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Stoycho Vassilev Breskovski

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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. Then, he took active part in Bulgarian geological survey and in the preparation of the geological map of Bulgaria at scale of 1:200,000. Later Dr. Breskovski was noted for his research on Lower Cretaceous, Barremian fauna. 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. 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, 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.

Selected bibliography Tzankov, V.; S. Breskovski (1985), Ammonites des familles Holcodiscidae Spath, 1924 et Astieridiscidae Tzankov & Breskovski, 1982. II. Description paléontologique, Geologica Balcanica, 15.5, 3-53. Tzankov, V.; 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. Tzankov, V.; S. Breskovski (1982), Volume et contenu de la famille Holcodiscidae Spath, 1924, C. R. Acad. Bulg. Sci., 35, 4, 491-93. Breskovski, St. (1980), Des genres nouveaux du Crétacé inférieur de la famille Desmoceratidae Zittel, 1895 (Ammonoidea). C. R. Acad. Bulg. Sci., 33, 2; 245-48. Breskovski, S. V. (1977). "Sur la classification de la famille Desmoceratidae Zittel, 1895 (Ammonoidea, Crétacé)". C. R. Acad. Bulg. Sci. (in French). 6 (30): 891–4. Breskovski, S. V. (1977). "Genres nouveaux du Crétacé inférieur de la famille Desmoceratidae Zittel, 1895 (Ammonoidea)". C. R. Acad. Bulg. Sci. (in French). 30 (10): 1463–65. Breskovski, S. (1975). "Les zones et sous-zones ammonitiques dans l'étage Barrémien en Bulgarie du Nord-Est". Geologica Balcanica (in French) (5): 46–66. Breskovski, St. (1967). "Eleniceras - genre nouveau d'ammonites hautériviens". Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; Bulletin of the Geological Institute, Series Paleontology (in French). 16: 47–52.. Nikolov, T.; Breskovski, St. (1969). "Abrytusites – nouveau genre d'ammonites barrémiennes". Bull. Geol. Inst., Ser. Paleontology. 18: 91–96.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Бресковски, Стойчо (1966). "Биостратиграфия на барема южно от Брестак, Варненско". Трудове по Геологията на България, серия Палеонтология (in Bulgarian). 8: 71–121.

Notes

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.

External links

"Paleontology Hall" (in Bulgarian). National Museum of Natural History, Sofia, Bulgaria. "Museum of Paleontology in Elena, Bulgaria". bulgariatravel.org. 8 April 2020. "Breskovski". Repository of "Index to Organisms Names" (ION) in Global Names Index (GNI). "†Eleniceras Breskovski 1967 (ammonite)". The Paleobiology Database. "Eleniceras Breskovski, 1967". Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). "Breskovski". Universal Biological Indexer & Organizer (uBio). "Abrytusites, Nikolov & Breskovski 1969". Nomenclator Zoologicus; uBio Database. S Breskovski publications indexed by Google Scholar Works by or about Stoycho Vassilev Breskovski at the Internet Archive

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