Teresa Maryańska

Who is Teresa Maryańska?

Teresa Maryańska is a Polish paleontologist who has specialized in Mongolian dinosaurs, particularly pachycephalosaurians and ankylosaurians. Peter Dodson claims that in 1974 Maryanska together with Halszka Osmolska were the first "women to describe new kinds of dinosaurs". She is considered not only as one of Poland's but also one of the world's leading experts on dinosaurs.

A member of the 1964, 1965, 1970, and 1971 Polish–Mongolian expeditions to the Gobi Desert, she has described many finds from these rocks, often with Halszka Osmólska. Among the dinosaurs she has described are: Saichania and Tarchia; with Osmólska, Homalocephale, Prenocephale, and Tylocephale, Bagaceratops, and Barsboldia; and with Osmόlska and Altangerel Perle, Goyocephale. Feduccia notes that Maryanska and her colleagues produced in 2002 the "most impressive analysis of the oviraptorosaurs".

Amongst her many publications are contributions to three chapters of the 2nd edition of the highly respected The Dinosauria: the chapters on the Therizinosauroidea, the Ankylosauria and on the Pachycephalosauria.