Pander Society Newsletter - University of Leicester

Wernecke Mountains, Yukon (with L. Pyle & G. Narbonne); 4) Service reports for clients of the GSC
Paleontology Laboratory.
Olga T. Obut. Current interest is in Ordovician conodont biostratigraphy.
Fuat Önder. Am now retired and working as an education advisor; student Ali Muarat Kilic’s Ph.D. thesis
on Triassic conodonts has been completed.
Mike Orchard. Recently completed a paper on late Paleozoic-Triassic conodonts from central Yukon, and
a second on Lower Triassic conodont evolution. Attention turns to the conodonts and GSSP definition of :
1) Induan-Olenekian boundary (with Zhao in China, and Krystyn in Spiti); 2) Olenekian-Anisian boundary
(with Gradinaru & Nicora in Romania, Lehrmann in China); 3) Ladinian-Carnian boundary in Nevada; 4)
Carnian-Norian boundary in Canada. Also, Triassic multielements from Thailand (with Savage) and Japan
(with Sashida); and Spathian conodonts from California (with Goudemand).
D. Jeffrey Over. Working on Middle and Upper Devonian conodonts from carbonates and clastics in the
Americas: Bolivian conodonts with Sarah de la Rue and Peter Isaacson; western Canada with Jed Day and
Michael Whalen; western Appalachian Basin and midcontinent basins with Carl Brett, Tom Algeo &
Juergen Schieber; Eifelian-Givetian boundary in the northern Appalachian Basin; as well as with a student
on conodont taphonomy, where he is feeding conodonts to fish.
Susan Owen. Not presently working on conodonts but rather am currently a GIS specialist with USDA
Forest Service. I moved to North Dakota in 2004 and found a wonderful world of very large fossils; a real
learning experience for this old lady.
Soo-In Park. Investigating conodonts from the Middle Carboniferous stata in the Gangwon Province,
Korea.
Rachel Paull. Although I am now retired, still continuing my interests in Permian-Triassic boundary and
early Triassic conodonts. The collections I made through the years are now at University of Wisconsin,
Madison, WI (USA).
Ian Percival. Ordovician conodonts from New South Wales continue to be my research focus. During the
past year, I again enjoyed a fruitful collaboration with Yong-Yi Zhen (Australian Museum, Sydney)
supporting his studies on Early Ordovician conodonts from South China; he joined me in preparing a paper
on latest Cambrian to Early Ordovician conodonts from the Koonenberry Belt of far-western New South
Wales, and in cooperative work on a Late Ordovician fauna (including conodonts of Eastonian age) from
the south-central part of the state. My own studies into the biostratigraphic zonation of conodonts in
Ordovician cherts from the central and south coast (Narooma) regions of New South Wales also progress.
Carlos Martinez Perez. Working on my Master’s thesis on Emsian conodonts from Pyrenees (Spain)
under the supervision of Nacho Valenzuela-Rios. Also, I am interested in paleobiological aspects of
conodonts.
Lyudmila Petrunova. Working on Triassic conodont faunas from Bulgaria and on the conodont fauna
from the eastern Stara Planina Mountains with Prof. Kiril Budurov.
Marie-France Perret Mirouse. Although now retired, still going into the lab and working on completing
ongoing conodont studies in the Pyrenees with colleagues (J. Kullmann, Javier Sanz Lopez & Silvia
Blanco).
Maria Cristina Perri. Continuing research on Permian-Triassic and Devonian-Early Carboniferous
conodont faunas. Most recent research is focused on events around the Permian-Triassic and Frasnian-
Famennian boundaries in the Southern Alps. A paper with Enzo Farabegoli, University of Bologna and
Renato Posenata, University of Ferrara on latest Permian-earliest Triassic litho- and bioevents in the
Southern Alps has been submited for publication.
Jozef Pevny. Studying Middle to Upper Triassic (Pelsonian to Cordevolian) conodonts from pelagic facies
in western and central Slovakia.
Matthias Piecha. Working on Devonian and Carboniferous conodonts from the Rhenish Massif.
Continued investigations on low temperature (CAI 1-2) Middle and Late Devonian conodonts from the
Paffrath Syncline (Bergisches Land, Germany) and also investigations on conodont biofacies and hiatuses
around the Frasnian/Famennian boundary on the Rhenish shelf of northwestern Germany.
Pablo Plasencia-Camps. Still working on my Master’s thesis on Triassic conodonts from Spain (I hope to
finish this yar). Ana Marquez-Aliaga and Nacho Valenzuela-Rios are my research directors, with additional
supervision from Francis Hirsch. I am a biologist and intend to study biological aspects of conodonts, with
a special interest in the Triassic genus Pseudofurnishius and also Triassic fishes.
Forrest G. (Barney) Poole. Although retired since 1995, continuing geologic studies in Sonora and
Nevada as Geologist Emeritus with the USGS and am actively working on sedimentology and stratigraphy
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