bibliography

Ivanoff, D., M. Osypova. 2026. Irina Koretsky, a palaeomammalogist and researcher of pinniped evolution. Novitates Theriologicae, 18: 403–406. https://doi.org/10.53452/nt1839

title

History of theriological research of the Department of Zoology of Kharkiv University

author(s)

Dmitry Ivanoff (Zaporizhzhia National University, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4329-6828
Maria Osypova (Ivan Schmalhausen Institute of zoology, NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9831-6975

abstract

This essay outlines the scientific career of the Ukrainian-American palaeontologist Dr Irina Koretsky, an expert on fossil and extant pinnipeds, particularly phocids. Her research on seals started in the 1970s at the National Museum of Natural History, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv) and, since the early 1990s, continued at the Mote Marine Laboratory (Sarasota, FL) and then at the Smithsonian Institution and Howard University (Washington, D.C.). Irina Koretsky’s scientific contribution includes numerous publications on the phylogeny, taxonomy, ecomorphology, and zoogeography of pinnipeds.

language

Ukrainian, with English summary

references

Antonyuk, A. A., I. A. Koretsky. 1984. A new species of seal from the Middle Sarmatian deposits of the Crimea. Vestnik zoologii, (4): 25–31. [Russian]
Koretsky, I. A. 1987. Sexual dimorphism in the humerus and femur of Monachopsis pontica (Pinnipedia, Phocidae). Vestnik zoologii, (4): 77–82. [Russian]
Koretsky, I. A. 1988. A new find of Monachopsis pontica (Pinnipedia, Phocidae) from the Neogene deposits of the Kerch Peninsula. Vestnik zoologii, (6): 74–76. [Russian]
Koretsky, I. 2001. Morphology and Systematics of Miocene Phocinae (Mammalia: Carnivora) from Paratethys and the North Atlantic Region. Geological Institute of Hungary, Budapest, 1–109. (Series: Geologica Hungarica, Series Palaeontologica; Vol. 54). ISSN 9789636712327
Koretsky, I. A., P. Holec. 2002. A primitive seal (Mammalia: Phocidae) from the early Middle Miocene of Central Paratethys. In: Emry, R. J. (ed.), Cenozoic Mammals of Land and Sea: Tributes to the Career of Clayton E. Ray. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, 163–178. (Series: Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology; Vol. 93). https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810266.93.163
Koretsky, I. A., D. Grigorescu. 2002. The fossil monk seal Pontophoca sarmatica (Alekseev) (Mammalia: Phocidae: Monachinae) from the Miocene of Eastern Europe. In: Emry, R. J. (ed.). Cenozoic Mammals of Land and Sea: Tributes to the Career of Clayton E. Ray. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, 149–162. (Series: Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology, Vol. 93). https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810266.93.149
Koretsky, I. A., C. E. Ray. 2008. Phocidae of the Pliocene of Eastern USA. In: Ray, C. E. [et al.] (eds). Geology and Paleontology of the Lee Creek Mine, North Carolina, IV. Paul Gritis Books, Coopersburg, 81–139. (Series: Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publications; Vol. 14).
Koretsky, I., S. J. Rahmat. 2013. First record of fossil Cystophorinae (Carnivora, Phocidae): Middle Miocene seals from the Northern Paratethys. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 119: 325–350.
Koretsky, I., L. Barnes, S. J. Rahmat. 2016. Re-evaluation of morphological characters questions current views of pinniped origins. Vestnik zoologii, 50 (4): 327–354.
Koretsky, I., S. J. Rahmat. 2021. Unique short-faced Miocene seal discovered in Grytsiv (Ukraine). Zoodiversity, 55 (2): 143–154. https://doi.org/10.15407/zoo2021.02.143

date

online: 30.01.2026; print: 30.01.2026