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Antoaneta Ilcheva, geologist-palaeontologist, curator of Early Cretaceous corals collection. Photo: (c) S. Abadjiev
Antoaneta Ilcheva, geologist-palaeontologist, curator of Early Cretaceous corals collection. Photo: (c) S. Abadjiev

Antoaneta Ilcheva

(MSc, geologist-palaeontologist)
phone: (+359 2) 987 41 94; (+359 2) 988 51 15 (ext. 625); e-mail:

Born: 18 September 1977, Sofia.
Education: University of Mining and Geology (2003).
Speciality: geology and prospecting of mineral deposits, engineer-geologist, MSc.
Curation: collection of Early Cretaceous corals.
Palaeontology and Mineralogy Department

Research interests


History and cataloguing of the palaeontological collections.

Current projects


Catalogue of the type collection of Lower Cretaceous corals
Catalogue of Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous aptychi
Catalogue of Late Cretaceous and Paleogene echinids
New terebratulid brachiopods from the Upper Cretaceous

Selected publications


Ilcheva, A., Motchurova-Dekova, N., Ivanov, P. 2007. Discovery of the discovered — or how researchers found the discovered before two decades marine reptile that has been forgotten in the museum. — Rev. Bulg. Geol. Soc., 68 (1—3): 185—187. [in Bulgarian, English abstract] [PDF]

Ilcheva, A. 2008. The first published record of a dinosaur in Bulgaria. — Rev. Bulg. Geol. Soc., 69 (1—3): 128—129. [in Bulgarian, English abstract] [PDF]

Ilcheva, A., Motchurova-Dekova, N. 2010 (in press). Catalogue of the type collections of Early Cretaceous corals (Scleractinia, Anthozoa) at the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia. — Historia naturalis bulgarica.

Vašíček, Z., Motchurova-Dekova, N., Ilcheva, A. (submitted). Taxonomy of Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous ribbed aptychi from Bulgaria. — Acta Geologica Polonica.