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INTERNATIONAL UNION OF GEOLOGICAL SC/ENGES ... COMMISSION ON STRATIGRAPHY • .. 1 •• - • ', • • December 1994 • • • ... I.U.G.S. Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy Newsletter No. 11, December 1994 • Editor: Rex E. Crick • Department of Geology UTA Box 19049 University of Texas at Arlington Arlington, TEXAS U.S.A. 76019-0049 " Voice: 817-273-2987 / Facsimile: 817-273-2628 •. e-mail: [email protected] The Ne,Psletter appears biannually at approximately 6 month intervals in the spring and fall. This schedule will generally coincide with SOS meetings to better serve the membership. Contributions may be sent to the Editor any time during the year for inclusion in the next issue. If at all possible, contributions (text and graphic) should be submitted as computer files on standard 51 /4 or 3 1 /2 inch disks. Short contributions may also be transmitted via e-mail. If these media are not available, please provide a clean typewritten or drafted copy suitable for processing by OCR (optical character recogni­ tion) software (for text) and image processing software (for graphics). The optimum type size islO point or greater ,tnd the optimum fonts are nonproportional spaced and sans serif. The initial printing of this issue is 150 copies with 94 mailed to titular and corresponding members, 20 to honorary members, Chairmen of the Carboniferous and Silurian Subcommissions, IUGS and ICS officers, friends, and li­ braries. Remaining copies are available from the Chairman, Secretary or Editor. The cost of preparation, printing and postage for the Newsletter is shared by SOS and The Deparl­ ment of Geology, University of Texas at Arlington. CONTENTS Jess Johnson Bibliography (non-inclusive) ................................................................................................................................... 6 Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy Minutes Business Meeting, Moscow, Russia (July, 13th, 1994) ........................................................................................... 10 Marine/Non Marine Correlation Working Group Annual Report 1994 ........................................_. ................................. 14 Nominations of SOS Officers for Term 1996-2000 ...................................................................................................................... 16 64th. Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Paläontologische Gesellschaft ................................................................................... 16 IGCP 328 Annual General Meeting Annual Report 1994 .................................................................................................................................................................. 17 French Working Group Annual Report 1994 ...................................................... :...................................................... ........... 19 Report on IGCP Project 335 Meeting ........................................................................................................................................... 25 New INTAS Research Programme ............................................................................................................................................... 25 Definition of the Frasnian/Famennian Stage Boundary .......................................................................................................... 26 Continued on the inside of back co,,er Subcommission on Devonia n Stratigraphy - News/et/e r No. 11 (December 1994) EDITORIAL NOTES Jess Johnson (1932 - 1994) membership will help keep costs in line with the budget. The SDS membership and the sciences of paleontology Newsletters fo!lowing No. 11 will contain an index to SOS and stratigraphy lost one of its most productive members materials on Internet. Those in the membership without with the death of John Granville (Jess) Johnson in July 1994. Internetaccess who wish copies ofmaterials on Internet may John Talent has provided the mempership with an extremely contact the Editor. In the near future, access to the SOS Fold­ weil written and informative tribute to this very 5pecial er wiII also be possible through WWW (World Wide Web) · t' A . t f J , bl' t· . d and Mosaic. The latter allows direct access to graphic im- person an d sCJen 1st. 115 o ess pu 1ca 10115 comp1 1e . G h d WWW h d d. f from GeoRef follov.' the tribute. _age5 w 111 1e 0 P er an a 11 ow t e ownI O n mg o · graphic image5 which can then be opened on the members computer. Happy Internet "5urfing". Please addre55 any SDS Folder on Internet problems you encounter acce55ing or using the SOS fo lder to [email protected]. A Gopher fold er entitled Subcommis5ion on Devonian Stratigraphy has been crec1ted on the University of Texas at Arlington Gopher Server (UTA Gopher). Devonian Time Scale The structure or pc1th for the SOS folder is: The Devonian time scale on the outside of the back cov­ UTA Gopher er is that being currently used by Crick, Ellwood and Has­ Acc1demic Depnrtrnents sani in their magnetosusceptibility stratigraphy work in Geology Depc1rtment Morocco and elsewhere. The scale is an outgrowth of d is­ Subcomrnission on Devonian Stratigraphy cussion with M. R. House, R. T. Becker and Gil Klapper and Current Events incorporate5 the Eifelian/ Givetian GSSP decision, the T-R Mernbership Directory cycles of Johnson, Klapper and Sandberg, and the chrono­ Publicc1tion Database metric scale of Barry Fordham. Criticisms and comments Current Nevvsletter are expected and welcomed. Contributions are solicited for Member News a forum toward establishing a "standard" Devonian scale. Member Reports See R. T. Becker's comments under Time Scale Forum Time-Senle Forum SOS Reports ICS Reports Nominations of SDS Officers Archivc1l Materials Please respond to the request of Bill Oliver for 5ugges­ Newsletters tions of nominees for Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Secre­ The SOS folder ,,vill n ppear sta tic to tho5e acce55ing the tary (see pg. 15). folder-that is, members mc1y rec1d and dovmload any c1nd all materiell in nll SOS folders but will not be able to add materials directly to folders. The process of adding materi­ Membership als requires submission to the Editor as is done for the News­ letter. The mc1jor difference is that all material placed in Dr. Alexander 0. Ivanov, Institute of the Earth· Crust, folders must be in digital form. Thus submissions must be St.Petersburg University, 16 Linija 29, St.Petersburg 199178, via computer files unless members do not have access to Rus5ia; Palaeozoic microvertebrates; Dr. Oleg Lebedev, computing facilities to prepare computer files. These mem­ Palaeontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sci­ bers may submit contributions as requested for the News­ ences, Profsoyuznaya St. 123 Moscow, 117647, Russia; Palae­ letter (see submission requirements on the title page of this ozoic vertebrates; Dr. Vitalii Sorokin, Geological Institute Newsletter) and the contributions will be converted to dig­ of the Stratigraphy of the East European Platform were elect­ ital format. ed Corresponding Members of the SOS at the Moscow me~t­ ing. The growing number-of contributions by SOS member­ ship to the New5Jetter and the delay in publishing materi­ The weII deserved nomination of CM Susan Turner, als has prompted the establishment of an alternate outlet Queensland Museum, P.O. Box 3300, South Brisbane, Qld for materials of time sensitive nature as well as those of lim­ 4101, Australia, for Titular Membership was unanimously ited interest to the membership and the growing database accepted by TM's present at the Moscow Meeting of publications relating to Devonian topics. Subfolders and SOS membership addresses and telephone numbers files within the SOS Folder will contain all materials con­ (where known) are appended as a separate enclosure. Please tained in Newsletters but will not be a replacement for the check your entry and notify the Editor if corrections are in Newsletter. The cost of reproducing and mailing the News­ order. The number of members with e-mail addresses has letter ha5 grown to approximately $500 (US) and limiting increased by 100%. its content to new5 and reports of general interest to the -1- Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy- Newsletter No. 11 (December 1994) THE INIMITABLE JESS JOHNSON (13 JANUARY 1932-5 JULY 1994) At about 1 pm on 5 July, with wife most of the enterprises in which hebe­ Jess out-survived nearly all those Miriam and daughter Jeanette at his came involved. who had been afflicted with bulbar-spi­ side, John Granville ('Jess') Johnson, Jess was born in the mid-continent, nal poliomyelitis during the 1950s-ear­ hero to brachiopod and cono.dont in Jefferson City, Missouri. His father ly 1960s polio era. The discovery of the workers and to lovers of things Devo­ was of Swedish descent, though born Salk vaccine, followed by d iscovery of nia n, passed away painlessly from in the USA. His wife Miriam Anderson the first oral vaccine by Albert B. Sab­ pneumonia at his home in Corvallis, Johnson, a unique person whom he had in, between 1957 and 1958 (but not li­ Oregon. Jess' broad spectrum of elegant the good fortune to marry in 1954, was censed until 1961, after Jess had con­ contributions in the fields of paleontol­ also of Swedish parentage; her parents tracted the disease) elirninated the need ogy, stratigraphy, paleogeography, pa­ had migrated to the USA from north­ for production of respirators. As a con­ Ieobiogeography, and sedimentary tec­ ern Finland in the early 1920s. Miriam sequence, Jess' last
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  • An Inventory of Trilobites from National Park Service Areas

    An Inventory of Trilobites from National Park Service Areas

    Sullivan, R.M. and Lucas, S.G., eds., 2016, Fossil Record 5. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 74. 179 AN INVENTORY OF TRILOBITES FROM NATIONAL PARK SERVICE AREAS MEGAN R. NORR¹, VINCENT L. SANTUCCI1 and JUSTIN S. TWEET2 1National Park Service. 1201 Eye Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20005; -email: [email protected]; 2Tweet Paleo-Consulting. 9149 79th St. S. Cottage Grove. MN 55016; Abstract—Trilobites represent an extinct group of Paleozoic marine invertebrate fossils that have great scientific interest and public appeal. Trilobites exhibit wide taxonomic diversity and are contained within nine orders of the Class Trilobita. A wealth of scientific literature exists regarding trilobites, their morphology, biostratigraphy, indicators of paleoenvironments, behavior, and other research themes. An inventory of National Park Service areas reveals that fossilized remains of trilobites are documented from within at least 33 NPS units, including Death Valley National Park, Grand Canyon National Park, Yellowstone National Park, and Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve. More than 120 trilobite hototype specimens are known from National Park Service areas. INTRODUCTION Of the 262 National Park Service areas identified with paleontological resources, 33 of those units have documented trilobite fossils (Fig. 1). More than 120 holotype specimens of trilobites have been found within National Park Service (NPS) units. Once thriving during the Paleozoic Era (between ~520 and 250 million years ago) and becoming extinct at the end of the Permian Period, trilobites were prone to fossilization due to their hard exoskeletons and the sedimentary marine environments they inhabited. While parks such as Death Valley National Park and Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve have reported a great abundance of fossilized trilobites, many other national parks also contain a diverse trilobite fauna.