N u d u m omen number 31 Published December 2011

Conran, J.G., Kaulfuss, U., Bannister, J.M., Mildenhall, D.C. & Lee, D.E. 2010.

(New Zealand) with in situ spores. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 162, 84-94.

Ferguson, D.K., Lee, D.E., Bannister, J.M., Zetter, R., Jordan, G.J., Vavra, N. &

Mildenhall, D.C. 2010. The taphonomy of a remarkable leaf bed assemblage

from the Late Oligocene-Early Miocene Gore Lignite Measures, southern New

Zealand. International Journal of Coal Geology 83, 173-181.

Songtham, W. & Mildenhall, D.C. 2010. Summary review of paleobotanical research

in Thailand. Pp. 19-22 in: Somana, R., Udchachon, M., Lauprasert, K., Lutat, P.

& Thassanapak, H. (eds). Programme and abstracts. The 2^nd International

Conference on Paleontology of Southeast Asia (ICPSEA 2010), 1-5 November,

2010, Mahasarakham University, Thailand.

Phuphumirat, W., Gleason, F.H., Phongpaichit, S. & Mildenhall, D.C. 2011. The

infection of pollen by zoosporic fungi in tropical soils and its impact on pollen

preservation: a preliminary study. Nova Hedwigia 92, 233-244.

Carpenter, R.J., Jordan, G.J., Mildenhall, D.C. & Lee, D.E. 2011. Leaf fossils of the

ancient Tasmanian relict Microcachrys (Podocarpaceae) from New Zealand.

Fernandez, F.M., Hostetler, D., Powell, K., Kaur, H., Green, M.D., Mildenhall, D.C.

& Newton, P.N. 2011. Poor quality drugs: grand challenges in high throughput

detection, countrywide sampling, and forensics in developing countries. Analyst

Jordan, G.J., Carpenter, R.J., Bannister, J.M., Lee, D.E., Mildenhall, D.C. & Hill, R.S.

2011. High conifer diversity in Oligo-Miocene New Zealand. Australian

Systematic Botany 24, 121-136.

University of Auckland
Jack Grant-Mackie (School of Environment) continues to push towards completion of projects not aligned with his main interests of Triassic-Jurassic molluscs. It is a slow process! In the past year more of the reports from the New Caledonian cave excavation have been finished, with one to go. Description of a new genus and species of Late Triassic bivalve from New Zealand and New Caledonia is nearing completion. Other new topics have appeared and been tackled, but I see myself backing out of serious research in the near future – has to happen eventually, and I’d rather not fall off the perch with projects half completed. The PhD project on Mesozoic crinoids of NZ & New Caledonia (by Mike Eagle) is drawing to a close now and should be complete this year.

Since the above was written, I have been told that Honorary Research Fellows like myself must remove ourselves from the university (the reason given is the imminent rebuilding of the school, in which we appear not to be welcome!) and that this must be done within a few weeks. No arrangement has yet been made with us for our own research needs or for supervision of the students for whom at least three of us have responsibilities! Thus this could be my last report and the end of my research!

Grant-Mackie, J.A. 2010. Commentary on Late Jurassic ammonites monograph (Enay, 2009). Geosciences Society of New Zealand Newsletter 1: 14-18.

Meister, C., Maurizot, P., Grant-Mackie, J.A. 2010. Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian) ammonites from New Caledonia (French Overseas Territory, western Pacific). Palaeontological Research 14: 85-118.

Akikuni, K., Hori, R.S., Vajda, V., Grant-Mackie, J.A., Ikehara, M. 2010. Stratigraphy of Triassic-Jurassic boundary sequences from the Kawhia coast and Awakino gorge, Murihiku Terrane, New Zealand. Stratigraphy 7: 7-24.

Boyer, A.G., James, S., Olson, S.L., Grant-Mackie, J.A. 2010. Long-term ecological change in a conservation hotspot: the fossil avifauna of Mé Auré Cave, New Caledonia. Biodiversity & Conservation 19: 3207-3224.

Grant-Mackie, J.A. 2011. A new Early Jurassic Otapiria species (Monotidae; Bivalvia) from Murihiku rocks of the North Island of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics 54: 53-67.

Grant-Mackie, J.A., Hill, J., Gill, B.J. 2011. Two Eocene chelonioid turtles from Northland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics 54: 181-194.

Grant-Mackie, J.A., Bloksberg, L.N. 2011. Mosasaur movements in Mangahouanga sand? Geosciences Society of New Zealand Newsletter 4: 21-27.

Hori, R.S., Yamakita, S., Ikehara, M., Kodama, K., Aita, Y., Sakai, T., Takemura, A., Kamata, Y., Suzuki, N., Sporli, K.B., Grant-Mackie, J.A. 2011. Early Triassic (Induan) Radiolaria and carbon isotope ratios of a deep sea sequence from Waiheke Island, North Island, New Zealand. Palaeoworld 20: 166-178.

Thassanapak, H., Feng Q-L., Grant-Mackie, J.A., Chonglakmani, C., Thanee, N. 2011. Middle Triassic radiolarian faunas from Chiang Dao, northern Thailand. Palaeoworld 20: 179-202.

MacFarlan, D.A.B., Hasibuan, F., Grant-Mackie, J.A. 2011. Mesozoic brachiopods from the Misool Archipelago, eastern Indonesia. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 41: 149-177.

Vajda, V., Hori, R.S., Akikuni, K., Grant-Mackie, J.A. & Ikehara, M. 2010. The palynological signal of the Triassic-Jurassic boundary sequence of the Awakino Gorge, New Zealand (abstract). Program & Abstracts, 8^th European Palaeobotany-Palynology Conference, 2010: 237.

In his new position, Tim is currently investigating the timelag between the appearance of body plans during the Cambrian Explosion and diversifications during the Great Ordovician Biodiversity Event at family, genus and species levels. In particular focusing on the taxonomy and distribution of brachiopods in the middle to late Cambrian to increase our understanding of the evolution and development of these organisms leading up to one of the most sudden and spectacular explosions of organisms in the history of life.

Skovsted, C.B., Brock, G.A., Topper, T.P., Paterson, J.R. & Holmer, L.E. 2011. Scleritome construction, biofacies, biostratigraphy and systematics of the tommotiid Eccentrotheca helenia sp. nov. from the early Cambrian of South Australia. Palaeontology 54, 253-286. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.01031.x

Topper, T.P., Brock, G.A., Skovsted, C.B. & Paterson, J.R. 2010. Palaeoscolecid scleritome fragments with Hadimopanella plates from the early Cambrian of South Australia. Geological Magazine 147, 86-97.

Topper, T.P., Brock, G.A., Skovsted, C.B. & Paterson, J.R. 2011. Microdictyon plates from the lower Cambrian Ajax Limestone of South Australia: Implications for species taxonomy and diversity. Alcheringa 35, 427-443.

Topper, T.P., Skovsted, C.B., Brock, G.A., Paterson, J.R. 2011. The oldest bivalved arthropods from the early Cambrian of East Gondwana: systematics and biogeography. Gondwana Research 19, 310-326.
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SWEDEN
Swedish Museum of Natural History
Stephen McLoughlin (Department of Paleobotany) continues work on Permian and Mesozoic seed-plants from eastern Australia, east Antarctica, and China. He is particularly investigating the architecture and revising the systematics of leaves and reproductive organs of Glossopteridales and Bennettitales. He is also studying Permian-Cretaceous plant-arthropod interactions and the application of plant fossils to biostratigraphy, paleoenvironmental analysis, and the understanding of mass-extinction events. Stephen is currently the editor of Alcheringa.

Publications:

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.

Pott, C., McLoughlin, S. & Lindstrom, A. 2010. Late Palaeozoic foliage from China displays affinities to Cycadales rather than to Bennettitales necessitating a re−evaluation of the Palaeozoic Pterophyllum species. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 55, 157–168.

McLoughlin, S. & Kear, B.P. 2010. The Australasian Cretaceous scene. Alcheringa 34, 197–203.

McLoughlin, S., Pott, C. & Elliott, D., 2010. The Winton Formation flora (Albian–Cenomanian, Eromanga Basin): implications for vascular plant diversification and decline in the Australian Cretaceous. Alcheringa 34, 303–323.

McLoughlin, S. & Pott, C., 2010. Skånes Bennettitales. Geologiskt Forum 66, 21–23.

McLoughlin, S. & Pott, C., 2010. On the trail of Australia’s youngest Bennettitales. Australian Age of Dinosaurs 8, 6–7.

McLoughlin, S., 2010. Ginkgo in Australia. Australian Age of Dinosaurs 8, 42–47.

McLoughlin, S., 2011. New records of leaf galls and arthropod oviposition scars in Permian–Triassic Gondwanan gymnosperms. Australian Journal of Botany 59, 156–169.

McLoughlin, S., Carpenter, R.J. & Pott, C., 2011. Ptilophyllum muelleri (Ettingsh.) comb. nov. from the Oligocene of Australia: Last of the Bennettitales? International Journal of Plant Sciences 172, 574–585.

Slater, B.J., McLoughlin, S. & Hilton, J. 2011. Guadalupian (Middle Permian) megaspores from a permineralised peat in the Bainmedart Coal Measures, Prince Charles Mountains, Antarctica. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 167, 140–155.

McLoughlin, S., Slater, B., Hilton, J. & Prevec, R., 2011. New vistas on animal–plant–fungal interactions in the Permian–Triassic of Gondwana. GFF 133, 66–67. (extended abstract)

Pott, C. & McLoughlin, S. 2011. The Rhaetian flora of Rögla, northern Scania, Sweden. Palaeontology 54, 1025–1051.

McLoughlin, S. 2011. Glossopteris - insights into the architecture and relationships of an iconic Permian Gondwanan plant. (13th Dr. J. Sen Memorial Lecture). Journal of the Botanical Society of Bengal 65(2), 1–14. 

McLoughlin, S., Pott, C. & Elliott, D., 2010. The Winton Formation Flora (Albian-Cenomanian, Eromanga Basin): implications for vascular plant diversification and decline in the Australian Cretaceous. Alcheringa 34, 303–323.

McLoughlin, S. & Pott, C., 2010. Skånes bennettiter. Geologiskt forum 66, 21–23.

Pott, C., Krings, M., Kerp, H. &  Friis, E.M., 2010. Reconstruction of a bennettitalean flower from the Carnian (Upper Triassic) of Lunz, Lower Austria. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 159, 94–111.

Pott, C., McLoughlin, S. & Lindström, A., 2010. Late Palaeozoic foliage from China displays affinities to Cycadales rather than to Bennettitales necessitating a re-evaluation of the Palaeozoic Pterophyllum species. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 55, 157–168.

Bomfleur, B., Pott, C. & Kerp, H., 2011. Plant fossil assemblages of the Shafer Peak Formation (Lower Jurassic), north Victoria Land, East Antarctica. Antarctic Science 23, 188–208.

Kustatscher, E., Pott, C. & van Konijnenburg-van Cittert, J.H.A., 2011. A contribution to the knowledge of the Triassic fern genus Symopteris. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 165, 41–60.

McLoughlin, S., Carpenter, R. J. & Pott, C. 2011. Ptilophyllum muelleri (Ettingsh.) comb. nov. from the Oligocene of Australia — last of the Bennettitales? International Journal of Plant Sciences 172, 574–585.

Moisan, P., Voigt, S., Pott, C., Buchwitz, M., Schneider, J. W. & Kerp, H., 2011. Cycadalean and bennettitalean foliage from the Triassic Madygen Lagerstätte (SW Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 164, 93–108.

Pott, C. & McLoughlin, S., 2011. The Rhaeto-Liassic flora from Rögla, northern Scania, Sweden. Palaeontology 54, 1025–1051.

Popov, L.E., Bassett, M.G., Holmer, L.E., Skovsted, C.B. & Zuykov, M. 2010. Earliest ontogeny of Early Palaeozoic Craniiformea: implications for brachiopod phylogeny. Lethaia 43, 323-333. doi: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.2009.00197.x

Topper, T.P., Brock, G.A., Skovsted, C.B. & Paterson, J.R. 2010. Palaeoscolecid scleritome fragments with Hadimopanella plates from the Early Cambrian of South Australia. Geological Magazine 147, 86-97. doi: 10.1017/S0016756809990082

Skovsted, C.B. & Peel, J.S. 2010. Early Cambrian Brachiopods and other small shelly fossils from the basal Kinzers Formation Of Pennsylvania. Journal of Paleontology 84, 754-762. doi: 10.1666/09-123.1

Skovsted, C.B., Holmer, L.E., Streng, M. & Knight, I. 2010. Setatella significans, a new name for mickwitziid stem group brachiopods from the lower Cambrian of Greenland and Labrador. GFF 132: 117-122. doi: 10.1080/11035897.2010.490878.

Hu, S, Zhang, Z., Holmer, L.E. & Skovsted, C.B. 2010. First record of soft-part preservation in a linguliform brachiopod from the Lower Cambrian Wulongqing Formation (Guanshan Fauna) of Yunnan, South China. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 55, 495-505. doi:10.4202/app.2009.1106

Topper, T.P., Skovsted, C.B., Brock, G.A. & Paterson, J.R. 2011. The oldest bivalved arthropods from the early Cambrian of East Gondwana; Systematics, biostratigraphy and biogeography. Gondwana Research 19, 310-326. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2010.05.012

Skovsted, C.B. & Peel, J.S. 2011. Hyolithellus in life position from the Lower Cambrian of North Greenland. Journal of Paleontology 85, 37-47. doi: 10.1666/10-065.1

Holmer, L.E., Skovsted, C.B., Larsson, C.M, Brock, G.A. & Zhang, Z. 2011. First record of a bivalved larval shell in Early Cambrian tommotiids and its phylogenetic significance. Palaeontology 54, 235-239. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.01030.x

Skovsted, C.B., Brock, G.A., Topper, T.P., Paterson, J.R. & Holmer, L.E. 2011. Scleritome construction, biofacies, biostratigraphy and systematics of the tommotiid Eccentrotheca helenia sp. nov. from the early Cambrian of South Australia. Palaeontology 54, 253-286. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.01031.x

Topper, T.P., Brock, G.A., Skovsted, C.B. & Paterson, J.R. 2011. Microdictyon plates from the lower Cambrian Ajax Limestone of South Australia: Implications for species taxonomy and diversity. Alcheringa 35, 427-443. doi: .1080/03115518.2011.533972

Lund University
Vivi Vajda (Department of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences) is a Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Research Fellow supported by a grant from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Vivi is undertaking multidisciplinary studies (high-resolution palynology, sedimentology, geochemistry and geomagnetics) to resolve the timing, rates, and causes of the K-Pg and Tr-J mass extinction events. She is particularly investigating sections in New Zealand, eastern Australia and NW China. She is also supervising research students investigating Silurian early land plant palyno-assemblages and Late Cretaceous vertebrate assemblages of Scandinavia. She is currently Chair of the International Geoscience Program (IGCP) and president of the Swedish Geological Society.

Publications:

Wanntorp, L., Vajda, V. & Raine, I. 2010. Past diversity of Proteaceae on subantarctic Campbell Island, a remote outpost of Gondwana. Cretaceous Research 32, 357–367.

Vajda, V. & Raine, J.I., 2010. A palynological investigation of plesiosaur-bearing rocks from the Upper Cretaceous Tahora Formation, Mangahouanga, New Zealand. Alcheringa 34, 359–374.

Larsson, L., Vajda, V., Dykjaer, K., 2010. Vegetation and climate change in the latest Oligocene-earliest Miocene in Jylland, Denmark. Miocene Climate change – palynological evidence from Scandinavia. Review of Palynology and Paleobotany 159, 166–176.

Schulte, P., Alegret, L., Arenillas, I., Arz, J.A., Barton, P.J., Bown, P.R., Bralower, T., Christeson G., Claeys, P., Cockell, C., Collins, G., Deutsch, A., Goldin, T., Goto, K., Grajales-Nishimura, J.M., Grieve, R., Gulick, S., Johnson, K.R., Kiessling, W., Koeberl, C., Kring, D.A., MacLeod K.G., Matsui, T., Melosh, J., Montanari, A., Morgan, J., Neal, C., Norris, R.D., Pierazzo, E., Ravizza, G., Rebolledo-Vieyra, M., Reimold, W-U., Robin, E., Salge, T., Speijer, R.P., Sweet, A.R., Urrutia-Fucugauchi, J., Vajda, V., Whalen, M.T. & Willumsen, P.S. 2010. The Chicxulub Impact and the Mass Extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary. Science 327, 1214–1218.

Schulte, P., Alegret, L., Arenillas, I., Arz, J.A., Barton, P.J., Bown, P.R., Bralower, T., Christeson G., Claeys, P., Cockell, C., Collins, G., Deutsch, A., Goldin, T., Goto, K., Grajales-Nishimura, J.M., Grieve, R., Gulick, S., Johnson, K.R., Kiessling, W., Koeberl, C., Kring, D.A., MacLeod K.G., Matsui, T., Melosh, J., Montanari, A., Morgan, J., Neal, C., Norris, R.D., Pierazzo, E., Ravizza, G., Rebolledo-Vieyra, M., Reimold, W-U., Robin, E., Salge, T., Speijer, R.P., Sweet, A.R., Urrutia-Fucugauchi, J., Vajda, V., Whalen, M.T., Willumsen, P.S., 2010. Reply- The Chicxulub Impact and the Mass Extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary. Science 328, 975−

Willumsen, P.S. & Vajda, V., 2010. A new early Paleocene dinoflagellate cyst species, Trithyrodinium partridgei: its biostratigraphic significance and palaeoecology. Alcheringa 34, 523−538.

Vajda, V. & Larsson, L.M., 2010. Euro-Ages and geology in Sweden. European geologist 30, 39−40.

Ferrow, E., Vajda, V., Bender Koch, C., Peucker-Ehrenbrink, B., Suhr Willumsen & P., 2011. Multiproxy analysis of a new terrestrial and a marine Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary site from New Zealand. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 75, 657–672

Sha, J., Vajda, V., Pan, Y., Larsson, L., Wang, Y., Cheng, X.J., Deng, S., Yao, X., Chen, S., Zhang, X. & Peng, B., 2011. The stratigraphy of the Triassic−Jurassic boundary successions of the southern margin of Junggar Basin, northwestern China. Acta Geologica Sinica 85, 421–436.

2010, PhD: Maria Zammit (completed) – Diversity and functional morphology of Australasian ichthyosaurs.

2011, MSc: Oskar Bremer – Osteology and CT-based functional analysis of the Late Cretaceous crocodilian Denazinosuchus kirtlandicus (New Mexico, U.S.A.)

2011, MSc: Jenny Lindhal – Diversity and palaeobiogeography of Miocene 'Hipparion Fauna' tortoises from China.

2010, MSc: Henrik Carlsson – Historical revision of Charles Sternberg's San Juan Basin Late Cretaceous vertebrate collections in Sweden.

2010, MSc: Roland Sookias (completed) – Comparative geotourism management strategies for important Mesozoic vertebrate localities.

2010, BSc (Hons): Lucy Meehan (completed) – molecular phylogenetics of dasyuromorphians.

2010, BSc (Hons): Jessica Ferro (completed) – Biogeographical implications of phalangerid phylogenies.

2010, BSc (Hons): Manieka Ried (completed) – Interspecific relationships of the vespertilionid bat Scotorepens.

Kear, B.P. & Barrett, P.M. 2011. Reassessment of the Lower Cretaceous (Barremian) pliosauroid Leptocleidus superstes Andrews, 1922 and other plesiosaur remains from the non-marine Wealden succession of southern England. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 161, 663-691.

Kear, B.P. & Hamilton-Bruce, R.J. 2011. Dinosaurs in Australia. Mesozoic Life from the Southern Continent. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, 190 p.

Georgalis, G. L., Velitzelos, E., Velitzelos, D. E. & Kear, B. P., in press: Nostimochelone lampra gen. et sp. nov., an enigmatic new podocnemidoidean turtle from the Lower Miocene of northern Greece. In Morphology and Evolution of Turtles: Origin and Early Diversification. Part III. Pleurodire Diversity and Biogeography (D. Brinkman, P. Holroyd, & J. Gardner Eds). Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

Smith, E.T. & Kear, B.P., in press: Spoochelys ormondea gen. et sp. nov., an archaic meiolaniid-like turtle from the Lower Cretaceous of Lightning Ridge, Australia. In Morphology and Evolution of Turtles: Origin and Early Diversification. Part II. The Early Diversification of Turtles, (D. Brinkman, P. Holroyd, & J. Gardner Eds). Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

Westerman, M., Kear, B.P., Aplin, K., Meredith, R. & Springer, M., in press: Phylogenetic relationships of living and recently extinct bandicoots based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences: The evolution of an enigmatic marsupial Order. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.

Wilson, G.D.F., Patterson, J.R. & Kear, B.P. 2011. Fossil isopods associated with a fish skeleton from the Lower Cretaceous of Australia − direct evidence of a scavenging lifestyle in Mesozoic Cymothoida. Palaeontology 54, 1053-1068.

Zammit, M. 2011. Australasia's first Jurassic ichthyosaur fossil: an isolated vertebra from the Lower Jurassic Arataura Formation of North Island, New Zealand. Alcheringa 35, 341-343.

Zammit, M. & Kear, B.P., in press: Healed bite marks on a Cretaceous ichthyosaur. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.

Kear, B.P. & Siverson, M. 2010. First evidence of a Late Cretaceous sea turtle from Australia. Alcheringa 34, 265-272.

Kear, B.P., Deacon, G.L. & Siverson, M. 2010. Remains of an Upper Cretaceous pterosaur from the Molecap Greensand of Western Australia. Alcheringa 34, 273-279.

Kear, B.P. & Georgalis, G.L. 2010. Colossal tortoises, climate change, and the evolution of Europe’s largest ‘modern’ reptiles. Deposits Magazine 21, 8-10.

Kear, B.P., Rich, T.H., Ali, M.A., Al-Mufarrih, Y.A., Matiri, A.H., Masary, A.M. & Halawani, M.A., 2010. First Triassic lungfish from the Arabian Peninsula. Journal of Paleontology 84, 137-140.

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

Barrett, P.M., Kear, B.P. & Benson, R.B.J. 2010. Opalised archosaur remains from the Lower Cretaceous of South Australia. Alcheringa 34, 293-301.

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

Einarsson, E., Lindgren, J., Kear, B.P. & Siverson, M. 2010. Mosasaur bite marks on a plesiosaur propodial from the Campanian (Late Cretaceous) of southern Sweden. GFF 132, 123-138.

Hamilton-Bruce, R.J. & Kear, B.P. 2010. A possible succineid land snail from Lower Cretaceous non-marine deposits of the Griman Creek Formation at Lightning Ridge, New South Wales. Alcheringa 34, 325-331.

Kellner, A.W.A., Rich, T.H., Costa, F.R., Vickers-Rich, P., Kear, B.P., Waters, 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.

Maxwell, E.E. & Kear, B.P. 2010. Postcranial anatomy of Platypterygius americanus (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria) from the Cretaceous of Wyoming. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30, 1059-1068.

McLoughlin, S. & Kear, B.P. 2010. The Australasian Cretaceous scene. Alcheringa 34, 197-203.

Zammit, M. 2010. A review of Australasian ichthyosaurs. Alcheringa 34, 381-292.

Zammit, M., Norris, R. & Kear, B.P. 2010. The Australian Cretaceous ichthyosaur Platypterygius australis: a description and review of postcranial remains. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30, 1726-1735.

Kear, B.P. 2009. Proterosuchid archosaur remains from the Early Triassic Bulgo Sandstone of Long Reef, New South Wales. Alcheringa 33, 331-337.

Kear, B.P. 2009. Opalized sea monsters and ancient polar oceans. Pp. 23-29. In Fossil Hunters, (J.G. Gehling, B.P. Kear, S. Miller, N.S. Pledge, E. Reed & R.T. Wells). South Australian Museum, Adelaide, 64 p.

Kear, B.P. 2009. Beast or bait fish? Australian Age of Dinosaurs 7, 6.

Kear, B.P., Milner, A.R. & Barrett, P.M. 2009. Plesiosaurs from the Jurassic-Cretaceous Purbeck Limestone Group of southern England. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 120, 121-125.

Kear, B.P., Rich, T.H., Ali, M.A., Al-Mufarrih, Y.A., Matiri, A.H., Masary, A.M. & Yousry, A. 2009. An Upper Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) actinopterygian fish assemblage from the marginal marine Adaffa Formation of Saudi Arabia. Cretaceous Research 30, 1164-1168.

Gehling, J.G., Kear, B.P., Miller, S., Pledge, N.S., Reed, E. & Wells, R.T. 2009. Fossil Hunters. South Australian Museum, Adelaide, 64 p.

Rich, T.H., Vickers-Rich, P., Flannery, T.F., Kear, B.P., Cantrill, D., Komarower, P., Kool, L., Pickering, D., Trusler, P., van Klaveren, N. & Fitzgerald. E.M.G. 2009. An Australian multituberculate and its palaeobiogeographical implications. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 54, 1-6.

Kear, B.P. 2008. Review of: Evolution and Biogeography of Australasian Vertebrates. John R. Merrick, Michael Archer, Georgina M. Hickey and Michael, S. Y. Lee (2006). Palaeontological Association Newsletter 68, 117-120.

Kear, B.P. 2008. From sea to sand – ancient marine reptiles from the deserts of Saudi Arabia. Deposits Magazine 16, 8-11.

Kear, B.P. & Godthelp, H. 2008. Inferred vertebrate bite marks on an Early Cretaceous unionoid bivalve from Lightning Ridge, Australia. Alcheringa 32, 65-71.

Kear, B.P. & Pledge, N.S. 2008. A new fossil kangaroo from the Oligocene-Miocene Etadunna Formation of Ngama Quarry, Lake Palankarinna, South Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 55, 331-339.

Kear, B.P., Lee, M.S.Y., Gerdtz, W.R. & Flannery, T.F. 2008. The evolution of hind limb proportions in kangaroos (Marsupialia: Macropodoidea). Pp. 25-35. In Mammalian Evolutionary Morphology: A Tribute to Frederick S. Szalay, (E.J. Sargis & M. Dagosto Eds). Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 400 p.

Kear, B.P., Rich, T.H., Ali, M.A., Al-Mufarrih, Y.A., Matiri, A.H., Masary, A.M. & Yousry, A. 2008. Late Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) marine reptiles from the Adaffa Formation, NW Saudi Arabia. Geological Magazine 145, 648-654.

Zammit, M., Daniels, C.B. & Kear, B.P. 2008. Elasmosaur neck flexibility: implications for hunting strategies. Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry A 150, 124-130.

Kear, B.P. 2007. First record of a pachycormid fish (Actinopterygii: Pachycormiformes) from the Early Cretaceous of Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27, 1033-1038.

Kear, B.P. 2007. A juvenile pliosauroid plesiosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of South Australia. Journal of Paleontology 81, 154-162.

Kear, B.P. 2007. Taxonomic clarification of the Australian elasmosaurid Eromangasaurus, with reference to other austral elasmosaur taxa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27, 241-246.

Kear, B.P. 2007. A plesiosaur ‘missing link’ from South Australia. Australian Age of Dinosaurs 5, 10.

Kear, B.P., Cooke, B.N., Archer, M. & Flannery, T.F. 2007. Implications of a new species of the Oligo-Miocene kangaroo (Marsupialia: Macropodoidea) Nambaroo, from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Queensland, Australia. Journal of Paleontology 81, 1147-1167.

Archer, M., Arena, D.A., Bassarova, M., Beck, R., Black, K., Boles, W.E., Brewer, P., Cooke, B.N., Crosby, K., Gillespie, A., Godthelp, H., Hand, S.J., Holt, T., Kear, B., Louys, J., Morrell, A., Muirhead, J., Roberts, K.K., Scanlon, J.D., Travouillon, K.T. & Wroe, S. 2007. Current status of species-level representation in faunas from selected fossil localities in the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland. Alcheringa Special Issue 1, 1-17.

Rich, T.H., Kear, B.P., Halawani, M.A., Ali, M.A., Al-Mufarrih, Y.A., Matiri, A.H. & Masary, A.M. 2007. Preliminary report on a vertebrate palaeontological investigation of the Middle Triassic Jilh Formation, central Saudi Arabia. Saudi Geological Survey Open-File Report SGS-OF-2007-2, 18 p.

Kear, B.P. 2006. First gut contents in a Cretaceous sea turtle. Biology Letters 2, 113-115.

Kear, B.P. 2006. Reassessment of Cratochelone berneyi Longman, 1915, a giant Early Cretaceous sea turtle from Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26, 779-783.

Kear, B.P. 2006. Marine reptiles from the Lower Cretaceous of South Australia: elements of a high-latitude cold water assemblage. Palaeontology 49, 837-856.

Kear, B.P. 2006. Plesiosaur remains from Cretaceous high-latitude non-marine deposits in southeastern Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26, 196-199.

Kear, B.P. 2006. Review of: Tasmanian Tiger by David Owen. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 13, 151-152.

Kear, B.P. & Lee. M.S.Y. 2006. A primitive protostegid from Australia and early sea turtle evolution. Biology Letters 2, 116-119.

Kear, B.P., Schroeder, N.I., & Lee, M.S.Y. 2006. An archaic crested plesiosaur in opal from the Lower Cretaceous high latitude deposits of Australia. Biology Letters 2, 615-619.

Kear, B.P., Schroeder, N.I., Vickers-Rich, P. & Rich, T.H. 2006. Early Cretaceous high latitude marine reptile assemblages from southern Australia. Paludicola 5, 200-205.

Hamilton-Bruce, R.J. & Kear, B.P. 2006. A new fossil non-marine snail (Gastropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous (Albian, Griman Creek Formation) of eastern Australia. Molluscan Research 26: 84-88.

Helgen, K.M., Wells, R.T., Kear, B.P., Gerdtz, W.R. & Flannery, T.F. 2006. Ecological and evolutionary significance of sizes of giant extinct kangaroos. Australian Journal of Zoology 54, 293-303.

Slater, B.J., McLoughlin, S. & Hilton, J. 2011. Guadalupian (Middle Permian) megaspores from a permineralised peat in the Bainmedart Coal Measures, Prince Charles Mountains, Antarctica. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 167, 140–155.

McLoughlin, S., Slater, B., Hilton, J. & Prevec, R., 2011. New vistas on animal–plant–fungal interactions in the Permian–Triassic of Gondwana. GFF 133, 66–67. (extended abstract)

The Natural History Museum, London
Greg Edgecombe continues work on the higher-level phylogenetics of arthropods, Palaeozoic Arthropoda known from soft-part preservation, and the evolution of centipedes.

  The Cambrian research group at the NHM has a focus on resolving the sequence of branching and character evolution in the arthropod stem-group. Xiaoya Ma is an expert in Cambrian lobopodians, with a three-year post-doc investigating sensory structures in Chengjiang and Burgess Shale moulting animals (Ecdysozoa) and neuroanatomy of extant ecdysozoans. Allison Daley is a Swedish Research Council post-doc from 2011-2013, working on the systematics, ontogeny and morphometrics of anomalocaridids, especially from the Burgess Shale. David Legg’s PhD project at Imperial College incorporates fossil diversity into a morphological dataset for arthropod cladistics, as well as describing new Palaeozoic arthropods from the Burgess Shale and Herefordshire Silurian Lagerstätten.

Research on Australian palaeontology concentrates on the Emu Bay Shale Konservat-Lagerstätte (Cambrian Stage 4) on Kangaroo Island. Publications based on discoveries from excavations at Buck Quarry since 2007 have documented new arthropods, including well-preserved compound eyes, the first Australian leanchoiliid, and a new group of nektaspids (“trilobitomorphs”). Current work on the Emu Bay Shale includes a description of the palaeoscolecids, a vetulicolian, the eyes of Anomalocaris, and several more new arthropods.

Research on centipede systematics concentrates on higher-level phylogeny using morphology and molecular sequence data, the systematics of Australian Scutigeromorpha, new phylogenetic characters for the Scolopendromorpha, and centipedes from various amber deposits. Projects and publications are on my website: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/projects/evolution-centipedes/index.html

Campbell, L.I., Rota-Stabelli, O., Edgecombe, G.D., Marchioro, T., Longhorn, S.J., Philippe, H., Telford, M.J., Rebecchi, L., Peterson, K.J. & Pisani, D. 2011. MicroRNAs and phylogenomics resolve the phylogenetic relationships of the Tardigrada, and suggest the velvet worms as the sister group of Arthropoda. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 10.1073/pnas.1105499108.

Edgecombe, G.D. 2011. Chilopoda – The fossil history, p. 355-361. In: Minelli, A. (ed.), Treatise on Zoology – The Myriapoda, Volume 1. Brill, Leiden.

Edgecombe, G.D., García-Bellido, D.C. & Paterson, J.R. 2011. A new leanchoiliid megacheiran arthropod from the lower Cambrian Emu Bay Shale, South Australia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56, 373-388.

Edgecombe, G.D., Giribet, G., Dunn, C.W., Hejnol, A., Kristensen, R.M., Neves, R.C., Rouse, G.W., Worsaae, K. and Sørensen, M.V. 2011. Higher-level metazoan relationships: recent progress and remaining questions. Organisms, Diversity & Evolution 11, 151-172.

Garwood, R.J. & Edgecombe, G.D. 2011. Early terrestrial animals, evolution and uncertainty. Evolution: Education and Outreach 4, 489-501.

Gehling, J.G., Jago, J.B., Paterson, J.R., García-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.

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

Rota-Stabelli, O., Campbell, L., Brinkmann, H., Edgecombe, G.D., Longhorn, S.J., Peterson, K.J., Pisani, D., Philippe, H. & Telford, M.J. 2011. A congruent solution to arthropod phylogeny: phylogenomics, microRNAs and morphology support monophyletic Mandibulata. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B (Biological Sciences) 278, 298-306.

Edgecombe, G.D. 2010. Arthropod phylogeny: an overview from the perspectives of morphology, molecular data and the fossil record. Arthropod Structure & Development 39, 74-87.

Edgecombe, G.D. 2010. Palaeomorphology: fossils and the inference of cladistic relationships. Acta Zoologica 91, 72-80.

Murienne, J., Edgecombe, G.D. & Giribet, G. 2010. Including secondary structure, fossils and molecular dating in the centipede tree of life. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 57, 301-313.

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

Shear, W.A. & Edgecombe, G.D. 2010. The geological record and phylogeny of the Myriapoda. Arthropod Structure & Development 39, 174-190.

Daley, A.C., Budd, G.E., Caron, J.-B., Edgecombe, G.D. & Collins, D. 2009. The Burgess Shale anomalocaridid Hurdia and its significance for early euarthropod evolution. Science 323, 1597-1600.

Edgecombe, G.D. 2009. Palaeontological and molecular evidence linking arthropods, onychophorans and other Ecdysozoa. Evolution: Education and Outreach 2, 178-190.

Edgecombe, G.D., Minelli, A. & Bonato, L. 2009. A geophilomorph centipede (Chilopoda) from La Buzinie amber (Late Cretaceous: Cenomanian), SW France. Geodiversitas 31, 29-39.

García-Bellido D.C., Paterson, J.R., Edgecombe, G.D., Jago, J.B., Gehling, J.G. & Lee, M.S.Y. 2009. The bivalved arthropods Isoxys and Tuzoia with soft-part preservation from the lower Cambrian Emu Bay Shale Lagerstätte (Kangaroo Island, Australia). Palaeontology 52, 1121-1141.

Giribet, G., Dunn, C.W., Edgecombe, G.D., Hejnol, A., Martindale, M.Q. & Rouse, G.W. 2009. Assembling the spiralian Tree of Life, p. 52-64. In: Telford, M.J. & Littlewood, D.T.J. (eds.), Animal evolution: genomes, fossils and trees. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Hejnol, A., Obst, M., Stamatakis, A., Ott, M., Rouse, G.W., Edgecombe, G.D., Martinez, P., Baguñà, J., Bailly, X., Jondelius, U., Wiens, M., Müller, W.E.G., Seaver, E., Wheeler, W.C., Martindale, M.Q., Giribet, G. & Dunn, C.W. 2009. Assessing the root of bilaterian animals with scalable phylogenomic methods. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B (Biological Sciences) 276, 4261-4270.

Dunn, C.W., Hejnol, A., Matus, D.Q., Pang, K., Browne, W.E., Smith, S.A., Seaver, E., Rouse, G.W., Obst, M., Edgecombe, G.D., Sørensen, M.V., Haddock, S.H.D., Schmidt-Rhaesa, A., Okusu, A., Kristensen, R., Wheeler, W.C., Martindale, M.Q. & Giribet, G. 2008. Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the Animal Tree of Life. Nature 452, 745-749.

Edgecombe, G.D. 2008. Anatomical nomenclature: homology, standardization and datasets. Zootaxa 1950, 87-95.

Paterson, J.R., Jago, J.B., Gehling, J.G., García-Bellido Capdevila, D., Edgecombe, G.D. & Lee, M.S.Y. 2008. Early Cambrian arthropods from the Emu Bay Shale Lagerstätte, South Australia. In: Rábano, I., Gozalo, R. and García-Bellido, D. (eds.), Advances in Trilobite Research. Cuadernos del Museo Geominero 9, 319-325.

Edgecombe, G.D. & Webby, B.D. 2007. Ordovician trilobites with eastern Gondwanan affinities from central-west New South Wales and Tasmania. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 34, 255-281.

Giribet, G., Dunn, C.W., Edgecombe, G.D. & Rouse, G.W. 2007. A modern look at the Animal Tree of Life. Zootaxa 1668, 61-79.
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UNITED STATES
University of Oregon
Greg Retallack has been wrapping up a variety of Paleozoic paleosol projects, but continues with studies of Ediacaran paleosols from South Australia, Boston and Newfoundland, and Archean paleosols from the Pilbara region of Western Australia. New views of Devonian tetrapod and tree evolution were published in 2011. Other Paleozoic projects in progress include reassessments of the Devonian tree lichen Prototaxites from New York, and the Silurian problematicum Rutgersella from Pennsylvania. Ediacaran and Archean paleosol studies are mainly aimed at understanding paleoclimate and paleoenvironments on land, but also are revealing surprising evidence of life on land.

As director of the Condon Collection of fossils at the University of Oregon, Greg has been updating the computer catalog for publication online in the near future. This important collection includes materials going back to nineteenth century pioneering paleontologist Thomas Condon, and about 50 holotypes and published specimens, largely from Oregon. Fund raising has recently enabled significant expansion of geological-paleontological exhibits. Still needed is $6 million for storage and research laboratories.

Huang, C.-M., Retallack, G.J., & Wang, C.S. 2010. Cretaceous calcareous paleosols: pedogenetic characteristics and paleoenvironmental implications. Acta Pedologica Sinica 47, 1029-1038 (in Chinese).

Metzger, C.A. & Retallack, G.J. 2010. Middle Miocene climate change in the Australian outback. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 57, 871-885.

Retallack, G.J. 2010a. Lateritization and bauxitization events. Economic Geology 105, 655-667.

Retallack, G.J. 2010c. First evidence for locomotion in the Ediacara biota from the 565 Ma Mistaken Point Formation, Newfoundland: comment. Geology 38. e223.

Retallack, G.J. & Huang, C.-M. 2010. Depth to gypsic horizon as a proxy for paleoprecipitation in paleosols of sedimentary environments. Geology 38, 403-406.

Retallack, G.J. 2011a. Neoproterozoic glacial loess and limits to snowball Earth. Geological Society of London Journal 168, 1-19.

Retallack, G.J. 2011b. Woodland hypothesis for Devonian evolution of tetrapods. Journal of Geology 119, 235-258.

Retallack, G.J. 2011c. Exceptional fossil preservation during CO₂ greenhouse crises? Palaeogeography Palaeclimatology Paleoecology 307, 59-74.

Retallack, G.K., Sheldon, N.D., Carr, P.F., Fanning, M., Thompson, C.A., Williams, M.L., Jones, B.G. & Hutton, A. 2011. Multiple Early Triassic greenhouse crises impeded recovery from Late Permian mass extinction. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 308, 233-251.

Retallack G.J. & Huang, C.-M. 2011. Ecology and evolution of Devonian trees in New York, USA. Palaeogeography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology 299, 110-128.

Los Angeles Basin, California
Mary L. Droser (University of California, Riverside) is working with Jim Gehling (South Australian Museum) on the paleoecology, taphonomy and distribution of the Ediacara Biota.

Publications:

Droser, M.L. & Gehling, J. 2008. Synchronous aggregate growth in an abundant new Ediacaran tubular organism. Science 319, 1660-1662.

Gehling, J.G. & Droser, M.L. 2009. Textured organic surfaces associated with the Ediacara Biota in South Australia. Earth-Science Reviews 96, 196-206.

Tarhan, L., Droser, M. & Gehling, J. 2010. Taphonomic controls on Ediacaran diversity: Uncovering the holdfast origin of morphologically variable enigmatic structures. Palaios 25, 823-830.

Sappenfield, A., Droser, M. & Gehling, J. 2011. Problematica, trace fossils, and tubes within the Ediacara Member (South Australia): Redefining the Ediacaran trace fossil record one tube at a time. Journal of Paleontology 85, 256-265.
Bill Schopf (UCLA) was a Visiting Professor at the University of New South Wales from mid-May through late July.  Sponsored by the UNSW Australian Centre for Astrobiology, he participated in the Centre’s symposium on the timing and nature of the origin of oxygenic photosynthesis; presented lectures at UNSW, Macquarie University and (in August) the South Australian Museum; and carried out field work in Western Australia and laboratory research at UNSW.

Publications:

Schopf, J. W. & Kudryavtsev, A. B. 2010. A renaissance in studies of ancient life.  Geology Today 26: 140-145.

Schopf, J.W., Kudryavtsev, A.B., Sugitani, K. & Walter, M.R. 2010. Precambrian microbe-like pseudofossils: a promising solution to the problem. Precambrian Research 179, 191-205.

Moczydłowska, M., Schopf, J.W. & Willman, S. 2010. Micro- and nano-scale ultrastructure of cell walls in Cryogenian microfossils: revealing their biological affinity. Lethaia 43, 129-136.  

Narbonne, G.M., Schopf, J.W., & Walter, M.R. 2010. Hans J. Hofmann (1936-2010). Geology 39, 13-14.
Bruce Runnegar (UCLA) is working with Linda Ivany and Andrew Bush (Syracuse University) as well as Dan Petrizzo and Ed Young (UCLA) on using the sclerochronology of Eurydesma shells to test hypotheses about palaeotemperatures and ocean water oxygen isotopic compositions during the Late Palaeozoic Ice Age (LPIA). Dan has recently developed clumped isotope palaeothermometry in Ed Young’s lab to allow comparisons with conventional oxygen isotope profiles obtained from shells. Bruce also continues a long-term collaboration with Jim Gehling (South Australian Museum) on the latest Cryogenian and Ediacaran of the Flinders Ranges.

Publications:

Ivany, L.C. & Runnegar, B. 2010. Early Permian seasonality from bivalve δ¹⁸O and implications for the oxygen isotopic composition of seawater. Geology 38, 1027-1030.

Kouchinsky, A., Bengtson, S., Runnegar, B., Skovsted, C., Steiner, M. & Vendrasco, M. 2011. Chronology of Cambrian biomineralisation. Geological Magazine (published online, July 2011).

Saltzman, M.R., Young, S.A., Kump, L.R., Gill, B., Lyons, T.W. & Runnegar, B. 2011. Pulse of atmospheric oxygen during the Late Cambrian. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108, 3876-3881.

Long, J.A. 2010.  The Rise of Fishes. 500 Million Years of Evolution. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore (2^nd ed.).

Young, G.C., Burrow, C.J., Long, J.A., Turner, S. & Choo, B. 2010.  Devonian macrovertebrate assemblages and biogeography of East Gondwana (Australia, Antarctica). Palaeoworld 19, 55-74.

Clement, A. & Long, J.A. 2010. Air-breathing adaptation in a marine Devonian lungfish. Biology Letters 6, 509-512.

Holland, T., Long, J.A. & Snitting, D. 2010. New information on the enigmatic tetrapodomorph fish Marsdenichthys longioccipitus (Long, 1985). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30, 68-77.

Clement, A. & Long, J.A. 2010. Xeradipterus gen. nov., a new holodontid lungfish from the Late Devonian Gogo Formation, Western Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30, 681-695.

Long, J.A. & Trinajstic, K. 2010. The Late Devonian Gogo Formation Lagerstatte – Exceptional preservation and Diversity in early Vertrebrates. Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences 38, 665-680.

Long ,J.A., Hall, B.K., McNamara, K.J. & Smith, M.M. 2010. The phylogenetic origin of jaws in vertebrates: Developmental plasticity and heterochrony.   Kirtlandia 57, 43-50.

Long, J. 2010. Once Upon an Ancient Reef. Science 329, 35-36.

Stilwell, J. & Long, J.A. 2011. Frozen in Time. Prehistoric life of Antarctica. CSIRO Press, Collingwood, 248 pp.

Long, J.A. 2011. Hung Like an Argentine Duck. A Journey to the Origins of Intimacy. HarperCollins, 278 pp. Also titled Origins of Intimacy, University of Chicago Press.

Long, J.A. 2011. The Dawn of the Deed. Scientific American January 2011, 34-39.

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Greg Edgecombe
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Division of Earth Sciences, Earth Studies building (C02)

School of Environmental and Rural Science

University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351

Phone: (02) 6773 2101

Fax: (02) 6773 3300

Email: jpater20@une.edu.au

Ian Percival

Geological Survey of NSW

WB Clarke Geoscience Centre

947-953 Londonderry Rd,

Londonderry. NSW Australia 2753

tel. (02) 4777 0315

e-mail: ian.percival@industry.nsw.gov.au

Roger Pierson

School of Life and Environmental Sciences,

Deakin University Burwood Campus,

221 Burwood Highway, Burwood. Victoria 3125