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Ostracode Research ActivitiesITALY
Correspondents: Gioacchio Bonaduce, Giuseppe Aiello and Diana Barra
Giuseppe Aiello, Diana Barra and Gioacchino Bonaduce are continuing the work on the paleoecological interpretation of the bathyal Plio-Pleistocene of Sicily (manuscript). G. Bonaduce and D. Barra are studying some brackish ostracod assemblages of Pliocene of Southern Italy. D Barra and G. Bonaduce are completing a manuscript on the genus Echinocythereis in the mediterranean area. G. Bonaduce, D. Barra and G. Aiello are engaged in the systematic, paleoecological and stratigraphic study of ostracods of sections from Burdigalian to the Tortonian of the Malta and Tremiti Islands. D. Barra is revising the Cistacythereis and Hiltermannicythere genera and related species from Miocene to Recent of the Mediterranean area. D. Barra is studying the ostracods of the Pleistocene-holocene of the coastal plaines of Campania region (Southern Italy). G. Aiello is working with prof. Janina Szczechura (Warsaw, Poland) on the systematics and paleoecology of the badenian ostracods of the Southern Poland and continues to study the upper Miocene ostracods from Calabria (southern Italy).
Nevio Pugliese, Gianguido Salvi, and Mario Masoli are working on the systematics, ecology and palaeoecology of marine Ostracoda in theMediterranean basin, and the Antarctic and periantarctic areas since Pleistocene; The are also working on the systematics, ecology and palaeoecology of fresh water Ostracoda in the northern Italy (Quaternary) and Ostracoda in geoarchaeology (Pleistocene of Monte Poggiolo, near Forli'; Holocene of Aquileia, northern Adriatic coastal area). Topics of theses include: Infralittoral Ostracoda from Sardinia (student: Viviana Evangelista); The camoebian and Ostracoda as indicators of fresh water environments and palaeoenvironments (student: Michela Repetti); Ostracoda of two cores coming from western part of Magellan Strait (student: Sara Boschetti).
Elsa Gliozzi and her collaborators Ilaria Mazzini and Costanza Faranda carry out their ostracodological researches in Roma. Elsa Gliozzi studies Italian Neogene-Quaternary freshwater and brackish ostracods as biochronological and palaeoenvironmental indicators of different sites in Italy. At present she is involved in the study of Late Miocene brackish water assemblages coming from several localities of northern and central Italy (Velona and Baccinello basins (Tuscany) Tortonian-early Messinian;Blera basin (Latium) and Perticara (Marche), uppermost Messinian). Moreover she is involved in a multidisciplinary research with palaeoclimatological purposes in central Italy. At present, she is looking at the ostracodes coming from a drill hole bored on Late Pleistocene-Holocene lacustrine sediments in the Rieti plain. Ilaria Mazzini is, at present, deeply involved in the geological survey of the new Geological Chart of Italy 1:50.000, but her interest in Plio-Quaternary freshwater and brackish ostracods is still alive. During the summer 1998 she had the opportunity to fly to Socotra Island (Yemen) and came back with a lot of samples which are now waiting for her attention. At present, she is almost at the end of the study of a Holocene freshwater lacustrine succession in Umbria, providing interesting faunal assemblages with Cytherissa lacustris. Besides, Elsa Gliozzi and Ilaria Mazzini are carrying out a study on the ostracod assemblages of the Middle- Upper Pliocene succession of the Tiberino Lake (Umbria, central Italy). Costanza Faranda is going on with her researches on Plio-Pleistocene marine ostracods. At present she is looking at several ostracod assemblages coming from the Plio-Pleistocene coastal sediments of northern Latium.
Alessandro Bossio continues his researches concerning the systematic and biostratigraphy of the Neogene Ostracoda of the Salentina Peninsula (Apulia) and Tuscany. In addition, he is currently working on the last 20.000 years Ostracofaunas of the Gulf of Naples and Pozzuoli for a MURST program, co-ordinated by Prof. G. Ciampo.
Barbara Dall'Antonia is carrying on her a Ph. D. (third year), entitled "Contribution to the taxonomy, biostratigraphy and palaeocology of the Miocene ostracofaunas of the Apulian-Iblean Foreland with palaeogeographic considerations" and is supervised by Prof. A. Bossio. At present she is treating the Middle Miocene Ostracofaunas of some Sicilian sections.
Andrea Chiellini, a student, is currently working on the revision of the Ostracofauna of the Langhian Stratotype.
Pietro Miculan is currently working on:
- Middle Miocene deep-water ostracods from South-Eastern Sicily (Southern Italy)
– Lacustrine ostracods of the Italian Uppermost Miocene („Paratethyan-type" faunas) from the Adriatic foreland of the Northern Appennines, Central Italy.
– Oligocene marine ostracods from Cyrenaica (Lybia)Valeria Rossi, Paolo Menozzi, Giorgio Benassi, and Andrea Gandolfi continue their activities on population ecology and genetics of Heterocypris incongruens and Darwinula stevensoni.
Giampaolo Rossetti cooperates with Koen Martens (KBIN, Brussels) on the assessment of extant diversity of Darwinulidae. Work in progress includes phylogeny of Darwinuloidea.
Giorgio Benassi, Ireneo Ferrari, Sandra Sei and Ken G. McKenzie continue their work on the ecology and taxonomy of planktic ostracods of Antarctica (Ross Sea) and Magellan Strait. Students and thesis topics: Andrea Gandolfi (PhD student) is completing his thesis on DNA markers and population genetics of Darwinula stevensoni, Eucypris virens, and Heterocypris incongruens. Mattia Calzolari, Monica Gallani, Luisa Garulli, and Barbara Tondelli are performing their graduation theses on different topics concerning the ecology and the population genetics of Heterocypris incongruens.
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