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TENTH ANNUAL REPORT
(for 1969)
D. HILL
Research Professor of GeoloeY
A. CORAL RESEARCH, WITH DR • .J .s. J }~LL (liesearch Fellow)
This year our work has again been concentrated on Devonian faunas. We completed a paper on the rugose and tabulate corals of the limestones of Clermont, Queensland; our results indicate a slightly greater age for these than previously thought. Vle also completed two short notes establishing the true characte:cs of foreign genera not previousl;tl understood. A study of two families of Silurian and Devonian tabulate corals (Theci::..dae and .::;otol:i.tid:-i.o) i::.: co:.r9lc·c.:: oxcept forihe incorporation of data from some type specimens recently received on loan from overseas. We have been able to use rn:i.crostructure to good effect in all these. Dr. Jell made collections from the Clermont, Springs11re and Mt. Etna limestone of central QlK,ensland.
Our analysis of microstructure continues, and so far our results confirm hy:;iotheses we had previously formed. Dr. Jell and I ho.ve both been invited to take part in a Coral Symposiu.~ at Novosibirsk in 1971 and we shall contribute to it a paper on our microstructural studies.
]. .t.J'1GLO-.AMEJ.TIC.AlT TRE.AJ1ISE ON __ IlrT.l!I1.T:s:Bl:k:\.TE PAL2DNTOLOGY (R. Moorei..JJJh)
I have practically completed work on the revision of the Phylum Archaeocyatha. Nominations for all illustrations have been sent to the Editors ancl final revision of the typescript is in progress. Some work on the Coral Volume has bee:1 dona.
C. INDEX FOSSIL~UEENSLAND. The Ordovician-Silurian part wa~~ published during the year, and the scheme for the Cainozoic, the second last part, vms dravm up.
D. I-ITLJJ'ELST~CillFT. Strati..s::F~;md Palaeont<?.)£gy, Ess9:Yy,inhonour of Doro:t,hy l:Iill, K.s.w. Campbell (Ed.J 1969, is now published, and is a source of great pr:ufe and pleasu..re to me. The essays, by my former students and colleagues, are of a gratifyingly high standard.
E. RESEARCH OH DR.I\.CHIOPODS AND ON THC C01'1TROL EXfil1CISRD BY THI: SOFT PARTS ON THE CRYS1:L1ALLISATION OF THE SKELETAL I.'lil'Tl]lAL TDr. J .:D. Armstrong, A.R.G. C. Research Fellm;') .------------~--- \.·
During the yeu.x Dr. Armstrong achieved considerable success with electron-microscope studies on brac~iopod shells and bryozoa; he vms able to shov: for the first time romarkable similarities in some of the structural elements of the:J·:J two phyla; this work provides a sound basis for comparison of skeletal formation in brachiopods and bryozoa and corals, and I hope to exploit this. It is much regretted that Dr. Armstrong felt he should go out into industry while conditions for employment therein are at their best everi his resignation t.ook effect on ~ecember 31st. I am in corrosponclence with two highly qualified possible r eplacemontsfor :Or. Armstrong. Ono paper resulting fron his fellowship is in press, cne has been submitted for publicr.tion and a third is ready for submission. Dr. Armstrong also prepared for publicntion 5 papers from his Ph.D. thesis; 2 of these have been accepted and the others submittec1..; in add.i tion he has two other papers published in 1969.
F. RQ_~T-GRAD'QATE RESEARCH IN PALAEONTOLOGY AND STRATIGR}.PHY.
Tuk . P. Tolforc1, full-time Ph.D. student, worked satisfactorily on Devonian conodonts throughout the year. His vmrk has a bearing on the age of the limestones whose corals are being studied by Dr. Jell and myself.
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Mr. G.J. FlcE3:i.n,.g has worked satisfactorily towards an extranural Ph.D.; he has some interesting studies on Cambrian ostracods and his work has a bearing on the origin of the phosphates of North-west Queensland.
Mr. V. Palmieri, whose extramural Ph.D. vmrk on the Cainozoic fora~inifera of the Great Barrier Reef bores I supervised du.ring the absence on sabbatical leave of Dr. G. Pla~~ord, has w2de some useful stratigraphic correlations in The Reef sub-surface.
Mr. ,4._. :Sa~J:!9lornai has begun extramural Ph.D. work on Australian Quaternary marsupials.
Mr. D. 13~-~rd, A.::S. Walkom Scholar for 1969, obtained First Class Honours with his double thesis on Ordovician nautiloids and Permian stratigraphy. He begins full-time Ph • .J. work on Palaeozoic cephalopods in 1970.
G. fl[ELICATIONS OF :O. HILL 8~ J .S. JELL
HILL, D., & JELL, J.S., 1969. On the rugose coral genera Rhizo_£r'.:l_llum Lindstrom, Platy~h~ll.1.!n Lindstrom and Cal9eola Lamark. Neues Jb. Geol. Palaont. , ~., 1969 (9), pp. 534-551.
HILL, D., G. PLAYFORD, J.T. WOODS [Eds.] 1969. Ordovician and Silurian ]ossils_qf_g;_t2pe~@lan_q. :Brisbane (Queensland Palaeontographical Society), pp. 01-15, S2-18.
JELL, J.S. 1969. Septal microstructu.re and clesnification of the Phillipsastraeidae. Iu c~~1TI?BELL, Y. .s.w. (Ed.) Strat~lf£_auhy and P~eontofo_g;y_: Msa_xs in h™. of :D2._:r;_otgy: Hill, pp. 50-73, A.N.U., Canberra.
JELL, J. S. & HILL, D. 1969. Devonian corals from the 1Jkalunda dist rict, north Queensland. Pubs 6eol._ ~1.1.rv:~-~ 340, PP• 1-27, pls. 1-9.
JELL, J. S. & PEilDER, A. E. H. 1969. I!Iartin9.El1X.._ll,uJ:1, a new genus of Devonian rugose corals. l! Pi3-l._eon_~. 43, pp. 735-740, pls. 95, 96.
H. WORKS IN PRES.fi.
HILL, D. & J J~LL, J. S. Devonian corals from the Can.riing :Sas in, Western Australia. Bull. ge_o_l. Sur.:y:! West_. Aust .
HILL, D. & JELL, J.S. The tabulate coral farrQlics Syringolitidae Hinde, Roemeriidae Pocta, Neoroemeriidae Radugin and Chonostet:,:i.tidae Lecompte , and Australian species of R29.!~ri,J?_ora Kraicz. Pro.2,. Rox. Soc. Viet., 83, (2).
JELL, J .s. & BILL, D. Revision of the coral fmma from the :Oevonian Douglas Creek Limestone , Clermont, central Queensland. Proq__~rq;z. Soc. Qd., 81.
JELL, J.S. & IITLL, D. The Devonian coral fauna of the Point Hibbs Limestone, Tasmania. Pap. Prs,_c. Roy. Soc , Tas. 104,
JELL, J.S. & lITLL, D. A r edescription of the holotype of the Devonian rugose coral Utaratui~ laevigat.3:. Crickrnay. 
