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'''Muhammad Sadiq Malkani''', also known as '''M. Sadiq Malkani''',<ref name="Nicksaurus">{{cite web |last1=Malkani |first1=M. |title=Titanosaurian sauropod dinosaurs from Pakistan. |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282295653 |access-date=2019-05-23 |website=ResearchGate}}</ref> is a ] ], ] and former director of the ] who has recently been criticised for publishing many invalid ] in ].<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last1=Wilson |first1=Jeffrey A. |last2=Barrett |first2=Paul M. |last3=Carrano |first3=Matthew T. |date=September 2011 |title=An associated partial skeleton of Jainosaurus cf. septentrionalis (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Late Cretaceous of Chhota Simla, Central India |journal=Palaeontology |language=en |volume=54 |issue=5 |pages=981–998 |bibcode=2011Palgy..54..981W |doi=10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01087.x |s2cid=55975792 |doi-access=free |hdl-access=free |hdl=2027.42/86940}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Muhammad Sadiq Malkani doesn’t know what he’s doing and is just embarrassing himself as this point |url=https://www.tumblr.com/synapsid-taxonomy/189761493612/synapsid-taxonomy-muhammad-sadiq-malkani-doesnt |access-date=11 December 2024 |website=www.tumblr.com/synapsid-taxonomy}}</ref> '''Muhammad Sadiq Malkani''', also known as '''M. Sadiq Malkani''',<ref name="Nicksaurus">{{cite web |last1=Malkani |first1=M. |title=Titanosaurian sauropod dinosaurs from Pakistan. |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282295653 |access-date=2019-05-23 |website=ResearchGate}}</ref> is a ] ], ] and former director of the ].<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last1=Wilson |first1=Jeffrey A. |last2=Barrett |first2=Paul M. |last3=Carrano |first3=Matthew T. |date=September 2011 |title=An associated partial skeleton of Jainosaurus cf. septentrionalis (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Late Cretaceous of Chhota Simla, Central India |journal=Palaeontology |language=en |volume=54 |issue=5 |pages=981–998 |bibcode=2011Palgy..54..981W |doi=10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01087.x |s2cid=55975792 |doi-access=free |hdl-access=free |hdl=2027.42/86940}}</ref>


==Career== ==Career==
Beginning in 2001, Malkani excavated fossils that he would later study from the ] of ],<ref name="dawn">{{cite web |last=Rana |first=A.N. |date=2006-03-25 |title=Country's first dinosaur fossils |url=http://www.dawn.com/weekly/science/archive/060325/science5.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070621133347/http://www.dawn.com/weekly/science/archive/060325/science5.htm |archive-date=2007-06-21 |access-date=2007-07-29 |publisher=DAWN}}</ref> and he began his career publishing legitimate species names including '']'' in 2001,<ref name=":2">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, University of Michigan''. '''30''' (12): 321–336.</ref> '']'' in 2003,<ref name="Malkani2003">{{cite journal |last1=Malkani |first1=M. S. |year=2003 |title=First Jurassic dinosaur fossils found from Kirthar range, Khuzdar District, Balochistan, Pakistan |url=http://nceg.uop.edu.pk/GeologicalBulletin/Vol-36-2003/Vol-36-2003-Paper8.pdf |journal=Geological Bulletin of the University of Peshawar |volume=36 |pages=73–83}}</ref> and '']'' in 2006.<ref name="Malkhani2006">{{cite journal |last=Malkani |first=M.S. |year=2006 |title=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 |journal=Sindh University y Research Journal (Science Series) |volume=38 |issue=3 |pages=7–26}}</ref> Malkani discovered the first known ] remains found in Pakistan in 2000,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Allen |first=Nicholas |date=December 2017 |title=Zhob dinosaur trackway, Pakistan field trips |url=https://factumfoundation.org/our-projects/digitisation/zhob-dinosaur-trackway-pakistan-field-trips/ |access-date=11 December 2024 |website=Factum Foundation for Digital Technology in Preservation}}</ref> and beginning in 2001, Malkani excavated fossils that he would later study from the ] of ].<ref name="dawn">{{cite web |last=Rana |first=A.N. |date=2006-03-25 |title=Country's first dinosaur fossils |url=http://www.dawn.com/weekly/science/archive/060325/science5.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070621133347/http://www.dawn.com/weekly/science/archive/060325/science5.htm |archive-date=2007-06-21 |access-date=2007-07-29 |publisher=DAWN}}</ref> He named several species, including '']'' in 2001,<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last1=Wilson|first1=Jeffrey A.|last2=Malkani|first2=M. Sadiq|last3=Gingerich|first3=Philip D.|year=2001|title=New crocodyliform (Reptilia, Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Upper Cretaceous Pab Formation of Vitakri, Balochistan (Pakistan)|journal=Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology|publisher=]|volume=30|issue=12|pages=321–336}}</ref> '']'' in 2003,<ref name="Malkani2003">{{cite journal |last1=Malkani |first1=M. S. |year=2003 |title=First Jurassic dinosaur fossils found from Kirthar range, Khuzdar District, Balochistan, Pakistan |url=http://nceg.uop.edu.pk/GeologicalBulletin/Vol-36-2003/Vol-36-2003-Paper8.pdf |journal=]|volume=36 |pages=73–83}}</ref> and '']'' in 2006.<ref name="Malkhani2006">{{cite journal |last=Malkani |first=M.S. |year=2006 |title=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 |journal=] (Science Series) |volume=38 |issue=3 |pages=7–26}}</ref>


⚫ Sometime in 2006, Malkani began to publish his papers naming multiple theropod and sauropod species from Pakistan,<ref name="Malkhani2006" /> and during the time that he was director of the GSP, he published papers directly through the ]<ref>Malkani, M.S., (2015b). Dinosaurs, mesoeucrocodiles, pterosaurs, new fauna and flora from Pakistan. Geological Survey of Pakistan, Information Release 823: i–iii,1–32.</ref> and ].<ref name="Malkani_Noasaurids">{{Cite web |last=Malkani |first=M. Sadiq |date=2024-08-16 |title=Small bodied theropod dinosaurs (Noasauridae) discovered from the latest Maastrichtian Vitakri Formation of Pakistan |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383000597 |website=] |pages=1–19}}</ref>
Sometime in 2006, Malkani published several papers informally naming multiple theropod and sauropod species from Pakistan which would begin his career of naming invalid species.<ref name="Malkhani2006" /> In this paper, he names Pakisauridae and Balochisauridae in a 2006 paper, and prioritized them over ] and ], which were both named earlier.


He also studied dinosaur footprints on two occasions. He studied the ] in 2006–7 before it was partially destroyed by coal mining and road construction,<ref>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.</ref> and in 2012, he became the first to study the Zhob dinosaur trackway and determined that the footprints were left by theropods and sauropods.<ref name=":0" />
⚫ During the time that he was director of the GSP, he published papers directly through the ]<ref>Malkani, M.S., (2015b). Dinosaurs, mesoeucrocodiles, pterosaurs, new fauna and flora from Pakistan. Geological Survey of Pakistan, Information Release 823: i–iii,1–32.</ref> and also ]<ref name="Malkani_Noasaurids">{{Cite web |last=Malkani |first=M. Sadiq |date=2024-08-16 |title=Small bodied theropod dinosaurs (Noasauridae) discovered from the latest Maastrichtian Vitakri Formation of Pakistan |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383000597 |website=] |pages=1–19}}</ref> before he began to publish his papers in the predatory journal ''Open Journal of Geology'', where the quality of his papers has diminished greatly;<ref name=":0" /> for example, one paper from 2019 saw him name and describe nineteen invalid species without being sufficiently described.<ref>Malkani, M.S. (2019). "Recently Discovered Basilosaurid, Baluchithere Rhinoceros, Horses, Sea Cow, Proboscidean, Eucrocodile, Pterosaurs, Plesiosaur, Fishes, Invertebrates and Wood Fossils, Tracks and Trackways of Dinosaurs from Pakistan; Comparison of Recognized Four Titanosaur Taxa of Indo-Pakistan with Madagascar". ''Open Journal of Geology'', 9, 919-955. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.4236/ojg.2019.912098</nowiki></ref>

He has since named many informal and invalid species on ''Open Journal of Geology''.

=== Controversy ===
He has become controversial because when he names a new species, the remains are often of a low quality and are undiagnostic, with any diagnoses given being crude and rudimentary,<ref name=":1" /> suggesting the information he provides is often misleading. The images provided are also of a low quality, suggesting the images are not reviewed by editors meaning the journals he publishes in are ].<ref name=":0" />


== Species named by Malkani == == Species named by Malkani ==
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==References== ==References==
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Malkani, M.S. 2024. Formal description of fauna and flora from the Pakistan.

Revision as of 13:14, 29 December 2024

Muhammad Sadiq Malkani
BornPakistan
Years active2000–present
Known forDiscoveries in palaeontology in Pakistan
Scientific career
Fields

Muhammad Sadiq Malkani, also known as M. Sadiq Malkani, is a Pakistani paleontologist, geologist and former director of the Geological Survey of Pakistan.

Career

Malkani discovered the first known sauropod remains found in Pakistan in 2000, and beginning in 2001, Malkani excavated fossils that he would later study from the Vitakri Formation of Pakistan. He named several species, including Pabwehshi pakistanensis in 2001, Brohisaurus kirthari in 2003, and Induszalim bala in 2006.

Sometime in 2006, Malkani began to publish his papers naming multiple theropod and sauropod species from Pakistan, and during the time that he was director of the GSP, he published papers directly through the Geological Survey of Pakistan and ResearchGate.

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, and in 2012, he became the first to study the Zhob dinosaur trackway and determined that the footprints were left by theropods and sauropods.

Species named by Malkani

Formally named

Informally named

Khansultan masoomrashidi

Sulaimanisaurus gingerichi

Sakhibaghoon khizari

Imrankhanuqab qaeddiljani

Ichnotaxa

Malakhelisauroperus mianwali

Samanadrindoperus surghari

Himalayadrindoperus potwari

Pashtosauroperus zhobi

Anmolpakhiperus alleni

Dgkhansauroperus maarri

Chiltansauroperus Nicki

References

  1. Malkani, M. "Titanosaurian sauropod dinosaurs from Pakistan". ResearchGate. Retrieved 2019-05-23.
  2. 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.
  3. ^ Allen, Nicholas (December 2017). "Zhob dinosaur trackway, Pakistan field trips". Factum Foundation for Digital Technology in Preservation. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  4. Rana, A.N. (2006-03-25). "Country's first dinosaur fossils". DAWN. Archived from the original on 2007-06-21. Retrieved 2007-07-29.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. Malkani, M.S., (2015b). Dinosaurs, mesoeucrocodiles, pterosaurs, new fauna and flora from Pakistan. Geological Survey of Pakistan, Information Release 823: i–iii,1–32.
  9. Malkani, M. Sadiq (2024-08-16). "Small bodied theropod dinosaurs (Noasauridae) discovered from the latest Maastrichtian Vitakri Formation of Pakistan". ResearchGate. pp. 1–19.
  10. 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.

Bibliography

Malkani, M.S. 2024. Formal description of fauna and flora from the Pakistan.

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