INTERNATIONAL UNION OF BIOLOGIC A L S C IENC ES S ECTION FOR P A L A EOBOTANY International Organisation of Palaeobotany IOP NEWSLETTER 110 August 2016 CONTENTS FROM THE SECRETARY/TREASURER IPC XIV/IOPC X 2016 IOPC 2020 IOP MEMBERSHIP IOP EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ELECTIONS IOP WEBMASTER POSITION WHAT HAPPENED TO THE OUPH COLLECTIONS? THE PALAEOBOTANY OF ITALY UPCOMING MEETINGS CALL FOR NEWS and NOTES The views expressed in the newsletter are those of its correspondents, and do not necessarily reflect the policy of IOP. Please send us your contributions for the next edition of our newsletter (June 2016) by M ay 30th, 2016. President: Johanna Eder-Kovar (G ermany) Vice Presidents: Bob Spicer (Great Britain), Harufumi Nishida (Japan), M ihai Popa (Romania) M embers at Large: Jun W ang (China), Hans Kerp (Germany), Alexej Herman (Russia) Secretary/Treasurer/Newsletter editor: M ike Dunn (USA) Conference/Congress Chair: Francisco de Assis Ribeiro dos Santos IOP Logo: The evolution of plant architecture (© by A. R. Hemsley) I OP 110 2 August 2016 FROM THE In addition, please send any issues that you think need to be addressed at the Business SECRETARY/TREASURER meeting. I will add those to the Agenda. Dear IOP Members, Respectfully, Mike I am happy to report, that IOP seems to be on track and ready for a new Executive Council to take over. The elections are IPC XIV/IOPC X 2016 progressing nicely and I will report the results in the September/October Newsletter. The one area that is still problematic is the webmaster position. We really to talk amongst ourselves, and find someone who is willing and able to do the job. I discuss the position in more detail below. Everything seems to be falling into place for IOPC X at Salvador Brazil. The Olympics seem to have gone well, so the Brazilians are all practiced as great hosts, so our meeting should be great fun. I look The 2016 joint meeting of the International forward to seeing all of you there. Palynological Congress and the International Organization of As always I am eternally grateful for Palaeobotanists will be held 23-28 October submissions to the newsletter, even if the 2016 at Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The venue news is bad. Carole Gee reports on the good is The Bahia Othon Palace. news of the publication of ‘The Palaeobotany of Italy’. And Gar Rothwell The homepage with registration details is provided an important update on the status up and running. of the Ohio University Paleobotanical collections since his retirement from that The Website is: institution. http://www.ipciopcbrazil.com/ I will publish one more newsletter in late September-Early October to report on the The site is very easy to use, but if your results of the elections, the status of IOP, and Institution has a robust Firewall the site the upcoming IOPC 2016 meetings. may be blocked as it was for me. I simply registered from home and had no problem. As always, please send anything you want included in that newsletter to the address at Time is running out, but do please the end of this newsletter. remember to double check the requirements for entering Brazil. For example, US I OP 110 3 August 2016 citizens need a visa, but every country is Ugly Americans look good. So if you different. haven’t already, please vote. If you need another ballot, please just let me know. IOPC 2020 IOP Webmaster At this time we have no official bids to host I was very sorry to accept the resignation of IOPC2020. Alan Spencer as our Webmaster. Alan has done a great job for us for more than 10 IOP MEMBERSHIP years now, but he has decided that he needs to focus on other things. I would personally Thank you for the great response to the like to thank him publically, and recent call for membership updates. I did a acknowledge how much he has helped me hard cull to clean up the rolls for the these past years. His help was invaluable. I incoming Secretary/Treasurer and so we hope all of you also take the time to thank now have 279 members. I deleted any him for his service to IOP. member who was more than 2 years in arrears. I used the 2 year cut-off because the But it does mean that we need someone to current system won’t allow anyone to pay take on that position. Alan has generously dues until after their membership has offered to be there to assist in the transition, expired, so it is easy to forget to pay when so things should go smoothly for our next one’s membership expires on January 1. webmaster. If you have an interest in the position, or know someone who would like In addition, some members have a bias to serve IOP as Webmaster, please let me against using Paypal. If there are issues with know as soon as possible. This position is Paypal, please let me know what they are, not voted on, and you can serve as long or and we can discuss them at the Business as short of time as you would like. Meeting. That system makes life very easy for the Secretary/Treasurer but if there are Our organisation can’t function properly problems we need to know what they are so without a webmaster. Alan and our we can address them. Sending checks in previous webmasters have done a great job anything except US dollars is not helpful of setting up and maintaining the site, so it because the exchange costs are too just needs someone with the time and skills prohibitive. to keep it IOP EXECUTIVE running. Please consider this position, if it fits your agenda. COMMITTEE ELECTIONS The IOP Executive Committee elections are underway and will be open until 30 WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO August. To date 73 members have voted for THE OHIO UNIVERSITY a participation rate of 26%. That is an even PALEOBOTANICAL worse voting rate than American elections, and I know that you don’t want to make us COLLECTIONS? I OP 110 4 August 2016 Basinger, J. F., G. W. Rothwell, and W. N. As many of you know, Gar Rothwell has Stewart. 1974. Cauline vasculature retired from Ohio University, and with that, and leaf trace production in the Ohio University Paleobotanical medullosan pteridosperms. Collections are now dispersed to a number American Journal of Botany 61: of museums and collections. Because the 1002-1015. ability to reference and re-examine Bateman, R. M., P. Kenrick, and G. W. published specimens is an integral part of Rothwell. 2007. Do eligulate paleobotanical research, Gar has submitted lycopsids occur in Palaeozoic strata? the following update on where we can find Hestia eremosa gen. et sp. nov. the specimens we might need for our from the Dinantian of Oxroad Bay, research. East Lothian, Scotland. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 144: Publications with OUPH specimen 323-335. content: Bateman, R. M., and G. W. Rothwell. 1990. A reappraisal of the The following list of publications, although Dinantian floras at Oxroad Bay, probably incomplete, includes nearly all of East Lothian, Scotland, I. Floristics the studies that are based on specimens that and the development of whole plant until recently have been housed at Ohio concepts. Transactions of the Royal University. Specimens that support this Society of Edinburgh (Earth research, and that were housed in the Ohio Sciences) 81: 127-159. University Paleobotanical Herbarium, have Beeler, H. E. 1983. Anatomy and frond been transferred to the Field Museum of architecture of Neuropteris ovata Natural History, Chicago, and the Natural and N. scheuchzeri from the Upper History Museum, University of Kansas, Pennsylvanian of the Appalachian Lawrence. The collections have been Basin. Canadian Journal of Botany relocated by general topic as follows: 61: 2352-2368. Dunn, M. T., M. Krings, G. Mapes, G. W. Coal Ball material – Field Museum Rothwell, R. H. Mapes, K-Q Sun. Devonian/Lower Carboniferous seed 2003. Medullosa steinii sp. nov., a plants – University of Kansas seed fern vine from the Late Psaronius tree fern trunks – Field Mississippian. Review of Museum Palaeobotany and Palynology 124: Paleozoic Conifers – University of Kansas 307-324. Anatomical sections of living plants – Dunn, M. T., G. Mapes and G. W. Field Museum Rothwell. 2001. On Paleozoic plants Mississippian (Weddington Delta, from marine strata: Hexaloba finisensia new genus and species, a Arkansas) fossils – University of Kansas trigonocarpalean ovule from the Miscellaneous collections – Field Museum Virgilian (Gzhelian) Finis Shale of Texas. Journal of Paleontology 76: 173-180. Publications Dunn, M. and G. W. Rothwell. 2012. Phenotypic plasticity of the I OP 110 5 August 2016 hydrasperman seed fern Tetrastichia Good, C. S., and G. W. Rothwell. 1988. A bupatides Gordon. International reinterpretation of the Paleozoic fern Journal of Plant Sciences 173: 823- Norwoodia angustum. Review of 834. Palaeobotany and Palynology 56: Dunn, M. T., G. W. Rothwell, and G. 199-204. Mapes. 2003. On Paleozoic plants Good, C. W., G. W. Rothwell, and T. N. from marine strata: Trivena Taylor. 1982. A new arkansana gen. et sp. nov., a Stephanospermum from the lyginopterid from the Fayetteville Appalachian Basin of North Formation (middle America. Review of Palaeobotany Chesterian/Upper Mississippian) of and Palynology 36: 231-240. Arkansas, USA. American Journal Grove, G. G., and G. W. Rothwell. 1980. of Botany 90: 1239-1252. Mitrospermum vinculum sp. nov., a Dunn, M. T., G. W. Rothwell, and G. cardiocarpalean ovule from the Mapes. 2006. The Fayetteville Flora Upper Pennsylvanian of Ohio. of Arkansas (USA): A Snapshot of American Journal of Botany 67: Terrestrial Vegetation Patterns 1051-1058.