Pander Society Newsletter - University of Leicester

to these collections by new sampling to provide conodont evidence for the wide extent of Alamo Impact
megatsunami distal uprush and backwash deposits. With Anita Harris, I continue to identify blast-fallout
Silurian, Ordovician and Cambrian conodont faunas, redeposited in lapilli beds within the Alamo Impact
Breccia in southern Nevada. For a geologic map with Barney Poole, I am making new conodont collections
from the Devonian platform-to-basin transitional sequence and deep-water channels of the Alamo Breccia
in southern Hot Creek Range, Nevada. Also, I am processing and identifying Ordovician, Devonian,
Mississippian, Pennsylvanian, and Permian conodont samples collection by Poole from northern Sonora,
Mexico. I am also studying conodont collections process by Jim Miller from the Mississippian Weaubleau
Impact breccia in Missouri. As time permits, I am re-identifying my older conodont collections and adding
them to the D/C Conodont Database. This database, a work in progress since 1991, quickly provides
information on ranges and distribution of all Devonian and Mississipian taxa. Thus, my workload continues
to expand in my twelfth year as an Emeritus!
Ivan J. Sansom. Currently in the midst of a project focusing on Ordovician vertebrates from Gondwana
working with, among a whole cast of others, Guillermo Albanesi and Bob Nicoll.
Javier Sanz-Lopez. Working on conodonts and stratigraphy from the Tournaisian to the Bashkirian of the
Iberian Peninsula. CAI research is focusing in the Cantabrian Zone and the Pyrenees.
Norman M. Savage. Devonian conodonts from SE Alaska; Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Permian &
Triassic conodonts from Thailand. I am now teaching 2 classes at University of Oregon. Received financial
support from Mahasarakham Universty, Thailand for conodont and brachiopod research.
Ana Karina Scomazzon. Having now completed my post-doctoral thesis, I am presently working on two
different projects: one on the biostratigraphy and paleoecology of Pennsylvanian conodonts of Brazilian
Paleozoic basins and the other analyzing Sr and Nd in conodonts and whole rocks of the Amazonas Basin,
Brazil. I’m also co-supervising two Ph.D. students, one studying conodont biostratigraphy and the other
studying taphonomy and stratigraphy of some Carboniferous deposits of the Amazonas Basin.
Shuzhong Shen. Conodonts from the Permian and Permian-Triassic in South China and Tibet.
Andrew Simpson. Unfortunately little time available for conodont research. Work with faunas for ongoing
collaborative projects has been possible between other commitments. These include work on Late Silurian
Lau event faunas with J. Talent & R. Mawson and L. Jeppsson and others, plus a project with D. Cole & J.
Valentine on Silurian faunas from Murruin Creek in New South Wales, and finally work on abundant Early
Silurian faunas from Boree Creek in New South Wales with P. Molloy. It is hoped that these collaborative
efforts will see the light of day in 2006.
Ladislav Slavik. This year I completed a Humboldt Research Fellowship at the Technical University of
Braunschweig, Germany. Together with P. Carls & N. Valenzuela-Rios we continue our work on Upper
Silurian-Lower Devonian conodont faunas from the Barrandian area and the Frauenwald.
Terry Sloan. Continuing to work (slowly) on compiling graphic correlation of eastern Australian Devonian
sections from data previously published by Mawson and Talent et al.
Paul Smith. Work is currently concentrated on the Ordovician of Greenland and NW Scotland (with Rob
Raine & J.A. Rasmussen), on the paleobiology and phylogenetic analysis of primitive prioniodinid
conodonts and their relatives (with R. Dhanda & P. Donoghue) and on an unusual fauna from the
Darriwilian of Saudi Arabia (with R. Aldridge).
Luybov Sokolova. Post-grad student working on Upper Ordovician-Lower Devonian conodonts from the
Subpolar Urals.
Claudia Spalletta. Research continues on Lower Devonian to Lower Carboniferous conodonts from
carbonate units of the Carnic Alps (northern Italy) with main focus on sections at the Frasnian/Famennian
boundary. A paper on Late Devonian-Early Carboniferous vertebrate micro-remains from the Carnic Alps
(with C. Randon, C. Derycke, A Blieck & M. Cristina Perri) is about to be published. A study (with C.
Brime, M. Cristina Perri, M. Pondrelli & C. Venturini) on thermal history of the Carnic Alps using CAI and
KI (Kuebler Index) is in progress.
Svend Stouge. Working on Lower Palaeozoic successions with emphasis on Ordovician in northwest and
south China, in Greenland, Scotland and Newfoundland. Also the Baltoscandia region is given serious
attention and is compared in detail with conodonts from south China. Preparing working on conodonts
from Australia together with other conodont workers. Involved with investigations of the base of the global
mid-Ordovician Series boundary.
Ruediger Stritzke. Devonian biostratigraphy of the Rheinisches Schiefergebirge.
Milan N. Sudar. Continuing to work on Triassic conodonts (taxonomy, evolution, biostratigraphy, CAI) of
Serbia.
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