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Number 31
Published December 2011

Association of Australasian Palaeontologists (AAP)

http//aap.gsa.org.au


Office Bearers 2010-2012

President: Prof. Guang Shi, Deakin University, Melbourne (grshi@deakin.edu.au)

Vice President: Dr Alex Cook, Queensland Museum, Brisbane (alex.cook@qm.qld.gov.au)

Honorary Secretary: Dr Liz Weldon, Deakin University, Melbourne (eweldon@deakin.edu.au)

Treasurer and Webmaster: Dr Rolf Schmidt, Museum Victoria, Melbourne (rschmidt@museum.vic.gov.au)

Editor, Alcheringa (published by Taylor & Francis): Dr Stephen McLoughlin, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm (steve.mcloughlin@nrm.se)

Editor, AAP Memoirs: Dr John Laurie, Geoscience Australia, Canberra (John.Laurie@ga.gov.au)

Editor, Nomen nudum: Dr Ian Percival, Geological Survey of NSW, Sydney (ian.percival@industry.nsw.gov.au)

Nomen nudum is the newsletter of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists (AAP), a Specialist Group of the Geological Society of Australia, Inc. Nomen nudum is supplied as a service to members of AAP, and is available on the AAP website.

Nomen nudum is published to acquaint members with the activities of palaeontological colleagues and with any other items of current interest. Enquiries and contributions should be directed to the editor (contact details above).
Membership of AAP (including personal subscription to the Association’s peer-reviewed international palaeontological journal Alcheringa), is available to all palaeontologists (professional, amateur, active and retired), particularly – but certainly not restricted to – those with interests in fossils of Australia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea. Details of membership requirements, categories and fees are available from the Geological Society of Australia website, which also has information regarding titles and prices of the AAP Memoirs series (42 volumes published since 1983). Library subscriptions to Alcheringa should be addressed to Taylor & Francis (www.tandf.co.uk/alcheringa).
Opinions expressed in this newsletter are those of individual contributors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists nor the Geological Society of Australia, Inc. Mention of a product or service should not be construed as constituting endorsement by either organisation.

Front cover: S element of the conodont Paracordylodus gracilis, preserved in chert of Early Ordovician (Floian) age from Sussex 1:100 000 sheet, NE of Cobar, central New South Wales. Specimen is approximately 0.3 mm in width.

© Association of Australasian Palaeontologists, December 2011.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
President’s Message ……………………………………………………… Page 4
AAP News

Revised sizes & formats for Alcheringa & AAP Memoirs ..………. Page 6

Recently-published AAP Memoirs ………………………...……… Page 7
Conference Announcements

34th International Geological Congress, Brisbane (August, 2012) … Page 10


Book review

Dinosaurs in Australia (reviewed by Sue Turner) ………………... Page 12
Obituaries

Graeme Philip ……………………..……………………………… Page 15

Peter Molloy …………………………………………………….. Page 16
Reports of Research Activities (by region and institution/company)

Australian Capital Territory ……………………………………… Page 18

New South Wales ………………………………………………… Page 19

Queensland ……………………………………………………… Page 31

South Australia ………………………………………………......... Page 35

Victoria …………………………………………………………… Page 43

Western Australia ………………………………………………… Page 52

New Zealand ……………………………………………………… Page 55

Denmark ……………………………………………………….….. Page 63

Sweden …………………………………………………………… Page 64

United Kingdom …………………………………………………… Page 73

United States ……………………………………………………… Page 75


Contact details for contributors to this issue (alphabetical) …………… Page 79
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Dear Members and colleagues,
I am pleased to provide you with a brief report about AAP activities covering the period since I became the President in February 2010.
1. AAP Mission statement

 

The AAP is a specialist group of the Geological Society of Australia for palaeontologists. As a professional association of scientists and educators, AAP supports research and publication in the broad fields of systematic palaeontology, palaeobiology and biostratigraphy; promotes professional development and education; and encourages and facilitates communication among palaeobiologists, professionals of related disciplines and anyone who is genuinely interested in the discovery, preservation, conservation and study of fossils.”



In 2010 the AAP Executive developed and refined the above mission statement to clearly define the purpose and aims of the AAP, identify the members of the Association, and provide a guide for more strategic decision making.

2. AAP Publications

On the publication front the AAP has been particularly busy. I initiated a new AAP Field Guide Series early in 2010 and subsequently there have been three publications. Hard copies of the AAP Field Guide Series are available from the Geological Society of Australia's bookshop website at http://gsa.org.au/publications/index.html.


Since the beginning of 2010, four new AAP Memoirs have been published and issues are progressively becoming available online at http://search.informit.com.au/browseJournalTitle;res=IELHSS;issn=0810-8889. Thank you to our editor-in-chief John Laurie and his assistant editors for various Memoirs. The high quality of international research being continually published in the Memoirs series has led to its inclusion in the abstract and citation index Scopus (Elsevier).
Thanks are also due to Steve McCLoughlin, editor of Alcheringa, and our publishers, Taylor and Francis, who along with authors have influenced the journal’s significant increase in its 2010 Journal Citation Report Impact Factor from 0.851 to 1.578. Taylor and Francis’ publishing contract has been renewed for another five years, and next year we will see the journal increase its layout to A4 size. Members are advised to consult the new guide to authors available on the publisher’s website at http://www.informaworld.com/talc, prior to submitting papers to Alcheringa.
3. AAP Finance and Memberships

Financially the AAP is in a relatively stable and strong position. AAP supported a number of symposia held in Australia in the last two years.  In 2010 we made a contribution to the 6th International Brachiopod Congress held in Melbourne. This year (2011) AAP also supported the International Congress on Carboniferous and Permian held in Perth. In 2012, AAP plans to support a number of palaeobiology-related symposia during the 34th International Geological Congress in Brisbane.


Membership of the Association has remained in the range of 160-170 individual members between 2008 and 2011. This is a significant increase from a low of 128 in 2007. On top of this, we also have attracted some corporate memberships. We hope to see the membership figure grow further, and following discussion at the last AGM, we have made some changes to the application process to highlight that membership of the AAP can be independent of membership to the GSA. This is particularly relevant to colleagues who may already be members of the Geoscience Society of New Zealand, or who come from a biological background. Please renew your membership for 2012 and I encourage you to invite a colleague or student to join.


4. Next AAP General meeting

We plan to hold the AAP's next General Meeting during the 34th International Geological Congress to be held in Brisbane in August 2012. Details of this AGM will be posted closer to the date.


Finally a special thanks to Ian Percival - it is great to see Nomen Nudum being published again and on a regular basis. I hope to read contributions from you, our members, in this and subsequent issues. If you have any ideas on how we might continue to meet our Association’s objectives I would love to hear from you. Also, if you have not yet done so, I would like to invite you to visit AAP's website at: http://aap.gsa.org.au. The site provides the basic information about the Association, its Executive, links and its publications.
Best wishes.
Prof. Guang R. Shi

President, Association of Australasian Palaeontologists

School of Life and Environmental Sciences

Deakin University,

Melbourne, Australia
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AAP NEWS
REVISED SIZES & FORMATS for ALCHERINGA & AAP MEMOIRS
From the first issue of Volume 36 in 2012, Alcheringa is expanding its format to A4 size with a page area equivalent to that of the Australian Journal of Earth Sciences. This change will affect the maximum sizes for Figures, with a new full page width of 169 mm and a maximum page height of 242 mm. Please refer to the Alcheringa website for further details, including submission of manuscripts electronically.
AAP Memoirs is also changing size to A4, although this will be phased in over the next few volumes. This transition period will allow authors who already have volumes in the pipeline (i.e. those agreed to by editor John Laurie) to maintain their illustration formats. New submissions must accord with the revised instructions (below – note particularly the highlighted section with new figure sizes).


REVISED INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS – AAP MEMOIRS

Submission

Manuscripts are to be sent to the Editor as e-mail attachments, on CD or DVD as a word-processing file (preferably Microsoft Word). Double space all text and number all pages. In covering e-mail give the names and addresses of two persons outside the authors’ institutions who are expert in the topic covered by the submitted paper and can act as referees. Illustrations should be similarly submitted, preferably in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, PDF, high-resolution JPEG or TIFF format. Tables should not be included in the text, but submitted as separate graphics or EXCEL files.


Format

Papers are to be written in clear, concise English and should be illustrated. Manuscripts are to be organised as follows: 1, a brief title with only proper names capitalised. 2, name(s) of author(s). 3, full reference to the paper, leaving space for the publisher’s additions. 4, a short abstract describing the results of the work. 5, name(s) of author(s) with e-mail address(es), full postal address(es) including postcode and country. 6, the main text; capitalise the first word of the first paragraph; do not use the heading ‘Introduction’; begin other sections with not more than three grades of heading as follows:


GRADE ONE HEADING

Grade two heading

Grade three heading. This is followed by running text; refer to references in the text as Smith (1978), (Smith 1978) or Smith (1978, p. 25) and to illustrations as ‘Figure’ or ‘Figures’; all measurements are to be in S.I. units; footnotes are not allowed; group all acknowledgements at the end and keep them brief. 7, references should conform to the examples below; give the full title of the publication; do not use abbreviations for the journal title; transliterate Russian titles using the system adopted by the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. 8, figure captions should be compiled at the end of the text, after the references and any appendices.

Illustrations

Illustrations should be grouped into Figures of one or two column width (83 mm or 170 mm), with a maximum height of 240 mm. Attempt to restrict each figure to one theme and make sure photographs are of similar tone. Line drawings may be combined with photographs if required. The items of composite figures should be designated A, B, C etc. (not a, b, c).

The Memoirs will not print foldouts and extending figures or tables over more than one page is discouraged. Tables should either be drafted at one or two column width (88 mm or 180 mm) or presented as EXCEL files.
REFERENCES

Campbell, K.S.W. & McKellar, R.G., 1969. Eastern Australian Carboniferous invertebrates. 77-119 in Campbell, K.S.W. (ed.), Stratigraphy and palaeontology. Essays in honour of Dorothy Hill. Australian National University Press, Canberra

Roberts, J., Hunt, J.W. & Thompson, D.M., 1976. Late Carboniferous marine invertebrate zones of eastern Australia. Alcheringa 1, 197-225.

Stepanov, D.L., 1937. Permskie brakhiopody Shpitsbergena. Trudy Arkticheskii Instituta 76, 105-192.



Laseron, C.F., 1954. Ancient Australia. Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 210 p.
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RECENT AAP PUBLICATIONS
Shi, G.R., Weldon, E.A., Percival, I.G., Pierson, R.R. & Laurie, J.R. (eds), 2011. Brachiopods: extant and extinct – Proceedings of the Sixth International Brachiopod Congress, 1-5 February, 2010, Melbourne, Australia. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 41, 366p.
CONTENTS

Yuta Shiino & Osamu Kuwazuru: Comparative experimental and simulation study on passive feeding flow generation in Cyrtospirifer

Uwe Brand, Alan Logan, Maria Aleksandra Bitner, Erika Griesshaber, Karem Azmy & Dieter Buhl: What is the ideal proxy for Palaeozoic seawater chemistry?

Jeffrey H. Robinson & Daphne E. Lee: Spine formation in Novocrania and Danocrania (Brachiopoda, Craniata)

Dietrich Schumann: Growth rates of Calloria inconspicua (Sowerby, 1846) from the upper intertidal zone of Portobello, New Zealand

Elizabeth M. Harper: What do we really know about predation on modern rhynchonelliforms?

Norton Hiller: Affinities and associations of new shallow-water brachiopods from the Late Cretaceous of New Zealand

Lucia Angiolini, Sarah Long & Lee Davies: Revision of Sowerby’s species Spirifer bisulcatus, Spirifer pinguis and Spirifer rotundatus from the late Tournaisian-Visean of Great Britain

Arturo C. Taboada & Guang R. Shi: Taxonomic review and evolutionary trends of Levipustulini and Absenticostini (Brachiopoda) from Argentina: Palaeobiogeographic and palaeoclimatic implications

Mena Schemm-Gregory: The howellellid branches within the delthyridoid spiriferids (Brachiopoda, Silurian to Devonian)

Alberto Pérez-Huerta, David A.T. Harper & Teresa E. Jeffries: Preliminary data on shell cementation in fossil specimens of thecideide brachiopods

L.Robin M. Cocks: There’s no place like home: Cambrian to Devonian brachiopods critically useful for analysing palaeogeography

Donald A.B. MacFarlan, Fauzie Hasibuan & Jack A. Grant-Mackie: Mesozoic brachiopods of Misool Archipelago, eastern Indonesia

Fernando Alvarez, Tatyana L. Modzalevskaya & Covadonga Brime: Early Devonian diversification of athyridide brachiopods in the Cantabrian Zone (NW Spain) and their affinities, revisited

Anthony E. Aldridge: Ontogenetic discontinuities in brachiopod populations: their detection and significance

J. Bruce Waterhouse: Origin and evolution of Permian brachiopods of Australia

Alycia L. Stigall: Application of niche modelling to analyse biogeographic patterns in Palaeozoic brachiopods: evaluating niche stability in deep time

Anthony E. Aldridge & Danièle Gaspard: Brachiopod life histories from spiral deviations in shell shape and microstructural signature – preliminary report

Alexey V. Pakhnevich: The type specimens of the Holocene brachiopod Diestothyris frontalis (Middendorff, 1849)

Renbin Zhan, Rongyu Li, Ian G. Percival & Yan Liang: Brachiopod biogeographic change during the Early to Middle Ordovician in South China

Lars E. Holmer, Christian B. Skovsted, Glenn A. Brock & Leonid Popov: An early Cambrian chileate brachiopod from South Australia and its phylogenetic significance

Alfréd Dulai: Late Eocene (Priabonian) micromorphic brachiopods from the Upper Austrian Molasse Zone

Gabriela A. Cisterna: Morphology and systematics of Late Palaeozoic syringothyrid brachiopods from West-Central Argentina

Danièle Gaspard: Endolithic algae, fungi and bacterial activity in Holocene and Cretaceous brachiopod shells – diagenetic consequences

M. Alejandra Pagani & Arturo C. Taboada: The Cisuralian faunal succession in Patagonia (Tepuel-Genoa Basin, Argentina): an updated brachiopod biostratigraphic scheme

Michal Mergl: Reassessment of the Ordovician brachiopod Poramborthis and Poramborthidae

Liisa Lang, Ethel Uibopuu & Ivar Puura : Nanostructures in Palaeozoic linguloid brachiopods
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Laurie, J.R., Paterson, J.R. & Brock, G.A. (eds), 2011. Cambro-Ordovician Studies IV. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 42, 492 p.

CONTENTS
Richard A. Fortey: The first known complete lichakephalid trilobite, Lower Ordovician of Morocco

Loren E. Babcock: Exceptionally preserved Conchopeltis (Cnidaria) from the Ordovician of New York, USA: taphonomic inferences

James B. Jago, Christopher J. Bentley & Roger A. Cooper: A Cambrian Series 3 (Guzhangian) fauna with Centropleura from Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica

Rebecca L. Freeman & James F. Miller: Lingulate brachiopods from the upper Cambrian (Sunwaptan) Hellnmaria Member of the Notch Peak Formation, western Utah, USA

Zhou Zhiqiang, Zhou Zhiyi & Yuan Wenwei: Late Ordovician (Hirnantian) Mucronaspis (Songxites)-dominant trilobite fauna from northwestern Zhejiang, China

Adrian W.A. Rushton: The mid-Cambrian (Drumian) centropleurid trilobite Luhops and its relatives from the Abbey Shale Formation near Nuneaton, central England

Soo Yeun Ahn, Loren E. Babcock & J. Stewart Hollingsworth: Revised stratigraphic nomenclature for parts of the Ediacaran-Cambrian Series 2 succession in the southern Great Basin, USA

M. Franco Tortello: Late middle Cambrian trilobites from El Totoral, Mendoza, Argentina

Loren E. Babcock, Shanchi Peng, Gregory J. Wasserman & Richard A. Robison: Exceptionally preserved biota from a carbonate lithofacies, Huaqiao Formation (Cambrian: Drumian Stage), Hunan, China

Olaf Elicki: First skeletal microfauna from the Cambrian Series 3 of the Jordan Rift Valley (Middle East)

Lee Ann Hally: The Cambrian trilobite Rhyssometopus, with taxonomic revision of Guzhangian species from Queensland, Australia

Leonid E. Popov, Mansoureh Ghobadi Pour, Mohammad Reza Kebria-Ee Zadeh & Saeid Shahbeik: First record of silicified Cambrian (Furongian) rhynchonelliform brachiopods from the Mila Formation, Alborz Range, Iran

Stephen R. Westrop & Ed Landing: Lower Cambrian (Branchian) eodiscoid trilobites from the lower Brigus Formation, Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland, Canada

Mansoureh Ghobadi Pour, Leonid E. Popov, Mohammad Reza Kebria-Ee Zadeh & Christian Baars: Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian) brachiopods associated with the Neseuretus biofacies, eastern Alborz Mountains, Iran

Yong Yi Zhen, Roger A. Cooper, John E. Simes & Ian G. Percival: Darriwilian (Middle Ordovician) conodonts from the Maruia-Springs Junction area, New Zealand

Jonathan M. Adrain, Neo E.B. McAdams & Stephen R. Westrop: Affinities of the Lower Ordovician (Tulean; lower Floian) trilobite Gladiatoria, with species from the Great Basin, western United States

Jonathan M. Adrain, Neo E.B. McAdams, Stephen R. Westrop & Talia S. Karim: Systematics and affinity of the Lower Ordovician (Tulean; lower Floian) trilobite Psalikilopsis

James D. Loch & John F. Taylor: New symphysurinid trilobites from the Cambrian-Ordovician boundary interval in the western United States

Yong Yi Zhen, John R. Laurie & Robert S. Nicoll: Cambrian and Ordovician stratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Arafura Basin, offshore Northern Territory

Ian G. Percival, John E. Simes, Roger A. Cooper & Yong Yi Zhen: Middle Ordovician linguliformean brachiopods from the Maruia-Springs Junction area, New Zealand


These and previously published AAP Memoirs are available from the Geological Society of Australia, Inc. See the GSA homepage: www.gsa.org.au for details of prices and postage.

FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES
34th INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS

BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND, August 5-10 2012
The major palaeontological focus for the IGC will be Theme 23: Evolution of the Biosphere, being coordinated by John Laurie (Australia) and Andrew Knoll (USA).
Individual Symposia planned under the umbrella of this Theme are listed below, together with their convenors to whom enquiries should be addressed.
Further details of all aspects of the IGC are to be found at www.34igc.org

Deadline for abstract submission is February 17, 2012.


23.1 Martin Glaessner Symposium: The Ediacaran and the Cambrian Explosion

Convenors: John Laurie john.laurie@ga.gov.au (Australia), Glenn Brock (Australia) and Guy Narbonne (Canada)

Martin Glaessner (1906-1989) was professor of palaeontology and geology at the University of Adelaide and did much early work on the Ediacaran biota. This Symposium aims to cover the differences and similarities between the Ediacaran biota and that characterised by the explosive diversification during the early and middle Cambrian.

23.2 John Talent Symposium: Palaeozoic biofacies, biogeography and bioevents

Convenors: Ian Percival ian.percival@industry.nsw.gov.au (Australia), Tony Wright (Australia) and Guang Shi (Australia)

John Talent was the first president of the International Palaeontological Association and this Symposium celebrates the breadth of his extensive palaeontological contributions. These extend from the Ordovician to Carboniferous and papers covering this broad interval are welcome.

23.3 Evolution of hominins

Convenors: Colin Groves colin.groves@anu.edu.au (Australia), Chris Stringer (Australia) and Darren Curnoe (Australia)

This Symposium will cover all aspects of the evolution and distribution of extant and extinct members of the Tribe Hominini.
23.4 General palaeontology

Convenors: Alex Cook alex.cook@qm.qld.gov.au (Australia) and Alexander Nutzel (Germany)

This will cover all aspects of palaeontology not covered by other Symposia, especially new discoveries, new interpretations and new techniques.

23.5 Oxygen and evolution

Convenors: Andrew Knoll aknoll@oeb.harvard.edu (USA) and Jochen Brocks (Australia)

In modern environments, oxygen availability sharply constrains the distributions of many species. Thus, we can hypothesise that changes through time in oxygen levels in the atmosphere and oceans have influenced the course of evolution. This Symposium will cover all aspects of the effects of oxygen on the evolution of life, from the advent of oxic environments some 2.4 Ga to the current expansion of marine dead zones.
23.6 Proterozoic life

Convenors: Kathleen Grey kath.grey@dmp.wa.gov.au (Australia) and Stanley Awramik (USA)

At the beginning of the Proterozoic there were few, if any eukaryotes, but by the end of the eon the first metazoan had appeared and life had begun to invade the land. This Symposium aims to cover all that happened in the interim. In contrast to the rest of the Proterozoic, there is considerable data on the Cryogenian and Ediacaran that is promising for global correlation and that will impact on decisions about stratigraphic boundaries. An overview of the Proterozoic as a whole is timely.
23.7 Gondwanan Mesozoic vertebrates

Convenors: Benjamin Kear benjamin.kear@geo.uu.se (Sweden) and Thomas Rich (Australia)

The Mesozoic vertebrates of the Gondwanan continents had a Pangaean heritage, but with the separation of Gondwana from Laurasia during the Mesozoic, the vertebrates on Gondwana developed a distinctive character. This Symposium aims to cover all aspects of this evolutionary trajectory.

23.8 Mesozoic bioevents

Convenors: David Haig david.haig@uwa.edu.au (Australia), Stephen McLoughlin (Sweden) and Mikael Siversson (Australia)

The Mesozoic was bracketed by the two largest extinction events ever to have befallen life on earth and the modern biota still reflects the winners and losers of those events. However, there are many more subtle events within the Mesozoic, the results of which are still evident. This Symposium aims to cover those events.
23.9 Origin and evolution of marsupials

Convenors: Michael Archer m.archer@unsw.edu.au (Australia) and Suzanne Hand (Australia)

It would be a glaring omission for the IGC not to contain a Symposium on the evolution of the marsupials, given that it is being held in the continent where marsupials dominate the native mammalian fauna. It aims to cover all aspects of their origin and evolution.
23.10 Early vertebrate evolution

Convenor: Kate Trinajstic k.trinajstic@curtin.edu.au (Australia)

This Symposium aims to cover the early evolution of the vertebrates from their apparent Cambrian origins through Palaeozoic agnathans and fishes, up to the origin and early radiation of tetrapods. Papers on the biostratigraphy of vertebrates, the interrelationships of different groups and the description of new forms are invited.

23.11 Cenozoic marine environments

Convenors: Stephen Gallagher sjgall@unimelb.edu.au (Australia) and Bridget Wade (UK)

This Symposium is designed to cover the use of palaeontological data in the understanding of palaeoceanography, palaeoecology, patterns of evolution and extinction, temperature and sea level fluctuations, as well as global ice volume.
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Book Review (by Sue Turner, Queensland)





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