Pander Society Newsletter 2015

• Main Authors: Perri, M.C., Matteucci, M., Spalletta, C., Perri, M.C., Matteucci M., Spalletta, C.
• Other Authors: PERRI, MARIA CRISTINA, SPALLETTA, CLAUDIA
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: University of Leicester's Department of Geology 2015
• Subjects: Conodont; biostragiraphy; taxonomy; appartus reconstraction; stratigraphy; color alteration index; Cambrian; Ordovician; Silurian; Devonian; Carboniferous; Permian; Triassic; Yakutia
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11585/544573; http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/geology/hosted-sites/conodont/pander

Welcome to the 2015 edition of the Pander Society Newsletter, my sixth attempt at providing news and a list of conodont publications for the past year! I apologize for the tardy release of this issue due to several concurrent causes that, I hope, will be neutralized by the early publication of the 2016 Newsletter. Our community has suffered profound losses in conodont studies with the passing of great figures. Dick Aldridge (whose memorial appeared in the previous newsletter) was Chief Panderer and a Pander medallist. He had been one of the foremost palaeontologists globally, having been chairman of the International Palaeontological Association. Anita Harris, ‘inventor’ of the Colour Alteration Index (CAI), has been one of the brightest minds in the world of conodonts. Her generosity in sending CAI standards to those who requested one, allowed the application of her method to the collections of all of us. Glen Merrill, a renowned specialist mainly on multielement taxonomy of Carboniferous conodonts, was one of the first to propose that conodont distributions were environmentally controlled. We learned only recently about the premature passing of Vladimir Prokopievich Tarabukin in July 2013. His early studies were on biostratigraphy and Devonian conodonts of eastern Yakutia; his later studies focused on Ordovician biostratigraphy and conodonts of northeast Asia. His Ordovician conodonts enabled him to hypothesise reconstructions of the complicated fold systems of the eastern Siberian Platform. The year 2014 saw proliferation of research on conodonts in all perspectives of biostratigraphy, palaeoecology, palaeogeography, ontogeny and taxonomy, the last fruitfully on apparatus reconstructions and geochemistry, all aired in formal and informal meetings of the Pander Society. The first formal meeting of the year was the Pander Society Workshop foreshadowed in the 2014 Newsletter, was held in Bologna in February 2014. It was professionally organized by Claudia (Spalletta) for proposing, inter alia, planning for the ...