Pander Society Newsletter - University of Leicester

Provincialism. Charpentier; Kozur
Provinces. Percival
Paleoclimate. Lane
Paleoecology. Albanesi; Barnes; Bauer; Budurov;
Bultynck; Capkinoglu; Charpentier; Gedik;
Hairapetian; Henderson; Herbig; Johnston (D.I.);
Jun Chen; Katarzyna; Katvala; Kirilishina;
Königshof; Kononova; Kozur; Krahl; Lai Xulong;
Lambert; Leatham; Leslie; Mannik; Matyja;
McCracken; Mendez; Nemyrovska; Nicora; Perri;
Petrunova; Pevny; Pieracacos; Repetski; Rexroad;
Rigo; Rosales; Sandberg; Scomazzon; Slavik;
RESEARCH REPORTS
Stouge; Stritzke; Talent; Tarabukin; Varea; von
Bitter; Witzke; Yao Jianxin; Zhuravlev
Paleoenvironments. Dumoulin; Orchard; Sansom
Paleooceanographic proxy. Bright
Ecology. Purnell
Biofacies. Krahl; Piecha; Poole; Sandberg;
Tarabukin;
Sea Levels using conodont communities.
Shunxin Zhang
Water temperature of the Sea. Nicora
Eustasy. Barnes
Sachiko Agematsu. Am a graduate student studying Ordovician and Silurian conodonts from Thailand and
Malaysia.
Guillermo Luis Albanesi. Continues working on diverse projects involving Lower Paleozoic conodont
faunas from west and northwest Argenine basins. An integrated conodont-graptolite biostratigraphic chart
is being assembled for the Ordovician and Silurian systems of Argentina in cooperation with Gladys
Ortega. Collaborating with colleagues from universities in Argentina, Spain, UK, USA and Canada, on
related topics of Lower Paleozoic historical geology and paleontology. Our working group has prepared a
proposal on a global stratotype for the base of the Middle Ordovician Series in the Argentine Precordillera.
New supported projects on high resolution biostratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy, events, and
paleothermometry on the Lower Paleozoic of the Eastern Cordillera and the Precordillera, Argentina began
in the current year with participating colleagues from different universities, as well as two new graduate
students under my supervision.
Alexander S. Alekseev. Investigations are on Devonian-Triassic conodonts from the East Europian
Platform, Urals and Crimea. Now concentrating on Moscovian-Gzhelian conodonts from the Moscow
Basin and South Urals. A new area of interest is the Arkhangelsk Region.
Dick Aldridge. A paper on the bromalites (coprolites and associated alimentary ejecta) from the Upper
Ordovician Soom Shale (with S. Gabbott, L. Siveter & H. Theron) has been accepted by Palaeontology.
The interest for conodont workers is that some of the bromalites contain fragmented conodont elements of
the genus Promissum. Our group has also collected a few more complete apparatuses of a new icriodellid
conodont from Soom Shale and now has enough to reconstruct the apparatus composition and architecture.
Other conodont activities in 2005 have included some progress on a monograph on Silurian conodonts of
South China (with Wang Cheng-yuan), a collaborative study of new collections across the Permian/Triassic
boundary at Meishan (with Lai Xulong & his team), and re-invigoration of studies of Ordovician conodonts
from Estonia (with V. Viira & S. Curtis) and Saudi Arabia (with P. Smith). A long-term cladistic study of
complex conodonts with P. Donoghue, M. Purnell and Zhang Shunxin is at last nearing completion.
Howard A. Armstrong. Following the completion of the second edition of Microfossils, work largely (and
by necessity!) turned away from microfossils for much of 2005. Projects on the earth system changes
associated with the Ordovician glaciation are ongoing in Libya, Jordan and Wales (with Tom Challands).
Collaboration with Geof Abbott (Univ. Newcastle) has expanded this work into Ordovician biomarkers and
water column conditions during deglaciation, and Ordovician SSTs and pCO2 levels. A new Ph.D. student
starts in May 2006 to work on GC-IRMS of Ordovician biomarkers. Conodont work resurfaced
occasionally in 2005 with projects on bias and completeness, histology and functional morphology of
Panderodus nearing completion.
Gabriella Bagnoli. Actively working on Cambrian conodonts from China and Lower Triassic conodonts
from southern Italian Alps.
Chris Barnes. The final papers based on extensive field-based Lower Paleozoic stratigraphic and conodont
studies in the Canadian Cordillera with Leanne Pyle eiither published or In Press. Work with Shunxin
Zhang is using my extensive conodont database to evaluate conodont biostratigraphy, biofacies and
biogeography to the pattern of eustasy and tectonism that affected northern Laurentia in the early
Paleozoic. Several joint papers have appeared recently with others ‘in press’, which deal with Ordovician
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