Stoycho Vassilev Breskovski

Bulgarian paleontologist
Nonka Lukova Motekova
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(m. 1962⁠–⁠2004)​
Parent(s)Vassil Stoychev Breskovski (father)
Paraskeva (née Nedelcheva Slavova) Breskovska (mother)RelativesVesselina Breskovska (sister)Scientific careerFieldsBarremian Palaeontology
StratigraphyInstitutionsNational Museum of Natural History (Bulgaria)
Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"Thesis Биостратиграфия на баремския етаж в част от Североизточна България (An Essay on Biostratigraphy of the Barremian Stage in a Part of Northeastern Bulgaria)  (1974)Doctoral advisorVassil TzankovAuthor abbrev. (zoology)Breskovski

Stoycho Vassilev Breskovski (Bulgarian: Стойчо Василев Бресковски; December 25, 1934, in Granit, Stara Zagora Province, Bulgaria – January 15, 2004, in Sofia, Bulgaria) was a Bulgarian paleontologist.[1][2]

Biography

Stoycho Breskovski was the only son of educators Vassil Stoychev Breskovski (1902 - 1978) and Paraskeva (née Nedelcheva Slavova) Breskovska (1906 - 1988). After receiving his primary and secondary education in Plovdiv, he studied geology at Sofia University and graduated in 1958.[2] Then, he took active part in Bulgarian geological survey and in the preparation of the geologic map of Bulgaria at scale of 1:200,000. Later Dr. Breskovski was noted for his research on Lower Cretaceous, Barremian fauna.[3] He was also credited for discovering, identifying and discerning several families, subfamilies, genera and species of ammonites.

From 1974 to 1995 Breskovski had been research associate and curator of the paleontology collection at the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia.[4][2] He contributed to the collections at the natural history museums in the Bulgarian cities of Elena, Rousse, Razgrad, and Shumen. In later age he tried to reconcile his various hobbies of collecting stamps, pocket calendars, phillumeny and philately with science. His older sister, Vesselina Breskovska, was professor of mineralogy, dean and vice rector at Sofia University. He was survived by his wife of 42 years and fellow paleontologist, Nona Motekova,[5] a son and a daughter, a granddaughter and a grandson, and a siamese cat.

Honors

A genus and two species of Lower Cretaceous ammonites bear his name.[6][7][8][9]

Selected bibliography

  • V. Tzankov, S. Breskovski (1985), Ammonites des familles Holcodiscidae Spath, 1924 et Astieridiscidae Tzankov & Breskovski, 1982. II. Description paléontologique, Geologica Balcanica, 15.5, 3-53.
  • V. Tzankov, S. Breskovski (1985), Ammonites des familles Holcodiscidae Spath, 1924 et Astieridiscidae Tzankov & Breskovski, 1982. I. Stratigraphie et notes phylogénétiques, Geologica Balcanica, 15.3, 45-62.
  • V. Tzankov, S Breskovski (1982), Volume et contenu de la famille Holcodiscidae Spath, 1924, C.R. Acad. bulg. Sci., 35, 4, 491-93.
  • St. Breskovski (1980), Des genres nouveaux du Crétacé inférieur de la famille Desmoceratidae Zittel, 1895 (Ammonoidea). C.R. Acad. bulg. Sci., 33, 2; 245-48.
  • St Breskovski (1977), Sur la classification de la famille Desmoceratidae Zittel, 1895 (Ammonoidea, Crétacé), C. R. Acad. bul. sci, 30, 6: 891-4.
  • St. Breskovski (1977), Genres nouveaux du Crétacé inférieur de la famille Desmoceratidae Zittel, 1895 (Ammonoidea). C.R. Acad. bulg. Sci., 30, 10; 1463-65.
  • S. Breskovski (1975), Les zones et sous-zones ammonitiques dans l'étage Barrémien en Bulgarie du Nord-Est, Geologica Balcanica, N.S., 5, 46-66.
  • St. Breskovski (1967), Eleniceras - genre nouveau d'ammonites hautériviens, Bull. Geol. Inst., Ser. Paleontology, 16: 47-52.
  • T. Nikolov, St. Breskovski, (1969), Abrytusites – nouveau genre d’ammonites barrémiennes. Bull. Geol. Inst., ser. Paleontology, 18, 91-96.
  • Стойчо Бресковски (1966), Биостратиграфия на барема южно от Брестак, Варненско [Biostratigaphie du Barrémien au Sud du village de Brestak, dans la région de Varna], Тр. Геолог Бълг., сер. Палеонтология, 8, 71-121.

Notes

  1. ^ International Palaeontological Union (I.P.U.) (1968). Westermann, G.E.G. (ed.). Directory of Palaeontologists of the World (excl. Soviet Union & continental China) (2 ed.). Hamilton, Ontario: McMaster University. pp. 14, 186. Retrieved 21 December 2016 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ a b c Tchoumatchenco, Platon; Nikolov, Todor (2016). "Compendium of Bulgarian Palaeontologists (1896-December 31, 2015). Part I. A-K" (PDF). Review of the Bulgarian Geological Society (in Bulgarian and English). 77 (1): 114–115.
  3. ^ See Vašíček, Zdeněk; Rabrenović, Dragoman; Radulović, Vladan J.; Radulović, Barbara V.; Mojsić, Ivana (April 2013). "Ammonoids (Desmoceratoidea and Silesitoidea) from the Late Barremian of Boljetin, eastern Serbia". Cretaceous Research. 41: 41–42. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2012.10.002.
  4. ^ "National Natural History Museum (NNHM)". Earth & Astronomical Sciences Research Centres: A World Directory of Organizations and Programmes. Cartermill. 1995. p. 47. ISBN 9781561590964.
  5. ^ Tzankov, V.; Pamouktchiev, A.; Tchechmedjeva, V.; Motekova, N. (1981). Les fossiles de Bulgarie: Crétacé supérieur. Grandes foraminifères, Anthozoaires, Gastéropodes, Bivalvia (in Bulgarian and French). Sofia: Éditions de L'Académie bulgare des sciences. OCLC 31018111 – via Internet Archive.
  6. ^ VERMEULEN, J.; LAZARIN P. (2007). "Nouvelles données sur les Ancyloceratoidea Gill, 1871 (Ancyloceratina Wiedmann, 1966 emend Vermeulen, 2005) du Barrémien supérieur et de l'Aptien inférieur". Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Nice. XXII. Nice: 27–86.
  7. ^ Vermeulen, Jean; Damais, Laurent; Lépinay, Patrick (2015). "Nouvelles données sur le genre Breskovskiceras Vermeulen & Lazarin, 2007 et sur son espèce-type". Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Nice. XXX: 13–28.
  8. ^ "Plesiospitidiscus breskovskii Cecca et al., 1998". Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). Retrieved 19 June 2022.
  9. ^ "Montanesiceras breskovskii Vašíček et al., 2013". mindat.org. Retrieved 19 June 2022.

References

  • Wright C.W. with J.H. Callomon and M.K. Howarth (1996). "Mollusca 4 Revised: Cretaceous Ammonoidea". In Roger L. Kaesler (ed.). Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part L. Vol. 4. Boulder, Colorado and Lawrence, Kansas: The Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press – via Internet Archive.
  • Jost Wiedmann, Cretaceous Ammonoidea, in M.R. House and J.R. Senior eds (1981), Ammonoidea, Environment, Ecology and Evolutionary Change , London: Academic Press, Systematics Association Special Volume. 18.
  • Dimitrova, Natalia (1967). "Lower Cretaceous - Cephalopoda (Nautiloidea & Ammonoidea)". Fossils of Bulgaria. IV (in Bulgarian and French). Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 424 p., 93 pl. OCLC 256251301.
  • Maria B. Aguirre-Urreta, Peter F. Rawson (2003), Lower Cretaceous ammonites from the Neuquén Basin, Argentina: The Hauterivian genus Holcoptychites, Cretaceous Research 24, 589-613.
  • M. Matsukawa, I. Obata & K. Sato (2007), Barremian Ammonite Fauna of the Lower Ishido Formation, eastern part of Sanchu Cretaceous, Japan, Bull. of Tokyo Gakugei Univ. Nat. Sci., 59, 77-87. ISSN 1880-4330
  • Hosni Hamama (2010), Barremian and Aptian Mollusca of Gabal Mistan and Gabal Um Mitmani, Al-Malghara Area, Northern Sinai, Egypt, Journal of American Science, 6(12), at 1704.
  • Zdeněk Vašíček (2010), Early Cretaceous ammonites from the Butkov Quarry (Manin Unit, Central Western Carpathians, Slovakia), Acta Geologica Polonica, Vol. 60, No.3, 393-415.
  • Peter F. Rawson, M. Beatriz Aguirre-Urreta (2012), Lower Cretaceous ammonites from the Neuquén Basin, Argentina: The Hauterivian genus Spidiscus, Cretaceous Research 33, 97-105.
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