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JONES, R.K., TURNER, S. & FORDHAM, B.G.: Late Devonian fauna from the Columbine Sandstone (Coffee Hill Member), Gap Creek, central New South Wales.- 22 p., 9 text-figs, 2 plates [ready for publ.]. CARBONIFEROUS AND PERMIAN SCHNEIDER, J.W., HAMPE, O. & SOLER-GIJÓN, R.: The Late Carboniferous and Permian: aquatic vertebrate zonation in southern Spain and German basins.- 25 p., 7 text-figs, 2 tables [ready for publication]. ZAJIC, J.: Vertebrate zonation of the non-marine Upper Carboniferous-Lower Permian basins of the Czech Republic.- 9 p., 6 text-figs [ready for publ.]. **************** Annual Report for 1997 IGCP 406 "Circum-Arctic Lower-Middle Palaeozoic Vertebrate Palaeontology and Biostratigraphy" Mark Wilson (co-leader) reports that total funds for the project in 1997 were U.S. $4200, a significant reduction from what we had hoped and from what we got last year. Even so, during the year, IGCP 406 held two meetings, in Buckow, Germany during July, and in St. Petersburg, Russia during September. Both resulted in substantial volumes of abstracts published as two special publications of Ichthyolith Issues. The St. Petersburg meeting also included a workshop for authors of a volume on Severnaya Zemlya stratigraphy, part of it to be published in Russia and another part by Geodiversitas, Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris. In addition, smaller workshops, discussions, and field meetings, funded by other agencies, were held in London, Vilnius, and Edinburgh, and project-related field work took place in northern Canada, Alaska, and Scotland. The project now includes more than 100 participants from 20 countries. FULL REPORT ON THE WWW SITE Co-Leaders "P. Mannik" <mannik@gi.ee>, "Tiiu Marss" <marss@gi.ee> "Mark V.H. Wilson" <mark_wilson@biology.ualberta.ca> IGCP 406 leaders at Buckow by Alexander Tamarov

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IGCP 406: Circum-Arctic Palaeozoic Vertebrates Meeting "Circum-Arctic Palaeozoic Faunas and Facies" Warsaw, Poland, September 3-8, 1998

IGCP 406 Annual Meeting and Workshop on Early Sharks, Warsaw, 1998 See WWW for final details or contact Dr Michal GINTER Institute of Geology, Warsaw University, Zwirki i Wigury 93 02-089 Warszawa, POLAND, e-mail: fiszbit@geo.uw.edu.pl, fax: (48 22) 22-02-48

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IGCP 406 UK PARTICIPATION

Per Ahlberg (NHM, London): In 1996 was awarded a NATO grant for a two year project to re-evaluate and compare the Middle and Late Devonian vertebrate faunas of Scaat Craig, Britain (mainly Scotland) and the Baltic States, (Latvia, Estonia) and western Russia, and involving co-operation between UK and some of the Baltic States. The project involves biostratigraphiccorrelation of the Upper Devonian sediments between the Baltic States and the UK using fishes particularly sarcopterygians and antiarchs. Associate investigators are Dr. Ervin Lucksevics, Dr. "Sasha" Alexander Ivanov, Dr. Elga Mark Kurik. Dr. Nigel Trewin and Bob Davidson (Aberdeen): Main area of interest is in the sequence stratigraphy, sedimentology, palaeoecology/interpretation of environments of Devonian fish, particularly the Silurian and Old Red Sandstone of Scotland. Work on Middle O.R.S. fish bedsin Moray Firth area, Scotland. During 1996-1997 have been involved in fieldwork and collecting of fish fossils in the Lower Old Red Sandstone of Turin Hill, Forfarshire and also in the Middle Old Red Sandstone, Tynet Burn Fish Bed, Fochabers at south margin of the Orcadian Basin. Other field work visits included the Lower Old Red Sandstone of