N u d u m omen number 31 Published December 2011

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Publications (pre-2011, see www.paleodeadfish.com):

Turner, S., Burrow, C.J. Schultze, H.-P. Blieck, A. R.M., Reif, W.-E., Bultynck, P.B., Rexroad, C. & Nowlan, G.S. 2010. Conodont-vertebrate phylogenetic relationships revisited. Geodiversitas, 32 (4), 545-594.

http://www.mnhn.fr/museum/front/medias/publication/31374_g2010n4a1.pdf

Blieck A, Turner S, Burrow C J, Schultze H-P, Rexroad C B, Bultynck, P.B., & Nowlan, G.S. 2010. Fossils, histology, and phylogeny: why conodonts are not vertebrates. Episodes, Vol. 33, N° 4, December 2010, p. 234-241.

Turner, S. & Burrow, C.J. 2011. A Lower Carboniferous xenacanthiform shark from Queensland, Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31, 241-257. //dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2011.550359

Turner, S. 2011. Beautiful One day; Perfect the Next! 19th–early 20th century geological collectors and collecting in the Great State of Queensland. HOGG Geological Collectors & Collecting, Poster Abstracts, April 4-5, Natural History Museum, London, p. 17.

Turner, S. & Burrow, C.J. 2011. Mississippian fish assemblage from the Ducabrook Formation, central Queensland: palaeoenvironment and taphonomy. CAVEPS 2011, Perth WA. April, Abstract for poster.

Turner, S. 2011. Tracking Trackmakers: A Brief History of Dinosaur Ichnology in Australia. In: HOGG, Dinosaurs, Their Kith And Kin: a historical perspective. May 3-6, 2011, SGF & MNHN, Paris, Poster Abstracts, p. 30.

Turner, S. 2011. Dinosaurs and Lost Dreams: the von Huene–Longman story. In: HOGG Dinosaurs, their Kith and Kin: a historical perspective. May 3-6, 2011, SGF & MNHN, Paris, Abstracts, p. 32.

Turner, S. 2011. Australia's first fossil fish is still missing! Geological Curator, 9, no. 5, 285-290. online

Maisey, J., Miller, R.F. & Turner, S. 2011. Earliest intact chondrichthyan dentition revealed by CT scanning. In: Johnson, G. ed. 12^th International Symposium on Early/Lower Vertebrates. Institute for the Study of Earth and Man, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas June 11-14, 2011. Ichthyolith Issues Special Publication 12, xx-x.

Turner, S. 2011. The survivors: Triassic xenacanthiform sharks in Australia. In: Johnson, G. ed. 12^th International Symposium on Early/Lower Vertebrates. Institute for the Study of Earth and Man, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas June 11-14, 2011. Ichthyolith Issues Special Publication 12, 49-50.

Schultze, H.-P., Blieck, A. Burrow, C.J. & Turner, S. 2011 Histology and the phylogenetic and systematic position of Conodonts. In: ISPH 2011, July 18-20, Sabadell 1p.

Turner, S. 2011. Review of Fossils Alive! or New Walks in an Old Field, by Trewin, N.H. (2008). The Palaeontological Association Newsletter no. 77, p. 81.

University of Queensland, St Lucia
Geoffrey Playford (School of Earth Sciences) is working on several Palaeozoic research topics. These include Upper Devonian-Mississippian palynostratigraphy of the northern Brazilian basins of Amazonas, Parnaíba, and Solimões, while based 6-7 months per year at the Petrobras Research Centre in Rio de Janeiro, in association with José Henrique Gonçalves de Melo (Petrobras/Cenpes) and Leonardo Borghi (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro); and mid-Upper Devonian palynology of the Canning Basin, Western Australia. In the first semester of 2012, he is looking forward to resuming collaboration with Reed Wicander (Central Michigan University) during the latter’s third sabbatical visit to the University of Queensland.

Mississippian (Tournaisian) palynomorphs from the Longá Formation, Parnaíba Basin, northern Brazil. A, Verrucosisporites nitidus; B, Knoxisporites hederatus; C, Maranhites brasiliensis (recycled from Devonian). Scale bars = 20 µm.

Publications, 2010

Playford, G. & Melo, J.H.G. 2010. Morphological variation and distribution of the Tournaisian (Lower Mississippian) miospore Waltzispora lanzonii Daemon, 1974. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen 256, 183-193.

González, F., Moreno, C. & Playford, G. 2010. Palaeopalynological plagiarism: a case involving the Devonian–Carboniferous of the Iberian Pyrite Belt, South Portuguese Zone. Palaeontographica, Abteilung B 283 (1-3), 1-4.
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SOUTH AUSTRALIA
School of Biological Sciences

Flinders University of South Australia
Upcoming Events

Flinders University will host the next Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics (CAVEPS) in July 2013.

Gavin Prideaux has been working on a new ARC-funded project in 2011 (with collaborators Peter Ungar, Linda Ayliffe, Matt Skinner, Alistair Evans and Natalie Warburton). This is examining the evolution and ecology of marsupial herbivores over the past 25 million years, concentrating particularly on tracking changes in taxon diversity, diet, body size and locomotory capabilities. Several methods are being used including microwear, microCT, microstructural and 3D topographic analysis of teeth as well as functional morphological analyses. To date the main focus for Gavin and Research Assistant Grant Gully has been on collecting dental impressions for microwear analysis, to be undertaken in Peter Ungar’s lab at the University of Arkansas in October 2011. In addition, the National Geographic-funded expedition to the Nullarbor Thylacoleo Caves in August 2011 was a great success, and resulted in a much larger vertebrate fossil sample from the Early Pleistocene levels in Leaena’s Breath Cave. The rich and diverse assemblage of mammals, birds, reptiles and frogs has yet to be fully analysed, but is emerging as an arid-zone equivalent of the Naracoorte Caves of south eastern South Australia.

Publications

Macken, A. C., Jankowski, N. R., Price, G. J., Bestland, E. A., Reed, E. H., Prideaux, G. J. & Roberts, R. G. 2011. Application of sedimentary and chronological analyses to refine the depositional context of a Late Pleistocene vertebrate deposit, Naracoorte, South Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews 30, 2690–2702.

Warburton, N. M., Harvey, K. J., Prideaux, G. J. & O’Shea, J. E. 2011. Functional morphology of the forelimb of living and extinct tree-kangaroos (Diprotodontia: Macropodinae). Journal of Morphology online 31 May 2011

Laurance, W. F., Dell, B., Turton, S. M., Lawes, M. J., Hutley, L. B., McCallum, H., Dale, P., Bird, M. I., Hardy, G., Prideaux, G. J., Gawne, B., McMahon, C. R., Yu, R., Hero, J.-M., Schwarzkopf, L., Krockenberger, A., Douglas, M., Silvester, E., Mahony, M., Vella, K., Saikia, U., Wahren, C.-H., Xu, Z., Smith, B. & Cocklin, C. 2011. The ten Australian ecosystems most vulnerable to tipping points. Biological Conservation 144, 1472–1480.

Prideaux, G. J., Gully, G. A., Couzens, A. M., Ayliffe, L. K., Jankowski, N. R., Jacobs, Z., Roberts, R. G., Hellstrom, J. C., Gagan, M. K. & Hatcher, L. M. 2010. Timing and dynamics of Late-Pleistocene mammal extinctions in southwestern Australia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 107, 22157–22162.

Megirian, D., Prideaux, G. J., Murray, P. F. & Smit, N. 2010. An Australian land mammal age biochronological scheme. Paleobiology 36, 658–671.

Prideaux, G. J. & Warburton, N. M. 2010. An osteology-based appraisal of the phylogeny and evolution of kangaroos and wallabies (Macropodidae, Marsupialia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 159, 954–987.
Rod Wells continues in ‘retirement’ his studies of the Australian megafauna. His current research focusses on (1) the Plio-Pleistocene faunas of the Lake Eyre Basin, particularly sites along Cooper’s Creek and the Warburton River. This is a continuing study, carried out over many years in collaboration with the late Dr Richard Tedford of the American Museum of Natural History. (2) The Pleistocene faunas of the alluvial fans flanking the Mount Lofty and Flinders Ranges. This research is in collaboration with Dr Aaron Camens, and (3) the anatomical reconstruction of individual megafauna species. Rod is also currently working on a monograph on Thylacoleo in collaboration with Dr Peter Murray of the Northern Territory Museum, Australia.

Publications

Forbes, M.S., Kohn, M.J., Bestland, E.A. & Wells, R.T. 2010. Late Pleistocene environmental change interpreted from δ¹³C and δ¹⁸O of tooth enamel from the Black Creek Swamp Megafauna site, Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 291, 319–327

Camens, A. B. & Wells, R.T. 2010. Palaeobiology of Euowenia grata (Marsupialia: Diprotodontinae) and its presence in northern South Australia. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 17, 3–19.
Grant Gully is a Research Assistant in the Flinders University Palaeontology Laboratory. His current primary responsibilities revolve around data collection and collation of marsupial adaptations to increasing aridity and applying this to the reconstruction and interpretation of Australian palaeoenvironments. When he’s not doing this he curates the labs fossil collection and has a burgeoning interest in evolutionary and ecological Complex Adaptive Systems.

Publications

Aaron Camens finished his PhD, involving the phylogenetic and biomechanical analysis of the Diprotodontidae, at the University of Adelaide in June 2010. His current research interests focus on the systematics, behaviour, palaeobiology and palaeoecology of the extinct Australian megafauna.

Since 2006, Aaron has taken part in palaeontological excavations in South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania and the Northern Territory of deposits spanning the last 25 million years. He has also been involved in field work further abroad including Miocene sites in New Zealand and Holocene sites in Madagascar. He has participated in a range of projects including the description of (i) the palaeobiology and functional morphology of several extinct marsupial taxa, (ii) the oldest known fossil mammal trackways in Australia, (iii) some of the youngest extinct megafaunal fossils discovered from Tasmania and (iv) the most speciose and best preserved Australian megafaunal fossil trackways from the Victorian Volcanic Plains.

Aaron is currently investigating late Pleistocene vertebrate trackways in the Bridgewater Formation and Tamala Supergroup spanning much of the Western Australian, South Australian and Victorian coastline. He is also pursuing investigations involving the late-surviving megafauna of Tasmania and the possibility of retrieving protein sequences from Australian megafaunal fossils.

Publications

Carey, S. P., Camens, A.B., Cupper, M.L., Grün, R., Hellstrom, J.C., McKnight, S.W., McLennan, I., Pickering, D.A., Trusler, P. & Aubert, M. 2011. A diverse Pleistocene marsupial trackway assemblage from the Victorian Volcanic Plains, Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews 30, 591–610.

Camens, A. B. 2010. Were early Tertiary monotremes really all aquatic? Inferring paleobiology and phylogeny from a depauperate fossil record. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 107, E12.

Camens, A. B. & Wells, R.T. 2010. Palaeobiology of Euowenia grata (Marsupialia: Diprotodontinae) and its presence in northern South Australia. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 17, 3–19.

Thesis

Camens, A. B. 2010. Systematic and palaeobiological implications of postcranial morphology in the Diprotodontidae (Marsupialia). PhD Thesis, University of Adelaide.

Popular science

Camens, A. B. 2010. The OTHER fossil record: Tracking Australian mammals through the ages. In "Fossil Hunters 2: Stories from the Palaeontologists." (M. Madigan, Mikkelsen, S., Ed.), pp. 47–55. South Australian Museum, Adelaide.

Camens, A.B. 2010. Tracking megabeasts in southern Australia, in: The Australian Geologist (TAG), pp. 34–36.
Matt McDowell is completing a PhD under the supervision of Drs Gavin Prideaux and Liz Reed. He is examining how the vertebrate fauna of Kangaroo Island responded to climate change and isolation during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. His primary excavation site is in K1 Cave (Kelly Hill Caves complex), but he has also reviewed the Seton Rockshelter assemblage and presented his findings at CAVEPS 2011. Matt also maintains an interest in late Holocene/pre-European fossil accumulations. He is investigating two assemblages from southern Yorke Peninsula to determine their age, faunal composition and implications for Natural Resource Management. In addition, Matt has been accepted to give a presentation at the Ecological Society of Australia 2011 Annual Conference in the symposium titled “The importance of the past: the palaeoecological context of modern landscapes.”

Publications

Start, T. Burbidge, A. A., McDowell, M. C. & McKenzie, N. L. In press. The status of non-volant mammals along a rainfall gradient in the south-west Kimberley, Western Australia. Australian Mammalogy.

Baynes, A. & McDowell, M. C. 2010. The original mammal fauna of the Pilbara biogeographic region of north-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 78, 285–298.
Rachel Correll is completing a PhD under the supervision of Drs Gavin Prideaux, Mike Gardner and Duncan Mackay. Her project is investigating determinants of geographic body size variation within nine Australian mammal species by correlating skull and dental measurements (proxy indicators for body size) with climatic variables. She has collected measurements from 6300 specimens housed in Australian museums and obtained data on temperature, rainfall, evapotranspiration and vegetation index from the Bureau of Meteorology. With data collection now complete, multiple linear regression models are currently being developed to explain variation in body size. Rachel’s aim is to identify which climatic and/or environmental factor(s) are most responsible for determining intraspecific body size patterns in Australian mammal species, a fundamental, yet poorly understood aspect of their biology.

Publications

Price, M.V. & Correll, R.A. 2001. Depletion of seed patches by Merriam's kangaroo rats: Are GUD assumptions met? Ecology Letters 4, 334–343.

Amy Macken is continuing her PhD research under the supervision of Drs Liz Reed and Gavin Prideaux. She is studying the small mammal faunas of the Late Pleistocene-Holocene from the Naracoorte Caves in south eastern South Australia. Her research aims to provide a long term baseline of small mammal diversity, population and community variability and environmental thresholds to assist the management and conservation of vulnerable species into the future. In 2010, Amy presented her Honours research into mammal responses to climate change associated with the last interglacial from the Naracoorte Caves at the Ecological Society of Australia’s (ESA) annual conference. She also presented preliminary results from her PhD research at the 2010 conference and will present further results at the upcoming ESA 2011 conference in a symposium titled: “The importance of the past: ecological perspectives of modern landscapes.”

Publications

Aidan Couzens moved to Adelaide from Perth in March 2011 to start a PhD under the supervision of Dr Gavin Prideaux. In addition to starting his PhD, he has also been finalising a paper from his Honours which examines the use of cave charcoal records to infer Pleistocene fire history. He presented an outline of this work at the CAVEPS conference in Perth in April 2011.
Aidan’s PhD thesis will investigate dental adaptations to Late Cenozoic dietary change amongst Diprotodontoid and macropodid herbivores. To accomplish this he is utilising conventional absorption and synchrotron microcomputed tomography to evaluate dental evolution at whole crown and microstructural levels. Although adaptation is a central theme, Aidan is particularly interested in how evolutionary constraints channel patterns of morphological evolution. Aidan is also President of the Flinders University Palaeontology Society.

Publications

Sam Arman completed an Honours degree in 2011 under the supervision of Drs Gavin Prideaux and Liz Reed, investigating Pleistocene vertebrate scratch marks in Tight Entrance Cave, Western Australia. A number of actualistic trials were undertaken to assist in determining the species and likely behaviours responsible for the scratches. To assist in interpretation of the past cave environment, a cave survey and taphonomic analysis of modified bones deposited in the chamber were also undertaken. The results found are currently in preparation for publication and were presented at CAVEPS 2011. Sam is now in the initial stages of a PhD under Gavin Prideaux and Peter Ungar looking at microwear of large herbivores from southern Australia. As well as inferring the diets of extant and extinct herbivores during this period, he hopes to reconstruct past environments, plant-herbivore interactions and niche partitioning among herbivores. Alongside his formal research Sam is looking at the utilisation of GIS, surveying and geophysical techniques to assist in interpreting fossil localities. Sam is also secretary of the Flinders University Palaeontology Society. The Society is currently working with Aaron Camens and Rod Wells to investigate mid-Pleistocene vertebrate deposits of the mid north of South Australia.

Publications (Thesis)

Arman, S. 2011. Documentation and Interpretation of vertebrate scratch marks in Tight Entrance Cave, Western Australia. BSc. Hons. Thesis, Flinders University.

Qamariya Nasrullah is currently undertaking an Honours project of a phylogenetic study on an extinct group of kangaroos (sthenurines) under the supervision of Drs Gavin Prideaux and Michael Schwarz. Her project focuses on post cranial morphology which has underrated diagnostic potential, useful for resolving phylogenies of fossil taxa. She attended the 2011 CAVEPS conference in Perth earlier this year, and excavated for Diprotodon fossils recently in Burra. She plans to publish her Honours project results at the end of the year, develop a key for identifying macropodid post cranial material to improve accessibility of fossil collections and begin a PhD in mid-2012 related to marsupial phylogenetics and taxonomy.
James Moore is in the final year of his Bachelor’s degree and anticipates launching straight into Honours in 2012. James hopes to investigate the taphonomic signatures of Australian mammalian carnivores preserved in cave assemblages, with Drs Liz Reed and Gavin Prideaux. In 2010, James worked with Dr Liz Reed and Steve Bourne on a project to document and analyse the taphonomy of a Pleistocene predator fossil assemblage from Naracoorte. He presented this work at CAVEPS in April 2011 as an oral paper.
Carey Burke is working on the construction of Thylacoleo skeletons for Museum Victoria and the visitor centre of a Western Australian cave system. He is also producing casts of various iconic specimens from the Flinders University Laboratory Collection for research and sale through the South Australian Museum. In 2010, Carey began construction of the Bone Box, an information and resource package for schools. Carey was also involved in the August 2011 Nullarbor expedition led by Dr Gavin Prideaux.

South Australian Museum, Adelaide
The Palaeontology section has been fully occupied over the past year. Besides participation in the Museum’s Palaeontology Week activities, staff have continued their researches on the Ediacaran Assemblage in the Flinders Ranges, the early Cambrian Emu Bay lagerstatten of Kangaroo Island, and various vertebrate problems. Richard Jenkins continues to promote the ‘protochordate’, numerous specimens of which have been found over the past few years, against the disbelief of some entrenched reviewers. Mike Lee, Jim Jago, Jim Gehling and others published on some exquisitely preserved arthropod compound eyes from Emu Bay in Nature, vol. 474, 631-634. Other papers on the Emu Bay Shale lagerstatte were published in the Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 58. Mike Lee and Trevor Worthy (UNSW) effectively refuted the proposed down-grading of Archaeopteryx as the oldest bird, in a review of the evidence in Biology Letters October 26, 2011.
Neville Pledge reports that the past year has seen slow progress on a number of projects. The preparation and cleaning of a skeleton of squalodont whale, collected over a period until 2002, has continued spasmodically due to ad hoc working conditions (mostly done at home), the fragile nature of the bones, and access to required chemicals. Most of the skull has now been isolated, and is being processed, after being on temporary display for Palaeontology Week at the South Australian Museum earlier this year. Negotiations are ongoing for a collaboration with Erich Fitzgerald (Museum Victoria) to expedite this preparatory work, and produce a comprehensive description of the fossil, which seems to be one of the best of its type so far found in Australia.

Description of an opalised astragalus (ankle bone) referrable to the unique opalised tibia (shin bone) of South Australia’s only described dinosaur, Kakuru kujani Molnar & Pledge, is undergoing revision with Dr Ralph Molnar, formerly Queensland Museum.

New material of Ektopodon stirtoni has been described and is awaiting new figures for publication.

Publications:

Lee, M.S.Y., Jago, J.B., Garcia-Bellido, D.C., Edgecombe, G.D., Gehling, J.G. & Patterson, J.R. 2011. Modern optics in exceptionally preserved eyes of Early Cambrian arthropods from Australia. Nature 474: 631—634.

Lee, M.S.Y. & Worthy, T.H. 2011. Likelihood reinstates Archaeopteryx as a primitive bird. Biology Letters, published online.

Pledge, N.S. 2010. The Telford “Cetothere” (Cetacea: Mysticeti: Cetotheridae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 134 (2): 158–163.

Pledge, N.S. 2010. A new koala (Marsupialia: Phascolarctidae) from the late Oligocene Etadunna Formation, Lake Eyre Basin, South Australia. Australian Mammalogy 32: 79–86.
Pierre Kruse continues his sizable project on Flinders Ranges archaeocyaths, in collaboration with Françoise Debrenne (ex Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France), based on measured sections at Ajax Mine and Wirrealpa Mine.

He is also involved in a three-year (2010-2012) Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) project entitled ‘Palaeobiogeographical study of the Perigondwanan margin during the Ediacaran and Cambrian: sedimentological, biostratigraphical, biogeographical and geochemical analyses in areas of the Iberian Peninsula and SE Australia’. Within this project he is collaborating with Elena Moreno-Eiris and Antonio Perejon (both Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) variously on archaeocyaths from the White Point Conglomerate of Kangaroo Island, SA, and on cryptic archaeocyaths of the basal Pedroche Formation within undersea andesite caves at Las Ermitas, Spain.

To further these projects, Pierre spent June-August 2011 in Paris and Madrid, and also took the opportunity to revive his collaborative work with Joachim Reitner (Georg August University) on middle Cambrian sponge reefs of the Daly and Georgina Basins during a visit to Göttingen, Germany. He presented a joint talk on the White Point Conglomerate archaeocyaths at the 11^th Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera in Liège, Belgium.

Joint contributions on Archaeocyatha, Radiocyatha and Cribricyatha (with Françoise Debrenne and Andrey Zhuravlev) to a forthcoming Porifera volume of the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology continue to creep through proof stages.

University of Adelaide
Brian McGowran (Earth & Environmental Sciences) reports some busy writing and some editorial delays, but no actual publications since the previous communication.

University of South Australia
Jim Jago is continuing to work on the Cambrian trilobites of Tasmania, South Australia and Antarctica. Current projects include a late middle Cambrian fauna from Christmas Hills, Tasmania with Chris Bentley and a late Cambrian fauna from the south coast of Tasmania with John Laurie. A recently completed paper (with Chris Bentley and Roger Cooper) on a late middle Cambrian fauna containing Centropleura from northern Victoria Land, Antarctica will appear in AAP Memoir Cambro-Ordovician Studies 4”. In the last four years a lot of time has gone into the Big Gully biota, a Burgess Shale type fauna from Kangaroo Island. Workers on this project include Mike Lee, Jim Gehling, John Paterson, Greg Edgecombe, Diego Garcia-Bellido, Glenn Brock and Jim Jago. This project has been supported by an ARC Collaborative Grant with Beach Energy as the industry partner. Other projects include sedimentology of the Lake Frome Group (with C. Gatehouse and T. Casey), the stratigraphy of the Kanmantoo Group (with J. Gum, A. Burtt and P. Haines), Neoproterzoic diamictites of Tasmania and South Australia (with N. Direen) and the history of geology (with B. Cooper).

Publications:

Gehling, J.G., Jago, J.B., Paterson, J.R., Garcia-Bellido, D.C. & Edgecombe, G.D. 2011. The geological context of the Lower Cambrian (Series 2) Emu Bay Shale Lagerstätte and adjacent stratigraphic units, Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 58, 243-257.

Hall, P.A., Mckirdy, D.M., Halverson, G.P., Jago, J.B. & Gehling, J.G. (in press), Biomarker and isotopic signatures of an early Cambrian Lagerstätte in the Stansbury Basin, South Australia. Organic Geochemistry.

Jago, J.B. & Bentley, C.J. 2010. Geological significance of middle Cambrian trilobites from near Melba Flat, western Tasmania. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 57, 469-481.

Jago, J.B., Bentley, C.J. & Cooper, R.A. (in press). A Cambrian Series 3 (Guzhangian) fauna with Centropleura from Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists, Memoir.

Jago, J.B & Cooper, B.J. 2011. The Emu Bay Shale Lagerstätte: a history of investigations. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 58, 235-241.

Jago, J.B., Gatehouse, C.G., Powell, C. Mca., Casey, T. & Alexander, E.M. 2010. The Dawson Hill Member of the Grindstone Range Sandstone in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 134, 115-124.

Lee, M.S.Y., Jago, J.B., Garcia-Bellido, D.C., Edgecombe, G.D., Gehling, J.G. & Paterson, J.R. 2011. Modern optics in exceptionally preserved early Cambrian arthropod eyes from Australia. Nature 474, 631-634.

Mckirdy, D.M., Hall, P.A., Nedin, C., Halverson, G.P., Michaelson, B.H., Jago, J.B., Gehling, J.G., & Jenkins, R.J.F. 2011. Paleoredox status and thermal alteration of the lower Cambrian (Series 2) Emu Bay Shale Lagerstätte, South Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 58, 259-272.

Ortega-Hernandez, J., Braddy, S.J., Jago, J.B. & Baillie, P.W. 2010. A new aglaspidid arthropod from the Upper Cambrian of Tasmania. Palaeontology 53, 1065-1076.

Paterson, J.R., Edgecombe, G.D., Garcia-Bellido, D.C., Jago, J.B. & Gehling, J.G. 2010. Nektaspid arthropods from the lower Cambrian Emu Bay Lagerstätte, South Australia, with reassessment of lamellipedian relationships. Palaeontology 53, 377-402.

Morgan Goodall Palaeo Pty Ltd, Maitland
Morgan Palaeo Associates has morphed into Morgan Goodall Palaeo Pty Ltd and now has 13 associates servicing the oil and gas industry in Australia, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. Major workloads include Late Cretaceous to Early Jurassic PNG rigsite jobs, North West Shelf Triassic to mid Cretaceous, and Queensland Jurassic and Permian Coal Seam Gas work. Major research initiatives are in improving resolution in the PNG Middle Jurassic, North West Shelf Triassic, and Queensland non-marine Middle Jurassic. Publications on all these areas are in progress. The group also undertakes sequence stratigraphic studies and basin analysis to develop petroleum systems predictive models.
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VICTORIA
Museum Victoria, Melbourne
Tom Rich has been engaged in scanning the best preserved Cretaceous mammals of Victoria for both archival and research purposes. At present his research efforts in this area are focused on lower jaws of the monotreme Teinolophos, one of which is far more complete than any previously found and a specimen of two worn and broken upper tribosphenic molars that despite these drawbacks has attracted the attention of seven co-investigators. Previously, no mammalian upper molars have been found in Cretaceous deposits of Victoria although more than forty-five mandibles of mammals have been collected from those rocks.

Publications:

Barrett, P., Rich, T.H., Vickers-Rich, P., Tumanova, T.A., Inglis, M., Pickering, D., Kool, L. & Kear, B. 2010. Ankylosaurian dinosaur remains from the Early Cretaceous of southeastern Australia. Alcheringa 34, 205-217.

Barrett, P., Benson, R. & Vickers-Rich, P. 2011. First spinosaurid dinosaur from Australia and the cosmopolitanism of Cretaceous dinosaur faunas. Biology Letters. Published online 21 June 2011. Doi:10.1098/rsbl.2011.0466.

Benson, R.B.J., Barrett P.M., Rich, T.H., & Vickers-Rich, P. 2010. First tyrant reptile from the southern continents. Science 327, 1613.

Benson, R.B.J., Barrett P. M., Rich, T.H., Vickers-Rich, P., Pickering, D., Holland, T. 2010. Response to Comment on "A Southern Tyrant Reptile". Science 329, 1013.

Kellner, W.A., Rich, T.H., Costa, F.R., Vickers-Rich, P., Rich, L.S.V., Kear, B.P., Walters, M. & Kool, L. 2010. New isolated pterodactyloid bones from the Albian Toolebuc Formation (Western Queensland, Australia) with comments on the Australian pterosaur fauna. Alcheringa 34, 219-230.

Rich, T.H., Galton, P.M. & Vickers-Rich, P. 2010. The holotype individual of the ornithopod dinosaur Leaellynasaura amicagraphica Rich & Rich 1989 (late Early Cretaceous, Victoria, Australia). Alcheringa 34, 385–396.

Rich, T.H. & Vickers-Rich, P. 2010. Pseudotribosphenic: The History of a Concept. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 48, 336-347.

Trusler, P., Vickers-Rich P. & Rich, T.H. 2010. The Artist and the Scientists: Bringing Prehistory to Life. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Woodward, H.N., Chinsamy, A., Rich, T.H. & Vickers-Rich, P. 2011. Growth Dynamics of Australia’s Polar Dinosaurs. PLoS ONE 6(8):e2339. Doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0023339.

Rolf Schmidt is exploring the use of X-Ray Tomography to create 3D images of bryozoans colonies. This has already revealed previously unseen internal structures in recent colonies of the morphologically complex genus Siphonicytara. He is aiming to expand this into the fossil record, which may require the use of the Synchrotron to differentiate skeleton from rock. He is collaborating with overseas colleagues to image the internal structure of Palaeozoic bryozoans that can usually only be examined using thin sections. He is also collaborating with Stephen Gallagher to investigate the varying palaeoecology of bryozoans from an off-shore drill core that covers the Oligocene glaciation events.

Publication:

Schmidt, R. & Bone, Y. (2007). Australian Cainozoic Bryozoa, 2: Bonellina gen. nov. (Calloporidae, Cheilostomata), a new free-living bryozoan. Alcheringa 31, 67-84

Fons VandenBerg now works 3 days a week (Mon, Wed, Fri) at Museum Victoria as an honorary associate, devoting his time to their large graptolite collection (to which he contributed a significant portion during his GSV mapping days).

Deakin University, Burwood Campus
Guang Shi continues to work on Late Palaeozoic brachiopod faunas, biostratigraphy, biogeography and extinction patterns. He has recently commenced collaborating with colleagues from Argentina and Russia.

Publications (2010-2011):

Biakov, A.S. & Shi, G.R. 2010. Palaeobiogeography and palaeogeographical implications of Permian marine bivalve faunas in Northeast Asia (Kolyma–Omolon and Verkhoyansk–Okhotsk regions, northeastern Russia). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 298, 42-53.

Gong, Y.M., Shi, G.R., Zhang, L.J. & Ma, H.Z. 2010. Zoophycos composite ichnofabrics and tiering from the Permian neritic facies in South China and southeastern Australia. Lethaia 43, 182-196.

He, W.H., Twichett, R.J., Zhang, Y., Shi, G.R., Feng, Q.L., Yu, J.X., Wu, S.B., Peng, X.F., 2011. Controls on body size during the Late Permian mass extinction event. Geobiology 8, 309-412 (DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4669.2010.00248.x).

Lee, S.M., Choi, D.K. & Shi, G.R. 2010. Upper Carboniferous brachiopods from the Geumcheon-Jangseong Formation, Pyeongan, Pyeongan Supergroup, Taebaeksan Basin, Korea. Journal of Paleontology 84, 417-443.

Pierson, R.R., Shi, G.R. & McCann, D.A. 2010. Bacchus Marsh Geology: Permian landforms and palaeontology, Unique Triassic sedimentary outcrop and Miocene coal mine  A Field Excursion Guide prepared for the 6^th International Brachiopod Congress 1-5 February 2010, Melbourne, Australia. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists Field Guide Series No. 2. Geological Society of Australia, 44 pp.

Shen, S.Z., Cao, C. Q., Zhang, Y.C., Li, W.Z., Shi, G.R., Wang, Y., Wu, Y.S., Ueno, K., Henderson, C.M., Wang, X.D., Zhang, H., Wang, X.J. & Chen, J., 2010. A Permian-Triassic carbonate sequence in southwestern Tibet, China and implications of end-Permian mass extinction and early opening of the Neotethys. Global and Planetary Change 73(1-2), 3-14.

Shi, G.R., Percival, I.G., Pierson, R.R. & Weldon, E.A. (editors). Program & Abstracts, 6th International Brachiopod Congress, 1-5 February 2010, Melbourne, Australia. Geological Society of Australia Abstracts No. 95, 129 pp.

Shi, G.R. & Waterhouse. J.B., 2010. Late Palaeozoic global changes affecting high-latitude environments and biotas: an introduction. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 298, 1-16.

Shi, G.R. & Waterhouse, J.B. (Guest Editors) 2010. Environmental processes and biotic responses at high latitudes: a study of Late Palaeozoic sequences, biotas and palaeoenvironmental changes in Gondwana and northern Eurasia. Special Issue Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 298(1-2), 1-174.

Shi, G.R., Waterhouse, J.B. & McLoughlin, S. 2010. The Lopingian of Australasia: a review of biostratigraphy, correlations, palaeogeography and palaeobiogeography. Geological Journal 45, 230-263.

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, 366pp.

Shi, G.R., Weldon, E.A. & Pierson, R.R. 2010. Permian stratigraphy, sedimentology and palaeontology of the southern Sydney Basin, south-east Australia − A field excursion guide (2010 version) prepared for the 6th International Brachiopod Congress, 1-5 February 2010, Melbourne, Australia. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists Field Guide Series No. 1. Geological Society of Australia, 72 pp.

Taboada, A. C. & Shi, G.R. 2011. Taxonomic review and evolutionary trends of Levipustulini and Absenticostini (Brachiopoda) from Argentina: Palaeobiogeographic and palaeoclimatic implications. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 41, 87-114.

Waterhouse. J.B. & Shi, G.R. 2010. Evolution in a cold climate. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 298, 17-30.
Mark Warne has current research interests in the fields of ostracod taxonomy, environmental palaeoecology and late Cenozoic stratigraphy of SE Australia. Presently he has collaborations on various taxonomic studies with Professor Robin Whatley (University of Wales, Aberystwyth) and on modern continental shelf biodiversity with Dr Gary Poore (Museum Victoria).

Current palaeontological research projects include:

Studies on the systematic taxonomy of Cenozoic Ostracoda from Australia and the Southwest Pacific;

Late Miocene to early Pleistocene stratigraphy, sedimentology and ostracod faunal cycles of the Bass Strait hinderland, southeast Australia;

Mid Holocene to Recent coastal palaeoenvironments and ostracod assemblages of the Warrnambool and Port Fairy districts, southeast Australia.

Publications:

Warne, M.T. 2010. Review of Alataleberis McKenzie and Warne, 1986 and description of Alatapacifica gen. nov., (Ostracoda, Crustacea) from the Cenozoic of Australia. Alcheringa 34, 37-60.

Warne, M.T. (in press - 2012). Record of the deep marine Clinocythereis australis Ayress and Swanson, 1991 (Ostracoda) from the late Miocene Tambo River Formation, Gippsland Basin, Australia: Palaeo-oceanographic and biostratigraphic implications. Alcheringa 36.

Warne, M.T. & Soutar, B. 2011. Pliocene coastal palaeomorphology and ostracod faunas of the Bass Strait Hinterland, southeast Australia. Hydrobiologia doi: 10.1007/s10750-011-0777-2.

Nick Porch continues his research into human impacts on island ecosystems in the Indo-Pacific. This research uses the recent fossil record of plants and insects to contextualise the impact of both prehistoric and recent human arrival on island biodiversity. It is demonstrating that a wide range of insects were extirpated following human settlement regardless of whether this was in prehistory (Polynesia) or more recently (Mascarenes). Also there is ample evidence that humans translocated a large number of pest species including taxa that are ranked amongst the world's most destructive invasive insects.

Publications:

Byrne, M., Steane, D.A., Joseph, L., Yeates, D.K., Jordan, G.J., Crayn, D., Aplin, K., Cantrill, D.J., Cook, L.G., Crisp, M.D., Keogh, J.S., Melville, J., Moritz, C., Porch, N., Sniderman, J.M.K., Sunnucks, P. & P.H. Weston. 2011. Decline of a biome: evolution, contraction, fragmentation, extinction and invasion of the Australian mesic zone biota. Journal of Biogeography 38: 1635-1656.

Rijsdijk, K.F., Zinke, J, de Louw, P.G.B., Hume, J.P., van der Plicht, H.(J.), Hooghiemstra, H., Meijer, H.J.M., Vonhof, H.B., Porch, N., Florens, F.B.V., Baider, C., van Geel, B., Brinkkemper, J., Vernimmen, T. & Janoo, A. 2011. Mid-Holocene (4200 kyr BP) mass mortalities in Mauritius (Mascarenes): Insular vertebrates resilient to climatic extremes but vulnerable to human impact. The Holocene, DOI: 10.1177/0959683611405236.
Yichun Zhang is working on Late Palaeozoic foraminifers. His current study focuses on the following topics:

(1) Carboniferous and Permian foraminifers in northern Tibet and their palaeobiogeographic implications.

(2) Tectonic evolution of the Tibetan blocks: evidences from the Late Palaeozoic fossil record.

(3) Size distribution patterns of Middle Permian fusulines in different latitude areas.

(4) Quantitative analysis of Middle Permian fusuline palaeobiogeography using global fusuline database.

Publications:

Shen S.-z, Cao C.Q., Zhang Y.C., Li W.Z., Shi G.R., Wang Y., Wu Y.S., Ueno K., Henderson C.M., Wang X.D., Zhang H., Wang X.J. & Chen J. 2010. End-Permian mass extinction and palaeoenvironmental changes in Neotethys: evidence from an oceanic carbonate section in southwestern Tibet. Global and Planetary Change 73, 3-14.

Shen S.-z, Henderson C.M., Bowring S.A., Cao C.Q., Wang Y., Wang W., Zhang H., Zhang Y.C. & Mu L., 2010. High-resolution Lopingian (Late Permian) timescale of South China. Geological Journal 45, 122-134.

Wang Y., Ueno K., Zhang Y.C. & Cao C.Q. 2010. The Changhsingian foraminiferal fauna of a Neotethyan seamount: the Gyanyima limestone along the Yarlung-Zangbo Suture in southern Tibet, China. Geological Journal 45, 308-318.

Zhang, Y.-c, 2010. Late Middle Permian (Guadalupian) fusuline fauna from the Gyanyima area of Burang County, Tibet, China and its paleobiogeographic implications. Acta Palaeotologica Sinica 49, 231-250.

Zhang, Y.-c, Cheng L.R. & Shen S.Z. 2010. Late Guadalupian (Middle Permian) Fusuline Fauna from the Xiala Formation in Xainza County, Central Tibet: Implication of the Rifting Time of the Lhasa Block. Journal of Paleontology 84, 955-973.

Elizabeth (Liz) Weldon is currently working on the taxonomy, biogeography and palaeoecology of Permian brachiopods, bivalves and conulariids, principally from the southern Sydney Basin, eastern Australia.

Liz is secretary of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists.

Publication:

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, Burwood, Australia. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 41, 366p.

Roger Pierson maintains an interest in Gondwanan Permian palynology (and relict Permian landforms in Victoria, Australia).

Publication:

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.

Sangmin Lee is a PhD student working on Permian brachiopods from Spitsbergen and Alaska. He is also undertaking studies on micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) as applied to fossil brachiopods.
Darren Hastie is a PhD student whose current research involves the study of the biodiversity and biogeography of Cenozoic shark fossil faunas in south east Australia. Through the use of taxonomy and chemical analysis an insight can be gained into the history of shark faunas and their environment to better understand current-day shark ecology.
Wenzhong Li is a PhD student studying Permian brachiopods from several sections in south-eastern Mongolia.

Publication:

Yang Zhang is a PhD student, working on the taxonomy of brachiopods and biostratigraphy of conodonts both before and after the Permian-Triassic boundary. He is also studying the evolution of shape and size of selected marine invertebrate faunas across the Permian-Triassic boundary mass extinction in South China.
Michelle Guzel is a PhD student working on a mid-late Cretaceous ostracod fauna from northwest Australia and its palaeobiogeographic significance. Her paper

“Jurassic and Early Cretaceous ostracods from Western Australia: what they reveal about evolution of the Indian Ocean” is about to be published in the International Year of Planet Earth Series, Earth and Life volume, edited by John A. Talent.

Monash University
Patricia Vickers-Rich continues her work on the Ediacaran biota with an emphasis on that from Namibia which is the youngest Ediacaran assemblage known. This programme is a joint one with Mike Hall, David Elliott and Peter Trusler of Monash University, Guy Narbonne of Queens University, Ontario, and Andrey Ivantsov of the Paleontological Institute, Moscow. Pat, Peter and Andrey are focusing much effort on understanding exactly what the enigmatic Rangea is.

Peter, Pat together with Tom Rich have published The Artist and the Scientists: Bringing Prehistory to Life, Cambridge University Press. The book focuses on how the three of them worked together over three decades to produce a number of items of palaeoart.

Pat heads the UNESCO International Geological Correlation Project IGCP587, The Rise and Fall of the Vendian (Ediacaran) Biota (www.geosci.monash.edu.au/precsite). She is also the Chair of the Australian IGCP Committee. She also is Director of the Monash Science Centre, where geosciences education to primary school kids has a priority (www.sciencecentre.monash.edu.au).

Publications:

Barrett, P.M., Benson, R.B.J., Rich, T.H. & Vickers-Rich, P. 2011. First spinosaurid dinosaur from Australia and the cosmopolitanism of Cretaceous dinosaur faunas. Biology Letters doi:10.1098/rsbl.2011.0466.

Barrett, P.M., Rich, T.H., Vickers-Rich, P., Tumanova, T.A., Inglis, M., Pickering, D., Kool, L. & Kear, B.J. 2010. Ankylosaurian dinosaur remains from the Lower Cretaceous of southern Australia. Alcheringa 34, 205-217.

Benson, R.B.J., Barrett, P.M., Rich, T.H. & Vickers-Rich, P. 2010. A Southern Tyrant Reptile. Science 327(5973), 1613.

Benson, R.B.J., Barrett, P.M., Rich, T.H., Vickers-Rich, P., Pickering, D. & Holland, T. 2010. Response to Comment on “A Southern Tyrant Reptile”. Science 329(5995), 1013.

Kear, B. P., Rich, T. H., Vickers-Rich, P., Ali, M.A., Al-Mufarrih, Y.A., Matari, A.H., Al-Masary, A.M. & Halawany, M.A. 2010. A review of aquatic vertebrate remains from the Middle-Upper Triassic Jihl Formation of Saudi Arabia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 122(1), 1-8.

Kellner, A.W.A., Rich, T.H., Costa, F., Vickers-Rich, P., Kear, B.P., Walters, M. & Kool, M. 2010. New isolated pterodactyloid bones from the Albian Toolebuc Formation (western Queensland, Australia) with comments on the Australian pterosaur fauna. Alcheringa 34, 219-230.

Kool, L., Glenie, R., Flannery, T., Long, J., Rich, T., Hall, M., Wagstaff, B., Seegets-Villiers, D., Pawley, K., Pickering, D., Muranyi, M., Cleeland, M., Walters, M. & Vickers-Rich, P. 2010. Dinosaur Dreaming: Exploring the Bass Coast of Victoria. Monash Science Centre, Australia.

Martin, A.J., Rich, T.H., Hall, M., Vickers-Rich, P. & Vazquez-Prokopec, G. 2011. A polar dinosaur-track assemblage from the Eumeralla Formation (Albian), Victoria, Australia. Alcheringa doi: 10.1080/03115518.2011.597564.

Rich, T.H., Galton, P.M. & Vickers-Rich, P. 2010. The holotype individual of the ornithopod dinosaur Leaellynosaura amicagraphica Rich and Rich, 1989 (late Early Cretaceous, Victoria, Australia). Aheringa 34, 386-396.

Rich, T.H. & Vickers-Rich, P. 2010. Pseudotribosphenic: The history of a concept. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 48(4), 337-349.

Rich, T.H., Vickers-Rich, P., Flannery, T.F., Pickering, D., Kool, L., Tait, A.M. & Fitzgerald, E.M.G. 2009. A fourth Australian Mesozoic locality. In Albright, L.B. III, ed. Papers on Geology, Vertebrate Paleontology, and Biostratigraphy in Honor of Michael O. Woodburne. Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin 65, Flagstaff, Arizona.

Trusler, P., Vickers-Rich, P. & Rich, T.H. 2010. The Artist and the Scientists – Bringing Prehistory to Life. Cambridge University Press.

Vickers-Rich, P., Kozdroj, W., Kattan, F., Leonov, M., Ivantsov, A., Johnson, P.R., Linnemann, U., Hofmann, M., Al Garni, S., Al Qubsani, Shamari, A., Al Barakati, A., Al Kaff, M.H., Ziolkowska-Kozdroj, M., Rich, T., Trusler, P. & Rich, B. 2010. Reconnaissance for an Ediacaran fauna, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Saudi Geological Survey Technical Report SGA-TR-2010-8

Woodward H.N., Rich T.H., Chinsamy, A. & Vickers-Rich, P. 2011. Growth dynamics of Australia’s polar dinosaurs. PLoS ONE 6(8), e23339. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0023339

Monash Applied Palaeontology and Basin Studies Group Profile

Our research continues on systematic and applied palaeontology and basins with respect to predictability of petroleum-bearing facies, employing diverse, integrated methods in palaeontology and pure basic research on palaeo-equator to poles Cretaceous and Paleogene biotas and palaeoenvironments during the last major greenhouse phase of the Phanerozoic. Our current industry and institution portfolio includes Shell International, Shell Australia, Origin Energy, Cue Energy, Benaris Group, Geoscience Australia, University of Texas-Austin, National Geographic Society, Australian Research Council, among others. The last five years have seen a dramatic increase in research funding for the group of >$1 million and number of keen graduate students in the field, with completed projects in the South Atlantic (Brazil-W Africa), New Zealand-Chatham Islands, Antarctica, and many basins in Australia. And with it, many submitted confidential industry reports, peer-reviewed papers and monographs/books. A major book by Jeff Stilwell and co-author John Long (Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County), entitled Frozen in Time: Prehistoric Life in Antarctica and published by CSIRO (248 pp., hardbound), is due out the 12^th October, representing the first comprehensive account of the fossil record of Antarctica.

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