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Paleontological Section of the Moscow Society of Nature Explorers in 2007 -- EXCERPT
by O.V. Amitrov
DOI: 10.1134/S0031030108040163
ISSN 0031-0301, Paleontological Journal, 2008, Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 447–449.
© Pleiades Publishing, Ltd., 2008.
Original Russian Text © O.V. Amitrov, 2008
published in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 2008, No. 4, pp. 108–110.
NOTICE: THIS WORK MAY BE PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT
In 2007, the section held seven meetings, with 70 reports delivered. As in 2006, there were no current meetings. Two meetings were regular annual meetings of the section and Moscow section of the Paleontological Society of the Russian Academy of Sciences “PALEOSTRAT-2007.” The Fourth All-Russian Scientific School of young paleontologists was represented by three meetings at the 47th Conference of Young Paleontologists of the Moscow Society of Nature Explorers. Like the previous three schools, this school was entitled “Modern Paleontology: Classical and Novel Methods.” It was organized by the section together with the Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow (PIN), Department of Paleontology of the Geological Faculty of Moscow State University (MGU), Paleontological Society of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and programs of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences “Support for Young Scientists,” “Origin and Evolution of the Biosphere,” and “Dynamics of Biodiversity and Gene Pool.” The session “Eustatic Variations in the Phanerozoic and Their Effect on the Marine Biota” supported by the Program of the Russian Academy of Sciences “Origin and Evolution of the Biosphere” was conducted jointly by the Section, PIN, and the Moscow Section of the Paleontological Society. The last session of the sections of sedimentary rocks, geology, and paleontology of Moscow Society of Nature Explorers was dedicated to the memory of Vladimir Vladimirovich Menner (1931–2006). The abstracts of almost all contributions were published, some contributions are prepared for publication as full-size papers.
Some reports of the PALEOSTRAT meeting were topically grouped. Contributions dedicated to the centenary of the birth of Petr Aleksandrovich Gerasimov ...
included the talk “Contribution of P.A. Gerasimov to the Study of the Jurassic and Cretaceous of Central Russia” by V.V. Mitta (PIN) and I.A. Starodubtseva (Vernadsky State Geological Museum, Moscow); two reports by A.P. Ippolitov (MGU, PIN) entitled “Contribution of P.A. Gerasimov to the Study of Mesozoic Serpulids (Annelida, Polychaeta) from Central Russia” and “On a New Method of Analysis of Assemblages of Encrusting Organisms, Based on Upper Jurassic (Oxfordian) Serpulids (Annelida, Polychaeta) of Central Russia”; the report “The Volgian Stage is Retained in the Jurassic System, with Evidence from Magnetostratigraphic Correlation” by V. Khosha, P. Pruner, M. Shadima, S. Shlekhta (Institute of Geology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague), M. Kostak, M. Mazukh (Univerzita Karlova v Praze), V.A. Zakharov, and M.A. Rogov (Geological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (GIN), Moscow); the report “Volgian Stage Boundaries” by V.V. Mitta; the report “Middle–Upper Jurassic Ostracodes of the Kursk Region” by E.M. Tesakova (MGU), and the report by D.V. Stryuchkov (Vernadsky State Geological Museum, Moscow) entitled “Jurassic Ichthyosaurs from the Collection of the Vernadsky State Geological Museum.”
The reports “Kh.I. Pander, the Discoverer of Conodonts” by I.A. Starodubtseva and “A New Representative of the Conodont Genus Antognathus from the Famennian of Southern Kazakhstan” by Yu.A. Gatovskii (MGU) were dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the discovery of conodonts.
Some general issues were addressed by V.K. Golubev (PIN) in his report “Perfection of the Stratigraphic Scale: True and Imaginary” and by S.S. Lazarev (PIN) in his report “A Young Man in Modern Science: Not of This World?”
Particular fossil groups were discussed in the contributions “Ecology and Taphonomy of Radiolarians” by M.S. Afanasieva (PIN) and E.O. Amon (Institute of Geology and Geochemistry, Yekaterinburg); “Permian Foraminifers of the Pechora Region” by E.E. Sukhov (Kazan State University); “Stratigraphic Distribution, Paleobiogeography, and Phylogenesis of Benthic Foraminifers Stensioeina of the Turonian–Santonian of the Mangyshlak and the Southeastern Russian Plate” by V.N. Benyamovsky (GIN) and A.Yu. Sadekov (University of Canberra, Australia); “Echinoids in the Cretaceous of the East European Platform” by A.N. Soloviev (PIN); and “Distribution of Arthrodira (Placodermi) in the Evlanovsk (Late Frasnian) Basin of the Central Devonian Field” by G.V. Zakharenko (PIN).
Eight reports addressed biotic assemblages: “The Challenger Expedition (1872–1876) and Its Significance for the Study of Marine Sediments” by T.M. Popesko (Central Research Geological Prospecting Museum, St. Petersburg); “Vendian Localities of the White Sea Region: Perspectives for their Preservation As Geological Natural Monuments” by M.A. Fedonkin, A.Yu. Ivantsov, M.V. Leonov, and E.A. Serezhnikova (PIN); “On Vendian–Cambrian Boundary Deposits of the Dzabkhan Zone of Western Mongolia” by D. Dorzhnamdzha, Enkhbaator (Mongolian Academy of Sciences), A.V. Krayushkin, A.L. Ragozina, and E.A. Serezhnikova (PIN); “Stratigraphy and Paleogeography of the Klintsyan Horizon (Devonian) of the Volgograd Volga Region” by V.N. Mantsurova and V.A. Tsygankova (VolgogradNIPImorneft); “New Data on the Carboniferous Stratigraphy of the Lower Reaches of the Onega River” by A.S. Alekseev, A.N. Reimers, O.A. Orlova, A.P. Ippolitov (MGU), O.A. Lebedev (PIN), V.A. Larchenko, and V.N. Stepanov (ALROSA, Arkhangelsk); “Biostratigraphy and Biogeography of the Marine Permian of Central and Northeastern Mongolia” by I.N. Manankov (PIN); “Microbiotas of Permian Carbonate Buildups of Turkey and Darvaz” by T.V. Filimonova (GIN); and “Sea Level Fluctuations and Events in the Mediterranean and Paratethys Regions during the Messinian” by S.V. Popov and L.A. Nevesskaya (PIN).
Along with standard reports, the School of Young Paleontologists provided six lectures by leading specialists: “Novelty in Bacterial, Precambrian, and Extraterrestrial Paleontology” by A.Yu. Rozanov (PIN), “Mathematical Biology: Present and Future” by V.D. Lakhno (Institute of Mathematical Problems of Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences); “Radiolarians of the Past, Present, and Future” by V.S. Vishnevskaya (GIN); “Paleoichnology” by A.V. Dronov (GIN); “Coevolution of Echinoids and Predatory Cassid Gastropods” by A.N. Soloviev (PIN); “Agnathans: Evolutionary and Phylogenetic Significance” by L.I. Novitskaya (PIN).
Unlike in the PALEOSTRAT Meeting, the majority of reports presented in the School of Young Paleontologists were devoted to particular taxa. R.R. Yakupov (Institute of Geology of the Ural Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa) gave a talk “On the Age of the Metamorphic Strata of the Uraltau Ridge of the Southern Ural Mountains.” Three reports addressed lower plant topics: “The Diatom Flora of River-Mouth Surface Sediments of Northeastern Asia” by M.S. Obrezkova (Pacific Oceanological Institute of the Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok); “Cyanobacteria of the Hot Springs of Baikal Rift Zone: Species Composition and Silica Biomineralization” by E.G. Sorokovikova (Limnological Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (LI SO), Irkutsk) and “Investigation of Chrysophyte Cysts from Some Aquatic Basins of Eurasia and Their Role in the Chrysophyte Fossil Record” by A.D. Firsova (LI SO). The higher plants were discussed in the reports “A New Plant with Thick Cuticle from the Middle Devonian of the Voronezh Anteclise” by A.V. Broushkin (VSEGEI, St. Petersburg) and N.V. Gordenko (PIN); “On the Species Systematics of the Genus Peltaspermum Harris (Peltaspermaceae)” by E.V. Karasev (PIN); “Fossil Wood of Conifers from the Cretaceous of the Russian Far East” by M.A. Afonin (Biological-Soil Institute of the Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences); “The First Find of Conifer Macrofossils from the Lower Sarmatian of the Karpov Yar Site (Moldova)” by A.B. Klumova (MGU); and “The Holocene As an Unaccomplished Interglacial, from the Perspective of Paleophytocoenoses” by E.V. Pashkevich (Belarussian State University (BGU), Minsk). Protists were discussed by the report “Distribution of Radiolarians in the Surface Sediments of the Sea of Okhotsk” by E.A. Yanchenko (Pacific Oceanological Institute of the Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences); Porifera, by the contribution of V.V. Makhnach (BGU) entitled “Sponge Collection at Belarussian State University”; and brachiopods were discussed by A.V. Pakhnevich (PIN) in his report “Microtomographic Examination of the Interior of Brachiopod Holotypes.” Mollusks retained dominance: “Functional Morphology of Ammonoid Shell” by M.S. Boiko (PIN); “Plagioteuthis moscoviensis— A Coleoid or an Ammonoid?” by A.P. Ippolitov (MGU, PIN) and M.A. Rogov (GIN); “Ammonoid Characterization of the Kungurian–Roadian Boundary Deposits in China” by Mu Lin (Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Nanjing, China); “Holocene Malacofauna of the Ptich Site (Central Belarus)” by E.A. San’ko and O.V. Polyanitsa (BGU). The remaining contributions addressed vertebrate topics. E.V. Syromyatnikova and I.G. Danilov (Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg) reported the “Morphology of Turtles of the Genus Adocus from the Upper Cretaceous of Middle Asia and Kazakhstan.” N.V. Zelenkov (PIN) presented on “Phasianidae (Aves) from the Neogene of Central Asia.” V.V. Rosina (PIN) and Yu.A. Semenov (Institute of Zoology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev) reported on “A New Representative of Vespertilionidae (Chiroptera) from the Early Vallesian of Ukraine.” K.O. Pecherskaya and A.V. Shpanskii (Tomsk State University) contributed “Remains of Quaternary Mammals from the Sergeevo Locality on the Chulym River (Tomsk Region).” A.V. Biryukov (Saratov Regional Museum) made a contribution “Datings of Early Pleistocene Deposits of the Eastern Oka–Don Plain with the Microtheriological Method.” E.A. Petrova (Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg) reported “A Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) from the Volga–Kama Region.” K.A. Simonov (MGU) and A.S. Tesakov (GIN) contributed with “Voles from the Middle Pleistocene Chuya Site on the Aldan River.” K.K. Tarasenko (Adygea State University, Maikop) and V.V. Titov (Rostov-on-Don, Southern Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences) reported on “Findings of Cetotherium in the Middle Sarmathian of Adygea.”
The session on eustatics included ten reports: “Benthos of Icehouse Epeiric Basin and Sea Level Fluctuations: Moscovian Stage (Carboniferous) of the East European Craton” by P.B. Kabanov and D.V. Baranova (PIN); “Changes in Diversity of Permian Brachiopods of the East European Platform on the Background of Sea Level Changes” by G.A. Afanasjeva ....
by O.V. Amitrov
DOI: 10.1134/S0031030108040163
ISSN 0031-0301, Paleontological Journal, 2008, Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 447–449.
© Pleiades Publishing, Ltd., 2008.
Original Russian Text © O.V. Amitrov, 2008
published in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 2008, No. 4, pp. 108–110.
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In 2007, the section held seven meetings, with 70 reports delivered. As in 2006, there were no current meetings. Two meetings were regular annual meetings of the section and Moscow section of the Paleontological Society of the Russian Academy of Sciences “PALEOSTRAT-2007.” The Fourth All-Russian Scientific School of young paleontologists was represented by three meetings at the 47th Conference of Young Paleontologists of the Moscow Society of Nature Explorers. Like the previous three schools, this school was entitled “Modern Paleontology: Classical and Novel Methods.” It was organized by the section together with the Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow (PIN), Department of Paleontology of the Geological Faculty of Moscow State University (MGU), Paleontological Society of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and programs of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences “Support for Young Scientists,” “Origin and Evolution of the Biosphere,” and “Dynamics of Biodiversity and Gene Pool.” The session “Eustatic Variations in the Phanerozoic and Their Effect on the Marine Biota” supported by the Program of the Russian Academy of Sciences “Origin and Evolution of the Biosphere” was conducted jointly by the Section, PIN, and the Moscow Section of the Paleontological Society. The last session of the sections of sedimentary rocks, geology, and paleontology of Moscow Society of Nature Explorers was dedicated to the memory of Vladimir Vladimirovich Menner (1931–2006). The abstracts of almost all contributions were published, some contributions are prepared for publication as full-size papers.
Vladimir Vasilevich Menner
Born Nov. 11 (24), 1905, in the city of Shatsk, in present-day Riazan’ Oblast. Soviet geologist and paleontologist. Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1966).
After graduating from Moscow University in 1927, Menner worked in the Moscow division of the Geological Committee from 1927 to 1929. In 1929-30 he was an assistant at the Moscow Academy of Mines. Between 1930 and 1965 he served as dean of the geology department and head of the subdepartment of paleontology of the Moscow Institute of Geological Research. He has been head of the subdepartment of paleontology at Moscow State University since 1965. He became a senior researcher at the Geological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1934 and assistant director of the institute in 1960. He conducted geological research in the Crimea, Northern Caucasus, the Polar Urals, Bashkiria, Siberia, and Kamchatka, and he wrote works on belemnites, ichthyofauna, and plesiosaurs. Menner developed basic principles for the stratigraphic correlation of deposits having different facies and established that the development of faunas and floras occurs in stages. He initiated work aimed at creating a unified global stratigraphic scale. From 1968 to 1972 he was president of the stratigraphic commission of the International Union of Geological Sciences, and in 1972 he became its vice-president and president of the union’s subcommission on the stratigraphy of the Paleogene. A member of the French Geological Society and the Geological Society of London and a recipient of the S. M. Kirov Prize of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1951), Menner has been awarded three orders and various medals.
WORKS
“Neravnomernosf (etapnosf) razvitiia organicheskogo mira i ee znachenie dlia detal’noi stratigrafii.”7>. Moskov-skogo geologo-razvedochnogo in-ta, 1961, vol. 37.
Biostratigraficheskie osnovy sopostavleniia morskikh, lagunnykh i kontinentaVnykh svit. Moscow, 1961.
Vladimir Vasilevich Menner, by The Free Dictionary by Farlex, by T.A. Sofiano
Some reports of the PALEOSTRAT meeting were topically grouped. Contributions dedicated to the centenary of the birth of Petr Aleksandrovich Gerasimov ...
The Fall of Tsarism: Untold Stories of the February 1917 Revolution
by Semion Lyandres
Print publication date: 2013
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199235759.001.0001
Petr Vasil’evich Gerasimov
by Semion Lyandres
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199235759.003.0005
This chapter presents a translation of the Russian-language transcripts of the interview with Petr Vasil'evich Gerasimov (1877–1919), a prominent liberal deputy to the last two imperial Dumas. The February uprising caught Gerasimov in the capital. By early morning on 27 February he was already in the Duma, witnessing firsthand some of the most important developments that led to the formation of the first revolutionary authority. On 28 February, he was appointed the Duma Committee commissar in charge of the Petrograd city police and administration. In his interview, Gerasimov describes his actions and impressions during the February Days, including the unprecedented admission of his authorship of the minutes of the private meeting of 27 February. Considered until now anonymous, the circumstances and timing of their compilation have often been called into question. This interview should lay these doubts to rest and provide a more complete and accurate context of when and how the single most important source on the formation of the Duma Committee was created.
-- The Fall of Tsarism: Untold Stories of the February 1917 Revolution, by Semion Lyandres, Oxford Scholarship Online
included the talk “Contribution of P.A. Gerasimov to the Study of the Jurassic and Cretaceous of Central Russia” by V.V. Mitta (PIN) and I.A. Starodubtseva (Vernadsky State Geological Museum, Moscow); two reports by A.P. Ippolitov (MGU, PIN) entitled “Contribution of P.A. Gerasimov to the Study of Mesozoic Serpulids (Annelida, Polychaeta) from Central Russia” and “On a New Method of Analysis of Assemblages of Encrusting Organisms, Based on Upper Jurassic (Oxfordian) Serpulids (Annelida, Polychaeta) of Central Russia”; the report “The Volgian Stage is Retained in the Jurassic System, with Evidence from Magnetostratigraphic Correlation” by V. Khosha, P. Pruner, M. Shadima, S. Shlekhta (Institute of Geology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague), M. Kostak, M. Mazukh (Univerzita Karlova v Praze), V.A. Zakharov, and M.A. Rogov (Geological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (GIN), Moscow); the report “Volgian Stage Boundaries” by V.V. Mitta; the report “Middle–Upper Jurassic Ostracodes of the Kursk Region” by E.M. Tesakova (MGU), and the report by D.V. Stryuchkov (Vernadsky State Geological Museum, Moscow) entitled “Jurassic Ichthyosaurs from the Collection of the Vernadsky State Geological Museum.”
The reports “Kh.I. Pander, the Discoverer of Conodonts” by I.A. Starodubtseva and “A New Representative of the Conodont Genus Antognathus from the Famennian of Southern Kazakhstan” by Yu.A. Gatovskii (MGU) were dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the discovery of conodonts.
Some general issues were addressed by V.K. Golubev (PIN) in his report “Perfection of the Stratigraphic Scale: True and Imaginary” and by S.S. Lazarev (PIN) in his report “A Young Man in Modern Science: Not of This World?”
Particular fossil groups were discussed in the contributions “Ecology and Taphonomy of Radiolarians” by M.S. Afanasieva (PIN) and E.O. Amon (Institute of Geology and Geochemistry, Yekaterinburg); “Permian Foraminifers of the Pechora Region” by E.E. Sukhov (Kazan State University); “Stratigraphic Distribution, Paleobiogeography, and Phylogenesis of Benthic Foraminifers Stensioeina of the Turonian–Santonian of the Mangyshlak and the Southeastern Russian Plate” by V.N. Benyamovsky (GIN) and A.Yu. Sadekov (University of Canberra, Australia); “Echinoids in the Cretaceous of the East European Platform” by A.N. Soloviev (PIN); and “Distribution of Arthrodira (Placodermi) in the Evlanovsk (Late Frasnian) Basin of the Central Devonian Field” by G.V. Zakharenko (PIN).
Eight reports addressed biotic assemblages: “The Challenger Expedition (1872–1876) and Its Significance for the Study of Marine Sediments” by T.M. Popesko (Central Research Geological Prospecting Museum, St. Petersburg); “Vendian Localities of the White Sea Region: Perspectives for their Preservation As Geological Natural Monuments” by M.A. Fedonkin, A.Yu. Ivantsov, M.V. Leonov, and E.A. Serezhnikova (PIN); “On Vendian–Cambrian Boundary Deposits of the Dzabkhan Zone of Western Mongolia” by D. Dorzhnamdzha, Enkhbaator (Mongolian Academy of Sciences), A.V. Krayushkin, A.L. Ragozina, and E.A. Serezhnikova (PIN); “Stratigraphy and Paleogeography of the Klintsyan Horizon (Devonian) of the Volgograd Volga Region” by V.N. Mantsurova and V.A. Tsygankova (VolgogradNIPImorneft); “New Data on the Carboniferous Stratigraphy of the Lower Reaches of the Onega River” by A.S. Alekseev, A.N. Reimers, O.A. Orlova, A.P. Ippolitov (MGU), O.A. Lebedev (PIN), V.A. Larchenko, and V.N. Stepanov (ALROSA, Arkhangelsk); “Biostratigraphy and Biogeography of the Marine Permian of Central and Northeastern Mongolia” by I.N. Manankov (PIN); “Microbiotas of Permian Carbonate Buildups of Turkey and Darvaz” by T.V. Filimonova (GIN); and “Sea Level Fluctuations and Events in the Mediterranean and Paratethys Regions during the Messinian” by S.V. Popov and L.A. Nevesskaya (PIN).
Along with standard reports, the School of Young Paleontologists provided six lectures by leading specialists: “Novelty in Bacterial, Precambrian, and Extraterrestrial Paleontology” by A.Yu. Rozanov (PIN), “Mathematical Biology: Present and Future” by V.D. Lakhno (Institute of Mathematical Problems of Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences); “Radiolarians of the Past, Present, and Future” by V.S. Vishnevskaya (GIN); “Paleoichnology” by A.V. Dronov (GIN); “Coevolution of Echinoids and Predatory Cassid Gastropods” by A.N. Soloviev (PIN); “Agnathans: Evolutionary and Phylogenetic Significance” by L.I. Novitskaya (PIN).
Unlike in the PALEOSTRAT Meeting, the majority of reports presented in the School of Young Paleontologists were devoted to particular taxa. R.R. Yakupov (Institute of Geology of the Ural Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa) gave a talk “On the Age of the Metamorphic Strata of the Uraltau Ridge of the Southern Ural Mountains.” Three reports addressed lower plant topics: “The Diatom Flora of River-Mouth Surface Sediments of Northeastern Asia” by M.S. Obrezkova (Pacific Oceanological Institute of the Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok); “Cyanobacteria of the Hot Springs of Baikal Rift Zone: Species Composition and Silica Biomineralization” by E.G. Sorokovikova (Limnological Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (LI SO), Irkutsk) and “Investigation of Chrysophyte Cysts from Some Aquatic Basins of Eurasia and Their Role in the Chrysophyte Fossil Record” by A.D. Firsova (LI SO). The higher plants were discussed in the reports “A New Plant with Thick Cuticle from the Middle Devonian of the Voronezh Anteclise” by A.V. Broushkin (VSEGEI, St. Petersburg) and N.V. Gordenko (PIN); “On the Species Systematics of the Genus Peltaspermum Harris (Peltaspermaceae)” by E.V. Karasev (PIN); “Fossil Wood of Conifers from the Cretaceous of the Russian Far East” by M.A. Afonin (Biological-Soil Institute of the Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences); “The First Find of Conifer Macrofossils from the Lower Sarmatian of the Karpov Yar Site (Moldova)” by A.B. Klumova (MGU); and “The Holocene As an Unaccomplished Interglacial, from the Perspective of Paleophytocoenoses” by E.V. Pashkevich (Belarussian State University (BGU), Minsk). Protists were discussed by the report “Distribution of Radiolarians in the Surface Sediments of the Sea of Okhotsk” by E.A. Yanchenko (Pacific Oceanological Institute of the Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences); Porifera, by the contribution of V.V. Makhnach (BGU) entitled “Sponge Collection at Belarussian State University”; and brachiopods were discussed by A.V. Pakhnevich (PIN) in his report “Microtomographic Examination of the Interior of Brachiopod Holotypes.” Mollusks retained dominance: “Functional Morphology of Ammonoid Shell” by M.S. Boiko (PIN); “Plagioteuthis moscoviensis— A Coleoid or an Ammonoid?” by A.P. Ippolitov (MGU, PIN) and M.A. Rogov (GIN); “Ammonoid Characterization of the Kungurian–Roadian Boundary Deposits in China” by Mu Lin (Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Nanjing, China); “Holocene Malacofauna of the Ptich Site (Central Belarus)” by E.A. San’ko and O.V. Polyanitsa (BGU). The remaining contributions addressed vertebrate topics. E.V. Syromyatnikova and I.G. Danilov (Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg) reported the “Morphology of Turtles of the Genus Adocus from the Upper Cretaceous of Middle Asia and Kazakhstan.” N.V. Zelenkov (PIN) presented on “Phasianidae (Aves) from the Neogene of Central Asia.” V.V. Rosina (PIN) and Yu.A. Semenov (Institute of Zoology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev) reported on “A New Representative of Vespertilionidae (Chiroptera) from the Early Vallesian of Ukraine.” K.O. Pecherskaya and A.V. Shpanskii (Tomsk State University) contributed “Remains of Quaternary Mammals from the Sergeevo Locality on the Chulym River (Tomsk Region).” A.V. Biryukov (Saratov Regional Museum) made a contribution “Datings of Early Pleistocene Deposits of the Eastern Oka–Don Plain with the Microtheriological Method.” E.A. Petrova (Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg) reported “A Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) from the Volga–Kama Region.” K.A. Simonov (MGU) and A.S. Tesakov (GIN) contributed with “Voles from the Middle Pleistocene Chuya Site on the Aldan River.” K.K. Tarasenko (Adygea State University, Maikop) and V.V. Titov (Rostov-on-Don, Southern Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences) reported on “Findings of Cetotherium in the Middle Sarmathian of Adygea.”
The session on eustatics included ten reports: “Benthos of Icehouse Epeiric Basin and Sea Level Fluctuations: Moscovian Stage (Carboniferous) of the East European Craton” by P.B. Kabanov and D.V. Baranova (PIN); “Changes in Diversity of Permian Brachiopods of the East European Platform on the Background of Sea Level Changes” by G.A. Afanasjeva ....