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------S------D------S------ SUBCOMMISSION ON DEVONIAN STRATIGRAPHY NEWSLETTER NO. 25 R.T. BECKER, Editor WWU Münster Germany February 2010 ISSN 2074-7268 Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy SDS Newsletter No 25 February 2010 CONTENT Message from the Chairman 1 TM J.-G. CASIER 73 Obituary G. BECKER (E. SCHINDLER) 3 CM C. CORRADINI 74 Obituary E. YOLKIN (J. TALENT et al.) 3 CM J. EBERT 75 TM J HLADIL 77 Reports TM N. IZOKH 78 Subcommission on Devonian TM U. JANSEN 79 Stratigraphy – Annual Report 2009 to 7 CM S. I. KAISER 81 ICS (R.T. BECKER) CM S. KRUCHEK 82 Minutes of Cincinnati Business 12 TM MA X.-P. 84 Meeting (J.E. MARSHALL) CM E. MARK-KURIK 85 Annual Report of IGCP 499 17 TM J. E. MARSHALL 87 (P. KÖNIGSHOF et al.) CM M. NARKIEWICZ 87 TM J. OVER 88 SDS Documents CM N. OVNATANOVA 89 Brief comments on the Future Pragian TM G. RACKI 90 Subdivision and Revision of the 19 TM E. SCHINDLER 90 Emsian (J.I. VALENZUELA-RÍOS & P. CM L. SLAVIK 93 CARLS) CM C. SPALETTA 93 New Ammonoid Records from the CM TA Hoa Phuong 94 Lower Emsian of the Kitab Reserve 20 TM J. I. VALENZUELA-RIOS 94 (Uzbekistan) - Preliminary Results CM C. VER STRAETEN 95 (R.T. BECKER et al.) CM M. T. WHALEN 97 New Early Devonian (Emsian) facies 29 of Myanmar (K. MIN & A.K. AUNG) Eustatic Events and Upper Emsian Editorial substages (Lower Devonian) 35 The SDS Newsletter is published annually by (V. TSYGANKO) the International Subcommission on Devonian Emsian to basal Givetian ostracode Stratigraphy of the IUGS Subcommission on faunas from SW Morocco (C. DOJEN et 37 Stratigraphy (ICS). It publishes reports and al.) news from its membership, scientific Origin of Siphonodella (H. TRAGELEHN) 41 discussions, Minutes of SDS Meetings, SDS reports to ICS, general IUGS information, Meetings information on past and future Devonian European Geoscience Union, session 44 meetings and research projects, and reviews SSP2.1 or summaries of new Devonian publications. ICS Workshop, Prague 2010 45 3. International Palaeontological 49 Editor: Prof. Dr. R. Thomas BECKER Congress, London 2010 SDS CHAIRMAN STRATI 2010, Paris 53 Institut für Geologie und GeoDarmstadt 2010 55 Paläontologie 34th IGC, Brisbane 2012 55 Westfälische Wilhelms- Novosibirsk 2011 56 Universität Corrensstr. 24 Publications D-48149 Münster, Germany Palaeontographica Americana 57 [email protected] Devonian Reef Complexes 57 GTS 2010 59 Circulation: 120 hard copies, pdf files of current and past Membership News issues are freely available from the SDS Homepage at CM G.C. BAIRD 64 www.unica.it/sds/ CM A. J. BARTHOLOMEW 65 TM R.T. BECKER and the Münster 66 Submissions have to be sent electronically, Group preferably as Word Documents or pdf files, to CM M. A. BRADSHAW 70 the Editor or to Mrs. S. KLAUS, IGP, Münster CM D. BRICE 71 ([email protected]). CM R. BROCKE 71 Submission deadline is the end of each CM P. BULTYNCK 72 calendar year. Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy SDS Newsletter No 25 February 2010 MESSAGES FROM THE CHAIRMAN First of all, a healthy, joyful, peaceful and terminal Devonian tropical mountain glaciation successful year 2010 to all of you. has just been published in the Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, (BREZINSKI et 2009 has seen a lot of activities and al., 2010, vol. 122 (1/2), pp. 265-281). achievements of SDS, which have been summarized in the annual report to ICS 2009 ended for SDS, unfortunately, with an included in this issue. If you read it carefully, event of great sadness. Rather unexpectedly, you will notice that we definitely have to make but after prolonged illness, Zhenya YOLKIN, progress this year concerning the formal our most respected long-term SDS member proposals of our decided Givetian and from Russia, died shortly after Christmas. Frasnian substages. During a recent meeting Zhenya not only had a most impressive with some ICS officers the procedure for ICS Devonian research record and immense ratification of formal substages has been scientific knowledge but he was a most questioned (once again). Certainly, it will be thorough, likeable and stimulating person that discussed during the forthcoming Prague influenced many of our colleagues from Workshop of ICS, which details are included Novosibirsk and other (former) Soviet regions. in the Meetings section. As it has been He was one of the first Russian Devonian announced, this general workshop on workers that I met when I started to attend chronostratigraphy and ICS activities and international meetings and, therefore, knew methods is open to everybody and I hope to him for more than twenty years. I am very sad see several SDS members – apart from our that he now passed away. SDS hoped that he local specialists - in Prague. In November the would be the mentor of our planned field proceedings volume of our 2007 Nevada symposium in the next year, as he was at our meeting came out in the Palaeontographica highly successful 2005 meeting. John TALENT Americana series (No. 63). The content is and our colleagues from Novosibirsk have sent shown in the Publications section. The volume a well written obituary that gives a lively is highly recommended to all members. It is summary of Zhenya´s work, life, and especially useful to have the abstracts of all personality. It allow us to keep him in our best those presentations included that did not lead memory. to a full manuscript. The added CD with the Nevada Fieldguide should be emphasized, too. The German Devonian Subcommission and Congratulations to Jeff OVER for this the international community of ostracode considerable effort and for the fine editing job. workers has also to mourn the loss of one of its Now that several important Famennian papers most active and experienced specialists. are available to everybody, Famennian votes Gerhard BECKER died in December at the age will go ahead. of 81, leaving an incredible amount of Devonian ostracode publications. He was The highlight of 2009 was the NAPC meeting always good to stimulate discussions at our in late June/early July with its two Devonian German Subcommission meetings. When I symposia, jointly with IGCP 499, our business met him first in 1984 he suggested that I meeting (see Minutes by John MARSHALL), and should change my name since there could be the splendid excursions to the Devonian of only one BECKER in Devonian stratigraphy. Kentucky, Ohio, and Michigan, which SDS had Well, I did not but we kept a rather friendly never visited previously. Carl BRETT, Alex communication, even after I dared to describe BARTHOLOMEW, Gordon BAIRD, Mike DESANTIS, a few ostracods. and many others made an excellent job to lead us in the field, copied and distributed old SDS has continued in 2009 its high level of papers and monographs that are difficult to publication production, often in association with access outside the U.S., and prepared IGCP 499. Apart from the Nevada volume wonderful field books with many unpublished mentioned above, Geological Society of data. However, there is still much to learn London, Special Publication 314 on about the Devonian and its regional and “Devonian Change – Case studies in international correlation of those regions and Palaeogeography and Palaeoecology”, edited some of the samples taken during the field trip by Peter KÖNIGSHOF, has to be strongly already provided new and sometimes recommended. Its content was advertised in surprising results. The incredible dropstone of Newsletter 24. The Bulletin of Geosciences probable “Hangenberg age”, deposited far continues to publish important Devonian away from the obviously glaciated Appalachian papers, for example, as part of her Ph.D., the Mountains, was one of the most intriguing update on conodont stratigraphy around the outcrops shown in the field. A paper on this Chotec Event by Stanislava BERKYOVÁ (No. 84 1 Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy SDS Newsletter No 25 February 2010 (4), pp. 667-686). This newsletter includes a overview of his important results concerning review of the wonderful monograph on the pre-Hangenberg siphonodellids for this Devonian reef complexes of the Canning newsletter, prior to formal publication, hopefully Basin, published by Phil PLAYFORD, Roger later this year. HOCKING, and Tony COCKBAIRN as a Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Western At our Uzbekistan business meeting in 2008 it Australia (No. 145). Carl BRETT, Eberhard was agreed that (preliminary) results SCHINDLER, and Peter KÖNIGSHOF have almost concerning the revision of the Emsian GSSP finished their job with the Middle Devonian should be submitted until 2010, as a base for volume to be published in Palaeogeography, general discussion and for later joint formal Palaeoclimatology and Palaeoecology, publication. Together with Kenneth DE BAETS hopefully still this year. I have finished the draft and Svetlana NIKOLAEVA I have made a start for an update of the Devonian chapter for the concerning the early ammonoids from the future new Geological Timescale volume and Khodzha-Kurgan Gorge, which are relevant for Felix GRADSTEIN and I will have to ponder the Emsian substage discussion, not for the about the absolute scaling of the new Emsian base. Our conodont workers, stratigraphical charts in the next months to unfortunately, have not yet been too come. Unfortunately, there are no good new successful. As you can gather from their absolute ages to be incorporated. I would be Membership News, polygnathids are rather most thankful to learn about any new age poor at the proposed/intended future GSSP determinations that might be in the pipeline. level. However, there are several other The claimed extreme duration between the documents that deal with the Emsian, which ages from the lower Eifelian Tioga ashes and shows that we can have a lively Emsian those from the Wettelsdorf GSSP tuff and debate, based on some new data, at London.
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