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Guram Mchedlidze

Guram Mchedlidze was born on 27 September of 1931.
Correspondent - Member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences;
Paleobiologist.
He has a candidates degree of Geological-Mineralogical Scienes (1962) and doctors degree of Biological Sciences (1973). The topic of his scientific researhes is the paleobiological history of cetaceans.
From the 1971 he gives lectures on Vertebrate Paleontology, Comparative anatomy and Geological history at the Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. 1979-1989-Depaty Director of the L.Davitashvili Institute of Paleobiogy of the Georgian Academy of Sciences. At present day-Director of this Institute. In 1971 Dr. Mchedlidze was elected as a member of American Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.

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SCIENTIFIC BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. 1959. A fossil dolphin (Imerodelphis thabagarii) from the Sarmatian of the vicinity of Zestafoni. Soob.Akad. Nauk Gruzinskoi S.S.R., 23: 687-694. (In Russian).

2. 1960. Remains of the fossil dolphin from the Middle Sarmatian deposits of the vicinity of Armavir. Soob. Akad. Nauk Gruzinskoi S.S.R., 24: 429-434 (In Russian).

3. 1962. New data on the fossil dolphin Iniopsis caucasica Lyd. Soob. Akad. Nauk Gruzinskoi S.S.R., 28 (4): 439-441. (In Russian).

4. 1964. (Iskopaemye kitoobraznye Kavkaza) Fossil Cetacea of the Caucasus. Tbilisi. Akad. Nauk G.S.S.R., Inst. Paleobiol., ,,Metsniereba" Press, 145p, 20 pls. (In Russen, Georgian and English Summaries).

5. 1964. A review of the historical development of the Cetacea. J.A Orlov memorial number. Journ. of the Paleontological Society of India, vol. 20. pp.81- (In English).

6. 1967. Some general features of the history of Tertiary cetaceans. P. 99-109. In collected papers. Place and significance of fossil mammals of Moldavia in the Cenozoic of USSR. (In Russian).

7. 1967. On the problem of progress in the phylogenesis of cetaceans. Akad. Nauk Gruzinskoi SSR., Inst. Paleobiol., ,,Obshchie voprosy Evolution. Paleobiologii", 3:92-99. (In Russian, Georgian and English summaries).

8. 1970. On the ecogenesis of cetaceans. Akad.Nauk GSSR., Inst. Paleobiol., ,,Obshchie vopr. Evol. Paleobiologii", 5: 69-76 - (In Russian, Georgian and English summaries).

9. 1970.Some general features of the historilac development of cetaceans, Part I. Tbilisi. Akad Nauk GSSR., Inst. Paleobiol., ,,Metsniereba" Press p, 112 p, 6 pls. . (In Russian, English summaries).

10. 1973. The role of the natural selection in the working out of some adaptations by cetaceans. "Obshch. Vopr. Evol. Paleobiologii", VI, pp. 100-106. (In Russian, English summary).

11. 1973. The elements of recapitulation in the development of the Cetacea. "Obshch. Vopr. Evol. OPaleobiologii", VII, pp. 26-32. (In Russian, English and Georgian summaries).

12. 1974. On Phylogenetic relations of Cetacea. First International Theriological Congress, vol. I, p. 396. Moscow.

13. 1975. Pecularities of the development of the Cetacea fauna of the Euxinic-Caspian region in Late Oligocene - Early Miocene. Mat. of the VI Congress of the Regional Committee on the Stratigraphy of Mediterranean Neogene. Bratislava, pp. 185-187. (In Russian).

14. 1976. A new genus of the family Delphinidae in the Caucasus. "Problem of paleontology and stratigraphy of Azerbaijan". Baku, "EZM" Press. /together with S. Aslanova/, (In Russian).

15. 1976. General features of the paleobiological history of the Cetacea. Tbilisi. Akad. Nauk. GSSR., Inst. Paleobiol., "Metsniereba" Press, 136 p., 32 pls. (In Russian, English summary).

16. 1979. The significance of fossil Cetacea for the interregional correlation of the Cenozoic sedimentary formations. VII International Congress of the Regional Committee on the Stratigraphy of Mediterranean Neogene. Athens.

17. 1984. General features of the Paleobiological Evolution of Cetacea. Smithsonian Inst. and National Sci. Faundation (Washington) Amerind Pal. Co. New-Delhi.

18. 1984. The fossil whale from the Miocene deposites of Otradnaja (N. Caucasus). Georgian Acad. of Sci. "Metsniereba" Press. 1-64 (In Russian).

19. 1986. General features of the brain evolution of some groups of ancient mammals (monograph, co-author L. Gabunia). Georgian Academy of Sciences, "Metsniereba" Press. 1-128 (In Russian). Tbilisi.

20. 1988. Kharthlidelphis diceros - a new genus and species from the Oligocene of Georgian Republic (Caucasus, USSR). Co-author G. Pilleri. Investigation on Cetacea; Edited by G. Pilleri. Vol. XXI, pp. 9-19.

21. 1988. Fossil Cetacea of theCaucasus. Smithsonian Inst. and National Sci. Faundation (Washington). Amerind Pal. Co. New-Delhi.

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