordikova, E.G. 1991. Catalogue of fossil trionychids of Soviet Union [Katalog iskopayemykh tryokhkogotnykh cherepakh Sovetskogo Soyuza] Preprint,  "Metsniereba", pp. 1-15; Tbilisi. Kordikova, E.G. 1991. Fossil trionychids of Kazakhstan [Iskopayemyye tryokhkogotnyye cherepakhi Kazakhstana]. - Avtoref. kand. geol.-mineral. nauk, pp. 1-16; Tbilisi.

Kordikova, E.G. 1991. Fossil trionychids of Kazakhstan [Iskopayemyye tryokhkogotnyye cherepakhi Kazakhstana]. - Dissertation kand. geol.-mineral. nauk, pp. 1-354; Tbilisi.

Kordikova, E.G. 1990.New data about the Oligocene assemblages of vertebrates of the Central Kazakhstan [Novyye dannyye ob oligotsenovykh kompleksakh pozvonochnykh zhivotnykh Tsentral'nogo Kazakhstana]. - Fauna pozvonochnykh i flora mezozoya i kaynozoya Kazakhstana, 11: 26-53; Alma-Ata.

Kordikova, E.G. & Chkhikvadze, V.M. 1990. Stratigraphy significance of fossil trionychids in Kazakhstan [Stratigraficheskaya znachimost' iskopayemykh trioniksov Kazakhstana]. - Materialy po istorii fauny i flory Kazakhstana, 1990, 11: 135-139; Alma-Ata.

Kordikova, E.G. 1990. Late Cretaceous trionychids in Kazakhstan. - Intern. Sympos. Nonmarine Cretaceous Correlation, pp. 29-30; Alma-Ata.

Kordikova, E.G. 1989. New data about the large Oligocene trionychids of Kazakhstan [Novyye dannyye  o krupnykh oligotsenovykh trioniksakh Kazakhstana]. - Voprosy gerpetologii, pp. 114-116; Kiev.

Kordikova, E.G. 1989. About the age of faunistic assemblages in the Oligocene of Central Kazakhstan [K voprosu o vozraste faunisticheskikh kompleksov oligotsena Tsentral'nogo Kazakhstana]. - Operat.-informats. materialy, pp. 33-34; Moscow.

Kordikova, E.G. 1989. The mammalian faunas of the Oligocene of Central Kazakhstan. - Fifth Intern. Teriol. Congress, pp. 634-635; Rome.

Antipina, E.E., Kordikova, E.G. & Maslov, S.P. 1986. Variability of some elements of the enamel drawing of molars in scythian horses and its taxonomical significance [Izmenchivost' nekotorykh elementov risunka email korennykh zubov subfossil'noy skifskoy loshadi i eyo taksonomicheskoye znacheniye]. - IV Congress Vsesoyuzn. Teriol. Obshch., 186: 6; Moscow. [Subfossil materials from Crimean archaeological sites]