Pander Society Newsletter - University of Leicester

Veronica Castelló. Starting on Ph.D. studies involving the Frasnian-Fammenian boundary in the Pyrenees
(Supervisor Dr. Jose Ignacio Valenzuela Rios).
Ronald R. Charpentier. Not presently active in conodont research.
David L. Clark. Nothing to report on the conodont front. Please note new e-mail address.
Damian Cole. Activities include continued sampling of limestones and cherts in the area surrounding
Bungonia in southeastern NSW, Australia.
Carlo Corradini. Continuing research on Silurian and Devonian conodont biostratigraphy in Sardinia and
in the Carnic Alps. Investigating the Ockerkalk facies limestones and a paper on graphic correlations based
on sections in this unit in Sardinia is ‘In Press’ (with S. Gouwy); a revision of the Famennian-Tournaisian
conodont biostratigraphy in the island is completed. Investigating the Silurian-Lower Devonian Orthoceras
limestones in several areas of the Italian side of the Carnig Alps.
James (Jed) Day. Continuing field-based research (with Jeff Over, Michael Whalen) on integrated
brachiopod-conodont biostratgraphy of Middle and Upper Devonian carbonate platform (carbonate ramp
and detached reef platforms) and basin sequences in the Canadian Rocky Mountain outcrop in western
Alberta and eastern British Columbia. Recent work in eastern B.C. appears to indicate that the initial
Devonian marine transgression and flooding of the West Alberta Arch and Peace River Arch was likely
much earlier (as old as Upper varcus Zone) than in areas to the east in Alberta (Upper disparilis Zone).
Continuing work on the late Givetian-Frasnian Iowa Basin conodont-brachiopod sequences and will
present results of continuous conodont sampling through the interval of the middle Givetian varcus Zone to
early Frasnian Montagne Noire Zone 4. This sequence provided conodont apatites analyzed for the study of
stable oxygen and carbon isotope chemostratigraphy through the late Givetian-early Frasnian transition in
Joachimski et al. (2004). The basic features of the sequence will be presented in the guidebook for the 2006
Great Lakes Section of SEPM Fall Field Conference.
Xiping Dong. Continues to study Cambrian through Lower Ordovician conodonts from Hunan, Anhui,
Zhejiang, south China and Liaoning, Shandong, north China, and Zinjiang, northwest China. Also has been
collaborating with S. Bergström and J. Repetski on the Cambrian though Lower Ordovician conodonts
from western Hunan. Since 2000, has been working with P. Donoghue on the histology and comparative
histology of protoconodonts, paraconodonts and the earliest euconodonts from China.
Philip Donoghue. Dong Xiping and I have been continuing our work on Cambrian paraconodont and
euconodont histology and evolution. Together with Mark Purnell, Dick Aldridge & Zhang Shunxin we
have submitted manuscripts on the cladistic relations of “complex” conodonts .
Jolanta Dopieralska. Continuing studies on REE isotope chemistry of conodonts. Several studies on
seawater geochemistry and circulation in the Variscan Sea during the Late Devonian are complete. Last
year I moved from Giessen (Germany) to a new isotope laboratory at the Adam Mickiewicz University in
Poland.
Julie A. Dumoulin. Have been working with Anita Harris for a number of years using conodonts to
investigate the age, depositional settings, and thermal level of Cambrian through Triassic rocks in Alaska,
especially Ordovician through Pennsylvanian strata in northern Alaska. My most recent research has
focused on the Carboniferous-Permian Lisburne Group.
Michiel Dusar. Presently not working with conodonts but more generally with regional upper Palaeozoic
stratigraphy.
Jerzy Dzik. Continuing studies on Late Devonian conodont apparatuses. Have submitted a monograph on
Famennian conodonts from Poland (142 apparatus species) to Palaeontologia Polonica.
Raymond L. Ethington. Continue to compile a catalogue of the conodonts in the University of Missouri
Collection, having finished with the Branson/Mehl/Ellison era and am well into the Ethington/Clark and
fellow travellers portion. Work continues sporadically on several long-standing Ordovician projects, but I
find that retirement provides just as many distractions as working. One of such has been assisting K.
MacLeod & D. Bassett in their efforts to extract Ordovician temperature information from oxygen isotope
ratios in conodonts.
Silvia Blanco Ferrera. I am working in conodont and stratigraphy from the Tournaisian to the Bashkirian
of the Iberian Peninsula. CAI research is focusing in the Cantabrian Zone and the Pyrenees.
Barry Fordham. Working on Ordovician to Carboniferous conodonts from Queensland, Australia.
Although I am now involved in sustainability science, I am still working on conodonts in my spare time.
Susana Garcia-López. Working on Silurian to Lower Carboniferous conodonts, mainly focusing on
biostratigraphy and biofacies. Also actively working on projects dealing with CAI research in the
Cantabrian Zone and Pyrenees (NW & NE of Spain).
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