If others would like to have a good look at such Palaeozoic phosphatic delights, send stories to the next issues.

Pennsylvanian black shales. Fieldiana Geol.
Mem. 4. 352 pp.
Zidek, J. 1980. Acanthodes lundi, new
species (Acanthodii) and associated
coprolites from the uppermost Mississippian
Heath Formation of central Montana. Ann.
Carnegie Mus. 49: 49-78.

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José I. VALENZUELA RIOS, Departmento de Geologia, Universitat de Valencia, SPAIN E-mail: Jose.I.Valenzuela@uv.es

Nacho enjoyed himself immensely at the ECOS VII conference and field trip. He, Sven Stouge and Andrew Simpson formed the "ECOS swim team" and ploughed up and down the pool in the Hotel Sporting Trexante in Senorbi village, Sardinia. The pool was complete with an inflatable shark, rumoured to be there to make the Australians feel more at home.

Papers of note.
Botella H. and Valenzuela-Rios J.I. 1999.
Early Devonian microvertebrate remains
from Niguella (Iberian Chains, Spain). IV
European Workshop on Vertebrate
Paleontology (1999) Albarracin, Spain. p28. GarcíaLopez S., Rodriguez -Canero R., Sanz
Lôpez J., Sarmiento G.,& Valenzuela-Rios
J.I. 1999. Conodontos y episodios
carbonatados en el Silúrico de la Cadena
Hercinica meridional y del Dominio
Sahariani. [Conodonts and Carbonatic
episodes in the Silurian System from the
Hercinic Chain and the Saharian Domain].
Revista Espanola de Paleontologia. N⁰
Extraordinario, 33-57.

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Dr Juozas VALIUKECIUS, Lithuanian Institute of Geology, Sevcenkos 13, 2600 Vilnius, LITHUANIA
FAX: (370 2) 23 67 10

Papers of note:
Valiukevicius, J. 1998. Acanthodians and
zonal stratigraphy of Lower and Middle
Devonian in East Baltic and Byelorussia.
Palaeontographica, 248: 53 pp.
Valiukevicius, J. 1999. Early Devonian
Acanthodian biogeography. Ichthyolith
Issues Special Publication5, p50-52.

papers in press:
Valiukevicius J.J. & Kruchek, S.:
Acanthodian biostratigraphy and
interregional correlations of the Devonian of
the Baltic States, Belarus, Ukraine, and
Russia. Courier Forschungs-Institut
Senckenberg
Valiukevicius J. (In press) Acanthodians. In:
Mathukhin R.G., and Menner V.V. (editors)
Stratigraphy of Silurian and Devonian of
Severnaya Zemlya Archipelago. [In
Russian]
Valiukevicius J. (In press). Devonian

Coprolite inclusions "pie" from McAllister, J. 1996

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