Staff profile

Qualifications

• BA, BEd, MSc Melb, MEdAdmin NE

Research interests

My research programme is a continuing one involving the following three major areas:

 

• Taxonomy, palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography of the Palaeogene and Neogene ostracode faunas of southeast Australia, currently of the Batesford Quarry (see below)
• Ultrastructure of the Palaeozoic, Palaeogene, Neogene and Recent ostracode carapace (particularly the microreticulation) - in collaboration with Dr Ken N. Bell.
• Taxonomy and palaeoecology of the ostracode fauna of the Bitesantennary Site, Riversleigh, North Queensland., in conjunction with the work of the vertebrate palaeontologists led by Professor Michael Archer (Univ. of NSW).

Currently, the first project entails monographing the ostracode assemblages from numerous samples from the Batesford Quarry, Fyansford - (Dr Bell is monographing the foraminiferal assemblages concurrently). I have temporarily suspended this work in order to study the Riversleigh material (see above). The second project continues study of the ultrastructure of microreticulation and its evolution and ontogeny, with particular emphasis on Neogene and Recent species of Ostracoda.

Recent publications and presentations

Publications while a Honorary Research Associate:

 

• Bell, K.N., Neil, J.V. & Burn, R. "Recent Foraminiferal, Ostracodal and Molluscan faunal changes in a short core from Corner Inlet, Victoria." Victorian Naturalist 1995 112(2): 72-78
• Neil, J.V. "Palaeobiogeography of some Oligocene-Miocene ostracode assemblages from southeastern Australia" in Ostracoda and Biostratigraphy Ed.by J.Riha (Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Ostracoda, Prague, Czech Republic)1995 pp.215-224. Paper delivered personally.
• Neil, J.V. "A Palaeocene Ostracode Fauna from the Pebble Point Formation, Otway Coast", Victoria." Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 1996 109(2): 167-197.
• Bell, K.N. & Neil, J.V. "Recent Foraminifera and Ostracoda from Erith Island, Bass Strait." Victorian Naturalist 1999 116(6): 218-227.
• Neil, J.V. "Factors influencing intraspecific variation and polymorphism in marine podocopid Ostracoda, with particular reference to Tertiary species from southeastern Australia" in 2000 Hydrobiologia 419: 161-180. (Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Ostracoda, Greenwich, UK) Paper presented in absentia.
• Neil, J.V. "A Recent ostracode assemblage from Erith Island, Bass Strait, Southern Australia – geographical and ecological comparisons, with a description of a new species of Rotundracythere (Ostracoda: Crustacea). 2000 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 112(2):119-132.
• Neil, J.V. "Variation in surface morphology of a Miocene hemicytherid ostracode." 2001 Alcheringa 26: 289-297.
• Neil, J.V. "An ostracode assemblage from the Middle Miocene Wuk Wuk Marl, Gippsland, Victoria" Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 2006. Vol.118, Part 1, pp.35-63.
• Bell, K.N. & Neil, J.V. "Microreticulation in Cambrian Bradoriida and its relation to similar patterns in Tertiary and Recent Ostracoda" 2006 Lethaia – An International Journal of Paleontology & Stratigraphy 2006. Vol.39, No. 1, pp.31-37.