Evgeny Kurochkin

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Yevgeny Nikolayevich Kurochkin
Born(1940-07-12)July 12, 1940
Moscow
DiedDecember 13, 2011(2011-12-13) (aged 71)
Moscow
EducationDoctor of Science (1994)
Professor
Alma materMoscow State University (1964)
Scientific career
FieldsPaleontology
InstitutionsPaleontological Institute
Thesis The main stages of the evolution of the class of birds
Doctoral advisorGeorgi Dementiev

Yevgeny Nikolayevich Kurochkin (Евгений Николаевич Курочкин; 12 July 1940 - 13 December 2011) was a Russian

Menzbier
Ornithological Society.

He graduated from the

ornithurine (modern-type bird).[1][2] Kurochkin named the new species after his peer Georgi Petrovich Dementyev (1898-1969). In 2011, Kurochkin and Gareth J. Dyke described Eostrix tsaganica found in Mongolia, the first find of this primitive owl in Asia.[3]

Opposing the

dinosaurs were two distinct lineages. He repeatedly questioned the assumption that Archaeopteryx and Enantiornithes were early birds. According to Kurochkin, those moderately derived theropods became extinct without leaving any descendants.[4] He also supported the Protoavis hypothesis by Sankar Chatterjee
.

The Aquila kurochkini Boev 2013, an extinct eagle from Bulgaria, is named after Yevgeny Kurochkin, as is the Longusunguis kurochkini Wang, Zhou, O’Connor et Zelenkov, 2014(first described in 2014). Other bird species named after Yevgeny Kurochkin are:

Evgenavis nobilis O'Connor et al., 2014.[6]

References

  1. ISBN 9780520200944
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  2. ISBN 9780521545822
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  3. ^ Kurochkin, E. N., & Dyke, G. J. (2011). The first fossil owls (Aves: Strigiformes) from the Paleogene of Asia and a review of the fossil record of Strigiformes. Paleontological Journal, 45(4), 445–458. doi:10.1134/s003103011104006x
  4. ISBN 978-0801424977
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  5. S2CID 140163441
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  6. S2CID 85679607
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