Category Archives: Planktonic Foraminifera

Hans Peter (Hamper) Luterbacher passed away (1938-2021)

As of November 17th 2021, Hans Peter (Hamper) Luterbacher passed away. He was born in 1938 in Basel, Switzerland, and had graduated in 1960 at the Geological-Paleontological Institute of the Basel University, under the tutoring of Prof. Manfred Reichel. In the early sixties, at Bottaccione (Gubbio), he established with Isabella Premoli Silva the first biostratigraphic […]

Annual report Planktonic Foraminifera – 2004

Annual Report 2004: The Paleogene Planktonic Foraminifer Working Group has nearly completed their work on the Eocene Atlas of Planktonic Foraminifera and will submit it to the Cushman Foundation Special Publication editor during Fall 2004.The biostratigraphy, taxonomy, and phylogenetic systematics of Eocene planktonic foraminifera are treated in an illustrated atlas format including 134 plates, with […]

Annual report Planktonic Foraminifera – 2005

Annual Report 2005 of the Paleogene Planktonic Foraminifera Working Group The Paleogene Planktonic Foraminifer Working Group has continued its researches this year, holding a meeting at Rutgers University in May 2005, hosted by Prof R.K. Olsson. The Atlas of Eocene Planktonic Foraminifera, edited by Paul N. Pearson, Richard K. Olsson, Brian T. Huber, C. Hemleben […]

Annual report Planktonic Foraminifera – 2006

Annual Report 2006 of the Paleogene Planktonic Foraminifera Working Group This year will see the publication of the Atlas of Eocene Planktonic Foraminifera edited by Paul Pearson (UK), Richard Olsson (USA), Brian Huber (USA), Christoph Hemleben (Germany) and William Berggren (USA), with contributions from Helen Coxall (UK), Vlasta Premec-Fucek (Croatia), Isabella Premoli Silva (Italy) and […]

Annual report Planktonic Foraminifera – 2007

Annual Report 2007 of the Paleogene Planktonic Foraminifera Working Group The Paleogene Planktonic Foraminifera Working Group held two very successful meetings in 2007 concentrating on the review and synthesis of Oligocene planktonic foraminiferal taxonomy. The first was hosted by Vlasta Premec-Fucek and Morana Hernitz Kucenjak in May and the second hosted by Christoph Hemleben and […]

Annual report Planktonic Foraminifera – 2008

Annual Report 2008 of the Paleogene Planktonic Foraminifera Working Group Following the last highly successful meeting of the Paleogene Planktonic Foraminifera Working Group in December 2007, this year we have obtained many missing holotype images and started to prepare taxonomic plates. Chengjie Liu hosted a two day meeting mini working group meeting at ExxonMobil, with […]

Annual report Planktonic Foraminifera – 2009

Annual Report 2009 of the Paleogene Planktonic Foraminifera Working Group The Paleogene Planktonic Foraminifera Working Group continued their work towards a major revision of the Oligocene planktonic foraminifera. A meeting attended by 14 members was held at the University of Fribourg in June hosted by Silvia Spezzaferi. Here the group reported on progress and discussed […]

Annual report Planktonic Foraminifera – 2010

Annual Report 2010 of the Paleogene Planktonic Foraminifera Working Group The Paleogene Planktonic Foraminifera Working Group held their 8th meeting on the taxonomy and evolution of Oligocene planktonic foraminifera at the Goldfuß-Museum, Steinmann Institut, Bonn, Germany (hosted by Martin Langer and convened Bridget Wade and Michal Kucera) in early September before the Forams 2010 meeting […]

Annual report Planktonic Foraminifera – 2011

Annual Report 2011 of the Paleogene Planktonic Foraminifera Working Group The Paleogene Planktonic Foraminifera Working Group held their 9th meeting on the taxonomy and evolution of Oligocene planktonic foraminifera at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., Department of Paleobiology, (National Museum of Natural History, hosted by Brian Huber) in September 2011. Work towards completion of the […]

Annual report Planktonic Foraminifera – 2012

Annual Report 2012 of the Paleogene Planktonic Foraminifera Working Group The Paleogene Planktonic Foraminifera Working Group did not meet this year and efforts have concentrated on preparing chapters and plates for publication of the Atlas of Oligocene Planktonic Foraminifera. To date five chapters have been submitted and reviewed, and others are well developed or in […]