Person

Neil, John Vivian (1932 - 2023)

Born
30 March 1932
Died
28 August 2023
Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Headmaster and Palaeontologist

Summary

John Neil was a high school principal and lay preacher who made significant contributions to the study of Victoria's fossil vertebrates, particularly ostracods. In 1990 he was appointed an Honorary Associate of the Invertebrate palaeontology section of Museum Victoria. He published a number of papers on trilobites and ostracods.

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Chronology

1981 - 1988
Career position - Principal, Bendigo Senior High School
1990
Career event - Appointed Honorary Associate, Invertebrate Palaeontology section, Museum of Victoria

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Journal Articles

  • Holloway, David J. and Neil, John V., 'Trilobites from the Mount Ida formation (Late Silurian - Early Devonian), Victoria', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 94 (3) (1982), 133-54. Details
  • Matzke-Karasz, Renate, Neil, John V., Smith, Robin J., Godhelp, Henk, Archer, Mike and Hand, Suzanne J., 'Ostracods (Crustaceae) with soft part preservation from Miocene cave deposits of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, NW Queensland', Journal of systematic palaeontology, 11 (7) (2013), 789-819. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2012.760007. Details
  • Neil, John, 'A recent ostracod assemblage from Erith Island, Bass Strait, Southern Australia - geographical and ecological comparisons, with a description of a new species of Rotundracythere (Ostracoda: Crustacea)', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 112 (2) (2000), 119-32. Details
  • Neil, John, 'Variation in surface morphology of a Miocene hemicytherid ostracod', Alcheringa, 26 (2) (2002), 289-97. https://doi.org/10.1080/03115510208619258. Details
  • Neil, John, 'Taxonomy of an ostracod assemblage from the Middle Miocene Wuk Wuk Marl, Gippsland, Victoria', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 118 (1) (2006), 35-63. Details
  • Neil, John V., 'Miocene ostracoda of the Trachyleberididae and Hemicytheridae from the Muddy Creek area, south-western Victoria', Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria, 54 (1994), 1-49. https://doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.1994.54.01. Details

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