paleonet Fwd: [SKOLITHOS] Ivo Chlupác (1931 - 7.11. 2002)

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>Dear Skolithans,
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>especially those working on Lower Palaeozoic, let me to share with you the
>bad news that professor Ivo Chlupác died today, aged 71 years, after a short
>hopeless battle with cancer.
>His bequest consists mostly of biostratigraphy. He introduced or
>co-introduced the Pridolian, Lochkovian and Pragian as international stages
>having their stratotypes in the Barrandian area at Prague. Most of his
>published papers are devoted to arthropods, especially phacopid trilobites,
>eurypterids, limulids, aglaspidids, etc. However, he also touched ichnology
>more than once, and, in contrast to some other "occassional ichnologists",
>in a very reasonable way. In 1987, he erected the ichnotaxon Pragichnus
>fascis igen. et isp. nov. for complex fasciculate burrows showing certain
>similarities to Chondrites. Besides this, he remained reserved in erecting
>new itaxa (another exception is the Cambrian complex problematic
>(?)ichnofossil Amanitichnus omittus Chlupác and Mikulás, 1995). The rest of
>his ichnological papers is represented by a dozen of reports of ichnofossils
>found in metamorphic rocks of the Bohemian Massif. This topic is, in my
>opinion, worth a summarising paper. A fragment of such a manuscript lies on
>my table for several years and I was looking forward to be able to finish it
>with the Ivo's help.
>Ivo did not attend special ichnologic meetings, being very employed in
>biostratigraphic, teaching, and popularising activities; but maybe Gabriela
>Mangano will remember him from the ISOS 99 meeting in Prague. He will be
>very missed by the Czech geologic and palaeontologic community as one of
>integrating, consensus-bearing, and helpful people.
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>Radek Mikulas
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