The Pander Society is an informal organisation based in the founded in 1967 for the promotion of the study of conodont palaeontology. It publishes an annual newsletter. Although there are regular meetings of the Pander Society, at the Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America

Geological Society of America

The Geological Society of America is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of the geosciences. The society was founded in New York in 1888 by Alexander Winchell, John J. Stevenson, Charles H. Hitchcock, John R. Proctor and Edward Orton and has been headquartered at 3300 Penrose...

, 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

University of Bologna

The Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna is the oldest continually operating university in the world, the word 'universitas' being first used by this institution at its foundation. The true date of its founding is uncertain, but believed by most accounts to have been 1088...

. 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.

Previous Chief Panderers

• Peter von Bitter
  Peter von Bitter
  Peter von Bitter is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Geology at the University of Toronto and he holds a post at the Royal Ontario Museum. His research has been wide ranging but focused on conodonts...
  
  
• Richard Aldridge
  Richard Aldridge
  Richard Aldridge is a British palaeontologist, Bennett Professor of geology at the University of Leicester.Aldridge's career began at Southampton University before moving to a temporary lectureship at University College London and then to Nottingham University where he remained until 1989 when,...
  
  
• Raymond L. Ethington
• Walter C. Sweet

Pander Medalists

• John Huddle
• Samuel Ellison
• Walter Sweet
• Anita G. Harris
• Carl Rexroad
• Ray Ethington
• William Furnish
• Heinz Beckmann
• Willi Ziegler
• Maurits Lindström
• Gilbert Klapper
• Stig Bergström
• Klaus Müller
• Lennart Jeppsson
• Richard Aldridge
  Richard Aldridge
  Richard Aldridge is a British palaeontologist, Bennett Professor of geology at the University of Leicester.Aldridge's career began at Southampton University before moving to a temporary lectureship at University College London and then to Nottingham University where he remained until 1989 when,...