The Pander Society is an informal organisation founded in 1967 for the promotion of the study of

conodont Conodonts, are an extinct group of marine jawless vertebrates belonging to the class Conodonta (from Ancient Greek κῶνος (''kōnos''), meaning " cone", and ὀδούς (''odoús''), meaning "tooth"). They are primarily known from their hard ...

palaeontology Paleontology, also spelled as palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of the life of the past, mainly but not exclusively through the study of fossils. Paleontologists use fossils as a means to classify organisms, measure geo ...

. It publishes an annual newsletter. Although there are regular meetings of the Pander Society, at the Annual Meeting of the

Geological Society of America The Geological Society of America (GSA) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of the geosciences. History The society was founded in Ithaca, New York, in 1888 by Alexander Winchell, John J. Stevenson, Charles H. Hi ...

, at European Conodont Symposia (ECOS for short), and elsewhere, any meeting of three or more "Panderers" is considered an official meeting of the "Pander Society". The society is headed by the Chief Panderer, currently Maria Cristina Perri of the Università di Bologna. The society confers two awards, the Pander Medal for a lifetime of achievement in conodont palaeontology, and the Hinde Medal for an outstanding contribution to conodont palaeontology by a young Panderer.

Heinz Christian Pander Heinz Christian Pander, also Christian Heinrich Pander ( Russian: Христиан Иванович Пандер; – ) was a Russian biologist and embryologist of Baltic German origin. Biography In 1817 he received his doctorate from the U ...

(1794–1865) is credited as the first scientist to describe primitive creatures known as

s.Devonian Life and Evolution
H.C. Pander and strange Conodonts

Previous Chief Panderers

* Peter von Bitter *

Richard Aldridge Richard John Aldridge (16 December 1945 – 4 February 2014) was a British palaeontologist and academic, who was Bennett Professor of Geology at the University of Leicester. Academic career Aldridge's career began at Southampton University befor ...

* Raymond L. Ethington * Walter C. Sweet

Pander Medalists

* John Huddle *

Samuel Ellison Samuel is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the biblical judges to the United Kingdom of Israel under Saul, and again in the monarchy's transition from Saul to David. He is venerated a ...

* Walter Sweet * Anita G. Harris * Carl Rexroad * Ray Ethington *

William Furnish William Madison Furnish (August 17, 1912, in Tipton, Iowa – November 9, 2007) was an American paleontologist. He taught at the University of Iowa. In 1938, he described the conodont genus ''Acanthodus'' from the Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, P ...

* Heinz Beckmann *

Willi Ziegler Willi Ziegler (born 13 March 1929 in the neighborhood of Villingen in Hungen, Hessen; died 8 August 2002) was a German paleontologist. Works In 1969, he described the conodont genus '' Protognathodus''. In 1984, with Charles A. Sandberg, he d ...

Maurits Lindström Maurits Lindström (10 May 1932 – 14 November 2009) was a Swedish geologist and paleontologist. Lindström's initial work was divided among two topics conodont paleontology and the structural geology of the Scandinavian Caledonides in Lapplan ...

* Gilbert Klapper * Stig Bergström * Klaus Müller * Lennart Jeppsson *

* Pierre Bultynck * Peter Carls

Hinde Medallists

Mark Purnell Mark Andrew Purnell is a British palaeontologist, Professor of Palaeobiology at the University of Leicester. Purnell is an expert in conodont biostratigraphy (principally Carboniferous) and conodont palaeobiology, focussing especially on attem ...

(2006)

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