Future Meetings

In the summer of 1849, Professor André Hubert Dumont of Liège (Belgium) first used the phrase ‘système maestrichtien’, while doing geological mapping in the Belgium/Netherlands border area near Maastricht. In the three decades that followed a wealth of stratigraphical and palaeontological data were published. In fact, the same may be said about recent progress in these fields. New information on the type Maastrichtian, including a chemostratigraphical analysis, clearly shows that interest in this latest Cretaceous time slice is still very much alive and kicking.

Early in May 2004, some 25 scholars of mosasaurid reptiles assembled for the first edition of what was then referred to as the ‘Mosasaur Meeting’ at the Natural History Museum of Maastricht. An aptly chosen venue – after all, the first fossils of ‘Meuse lizards’ were unearthed here in the latter half of the eighteenth century. The 2004 meeting was the first in a series of triennial workshops, in Europe and North America, for which it was later decided to include also talks on non-mosasaurid marine amniotes of Mesozoic age.

Joint Meeting of the Polish Paleobiologists and Paläontologische Gesellschaft - PalGes 2024 - is being held in Warsaw, the Capital and largest city of Poland. The University of Warsaw will mainly organise the meeting, and co-organise with Paläontologische Gesellschaft (PalGes) and the Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences (IP PAS), the Palaeontological Section of the Polish Geological Society (PS-PGS), and the Polish Geological Institute – National Research Institute (PGI-NRI).