Muhammad Sadiq Malkani
Muhammad Sadiq Malkani | |
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| Years active | 2000–present |
| Known for | Discoveries in palaeontology in Pakistan |
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Muhammad Sadiq Malkani, also known as M. Sadiq Malkani,[1] is a Pakistani paleontologist, geologist and former director of the Geological Survey of Pakistan.[2]
Career
[edit]Malkani discovered the first known sauropod remains found in Pakistan in 2000,[3] and beginning in 2001, Malkani excavated fossils that he would later study from the Vitakri Formation of Pakistan.[4] He named several species, including Pabwehshi pakistanensis in 2001,[5] Brohisaurus kirthari in 2003,[6] and Induszalim bala in 2006.[7]
Sometime in 2006, Malkani began to publish his papers naming multiple theropod and sauropod species from Pakistan,[7] and during the time that he was director of the GSP, he published papers directly through the Geological Survey of Pakistan[8] and ResearchGate.[9]
He also studied dinosaur footprints on two occasions. He studied the Mianwali trackway in 2006–7 before it was partially destroyed by coal mining and road construction,[10] and in 2012, he became the first to study the Zhob dinosaur trackway and determined that the footprints were left by theropods and sauropods.[3]
Species named by Malkani
[edit]Formally named
[edit]- Brohisaurus kirthari[6]
- Induszalim bala[7]
- Pabwehshi pakistanensis[5] — co-authored with Jeffrey A. Wilson and Phillip D. Gingerich
References
[edit]- ^ Malkani, M. "Titanosaurian sauropod dinosaurs from Pakistan". ResearchGate. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
- ^ Wilson, Jeffrey A.; Barrett, Paul M.; Carrano, Matthew T. (September 2011). "An associated partial skeleton of Jainosaurus cf. septentrionalis (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Late Cretaceous of Chhota Simla, Central India". Palaeontology. 54 (5): 981–998. Bibcode:2011Palgy..54..981W. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01087.x. hdl:2027.42/86940. S2CID 55975792.
- ^ a b Allen, Nicholas (December 2017). "Zhob dinosaur trackway, Pakistan field trips". Factum Foundation for Digital Technology in Preservation. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
- ^ Rana, A.N. (2006-03-25). "Country's first dinosaur fossils". DAWN. Archived from the original on 2007-06-21. Retrieved 2007-07-29.
- ^ a b Wilson, Jeffrey A.; Malkani, M. Sadiq; Gingerich, Philip D. (2001). "New crocodyliform (Reptilia, Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Upper Cretaceous Pab Formation of Vitakri, Balochistan (Pakistan)". Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology. 30 (12). University of Michigan: 321–336.
- ^ a b Malkani, M. S. (2003). "First Jurassic dinosaur fossils found from Kirthar range, Khuzdar District, Balochistan, Pakistan" (PDF). Geological Bulletin of the University of Peshawar. 36: 73–83.
- ^ a b c Malkani, M.S. (2006). "First rostrum of carnivorous Vitakridrinda (Abelisaurid theropod dinosaur) found from the Latest Cretaceous dinosaur beds (Vitakri) Member of Pab Formation, Alam Kali Kakor Locality of Viakri area, Darkham District, Balochistan, Pakistan". Sindh University Research Journal (Science Series). 38 (3): 7–26.
- ^ Malkani, M.S., (2015b). Dinosaurs, mesoeucrocodiles, pterosaurs, new fauna and flora from Pakistan. Geological Survey of Pakistan, Information Release 823: i–iii,1–32.
- ^ Malkani, M. Sadiq (2024-08-16). "Small bodied theropod dinosaurs (Noasauridae) discovered from the latest Maastrichtian Vitakri Formation of Pakistan". ResearchGate. pp. 1–19.
- ^ Malkani, M. S. (2007). Trackways evidence of sauropod dinosaurs confronted by a theropod found from Middle Jurassic Samana Suk Limestone of Pakistan. Sindh University Research Journal (Science Series), 39(1), 1-14.