News from the Microvertebrate Group Annual Meeting 2005 - Report December 17th saw the annual meeting and field trip of the Microvertebrate Group. The field trip comprised a tour of Silurian age localities in the Malvern Hills area (now part of the Abberley and Malvern Hills Geopark). The group met at British Camp Hillfort on the morning of the 17th and proceeded to Gullet Quarry, well known for its Llandovery conodonts. Once we had arrived at the quarry, a bottle of champagne was opened to celebrate Dick Aldridge’s ‘significant’ birthday, the quarry being one of the localities from both his undergraduate mapping and his PhD. After a while talking and catching up we were then met by Dr Peter Oliver, director of the Hereford and Worcester Earth Heritage Trust who welcomed us to the geopark and gave a brief talk about the geology of the area. A quarry exposing the Wenlock-Ludlow boundary was visited before lunch at the Prince of Wales Inn in Ledbury. After lunch the group visited Brockhill Quarry to examine the top of the Ludlow followed by a walk up British Camp hillfort as the sun was setting. We then retired to our hotel for a meal followed by some short talks on people’s current research. Next year there will be a trip to the Peak District (details to follow) before the 50th annual meeting of the Palaeontological Association in Sheffield. The Natural History Museum's Conodont collections database by C. Giles Miller This on-line catalogue is intended for university academics and industrial micropalaeontologists who are interested in conodonts. Searching the database gives broad information about discrete collections within the conodont collection housed at the NHM. Generic, specific and subspecific names are included in the database, but may sometimes include outdated identifications or no identifications at all, for example in the case of picked slides where no identifications have yet been made. As a result, the database is best searched by name of donor/collector/publisher or by geological period. Links to images are included with some collections. These images are to be published on the NHM PaleoBase CD ROM and have been digimarced to prevent use other than on this website. Some images are included as red-green anaglyphs and should be viewed using red-green spectacles with the red lens over the left eye. Access the database Microvertebrate related WWW links More >>