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2.5
Activities involving other IGCP projects or
IUGS
IGCP 406 began as a successor
project to IGCP 328 (Palaeozoic Microvertebrates), which
ended in 1996, and is attempting to help bring some IGCP
328 initiatives to a productive conclusion. For example,
IGCP 406 participants are collaborating in study of
specimens collected under IGCP 328-sponsored field work
in Arctic Canada, and IGCP 406 participants (A. Blieck
and S. Turner, editors; numerous IGCP 406 participants as
authors) are playing a major role in bringing IGCP 328's
final volume to completion and publication in CFS.
Research on Severnaya Zemlya vertebrates and
biostratigraphy continues, and publication of the Russian
and French volumes (D. Goujet, editor, for
Geodiversitas)on
this subject will also further the aims of IGCP 328. IGCP
406 continues to make good use of the newsletter
Ichthyolith
Issuesand the
Palaeozoic Microvertebrates WWW page, both begun
under IGCP 328, to keep participants informed and to
disseminate project news and announcements.
Many participants are also
associated with one or more of the relevant
subcommissions of the International Commission on
Stratigraphy, especially the Subcommission on Devonian
Stratigraphy (SDS) and the Subcommission on Silurian
Stratigraphy (SSS).
2.6
Participation of scientists from developing
countries
IGCP 406 has excellent
participation from several countries of the former Soviet
Union: Russia (including remote regions), Estonia,
Latvia, Lithuania, and Ukraine, as well as from Poland.
We also have several active participants from P.R. China,
who are of great importance for helping to solve problems
of global correlation and paleobiogeography.
3. Proposed
activities of the project for the year ahead
3.1 General
goals
Working group members will carry
forward planning for joint research on existing fossil
collections as well as applying for funding for field
work as appropriate.
1. Preparation of papers
treating general problems of Ordovician, Silurian and
Devonian stratigraphy, sedimentology and palaeogeography
in the Timan-Pechora region. Papers will be published at
the end of 1999 or at the beginning of 2000 (deadline for
submission - the end of 1999) in a special volume of the
Proceedings of Estonian Academy of Sciences,
Geology.
2. Study of faunas from
Kotel'nyi Island (Novosibirsk Archipelago), started under
the IGCP Project 328, will continue in cooperation with
IGCP 406. Papers dealing with the taxonomy and
biostratigraphy of graptolites (T. Koren), ostracodes (A.
Abushik), brachiopods (T. Modzalevskaya) and conodonts
(P. Männik) will be prepared for a special volume
(submission in 2000). At the end of 1999 a workshop on
geology of Kotel'nyi Island is planned.
3. Members of the Canadian Arctic
Working Group will continue collaborative studies on
Devonian acanthodian faunas and Silurian-Devonian
heterostracan and thelodont faunas from the Mackenzie
Mountains, on Lower Devonian vertebrates from the
Anderson River, and on heterostracan, thelodont, anaspid,
and placoderm faunas from Cornwallis, Baillie-Hamilton,
Prince of Wales, and Somerset Islands (some of which were
collected by participants in IGCP 328). H.-P. Schultze of
Germany, together with M. Otto, continues to study
vertebrates collected on Ellesmere Island in 1975 and
deposited in Göttingen.
4. Members of the Greenland Working
Group will continue studies of biostratigraphically and
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