Pander Society Newsletter - University of Leicester

PAST CONODONT MEETINGS
A Pander Society Symposium was held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the North-Central
Section of the Geological Society of America at Camp Hill/Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on March 20-
22, 2006. Jeff Over, of the State University of New York (SUNY) at Geneseo, organized and chaired
the symposium of seven papers entitled:
Sequence Stratigraphy and Conodont Bed Distribution in Mixed Siliciclastic-Carbonate Successions
(Bartholomew, Brett & Baird)
Conodonts and Sequence Stratigraphy in the Upper Devonian Marine Clastic-Dominated Strata of the
Northern Appalachian Basin (Over, Baird & Kirchgasser)
Upper Devonian (Frasnian) Goniatite and Conodont Marker Beds in the Harrell Shale (Appalachian Basin)
of Central Pennsylvania (Kirchgasser & Baird)
Measured Sections to Track Various Stratal Architectures - A Key to Analyzing Conodont Morphogenesis
(Lambert)
Carboniferous-Permian Stratigraphy of the Midcontinent (Wardlaw, Boardman & Nestell)
Environmental Gradient is Reflected in Faunal Composition and Distribution of Exceptionally Preserved
Conodonts and Other Vertebrates from the Silurian Eramosa Lagerstätte, Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, Canada
(von Bitter, Purnell & Stott)
Conodont Taphonomy: Traveling Through the Alimentary Canal of Modern Fish (Helms & Over)
While the symposium focused on Conodonts & Sequence Stratigraphy, the presentations covered a broad
range of conodont subjects; of these, the presentation by student James Helms and his supervisor, Jeff
Over, on experimentally determining what happens to conodonts when they pass through the digestive
system of modern fish, created a great deal of interest and discussion.
Following the symposium, Chief Panderer Peter von Bitter led a discussion about the current state of
the Pander Society in North America and asked for suggestions regarding venues and topics for future
meetings. Several options were suggested but none received majority endorsement from the attendees, so
Peter volunteered to assess future possibilities. He further encouraged those in attendance to give serious
consideration to participation in the forthcoming International Conodont Symposium (ICOS 2006) meeting
in Leicester, England, this summer.
(Please note that the 2007 meeting of
the North American Panderers will
be held in conjunction with the joint
meeting of the North Central and
South Central sections of the
Geological Society of America at the
University of Kansas in Lawrence,
Kansas, April 10-16, 2007; A
conodont symposium is being
organized by Jim Miller and Stephen
Leslie (for further details, please see
their proposal to GSA on pages 8 & 9
[PvB]).
Following the meeting, most
Panderers went as a group to lunch in
Harrisburg - surprisingly perhaps, good
Mexican cuisine is available that many
Panderers pondering the Silurian-Devonian boundary beds in the
Helderberg Group at (Eldorado, Pennsylvania, USA). Stop 2 of the
Appalachian Field trip (above) led by John Repetski. Lance Lambert
at far left, Jim Miller in center, Former Chief Panderer Ray Ethington
at right. (Submitted by John Repetski)
4
miles north and east of the Rio Bravo,
and thus far all of the Panderers have
survived the experience.
On the Sunday prior to the
meeting (above), John Repetski of the