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CHAIRMAN’S COLUMN...... 1 SECRETARY / EDITOR’S REPORT 2006-2007...... 1 SCCS ANNUAL REPORT 2006...... 2 TASK/PROJECT GROUP REPORTS...... 5 Report of the Task Group to establish a GSSP close to the traditional . Tournaisan-Viséan boundary...... 5 Report of the Task Group to establish a GSSP close to the traditional . Viséan-Serpukhovian boundary...... 5 Report of the Task Group to establish a GSSP close to the existing . Bashkirian-Moscovian boundary...... 6 Report of the Task Group to establish the Moscovian-Kasimovian . and Kasimovian-Gzhelian boundaries...... 7

CONTRIBUTIONS BY MEMBERS...... 8 Afanasievo section – neostratotype of Kasimovian Stage (Upper Pennsylvanian Series), Moscow Basin, central Russia (Goreva et al.)...... 8 Carboniferous Conference Cologne 2006 – From Platform to Basin: . A research and field conference sponsored by SEPM-CES (Aretz and Herbig)...... 14 The Carboniferous of Germany (Herbig) ...... 15

SCCS VOTING & CORRESPONDING MEMBERSHIP 2007...... 17 SCCS OFFICERS AND VOTING MEMBERS 2004-2008...... 26 Newsletter on Carboniferous Stratigraphy Edited by D.M. Work IUGS SUBCOMMISSION ON CARBONIFEROUS STRATIGRAPHY / VOL. 25 - 2007

CHAIRMAN’S COLUMN Carboniferous Workshop with task group meetings, reports of the This past year has seen more progress in the selection of Boundary Task Groups, and an SCCS meeting at the Congress. Two stage boundaries, as is detailed in the individual reports that of the post-congress field trips will visit localities with great interest follow. The Tournaisian-Viséan boundary Task Group has for proposed and potential Carboniferous stage-boundary GSSPs made minor adjustments to its formal GSSP proposal for the in southern China. One will visit the proposed Tournaisian-Viséan Pengchong section in southern China prior to submittal for the boundary stratotype at Pengchong in western Guangxi Province. Subcommission vote. The Viséan-Serpukhovian Boundary The other will visit the Nashui roadcut in Guizhou Province, which Task Group is further evaluating the conodont lineage Lochriea exposes the complete late Mississippian through Pennsylvanian nodosa – Lochriea ziegleri, which is fairly widely distributed section that may provide candidates for several of the remaining across Eurasia. A potential candidate section for the GSSP reported boundary stratotypes. by Russian workers from the eastern slope of the southern Urals SCCS Newsletter Funding in 2005 is undergoing further detailed study. In addition, several workers are studying various sections across the boundary interval The serious problem that I described last year regarding the in North America to search for other biostratigraphically useful funding for printing and distributing this Newsletter has been fossils and to acquire C-isotope data, in order to try to bracket partially alleviated by an increase in contributions from several the boundary there so that correlation can be established in additional generous members than previously, for which I am case the Lochriea lineage is not discovered in that region. The very grateful. However, due to further cutbacks in IUGS/ISC Bashkirian-Moscovian Boundary Task Group continues more support, we are still facing a potential shortfall in funding for future detailed investigation of two conodont lineages, involving the first publication of the Newsletter. Therefore, I again strongly urge all appearances of Idiognathodus postsulcatus and Declinognathodus those of you who are able, to make as generous a donation as you donetzianus. Discovery of a new section with the latter taxon can afford, in order to ensure the continuing publication of the beyond its previously known limits has been reported from the Newsletter. Please use the form that is inserted into the Newsletter, southern Urals, and it might be a potential GSSP candidate. for making your donation. Thank you very much. In addition, several members are developing a proposal for considering the first appearance of the conodontDiplognathodus ellesmerensis, which appears to have an even more widespread Philip H. Heckel distribution than the other lineages. The combined Moscovian- June, 2007 Kasimovian and Kasimovian-Gzhelian Boundary Task Group is examining more closely the taxonomy involved in the conodont lineages that appear useful for boundary recognition, utilizing the correlation charts across both boundaries that are based on the scales of glacial-eustatic cyclothems plus conodont and fusulinid SECRETARY / EDITOR’S REPORT biostratigraphy. These charts appeared initially in the 2005 Newsletter, and an updated article will be published in the July 2006-2007 2007 issue of Geology. The task group reached nearly unanimous consensus that the Kasimovian-Gzhelian boundary be marked I want to thank all who provided articles for inclusion in by the first appearance of the conodont Idiognathodus simulator Volume 25 of the Newsletter on Carboniferous Stratigraphy. . [sensu stricto], which is common in both Eurasia and North I am indebted to P. H. Heckel for editorial assistance; and to . America. A potential GSSP candidate section for this boundary P. Thorson Work for coordinating the compilation of this issue. has been proposed in the marine slope deposits at Usolka in the Future Issues of Newsletter on Carboniferous Stratigraphy southern Urals. Marine slope deposits are also known in southern China, where preliminary work on the conodont succession at the Next year’s Volume 26 will be finalized by July 2008, Nashui roadcut near Luodian in Guizhou Province, published in and I request that all manuscripts be sent before May 31—but 2003, shows an apparently complete slope succession extending preferably earlier. Please read the section below (page 4) regarding from late Mississippian through the entire Pennsylvanian and into submission format, especially manuscript length (no more than 5 the Lower Permian. Further detailed work at this section may double-spaced manuscript pages without prior approval). Finally, provide the basis for several GSSP candidates for the remaining I would be most grateful if all voting and corresponding members stage-boundary stratotypes. of the SCCS would let me know of any changes to their mailing and e-mail addresses so that we can update our records. ICCP 2007: XVI International Carboniferous-Permian

Congress in Nanjing David M. Work The XVI International Carboniferous-Permian Congress will take place June 21-24, 2007, in Nanjing, China. We will have a

July 2007  SCCS ANNUAL REPORT 2006

Membership Task Group to establish the fern taxonomy: new approach through the The Subcommission had 21 vot- Bashkirian-Moscovian boundary compact model; Discovery of potential ing members in 2006 [see list at end of [which is also the base of the Middle Bashkirian-Moscovian boundary marker Newsletter]. In addition, corresponding Pennsylvanian Series] chaired by John conodont Declinognathodus donetzianus in membership at the time of publication Groves of USA. south Urals; Fusulinoidea of Kasimovian- Gzhelian transition in northern Timan; stands at 293 persons and 7 libraries. Task Group to establish the Potential candidate for GSSP to define Moscovian-Kasimovian boundary base of global Gzhelian Stage at Usolka [which is also the base of the Upper section in south Urals; Conodont and Officers Pennsylvanian Series], chaired by Elisa ammonoid distribution across position of Chair:. Villa of Spain. This group is also dealing proposed Kasimovian-Gzhelian boundary Dr. Philip H. Heckel. with the Kasimovian-Gzhelian boundary in lower Virgilian strata in Midcontinent within the Upper Pennsylvanian Series. North America; Latest calibration of Department of Geoscience. Middle to Late Pennsylvanian time University of Iowa. Project Group on Upper Paleozoic scale using succession of Midcontinent Iowa City, IA 52242. boreal biota, stratigraphy and cyclothems; Kasimovian and Gzhelian U.S.A.. biogeography, chaired by Marina Durante (Upper Pennsylvanian) conodont zonation Fax: +1 (319) 335-1821. of Russia. in Russia, for a total of 53 pages. Email: [email protected] Project Group on Carboniferous Work Plan for 2007 and Vice-Chair:. magnetostratigraphy, chaired by Mark Following Years Dr. Geoffrey Clayton. Hounslow of United Kingdom. The SCCS is looking forward to the Department of Geology. XVI International Carboniferous-Permian Trinity College. Chief Accomplishments Congress in Nanjing, China, in late June of 2007, where there will be meetings of the Dublin 2. in 2006 and Early 2007 task groups at a Carboniferous workshop, IRELAND. and the traditional meeting of the SCCS, Fax: 3531-6711199. The final adjustments have been made to the GSSP proposal for the Tournaisian- along with several field trips. One field trip Email: [email protected] Viséan boundary. Work on the Viséan- (C2) will visit the proposed Tournaisian- Serpukhovian, Bashkirian-Moscovian, and Viséan boundary stratotype GSSP at Secretary/Editor:. Moscovian-Kasimovian boundaries has Pengchong in western Guangxi Province. Dr. David M. Work. reached the point where several informal Another field trip (C3) will visit the Nashui Maine State Museum. proposals on event markers for those roadcut near Luodian in southern Guizhou 83 State House Station. boundaries have been narrowed down Province, which exposes a succession to one to three lineages, mostly among from late Mississippian through the Augusta, ME 04333. entire Pennsylvanian and into the Lower U.S.A.. conodonts. The remaining proposals are now under intensive discussion and have Permian, and thus may provide candidates Fax: +1 (207) 287-6633. engendered much further research in for several of the remaining boundary Email: [email protected] several areas on the lineages and also on stratotype GSSPs. potential candidates for GSSPs for at least Tournaisian-Viséan boundary. This Task and Exploratory Project two of the boundaries. The event marker task group has now adjusted the final Groups for the Kasimovian-Gzhelian boundary details in the formal proposal for the GSSP was voted by the task group to be placed at the Pengchong section in southern Task Group to establish the at the first appearance of the conodont China, for a late 2007 SCCS ballot on Tournaisian-Viséan boundary [which is Idiognathodus simulator (Ellison 1941) the GSSP, before submittal to the ICS also the base of the Middle Mississippian [sensu stricto]. and IUGS. Series], chaired by George Sevastopulo of Ireland. The Newsletter on Carboniferous Viséan-Serpukhovian boundary. This Stratigraphy, Volume 24, published in task group has agreed in principle that Task Group to establish the Viséan- July 2006, contains reports of the task the conodont lineage Lochriea nodosa – Serpukhovian boundary [which is also groups for 2005-6 and 9 articles on Lochriea ziegleri provides the most likely the base of the Upper Mississippian various topics of interest, including: The boundary-defining event. It is focusing Series], chaired by Barry Richards of Dombar Limestone in the south Urals work on other biostratigraphically useful Canada. and the Viséan-Serpukhovian boundary; fossils across the boundary in areas where Succession and correlation of Viséan this lineage is not yet found, and on floras of the equatorial belt; Pennsylvanian evaluating information from a potential

 Carboniferous Newsletter GSSP section in the eastern slope of the interval. It will utilize the cyclothem- Progress appears to have been southern Urals that was first presented at based correlation chart of strata across sufficient in all task groups, such that the the May 2005 Liege meeting. this boundary interval as one of the bases selection of the boundary-defining events for evaluation. for all the remaining stage boundaries in Bashkirian-Moscovian boundary. the Carboniferous may be achieved by This task group is now focusing more Kasimovian-Gzhelian boundary. 2008. However, the strong glacial-eustatic work on evaluating the proposals for The same task group will further discuss control over sedimentation that resulted in boundary-defining events in the conodont the conodont lineage leading to the widespread exposure surfaces across entire lineages involving the first appearances appearance of Idiognathodus simulator shelves during the time spanning at least of Idiognathoides postsulcatus and [s.s.], which has been overwhelmingly the upper two boundaries is hampering Declinognathodus donetzianus, and is voted as the boundary-defining event. A the identification of potentially acceptable considering a new possibility involving potential GSSP candidate at Usolka in GSSPs. Nevertheless, possible candidate the first appearance of Diplognathodus the southern Urals has been proposed in GSSPs for several of the boundaries are ellesmerensis. the Slovenian journal Geologija. Recent being further investigated in the southern taxonomic work on the lineage from I. Moscovian-Kasimovian boundary. Urals and southern China. Increasingly aff. simulator to I. simulator [s.s.] in This task group will further evaluate the precise ID-TIMS measurements of U- North America has been submitted for conodont and fusulinid lineages proposed Pb zircon ages of volcanic tuff beds in publication. A late 2007 SCCS ballot as boundary-defining events, and deal the southern Urals indicate progress in is anticipated to finalize the boundary- with the taxonomic issues involved dating biostratigraphically constrained defining event. in these lineages across the boundary successions across important boundaries.

STATEMENT OF OPERATING ACCOUNTS FOR 2005/2006 Prepared by David Work, Secretary (Definitive accounts maintained in US currency)

INCOME (Oct. 31, 2005 – Oct. 31, 2006) IUGS-ICS Grant 2006 $800.00 Donations from Members 1775.00 Interest 14.41 TOTAL INCOME $2589.41

EXPENDITURE Newsletter 24 (printing) $647.64 Postage for bulk mailings 548.90 Mailing/Office Supplies 243.28 Bank Charges 10.00 TOTAL EXPENDITURE $1449.82

BALANCE SHEET (2005 – 2006) Funds carried forward from 2004 – 2005 $1529.51 PLUS Income 2005 – 2006 2589.41 LESS Expenditure 2005 – 2006 -1449.82 CREDIT balance carried forward to 2007 $2669.10

July 2007  Donations in 2006/2007: Publication of the Newsletter on Carboniferous Stratigraphy is made possible with generous donations received from members/institutes during 2006-2007 and anonymous donations, combined with an IUGS subsidy of US $800 in 2006, and additional support from a small group of members who provide internal postal charges for the Newsletter within their respective geographic regions. A. Blieck, D. R. Boardman, W. R. Danner, F. R. Ettensohn, W. H. Gillespie, P. H. Heckel, N. R. King, J. Kullmann, H. R. Lane, R. H. Mapes, C. E. Mason, W. B. Saunders, G. P. Wahlman, R. R. West, T. E. Yancey, and 3 anonymous donors.

COVER ILLUSTRATION

Comparison of North American (top) and Eurasian (bottom) species-pairs of the fusulinid Profusulinella Rauser-Chernousova and Belyaev in Rauser-Chernousova et al., 1936. Despite the parallel nomenclature, there are striking morphologic similarities in certain species-pairs of approximately the same age (see Groves et al., 2007 for discussion). Scale bar beneath each image = 0.50 mm.

Illustrations: courtesy of J. R. Groves J. R. Groves, E. I. Kulagina, and E. Villa. 2007. Diachronous appearances of the Pennsylvanian fusulinid Profusulinella in Eurasia and North America. Journal of Paleontology, v. 81, p. 227-237.

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 Carboniferous Newsletter TASK/PROJECT GROUP REPORTS will vote on either accepting or rejecting it for GSSP definition Report of the Task Group to establish after the Nanjing Congress on the Carboniferous and Permian. a GSSP close to the traditional Task group member Yu-ping Qi and his associates recently Tournaisan/Viséan boundary recognized the lineage L. nodosa – L. ziegleri and other lineages within the Lochriea group of species in the Nashui section near George Sevastopulo and Task Group the town of Luodian in Guizhou Province, southern People’s Department of Geology, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland. Republic of China (Wang and Qi, 2003; Qi and Wang 2005). Qi and Wang have decided to use the first appearance ofL. ziegleri The work of the group is almost complete. The major revision to define the Viséan-Serpukhovian boundary in southern China. of late Tournaisian/early Viséan Eoparastaffella spp. by F.-X. In the near future, Qi plans to study additional sections containing Devuyst and Jiri Kalvoda has been published in the Journal of the lineage in South China. Foraminiferal Research (Devuyst and Kalvoda, 2007). Further study of the material from the proposed GSSP at Pengchong, Nikolaeva et al. (2005) recognized the L. nodosa – L. China has lead to the identification of the first Eoparastaffella ziegleri lineage in a condensed, relatively deep-water, carbonate simplex at the base of Bed 83. F.-X. Devuyst and Hou Hongfei section along the Ural River opposite the village of Verkhnyaya visited the section in January and made sure that the base of Kardailovka on the eastern slope of the southern Urals, southern Bed 83 could be seen in contact with underlying strata. The Russia. Tamara Nemyrovska plans to complete a detailed study base of Bed 83 will now be proposed as the Global Stratotype of the conodonts within the Lochriea lineage from the locality Point. Participants at the ICCP2007 at Nanjing, China will have and from other Uralian sections that Nikolaeva et al. (2005) the opportunity of inspecting the Pengchong section on Field have been working on. She has the samples and is ready to start Excursion C2 (Stratigraphy and lithofacies of the Tournaisian working on them. and Viséan in the Guilin-Liuzhou area, Guangxi, South China, During 2006, Svetlana Nikolaeva and her colleagues. June 25-28, led by Jin, X.C., Devuyst, F.-X., Hance, L., Poty, E., continued work on the Verkhnyaya Kardailovka section and Yin, B.A., Wu, X.H., Hou, H.F.) expanded their study of carbonate-dominant, Viséan-Serpukhovian Devuyst, F.-X., and J. Kalvoda. 2007. Early evolution of the successions to the Dombar Limestone in the nearby Dombar genus Eoparastaffella (foraminifera) in Eurasia: the “interiecta and Kyzl-Shin region of northern Kazakhstan. In the Dombar group” and related forms, late Tournaisian to early Viséan (Mis- Limestone, the Lochriea lineage occurs with a taxonomically sissippian). Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 37:69-89. diverse association of extremely abundant ammonoids (Kulagina et al., 2006).The exact position of the ammonoid zones with respect to those based on other groups, particularly conodonts, Report of the Task Group to establish has not been precisely established but work is currently underway a GSSP close to the existing Viséan- to develop such a correlation. The study of ammonoids in the Dombar sections combined with related ongoing work by task Serpukhovian boundary group members Alan Titus and Dieter Korn on Viséan ammonoids Barry C. Richards and Task Group in the Chainman Shale of western Utah and eastern Nevada may lead to a precise correlation with North America at the proposed rd Geological Survey of Canada – Calgary, 3303 - 33 St. NW, level of the Viséan-Serpukhovian stage boundary. Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2L 2A7. Several task group members, in addition to associate During the past year, continued progress has been made member Sergio Rodriguez from Spain and Wayne Bamber from toward the selection of a GSSP for the Viséan-Serpukhovian stage the Geological Survey of Canada-Calgary, are studying various boundary. In spite of a rigorous search for alternatives, the first carbonate-dominant, well-exposed sections across the boundary evolutionary appearance of the conodont Lochriea ziegleri in the interval in the upper Viséan to Serpukhovian Etherington lineage Lochriea nodosa – Lochriea ziegleri still presents the Formation in the southern Canadian Rocky Mountains. Rodriguez best potential for definition of the Viséan-Serpukhovian boundary. and Bamber are preparing a monograph on the taxonomically L. ziegleri appears near the middle of the Brigantian Substage, diverse, abundant and well preserved rugose coral faunas that which is slightly below the current base of the Serpukhovian as span the Viséan-Serpukhovian boundary within the Etherington. defined by its type section near the town of Zaborie in the Moscow In conjunction with that work, task group member Bernard Mamet Basin. The lineage, best documented from relatively deep- is studying the associated Etherington foraminifers in order to water sections, has been identified in several European sections obtain a precise correlation with Eurasian sections containing (Nemirovskaya et al., 1994; Skompski et al., 1995), Russia, and the Lochriea lineage. China. Most recently, the lineage was located in the Cantabrian Mountains of Spain (Nemyrovska, 2005). Unfortunately, the A multidisciplinary study resembling that of the Etherington lineage has not been reported from North America. Despite project is proceeding in western Europe. In collaboration with D. that major shortcoming, the first appearance ofL. ziegleri is an Vachard and L. Pille (University of Lille), task group member excellent potential marker for the boundary and the task group Markus Aretz is working on upper Asbian to Serpukhovian

July 2007  calcareous microfaunas and rugose corals in France, Belgium, Nemyrovska, T.I. 2005. Late Viséan/early Serpukhovian con- Germany, and England. It is hoped that through co-ordination, the odont succession from the Triollo section, Palencia (Cantabrian western Canadian and European coral/microfaunal projects will Mountains, Spain). Scripta Geologica, 129:13-89. lead to the discovery of biostratigraphic markers that are either Nemirovskaya, T., M.-F. Perret, and D. Meischner. 1994. Lo- more globally distributed than the Lochriea lineage or can be chriea ziegleri and Lochriea senckenbergica – new conodont used to correlate the L. nodosa – L. ziegleri transition between species from the latest Viséan and Serpukhovian in Europe. Europe and North America. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, 168:311-317. Nikolaeva, S.V., N.B. Gibshman, E.I. Kulagina, I.S. Barskov, Gibshman (2001) and Nikolaeva et al. (2002) list a and V.N. Pazukhin. 2002. Correlation of the Viséan-Serpuk- number of the important foraminiferal taxa appearing at the hovian boundary in its type region (Moscow Basin) and the base of the Serpukhovian in Russia. The foraminifers include South Urals and a proposal of boundary markers (ammonoids, Neoarchaediscus postrugosus, Janishewskina delicata, foraminifers, conodonts). Newsletter on Carboniferous Stra- and Eolasiodiscus donbassicus. If the Lochriea lineage is tigraphy, 20:16-21. eventually used to define the Viséan-Serpukhovian boundary, Nikolaeva, S.V., E.I. Kulagina, V.I. Pazukhin, N.A. Kucheva, either Eolasiodiscus donbassicus or possibly one of the other T.I. Stepanova, N.N. Kochetova, N.B. Gibshman, E.O. Amon, forams appearing at the base of the Serpukhovian in Russia may V.A. Konovalova, and G.F. Zainakaeva. 2005. Advances in be useful for locating the base of the Serpukhovian in North understanding of the Viséan-Serpukhovian boundary in the America. Task group member Paul Brenckle recently discovered South Urals and its correlation. Newsletter on Carboniferous that E. donbassicus occurs in the Chesterian Fraileys Shale of Stratigraphy, 23:27-30. central Kentucky. According to Brenckle, it was identified as Qi, Y., and Z. Wang. 2005. Serpukhovian conodont sequence and Monotaxinoides sp. by Browne and Pohl (1973, pl. 26, figs. 4, the Viséan-Serpukhovian boundary in South China. Rivista 5). Unfortunately, E. donbassicus may be rather rare in North Italiana di Paleontologica e Stratigrafia, 3:3-10. America. Skompski, S., A. Alekseev, D. Meischner, T. Nemirovskaya, M.-F. John Utting (Geological Survey of Canada-Calgary) and Perret, and W.J. Varker. 1995. Conodont distribution across Peter Giles (Geological Survey of Canada-Atlantic) have been the Viséan/Namurian boundary. Courier Forschungsinstitut studying the palynostratigraphy and lithostratigraphy of the Senckenberg 188:177-209. partially marine late Viséan to terrestrial early Serpukhovian rocks Utting, J., and P.S. Giles. 2004. Biostratigraphical implications of southwest Newfoundland, Atlantic Canada (Utting and Giles, of new palynological data from the Mississippian of Newfound- 2004). The miospore assemblages recorded enable correlations land and Nova Scotia, Canada. Memoirs of the Association of to be made with spore zones of western Europe, where there is Australasian Palaeontologists, 29:115-160. some biostratigraphic control from marine faunas. Wang, Z., and Y. Qi. 2003. Report on the upper Viséan-Ser- pukhovian conodont zonation in south China. Newsletter on Armed with new palynological zonations for the Mississippian Carboniferous Stratigraphy, 21:22-24. of the Maritimes Basin in eastern Canada, Peter Giles and John Utting have recently applied these data to the revision of published magnetic stratigraphy, and are now working with Report of the Task Group to establish Neil Opdyke (University of Florida) and Vic DiVenere (Long Island University) to expand and refine the polarity stratigraphy a GSSP close to the existing of the Late Mississippian. Normal polarity dominates most of Bashkirian-Moscovian boundary the Serpukhovian but several reversals show strong potential John Groves and Task Group for long-range correlation. The Late Viséan record in eastern Canada is dominated by reversed polarity, but as many as seven Department of Earth Science, University of Northern Iowa, normal magnetozones can be recognized in the latest Viséan Cedar Falls, IA 50614, USA. substage alone. Our task group is continuing to evaluate two potential References events for marking the base of the Moscovian Stage: 1) the appearance of Idiognathoides postsulcatus from I. sulcatus; and Browne, R.G., and E.R. Pohl. 1973. Stratigraphy and genera of 2) the appearance of Declinognathodus donetzianus from D. calcareous foraminifera of the Fraileys facies (Mississippian) marginodosus. A proposal currently is being developed by Wang of central Kentucky. Bulletins of American Paleontology, Xiangdong, Wang Zhihao, and Katsumi Ueno for a third potential 64:173-243. marker event, the appearance of Diplognathodus ellesmerensis, Gibshman, N.B. 2001. Foraminiferal biostratigraphy of the Ser- which is known from Arctic Canada, Donets Basin, Moscow pukhovian Stage stratotype (Zaborie quarry, Moscow Basin). Basin, Spain, Japan, Western Europe, and possibly cratonic Newsletter on Carboniferous Stratigraphy, 19:31-34. North America. Kulagina, E.I., S.V. Nikolaeva, I.Z. Akhmetshina, G.F. Zainakae- va, V.A. Konovalova, V.F. Korbkov, and A.N. Kan. 2006. The Significant progress in the past year has been made by Dombar Limestone in the south Urals and the Viséan-Serpuk- teams working in the Cantabrian Mountains (northern Spain) hovian boundary. Newsletter on Carboniferous Stratigraphy, and the South Urals. The Las Llacerias section in the Cantabrian 24:9-11. Mountains contains diverse assemblages of foraminifers and conodonts in the Bashkirian-Moscovian boundary interval.

 Carboniferous Newsletter Preliminary studies by E. Villa, C. Méndez, O. Merino-Tomé, discussions undertaken by the task group to establish the L. C. Sánchez de Posada, and M. L. Martínez-Chacón show Moscovian-Kasimovian and Kasimovian-Gzhelian boundaries that upper Bashkirian strata contain Profusulinella tashliensis, enabled achievement of considerable improvement in correlation Verella sp., Profusulinella ex gr. primitiva, and the highest across both boundary intervals and, ultimately, to the proposal that observed occurrences of Archaediscidae. Beds regarded as lower the level at which the conodont species Idiognathodus simulator Moscovian contain Idiognathoides sulcatus, I. aff. aljutovensis, (Ellison, 1941) [sensu stricto] first appears be selected to mark Neognathodus atokaensis, Profusulinella sitteri, Verella? sp. the base of the global Gzhelian Stage. (transitional form), Profusulinella prisca, and Tenebrosella asturica. The suspected position of the boundary falls within a Task Group Activities in 2006. covered interval immediately below the latter assemblage. The In July-August 2006, the task group held a field trip to Spanish research team plans to continue with more detailed work relevant sections in the Carnic Alps and Karavanke Mountains. on this section. The three-day trip to the Carnic Alps was led by task group members Holger Forke and Elias Samankassou, in cooperation Fusulinid-bearing successions across the Bashkirian- with Prof. Hans-Peter Schönlaub (Geological Survey of Austria). Moscovian boundary are present in the South Urals. According The excursion to the Karavanke Mountains was guided by Matevz to E. Kulagina, the following evolutionary changes can be used Novak (Geological Survey of Slovenia) and Holger Forke. to recognize the base of the Moscovian: 1) the development of an almost spherical shell shape in Staffellaeformes – Depratina After the field trip, a meeting with presentations, workshops, lineage; and 2) the appearance of primitively fluted septa in the and discussions was held during five days at the Geological Survey Profusulinella (Tikhonovichiella) tikhonovichi – Aljutovella of Slovenia in Ljubljana. This meeting was well organized by subaljutovica – Skelnevatella skelnevatica and Profusulinella Matevz Novak, Staša Čertalič, and Bojan Ogorelec (Geological pararhomboides – Profusulinella (T.) pseudoaljutovica Survey of Slovenia) and was attended by task group members – Aljutovella aljutovica lineages. A. Alekseev, V. Davydov, H. Forke, N. Goreva, P. Heckel, T. Isakova, M. L. Martínez Chacón, C. Méndez, T. Nemyrovska, At the Askyn River section, hypostratotype of the Bashkirian E. Samankassou, L. C. Sánchez de Posada, K. Ueno, and E. Stage, the base of the Moscovian has been placed traditionally Villa as well as guests from Croatia (J. Sremac), Poland (B. at the base of bed 31 in the Solontsovsky Horizon (Sinitsina Blazejowski), Serbia (D. Jovanović, M. Sudar), Spain (O. Merino, and Sinitsin, 1987). The fusulinids Depratina (= Profusulinella) J. R. Bahamonde), and Slovenia (K. Drobne). Dr. Andrej Šmuc prisca, Profusulinella (T.) pseudoaljutovica, Aljutovella cf. (Department of Geology, University of Ljubljana), gave an subaljutovica, Skelnevatella sp., and Schubertella gracilis appear introductory lecture on the geology of Slovenia. approximately 4 m above the base of this horizon. However, Aljutovella aljutovica, a marker for the base of the Moscovian Substantial progress was made on correlation of cyclothem Stage in its type area, occurs about 28 m higher in bed 35. At the units across both boundaries, and on definition of the K-G Uklykaya and Seryat sections, similar patterns of occurrences have boundary. The task group has generally agreed upon a rather been observed. Declinognathodus donetzianus has been recovered detailed correlation of the glacial-eustatic sequence-stratigraphic only at the Basu River section (not far from the Askyn River units called cyclothems in the regions where they can be section) with a foraminiferal assemblage similar to that from the recognized in strata across these boundaries, specifically, the lower Solontsovsky Horizon (Pazukhin et al., 2006). Midcontinent U.S., Moscow Basin, and Donets Basin. Cyclothem correlation is supported by biostratigraphy of the conodont and References fusuline faunas, and, at certain levels, by ammonoids. These Sinitsina, Z. A., and I.I. Sinitsin. 1987. Biostratigraphy of the cyclothem correlations are being published by P. Heckel et al. Bashkirian Stage at its stratotype. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, (2007). These biostratigraphic data also allow correlation with Institut Geologii, Ufa, 71 p. (In Russian) sections in those areas where cyclothems are not yet recognized, Pazukhin, V.N., A.S. Alekseev, N.V. Goreva, and E.I. Kulagina. specifically in the southern Urals, Cantabrian region of northern 2006. Discovery of potential Bashkirian-Moscovian boundary Spain, and the Carnic Alps. These correlations are shown in marker conodont Declinognathodus donetzianus in the South charts and text published by P. Heckel and task group members Urals. Newsletter on Carboniferous Stratigraphy, 24:18-19. in the 2005 Newsletter on Carboniferous Stratigraphy, which are updated for the Donets Basin by Heckel et al. (2007 Progress Report of the Task Group to Studies on the Moscovian-Kasimovian and the establish the Moscovian-Kasimovian Kasimovian-Gzhelian Boundaries and Kasimovian-Gzhelian boundaries With respect the Moscovian-Kasimovian boundary, one of the more promising taxa being considered as a fossil Elisa Villa and Task Group marker is the conodont Idiognathodus sagittalis, although its Depto de Geología Universidad de Oviedo, Arias de Velasco potential value must still be confirmed using data gathered from s/n 33005 Oviedo SPAIN. ongoing studies. Jim Barrick and his student Steve Rosscoe are In the last few years, the search for fossil markers to establish preparing a manuscript on Idiognathodus morphotypes across worldwide correlation in the upper part of the Pennsylvanian the Desmoinesian-Missourian boundary from the Lost Branch Subsystem has led to important progress. Meetings and through the Hertha cyclothems, which include some forms that resemble I. sagittalis. July 2007  Other fossils bearing on correlation within the Moscovian- Coming Steps Kasimovian transition beds are I. subexcelsus (which links Donets A detailed report dealing with the topics mentioned above Basin Limestone N3 with the Lower Suvorovo Formation of the will be presented during the meeting of the IUGS Subcommission Moscow Basin), and Swadelina nodocarinata (which links Donets on Carboniferous Stratigraphy (SCCS) to be held during the Limestone N3/3, the Voskresensk Formation of the Moscow XVI-ICCP in Nanjing (June 2007). Basin, and the Lost Branch cyclothem of the Midcontinent). In this scheme, the traditional Lower Kasimovian boundary of Following acceptance of I. simulator as the fossil marker for Eastern Europe is at a level just below the upper Desmoinesian the base of the global Gzhelian Stage, the next goal for the present Farlington cyclothem, but that level is marked by a disconformity task group will be the selection of a GSSP for this level. with abrupt appearance of the genus Swadelina just above it. In spring 2008, prior to the ICS meeting at the International The task group has reached general agreement on the Geological Congress in Oslo (August 2008), the Task Group to characterization of the Kasimovian-Gzhelian boundary. After establish the Moscovian-Kasimovian and Kasimovian-Gzhelian a ballot among the 23 task group voting members, the first boundaries plans to have a Task Group Meeting and Workshop appearance of the conodont Idiognathodus simulator [s.s.] at the University of Oviedo (Spain). This meeting should serve was approved to serve as the fossil marker for the global lower to shape the schedule for the coming years. Gzhelian boundary, by a vote of 22 in favor and 1 abstention. This boundary is now placed at a level slightly higher than the References traditional lower Gzhelian boundary in parts of Eastern Europe Ellison, S.P. 1941. Revision of the Pennsylvanian conodonts. and corresponds to the base of the upper Rusavkino Formation in Journal of Paleontology, 15:107-143. the Moscow Basin, to the base of the O6 Limestone in the Donets Heckel, P.H., A.S. Alekseev, J.E. Barrick, D.R. Boardman, V.V. Basin, and to the base of the Oread cyclothem in the Midcontinent Chernykh, V.I. Davydov, H.C. Forke, N.V. Goreva, F.W. Lup- (therefore, slightly higher than the base of the regional Virgilian pold, C.A. Méndez, T.I. Nemyrovska, K. Ueno, E. Villa, and Stage of North America). D.M. Work. 2005. Cyclothem [sequence-stratigraphic] cor- I. simulator [s.s.] has been so far identified in Midcontinent relation and biostratigraphy across the Moscovian-Kasimovian North America, the Moscow Basin, the Donets Basin, and and Kasimovian-Gzhelian Stage boundaries (Upper Pennsyl- the northern and southern Urals of eastern Europe, as well as vanian Series) in North America and Eurasia. Newsletter on in southwestern China. Correlation at this level based on this Carboniferous Stratigraphy, 23:36-44. species can be reinforced in some areas by ammonoid data (first Heckel, P.H., A.S. Alekseev, J.E. Barrick, D.R. Boardman, N.V. appearance of the oldest species of the genus Shumardites, S. Goreva, T.I. Nemyrovska, K. Ueno, E. Villa, and D.M. Work. cuyleri, and of Vidrioceras uddeni), and by fusuline data (first 2007. Cyclothem (“digital”) correlation and biostratigraphy appearance of Rauserites rossicus). across the global Moscovian-Kasimovian-Gzhelian stage boundary interval (Middle-Upper Pennsylvanian) in North America and eastern Europe. Geology, 35:607-610. CONTRIBUTIONS BY MEMBERS Views and interpretations expressed / presented in. contributions by members are those of individual authors / co-authors. and are not necessarily those of the SCCS and carry no formal SCCS endorsement.

Afanasievo section – neostratotype of not far from Moscow in the early 1920s. Originally it was named by Ivanov (1926) as the Tegulifera (later Teguliferina) Horizon Kasimovian Stage (Upper Pennsylva- of the Upper Carboniferous (in the original threefold subdivision nian Series), Moscow Basin, central of the Carboniferous System), based on occurrence of the typical brachiopod genus. This taxonomic name was changed by Russia Danshin (1947) into the Kasimovian Horizon, and then into the N.V. Goreva1, A.S. Alekseev2, T.N. Isakova1, and Kasimovian Stage by Teodorovich (1949). Kasimov is a small O.L. Kossovaya3 town in the Ryazan Region, situated about 200 km southeast of Moscow, where the Oka River crosses the Oka-Tsna swell, 1Geological Institute of RAS, Moscow, Russia. a narrow uplift of Paleozoic strata. In spite of its name, its type 2Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia. areas are in the vicinity of Voskresensk in the lower extent of the Moscow River for the lower part, and in the Moscow City 3All-Russian Geological Research Institute, . region for the upper part. St. Peterburg, Russia. In the southern Moscow Basin, the Kasimovian succession Introduction averages about 50 m in thickness, and is composed of distinctly The Kasimovian Stage is the lower stage of the Upper alternating, poorly fossiliferous fine-grained limestones, and Pennsylvanian Series. It was established in the Moscow Basin variegated marls and shales with thin limestone interbeds. The  Carboniferous Newsletter interbeds are commonly rich in macrofossils, which provide the At present, the Afanasievo section in the “Voskresenskcement” main faunal characteristics of the Kasimovian Stage. In thickness, quarry on the right bank of the Moscow River is the only the clayey members constitute about half of the succession. section where the Krevyakinian and Khamovnikian substages are accessible. For this reason, this section is selected as a According to the unified Carboniferous stratigraphic scheme neostratotype of the Kasimovian Stage, of its Krevyakinian for the Russian Platform approved formally in 1988 (Kagarmanov Substage consisting of the Suvorovo and Voskresensk formations, and Donakova, 1990), the Kasimovian consists of three substages: and of its Khamovnikian Substage consisting of the Ratmirovo Krevyakinian, Khamovnikian, and Dorogomilovian. Each unit and Neverovo formations. The Afanasievo section is located corresponds either to one provincial or local fusulinid zone or approximately 90 km southeast of Moscow and about 5 km several conodont zones. southwest of Voskresensk (Fig. 1). The stratotype of the Krevyakinian Substage was in a quarry 5 or 6 km southeast of Voskresensk near the Tsemgigant train Afanasievo Section station at the Suvorovo quarry. The quarry does not exist now. The section at Afanasievo (Figs. 2,3) starts with limestones The stratotypes of the Ratmirovo and Neverovo formations of of the uppermost Moscovian (Upper Myachkovian) Peski the Khamovnikian Substage were established in the same region, Formation (up to 5 m), which are overlain by a shallow-water and now also are destroyed. carbonate succession (18 m) of the Krevyakinian (Suvorovo and

Fig. 1. Location of Afanasievo section in Moscow Basin.

July 2007  Voskresensk formations) and the lower part of the Khamovnikian by sharp changes in fusulinid assemblage compared to that in the (Ratmirovo, and basal, lower and middle Neverovo formations). Myachkovian. Pseudostaffella, Profusulinella, and Hemifusulina This succession was formed under the strong influence of glacio- disappear. The Suvorovo Formation contains a sparse fusulinid eustatic sea-level fluctuations, in which the marine units are assemblage, which includes the stratigraphically important separated by gaps of different duration. genera and species Protriticites subschwagerinoides Ros. and forms identified as Obsoletes ex gr. O. obsoletus (Schell.). The The Moscovian-Kasimovian transition in the Afanasievo assemblage contains also species of wide stratigraphic range, section contains fusulinids, brachiopods, bryozoans, rugose corals, such as Fusiella typica ventricosa Raus., Schubertella gracilis fish remains, and conodonts. Also present as paleontological Raus., and Ozawainella mosquensis Raus. The lower part rarities, are well preserved ophiuroids and asteroids in the of the Voskresensk Formation yielded an abundant fusulinid Neverovo Formation. assemblage characterized by typical forms of Protriticites (Pr. Krevyakinian Substage pseudomontiparus Putrya, Pr. formosus Volozh., Pr. longus. Volozh.) and Obsoletus (O. magnus Kir., O. ex gr. obsoletus The Krevyakinian lies on the distinctly eroded surface of the Schell.). It should be noted that some researchers (Ginkel and Myachkovian limestones (Fig. 2), and is composed predominantly Villa, 1999) do not regard Obsoletes to be an independent of variegated shales. The Suvorovo Formation consists of two genus. members (Beds 9-14), about 5 m in overall thickness. The Voskresensk Formation (Beds 15-33) can also be subdivided Khamovnikian Substage into two members, and its thickness varies from 3.5 to 6.5 m. The Khamovnikian also comprises two units (Fig. 3). The The Ratmirovo Formation of the Khamovnikian (Fig. 2) lies on Ratmirovo Formation consists of very shallow-water white the eroded surface of the Voskresensk shales. Although weakly porcelaneous limestones (mudstones) (Beds 34-38) and is about 2 expressed lithologically, this gap varies greatly in amplitude. m thick. The Neverovo Formation (Beds 35-39, about 5 m thick) Locally, the upper member of the Voskresensk above Bed 22 is is composed predominantly of shales with limestone interbeds only 0.5 m thick. and is subdivided into three members (Basal, Lower, and Middle). Conodonts. Many conodont samples were taken from the In the neostratotype, the Neverovo Formation is incomplete. Only section (Fig. 2). Each sample was 2 to 5 kg in weight. They the lower part of the Middle member is present in the Afanasievo yielded a total of more than 11,000 conodont elements, with an section, but to the east in the subsurface, the complete thickness average of 100-120 elements per kg. The conodont assemblage of the Neverovo Formation is 10-12 m. of the basal Krevyakinian is essentially different from the Conodonts. The assemblage of conodonts in the Ratmirovo Myachkovian assemblage. The difference is pronounced in Formation is sparse and includes mainly shallow-water the complete disappearance of Neognathodus, along with the Adetognathus. At the base of the Ratmirovo, along with S. appearance of Streptognathodus and Swadelina in the basal makhlinae, a rare juvenile forms occurs that looks similar to Krevyakinian. Conodont elements sharply increase in abundance Streptognathodus neverovensis Goreva and Alekseev. The in the Kasimovian relative to the Upper Moscovian, and may lower part of the Basal Neverovo contains a similar conodont exceed 500 specimens per kg. assemblage. The uppermost Basal and Lower Neverovo contain Characteristic species of the Suvorovo Formation are abundant Streptognathodus neverovensis. Along with abundant Streptognathodus (“Swadelina”?) subexcelsus Alekseev and Hindeodus and Diplognathodus, there are forms similar to Goreva, Idiognathodus fischeri Alekseev and Goreva, and Idiognathodus trigonolobatus, I. arendti Barskov and Alekseev, I. trigonolobatus Barskov and Alekseev. The Voskresensk and I. eccentricus (Ellison). Formation contains highly dominant Swadelina makhlinae I. sagittalis Kozitskaya first appears 2 m above the base of the Alekseev and Goreva as well as I. trigonolobatus Barskov and Neverovo Formation in the bottom of the Middle member, where Alekseev. Stratigraphic distribution of these species allows it occurs with S. neverovensis and Idiognathodus trigonolobatus. establishment of two conodont zones: the lower one of S. In the upper part of the Middle Neverovo, Gondolella appears subexcelsus, and the upper one of S. makhlinae (Alekseev and and reflects the progressive deepening of the marine basin. Goreva, 2000, 2007). The appearance of I. sagittalis has been proposed recently as Fusulinids. Twelve levels with fusulinids were distinguished the best index-fossil for definition of the base of the Kasimovian in the Afanasievo section from the upper part of the Peski in the global stratigraphic scale. A form that can be interpreted Formation (Moscovian Stage) up to the middle part of the Neverovo as the ancestor of Idiognathodus sagittalis was detected in the Formation (Figs. 2, 3). The Peski contains an assemblage with upper part of the Suvorovo Formation, but it is more abundant and Hemifusulina replaced upward by frequent Fusulina cylindrica more advanced in the middle and upper Voskresensk Formation. Fischer, F. mosquensis Raus., F. quasicylindrica Lee, and forms We identified it asIdiognathodus sp. nov. N. This lineage can be of the Fusulinella fluxa (Lee and Chen) group. The same forms considered as a prospect for fixing the GSSP at the level of first were assigned to Fusulinella (?) – conventional Protriticites (?) appearance of I. sagittalis. sp. (P. ex gr. ovatus). Fusulinids. Fusulinids first appear in the uppermost part According to the unified stratigraphic scheme for the Russian of the Ratmirovo Formation, and the Ratmirovo-Neverovo Platform, the Krevyakinian corresponds to the Protriticites boundary interval is characterized by a single assemblage. pseudomontiparus, Obsoletes obsoletus Zone. The base is marked 10 Carboniferous Newsletter Afanasievo section. Fig. 2. Distribution of conodonts and fusulinids in uppermost Moscovian – Krevyakinian interval

July 2007 11 Afanasievo section. Fig.3. Distribution of conodonts and fusulinids in Khamovnikian interval

12 Carboniferous Newsletter Characteristic forms are typical (in wall structure) Protriticites (P. Donskaya Luka as the “subtriticites” Beds. In the last decade, pseudomontiparus, P. subschwagerinoides., P. aff. subovatus), work was intensified to define markers of the lower Kasimovian rare specimens with transitional wall structure from Protriticites boundary and to find sections where a reliable phylogenetic to Montiparus, and a few Montiparus paramontiparus. succession can be traced, and where, owing to a complex of its properties, the GSSP for this boundary can be established. The assemblage of the Basal Neverovo Formation is noticeably renewed. It comprises Montiparus paramontiparus It was discovered that the conodont I. sagittalis has a high Ros., Protriticites subovatus Bensh, Pr. subschwagerinoides potential for correlation of the lower Kasimovian boundary. It Ros., and Pr. pseudomontiparus Putr. The Lower member of occurs in the Donets Basin (Ukraine), Moscow Basin and South the Neverovo contains a diverse fusulinid assemblage, which Urals (Russia), Cantabrian Mountains (Spain), Midcontinent is distinguished by co-occurrence of typical Montiparus (M. USA, northern Canada, and South Korea. Owing to evident montiparus (Moeller), M. umbonoplicatus Raus. and Bel.) and morphological characters, this species is easy to identify. In the typical Protriticites. The Middle member of the Neverovo is Afanasievo section, it appears first in the base of the Middle marked by the presence of Quasifusulina (Q. longissima Moel., Neverovo Formation of the Khamovnikian, i.e., much higher than Q. eleganta Shlyk., Q. dagmarae Putr. dominating forms) and the Kasimovian base that was established in 1971. The supposed Ozawainella. Above, there are prevailing Montiparus montiparus ancestor of I. sagittalis appears in the upper part of the Suvorovo (Moeller) and M. subcrassulus Ros. The Montiparus forms are Formation and becomes abundant and more advanced in the widely variable. upper members of the Voskresensk Formation. This evolutionary line is promising for establishing the GSSP at the level of first The first appearance of I. sagittalis is very close to the appearance of I. sagittalis. If this species is selected as the marker, entrance of the typical Kasimovian fusulinid Montiparus. the Kasimovian base will be approximately coincident with first Macrofauna. The studied interval of the Afanasievo section appearance of fusulinid genus Montiparus. is also characterized by diverse macrofauna: rugose corals, Data on oxygen and carbon isotope ratios derived from the brachiopods, and bryozoans. Six levels with rugose corals were Afanasievo carbonates is unsuitable because of strong diagenetic established. changes during repeated sea-level drops (data of W. Buggisch, The sparse rugose assemblage of the Krevyakinian includes a personal communication). Oxygen isotope composition of few taxa that survived after the diversity decrease during the late conodont phosphate demonstrates sharp cyclic variations Myachkovian. There is Bothrophyllum conicum (Fisher), which reflecting glacio-eustatic fluctuations (data of M. Joachimski, occurs with Bothrophyllum pseudoconicum (Dobrolyubova) with personal communication). widely distributed dissepiments. Few corals are found at the base The Afanasievo section can be considered as a possible of the Ratmirovo Formation (Bothroscilisia sp. 1) and the Basal candidate for the stratotype of the lower Kasimovian boundary. Neverovo (Bothrophyllum pseudoconicum). Corals become more The most correlative levels are at the base of the Montiparus diverse in the Middle Neverovo, where Bothropyllum conicum montiparus fusulinid Zone and at the base of the Idiognathodus and B. rareseptatum (Dobrolyubova) were found, and in its upper sagittalis conodont Zone. Advantages of the Afanasievo section part where small fasciculate colonies of Fomichevella sp. nov. as a stratotype of the lower boundary of the Kasimovian Stage 1 appear (Beds 55-56). are as follows: geographic accessibility, refined characterization The Lower and especially Middle Neverovo are characterized by conodonts and fusulinids, diverse macrofauna (rugose corals, by an abundant and diverse brachiopod assemblage: Admoskovia bryozoans, ostracodes), obtained results of isotopic analysis, ivanorum Lazarev, Neochonetes carboniferous (Keys.), and high potential for correlation with Eurasian sections. The Kozlowskia boreailformiss Lazarev, and other species were found disadvantage of this section is constituted by the shallow-water one meter above the base. facies that consequently include gaps of uncertain duration, particularly between the Peski and Suvorovo, Suvorovo and Goryunova (2000) reported the bryozoans Crustoporella Voskresensk and the Ratmirovo and Neverovo formations. alekseevi Goryunova, Rectifenestella constans (Schulga- Nesterenko) and Polyporella martis (Fischer) from the References Voskresensk shales, and Pseudorhabdomeson polygoniium Goryunova and Crustoporella sakharovensis Goryunova were Alekseev, A.S., and N.V. Goreva. 2000. Conodont scale of detected 0.5 and 4 m above the base of the Neverovo. Moscovian, Kasimovian and Gzhelian stages, p. 7-8. In V.N. Puchkov (ed.), Zonalnye podrazdeleniya karbona obstshei Lower Boundary of the Kasimovian. stratigraficheskoi shkaly Rossii. Materialy Vserossiyskogo sovestshaniya, 29-31 maya 2000. Gilem, Ufa. (In Russian) The position of the basal Kasimovian boundary in the type Alekseev, A.S., and N.V. Goreva. 2007. Conodont zonation area has been a subject of numerous revisions (Makhlina et for the type Kasimovian and Gzhelian stages in the Moscow al., 2001a). In the late 1970s, the Middle-Upper Carboniferous Basin, Russia, p. 229-242. In T.E. Wong (ed.), Proceedings of boundary was established at the base of the Suvorovo Formation the XVth International Congress on Carboniferous and Permian of the Krevyakinian. This level conventionally coincided with Stratigraphy. Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. a base of the fusulinid zone of Protriticites pseudomontiparus, Edita-KNAW, Amsterdam. (In Russian) Obsoletes obsoletus, which is the lower zone of the Upper Danshin, B.M. 1947. Geologic structure and minerals of Mos- Carboniferous and first distinguished by Semikhatova (1947) in cow and its environs. Moscow Society of Naturalists Press, July 2007 13 Moscow, 308 p. (In Russian) • Basin evolution in front of prograding orogenic belts Ginkel, A.C., van, and E. Villa. 1999. Late fusulinid and early (Keynote: W. Franke, Frankfurt: Variscan flysch sediments: schwagerinid foraminifera: relationships and occurences in sedimentary record of orogeny). the Las Llacerias section (Moscovian/Kasimovian), Canta- • Multistratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy, and eustacy brian Mountains, Spain. Journal of Foraminiferal Research, (Keynote: I.D. Somerville, Dublin: Multistratigraphic 29(3):263-289. correlation of platforms and basins in the Mississippian Gorjunova, R.V. 2001. Bryozoa, p. 80-91. In M.Kh. Makhlina, (Carboniferous)). A.S. Alekseev, N.V. Goreva, R.V. Gorjunova, T.N. Isakova, O.L. Kossovaya, S.S. Lazarev, O.A. Lebedev, and A.A. Shkolin. • Interrelationships of geochemical proxies, facies, and Middle Carboniferous of Moscow Syneclise (southern part). fauna (Keynote: J. Veizer, Ottawa: Climate, water, and Volume 2. Biostratigraphy. Scientific World Press, Moscow. carbon cycles on geological time scales). (In Russian) • Bioconstructions and bioconstructors Ivanov, A.P. 1926. Middle and Upper Carboniferous deposits (Keynote: G.E. Webb, Brisbane: Environmental constraints of Moscow Province. Byulleten Moskovskogo Obstshestva on Mississippian bioconstructors in different platform Ispytateley Prirody. Otdel geologicheskiy, 5(1-2):133-180. (In to basin transects: fore-arc setting, eastern Australia Russian) and passive margin ramp, Sacramento Mountains, New Kagarmanov, A.Kh., and L.M. Donakova (eds.). 1990. Decision Mexico). of Interdepartmental Regional Stratigraphic Conference on Middle and Upper Paleozoic of Russian Platform with regional The complete program listing all talks and posters is stratigraphic scales, Leningrad, 1988. Carboniferous System. available from http://www.ccc2006.uni-koeln.de/programm_ Leningrad, 40 p., 95 scale sheets. (In Russian) ccc.pdf. Extended abstracts, up to two pages in length, were Makhlina, M.Kh., A.S. Alekseev, N.V. Goreva, T.N. Isakova, and published in a volume, which can be purchased from the S.N. Drutskoy. 2001. Middle Carboniferous of Moscow Syn- organizers (25 Euros). eclise (southern part). Volume 1. Stratigraphy, Paleontological The proceedings of the meeting, to be published in Institute of RAS, 244 p. (In Russian) Geological Journal, are scheduled for early 2008. Semichatova, S.V. 1947. Sub-Triticites beds of Upper Carbon- iferous. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 58(9):2033-2036. (In The field trips focused on the central theme of the congress Russian) and presented a state-of-the-art overview of the carbonate Teodorovich, G.I. 1949. On the subdivision of Upper Carbonifer- platform facies of the easternmost part of the northwest European ous into stages. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR, 67(3):537-540. “Carboniferous Limestone” province, transition into basin, and (In Russian) basinal facies (“Kulm facies”) of the classical central European Mississippian in the eastern Belgian Ardennes and in the German Rheinisches Schiefergebirge. Two voluminous field guides were Carboniferous Conference Cologne prepared, which include much new, previously unpublished 2006 – From Platform to Basin: information. This concerns especially the Mississippian of A research and field conference the Aachen region, westernmost Germany, and approaches to facies, sea level, and sequence stratigraphy, respectively, sponsored by SEPM-CES within the Rhenohercynian Kulm Basin. The contents of the Markus Aretz and Hans-Georg Herbig as yet unpublished field guides have subsequently been revised and improved, in part as a result of discussions generated by Institut für Geologie und Mineralogie, Universität zu Köln, participants of the field trips. These should be available at the Zülpicher Str. 49a, 50674 Köln, Germany. end of the summer as volume 16 of Kölner Forum für Geologie Almost 100 people from 19 countries including Mexico, the und Paläontologie. U.S.A., and Canada, many European countries, northern Africa, The positive responses of the participants suggest that the Middle East, China, and Australia, attended the symposium CCC 2006 was a successful meeting, enjoyed by participants “CCC 2006 – From Platform to Basin”, which convened 4-10 and organizers alike. Therefore, we envisage that the September 2006 in our department in Cologne. The conference series of meetings, which started with European Dinantian included two pre- and post-meeting field trips, each two days Environments (Manchester 1984), followed by European long, as well as 46 oral and 35 poster presentations and gives Dinantian Environments II (Dublin 1994), and Permo- a representative insight into the activities of the Carboniferous Carboniferous Carbonate Platforms and Reefs (El Paso 2000) community. The headings of the sessions, which were opened by might be successfully continued. keynotes, show the main topics addressed. Aretz, M., and H.-G. Herbig (eds.). 2006. Carboniferous Con- • Facies patterns: platforms, basins, and their interfaces ference Cologne 2006. From Platform to Basin, September (Keynote: E Poty, Liège: Sequence stratigraphic model for 4–10, 2006. Research and Field Conference sponsored by the Belgian Dinantian: from local to global). SEPM-CES. Program and Abstracts. Kölner Forum für Ge- • Diagenesis and hydrocarbon reservoirs ologie und Paläontologie, 15, 130 p. (Keynote: W.M. Ahr, College Station/Texas: Hydrocarbon Aretz, M., E. Poty, and H.-G. Herbig (with contributions by S. reservoirs in Carboniferous carbonates). Delculée and P. Hecker). 2007. From palaeokarst to calcitur- 14 Carboniferous Newsletter bidites – A carbonate platform-slope-transect from the Missis- often including information on facies dependencies: corals (D. sippian Limestone in eastern Belgium to the Kulm Basin in Weyer), brachiopods (C.F. Winkler Prins and M.R.W. Amler), western Germany, 41 p. In: Kölner Forum für Geologie und bryozoans (H.M. Weber and P.N. Wyse Jackson), gastropods and Paläontologie, 16 (in press). bellerophontids, bivalves and rostroconchs (both M.R.W. Amler), Herbig, H.-G., D. Korn, and M. 2007. The mixed carbonate, ammonoids (D. Korn), trilobites (C. Brauckmann and G. Hahn), siliceous, and siliciclastic facies of the Mississippian Kulm ostracodes (H. Blumenstengel), and echinoderms (E. Thomas and Basin (Rheinisches Schiefergebirge, Germany) – Complex R. Haude). C. Brauckmann and coauthors discuss “rare fossils” interplay of platform, starved basin and prograding orogeny, (polyplacophorids, hyolithids, non-trilobite arthropods, including 54 p. In: Kölner Forum für Geologie und Paläontologie, 16 insects). Of special importance is a bivalve biostratigraphy of (in press). the Kulm Basin, a review of the known trilobite biostratigraphy in different shallow-water and basinal facies realms, and an extremely detailed ammonoid biostratigraphy. Four papers present the microfauna. H.-G. Herbig and D. The Carboniferous of Germany Stoppel review the conodonts, including discussions of the Hans-Georg Herbig international D–C boundary, T–V boundary, mid-Carboniferous boundary, conodont biofacies, CAI data, and geochemical data. Institut für Geologie und Mineralogie, Universität zu Köln, A. Braun elucidates the preservation modes and biostratigraphy Zülpicher Str. 49a, 50674 Köln, Germany. of radiolarians. H.-G. Herbig summarizes the previously widely The German Commission on Stratigraphy is currently dispersed knowledge on arenaceous and smaller calcareous editing a series of 20 volumes dealing with the Proterozoic to foraminifers. Another paper on calcareous algae and incertae sedis Quaternary Systems of Germany. Nine volumes are currently is found in the paleobotany chapter. (With minor exceptions, these available (http://www.stratigraphie.de/monographie/index. three groups were not yet systematically studied in Germany.) html). Two volumes, prepared under the guidance of the German In the paleobotany chapter, H. Kerp and coauthors give Subcommission on Carboniferous Stratigraphy, present a a complete overview of the rare, long neglected megafloras. detailed overview of the stratigraphy, paleontology, and regional Palynostratigraphy and correlations with Poland and the British geology of the Mississippian and Pennsylvanian of the country. Isles are treated by H. Jäger and F. Wierich; H. Jäger also Totaling 1066 pages, these volumes present an exhaustive state- discusses in greater detail the palynostratigraphy and sedimentary of-the-art overview of the German Carboniferous, based on development of the island of Rügen, northeastern Germany. thorough reviews of innumerable, widely dispersed papers as well as new research and interpretations. About half of the volume is dedicated to the regional development of the Mississippian in Germany. The three major Deutsche Stratigraphische Kommission (Ed.; coordinated by chapters, partly with colored illustrations, correlate with the V. Wrede) (2005): Stratigraphie von Deutschland V - Das structural zones of the German Variscides. Oberkarbon (Pennsylvanium) in Deutschland. Courier Forsc- hungsinstitut Senckenberg, 254, 477 p.; Frankfurt a.M. ISBN The first chapter treats the deeper water facies (“Kulm 3-510-61380-5. facies”) of the Rhenohercynian Zone. Two quite extensive and (available from Schweizerbart Verlag, Stuttgart). nicely illustrated contributions by Stoppel and coauthors and of Bender and Stoppel, respectively, describe the Mississippian Deutsche Stratigraphische Kommission (Ed.; coordinated by of the Rheinische Schiefergebirge. In a third contribution, D. M. R. W. Amler and D. Stoppel) (2006): Stratigraphie von Korn proposes a new lithostratigraphic scheme for that region Deutschland VI - Unterkarbon (Mississippium). Schriftenreihe by substituting for the traditional lithostratigraphic terms der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften, 41, 590 lithostratigraphic groups and formations defined according to p.; Hannover. ISBN 3-932537-37-8. the International Stratigraphic Guide. D. Stoppel presents the (available from Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften, isolated, but paleogeographically important occurrences of Hannover). Missippian rocks in southwestern Germany (Saarland, Rhineland- The Misissippian volume contains 39 papers by 40 authors. Palatine). Mississippian stratigraphy and facies of the western The introductory part includes a short account of the history Harz Mountains are detailed by Buchholz and coauthors, who of stratigraphic research by D. Stoppel and M.R.W. Amler, also include radiometric ages as well as paleomagnetic data and followed by an outline of the current state of the boundaries reconstructed paleopole positions. Although their contribution and subdivision of the Mississippian of Germany by Stoppel contains some data concerning the eastern Harz Mountains, and coauthors. D. Weyer and M. Menning discuss isotopic age that region is only discussed in a short contribution by Stoppel. determinations and relations to northwest European and global Paech and coauthors describe the northeastern prolongation of the Carboniferous stages, respectively, as well as relationships Mississippian of the Harz Mountain into the subsurface and the between both stratigraphic scales. H.-J. Gursky provides an northernmost outcrops of the central European Carboniferous in integrated overview of the paleogeographic, paleooceanographic, the Flechtingen-Rosslau block between Dessau and Magdeburg. and facies evolution of the German Mississippian. D. Franke gives an overview of the deep exploration wells in the Altmark-Nordbrandenburg Kulm of northeastern Germany. Ten, mostly very well illustrated papers discuss the Although not well known to the scientific community, they are spatial and stratigraphic distribution of the macrofauna,

July 2007 15 of major paleogeographic importance for the extension of the Amler is perfectly complemented by a very well illustrated Rhenohercynian Kulm facies. contribution to the stratigraphy, ecological variability, and paleogeographic relations of the non-marine and limnic bivalves The second chapter reviews the Mississippian carbonate by R.C.M. Eagar. H.-G. Herbig reports on the taxonomy, platform facies which developed on the external side of the stratigraphic distribution, and paleoecological constraints of Kulm Basin in northwestern Europe. M.R.W. Amler and H.-G. paralic microfaunas (foraminifers, ostracodes, conodonts, and Herbig discuss stratigraphy and facies of the easternmost platform other less studied groups). The revised conodont zonation, sediments which rim the London-Brabant massif in easternmost which is based on valid taxa, is particularly important. In a Belgium, westernmost Germany (Aachen region), and in the well figured contribution, C. Brauckmann reviews the rare, but subsurface of the Niederrhein embayment. They also elucidate diverse arthropods and their paleoecology (insects, arachnids, the transition into the Kulm Basin in the westernmost Rheinische xiphosurids, eurypterids, “myriapods”, arthropleurids, Schiefergebirge and propose a new lithostratigraphic scheme trilobites). A discussion of the non-marine and limnic faunas of which as far as possible adapts the Belgian formations. The second the intramontane basins and the Variscan foredeep treats, among well known region in Germany which displays predominantly others, fishes, conchostracans, and insects (blattoids), and their carbonate platform facies is known from deep wells in western biostratigraphic significance; a new combined conchostracan- Pomerania, mainly from Rügen Island, at the southwestern margin blattoid biostratigraphy is established for the Westphalian and of the eastern European platform (N. Hoffmann and coauthors). Stephanian by J. Schneider and coauthors. K.-H. Josten reviews Additional interesting boreholes in northern and northwestern the detailed macroplant stratigraphy, based on some 250 species Germany are briefly reviewed by Stoppel. from 46 genera. Finally, Ch. Hartkopf-Fröder contributes to The third chapter deals with the Kulm facies in the more the history of palynological research in the Pennsylvanian, internal zones of the Variscides (i.e., in the Saxothuringian and reviewing the palynostratigraphic zonation of paralic and Moldanubian Zones). J. Gandl outlines the complex development intramontane basins, and commenting on the paleoecological of the Mississippian in northeastern Bavaria (Frankenwald). constraints of the microfloras. That paper is supplemented by that of H. Blumenstengel, who An important chapter is “Zeitmarken” (time marks). It describes the development in adjoining areas of eastern Thuringia. includes three papers dealing with cyclothems, cycles, and Knowledge of the isolated occurrences of Mississippian rocks sequences in the Ruhr Basin and their interdependent controlling in Saxony and southern Brandenburg, including well data, is factors (by M.P. Süss), the stratigraphic importance of kaolin compiled by A. Kampe; this paper also includes a new geological coal tonsteins (by K. Burger and coauthors), and the refinement map of the Görlitzer Schiefergebirge. In a second contribution, and discussion of a numerical time scale for the central European A. Kampe and coauthors describe the isolated Upper Viséan to Pennsylvanian (by M. Menning and coauthors). Lower Namurian (Arnsbergian) intramontane molasse sediments from Saxony and southern Brandenburg which is the earliest More than half of the volume concerns the regional sedimentary record of the uplifted Variscan orogen in Germany. development of the German Pennsylvanian and focuses on the The stratigraphic and structural development of the Carboniferous lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy, stratigraphic correlations, of the Black Forest-Vosges region, lateral correlations within the and facies in both outcrop and subsurface. In many cases, Variscides, and a geodynamic interpretation is elucidated by R. lithostratigraphic formations have been newly defined or Maass. redefined, respectively. In a separate chapter, H.-D. Nesbor treats the Mississippian Seven contributions concern the paralic realm of the volcanism in the eastern Rheinisches Schiefergebirge which Subvariscan zone. V. Wrede and M. Zeller deal with the region is composed of basaltic submarine pillow lava and dacitic to between the Rhine River in the east and the Dutch South rhyodacitic ashtuffs which originating outside of the basin. Finally, Limburg Basin in the west. Of particular importance is a F. Wierich discusses geodynamic models of the northern Variscides correlation of coal seams between the latter and the Ruhr area. which are based on the existence of the Mid German Crystalline The 5000–7000 m thick, intensively mined succession of the rise. According to the postulated Carboniferous exhumation of Ruhr Basin is reviewed by V. Wrede; K.-H. Ribbert contributed that unit, it is interpreted as a Variscan nappe. to that paper and suggests a new lithostratigraphic scheme for the less well known Namurian below the coal-bearing strata. The Pennsylvanian volume contains 27 papers by 44 Surface and subsurface stratigraphy of the Osnabrück district authors. In the introduction, the process leading to definition is reviewed by K. Köwing and R. Rabitz. In a longer, well of the the Mid-Carboniferous boundary and its position and illustrated contribution, G. Drozdzewski comments on the applicability in Germany are discussed by H.-G. Herbig. A second interplay of eustacy, subsidence, and sedimentary development, contribution by Krull elucidates the paleogeographic framework as well as basin evolution and paleogeographic relations of the German Pennsylvanian, outlining the development of the of the Northwest German Subvariscan Basin. H.-J. Paech Northern European paralic foredeep between the British Isles and describes the Pennsylvanian of the Flechtingen Block west of Poland, and of intramontane basins. Magdeburg. In two contributions, Hoth and coauthors present The paleontological chapters begin with a discussion of the the Pennsylvanian known from deep wells in the subsurface low diversity ammonoid faunas by J. Kullmann. A short review of northeastern Germany. Except for the island of Rügen and of marine bivalves, gastropods, and bellerophontids by M.R.W. adjacent Vorpommern, this is the first comprehensive review

16 Carboniferous Newsletter of the region. Schneider and coauthors deal with the NE-striking, about 150- km long by 90-km wide Saale Senke of Saxony-Anhalt, and The late Pennsylvanian of the German intramontane basins several smaller basins in Saxony, which are relicts of a greater is described in seven further contributions. A. Schäfer gives a drainage system. These papers are supplemented by two shorter detailed review of the stratigraphy of the Permo-Carboniferous contributions describing the Westphalian known from wells Saar-Nahe Basin including discussions of chronostratigraphic between Leipzig and Wittenberg (V. Steinbach and A. Kampe) attributions and the Stephanian–Rotliegend boundary. R. Maas and north of Görlitz (H. Brause), eastern Germany (Saxony, and D. Vogellehner present the Pennsylvanian of the Black Saxony-Anhalt). Forest, and D. Andreas and coauthors discuss the structurally complex region of the Thuringian Forest. In two contributions,

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22 Carboniferous Newsletter Dr M.L. Martinez Chacón Bibliotheek Palaeobotanie Dr R.L. Austin Dr A.R.E. Strank Depto de Geología Lab. Palaeobotany and Paly- 21 Bellevue Road British Petroleum Res.Centre Universidad de Oviedo nology West Cross, Swansea Chertsey Rd, Sunbury-on- Arias de Velasco s/n Budapestlaan 4 South Wales SA3 5QB Thames 33005 Oviedo 3584 CD Utrecht UNITED KINGDOM Middlesex TW16 7LN SPAIN THE NETHERLANDS UNITED KINGDOM Dr C.J. Cleal Fax: 34-98-510-3103 Fax: 31-30-253-5096 Department of Botany Dr N. Turner Email: Email: [email protected] [email protected]. National Museum & Gallery of British Geological Survey uniovi.es Dr A.C. van Ginkel Wales Keyworth Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Cathays Park Nottingham NG12 5GG Dr Sergio Rodríguez Museum Cardiff CF1 3NP UNITED KINGDOM Depto de Paleontología Postbus 9517 UNITED KINGDOM Dr W.J. Varker Facultad de Ciencias Geológi- NL-2300 RA Leiden Fax: 01222-239-829 Department of Earth Sciences cas THE NETHERLANDS Email: The University of Leeds Ciudad Universitaria [email protected] 28040 Madrid Dr W. Khrschner Leeds LS2 9JT SPAIN Lab. Palaeobotany & Palynology Dr R.M.C. Eagar UNITED KINGDOM Budapestlaan 4 23 High Bond End Fax: 1-394-4854 Dr Colin N. Waters NL-3584 CD Utrecht Knaresborough Email: British Geological Survey THE NETHERLANDS North Yorks HG5 9BT [email protected] Keyworth UNITED KINGDOM Subcommissie Stratig. Ned- Nottingham NG12 5GG Dr L.C. Sánchez de Posada Fax: 01423-865-892 erland UNITED KINGDOM Depto de GeologRa Email: Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Universidad de Oviedo [email protected] Prof. V.P. Wright Museum Arias de Velasco s/n Department of Earth Sciences Postbus 9517 Dr Mark Hounslow 33005 Oviedo University of Cardiff NL-2300 RA Leiden Centre for Environmental SPAIN Cardiff CF1 3YE THE NETHERLANDS Magnetism and Palaeomagne- Fax: 34-98-510-3103 UNITED KINGDOM tism, Email: Dr C.F. Winkler Prins Fax: 01222 874326 Lancaster Environment Centre, [email protected]. Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Geography Department, Email: [email protected] es Museum Lancaster University, Postbus 9517 . Dr Elisa Villa Bailrigg, Lancaster, LA1 4YW U.S.A NL-2300 RA Leiden Depto de Geología UNITED KINGDOM Dr Thomas Algeo THE NETHERLANDS Universidad de Oviedo Fax: 44 (0) 1524 847099 Department of Geology Fax: 31-71-5687666 Arias de Velasco s/n Email: m.hounslow@lancaster. University of Cincinnati Email: [email protected]. 33005 Oviedo ac.uk Cincinnati, OH 45221-0013 nl SPAIN U.S.A. Dr G.A.L. Johnson Fax: 34-98-510-3103 TURKEY Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Department of Geology Prof. Dr Demir Altiner University of Durham Dr James E. Barrick Dr R.H. Wagner Department of Geological Durham DH1 3LE Department of Geosciences Centro Paleobotánico Engineering UNITED KINGDOM Texas Tech University Jardín Botánico de Córdoba Middle East Technical Univer- Lubbock, TX 79409-1053 Avenida de Linneo s/n Dr Duncan McLean sity U.S.A. 14004 Córdoba Palynology Research Facility 06531 Ankara Email: [email protected] SPAIN University of Sheffield TURKEY Fax: 34-57-295-333 Dainton Building Dr Jack D Beuthin Fax: +90-312-2101263 Email: Brook Hill Department of Geology Email: [email protected] [email protected] Sheffield S3 7HF Univ. of Pittsburgh-Johnstown [email protected] UNITED KINGDOM Johnstown, PA 15904 TARTARSTAN Dr Cengiz Okuyucu Email: [email protected] U.S.A. Email: [email protected] Dr V.S. Gubareva MTA Genel Mudurlugu Mr M. Mitchell ul. Kosmonavtov 7 kv. 7 Jeoloji Etutleri Dairesi 11 Ryder Gardens Mitch Blake 420061 Kazan 06520 Balgat-Ankara Leeds, W. Yorks. LS8 1JS West Virginia Geological TARTARSTAN TURKEY UNITED KINGDOM Survey Email: [email protected] 1 Mont Chateau Road Dr B. Owens THE NETHERLANDS Morgantown, WV 26508-8079 Langdale UNITED KINGDOM U.S.A. Dr O.A. Abbink 14th Park Avenue, Acquisitions Email: [email protected]. Department of Geo-Environ- Plumtree Park Department of Library Service edu ment Nottingham NG12 5LU The Natural History Museum Section Paleo-Environmental UNITED KINGDOM Dr Darwin R. Boardman Cromwell Road Research School of Geology London SW7 5BD Dr N.J. Riley NITG TNO: National Geological Oklahoma State University UNITED KINGDOM British Geological Survey Survey 105 Noble Research Ctr. Keyworth P.O. Box 80015 Stillwater, OK 74078 Nottingham NG12 5GG 3508 TA Utrecht U.S.A UNITED KINGDOM THE NETHERLANDS Email: darwin.boardman@ Fax: 44-115-9363200 okstate.edu Email: [email protected]

July 2007 23 Dr Paul Brenckle Dr Robert Gastaldo Claren M Kidd Dr Richard Lund 1 Whistler Point Road, Dept. of Geology 100 E Boyd R220 Department of Biology Westport, MA 02790 Colby College University of Oklahoma Adelphi University U.S.A. Waterville, ME 04901 Norman, OK 73019-0628 Garden City, NY 11530 Email: U.S.A. U.S.A. U.S.A. [email protected] Email: [email protected] Geology Library Dr W.L. Manger Dr D.K. Brezinski The University of Iowa Dr Norman R. King Department of Geology Maryland Geological Survey 136 Trowbridge Hall Dept. of Geosciences Univ. of Arkansas 2300 St Paul Street Iowa City, IA 53342-1379 University of Southern Indiana Fayetteville, AR 72701 Baltimore, MD 21218 U.S.A. Evansville, IN 47712 U.S.A. U.S.A. U.S.A. Email: [email protected] William H. Gillespie Email: [email protected] Dr Lewis M. Brown U.S. Geological Survey Dr Gene Mapes Department of Geology 916 Churchill Circle Albert Kollar Dept of Envir. & Plant Biology Lake Superior State University Charleston, WV 25314‑1747 Carnegie Museum of Natural Ohio University Sault Sainte Marie, U.S.A. History Athens, OH 45701 MI 49783-1699 Invertebrate Paleontology U.S.A. Dr Brian F. Glenister U.S.A. 4400 Forbes Ave Department of Geoscience Dr R.H. Mapes Email: Pittsburgh, PA 15213 121 Trowbridge Hall Department of Geology [email protected] U.S.A. University of Iowa Ohio University Email: Dr D.R. Chesnut Iowa City, IA 52242-1379 Athens, OH 45701 KollarA@CarnegieMuseums. Kentucky Geological Survey U.S.A. U.S.A. Org 228 Min.Res.Bldg, Email: [email protected] Dr C. G. Maples University of Kentucky Ms Andrea Krumhardt Dr Ethan Grossman Dept. of Geological Sciences Lexington, KY 40506‑0107 Dept of Geology & Geophysics Dept. of Geology & Geophysics Indiana University U.S.A. University of Alaska Texas A&M University Bloomington, IN 47405 Email: [email protected] P.O. Box 755780 College Station, TX 77843-3115 U.S.A. Fairbanks, AK 99775 Dr William C. Darrah U.S.A. U.S.A. Charles E. Mason 2235 Baltimore Pike Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]. Dept. of Physical Sciences Gettysburg, PA 17325 Dr John Groves edu Morehead State University U.S.A. Dept. of Earth Sciences Morehead, KY 40351 Dr Lance Lambert Dr Vladimir I. Davydov University of Northern Iowa U.S.A. Earth and Environmental Sci- Dept. Geosciences Cedar Falls, IA 50614 Email: [email protected] ences, Univ. of Texas at San Boise State University U.S.A. Antonio, Dr Patrick Mulvany 1910 University Drive Email: [email protected] San Antonio,TX 78249 Geological Survey Boise, ID 83725 Dr Philip H. Heckel U.S.A. Missouri DNR U.S.A. Department of Geoscience Email: [email protected] P.O. Box 250 Email: University of Iowa Rolla, MO 65402 [email protected] Dr H. Richard Lane Iowa City, IA 52242 U.S.A. National Science Foundation Dr Lewis S. Dean U.S.A. Email: 4201 Wilson Blvd., Room 785 Library Email: [email protected] [email protected] Arlington, VA 22230 Geological Survey of Alabama Dr Peter Holterhoff U.S.A. Dr Greg Nadon P.O. Box 869999 ExxonMobil Upstream Email: [email protected] Dept. of Geological Sciences 420 Hackberry Lane Research Company Ohio University Tuscaloosa, AL 35486 Dr Ralph L. Langenheim ST-4102 Athens, OH 45701 U.S.A. Dept Geol.,Univ. of Illinois P.O. Box 2189 U.S.A. Email: [email protected] 254 N.B.H.,1301 W. Green St. Houston, TX 77252-2189 Urbana, IL 61801 Dr Hermann W. Pfefferkorn Dr J.T. Dutro Jr U.S.A. U.S.A. Department of Geology 5173 Fulton St. NW Email: University of Pennsylvania Washington, DC 20016 [email protected] Dr R.L. Leary 240 S 33rd St. U.S.A. Illinois State Museum Dr John Isbell Philadelphia, PA 19104-6316 Email: [email protected] Research & Collections Center Department of Geosciences U.S.A. 1011 East Ash Street Dr Cortland Eble Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Email: [email protected] Springfield, IL 62703 Kentucky Geological Survey P.O. Box 413 U.S.A. Dr John P. Pope 228 Min.Res.Bldg, Univ. Ken- Milwaukee, WI 53201 Email: [email protected]. Department of Geology tucky U.S.A. il.us Northwest Missouri State Uni- Lexington, KY 40506‑0107 Email: [email protected] versity U.S.A. Dr Spencer G. Lucas Dr Thomas W. Kammer 800 University Drive New Mexico Museum Dr F.R. Ettensohn Dept. Geology and Geography Maryville, MO 64468 of Natural History Dept. of Geological Sciences West Virginia University U.S.A. 1801 Mountain Road N.W. University of Kentucky P.O. Box 6300 Email:[email protected] Albuquerque, NM 87104 101 Slone Building Morgantown, WV 26506-6300 U.S.A. Lexington, KY 40506‑0053 U.S.A. Email: [email protected]. U.S.A. Email: [email protected] nm.us Email: [email protected]

24 Carboniferous Newsletter Dr E. Troy Rasbury Dr Steve Schutter U.S. Geological Survey Library Dr Thomas Yancey Department of Geosciences Murphy Exploration and Pro- 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive Department of Geology SUNY Stony Brook duction International National Center, MS 950 Texas A&M University Stony Brook, NY 11794-2100 550 Westlake Park Blvd., Reston, VA 20192 College Station, TX 77843 U.S.A. Suite 1000 U.S.A. U.S.A. Email: Houston, TX 77079 Email: [email protected] Dr Peter R. Vail [email protected] U.S.A. Dept Geol., Rice University Email: steve-schutter@mur- UKRAINE Dr Carl B. Rexroad P.O. Box 1892 phyoilcorp.com Indiana Geological Survey Houston, TX 77251 Dr N.I. Bojarina 611 N. Walnut Grove Serials Department U.S.A. Institute of Geology Bloomington, IN 47405 Univ. of Illinois Library Ukrainian Academy of Science Dr Gregory P. Wahlman U.S.A. 1408 West Gregory Drive Gonchar Str., 55b BP America Email: [email protected] Urbana, IL 61801 252054 Kiev 501 Westlake Park Blvd. U.S.A. UKRAINE Dr J. G. Richardson Houston, TX 77079 Columbus State Community Dr Gerilyn S. Soreghan U.S.A. Dr R.I. Kozitskaya College Geology & Geophysics Email: [email protected] Institute of Geology Dept of Physical & Biological University of Oklahoma Ukrainian Academy of Science Dr Bruce Wardlaw Science 100 E. Boyd St. Gonchar Str., 55b U.S. Geological Survey 550 East Spring Street Norman, OK 73019 252054 Kiev 970 National Center Columbus, OH 43215 U.S.A. UKRAINE Reston, VA 22092 U.S.A. Email: [email protected] U.S.A. Dr T.I. Nemyrovska Email: [email protected] Janice Sorensen Institute of Geological Sciences Dr J.A. Waters Dr C.A. Ross Kansas Geological Survey Ukrainian Academy of Sciences Department of Geology GeoBioStrat Consultants University of Kansas Gonchar Str., 55b West Georgia College 600 Highland Drive Lawrence, KS 66047 252054 Kiev Carrollton, GA 30118 Bellingham, WA 98225‑6410 U.S.A. UKRAINE U.S.A. U.S.A. Email: [email protected] Dr Calvin H. Stevens Email: [email protected] Email: Department of Geology, Dr V.I. Poletaev [email protected] Dr W. Lynn Watney School of Science Institute of Geology Kansas Geological Survey Dr June R.P Ross San Jose State University Ukrainian Academy of Science 1930 Constant Avenue - Cam- Dept. Biology, San Jose, CA 95192-0102 Gonchar Str., 55b pus West Biology Building 315 U.S.A. 252054 Kiev Lawrence, KS 66047 Western Washington Univ. Email: [email protected] UKRAINE U.S.A. Bellingham, WA 98225‑9160 Ms Mathilda Stucke Email: [email protected] Dr Z.S. Rumyantseva U.S.A. 30 Oakland Avenue ul. Vasilovskaja 42, Kv.33 Email: [email protected]. Dr Gary Webster West Hempstead, NY 11552- 252022 Kiev edu Department of Geology 1923 UKRAINE Washington State University Dr C.A. Sandberg U.S.A. Physical Science 1228 Dr A.K. Shchegolev U.S. Geological Survey Email: [email protected]. Pullman, WA 99164 Institute of Geology Box 25046, Federal Center, edu U.S.A. Ukrainian Academy of Science MS 940 Dr T.N. Taylor Fax: 509-335-7816 Gonchar Str., 55b Denver, CO 80225 Department of Botany, 252054 Kiev U.S.A. Dr R.R. West Haworth Hall UKRAINE Dept Geol., Thompson Hall Dr Matthew Saltzman University of Kansas Kansas State University Dr N.P. Vassiljuk Dept. of Geological Sciences Lawrence, KS 66045 Manhattan, KS 66506-3201 Donetskij Politekhn. Inst. 275 Mendenhall Laboratory U.S.A. U.S.A. ul. Artema 58 Ohio State University Email: [email protected]. Email: [email protected] Donetsk Columbus, OH 43210-1398 edu UKRAINE U.S.A. Dr Brian Witzke Dr T.L. Thompson Email: [email protected] Iowa Geological Survey Mrs M.V. Vdovenko Missouri Geological Survey 109 Trowbridge Hall Institute of Geology Dr W. Bruce Saunders Box 250 University of Iowa Ukrainian Academy of Science Geology Department Rolla, MO 65401 Iowa City, IA 52242-1319 Gonchar Str., 55b Bryn Mawr College U.S.A. U.S.A. 252054 Kiev Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 Dr Alan L. Titus Email: [email protected] UKRAINE U.S.A. Grand Staircase-Escalante Email: [email protected] Dr David M. Work National Monument UZBEKISTAN Maine State Museum Dr Tamra A. Schiappa 190 East Center St. Dr Iskander M. Nigmadjanov 83 State House Station Department of Geosciences Kanab, UT 84741 ul. G. Lopatina 80, kv. 35 Augusta, ME 04333-0083 Boise State University U.S.A. 700003 Tashkent U.S.A. 1910 University Dr Email: [email protected] UZBEKISTAN Email: [email protected] Boise, ID 83725 U.S.A. Email: [email protected]

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CHAIR: Dr Luc Hance. Dr T.I. Nemyrovska. Dr Philip H. Heckel Institute of Geological Sciences. Department of Geoscience Unité de Géologie, . Université Catholique de Louvain, . Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. University of Iowa Gonchar Str., 55b. Iowa City, IA 52242 3 place Louis Pasteur, . 1348, Louvain-la-Neuve,. 252054 Kiev. U.S.A. UKRAINE. Email: [email protected] BELGIUM. Email: [email protected]. Email: [email protected] [email protected] VICE-CHAIR: Dr Svetlana Nikolaeva. Paleontological Institute. Dr Geoffrey Clayton Dr Jin Xiao-chi. Russian Academy of Sciences. Department of Geology Institute of Geology. Profsoyuznaya 123. Trinity College Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences. 117868 Moscow GSP. Dublin 2 26 Baiwanzhuang Road. RUSSIA. IRELAND Beijing 100037. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] CHINA. Email: [email protected] Dr B.C. Richards. SECRETARY/EDITOR: Dr Jirí Kalvoda. Geological Survey of Canada. 3303-33rd St. N.W.. Dr David M. Work Department of Geology and . Calgary AB, T2L 2A7. Maine State Museum Paleontology. CANADA. 83 State House Station Masaryk University. Email: [email protected] Augusta, ME 04333-0083 Kotlárská 2. U.S.A. 61137 Brno. Dr N.J. Riley. Email: [email protected] CZECH REPUBLIC. Email: [email protected] British Geological Survey. Keyworth. OTHER VOTING MEMBERS: Dr Dieter Korn. Nottingham NG12 5GG. Dr Alexander S. Alekseev. Museum für Naturkunde der. UNITED KINGDOM. Dept of Palaeont., Geol. Faculty. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Email: [email protected] Moscow State University. Invalidenstrasse 43. 119991 Moscow GSP-1. D-10115 Berlin. Dr Katsumi Ueno. RUSSIA. GERMANY. Dept. Earth System Science . Email:[email protected] Email: . Faculty of Science. [email protected] Fukuoka University, . Dr Demir Altiner. Jonan-ku, Fukuoka 814-0180. Department of Geological Engineering. Dr Olga L. Kossovaya. JAPAN. Middle East Technical University. V.S.E.G.E.I.. Email: [email protected] 06531 Ankara . Sredni pr. 74. TURKEY. 199106 St Petersburg. Dr Elisa Villa. Email: [email protected] RUSSIA. Depto de Geología. Email: [email protected] Universidad de Oviedo. Dr Darwin R. Boardman. Arias de Velasco s/n. School of Geology. Dr Elena I. Kulagina. 33005 Oviedo. Oklahoma State University. Institute of Geology. SPAIN. 105 Noble Research Ctr.. Uralian Research Center. Email: [email protected] Stillwater OK 74078. Russian Academy of Sciences. U.S.A.. Ufa . Dr Wang Xiang-dong. Email: [email protected] RUSSIA. Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palae- Email: [email protected] ontology. Dr John Groves. Chinese Academy of Sciences. Department of Earth Sciences. Dr Ian Metcalfe . 39 East Beijing Road. University of Northern Iowa. Asia Centre. Nanjing 210008. Cedar Falls, IA 50614. University of New England. CHINA. U.S.A.. Armidale NSW 2351. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] AUSTRALIA. Email: [email protected]

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