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Palaeozoic Microvertebrate News |
March 2005
Planning has begun for the next Early/Lower Vertebrates meeting:Uppsala, Sweden, week of Aug. 13, 2007
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February 2005
Symposium at the 7th International Congress on the Biology of Fishes
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November 2004
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Just published: Recent Advances in the Origin and Early Radiation of Vertebrates Honoring Hans-Peter Schultze edited by Gloria Arratia, Mark V. H. Wilson, and Richard Cloutier. Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München, 703 pp. |
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September 2004
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"Devonian vertebrates of the continental margins |
August 2004
"Middle Palaeozoic
vertebrates of Laurussia: relationships with Siberia,
Kazakhstan, Asia and Gondwana" in conjunction with
the 6th Baltic Stratigraphical Conference St. Petersburg,
Russia, August 22-26 , 2005
August 2003
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Has been published in pdf format for
down-loading. A hard-copy version is now available
from Susan Turner, containing additional content not in
the pdf version, including publication listings for
1999-2001. Those who wish a
hard
copy must pay the subscription
fee. Click on the image at the right to see
a larger version of the cover art.
April 2003
Advances
in Palaeoichthyology will
be hosted by Dr. Ervins Luksevics and colleagues, Riga,
Latvia Field Trip to northeastern Latvia, September 8-10,
2003 Abstract Deadline: April 30,
2003 The text, in English, should not exceed one page. The
text should be written using 12pt Times New Roman font,
the margins should be 2 cm at the top and bottom and 2,5
cm on the left and right side. The text should preferably
be sent by e-mail, followed by a hard copy if it includes
special or national letters. No other special formatting
is needed; you could follow Ichthyolith Issues Special
Publication style. Please insert the full name(s) and
surname(s) of author(s) of the abstract, address(es) and
e-mail address(es) below the title. Abstract Submission: email to Ervins Luksevics at
erluks@lanet Papers to be published in Acta Universitatis
Latviensis Middle Palaeozoic Vertebrate
Biogeography, Palaeogeography and Climate Full Title: Early Vertebrate
biogeographic data as tests of current
palaeogeographic models during the Middle Palaeozoic,
and its interaction with atmosphere composition,
climate change, and extinction events Leaders: Dr ZHU Min (China) and Dr
Gavin Young (Australia) Address: Dr ZHU Min, Director, Institute of
Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 643, Beijing
100044, China. Tel.: +86-10 683554818; Fax: +86-10
68337001. e-mail: zhumin@ivpp.ac.cn The project is to enhance the exchange
of ideas and data among scientists globally, through a
series of web-based forum, workshops and field trips. The
main aim is to apply a complex and highly organized
global dataset - the distributions in space and time of
Early/Lower vertebrates - to provide more rigorous
controls on the timing of connections and barriers
implied by competing palaeogeographic hypotheses that
incorporate extensive equatorial oceans during the Middle
Palaeozoic, and to provide a framework for understanding
the global diversification of terrestrial ecosystems
during the 'Age of Fishes' (Devonian Period), and its
interaction with atmosphere composition, climate change,
and extinction events. The scope is primarily Devonian,
but will include research in earlier and later times. The
project is a successor to IGCP projects 328, 406. It will
extend the results of 411 and 421, and link with IUGS
Sub-commissions (Silurian, Devonian and
Carboniferous).
Latvian
Museum of Natural
History,
in
September 7-12, 2003
January 2003
Donoghue,
P.C.J. & Smith M.P. (eds) in
press/2003 Telling
the evolutionary time: molecular clocks and the fossil
record. Taylor
& Francis, 304 pp., 80 illustr., 10
tabl. Contributors Introduction Chapter 1 - Molecular clocks: whence
and whither? - Francisco Rodríguez-Trelles, Rosa
Tarrío and Francisco J. Ayala Chapter 2 - Molecular clocks and a
biological trigger for Neoproterozoic snowball Earth
events and the Cambrian explosion - S. Blair Hedges Chapter 3 - Phylogenetic fuses and
evolutionary 'explosions': conflicting evidence and
critical tests - Richard Fortey, Jennifer Jackson and Jan
Strugnell Chapter 4 - The quality of the fossil
record - Michael J. Benton Chapter 5 - Ghost ranges - Christopher
R. C. Paul Chapter 6 - Episodic evolution of
nuclear small subunit ribosomal RNA gene in the
stem-lineage of Foraminifera - Jan Pawlowski and
Cédric Berney Chapter 7 - Dating the origin of land
plants - Charles H. Wellman Chapter 8 - Angiosperm divergence
times: congruence and incongruence between fossils and
sequence divergence estimates - Niklas Wikström,
Vincent Savolainen and Mark W. Chase Chapter 9 - The limitations of the
fossil record and the dating of the origin of the
Bilateria - Graham E. Budd and Sören Jensen Chapter 10 - The origin and early
evolution of chordates: molecular clocks and the fossil
record - Philip C. J. Donoghue, M. Paul Smith & Ivan
J. Sansom Chapter 11 - Bones, molecules and
crown-tetrapod origins - Marcello Ruta and Michael I.
Coates Chapter 12 - The fossil record and
molecular clocks: basal radiations within the Neornithes
- Gareth J. Dyke
CONTENTS
August 2002
will
be hosted by Martha Richter and colleagues, Gramado,
RS, Brazil (Southern Brazil) Intercontinental and interhemispherical
stratigraphical correlations based on Lower/Early
vertebrates; palaeoenvironments/geochronological dating
based on early vertebrate faunas; correlations of
marine/non-marine fish-bearing strata; systematics and
evolution of fossil and extant agnathans and fishes,
especially the South American and other Gondwanan faunas.
IGCP business meetings; pre-Meeting field trip to
vertebrate localities of the Paraná Basin;
Abstracts volume plus Special Meeting volume with
complete papers. Symposium web site: http://www.ufrgs.br/geociencias/evento.html Martha Richter, Departamento de Geologia/IGEO
of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS),
in
May 24-28 May, 2004
Email concerning symposium: BR2003@vortex.ufrgs.br
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Av. Brigadeiro Trompowski, s/n
Prédio do CCMN/Ilha do Fundão
CEP: 21.914-900 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
e-mail: richter@geologia.ufrj.br
or richter@vortex.ufrgs.br
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5th BALTIC STRATIGRAPHICAL CONFERENCE Basin Stratigraphy - Modern Methods and Problems Vilnius, Lithuania, September 22-29, 2002 See more details at this web site. NEW: Here is the Second Circular in pdf format. |
February 2002
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Newsletters and meeting announcements at this web site: |
January 2002
Recent
Advances in the Origin and Early Radiation of
Vertebrates Convenors: Gloria Arratia, Richard
Cloutier, and Mark V. H. Wilson Norman,
Oklahoma, October 9, 2002 The SVP Program Committee has
approved this symposium for the Norman meeting. Poster
presentations related to the theme of the symposium are
hereby invited. A volume of papers authored by the
invited platform speakers will be published by Verlag Dr.
F. Pfeil, München, and available at the meeting or
soon afterward. For more information contact Gloria
Arratia or Mark
Wilson.
June 2001
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FIRST INTERNATIONAL PALAEONTOLOGICAL CONGRESS Macquarie University and Australian Museum Sydney, Australia, July 6-10, 2002 Included symposium: Early
Palaeozoic Vertebrate Biogeography; See more details at this web site. |
February 2001
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GEOLOGY OF THE DEVONIAN SYSTEM Syktyvkar, Russia, 2002 Did you miss the IGCP 406 meeting and field trips to the Devonian of the Komi Republic during 2000? A similar opportunity will be presented during 2002, in association with the above-named symposium. See more details on the first circular. |
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is available as a pdf file (view in Acrobat Reader) or as a (long) web page. Also available: the IGCP 406 publications list for the year 2000 as a pdf file (view in Acrobat Reader) or as a (long) web page. |
January 2001
Obituary
by Ieva Upeniece can be found here
(also see notice below).
November
2000
"Timing
of Early Vertebrate Evolution" Results of IGCP 328:
Palaeozoic Microvertebrates Project
(1991-1996) Edited by Alain BLIECK* &
Susan TURNER** * Université des Sciences et Technologies de
Lille, Sciences de la Terre, Laboratoire de
Paléontologie et Paléogéographie du
Paléozoïque, UPRESA 8014 du C.N.R.S., F-59655
Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex (France); Alain.Blieck@univ-lille1.fr To obtain your copy send a message to the editor of
CFS: Dr. P. Königshof, Forschungs-Institut
Senckenberg, Senckenberganlage 25, D-60325 Frankfurt
a.M., FRG; pkoenigs@sng.uni-frankfurt.de Moscow, Russia Please
note: this meeting has been postponed until March of
2001 ORDOVICIAN
BIODIVERSIFICATION EVENT June 21st - June 24th, 2001, University of California,
Riverside Focus: Large-scale clade or regional
patterns of Ordovician Biodiversity. All IGCP 410 participants are invited. Please Reply To
Mary.Droser@ucr.edu
by December 1, 2000 to receive circulars. Mary L. Droser, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of
California, Riverside, CA 92521 •as a
PDF
file
(2.5 Mb; viewable with Acrobat Reader), or •as a series
of linked
web pages.
** Queensland Museum, P.O. Box 3300, South Brisbane,
Queensland 4101, Australia; SueT@qm.qld.gov.au
This volume contains results obtained during the 6
years of UNESCO-IUGS IGCP 328: Palaeozoic Microvertebrate
Biochronology and Global Marine/Non-Marine Correlation
(1991-1996), published as a special issue of Courier
Forschungs-Institut Senckenberg (Frankfurt am Main,
FRG). The volume comprises 575 pages, 140 text-figs., 29
tables, 37 black-and-white photographic plates, and 25
papers by 50 authors.
"Evolutionary
Palaeoichthyology"
3-16 MARCH 2001
Click
here to see the revised First
Circular
Phone: 909-787-3797; FAX: 909-787-4324
August 2000
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CAPV2000:
Pan-Arctic Palaeozoic Tectonics, Evolution of Basins and
Faunas Here
are some photos
from the meeting
courtesy of Olle Hints |
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Antoshkina, A., Malysheva, E.,
& M. V. H. Wilson (eds). 2000.
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Those in Russia may wish to order directly from Dr. Anna Antoshkina, Institute of Geology, Komi Science Centre, Uralian Division RAS, 54 Pervomayskaya St., 167982 Syktyvkar, RUSSIA |
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June 2000 FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA,
U.S.A., MAY 15-19,
2000. and was followed by a field excursion to the Devonian
of Nevada and Utah. NEW:
Here is a list of meeting
participants.
took place in
May 2000
editor of Ichthyolith
Issues
February 2000
IGCP
406
The 1999 Annual Report
and Publications List are here:
Annual
Report in web page format
1999
Publications List
Annual
report in PDF format
The 1999 Annual Report
and Publications List are here:
October 1999
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Lower-Middle Palaeozoic Events Across the Circum-Arctic took place in Jurmala (near Riga), Latvia, September 27 - October 2, 1999 in conjunction with the 4th Baltic Stratigraphical Conference, and included a field excursion to the Devonian of northeastern Latvia. |
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Luksevics, E., Stinkulis, G., & Wilson, M. (Editors). 1999. Lower-Middle Palaeozoic Events Across the Circum-Arctic. Ichthyolith Issues Spec. Publ. 5:1-68. can be obtained from Mark Wilson (Edmonton). To order, send US $15. to Dr. M.
Wilson |
August 1999
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(edited by John Long, is now available at a deeply
discounted price! The regular retail price for this book is $45 US (=$60 Aus), but it is now offered for one third the price -$15 (plus another $5 for postage, packaging). |
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send an international money order made out to John Long in equivalent Australian dollars - $28Aus. Sorry, no personal cheques can be accepted. Dr John Long |
