Staff profile

Mr John Vivian Neil Honorary Associate Museum Victoria

Honorary Research Associate

Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering

School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
Department of Civil Engineering and Physical Sciences

Building Applied Science 2, Room 1:07, Bendigo

 

Qualifications

BA, BEd, MSc UMELB., MEdAdmin NE

Membership of professional associations

Mem.Geol.Soc.Aust.;Mem.Aust/asian Soc. Palaeont.;Mem.Royal Soc.Victoria

Area of study

Zoology

Brief profile

Currently taxonomy and palaeoecology Miocene Ostracoda (Riversleigh North Queensland (collaboration with Dr Renate Matzke-Karasz (Muenchen), Dr Robin Smith (Lake Biwa Museum, Japan)).

Taxonomy and palaeoecology Middle Miocene Ostracoda Batesford Limestone, Fyansford Marl (Batesford Quarry)

Recent publications

  • 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.

Older publications

 Publications on Palaeozoic invertebrates from Bendigo Region (1983 on)

Research projects

 As under brief profile above. Papers on Palaeozoic.