Vladimir Prokhorovich Amalitskii (July 13, 1860 – December 28, 1917) (alternative spelling: Amalitzky) was a paleontologist and professor at Warsaw University. He was involved in the discovery and excavation of the Late Permian fossil vertebrate fauna from the North Dvina River, Arkhangelsk District, Northern European Russia. He made a number of studies of the fossil remains of amphibians and reptiles from Northern Russia. Amalitskii was born in the village of Staryky, near Korosten in what is now Zhytomyr Oblast in Ukraine. Amalitskii and his wife Anna Petrovna, who had studied art in St. Petersburg, illustrated and translated books and articles together. Together they uncovered the first fossils of Scutosaurus He died from sudden heart failure in Kislovodsk on December 28, 1917, aged 57.

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