Pander Society Newsletter - University of Leicester

asal conglomerate (in relation with the Triassic sealing of the post-accretionary Kurosegawa Terrane,
Outer Zone of SW Japan) has been published (Ishida et al., 2005). Provenance of the Triassic conodontbearing
gravels in the Lower Jurassic cover formation of the Mae Sariang Zone was discussed with special
respect to the sealing and erosional event of the Shan Thai Terrane (Ishida et al., 2005). The Triassic
(Carnian-Norian) conodont biostratigraphy of the meta-chert succession in the Mino-Tamba Jurassic
accretion terrane (Inner Zone of SW Japan) will now be studied (Mikami et al., 2006).
Yukio Isozaki. Currently working on detailed stratigraphy of the Guadalupian-Lopingian (=Middle-Upper
Permian) boundary interval and the Lopingian/Induan (=Permian-Triassic) boundary interval in South
China and in Japan.
Nadezhda G. Izokh. Study of conodonts from Ordovician, Silurian and Devonian of the Altai-Sayan
folded area, West Siberia, Russia and South Tien Shan.
Lennart Jeppsson. Collecting and processing work on the Linde and Klev events, and on the recently
discovered early Wenlock Ansarve event has yielded much new data. This is critical for achieving a highresolution
stratigraphy for these intervals, to identify localities for future work (on other major clades,
isotopic and sedimentological changes), to judge the strength of these events, and, not least, to reveal how
badly conodonts fared during these events. Manuscripts include papers now in the list of publications (see
also Calner et al.), the submitted one and the subzones of the O. s. rhenana Zone. These can be followed
across different facies belts in the Silurian sequence of Gotland. Application of them result in unexpected
large revisions in the local stratigraphy, but also makes the range of other clades conform with those found
elsewhere.
David Ian Johnston. A paper on disrupted conodont bedding plane assemblages from the Mississippian of
western Canada by Charles Henderson and myself has been published. We also presented a poster on this
topic at the AAPG meeting in Calgary this past June. I have also been doing some biostratigraphic service
work involving conodonts this year as well. Working on another manuscript (with C. Henderson)
concerning the conodont biostratigraphy and the implications for sequence stratigraphy for the upper
Wabamun Group to lower Banff Formation interval in the surface and subsurface of southern Alberta. The
work is based on the MSc thesis of C. Henderson’s recent graduate student Michael Schmidt. I am now
involved in non-conodont work by providing services in petroleum geology.
David Jones. Working on morphometric analysis of Ozarkodina excavata and Pterospathodus to examine
taxonomy, population variation and evolutionary rates, patterns and processes.
Gareth Ll. Jones. Mineral exploration activities in Ireland only just begun to lift again, lagging behind the
recovery in zinc prices. I look forward to working with conodonts (and foraminifers, algae, etc.) in 2006.
Meanwhile geothermal exploration is keeping me warm!
Jun Chen. In order to know more about Late Permian-Early Triassic conodonts from Meishan Section
(GSSP), South China, especially the evolutionary status of genera Clarkina, many samples have been
collected and processed. Abundant specimens have been picked from these residues. Now working on my
thesis (under Prof. Charles M. Henderson, Calgary, Canada) and hopefully will be completed by mid-2006.
Tea Kolar-Jurkov�ek. Most of my projects on Triassic biostratigraphic studies in Slovenia and Croatia
continue collaboratively with my colleagues. An intensive study of the P-T interval and Lower Triassic is
in progress in many sections of the Dinarides in order to define the systemic boundary biostratigraphically.
Micropaleontological study of two sections in the Raibl Beds (Carnian) of Slovenia have been published; 1)
a conodont apparatus of Nicoraella ? budaensis is demonstrated from the Belca section; and 2) some new
gastropod taxa are recognized from the two assemblages of the Mezica area.
Erik Cowing Katvala. Most of my work to date has focused on using biostratigraphic, paleoecologic, and
paleogeographic data from Mississippian through Triassic conodonts to help constrain paleontologic,
stratigraphic and tectonic interpretations in the accreted terranes of western North America. I have also
been working on element distributions in conodont elements on the electron microprobe.
Ali Murat Kilic. Working on the Triassic conodonts from the Kocaeli & Karaburun peninsulas, Taurids,
Bulgaria and Japan with Profs. K. Budurov & F. Hirsch.
William Kirchgasser. Work continues on conodont and microvertebrate fossils of the ‘Conodont Bed’
(North Evans Limestone) around the Givetian/Frasnian boundary in western New York. A manuscript with
G. Klapper on the Frasnian conodont sequence in New York is in prep. Work continues on the conodontgoniatite
associations in the lower Frasnian of Pennsylvania, a project being conducted in collaboration
with Gordon Bair (SUNY Fredonia) and Carl Brett (Univ. of Cincinnati).
Elena M. Kirilishina. Research on the conodonts from Frasnian-Famenian boundary interval of central
regions of the Russian Platform.
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