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Professor David J. Batten (1943–2019)

Professor David J. Batten passed away on February 14, 2019 after battling with cancer.  He had for the past four years been living in a small village surrounded by the beautiful Herefordshire countryside, and the last weeks of his life were spent at St Michael’s Hospice in Bartestree, Herefordshire, England.  David was born in 1943 in Watford, England and was brought up in Croydon, South London within easy reach of the local countryside. After his ‘O’ levels David moved with his family and attended boarding school in Canada. He later graduated from Queen’s University, Canada with a BA in Liberal Arts in 1964 and a BSc in Geology with a minor in Biology the following year.  He was awarded an MSc in Micropalaeontology from University College London in 1966, and a PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1969 for research on British Wealden (Lower Cretaceous) palynomorphs and their facies distribution, under the supervision of Norman Hughes.  David remained at Cambridge for two years before taking up employment in industry (Robertson Research and BP).  He moved to the University of Aberdeen as a Lecturer in 1976, relocating to the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, in 1990 where he was promoted to a personal chair in 1992.  With the closure of the Geology Subdepartment there in 2002, he became affiliated with the University of Manchester. David is survived by his daughter Sarah and his son Alexander and one grandchild, Adelina who live in Canada and the USA respectively.

            David is best known for his contributions to Mesozoic terrestrial palynology and palynofacies analysis, his research covering a wide range of palynological and paleobotanical topics including the Normapolles pollen group and phytogeographic provinces in the Mesozoic and Cenozoic, and Mesozoic and Tertiary megaspores.  David’s many publications on palynofacies, from the early 1970s onwards, were to shape the way palynologists have approached this important subject. Wealden palynology remained David’s abiding passion, and his research incorporated pollen, microspores, megaspores, chlorococcalean algae, freshwater dinoflagellates, macropaleontology, and palynofacies analysis, setting new standards for rigorous documentation and thoughtful interpretation. The 780-page English Wealden Fossils published by the Palaeontological Association, London in 2011 and edited by David, with five of its 35 chapters authored or co-authored by him, has resulted in a masterly and beautifully illustrated synthesis of the Wealden biota.  Its sobriquet ‘the Wealden Bible’ is richly deserved.

            David served as Editor-in-Chief of Cretaceous Research (1988–2007, 2011–2012) and Editor-in-Chief of the Palaeontological Association which included editing its flagship publication Palaeontology (1999–2008), responsibilities he took very seriously and which benefitted enormously from his editorial vision and meticulous attention to detail. In spite of the premature curtailment of David’s university career in 2002, he supervised or co-supervised eight MSc students and 14 PhD students. His publishing output included 193 refereed papers and chapters in books, very many as first or sole author, along with 12 edited books, special issues, and field guides.  David collaborated with colleagues around the world, and is particularly fondly remembered by many friends and colleagues in China, having been appointed to a Distinguished Visiting Professorship for Senior International Scientists by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Nanjing in 2011–2012.

            Those who knew David will remember a kind, rather reserved, deeply reflective and unassuming individual who held himself always to the highest standards. As a supervisor he led by example. In recognition of an outstanding career, David was awarded the T.M. Harris Medal of the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, India in 1998, the Jongmans Medal of the Royal Geological and Mining Society of the Netherlands in 2006, and an honorary life membership of The Palaeontological Association, London in 2011. He was awarded the prestigious Medal for Scientific Excellence of AASP–The Palynological Society in 2018. A broader account of David’s life and career appears in the citation for this medal (by M.J. Head) followed by David’s own detailed response, both appearing in the journal Palynology to be published later this year.  A list of David’s postdocs/research fellows, research students, and publications is given below.

Postgraduate/doctoral research fellows/associates

Dr Li Wenben, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China (1983-85);

Dr Michael Sandy, Aberdeen (1984–86);

Dr Warren L. Kovach, NATO Postdoctoral Fellow (1987-88) and research assistant (1989) in Aberdeen; research associate in Aberystwyth (1990-92);

Dr Eva B. Koppelhus, Geological Survey of Denmark (1990-91);

Dr Ana Maria Zavattieri, CONICET, CRICYT-PRIPIBA, Mendoza, Argentina (1993-95);

Dr Rita Dutta, University of Wales, Aberystwyth (1995);

Mr Li Jianguo, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China (2003-04);

Ms France Polette, University of Rennes (2015–16).

Research students (source of funding in brackets after title of project)

Brown, L.M. MSc, 1980. Dinoflagellate cyst biostratigraphy of the Hauterivian to Barremian boundary beds at Speeton, east Yorkshire. (Robertson Research International).

Barker, F.L. MSc, 1981. Stratigraphic distribution of the miospore genus Trilobosporites in the Lower Cretaceous of southern England. (Manpower Services Commission).

Burnhill, T.J. PhD, 1982. Mid-Cretaceous stratigraphy and micropalaeontology of the central North Sea. (British Petroleum plc.).

Marshall, K.L. PhD, 1983. Dinoflagellate cysts from the Cenomanian, Turonian and Coniacian of Germany and England. (NERC).

Partington, M.A. PhD, 1983. The stratigraphy, distribution and phylogeny of some Lower Cretaceous Circumpolles from southern England. (NERC).

Tocher, B.A. PhD, 1984. Palynostratigraphy of uppermost Albian to basal Coniacian (Cretaceous) sediments of the western Anglo-Paris Basin. (City of London Polytechnic; with co-supervisor T. Kilenyi, CLP).

Ewen, D.F. MSc, 1985. Palynological investigation of the Upper Delfland and Fourteen’s Clay Formations of three wells in the Q/1 Block of the Dutch Sector, North Sea Basin. (Unocal).

MacLennan, A.M. PhD, 1985. Biostratigraphic and palynofacies analysis of selected Lower Cretaceous sections from Portugal. (NERC).

Barron, H.F. MSc, 1986. Dinoflagellate cyst biostratigraphy and palynofacies analysis of the Upper Jurassic strata at Helmsdale, N.E. Sutherland. (Robertson Research International).

Cutts, R. MSc, 1987. Middle Jurassic palynology of the Brora Outlier, Sutherland. (Robertson Research International).

Lister, J.K. MSc, 1987. Palynology of the Cretaceous (Barremian-Aptian) sequence in the Hurlands Farm Borehole, West Sussex. (Self-financing).

Mellanby, F. MSc, 1987. Ostracod assemblages as indicators of salinity in the Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous of southern England. (Self-financing).

Uwins, P.J.R. PhD, 1987. Early to mid-Cretaceous palynology of the Cyrenaica Basin, Northeast Libya. (Jersey Education Authority).

Farr, K.M. PhD, 1988. Palynomorph and palynodebris distributions in modern estuarine sediments. (NERC).

Head, M.J. PhD, 1990. Dinoflagellate cysts and other marine palynomorphs from lower Eocene through lower Pliocene sediments of the Labrador Sea and Baffin Bay. (NERC).

Dutta, R.J. PhD, 1994. Ultrastructure of Mesozoic spores and pollen. (NERC).

Chryssi, M. PhD, 1996. Palynology of Early Tertiary sections in NW Germany. (Republic of Greece, State Scholarships Foundation).

Harris, A.J. PhD, 1997. Palynology of Cenomanian–Turonian successions in the Western Interior of the USA (AASP Consortium; with co-supervisor B.A. Tocher).

Prince, I.M. PhD, 1997. Palynology of the Upper Cretaceous succession of the Anglo-Paris Basin. (AASP Consortium; with co-supervisor B.A.Tocher).

Lydon, S.J. PhD, 2000. Distribution of dispersed plant cuticles in the English Wealden with systematic revision of the Ginkgoales and allied gymnosperms (NERC; with co-supervisor J. Watson, University of Manchester).

Li Jianguo, PhD, 2004. Palynology of Late Cretaceous – Early Miocene sediments of the southern margin of the Laurasian continent in Xigaze, Xizang (Tibet). (Chinese  Academy of Sciences; with co-supervisors Zhou Zhiyan, Zhang Yiyong of Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and M. Banerjee of University of Calcutta).

Lukaye, J. MPhil, 2007. Biostratigraphy and palynofacies of four petroleum exploration wells from the Albertine Graben, Uganda (Dept. of Petroleum Exploration and Production, Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development, Uganda; with co-supervisor D. Stead, Wellstrat Services Ltd)

Polette, F., PhD candidate 2016 to date. French Cretaceous palynology. (University of Rennes, France; with co-supervisor D. Néraudeau, University of Rennes).

Students who graduated from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth with an MSc in palynology

1991: D.T. Stead, P.D. Roberts

1992: M.A. Brimble, P.S. Dibble, C.J. Matthews, V. Persson, P. Winrow

1993: S.P. Murphy, C.J. Payne, J.D. Rees

1994: R.C. Chiverrell, R.J. Coates, F. Henchley, R.C. McGee, D. Patterson

Refereed papers and chapters in books

1. Batten, D.J. 1968. Probable dispersed spores of Cretaceous Equisetites. Palaeontology 11, 633–642, pl. 123.

2. Batten, D.J. 1969. Some British Wealden megaspores and their facies distribution. Palaeontology 12, 333–350, pls 62–67.

3. Batten, D.J. 1972. Recognition of the facies of palynologic assemblages as a basis for improved stratigraphic correlation. Proceedings of the 24th International Geological Congress, Montreal (1972) 7, 367–374.

4. Batten, D.J. 1973. Use of palynologic assemblage-types in Wealden correlation. Palaeontology 16, 1–40.

5. Batten, D.J. 1973. Recognition of the facies of British Early Cretaceous palynomorph assemblages for stratigraphic purposes. In Palynology of the Mesophyte, Chlonova, A.F. (ed.). Proceedings of the 3rd International Palynological Conference, Novosibirsk 1971. Publishing House “Nauka”, Moscow, 127–131.

6. Batten, D.J. 1973. Palynology of Early Cretaceous soil beds and associated strata. Palaeontology 16, 399–424.

7. Batten, D.J. 1975. Wealden palaeoecology from the distribution of plant fossils. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 85 (for 1974), 433–458, pl. 13.

8. Batten, D.J. 1977. Wealden of the Weald – a new model: written discussion of a paper previously published. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 87(for 1976), 431–433.

9. Batten, D.J. 1978. Early Cretaceous to Middle Jurassic miospores and palynofacies of the Northwest European continental shelf. In Distribution of biostratigraphically diagnostic dinoflagellate cysts and miospores from the Northwest European continental shelf, Thusu, B. (ed.). Continental Shelf Institute, Publication 100, 97–101.

10. Lock, B.E., Pickton, C.A.G., Smith, D.G., Batten, D.J. & Harland, W.B. 1978. The geology of Edgøya and Barentsøya, Svalbard. Skrifter, Norsk Polarinstitutt 168, 64 pp.

11. Batten, D.J. 1979. Miospores and other acid-resistant microfossils from the Aptian/Albian of Holes 400A and 402A, DSDP-IPOD Leg 48, Bay of Biscay. Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project 48, 579–587.

12. Batten, D.J. 1980. Aptian and Albian palynomorph assemblages from southern England. Proceedings of the 4th International Palynological Conference, Lucknow (1976–77) 2, 403–408, pl. 1.

13. Batten, D.J. 1980. Use of transmitted light microscopy of sedimentary organic matter for evaluation of hydrocarbon source potential. Proceedings of the 4th International Palynological Conference, Lucknow (1976–77) 2, 589–594.

14. Batten, D.J. 1981. Palynofacies, organic maturation and source potential for petroleum. In Organic maturation studies and fossil fuel exploration,Brooks, J. (ed.). Academic Press, London, 201–223.

15. Batten, D.J. 1981. Stratigraphic, palaeogeographic and evolutionary significance of Late Cretaceous and early Tertiary Normapolles pollen. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 35, 125–137.

16. Batten, D.J. & Christopher, R.A. 1981. Key to the recognition of Normapolles and some morphologically similar pollen genera. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 35, 359–383.

17. Batten, D.J., Brown, P.E., Dawes, P.R., Higgins, A.K., Koch, B.E., Parsons, I. & Soper, N.J. 1981. Peralkaline volcanicity on the Eurasia Basin margin. Nature 294, 150–152.

18. Batten, D.J. 1982. Note on the European-Turanian part of the Normapolles Province. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 36, 379–380.

19. Batten, D.J. 1982. Palynofacies and salinity in the Purbeck and Wealden of southern England. In Aspects of micropalaeontology, Banner, F.T. & Lord, A.R. (eds). George Allen & Unwin, London, 278–308.

20. Batten, D.J. 1982. Palynofacies, palaeoenvironments and petroleum. Journal of Micropalaeontology 1, 107–114.

21. Batten, D.J. 1982. Palynology of shales associated with the Kap Washington Group volcanics, central North Greenland. Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse, Rapport 108, 15–23.

22. Batten, D.J. 1983. Identification of amorphous sedimentary organic matter by transmitted light microscopy. In Petroleum geochemistry and exploration of Europe, Brooks, J. (ed.). Geological Society, London, Special Publication 11, 275–287.

23. Batten, D.J. & Morrison, L. 1983. Methods of palynological preparation for palaeoenvironmental, source potential and organic maturation studies. In Palynology – micropalaeontology: laboratories, equipment and methods, Costa, L.I. (ed.). Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, Bulletin 2, 35–53.

24. Gaupp, R. & Batten, D.J. 1983. Depositional setting of middle to Upper Cretaceous sediments in the Northern Calcareous Alps from palynological evidence. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte 1983, 585–600.

25. Batten, D.J. 1984. Palynology, climate, and the development of Late Cretaceous floral provinces in the Northern Hemisphere; a review. In Fossils and climate, Brenchley, P.J. (ed.). Geological Journal, Special Issue 11, 127–164.

26. Batten, D.J. 1984. Fossil plant remains and North Sea oil and gas. Deeside Field 18, 52–56.

27. Batten, D.J. 1984. Geological reasons for the success of petroleum exploration in the UK offshore. Deeside Field 18, 124–125.

28. Batten, D.J. & MacLennan, A.M. 1984. The paleoenvironmental significance of the conifer family Cheirolepidiaceae in the Cretaceous of Portugal. In Third Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems; short papers, Reif, W.-E. & Westphal, F. (eds). ATTEMPTO Verlag, Tübingen, 7–12.

29. Batten, D.J., Creber, G.T. & Zhou Zhiyan 1984. Fossil plants and other organic debris in Cretaceous sediments from Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 80: their paleoenvironmental significance and source potential. Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project 80, 629–641.

30. Sladen, C.P. & Batten, D.J. 1984. Source-area environments of Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous sediments in Southeast England. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 95, 149–163.

31. Batten, D.J. 1985. Coccolith moulds in sedimentary organic matter and their use in palynofacies analysis. Journal of Micropalaeontology 4 (2), 111–116.

32. Batten, D.J. 1985. Two new dinoflagellate cyst genera from the non-marine Lower Cretaceous of Southeast England. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte 1985, 427–437.

33. Batten, D.J. & Uwins, P.J.R. 1985. Early–Late Cretaceous (Aptian–Cenomanian) palynomorphs. In Palynostratigraphy of northeast Libya. Journal of Micropalaeontology 4 (1), 151–167.

34. Batten, D.J. & van Geel, B. 1985. Celyphus rallus, probable Early Cretaceous rivulariacean blue-green alga. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 44, 233–241.

35. Gaupp, R. & Batten, D.J. 1985. Maturation of organic matter in Cretaceous strata of the Northern Calcareous Alps. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte 1985, 157–175.

36. Collinson, M.E., Batten, D.J., Scott, A.C. & Ayonghe, S.N. 1985. Palaeozoic, Mesozoic and contemporaneous megaspores from the Tertiary of southern England: indicators of sedimentary provenance and ancient vegetation. Journal of the Geological Society, London 142, 375–395.

37. Batten, D.J. 1986. Systematics of pre-Quaternary palynomorphs. In Systematic and taxonomic approaches in palaeobotany, Thomas, B.A. & Spicer, R.A. (eds). Systematics Association, Special Volume 31, 253–262.

38. Batten, D.J. 1986. Possible functional implications of exine sculpture and architecture in some Late Cretaceous Normapolles pollen. In Pollen and spores: form and function, Blackmore, S. & Ferguson, I.K. (eds). Linnean Society, Symposium Series 12, 219–232.

39. Batten, D.J. 1986. N.F. Hughes – biography and bibliography. Special Papers in Palaeontology 35, 1–5.

40. Batten, D.J. 1986. The Cretaceous Normapolles pollen genus Vancampopollenites: occurrence, form and function. Special Papers in Palaeontology 35, 21–39.

41. Batten, D.J., Trewin, N.H. & Tudhope, A.W. 1986. The Triassic-Jurassic junction at Golspie, inner Moray Firth Basin. Scottish Journal of Geology 22, 85–98.

42. Li Wen-ben & Batten, D.J. 1986. The Early Cretaceous megaspore Arcellites and closely associated Crybelosporites microspores from northeast Inner Mongolia, P.R. China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 46, 189–208.

43. Batten, D.J. 1987. Palynofacies analysis, depositional environments and source potential for petroleum. VII Simposio Argentino de Paleobotánica y Palinología, Actas,Buenos Aires, 7–14.

44. Batten, D.J. & Ferguson, D.J.P. 1987. Cabochonicus, a new genus for species of gemmate megaspores previously referred to Verrutriletes. Journal of Micropalaeontology 6 (1), 65–75.

45. Batten, D.J. & Li Wenben 1987. Aspects of palynomorph distribution, floral provinces and climate during the Cretaceous. Geologisches JahrbuchA 96, 219–237.

46. Batten, D.J. & Morrison, L. 1987. Morphology and occurrence of the Normapolles pollen genus Papillopollis in the Cretaceous of Portugal. Palynology 11, 133–154.

47. Batten, D.J., Lister, J.K., MacLennan, A.M. et al. 1987. Dorset, Jurassic. In Mesozoic and Cenozoic stratigraphical micropalaeontology of the Dorset coast and Isle of Wight, southern England, Lord, A.R. & Bown, P.R. (eds). British Micropalaeontological Society, Field Guide 1, 3–78.

48. Batten, D.J., Lister, J.K., MacLennan, A.M. et al. 1987. The Isle of Wight, Cretaceous. In Mesozoic and Cenozoic stratigraphical micropalaeontology of the Dorset coast and Isle of Wight, southern England, Lord, A.R. & Bown, P.R. (eds). British Micropalaeontological Society, Field Guide 1, 88–149.

49. Batten, D.J., Streel, M., Dusar, M. & Bless, M.J.M. 1987. Late Cretaceous palynomorphs from the boreholes Thermae 2002 (Valkenburg a/d Geul, the Netherlands) and ’s-Gravenvoeren (Belgium). Annales de la Société Géologique de Belgique 110, 47–51.

50. Li Wenben, Batten, D.J., Zhang Dahua & Zhang Liangde 1987. Early Cretaceous megaspores from the Jalainor Group of northeast Inner Mongolia, P.R. China. Palaeontographica B 206, 117–135, pls 1–9.

51. Batten, D.J. 1988 [1987]. Revision of S.J. Dijkstra’s Late Cretaceous megaspores and other plant microfossils from Limburg, The Netherlands. Mededelingen, Rijks Geologische Dienst 41-3, 1–55.

52. Batten, D.J. & Lister, J.K. 1988a. Evidence of freshwater dinoflagellates and other algae in the English Wealden (Early Cretaceous). Cretaceous Research 9, 171–179.

53. Batten, D.J. & Lister, J.K. 1988b. Early Cretaceous dinoflagellate cysts and chlorococcalean algae from freshwater and low salinity palynofacies in the English Wealden. Cretaceous Research 9, 337–367.

54. Batten, D.J., Dupagne-Kievits, J. & Lister, J.K. 1988. Palynology of the Upper Cretaceous Aachen Formation of northeast Belgium. In The Chalk District of the Euregio Meuse-Rhine,Streel, M. & Bless, M.J.M. (eds). Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht, The Netherlands and Laboratoires de Paléontologie de l’Université d’Etat à Liège, Belgium, 95–103.

55. Lister, J.K. & Batten, D.J. 1988a. Hurlandsia, a new non-marine Early Cretaceous dinocyst genus. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte 1988, 505–516.

56. Lister, J.K. & Batten, D.J. 1988b. Stratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental distribution of Early Cretaceous dinoflagellate cysts in the Hurlands Farm Borehole, West Sussex, England. Palaeontographica B 210, 9–89, pls 1–13.

57. Marshall, K.L. & Batten, D.J. 1988. Dinoflagellate cyst associations in Cenomanian–Turonian “black shale” sequences of northern Europe. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 54, 85–103.

58. Médus, J., Feist, M., Rocchia, R., Batten, D.J., Boclet, D., Colombo, F., Tambareau, Y. & Villatte, J. 1988. Prospects for recognition of the palynological Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary and an iridium anomaly in nonmarine facies of the eastern Spanish Pyrenees: a preliminary report. Newsletters on Stratigraphy 18, 123–138.

59. Uwins, P.J.R. & Batten, D.J. 1988. Early to mid-Cretaceous palynology of northeast Libya.In Subsurface palynostratigraphy of northeast Libya,El-Arnauti, A., Owens, B. & Thusu, B. (eds). Garyounis University Publications, Benghazi, Libya (SPLAJ), 215–257.

60. Batten, D.J. 1989. Cretaceous freshwater dinoflagellates. Short Communication. Cretaceous Research 10, 271–273.

61. Batten, D.J. 1989.Systematic relationships between Normapolles pollen and the Hamamelidae. In Evolution, systematics, and fossil history of the Hamamelidae. Volume 2: ‘Higher’ Hamamelidae,Crane, P.R. & Blackmore, S. (eds). Systematics Association, Special Volume 40B, 9–21.

62. Koppelhus, E.B. & Batten, D.J. 1989. Late Cretaceous megaspores from southern Sweden: morphology and paleoenvironmental significance. Palynology 13, 91–120.

63. Kovach, W.L. & Batten, D.J. 1989. Worldwide stratigraphic occurrences of Mesozoic and Tertiary megaspores. Palynology 13, 247–277.

64. Batten, D.J. 1990. Correspondence. Terminology. Geology Today 6, 122–123. [re Lower/Upper, early/late]

65. Batten, D.J. & Kovach, W.L. 1990. Catalog of Mesozoic and Tertiary megaspores. American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists, Contributions Series 24, ii + 227 pp.

66. Kovach, W.L. & Batten, D.J. 1990. Multivariate analysis of palynofacies and other micropalaeontological data. North Sea ’90 (International Symposium, British Geological Survey, Nottingham), 24–27.

67. Ruffell, A.H. & Batten, D.J. 1990. The Barremian–Aptian arid phase in western Europe. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 80, 197–212.

68. Watson, J. & Batten, D.J. 1990. A revision of the English Wealden flora, II. Equisetales. Bulletin of the British Museum, Natural History (Geology) 46, 37–60.

69. Hesselbo, S.P., Coe, A.L., Batten, D.J. & Wach, G.D. 1990. Stratigraphic relations of the Lower Greensand (Lower Cretaceous) of the Calne area, Wiltshire. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 101, 265–278.

70. Baldoni, A.M. & Batten, D.J. 1991. Megaspores from the Lower Cretaceous Kachaike Formation, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 182, 377–393.

71. Batten, D.J. 1991. Reworking of plant microfossils and sedimentary provenance.In Developments in sedimentary provenance studies,Morton, A.C., Todd, S.P. & Haughton, P.D.W. (eds). Geological Society, London, Special Publication 57, 79–90.

72. Batten, D.J. 1991. Correspondence. Lower-Upper-early-late revisited. Geology Today 7, 176.

73. Batten, D.J. & Marshall, K.L. 1991. Palynology of Upper Cretaceous “black shales” from Helgoland, southern North Sea. Geologisches Jahrbuch A 120, 105–115.

74. Charlton, W.A., Watson, J. & Batten, D.J. 1991. A fossil palm at the back door of Hastings Museum, Sussex, England. Tertiary Research 13, 1–9.

75. Batten, D.J. 1992. Comments on Banksisporites Dettmann: discussion. Palynos 15 (2), 4.

76. Batten, D.J. 1992. Stratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental analyses continue to demand the inclusion of high quality palaeontological data. Cretaceous Research 13, 591–595.

77. Koppelhus, E.B. & Batten, D.J. 1992. Megaspore assemblages from the Jurassic and lowermost Cretaceous of Bornholm, Denmark. Danmarks Geologiske Undersøgelse, Serie A 32, 1–81.

78. Batten, D.J. & Koppelhus, E.B. 1993. Morphological reassessment of some zonate and coronate megaspore genera of mainly post-Palaeozoic age. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 78, 19–40.

79. Kovach, W.L. & Batten, D.J. 1993. Diversity changes in lycopsid and aquatic fern megaspores through geologic time. Paleobiology 19, 28–42.

80. Knobloch, E., Kvaček, Z., Bůžek, C., Mai, D.H. & Batten, D.J. 1993. Evolutionary significance of floristic changes in the Northern Hemisphere during the Late Cretaceous and Palaeogene, with particular reference to Central Europe. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 78, 41–54.

81. Batten, D.J., Collinson, M.E. & Knobloch, E. 1994. Ariadnaesporites and Capulisporites: “water fern” megaspores from the Upper Cretaceous of Central Europe. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 83, 159–174.

82. Batten, D.J., Koppelhus, E.B. & Nielsen, L.H. 1994. Uppermost Triassic to Middle Jurassic palynofacies and palynomiscellanea in the Danish Basin and Fennoscandian Border Zone. Cahiers de Micropaléontologie, Nouvelle Série 9, 21–45, pls 1–4.

83. Kovach, W.L. & Batten, D.J. 1994. Association of palynomorphs and palynodebris with depositional environments: quantitative approaches. In Sedimentation of organic particles, Traverse, A. (ed.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 391–407.

84. Ruffell, A.H. & Batten, D.J. 1994. Uppermost Wealden facies and Lower Greensand Group (Lower Cretaceous) in Dorset, southern England: correlation and palaeoenvironment. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 105, 53–69.

85. Batten, D.J. 1995. Editorial. A tribute to Professor P. Allen, FRS. Part 1. Cretaceous Research 16, 599–601.

86. Batten, D.J. 1995. Megaspores from lowermost Aptian beds in northern Germany. Geologisches Jahrbuch A 141, 403–443.

87. Batten, D.J. & Zavattieri, A.M. 1995. Occurrence of dispersed seed cuticles and similar microfossils in mainly Cretaceous successions of the Northern Hemisphere. Cretaceous Research 16, 73–94.

88. Lister, J.K. & Batten, D.J. 1995. Palynostratigraphy of the Barremian-Aptian succession in the Wiechendorf 1/86 and Hoheneggelsen KB9 boreholes in the Lower Saxony Basin, North Germany. Geologisches Jahrbuch A 141, 367–395.

89. Ruffell, A.H. & Batten, D.J. 1995. Environmental interpretation of Cretaceous sequences in two north German boreholes on the basis of integrated clay mineralogical and palynofacies analyses. Geologisches Jahrbuch A 141, 445–457.

90. Rice, C.M., Ashcroft, W.A., Batten, D.J., Boyce, A.J. et al. 1995. A Devonian auriferous hot spring system, Rhynie, Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society, London 152, 229–250.

91. Batten, D.J. 1996. Editorial. A tribute to Professor P. Allen, FRS. Part 2. Cretaceous Research 17, 1–4.

92. Batten, D.J. 1996. Colonial Chlorococcales. Chapter 7C. In Palynology: principles and applications, Volume 1, Jansonius, J. & McGregor, D.C. (eds). American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists’ Foundation, Dallas, 191–203.

93. Batten, D.J. 1996. Mesozoic-Tertiary spores and pollen. Introduction. Chapter 20. In Palynology: principles and applications, Volume 2, Jansonius, J. & McGregor, D.C. (eds). American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists’ Foundation, Dallas, 751–753.

94. Batten, D.J. 1996. Upper Jurassic and Cretaceous miospores. Chapter 20E. In Palynology: principles and applications, Volume 2, Jansonius, J. & McGregor, D.C. (eds). American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists’ Foundation, Dallas, 807–830.

95. Batten, D.J. 1996. Palynofacies. Introduction. Chapter 26. In Palynology: principles and applications, Volume 3, Jansonius, J. & McGregor, D.C. (eds). American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists’ Foundation, Dallas, 1011.

96. Batten, D.J. 1996. Palynofacies and palaeoenvironmental interpretation. Chapter 26A. In Palynology: principles and applications, Volume 3, Jansonius, J. & McGregor, D.C. (eds). American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists’ Foundation, Dallas, 1011–1064.

97. Batten, D.J. 1996. Palynofacies and petroleum potential. Chapter 26B. In Palynology: principles and applications, Volume 3, Jansonius, J. & McGregor, D.C. (eds). American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists’ Foundation, Dallas, 1065–1084.

98. Batten, D.J. & Grenfell, H. 1996. Botryococcus. Chapter 7D. In Palynology: principles and applications, Volume 1, Jansonius, J. & McGregor, D.C. (eds). American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists’ Foundation, Dallas, 205–214.

99. Batten, D.J. & Koppelhus, E.B. 1996. Biostratigraphic significance of uppermost Triassic and Jurassic miospores in northwest Europe. Chapter 20D. In Palynology: principles and applications, Volume 2, Jansonius, J. & McGregor, D.C. (eds). American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists’ Foundation, Dallas, 795–806.

100. Batten, D.J. & Zavattieri, A.M. 1996. Re-examination of seed cuticles from Cretaceous deposits in West Greenland. Cretaceous Research 17, 691–714.

101. Batten, D.J., Dutta, R.J. & Knobloch, E. 1996. Differentiation, affinities and palaeoenvironmental significance of the megaspores Arcellites and Bohemisporites in Wealden and other Cretaceous successions. Cretaceous Research 17, 39–65.

102. Koppelhus, E.B. & Batten, D.J. 1996. Application of a palynomorph zonation to a series of short borehole sections, Lower to Middle Jurassic, Øresund, Denmark. Chapter 20C. In Palynology: principles and applications, Volume 2, Jansonius, J. & McGregor, D.C. (eds). American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists’ Foundation, Dallas, 779–793.

103. Zavattieri, A.M. & Batten, D.J. 1996. Miospores from Argentinian Triassic deposits and their potential for intercontinental correlation. Chapter 20B. In Palynology: principles and applications, Volume 2, Jansonius, J. & McGregor, D.C. (eds). American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists’ Foundation, Dallas, 767–778.

104. Al-Ameri, T.K. & Batten, D.J. 1997. Palynomorph and palynofacies indications of age, depositional environment and source potential for hydrocarbons: Lower Cretaceous Zubair Formation, southern Iraq. Cretaceous Research 18, 789–797.

105. Baldoni, A.M. & Batten, D.J. 1997. Cretaceous megaspores from two boreholes in the Austral Basin, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, and their stratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental significance. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 205, 97–110.

106. Batten, D.J. & Dutta, R.J. 1997. Ultrastructure of exine of gymnospermous pollen grains from Jurassic and basal Cretaceous deposits in Northwest Europe and implications for botanical relationships. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 99, 25–54.

107. Wood, C.J., Batten, D.J., Mortimore, R.N. & Wray, D.S. 1997. The stratigraphy and correlation of the Cenomanian-Turonian boundary interval succession in Lincolnshire, eastern England. Freiberger Forschungshefte (Paläontologie, Stratigraphie, Fazies) C 468, 333–346.

108. Batten, D.J. 1998. Palaeoenvironmental implications of plant, insect and other organic-walled microfossils in the Weald Clay Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of southeast England. Cretaceous Research 19, 279–315.

109. Batten, D.J. 1998. In: Allen, P., Purbeck-Wealden (early Cretaceous) climates. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 109, 197–236.

110. Batten, D.J. 1998. The Jehol fauna. Geology Today 14, 170–171.

111. Batten, D.J. 1998. Geology and the National Trust. Geology Today 14, 176.

112. Batten, D.J., Collinson, M.E. & Brain, A.P.R. 1998. Ultrastructural interpretation of the Late Cretaceous megaspore Glomerisporites pupus and its associated microspores. American Journal of Botany 85, 724–735.

113. Al-Ameri, T.K., Al-Musawi, F.S. & Batten, D.J. 1999. Palynofacies indications of depositional environments and source potential for hydrocarbons: uppermost Jurassic–basal Cretaceous Sulaiy Formation, southern Iraq. Cretaceous Research 20, 359–363.

114. Batten, D.J. 1999. Extraction techniques: small palynomorphs. In Fossil plants and spores: modern techniques, Jones, T.P. & Rowe, N.P. (eds), The Geological Society, London, 15–19.

115. Batten, D.J. 1999. Sedimentology: palynofacies analysis. In Fossil plants and spores: modern techniques, Jones, T.P. & Rowe, N.P. (eds), The Geological Society, London, 194–198.

116. Batten, D.J., Gray, J. & Harland, R. 1999. Palaeoenvironmental significance of a monospecific assemblage of dinoflagellate cysts from the Miocene Clarkia Beds, Idaho, USA. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 153, 161–177.

117. Dutra, T. & Batten, D.J. 2000. Upper Cretaceous floras of King George Island, West Antarctica, and their palaeoenvironmental and phytogeographic implications. Cretaceous Research 21, 181–209.

118. Martill, D.M., Batten, D.J. & Loydell, D.K. 2000. A new specimen of the thyreophoran dinosaur cf. Scelidosaurus with soft tissue preservation. Palaeontology 43, 549–559.

119. Al-Ameri, T.K., Al-Najar, T.K. & Batten, D.J. 2001. Palynostratigraphy and palynofacies indications of depositional environments and source potential for hydrocarbons: the mid Cretaceous Nahr Umr and lower Mauddud formations, Iraq. Cretaceous Research 22, 735–742.

120. Batten, D.J. & Collinson, M.E. 2001. Revision of species of Minerisporites, Azolla and associated plant microfossils from deposits of the Upper Palaeocene and Palaeocene/Eocene transition in the Netherlands, Belgium and the USA. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 115, 1–32.

121. Thomas, B.A. & Batten, D.J. 2001. The Triassic palaeobotany of Great Britain. In Cleal, C.J., Thomas, B.A., Batten, D.J. & Collinson, M.E. Mesozoic to Tertiary palaeobotany of Great Britain. Geological Conservation Review Series, Joint Nature Conservation Committee, pp. 17–27.

122. Thomas, B.A. & Batten, D.J. 2001. The Jurassic palaeobotany of Yorkshire. In Cleal, C.J., Thomas, B.A., Batten, D.J. & Collinson, M.E. Mesozoic to Tertiary palaeobotany of Great Britain. Geological Conservation Review Series, Joint Nature Conservation Committee, pp. 29–96.

123. Thomas, B.A. & Batten, D.J. 2001. The Jurassic palaeobotany of southern England. In Cleal, C.J., Thomas, B.A., Batten, D.J. & Collinson, M.E. Mesozoic to Tertiary palaeobotany of Great Britain. Geological Conservation Review Series, Joint Nature Conservation Committee, pp. 97–113.

124. Thomas, B.A. & Batten, D.J. 2001. The Jurassic palaeobotany of Scotland. In Cleal, C.J., Thomas, B.A., Batten, D.J. & Collinson, M.E. Mesozoic to Tertiary palaeobotany of Great Britain. Geological Conservation Review Series, Joint Nature Conservation Committee, pp. 115–134.

125. Thomas, B.A. & Batten, D.J. 2001. The Cretaceous palaeobotany of Great Britain. In Cleal, C.J., Thomas, B.A., Batten, D.J. & Collinson, M.E. Mesozoic to Tertiary palaeobotany of Great Britain. Geological Conservation Review Series, Joint Nature Conservation Committee, 135–154.

126. Batten, D.J. 2002. Palaeoenvironmental setting of the Purbeck Limestone Group of Dorset, southern England. In Life and environments in Purbeck times, Milner, A.R. & Batten, D.J. (eds). Special Papers in Palaeontology 68, 13–20.

127. Yi, Sangheon & Batten, D.J. 2003. Palynology of Upper Cretaceous (uppermost Campanian–Maaastrichtian) deposits in the South Yellow Sea Basin, offshore Korea. Cretaceous Research 23 (for 2002), 687–706.

128. Yi, Sangheon., Yi, Songsuk, Batten, D.J., Yun, H. & Park, S.-J. 2003. Cretaceous and Cenozoic non-marine deposits of the northern South Yellow Sea Basin, offshore western Korea: palynostratigraphy and palaeoenvironments. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 191, 15–44.

129. Li Gang & Batten, D.J. 2004. Cratostracus? cheni, a new conchostracan species from the Yixian Formation in western Liaoning, north-east China, and its age implications. Cretaceous Research 25, 577–584.

130. Li Gang & Batten, D.J. 2004. Revision of the conchostracan genera Cratostracus and Porostracus from Cretaceous deposits in north-east China Cretaceous Research 25, 919–926.

131. Li Jianguo & Batten, D.J. 2004. Early Cretaceous palynofloras from the Tanggula Mountains of the northern Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) Plateau, China. Cretaceous Research 25, 531–542.

132. Batten, D.J. & Stead, D.T. 2005. Palynofacies analysis and its stratigraphic application. In Applied stratigraphy, Koutsoukos, E.A.M. (ed.). Topics in Geobiology 23, Springer, Dordrecht, 203–226 and 468–470.

133. Li Gang & Batten, D.J. 2005. Revision of the conchostracan genus Estherites from the Upper Cretacous Nenjiang Formation of the Songliao Basin and its biogeographic significance in China. Cretaceous Research 26, 920–929.

134. Li Jianguo & Batten, D.J. 2005. Palynofacies: principles and methods. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 44, 138–156. [In Chinese, English abstract]

135. Yi, S., Batten, D.J. & Lee, S.J. 2005. Provenance of recycled palynomorph assemblages recovered from surficial sediments in Bransfield Strait, offshore Antarctic Peninsula. Cretaceous Research 26, 906–919.

136. Noè, L.F. & Batten, D.J. 2006. ‘Publish or perish’: the pitfalls of duplicate publication. Palaeontology 49, 1365–1367.

137. Batten, D.J. 2007. Spores and pollen from the Crato Formation: biostratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental implications. In The Crato fossil beds of Brazil. Window into an ancient world, Martill, D.M., Bechly, G. & Loveridge, R.F. (eds). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 566–573, pl. 32.

138. Chen Peiji, Li Gang & Batten, D.J. 2007. Evolution, migration and radiation of late Mesozoic conchostracans in East Asia. Geological Journal 42, 319–413.

139. Li Gang, Shen Yanbin & Batten D.J. 2007. Yanjiestheria, Yanshania and the development of the Eosestheria conchostracan fauna of the Jehol Biota in China. In Palaeontology, stratigraphy, and correlation of some Chinese non-marine Cretaceous basins, Sha Jingeng (guest ed.). Cretaceous Research 28, 225–234.

140. Li Gang, Wan Xiaoqiao, Willems, H. & Batten, D.J. 2007. Revision of the conchostracan genus Tenuestheria from the Upper Cretaceous Lanxi Formation in Zhejiang and its biostratigraphic significance in southeast Asia. Acta Geologica Sinica 81, 801–806.

141.Li Jianguo & Batten, D.J. 2007. Palynological evidence of an Early Cretaceous age for the Yixian Formation at Sihetun, western Liaoning, China. In Palaeontology, stratigraphy, and correlation of some Chinese non-marine Cretaceous basins, Sha Jingeng (guest ed.). Cretaceous Research 28, 333–338.

142. Yang Xiaoju, Li Wenben & Batten, D.J. 2007. Biostratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental implications of an Early Cretaceous miospore assemblage from the Muling Formation, Jixi Basin, northeast China. In Palaeontology, stratigraphy, and correlation of some Chinese non-marine Cretaceous basins, Sha Jingeng (guest ed.). Cretaceous Research 28, 339–347.

143. Li Jianguo, Batten, D.J. & Zhang Yiyong 2008. Late Cretaceous palynofloras from the southern Laurasian margin in the Xigaze region, Xizang (Tibet). Cretaceous Research 29, 294–300.

144. Li Jianguo, Batten, D.J. & Zhang Yiyong 2008. Palynological indications of environmental changes during the Late Cretaceous–Eocene on the southern continental margin of Laurasia, Xizang (Tibet). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 265, 78–86.

145. Batten, D.J. 2009. An unusual megaspore from the Weald Clay (Lower Cretaceous) of south-east England, and its stratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental significance. Grana 48, 270–280.

146. Li Gang, Chen Peiji, Wang Deyou & Batten, D.J. 2009. The spinicaudatan Tylestheria and biostratigraphic significance for the age of dinosaur eggs in the Upper Cretaceous Majiacun Formation, Xixia Basin, Henan Province, China. Cretaceous Research 30, 477–482.

147. Li Gang, Wan Xiaoqiao, Batten, D.J., Bengtson, P., Xi Dangpeng & Wang Pujun 2009. Spinicaudatans from the Upper Cretaceous Nenjiang Formation of the Songliao Basin, northeast China: taxonomy and biostratigraphy. Cretaceous Research 30, 687–698.

148. Morris, P.H., Cullum, A., Pearce, M.A. & Batten, D.J. 2009. Megaspore assemblages from the Åre Formation (Rhaetian–Pliensbachian) offshore mid-Norway, and their value as field and regional stratigraphic markers. Journal of Micropalaeontology 28, 161–181.

149. Batten, D.J., Colin, J.-P. & Néraudeau, D. 2010. Megaspores from mid Cretaceous deposits in western France and their biostratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental significance. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 161, 151–167.

150. Li Gang, Hirano, H., Batten, D.J., Wan Xiaoqiao, Willems, H. & Zhang Xianqiu 2010. Biostratigraphic significance of spinicaudatans from the Upper Cretaceous Nanxiong Group in Guangdong, South China. Cretaceous Research 31, 387–395.

151. Li Jianguo, Guo Zhenyu, Batten, D.J., Cai Huawei & Zhang Yiyong 2010. Palynological stratigraphy of the Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic collision-related conglomerates at Qiabulin, Xigaze, Xizang (Tibet) and its bearing on palaeoenvironmental development. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 38, 86–95.

152. Batten, D.J. 2011. Ch. 1. Introduction. In Batten, D.J. (ed.). English Wealden fossils. Palaeontological Association, London, Field Guides to Fossils 14, 1–6.

153. Batten, D.J. 2011. Ch. 2. Wealden Geology. In Batten, D.J. (ed.). English Wealden fossils. Palaeontological Association, London, Field Guides to Fossils 14, 7–14.

154. Batten, D.J. & Austen, P.A. 2011. Ch. 3. The Wealden of south-east England. In Batten, D.J. (ed.). English Wealden fossils. Palaeontological Association, London, Field Guides to Fossils 14, 15–51.

155. Austen, P.A. & Batten, D.J. 2011. Ch. 32. Plant megafossils. In Batten, D.J. (ed.). English Wealden fossils. Palaeontological Association, London, Field Guides to Fossils 14, 596–642.

156. Batten, D.J. 2011. Ch. 33, Organic-walled mesofossils. In Batten, D.J. (ed.). English Wealden fossils. Palaeontological Association, London, Field Guides to Fossils 14, 643–651.

157. Batten, D.J., Collinson, M.E. & Brain, A.P.R. 2011. Megaspores and associated microspores of extant and Tertiary marsileaceous Regnellidium and Cretaceous Molaspora: evolutionary and phytogeographic implications. International Journal of Plant Sciences 172, 1087–1100.

158. Batten, D.J., Zavattieri, A.M. & Collinson, M.E. 2011. Megaspores from the upper Maastrichtian of the eastern Spanish Pyrenees and their biostratigraphic, palaeogeographic and palaeoenvironmental significance. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 167, 156–172.

159. Li Jianguo & Batten, D.J. 2011. Early Cretaceous palynofloral provinces in China: western additions. Island Arc 20, 35–42.

160. Li Jianguo, Batten, D.J. & Zhang Yiyong 2011. Palynological record from a composite core through Late Cretaceous–early Paleocene deposits in the Songliao Basin, Northeast China and its biostratigraphic implications. Cretaceous Research 32, 1–12.

161. Batten, D.J. 2012. Taxonomic implications of exospore structure in selected Mesozoic lycopsid megaspores. Palynology 36, Supplement 1, 144–160.

162. Mao Limi, Batten, D.J., Fujiki, T., Li Zhen, Dai Lu & Weng Chenyu. 2012. Key to mangrove pollen and spores of southern China: an aid to palynological interpretation of Quaternary deposits in the South China Sea. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 176–177, 41–67.

163. Néraudeau, D, Allain, R., Ballèvre, B., Batten, D.J., Buffetaut, E., Colin, J.P., Dabard, M.P. Daviero-Gomez, V., El Albani, A, Gomez, B., Grosheny, D., Le Lœuff, J. Leprince, A., Martín-Closas, C., Masure, E., Mazin, J.-M., Philippe, P., Pouech, J., Tong, H., Tournepiche, J.F. & Vullo, R. 2012. The Hauterivian–Barremian lignitic bone bed of Angeac (Charente, south-west France): stratigraphical, palaeobiological and palaeogeographical implications.Cretaceous Research 37, 1–14.

164. Alaug, A.S., Batten, D.J. & Ahmed, A.F. 2013. Organic geochemistry, palynofacies and petroleum potential of the Mukalla Formation (late Cretaceous), Block 16, eastern Yemen. Marine and Petroleum Geology 46, 67–91.

165. Collinson, M.E., Smith, S.Y., van Konijnenburg-van Cittert, J.H.A., Batten, D.J., van der Burgh, J., Barke, J. & Marone, F. 2013. New observations and synthesis of Paleogene heterosporous water ferns. International Journal of Plant Sciences 174, 350–363.

166. Li Jianguo, Peng Jungang & Batten, D.J. 2013. Palynostratigraphy of a Jurassic–Cretaceous transitional succession in the Himalayan Tethys, southern Xizang (Tibet), China. Cretaceous Research 46, 123–135.

167. Tang Lingyu, Mao Limi, Lü Xinmiao, Ma Qingfeng, Zhou Zhongze, Yang Chunlei, Kong Zhaochen & Batten, D.J. 2013. Palaeoecological and palaeoenvironmental significance of some important spores and micro-algae in Quaternary deposits. Chinese Science Bulletin 58, 3125–3139.

168. Batten, D.J., Zhou Zhiyan & Li Wenben. 2014. Plant remains from Cretaceous deposits on the Goban Spur, Bay of Biscay, North Atlantic Ocean, and their palaeoenvironmental significance. Palaeoworld 23, 162–186.

169. Anderson, H., Batten, D.J. Cantrill, D.J., Cleal, C., Feist-Burkhardt, S., Fensome, R.A., Head, M.J., Herendeen, P.S., Holmes, H., Jaramillo, C., Kvaček, J., McLoughlin, S., Skog, J.E., Takahashi, M., Wicander, R. 2015. (087–090) Proposal to treat the use of a hyphen in the name of a fossil-genus as an orthographic error. Taxon 64, 863.

170.Li Gang, Ohta, T., Batten, D.J., Sakai, T., Kozai, T. 2016. Morphology and phylogenetic origin of the spinicaudatan Neodiestheria from the Lower Cretaceous Dalazi Formation, Yanji Basin, north-eastern China. Cretaceous Research 62, 183–193.

171. Li Jianguo, Peng Jungang & Batten, D.J. 2015. Palynomorph assemblages from the Fenghuoshan Group, southern Qinghai, China: their age and palaeoenvironmental significance. Science Bulletin 60, 470–476.

172. Slater, S.M., Taylor, W.A., Batten, D.J., Hill, C.R. & Wellman, C.H. 2015. Morphology and wall ultrastructure of a new and highly distinctive megaspore from the Middle Jurassic of Yorkshire, UK. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 216, 33–43.

173. Batten, D.J., Li Jianguo & Peng Jungang 2016. Megaspores attributable to Ghoshispora in Late Cretaceous deposits of the Songliao Basin, north-east China: taxonomic clarification and distribution. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 232, 40–60.

174. Morris, P.H. & Batten, D.J. 2016. Megaspores and associated palynofloras of Middle Jurassic fluvio-deltaic sequences in North Yorkshire and the northern North Sea: a biofacies-based approach to palaeoenvironmental analysis and modelling. Journal of Micropalaeontology 35, 151–172.

175. Néraudeau, D., Saint Martin, S., Batten, D.J., Colin, J.-P., Daviero-Gomez, V., Girard, V., Gomez, B., Nohra, Y.A., Polette, F., Platel, J.-P., Saint Martin, J.-P. & Vullo, R. 2016. Palaeontology of the upper Turonian paralic deposits of the Sainte-Mondane Formation, Aquitaine Basin, France. Geologica Acta 14, 53–69.

176. El Atfy, H., El Diasty, W.Sh., El Beialy, S.Y., Gheith, A.M, Batten, D.J. & Agha, N.N. 2017. Palynofacies and geochemical analyses of the Upper Cretaceous–Eocene succession, western Sirte Basin, Libya: palaeoenvironmental interpretation and implications for hydrocarbon generation potential. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering 157, 148–163.

177. El Diasty, W.Sh., El Beialy, S.Y., Anwari, T.A. & Batten, D.J. 2017. Hydrocarbon source potential of the Tanezzuft Formation, Murzuq Basin, south-west Libya: an organic geochemical approach. Journal of African Earth Sciences 130, 102–109.

178. El Diasty, W. Sh, El Beialy, S.Y., Anwari T.A., Peters, K.E. & Batten, D.J. 2017. Organic geochemistry of the Silurian Tanezzuft Formation and crude oils, NC115 Concession, Murzuq Basin, southwest Libya. Marine and Petroleum Geology 86, 367–385.

179. El Diasty, W.Sh., El Beialy, S.Y., Fadeel, F.I., Peters, K.E. & Batten, D.J. 2017. Organic geochemistry of the Lower Silurian Tanezzuft Formation and biomarker characteristics of crude oils from the Ghadames Basin, Libya. Journal of Petroleum Geology 40, 299–318.

180. El Diasty, W.Sh., El Beialy, S.Y., Mostafa, AR., El Adl, H.A. & Batten, D.J. 2017. Hydrocarbon source rock potential in the southwestern Gulf of Suez graben: insights from organic geochemistry and palynofacies studies on well samples from the Ras El Bahar Oilfield. Marine and Petroleum Geology 80, 133–153.

181. Fleury, R., Polette, F., Batten, D.J., Durand, M., Moreau, J.-D., Néraudeau, D., Strullu-Derriene, C. & Redois, F. 2017. Palaeobotanical investigation of a Cenomanian clay lens in Hucheloup Quarry, Maine-et-Loire, NW France: taxonomic, stratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental implications. Annales de Paléontologie 103, 235–250.

182. Mendes, M.M., Barron, E., Batten, D.J. & Pais, J. 2017. A new species of the spore genus Costatoperforosporites from Early Cretaceus deposits in Portugal and its taxonomic and palaeoenvironmental signficance. Grana 56, 401–409.

183. Néraudeau, D, Perrichot, V., Batten, D.J., Boura, A., Girard, V., Jeanneau, L., Nohra, Y.A., Polette, F., Saint Martin, S., Saint Martin, J.-P., Thomas, R. 2017. Upper Cretaceous amber from Vendée, north-western France: age dating and geological, chemical, and palaeontological characteristics. Cretaceous Research 70, 77–95.

184. Polette, F. & Batten, D.J. 2017. Fundamental reassessment of the taxonomy of five Normapolles pollen genera. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 243, 47–91.

185. Li Jianguo, Wu Yixiao, Peng Jungang & Batten, D.J. 2019. Palynofloral evolution on the northern margin of the Indian Plate, southern Xizang, China during the Cretaceous Period and its phytogeographic significance. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 515, 107–122.

186. Zavialova, N. & Batten, D.J. 2018. Species of the water-fern megaspore genus Molaspora from a Cenomanian deposit in western France: occurrence, sporoderm ultrastructure and evolutionary relationships. Grana 57, 325–344.

187. Austen, P.A. & Batten, D. J., 2018. English Wealden fossils: an update. Proceedings of The Geologists Association 129(2), 171–201.

188. El Diasty, W. S., El Beialy, S. Y., Peters, K. E., Batten, D.J., Al-Beyati, F. M., Mahdi, A. Q. & Haseeb, M. T., 2018. Organic geochemistry of the Middle–Upper Jurassic Naokelekan Formation in the Ajil and Balad oil fields, northern Iraq. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering 166, 350–362.

189. Mendes, M. M., Barron, E., Dinis, P., Rey, J. & Batten, D. J., 2018. A new palynoflora from upper Barremian–lower Aptian rocks at Casal do Borracho, Torres Vedras, western Portugal, and its palaeoecological significance. Cretaceous Research 90, 363–374.

190. Polette, F., Batten, D. J.; Neraudeau, D., 2018. Re-examination of the palynological content of the Lower Cretaceous deposits of Angeac, Charente, south-west France: Age, palaeoenvironment and taxonomic determinations. Cretaceous Research 90, 204–221.

191. Steads, D.T. & Batten, D. J., 2018. Palynology of the Lower Cretaceous Hundleby Clay Member of the Claxby Ironstone Formation in eastern England and its biostratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental significance. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 62, 133–141.

192. El Diasty, W. S., El Beialy, S.Y., Fadeel, F. I. & Batten, D.J. 2019. Palynostratigraphic, palynofacies, organic geochemical and palaeoenvironmental analysis of the Silurian Tanezzuft Formation in the Ghadames Basin of north-west Libya.  Revue de Micropaleontologie 62(1), 45–58.

193. Peyrot, D., Barron, E., Polette, F., Batten, D.J., Neraudeau, D., 2019. Early Cenomanian palynofloras and inferred resiniferous forests and vegetation types in Charentes (southwestern France). Cretaceous Research 94,168–189. 

Martin J. Head

Brock University

February 25, 2019