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Ostracode Research Activities inAUSTRIA
Correspondent: Dan Danielopol <Dan.Danielopol@oeaw.ac.at>
Danielopol, Dan. Dan was involved in projects dealing with the ecology and evolution of various groundwater crustacean groups. Beside ostracods (cooperation with Angel Baltanas, Dave Horne, Koen Martens, Pierre Marmonier, Tadeusz Namiotko) he collaborated with colleagues dealing with cyclopoids (cooperation with Peter Pospisil), isopods (cooperation with Ionel Tabacaru) and amphipods (cooperation with Raymond Rouch and Claude Bou). Within the Evolutionary Ecology direction we concentrated on the processes which explain the biodiversity of groundwater communities and ecological adaptations of various species belonging to the various taxocenosis within one groundwater assemblage. The morphologic diversity of the carapace shape of the various ostracod Cryptocandona species were further studied. Using Fourier analysis and multivariate statistics Baltanas and Danielopol showed that the carapace shape is very plastic within this group and is not directly related to the groundwater environment. Marmonier, Namiotko and Danielopol continued to work on the description of the new subspecies Cr. kieferi danubialis widely distributed along the Danube from Austria to Romania. The number of ostracodologists working in this country reduced significantly during the last 2-3 years. However we organised during 29.05.98-1.06.98 a very enjoyable and productive meeting for the German speaking ostracodologists. The first two days were reserved to talks that were given in the delightful residence (a middle-age castle) of Professor Alex. Tollmann at Altbrechtsberg in Lower Austria. Colleagues from Germany and Austria presented a summary of their ostracodological activities and had time to speak each other in a relaxed atmosphere. The meeting was dedicated to the memory of our colleague Edith Kristan-Tollmann and we are much indebted to Professor Alex. Tollmann for the superb organization of our stay in Albrechtsberg. A special day was spent in Mondsee at the Limnological Institute were the participants had a look to Recent (living) ostracods as well as at fossil material, mainly Tertiary ostracods, on which Irene Zorn is mainly working. Irene prepared a wonderful poster too. Helga Groos-Uffenorde and Irene Zorn helped Dan in many ways with the organization of this extremely pleasant and useful meeting.
Geiger, Walter. Walter is now working in Spain.
Loeffler, Heinz. Heinz retired from the Limnology department of the University of Vienna, working now only on a free basis.
Mette, Wolfgang. (Innssbruck) 1) I am currently working on Upper Triassic ostracods from the northern Calcareous Alps in Austria. I am also working on Upper Cretaceous ostracods of Austria in cooperation with J.P. Colin. I will start a project on Jurassic ostracods in Madagascar next year. 2) Sinuocythere n.gen. (Ostracoda, Limnocytheridae, Timiriaseviinae), a new genus of limnic ostracode from southern Tethyan Middle and Upper Jurassic.
Zorn, Irene. Irene continued her studies on ostracodes from the Badenian within the scope of the project ?Systematics, biostratigraphy and paleoecology of the ostracodes from the Badenian (Middle Miocene) in Austria with special emphasis on the species described by Reuss (1850)?, which is supported by the Austrian Science Foundation. She investigated the ostracode faunas of classical localities and new outcrops from Lower Austria, Vienna and Burgenland, as for instance Baden-Sooss, Nußdorf and Steinebrunn, including the marly sequences in the so-called ?Leithakalk? and the typical clay marl deposits of the so- called ?Badener Tegel?. The material of this project and the preceeding project (Early Miocene ostracodes from the Molasse Zone of Upper Austria and the Korneuburg Basin in Lower Austria) was presented at the meeting of the german speaking ostracodologists in Albrechtsberg/Mondsee. For comparison she studied Badenian ostracodes from Slowakian localities and boreholes at the Geological Survey in Bratislava. Mrs Zorn cooperated with Horst Janz for the project "Ökosysteme und Meerwasserentwicklung im süddeutschen Molassebecken in Abhängigkeit von Klimaschwankungen und Beckenentwicklung of the Sonderforschungsbereich" (SFB) 275 (part B4) of the University of Tübingen and helped with discussions of the localities and the determination of Austrian material of the Early and Late Miocene from the Vienna Basin and the Molasse Zone. Furthermore she has started to study ostracodes from the Lower Gosau Subgroup of the Weißenbachalm area in the Northern Calcareous Alps (Late Cretaceous). A multidisciplinary study (mineralogy and micropaleontology) is in progress on this area. Her current work includes research on the history of micropaleontology in Austria.
Gross, Martin. Last year Martin started to work on marine Middle Miocene (Badenian) Ostracodes from the Vienna Basin (Hainburg Mountains). The investigated samples originate from 53 exploration wells taken in lateral distances less than hundred meters for a Danube power station. Various lithologies, ranging from coralline limestones to marls and sandy sediments, offer the chance to study small scale facial interfingering caused by terrigenous influx and different depositional depths on the eastern margin of the basin. The aim of the current project, which is supported by the Austrian Science Foundation is to evaluate the paleoecological value of the different ostracod-assemblages. Preliminary results are presented on the annual meetings of the Austrian Paleontological Society and the Workshop of Austrian Sedimentologists.
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