The Compleat Mesoangler A Newsletter About Mesozoic Fishes Volume 4, Number 2 December 28, 1997

Second Mesozoic Fishes Meeting Held

by Mark Wilson Once again, Mesozoic Fish enthusiasts are ceous, to the Recent, and addressed issues as indebted to Gloria Arratia, for her efforts – with diverse as paleoecology, paleogeography, the assistance of Hans-Peter Schultze and other anatomy, development, and phylogeny (topics representatives of the Institut für Paläontologie, were summarized in the previous issue of The Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt- Compleat Mesoangler). Manuscripts are Universität zu Berlin – in organizing an interna- corrently in review for potential inclusion in an tional meeting on Mesozoic Fishes. This, the edited volume to be published by Verlag Dr. second such meeting, was held in Buckow, a Friedrich PFEIL. small town east of Berlin, Germany. The first The weather as well as the hotel accommoda- meeting had been held in 1993 in Eichstätt. tions and food during the conference were As you can see from the group photograph excellent, and the small-town setting surrounded above, the meeting was attended by more than by small lakes and walking trails proved ideal. 40 people from all over the world. Scientific I'm already looking forward to the next oppor- contributions spanned the geologic column tunity to get together with my agreeable and from the through the and Creta- creative colleagues!

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CAVIN, Lionel. Musée des dinosaures, 11260 The Espéraza, France. Telephone: 4 68 74 26 88, FAX: 4 68 74 05 75 E-mail: [email protected] Mesozoic Fishes WWW: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/ musee.dinosaures Current research: I work now in the Musée des Dinosaures, Espéraza, Southern Home Page France. The Museum is managed by a private on the association, Dinosauria (see above WWW address). I work on Late World Wide Web actinopterygians, mainly on a Moroccan marine fauna (Goulmima) and European continental is at: assemblages. http://gause.biology.ualberta.ca/wilson.hp/ JOHNS, Marjorie J. B.Sc., M.Sc., Pacific mesofish.html PaleoQuest, P.O. Box 220, Brentwood Bay, British Columbia, V8M 1R3 CANADA Add a link to your personal home Telephone: (250) 652-4693 FAX: (250) page, your museum’s home page, or 472-4100 E-mail: [email protected] Current research: I have started my own to a file that you are allowing others to consulting business (Pacific PaleoQuest). I hope download by sending us its WWW to continue some ichthyolith biostratigraphic name and address. and thermal work and to undertake foraminifer biostratigraphic and paleoenvironmental projects. KINDLIMANN, René. Zürichstraße 193, Ch- 8607 Aathal. Switzerland FAX: ,1 932 70 15 E-mail: [email protected] G. Arratia & G. Viohl, eds. Current research: I am presently prepar- ing a rather long (40 cm) “complete” part of a rostrum of the Mesozoic ?sclerorhynchid Mesozoic Fishes: chondrichthyan Schizorhiza stromeri. As far as I know no other articulated find of this peculiar Systematics and Paleoecology fish has been recorded previously. The genus is Proceedings of the First International Meeting, well known only by single rostral teeth. After preparation is finished I will submit the manu- Eichstätt, 1993 script for publication. Post-publication price $160 US or DM 240 KIRKLAND, James I. (Access, Eurocard, American Express, Dinamation Internation Society, Jurassic Court, Fruita, CO 81521 USA. MasterCard, Diners’ Club, VISA) Telephone: (970) 858-7282 FAX: (970) 858-3532 E-mail: [email protected] Verlag Dr. Friedrich PFEIL Current research: My paper on the Postfach 65 00 86 Morrison Fm. fishes comes out in Modern Geology this fall. It will also be included in a D-81214 München separate volume on the Morrison to be published GERMANY by MG later.

2 MICKLICH, Norbert. Geologisch- Paläontologische & Mineralogische Abteilung, Squish Fisch Fiche: Hessisches Landesmuseum, Friedensplatz 1, D- 64283 Darmstadt, Germany Recent Publications Telephone: + 49 6151 165742 FAX: + 49 6151 28942 Bemis, W. E., Findeis, E. K., & Grande, L. E-mail: [email protected] 1997. An overview of Acipenseriformes. Envi- Current research: A small study-group ronmental Biology of Fishes 48: 25-71. was established at the Geology Department of Hessisches Landesmuseum. Current projects are: Bravi, S. 1988. Contributo allo studio del Age and growth of Eocene gars, especially those giacimento ad ittiolitti di pietraroja (Benevento). from the Messel Formation. Scale articulation I. Pleuopholis decastroi n.sp. (Pisces, patterns in fossil and extant “ganoid” fishes with , Pholidophoriformes). Mem. soc. special respect to gars. Description of new gars Geol. It. 41: 575-586. from the Eocene Messel Formation. Taphonomic Bravi, S. 1994. New observations on the Lower investigations in fossil and extant bowfins. Cretaceous fish Notagogus pentlandi Agassiz Percoids and lower bony fishes of the Messel (Actinopterygii, Halecostomi, Macrosemiidae). Formation. Oligocene marine bony fishes from Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana the western Parathethys. 33(1): 51-70. Bravi, S. 1995. Studies on old and new Meso- RINEHART, Larry. 13100 Argon NE, Cenozoic “Plattenkalk” in southern Italy. - II Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87112 USA. International symposium on lithographic lime- E-mail: lrinehar@concentric. net stones Lleida - Cuenca (Spain) 9th-16th July Current research: I am a part-time 1995 Extended Abstracts: 39-43. paleontology and geology student at the Univer- Bravi, S. & De Castro, P. 1995. The Cretaceous sity of New Mexico and also work as a volunteer fossil fishes level of Capo d’Orlando, near preparator and collector for the New Mexico Castellammare di Stabia (NA): biostratigraphy Museum of Natural History. My field work and depositional environment. Mem. Sci. Geol. includes collecting Jurassic fish and insects in Vol. 47: 45-72. New Mexico’s Todilto Formation. Bruner, J. C. 1997. El Tiburón “Megadiente” TURNER, Susan. Australian Research Fellow, Carcharodon megalodon “De dientes duros y Queensland Museum, P.O. Box 3300, South enormes”. Mundo Marino Revista Internacional Brisbane, Queensland 4101 Australia. de Vida Marina, 5(Septiembre-Octobre): 6-11. Telephone: 61 7 3840 7677 FAX: 61 7 Buffetaut, E. & Cavin, L. 1995. Nouveaux 3846 1918 NB. E-mail: (new) restes de vertébrés du Maastrichtien supérieur de [email protected] la carrière du Jadet (Saint-Martory, Haute- Current research: Dr. Detlev Thies Garonne, France). Bull. trim. Soc. Géol. (University Hannover) visited Brisbane in Normandie et Amis Muséum du Havre, 82 (4): September (1997) and he and Sue Turner looked 31-34 over Mesozoic fishes in the QM collection; they Buffetaut, E., Le Loeuff, J., Cavin, L., will prepare a short note on a Jurassic fish from Gheerbrant, E., Laurent, Y., Martin, M., Monto in SE Queensland which Sue showed in Rage, J.-C., Tong, H., & Vasse, D. (in press) her poster at the Eichstätt meeting. The fish Données nouvelles sur les vertébrés du Crétacé appears to be Lepidotes - a first record for the supérieur du Sud de la France. Geobios. Jurassic of Australia. Carroll, R. L. 1997. Patterns and Processes of Vertebrate Evolution. Cambridge Paleobiology WEGMUELLER, Juerg. Talackerstraße 71, Series 2. Cambridge University Press. Port CH-3604 Thun, Switzerland. Chester, New York, USA. 528 pp. Telephone: 0041 33 335 12 50, FAX: 0041 33 335 12 50, E-mail: Case, G. R. 1994. Fossil fish remains from the [email protected] Late Paleocene Tuscahoma and Early Eocene Please note: my new e-mail address and Bashi Formations of Meridian, Lauderdale fax number. County, Mississippi. Part 1. Selachians. Palaeontographica A 230: 97-138.

3 Case, G. R. 1994. Fossil fish remains from the late Paleocene Tuscahoma and early Eocene The Compleat Mesoangler Bashi Formations of Meridian, Lauderdale is edited and published by Mark V. H. Wilson. County, Mississippi. Part II: Teleosteans. is mailed to 130 People in 21 Countries. Palaeontographica Abt. A. 230: 139-153. TCM To join the list or to update your entry, submit Case, G. R. 1996. A new selachian fauna from the Lower Hornerstown formation (Early a Mesozoic Fish Tales item: Paleocene/Montian) of Monmouth county, New • research interests, address changes Jersey. Palaeontographica Abt. A 242: 1-14. • news from lab or reports of fieldwork Case, G. R. & Cappetta, H. 1997. A new • meeting announcements Selachian fauna from the Late Maastrichtian of • hints or questions on techniques or specimens Texas (Upper Cretaceous/Navarroan; Kemp • photos of Mesozoic fish, localities, field parties, Formation). Münchner Geowiss. Abh. (A) 34: meetings, researchers, etc. 131-189. • employment & grad school opportunities available Cavin, L. 1996. Goulmimichthys arambourgi n. or needed g., n. sp., un Pachyrhizodontidae • publications (since 1992, not listed before; reprints (Actinopterygii, Teleostei) d’une nouvelle are greatly appreciated) localité à nodules fossilifères du Turonien Send to: inférieur marocain. C. R. Acad. Sci., IIa, 321: 1049-1054. • e-mail:[email protected] Cavin, L. Supposed and direct evidence of • FAX: 1-403-492-9234 trophic relationships within the fish community • post: Dr. M. V. H. Wilson of the Lower of Goulmima, Morocco. Dept. of Biological Sciences Geological Society of Denmark, On Line Series, University of Alberta 1, http://hone4.inrt.tele.dk/dgfth/online/ Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E9 workshop.htm. CANADA Cavin, L. (in press). Nouveaux Teleostei du gisement Turonien inférieur de Goulmima Next Deadline March 31, 1998 (Maroc). C. R. Acad. Sci. Cavin, L., Cappetta, H., & Seret, B. 1996. Optional contribution to defray expenses of Révision de Belemnobalis morinicus (Sauvage, production and mailing: $5. U.S. per year. 1873) du Portlandien de Boulonnais (Pas-de- Calais, France). Comparaison avec quelques Gayet, M., Meunier, F. J., & Werner, C. 1997. Rhinobatidae Jurassiques. Geologica et Strange Polypteriformes from the Upper Creta- Palaeontologica, 29: 245-267. ceous of In Becetem (Niger) and Wadi Milk Cavin, L. & Martin, M. 1995. Les Formation (Sudan). Geobios, M.S. 20: 249-255. Actinoptérygiens et la limite Crétacé-Tertiaire. Goto, M., Date, Y., & Tanimoto, M. 1996. On a Géobios, M.S. 19:183-188 tooth of Chlamydoselachus sp. from the Izumi Cavin, L, Martin, M., & Valentin, X. Group (Upper Cretaceous) in Sobura, Kaizuka Découverte d’Atractosteus africanus city, Osaka Prefecture, southwest Japan. Ab- (Actinopterygii, Lepisosteidae) dans le stracts of the 1997 Annual Meeting of the Palae- Campanien inférieur de Ventabren (Bouches-du- ontological Society of Japan: 25. Rhône, France). Implications Grande, L. 1997. Review of: Discovering fossil paléobiogéographiques. Revue de Paléobiologie, fishes, by John G. Maisey. Copeia 1997(3): 15(1): 1-7. 639-640. Gayet, M. & Meunier, F. J. 1996. À propos du Huber, P., Lucas, S. G., & Hunt, A. P. 1993. genre Bartschia Gayet & Meunier, 1996: rectifi- Chapter 4. Late Triassic fish assemblages of the cation de nomeclature en Bartschichthys nov. North American Western Interior. pp. 51-66. In: gen. Cybium 20(3): 314. Morales, M. (ed.): Aspects of Mesozoic Geology Gayet, M. & Meunier, F. J. 1996. Nouveaux and Paleontology of the Colorado Plateau. Polypteriformes du gisement coniacien-sénonien Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin 59. d’In Becetem (Niger). C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris. Johns, M. J. 1996. Diagnostic pedicle features 322(2a): 701-707. of Middle and Late Triassic elasmobranch scales

4 Actinopterygii) aus dem Oberjura (Kimmeridgium) des Langenbergs bei Oker (Norddeutschland). Geologica et Palaeontologica 30: 239-265. Nelson, J. S. 1997. Review of: Interrelationships of Fishes Revisited, edited by M. L. J. Stiassny, L. R. Parenti, and G. D. Johnson. Copeia 1997(3): 647-649. Ortí, G., & Meyer, A. 1997. The radiation of characiform fishes and the limits of resolution of mitochondrial ribosomal DNA sequences. Systematic Biology 46(1): 75-100. Otero, O. 1997. A new genus of Aipichthyoidea (Teleostei, Acanthomorpha) from the Lower Cenomanian of Hgula (Lebanon): description and phylogenetic relationships. C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Earth & Planetary Sciences 325: 453-458. Otero, O., & Gayet, M. 1996. Anatomy and from northeastern British Columbia, Canada. phylogeny of the Aipichthyoidea nov. of the Micropaleontology 42(4): 335-350. Cenomanian Tethys and their place in the Johns, M. J., Barnes, C. R., & Orchard, M. J. Acanthomorpha (Teleostei). N. Jb. Geol. 1997. Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of Middle Paläont. Abh., Vol. 202(3): 313-344. and Late Triassic elasmobranch ichthyoliths Otto-Bliesner, B. L., & Upchurch, G. R., Jr., from Northeastern British Columbia. Geologi- 1997. Vegetation-induced warming of high- cal Survey of Canada Bulletin 502: 1-235. latitude regions during the Late Cretaceous Kemp, A. 1997. Four of Metaceratodus period. Nature 385(6619): 804-807. (Osteichthyes: Dipnoi, Family Ceratodontidae) Rich, T. H. 1997. Review of: Contributions of from Australian Mesozoic and Cenozoic depos- southern South America to vertebrate its. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17(1): 26- paleontology, edited by Gloria Arratia. Copeia 33. 1997(2): 471-472. Kemp, A. 1997. A revision of Australian Schwimmer, D. R., Stewart, J. D., & Williams, Mesozoic and Cenozoic lungfish of the family G. D. 1997. vetus and the distribu- Neoceratodontidae (Osteichthyes: Dipnoi), with tion of Xiphactinus species in the eastern United a description of four new species. Journal of States. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Paleontology 71(4): 713-733. 17(3): 610-615. Lovejoy, N. R. 1997. Stingrays, parasites, and Neotropical biogeography: a closer look at Brooks et al.’s Hypotheses concerning the origins of neotropical freshwater rays International Symposium: (Potamotrygonidae). Systematic Biology 46(1): 218-229. Lucas, S. G. 1993. Chapter 3. The Chinle Palaeodiversifications: Group: revised stratigraphy and biochronology Land and Sea Compared of Upper Triassic nonmarine strata in the West- ern United States. pp. 27-50. In: Morales, M. (ed.): Aspects of Mesozoic Geology and July 6-8, 1998 Paleontology of the Colorado Plateau. Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin 59. Lyon, France Maisey, J. G., & de Carvalho, M. R. 1997. A Contact: new look at old sharks. Nature 385(6619): 779- Mireille GAYET 780. e-mail [email protected] Mudroch, A. & Thies, D. 1996. tel: +33(0)4 72 44 83 98 Knochenfischzähne (Osteichthyes, fax: +33 (0)4 72 44 84 36

5 Shimada, K. 1997. Gigantic lamnoid shark vertebra from the Lower Cretaceous Kiowa Shale of Kansas. Journal of Paleontology 71(3): Symposium on Fish 522-524. Shimada, K. 1997. Paleoecological relation- ships of the Late Cretaceous lamniform shark, Palaeontology Cretoxyrhina mantelli (Agassiz). Journal of Paleontology 71(5): 926-932. At CEI 9 (Trieste, August 1997) Shimada, K. 1997. Dentition of the Late Creta- ceous lamniform shark, Cretoxyrhina mantelli, by Norbert Micklich from the Niobrara Chalk of Kansas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17(2): 269-279. For the very first time, a symposium on Siverson, M. 1997. Sharks from the mid-Creta- fish paleontology was included in the pro- ceous Gearle Siltstone, Southern Carnarvon gramme of a CEI conference. One plenary Basin, Western Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 17(3): 453-465. lecture, two keynotes, fourteen “regular” oral Siverson, M. 1995. Revision of Cretorectolobus talks and five posters were presented. Starting (Neoselachii) and description of Cederstroemia with the Middle Triassic, all periods in earth n. gen., a Cretaceous carpet shark history were covered and freshwater and marine (Orectolobiformes) with a cutting dentition. taxa and biotas were considered as well. Most Journal of Paleontology 69(5): 974-979. talks were focused on European fishes and fish Solé, R. V., Manrubia, S. C., Benton, M., & localities, but there also were comparisons with Bak, P. 1997. Self-similarity of extinction those from North America and other regions. statistics in the fossil record. Nature, 388(6644): 764-767. Various aspects of the question in what Taverne, L. 1995. Description de l’appareil de ways ancient fish taxa and ancient fish faunas Weber du téléostéen crétacé marin Clupavus can shed light on the respective relationships of maroccanus et ses implications phylogénétiques. extant ones were discussed. It was demonstrated Belgian Journal of Zoology 125(2): 267-282. that 1) they bear essential information for the Taverne, L. 1996. Révision de Tingitanichthys reconstruction of the interrelationships of bony heterodon (Arambourg, 1954) nov. gen. fish groups at various taxonomic levels; 2) they (Teleostei, Pachyrhizodontoidei) du Crétacé supérieur marin du Maroc. Biol. Jaarb. are important for the understanding of present Dodonaea. 63: 133-151. day dispersal and diversification patterns; and, Thies, D., & Vespermann, J. 1997. Excursion: 3) they are also useful for the reconstruction of Mesozoic Fishes in North Germany (11.7.1997). ancient ecosystems. Much of the former infor- Second symposium on Mesozoic Fishes, mation from the fossil record that seemed poor Buckow, Germany : 1-10. when compared with those derived from extant Tong, H., Buffetaut, E., Le Loeuff, J., Cavin, fishes, was simply because of the application of I., & Martin, V. 1993. Découverte de restes de Vertébrés dans le Crétacé Supérieur de Monséret old-fashioned excavation, preparation and (Corbières orientales, Aude). Bull. Soc. d’Etudes investigation methods, or the overall insufficient Sci. de l’Aude 93: 161-164. exploitation of appropriate fossil sites. In the Werner, C., & Gayet, M. 1997. New fossil final discussion, another “palaeofish sympo- Polypteridae from the Cenomanian of Sudan, an sium” at the next CEI was encouraged. How- evidence of their high diversity in the Early Late ever, further efforts are needed to get more 21 Cretaceous. Cybium (1): 67-81. “extant fish” colleagues interested and involved Wullimann, M. F. 1997. Major patterns of in these sessions and to initiate joint research visual brain organization in and their relation to prehistoric events and the projects that could be – as demonstrated with a paleontological record. Paleobiology 23(1): few examples during the conference – very 101-114. fruitful.

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