The Laboratory of Mesozoic and Cenozoic Paleontology and Stratigraphy was founded as part of the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1958 by Vladimir N. Saks, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
Research activity
Our research group is focused on the study of various groups of mollusks (ammonoids, belemnoids, nautiloids, bivalves and gastropods), brachiopods, and palynomorphs (spores and pollen of terrestrial plants, dinoflagellate cysts, prasinophytes, acritarchs, algal palynomorphs).
Main expertises:
Membership in Russian and international scientific societies or their (sub)commissions