Annual Meeting 2016 - Abstracts BookletWednesday 14th December
Registration will open at 12.00 in the entrance hall of the Laënnec Building.
The Annual Meeting will begin with a symposium in the afternoon (at 13.15) in Lecture Theatre 1 of the Laënnec Building. The theme of the symposium is “Assessing palaeoenvironments and palaeobiology through geochemistry”.
Following the symposium there will be an icebreaker reception at 18.00 in the main hall of the Laënnec Building.
Taylor and Francis workshop: “Publishing in Academic Journals: tips to help you succeed”
Lecture Theatre 1, Laënnec Building
| Time | Speaker |
|---|---|
| 11.00 – 12.00 | Andrew Kelly (Managing Editor, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Taylor & Francis Group) |
Thematic Symposium: “Assessing palaeoenvironments and palaeobiology through geochemistry"
| Time | Talk Title and Speaker |
|---|---|
| 13.15 – 13.50 | Deep-sea barnacle shells: geochemical signal and microstructure Ana-Voica Bojas (University of Salzburg) |
| 13.50 – 14.25 | Reconstructing Ordovician (Floian) conodont ecology and Laurentian seawater temperatures using oxygen isotopes James Wheeley (University of Birmingham) |
| 14.25 – 15.00 | Isotope perspectives in vertebrate palaeobiology Jeremy Martin (UCBL) |
| 15.00 – 15.35 | Isotopic ordering in fossil biominerals as an indicator of body temperatures and taphonomy Robert Eagle (University of California) |
| 15.35 – 16.05 | Tea/coffee break |
| 16.05 – 16.40 | Isotopic aspects of dinosaur reproduction Romain Amiot (UCBL) |
| 16.40– 17.15 | The foraging ecology of pterosaurs – implications from stable isotope analysis Thomas Tütken (University of Mainz) |
| 17.15 – 17.50 | Carnivoran resource and habitat use in the context of a Late Miocene faunal turnover episode Laura Domingo (Geosciences Institute, Spanish National Research Council and Complutense University of Madrid) |
Reception
Laënnec Building, main hall.
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 18.00 – 21.00 | Icebreaker reception |
Thursday 15th December
Registration will be open from 7.45 to 17.30 in the entrance hall of the Laënnec Building.
The conference will start at 8.45 in the Laënnec Building with a full day of talks and posters, followed by the Association AGM (at 16.15) and the Annual Address (at 16.45) given by Prof. Manolo Gouy (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1). The morning sessions will be in Lecture Theatre 1. The parallel afternoon sessions will be in Lecture Theatre 2 and the nearby Lecture Theatre 4, both in the Laënnec Building. Posters will be on display throughout the meeting in the main hall of the Laënnec Building, where tea breaks will be held.
In the evening there will be a nocturnal visit to the Musée des Confluences (a new science centre and anthropology museum) at 18.30, followed by the Annual Dinner at 20.15 on the banks of the river Rhône (Bellona Restaurant, located on a boat). People wearing an orange University T-shirt will be there to help you during the transfer.
Conference, Association AGM, and Annual Dinner
Session 1 (Lecture Theatre 1, Laënnec Building)
| Time | Talk Title and Speaker |
|---|---|
| 08.45 – 09.00 | Opening of the Annual Meeting by Marie-France Joubert, Vice-Président of formal and natural sciences at UCBL and Emanuela Mattioli, Director of the Geology Department. |
| 09.00 – 09.15 | How good are your palaeodiversity measurements? Abel Barral, Bernard Gomez, Juan M. Zorrilla, José M. Serrano, Johan Yans, Véronique Daviero-Gomez and Christophe Lécuyer |
| 09.15 – 09.30 | A fossilized birth-death model for the reliable estimation of speciation and extinction rates Rachel C. M. Warnock, Tracy A. Heath and Tanja Stadler |
| 09.30 – 09.45 | Mass extinctions: towards an understanding of how, why and when ecosystems collapse David P. G. Bond |
| 09.45 – 10.00 | Why we are looking at the wrong phase of life – palaeontology beyond the adult paradigm Joachim T. Haug |
| 10.00 – 10.15 | Feeding in chelicerate arthropods – diverse and far from ‘primitive’ Carolin Haug |
| 10.15 – 10.30 | The importance of fossils in dating the Tree of Life: from exceptional preservation to complete absence Joanna M. Wolfe |
Laënnec Building, main hall
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Tea/coffee break and posters |
Session 2a (Lecture Theatre 4, Laënnec Building, in parallel with session 2b)
| Time | Talk Title and Speaker |
|---|---|
| 11.00 – 11.15 | The Weeks Formation fauna (Utah, USA) and the evolution of marine animal communities during the late Cambrian |
| 11.15 – 11.30 | Preservation and phylogeny of Cambrian ecdysozoans tested by experimental decay of Priapulus |
| 11.30 – 11.45 | Cambrian bivalved arthropods and the origin of mandibulates *Cedric Aria and Jean-Bernard Caron |
| 11.45 – 12.00 | Can phosphatic microfossils constrain Cambrian climates? *Thomas W. Hearing, Thomas H. P. Harvey, Mark Williams, Sarah E. Gabbott, Philip R. Wilby and Melanie J. Leng |
| 12.00 – 12.15 | Mineralogical insights into the tissues of Burgess Shale animals *Ross P. Anderson, Nicholas J. Tosca, Stuart L. Kearns and Derek E. G. Briggs |
| 12.15 – 12.30 | Comparison of the postembryonic development in the family Paradoxididae (Trilobita) *Lukáš Laibl, Jorge Esteve and Oldřich Fatka |
Session 2b (Lecture Theatre 2, Laënnec Building, in parallel with session 2a)
| Time | Talk Title and Speaker |
|---|---|
| 11.00 – 11.15 | Variable preservation of fruit flies in Pinus and Wollemia resin |
| 11.15 – 11.30 | What can spores and pollen tell us about taphonomic bias at the Permian–Triassic boundary in the Eastern and Southern Alps? |
| 11.30 – 11.45 | The (incomplete) Phanerozoic fossil record of major phytoplankton lineages Thomas Servais and Ronald E. Martin |
| 11.45 – 12.00 | Recent new discoveries from the upper Ediacaran of western Mongolia Tatsuo Oji, Stephen Q. Dornbos, Hitoshi Hasegawa, Sersmaa Gonchigdorj, Keigo Yada, Akihiro Kanayama, Takafumi Mochizuki, Hideko Takayanagi and Yasufumi Iryu |
| 12.00 – 12.15 | The effect of climate on equatorial late Palaeozoic floral transitions in the limnic Muse and the paralic Mengkarang Formations. Two sides of the same coin? Isabel M. van Waveren, Menno Booi, Christopher J. Cleal, Mike J. Crow, Fauzie Hasibuan, Pierre Pellenard, Mark D. Schmitz and Ellen Stolle |
| 12.15 – 12.30 | The early aquatic angiosperm Montsechia from the Barremian of Spain Bernard Gomez, Véronique Daviero-Gomez, Clément Coiffard, Abel Barral, Carles Martin-Closas and David L. Dilcher |
University Restaurant Rockefeller
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 12.30 – 14.00 | Lunch |
Session 3a (Lecture Theatre 4, Laënnec Building, in parallel with session 3b)
| Time | Talk Title and Speaker |
|---|---|
| 14.00 – 14.15 | Modern brains and their Cambrian antecedents: evolutionary stability, genealogical correspondence and evolved loss |
| 14.15 – 14.30 | Palaeoecology of an Upper Ordovician submarine cave-dwelling fauna in northern Kentucky, USA |
| 14.30 – 14.45 | Freshly-moulted trilobites from the Fezouata Lagerstätte of Morocco *Harriet B. Drage, Thijs R. A. Vandenbroucke, Peter Van Roy and Allison C. Daley |
| 14.45 – 15.00 | Modelling enrolment mechanisms in Ordovician trilobites Jorge Esteve, Juan-Carlos Gutierrez-Marco, Pedro Rubio and Isabel Rabano |
| 15.00 – 15.15 | Burgess Shale-type fossils in the Middle Ordovician of the Barrandian area (Czech Republic) Oldřich Fatka |
| 15.15 – 15.30 | The diversification of early Asterozoa: resolving a palaeontological quandary Aaron W. Hunter |
| 15.30 – 15.45 | Ecological fitting within sheet-forming skeletal metazoans and the Ordovician rise of reef ecosystems Björn Kröger, André Desrochers and Andrej Ernst |
| 15.45 – 16.00 | Biostratigraphic assessment of the uppermost Ordovician in the central Anti-Atlas (Morocco) Enrique Villas, Jorge Colmenar, Juan C. Gutiérrez-Marco, Sofia Pereira, José-Javier Álvaro, Diego García-Bellido and Saturnino Lorenzo |
Session 3b (Lecture Theatre 2, Laënnec Building, in parallel with session 3a)
| Time | Talk Title and Speaker |
|---|---|
| 14.00 – 14.15 | Revision of the imbricate eocrinoid Vyscystis from the Middle Cambrian of the Barrandian area (Czech Republic) |
| 14.15 – 14.30 | Is a ‘one size fits all’ taphonomic model appropriate for Mazon Creek? |
| 14.30 – 14.45 | Preferential origin of calcitic cephalopod shell structures during calcite seas |
| 14.45 – 15.00 | Prospects and limitations of ecological studies of a fossil reef community (Aferdou el Mrakib, Middle Devonian, Morocco) based on fore-reef talus Michał Jakubowicz, Jan J. Król, Mikołaj K. Zapalski and Blazej Berkowski |
| 15.00 – 15.15 | Palaeoecological and palaeoenvironmental significance of Brigantian Gigantoproductus brachiopod beds, Derbyshire carbonate platform, UK *Leah Nolan, Lucia Angiolini, Giovanna Della Porta, Vanessa J. Banks, Sarah. J. Davies, Flavio Jadoul, Melanie J. Leng and Michael H. Stephenson |
| 15.15 – 15.30 | Phylogenetic analysis implies early diversification of tetrapods in the Tournaisian Jennifer A. Clack, Marcello Ruta and Timothy R. Smithson |
| 15.30 – 15.45 | Where to find the Carboniferous terrestrial fauna: recent discoveries in Romer’s Gap point the way |
| 15.45 – 16.00 | The Capitanian biodiversity crisis among tetrapods Michael O. Day |
Laënnec Building, main hall
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 16.00 – 16.15 | Tea/coffee break and posters |
Lecture Theatre 1, Laënnec Building
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 16.15 – 16.45 | Annual General Meeting (AGM) |
Annual Address
Lecture Theatre 1, Laënnec Building
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 16.45 – 17.45 | Molecular thermometers: ancestral sequence reconstruction uncovers the history of adaptation to environmental temperature along the tree of life |
Museum Nocturnal Visit & Annual Dinner
Musée des Confluences
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 18.30 – 20.00 | Nocturnal visit to the Museum |
Restaurant Bellona
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 20.15 – 00.00 | Annual Dinner |
Friday 16th December
The registration desk will remain open from 7.45 until 12.00.
The second day of the Conference will begin with a poster session from 8.15–9.15 in the main hall of the Laënnec Building, where tea, coffee and cakes will be served. Oral presentations will start at 9.15, with parallel sessions in Lecture Theatre 2 and the nearby Lecture Theatre 4 in the Laënnec Building. The final session of the day will be held in the main lecture theatre of the Laënnec Building and will be followed by a wine and local products tasting session in the main hall of the building.
Conference & Poster session
Session 4 (Laënnec Building, main hall)
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 08.15 – 09.15 | Poster Session, with tea/coffee and cakes |
Session 5a (Lecture Theatre 4, Laënnec Building, in parallel with session 5b)
| Time | Talk Title and Speaker |
|---|---|
| 09.15 – 09.30 | Palaeopsychrospheric ostracods during the Late Palaeozoic–Middle Triassic: the key to surviving mass extinction events? Sylvie Crasquin, David J. Horne and Marie-Béatrice Forel |
| 09.30 – 09.45 | Mass extinctions as drivers of increased faunal cosmopolitanism on the supercontinent Pangaea David J. Button, Richard J. Butler, Graeme T. Lloyd and Martin D. Ezcurra |
| 09.45 – 10.00 | The enigmatic archosaurs Mandasuchus and Teleocrater from the Middle Triassic of Tanzania and their implications for archosaur evolution Paul M. Barrett, Sterling J. Nesbitt, Alan Charig and Richard J. Butler |
| 10.00 – 10.15 | Ammonoids from the Griesbachian (Early Triassic) of northeastern Greenland: taxonomy and biostratigraphy David Ware and Hugo Bucher |
| 10.15 – 10.30 | Looking snappy: quantifying convergence in cranial morphology between phytosaurs and crocodylomorphs *Andrew Jones, Pedro L. Godoy and Richard J. Butler |
Session 5b (Lecture Theatre 2, Laënnec Building, in parallel with session 5a)
| Time | Talk Title and Speaker |
|---|---|
| 09.15 – 09.30 | Early Cambrian ostracoderms and the trials and tribulations of total evidence dating *Joseph N. Keating, Richard Dearden and Philip C. J. Donoghue |
| 09.30 – 09.45 | A new Burgess Shale polychaete from Marble Canyon (British Columbia) *Karma Nanglu and Jean-Bernard Caron |
| 09.45 – 10.00 | Reconstructing anomalocaridid feeding appendage dexterity sheds light on radiodontan ecology Giacinto De Vivo, Stephan Lautenschlager and Jakob Vinther |
| 10.00 – 10.15 | Appendicular nature of gnathobase-like structures in Cambrian radiodontans Peiyun Cong, Allison C. Daley, Gregory D. Edgecombe and Xianguang Hou |
| 10.15 – 10.30 | Contributions to the ongoing work on the International Chronostratigraphy of the Cambrian: preliminary data from the Terreneuvian of Iran and Series 2 of Mexico Léa Devaere, Sébastien Clausen, Dieter Korn, Abbas Ghaderi, Ulrich Struck, Juan J. Palafox-Reyes, Blanca E. Buitrón-Sanchez and Daniel Vachard |
Laënnec Building, main hall
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Tea/coffee break and posters |
Session 6a (Lecture Theatre 4, Laënnec Building, in parallel with session 6b)
| Time | Talk Title and Speaker |
|---|---|
| 11.00 – 11.15 | Testing niche versus neutral models of Ediacaran community assembly |
| 11.15 – 11.30 | The Chronicles of Charnia: developmental biology and phylogenetic inference from an Ediacaran rangeomorph |
| 11.30 – 11.45 | On the agglutinated nature of Ediacaran palaeopascichnids from northern Siberia *Anton V. Kolesnikov |
| 11.45 – 12.00 | Critically accessing the depositional setting of the Ediacaran Mistaken Point biota *Jack J. Matthews |
| 12.00 – 12.15 | The palaeobiology of Ediacaran rangeomorphs: reproduction, environmental sensitivity and ecological succession Charlotte G. Kenchington and Philip R. Wilby |
Session 6b (Lecture Theatre 2, Laënnec Building, in parallel with session 6a)
| Time | Talk Title and Speaker |
|---|---|
| 11.00 – 11.15 | Vision in fossil polychelidan lobsters |
| 11.15 – 11.30 | Synchrotron X-ray spectroscopy reveals burial conditions and fossilization in a Cretaceous freshwater Lagerstätte |
| 11.30 – 11.45 | Arms race or feeding competition? The mid-Palaeozoic origins of cephalopod and vertebrate jaws Christian Klug, Linda Frey, Dieter Korn, Romain Jattiot and Martin Rücklin |
| 11.45 – 12.00 | Within-guild niche partitioning in sympatric species: how ecologically sensitive is texture analysis of tooth microwear? Mark A. Purnell, Christopher Nedza and Leszek Rychlik |
| 12.00 – 12.15 | Macroevolution of Mesozoic lepidosaurs *Jorge A. Herrera Flores, Michael J. Benton and Thomas L. Stubbs |
University Restaurant Rockefeller
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 12.15 – 13.45 | Lunch |
Session 7a (Lecture Theatre 4, Laënnec Building, in parallel with session 7b)
| Time | Talk Title and Speaker |
|---|---|
| 13.45 – 14.00 | The pattern of ecological radiation of mammals across the K-Pg boundary |
| 14.00 – 14.15 | The death of dinosaurs and rise of mammals in the San Juan Basin of New Mexico, USA |
| 14.15 – 14.30 | Identifying patterns and drivers of coral diversity in the Central Indo-Pacific marine biodiversity hotspot Morana Mihaljevic, Chelsea Korpanty, Willem Renema and John M. Pandolfi |
| 14.30 – 14.45 | Exploring the drivers of ecological and evolutionary turnover in the Caribbean Paola G. Rachello-Dolmen, Ethan L. Grossman, Kenneth G. Johnson, Jonathan A. Todd and Aaron O’Dea |
| 14.45 – 15.00 | A new fossil Bramoides from the Eocene London Clay, re-aligned with the enigmatic modern genus Gasterochisma (Teleostei: Scombridae) |
Session 7b (Lecture Theatre 2, Laënnec Building, in parallel with session 7a)
| Time | Talk Title and Speaker |
|---|---|
| 13.45 – 14.00 | Exploring the morphological diversity and hydrodynamic performance of extinct jawless vertebrates |
| 14.00 – 14.15 | The origins of colour patterns in fossil insects: insights from trace element chemistry |
| 14.15 – 14.30 | Testing turbulent waters: palaeoecological implications of the durability and preservation potential of soft-bodied organisms in sediment-density flows |
| 14.30 – 14.45 | Using melanosomes to discriminate between tissues in vertebrate eyes *Christopher S. Rogers and Maria E. McNamara |
| 14.45 – 15.00 | The influence of taphonomic bias on Bayesian estimation of clade ages using morphological data Joseph O’Reilly and Philip C. J. Donoghue |
Laënnec Building, main hall
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 15.00 – 15:30 | Tea/coffee break and posters |
Session 8 (Lecture Theatre 1, Laënnec Building)
| Time | Talk Title and Speaker |
|---|---|
| 15.30 – 15.45 | Fossilized nuclei from the Ediacaran Weng’an Biota (Doushantuo Formation, South China) |
| 15.45 – 16.00 | Ultrastructure and chemistry of integumentary structures in an ornithischian dinosaur |
| 16.00 – 16.15 | Environmental partitioning and differential growth in species of the thyreophoran dinosaur Stegosaurus in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation, USA |
| 16.15 – 16.30 | Diets of giants: the nutritional value of herbivorous dinosaur diet during the Mesozoic Fiona L. Gill, Juergen Hummel, A. Reza Sharifi, Alexandra P. Lee and Barry H. Lomax |
| 16.30 – 16.45 | Reappraisal of Compsognathus longipes (Saurischia; Theropoda) skull anatomy and endocast shape by synchrotron imaging and virtual reconstruction |
| 16.45 – 17.00 | Phylogenetic diversity as a palaeobiodiversity metric: new evidence for a Cretaceous decline in Mesozoic dinosaurs |
Closing of the meeting (Lecture Theatre 1, Laënnec Building)
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 17.15 – 17.30 | Presentation by London 2017 organizing committee |
| 17.30 – 17.45 | Presentation of the President’s Prize and Council Poster Prize, followed by closing remarks |
Wine and local products tasting session (Laënnec Building, main hall)
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 17.45-19.00 | Wine and local products tasting session |
Saturday 17th December
Field-trip
Price €30 including transport and lunch in a local restaurant.
The field-trip starts at 7.00 at the front of the Laënnec Building, returning to Lyon by 19.30. The number of participants is limited to 45.
We will visit the Natural History Museum in Autun as well as the type localities for the Autunian in the area, which have yielded, among many other fossils, the temnospondyl Onchiodon (Actinodon) frossardi. Access to the collections of the Museum, which hosts the fossils from the Montceau-les-Mines Lagerstätte, can be arranged for those who are interested and who will not take part in the field excursion.