News from "Historical Biology"

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Colleagues:

                   NEW EDITOR APPOINTED FOR "HISTORICAL BIOLOGY"
        PAPERS PUBLISHED IN THE CURRENT ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL

     I am delighted to report that Dr. David Martill has agreed to join me as
Co-Editor of "Historical Biology".  Dave is a member of the faculty in the
Department of Geology at the University of Portsmouth, in England.  He has
broad intellectual interests and he is very active in research on the
taphonomy, paleobiology, and evolutionary relationships of pterosaurs and
dinosaurs.  In addition to his work on Jurassic material from Britain and
south Germany, Dave has been heavily involved in studies of the spectacular
Early Cretaceous fauna of the Santana Formation, exposed in the foothills
of the Chapada do Araripe, in northeastern Brazil.

     From now on, manuscripts may be submitted to either one of us, at the
following addresses:

R. D. K. Thomas
Co-Editor, Historical Biology
Department of Geosciences
Franklin and Marshall College
Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17604-3003, U. S. A.

e-mail:   r_thomas@fandm.edu    Office telephone:  717-291-4135
FAX:    717-291-4186                    Home telephone:   717-560-0486

David M. Martill
Co-Editor, Historical Biology
Department of Geology
University of Portsmouth
Portsmouth PO1 3QL
United Kingdom

e-mail:   david.martill@port.ac.uk

     We will look forward to working with any of you who may wish to submit
papers to the journal.
                                                                   Roger Thomas

     The following articles appear in the most recent issue of "Historical
Biology", which came out last month

<<Volume 12, 1997 (Parts 3-4)>>

W. RUSSELL CALLENDER and ERIC N. POWELL.  Authochthonous death assemblages
from chemautotrophic communities at petroleum seeps: palaeoproduction,
energy flow, and implications for the fossil record.

DAVID M. UNWIN and LÜ JUNCHANG.  On Zejiangopterus and the relationships of
pterodactyloid pterosaurs.

OLIVIER RIEPPEL and ROBERT T. ZANON.  The interrelationships of the Placodontia.

GÁBOR HORVÁTH, EUAN N. K. CLARKSON and WALTRAUD PIX.  Survey of modern
counterparts of schizochroal trilobite eyes: structural and functional
similarities and differences.

S. CHRISTOPHER BENNETT.  The arboreal leaping theory of the origin of
pterosaur flight.

Roger D. K. Thomas
John Williamson Nevin Professor of Geosciences

Department of Geosciences
Franklin & Marshall College
Lancaster
Pennsylvania 17604-3003

FAX:    717-291-4186
Office telephone:  717-291-4135
Home telephone:   717-560-0486