ANNOUNCEMENTS

Alwine Bertels-Psotka and Gabriela C. Cusminsky

New Species data, 1999—Published in Ameghiniana

            Chlamydotheca? nirihuauensis sp. nov.

            Eucypris? barilochensis sp. n.

            Candona? mapuche sp. n.

            Eucandona? patagonia sp. nov.

            Limnocythere? nahuelhuapiana sp. nov.

 

Alwine Bertels-Psotka and Dina E. Martinez

New Species data, 1999—Published in Micropaleontology

            Frenguellicythere argentinensis

 

Sylvie Crasquin-Soleau

The Proceedings of the Bierville-Paris European meeting (1996) is available at:

            Elf ep Editions

            Avenue Larribau

            64018 Pau cedex

            France

            Telephone 33-5-59-83-50-73

            Fax 33-5-59-83-42-42

 

Patrick De Deckker

I have a few spare copies of the pre-American Geophysical Union workshop volume of abstracts.  First in, first served.

 

Jonathan Holmes

Published late 2000:  Griffiths, H.I. and Holmes, J.A., 2000, Non-marine ostracods and Quaternary palaeoenvironments:  Quaternary Research Association Technical Guide 8, 188 p.  Price 17 UK (9UK + postage and packing for QRA members).  Available from the QRA Publications Secretary, Dr. Simon Lewis, at the following address:

            Department of Geography

            Queen Mary, University of London

            Mile End Road

            London, E1 4NS, U.K.

            S.Lewis@qmw.ac.uk

 

Roger Kaesler

All paleontologists are urged to enter information into the International Paleontological Association’s on-line Directory of Paleontologists of the World.  This entirely electronic directory is based on a database.  Access the directory at this url:http://ipa.geo.ukans.edu/index.htm

 

Eugen K. Kempf

The new volume on freshwater ostracodes published by Meisch has brought together a wealth of information.  This will be the standard reference volume, especially for western and central Europe.  Many type species of freshwater ostracod genera occur and, as some of the species have a global distribution, everyone in the world working on freshwater Ostracoda should have this volume.  It is written entirely in English, which will facilitate its use.

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Theo Lissenberg

An article with the latest views on the stratigraphy of the Mesozoic of the Achterhoek-area, The Netherlands, was published just recently.  The Mesozoic Stratigraphy (Toarcian-Cenomanian) is mainly based on ostracods and palynomorphs.  The article is in the Dutch language, but has three plates with SEM—pictures of the main markers.  As co-author, I have a few copies to distribute.  Anyone interested, please reply to: t.lissenberg@nitg.tno.nl and give me your surface address, so I’ll be able to mail you a copy.

 

Claude Meisch

Freshwater Ostracoda of Western and Central Europe, Claude Meisch, Suesswasserfauna von Mitteleuropa 8/3 (J. Schwoerbel and P. Zwick, editors), Spektrum Adademischer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 522 p.  ISBN 3-8274-1001-0, 298 DM. 

The book is entirely in English.  The area considered covers the British Isles, the northern half of France, the Benelux countries, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, the Czech republic, and Slovakia.  157 species are described and illustrated (carapaces and appendages), and keys for identifications down to the species level are given.  Species treatments include summaries of the ecology, life history, and fossi record.

Order through the publisher’s website:  www.spektrum-verlag.de/cgi-bin/bestell.cgi?blanko.htm

   

Robert Ross

The Paleontological Research Institution has a large collection of bulk Cenozoic samples from the Caribbean, Venezuela, U.S. Coastal Plain, and other warm-water western Atlantic/Caribbean settings, plus my own western Pacific shallow-marine collections.  There are also very large collections of picked foraminifera (and some ostracodes).  Most of these collections have gone unused for many years and are in need of careful curation, but may be valuable to those with special interests in these regions.

 

Karel Wouters

On April 30th, 1999, Claude Meisch very successfully defended his doctor’s thesis at the University of Leuven (Belgium).  Title of the thesis:  “Taxonomy and distribution of recent freshwater Ostracoda (Crustacea) of Europe”.  Promoter was Karel Wouters, and ostracodologist members of Jury were Koen Martens and David J. Horne.  Congratulations Claude!