Leonide Gabunia

Date of Birth: September 13, 1920 

Doctor of geol.-miner. sc., professor (Palaeobiology, Geology, Palaeoantropology)

Curriculam Vitae:

• Candidate of geol.-miner.sc. (1947, certif. Ю 00348); doct. of geol.-miner.sc. (1954, certif. Ю 000024), professor (1959, certif. Ю 001953)
• 1957: chief of the Departament of. Vertebrate Paleontology; 1977-1988: director of Institute of Palaeobiology; 1988, honorary director of the Institute of Palaeobiology; 1976-1988, Academician-secretary of the Department of Biology of Gergian Academy of Sc.; 1988, Academician-secretary of the Georgian Academy of Sc.
• Honorary member of the Russion Theriological Soc. (1987) and Geological Soc. of Georgia (1990); honorary diploma of Moscow Soc. of Natural History (1965); honorary diploma of the USSR Soc. "Know- ledge" (1977)
• Member of the Geol.Soc. of France (1977); member of the Amer. Soc. of Vertebr.Paleontology (1972); member of the Paleontol.Soc. of the Russia (1967); founder-member of the Association of Human Paleontology (1982) President of the Geological Soc.of Gergia (1976-1990); 1980: President of the National Commitee of UNESCO programme of MAB; member of editorial board of the journals "Journ. of Paleontology" (Moscow), "Evolutionary Theory (Chicago) and "Matsne" (biol.ser,). of the Georgian Acad. of Sc.; 1983: chairmann of editor.board of sc.-popular ser. "Athinathi" of the Georgian Academy of Sc.; vice-president of the subcommission of Tertiary /Quarternary boundary (1972-82), member of the same Internation stratigraphical commi- sions and other.

Address:
Georgian Academy of Science
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380008 Tbilisi
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Publications:

• L.Gabunia. Sur l'histoire des hipparions (d'apres les matetraux du Neogene de l'USSR). "Nauka", M., (in russ.), p.579, 1959
• L.Gabunia. La Faune des Vertebres de l'Oligocene du Benara. "Metstniereba", (in russ.), p.264, 1964
• L.Gabunia, M.Rubinstein. Biostratigraphical parallelisation of caenozoic deposits of Eurasia and North America. Bull. Geol.Sos.of Georgia, (in russ.)m 4,1, p. 7-27, 1965
• L.Gabunia. Sur la correlation des faunes de Mammiferes de L'Oligocene d'Europe et d'Asie-Colloque sur le Paleogene B.R.C.M., Paris, 1966
• L.Gabunia. Sur les Mammiferes oligocenes du Caucase. Bull.- Soc.geol. de France (7), V111, p. 857-869, 1966
• L.Gabunia. L' extinction des anciens reptiles et mammiferes. Tbilisi, "Metstniereba", (in russ.),p.234, 1969
• L.Gabunia. La faune des Verebres tshokrakiens du Belometshetskya, Tb., "Metstniereba", (in russ.), p.138. 1973
• L.Gabunia. Certaines questions de bio-et chronostratigraphie du Neogene de l'Eurasia. V congres du Neogene mediterraneen. V.L. Lyon, p. 149-152, 1974
• L.Gabunia. Louis Dollo.(1857-1913) M., "Nauka". p.265, 1974 L.Gabunia.Contribution a la connaissence des Mammiferes paleogenes du bassin de Zaissan (Kazakhstan Central). Geobios. Mem. special l. Lyon. September, p. 29-37, 1fig., 1 tabl., 1 pl., 1977
• L.Gabunia. Traits essentieis de l'evolution des faunes de Mammiferes neogenes de la region mer Noire-Caspienne. V1 Congres geol. Paris, p. 195-204, 1981.
• L.Gabunia. The Tshakpaktas fauna of the eocene mammals. Dokl. Akad.nauk, (in russ.), 273, 26, p. 456-459, 1983
• L.Gabunia (collab.).The fauna of Paleogene of Zaissan depression. Mem. of VSEGEI, (in russ.), p.322, Leningrad, 1983
• L.Gabunia (collab.). On the pressence of the fossil marsupial in Asia. Proced. of Georgian Acad. of Sci., (in russ.) 116, p.169- 170, 1984
• L.Gabunia. The terrestr Mammals. In. "Stratigraphia SSSR, Neogen.Moscow, "Nedra", (in russ.)9 p.313-327, 1986
• L.Gabunia, G.Mchedlize. Les traite principaux d'evolution du cerveau de certaines groupes des Mammuferes anciens. Tb., "Metstniereba", p.161, 1987 (in russ)
• L.Gabunia, A.Vekua. The antropogene horses of Georgia. "Metsniereba", Publ.Hous. Monograph., Tb., p.1-140, 1989, (in russ.)
• L,Gabunia (collab.). L' evolution du paleoenvironnement au cours de L'Anthropogene en Georgie (Transcaucasie). L'Anthropologie (Paris), p.94, 1990
• L.Gabunia L.K., R.Kukhaleishvili. On the reprtsentative of Rhodopagus (Perissodactyia, Tapiroidea) from Zaisan region. Journ. of Paleont., M., 1, 1991, (in russ.)
• L.Gabunia. Der menschliche Unterkiefer von Dmanisi (Georgien, Kaukasus). Jahrbuch des Romisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums. Mainz., p. 185-208, 1992
• L.Gabunia, K.Cocieva. Co-evolution of Vegetation and Vertebrates in Georgian Neogene. Proc. Georgian Acad. of Sc., Biol Ser., 18, 5: 347-354 ,1992, (in russ.)
• L.Gabuninia, A.Vekua. Dmanisian fossil man and accompanying Vertebrate fauna. Metsniereba Pabk. Hous. p.1-71, Tb., 1993 (in russ.)
• L.Gabunia, N.Krakhmalnaia. On the Hipparion from Odessian Katakombs. Proc.Georgian Acad.of Sc., Biol.Ser., 19, 3,p.182-195, Tb. 1993 (in russ.)
• L.Gabunia, A.Vekua. La mandibule de l'homme fossile du Villafranchien superieur de Dmanissi (Georgie orientale). L'Athropolo- gie, 99,1, p.29-41. 1995
• L.Gabunia, A.Vekua. A Plio-Pleistocene hominid from Dmanisi. East Georgia. Nature. p.509-512. 1995

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