EARTH SCIENCES

David Dineley

David Dineley continues his interest in chronostratigraphy, especially of the Upper Palaeozoic, and has begun a study of the history of the stratigraphic column.

He and E.J. Loeffler have continued their work on the late Silurian and early Devonian fishes of Somerset and Prince of Wales Islands, in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. D. L. Dineley has described the occurrence of the osteostracans Parameteoraspis and Machairaspis in the Peel Sound Formation of northern Prince of Wales Island and suggested that their extended cornua might have been used to disturb the substrate during feeding.

Working with S.J. Metcalf, a Geological Conservation Review volume for English Nature on British fossil fish sites has been completed. This was initiated by M.J. Benton and M. Rowlands some years ago. D.L. Dineley has focused on the Palaeozoic fish localities of which there are over 50 in the British Isles. The book will be published by Chapman & Hall in 1996.

Publications:

Dineley, D. L. 1994. Cephalaspids from the Lower Devonian of Prince of Wales Island, Canada. Palaeontology, 37, 61-70.

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