Dr. Igor G. Danilov
Senior Researcher
Curator of Turtles and Paleoherpetological Collection
Department of Herpetology
Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
Universitetskaya nab., 1
St. Petersburg
199034
Russia
Telephone: +7 (812) 323-31-40
Fax: +7 (812) 328-02-21
E-mail: turtle@zin.ru, dig@mail333.com
Education and Career
St. Petersburg State University (Faculty of Biology and Soil, Department of Vertebrate Zoology),
St. Petersburg, Russia, 1989–1996; Bachelor Degree in Biology, 1994; Master Degree in Biology, 1996: Reptiles of the
Early Eocene of Kirghizia (Andarak 2 locality). [Russian] Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia, since 1989;
Collection Manager, 1989–1996; Post-Graduate, 1996–1999; Junior Researcher, 1999–2001; Candidate Degree in Biology
(PhD), 2001: Fossil turtles of the family Lindholmemydidae and phylogenetic relationships of cryptodiran turtles
(Cryptodira). Abstract of the thesis. [Russian]; Researcher, 2001–2007;
Senior Researcher, since 2007
Research Interests
Morphology, paleontology and phylogeny of amphibians and reptiles; fossil and recent turtles.
Research Projects
Vertebral morphology of anurans, 1992–1995 Reptiles of the Early Eocene of Kirghizia, 1995–1996 Early testudinoid turtles of Asia, since 1996 Fossil turtles of Kizylkum Desert, since 1997 Fossil turtles of China, since 2004 Fossil turtles of Russia and adjacent territories, since 2006 Adocid and nanhsiungchelyid turtles of Asia, since 2007
Field Research
Numerous expeditions to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan for exploration of Jurassic and Cretaceous
localities of fossil vertebrates. Participant of the International Paleontological Expediton dubbed URBAC for the
participants from Uzbekistan, Russia, Britain, America, and Canada for study of Late Cretaceous vertebrates of the
Kyzylkum Desert, Uzbekistan (1997–2000, 2002, 2004, 2006).
Professional Memberships
International Grants and Fellowships
Brett Stearns Award for Chelonian Research in the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, 2001 Visiting Scholar, University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley, 2001 Grant of Shiramine Project for Visiting Teikyo Heisei University and Shiramine Institute of Paleontology, 2002 Paleontological Society International Research Program Sepkoski Grants, 2006, 2007 Grant of Civil Research and Developmental Foundation, # RUG1-2571-ST-04 (joint participant), 2004–2006 Maître de Conférences invité, Département Histoire de la Terre, Muséum Nationale de Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France, 2007 Grants of Civil Research and Developmental Foundation # RUB1-2860-ST-07 and Russian Foundation for Basic Research
# 07-04-91110-AFGIRa (joint participant), 2007–2008
Participation in International Meetings
8th Ordinary General Meeting Societas Europaea Herpetologica, Bonn, Germany, 1995 4th Asiatic Herpetological Meeting, Chengdu, China, 2000 61th Annual Meeting Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Bozeman, USA, 2001 12th Ordinary General Meeting Societas Europaea Herpetologica, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2003 Symposium on Turtle Origins, Evolution and Systematics, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2003 (Organizer) The Sino-Russia Seminar of Biodiversity and Conservation of Amphibians and Reptiles, Chengdu, China, 2007 67th Annual Meeting Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Austin, USA, 2007
Editing
Selected Publications
Kovalenko E. E., Danilov I. G., 1994. Rare variants
of abnormal structure of vertebral column in Anura. Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta, 3(3): 10-24.
[in Russian with English summary].
Averianov A. O., Danilov I. G., 1996. Agamid lizards
(Reptilia, Sauria, Agamidae) from the early Eocene of Kyrgyzstan. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatsheft 12: 739-750.
Tyler M. J., Danilov I. G. and Calaby J., 1996. Nineteenth
century collections of australian frogs in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Science. Russian Journal of
Herpetology, 3(2): 119-121.
Danilov I. G., Averianov A. O., 1997. New data on the
turtles from the early Eocene of Kirghizia. Russian Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 40-45.
Averianov A. O., Danilov I. G., 1997. A varanid lizard
(Squamata: Varanidae) from the early Eocene of Kirghizia. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 4(2): 143-147.
Archibald J. D., Sues H. D., Averianov A. O., King C., Ward D. J, Tsaruk O. A.,
Danilov I. G., Rezvyi A. S., Veretennikov B. G., and Khodjaev A., 1998.
Précis of the Cretaceous Paleontology, Biostratigraphy and Sidementology at Dzharakuduk (Turonian?-Santonian), Kyzylkum Desert,
Uzbekistan. pp. 21-28 in Lucas, S. G., Kirkland, J. I. and Estep, J. W. (eds.), Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems
(New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. Bulletin No. 14).
Danilov I. G., Averianov A. O., 1998. A new species
of Calamagras Cope, 1873 (Serpentes, Boidae, Erycinae) from the early Eocene of Kirghizia. Geodiversitas 21 (1): 85-91.
Danilov I. G. 1999a. A new lindholmemydid genus (Testudines: Lindholmemydidae)
from the mid-Cretaceous of Uzbekistan. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 6(1): 63–71.
Danilov I. G., 1999b. The ecological types of turtles in the Late Cretaceous
of Asia. Proceedings of the Zoological Instutute RAS, 281: 107-112.
Sukhanov V. B., Danilov I. G. and Narmandakh P. 1999. A new
lindholmemydid turtle (Testudines: Lindholmemydidae) from the Bayn Shire Formation (Late Cretaceous) of Mongolia. Russian Journal
of Herpetology, 6(2): 147-152.
Hirayama R., Brinkman D., Danilov I., 2000. Distribution and biogeography
of non-marine Cretaceous turtles. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 7(2): 181-198.
Danilov I. G., Sukhanov V. B., 2001. New data on lindholmemydid
turtle Lindholmemys from the late Cretaceous of Mongolia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 46(1): 125-131.
Danilov I. G., Bolotsky Yu. L., Averianov A. O. and I. V. Donchenko,
2002. A new genus of lindholmemydid turtle (Testudines: Testudinoidea) from the Late Cretaceous of the Amur River Region, Russia. Russian
Journal of Herpetology, 9(2): 155-168.
Danilov I. G., 2003. Gravemys Sukhanov et Narmandakh, 1983 (Testudinoidea:
Lindholmemydidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Asia: new data. Paleobios, 23(3): 9-19.
Danilov I. G., Milto K. D. 2004a. Testudo [graeca] ibera Pallas, 1814.
Manouria 7(22): 23–24.
Danilov I. G., Milto K. D. 2004b. Testudo [graeca] zarudnyi Nikolsky, 1896.
Manouria 7(22): 46.
Danilov I. G., Milto K. D. and Mazanaeva L. F. 2004. Testudo [graeca] pallasi
Chkhikvadze et Bakradze, 2002. Manouria 7(22): 34–35.
Danilov I. G. 2005. Die fossilen Schildkröten Europas. S. 329-441 in Fritz U. (Hrsg.), Handbuch
der Reptilien und Amphibien Europas. Band 3/IIIB: Schildkroten II. Wiebelsheim (Aula).
Danilov I. G., Parham J. F. 2005. A reassessment of the referral of an isolated skull from the Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan
to the stem-testudinoid turtle genus Lindholmemys. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(4): 784–791.
Danilov I. G., Sukhanov V. B. 2006. Redescription of «Sinemys» efremovi,
a problematic turtle from the Early Cretaceous of China, with comments on the basal eucryptodiran genus Wuguia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 51(1): 105–110.
Danilov I. G., Averianov A. O., Skutchas P. P. and Rezvyi A. S. 2006.
Kirgizemys (Testudines: 'Macrobaenidae'): new material from the Lower Cretaceous of Buryatia (Russia) and taxonomic revision. Pp. 46–62 in Danilov I. G.
and Parham J. F. (eds.), Fossil Turtle Research, Vol. 1, Russian Journal of Herpetology 13 (Suppl.).
Danilov I. G., Parham J. F., Hirayama R. and Cherepanov G. O. 2006. Report on the 3rd
Symposium on Turtle Origins, Evolution and Systematics, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2003. Pp. 5–10 in Danilov I. G. and Parham J. F. (eds.), Fossil Turtle
Research, Vol. 1, Russian Journal of Herpetology 13 (Suppl.).
Kovalenko E. E., Danilov I. G. 2006a. Diversity of the sacral-urostyle region in the
family Bufonidae (Amphibia, Anura). 1. Actual diversity of sacrum sacrum in Bufonidae. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 85(4): 500–516. [Russian]
Kovalenko E. E., Danilov I. G. 2006b. Diversity of the sacral-urostyle region in the
family Bufonidae (Amphibia, Anura). 2. Analysis of the diversity using method of spectra. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 85(6): 725–740. [Russian]
Danilov I. G., Parham J. F. 2006. A redescription of Plesiochelys tatsuensis from the Late Jurassic of China, with comments
on the antiquity of the crown clade Cryptodira. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26(3): 573–580.
Titov V. V., Tesakov A. S., Danilov I. G., Danukalova G. A., Mashchenko E. N.,
Panteleev A. V., Sotnikova M. V. and Sychevskaya E. K. 2006. The First Representative Vertebrate Fauna from the Late Miocene of Southern European
Russia. Doklady Biological Sciences 411: 508–509.
Danilov I. G., Parham J. F. 2007. The type material of «Sinemys» wuerhoensis, a
problematic turtle from the Early Cretaceous of China, includes at least three taxa. Palaeontology 50(2): 431–444.
Danilov I. G., Syromyatnikova E. V. and Sukhanov V. B. 2007. Turtles of the genus
Shachemys from the Upper Cretaceous of Asia. Pp. 59–72 in Rozanov A. Yu., Lopatin A. V. and Parkhaev P. Yu. (eds.), Modern Paleontology:
Classic and Newest Methods. The Fourth All-Russian Scientific School for Young Scientists in Paleontology. Moscow, Paleontological Institute of the Russian
Academy of Sciences. [Russian]
Tleuberdina P. A., Danilov I. G. 2007. Valentin Vasilyevich Kuznetsov (1923–2006).
Russian Journal of Herpetology 14(1): 80.
Danilov I. G., Parham J. F. 2008. A reassessment of some poorly known turtles from the Middle Jurassic of China, with comments
on the antiquity of extant turtles. Journal of Veretbrate Paleontology 28(2): 306–318.
Rage J.-C., Danilov I. G. 2008. A new Miocene fauna of snakes from eastern Siberia, Russia.
Was the snake fauna largely homogenous in Eurasia during the Miocene? C.R. Palevol 7: 383–390.
PDFs of all publications are available by request.
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