Please send me a list of addresses and e-mails of the people working with Ichthyolith Issues- That would facilitate my work and getting the links with the searchers.

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Dr Dave ELLIOTT, Northern Arizona University, Department of Geology, PO Box 4099, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-4099, U.S.A. Fax (602) 523-9220

Dave successfully ran the 9th Early/Lower Vertebrates meeting in Flagstaff in May 2000 (more of this in next issue) - he also 'retired as editor of JVP and is having a well-earned rest. He wrote last year:
The situation concerning my students is that Randy Reed completed his work on the Water Canyon last year and graduated. He is still job hunting and in the meantime is teaching courses here and acting as the dept. technician. We have collaborated on a couple of biostrat papers and we are now working on the description of a new Allocryptaspisfrom the WC (plus a complete revision of the reconstruction of cyathaspidid mouthparts--Denison got it all wrong I'm afraid), and on his work using sea level curves to relate the WC to the curves previously calculated for the Devonian of Euramerica and then to the conodont zonal scheme.
Jack Evans is now in Oregon after a spell in Nevada and may be starting work on his thesis again. He is picking the Iowa collections we made some time back.
Heide Johnson and I just submitted a placoderm paper to the Linn Soc and we are now working on a description of the Yahatinda fauna (collected by Dave Dineley in the '60s). My main aim over the next year is to describe all the cyathaspidids from the western US that I've collected in the last ten years. There are at least 15 new species and they are important to the biostrat correlations that I've been doing.
My other main task is to co-operate with Ray Thorsteinsson on his arctic faunas from Cornwallis Island. I was in Calgary in mid- November last year to start the work.

Paper of interest
Elliott, D. K., E. J. Loeffler, and Liu, Y. 1998.
New species of the cyathaspidid Poraspis
(Agnatha: Heterostraci) from the Late
Silurian and Early Devonian of Northwest
Territories, Canada. Journal of Paleontology
72:360-370.
Elliott, D.K. 1999. The heterostracan head.
Abstracts of papers, Fifty-ninth Annual
Meeting of Vertebrate Paleontology Adams
Mark Hotel, Denver, Colorado, October 20-
23, 1999. JVP19(3) Sept. 1999, p43A.

Paper in press
Elliott D.K., Johnson H.G., Cloutier R., Carr
R.K. & Daeschler E.B.: Middle and Late
Devonian vertebrates of the western Old

Red Sandstone Continent. Courier
Forschungs-Institut Senckenberg

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Dr Pierre-Yves GAGNIER, Grand Galerie de l'Évolution, Museum National d'Histoire naturelle, 36 rue Geoffrey Saint-Hilaire, F- 75005 Paris, FRANCE.
E-Mail: gagnier@mnhn.fr

At Jurmala, Pierre-Yves gave a preliminary report on acanthodian microremains in the Baillie Hamilton and Cornwallis Islands sections of Arctic Canada.

Papers of note
Gagnier P.-Y. 1998. Review of Five
Kingdoms: An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla
of Life on Earth, by Margulis, L. &
Schwartz, K.V. éditeurs. Third edition. W.
H. Freeman and Compagny, New York.
1998, 520 p.- Ecologie.
Gagnier P.-Y. 1999. Evolutionary patterns of
the acanthodian head. Abstracts of papers,
59th Annual Meeting of Vertebrate
Paleontology Adams Mark Hotel, Denver,
Colorado, October 20-23, 1999. JVP 19(3)
September 1999, p45A.
Gagnier P.-Y. 1999. Sensory Structures in
Vertebrates / Eyes.- In: R. SINGER (ed.),
Encyclopedia of Paleontology. Fitzroy
Dearborn Publishers.
Gagnier P.-Y. 1999. Chordate and Vertebrate
Body Structure: Dermal Skeleton,
Postcranial.- In: R. SINGER (ed.),
Encyclopedia of Paleontology. Fitzroy
Dearborn Publishers.
Gagnier P.-Y. 1999.- Ornamentation in
Vertebrates.- In: R. SINGER (ed.),
Encyclopedia of Paleontology. Fitzroy
Dearborn Publishers.
Gagnier P.-Y., Hanke G. & Wilson M.V.H.
1999. Tetanopsyrus lindoeigen. et sp.
nov., an Early Devonian acanthodian from
the Northwest Territories, Canada. Acta
Geologica Polonica, 49(2):81-96.

Ray's question on the net generated a fair amount of mail:
"I've seen many illustrations of Cladodussp. teeth and body reconstruction illustrations in various publications of Romer and Moy- Thomas. Does anyone have photos or know of actual specimens showing most if not all of the animal?"

****************************** Dr Michal GINTER, Fac. Geol., Al. Zwirki i Wigury 93, 02 089 Warsaw, Poland. E-mail: fiszbit@geo.uw.edu.pl