Vladimir Prokhorovich Amalitskii (1860–1917) (alternative spelling: Amalitzky) was a Russian Paleontologist and Professor at Warsaw University, who was involved in the discovery and excavation of the famous Late Permian

Permian

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 fossil

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 vertebrate

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 fauna

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 from the North Dvina River, Arkhangelsk District

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, Northern European Russia

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He died in December 1917 in Kislovodsk, Caucasus.

He made a number of studies of the fossil remains of amphibians and reptiles from Northern Russia.

Partial bibliography

• Amalitskii, V.P., Dvinosauridae Petrograd : Akademicheskaia tip., 1921. 16 p., 4 leaves of plates : ill. -- (Severodvinskie raskopki professora V.P. Amalitskogo ;
• Amalitskii, V.P., Seymouridae, Petrograd : Akademicheskaia tip., 1921. 14 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. -- (Severodvinskie raskopki professora V.P. Amalitskogo ; 2)
• Amalitskii, V.P., 1922, Diagnoses of the new forms of vertebrates and plants from the upper Permian of North Dvia: Bulletin de l’Academie des Sciences de l’Union des Republiques Sovietiques Socialistes, Math and Natural Sciences, 1922, p. 329-340. and in Izv. Ross. Akad. Nauk, Ser. 6 25 (1), 1–12.