ANNOUNCEMENTS

Gerhard Becker
POC, a semi-official Treatise pre-printing series. Some 20 years ago, the revision of the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part Q, Paleozoic Ostracoda (revised) (TIPPO) has been started. Within the team of TIPPO authors, the present writer was entrusted to deal with the Superfamily Kirkbyacea Ulrich and Bassler, 1906, Nodellacea Becker, 1968, Bairdiocypridacea Shaver, 1961, and Paleozoic Bairdiacea Sars, 1866. A modern systematics (based on a few, distinctive superfamilies in the classical orders and suborders) was agreed and provisionally published (TIPPO authors in Whatley and others, The Fossil Record, 2, 1993). Therefore, with the Treatise editor's consent, a pre-printing series, the Palaeozoic Ostracod Classification (POC) was started with the aim to put existing results up for discussion. All Treatise authors, as well as all Palaeozoic ostracod workers interested in, are invited to take part. The Superfamily Kirkbyacea has been finished and is just now published; POC No. 1, "non-kirkbyaceans" (Ordovizonidae, Kirkbyellidae, Scrobiculadae, Cardiniferellidae), Kempf-Festschrift, Koeln; POC Nos. 2-5, Kirkbyacea Ulrich and Bassler (Families Arcyzonidae, Amphissitidae, Kirkbyidae, Kellettinidae); N. Jb. Geol. Palaeont., Abh., 1997; POC Nos. 6-9 Kirkbyacea, cont.) are in press. The Superfamily Nodella Becker is in preparation (POC No. 10). In 1998 the Superfamilies Bairdiocypridicea Shaver and Paleozoic Bairdicea will follow. The favored journal will be N. Jb. Geol. Palaeont. Abh.

D. Kukhtinov
I am very thankful for the copies of papers on European Zechstein ostracodes, which were published at the end of the previous and the beginning of the current centuries.

Rosalie Maddocks
The www site for the International Research Group on Ostracoda has moved to: http://www.uh.edu/~rmaddock/IRGO/irgohome.html
All ostracode workers are invited to contribute links and information for this site and to link their own www pages to this site. To offer contributions or get more information, please contact rmaddocks@uh.edu.

Lisa Park announces a new website: Species in Ancient Lakes (SIAL).

Ian Wilkinson
A number of ostracod workers have contacted me about the "Ostracods" card, one of the British Geological Survey Fossil Focus Series. I do not have copies myself, but this publication, together with "Foraminifera" and a number of other fossil groups, can be obtained through the B.G.S. at the following address:
Sales Desk, British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham, NC12 5GG, U.K.
Fax 0115-9363488 or E-Mail sales@bgs.ac.uk. Price is #1.95 plus postage and packing.
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