title: Jerzy Dzik
text: # Jerzy Dzik
  
  Jerzy Dzik (born 25 February 1950) is a Polish paleontologist.
  
  He has described many species, genera, and families of conodonts, including the order Ozarkodinida (in 1976).
  
  In 2003, he described the dinosauriform Silesaurus, from the Triassic of Poland.
  
  ## Tributes
  
  The conodont genus name Dzikodus Zhang 1998 is a tribute to J. Dzik.
  
  