Venue at Campo Grande Information for Foreing Participants

Corumbá Meeting 2013 The Neoproterozoic Paraguay Belt (Brazil): glaciation, iron-manganese formation and biota Campo Grande and Corumbá, 4th to 9th august, 2013 University of Brasília (UnB) and Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul State (UFMS)

Brasília, July 25th, 2013

Corumbá Meeting 2013 "THE NEOPROTEROZOIC PARAGUAY BELT (BRAZIL): GLACIATION, IRON-MANGANESE FORMATION AND BIOTA" Campo Grande and Corumbá, August 4 th to 9 th , 2013

4TH ANNOUNCEMENT (FINAL INFORMATION)

Venue at Campo Grande The Open Ceremony will be held at the Clinical Analysis Laboratory Auditorium of the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS). To get there, please, access through the University’s rectory gate ( portão da Reitoria ), access by the Costa e Silva Avenue ( Avenida Costa e Silva ). See attached map.

Information for Foreing Participants • The international participants will receive an arrival card near the moment of the landing in Brazil. When filling this card, please, choose the option 3 (Congress and Coventions) at the field Purpose of Trip . DO NOT CHOOSE Tourism .

• The payment for the international participants should be done at the beginning of the event, August 4 th , at Campo Grande (see program), and should be done using Brazilian currency, Real (current rate US$/Real is 1:2,3).

Home page: http://corumbameeting2013.wix.com/corumbameeting Corumbá Meeting 2013 The Neoproterozoic Paraguay Belt (Brazil): glaciation, iron-manganese formation and biota Campo Grande and Corumbá, 4th to 9th august, 2013 University of Brasília (UnB) and Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul State (UFMS)

Program

August 4 th – Open Ceremony – Auditorium of Clinical Analysis Laboratory Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul

Registration and payment 7:00 pm Detlef Hans Gert Walde 7:30 pm Universidade de Brasília - Chairman of Corumbá Meeting 2013 Prof. Dr. Dercir Pedro de Oliveira

Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul Alan Kaufman University of Maryland – ICS/Subcomission on Ediacaran Stratigraphy Patrícia Vickers-Rich

Monash University - IGCP 587 Bernd-D. Erdtmann

Technical University of Berlin Paulo César Boggiani

Universidade de São Paulo

Ice-breaker party 8:15 – 10:00 pm

August 5 th

Trip from Campo Grande to Corumbá Transportation provided by the organizing committee 7:00 am – 2:00 pm Meeting point = Brumado Hotel (Rua Afonso Pena, 743) Keynote Lectures Nacional Palace Hotel – Corumbá Chairman: Dermeval A. do Carmo Geology of North Paraguay Fold Belt 4:00 pm Carlos J. S. Alvarenga (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil)

Chemostratigraphy of North Paraguay Fold Belt 4:30 pm Milene F. Figueiredo (Petrobrás, Brazil)

Integrated Picture of the Late Neoproterozoic in the Corumbá region (Brazil) 5:00 pm Detlef Hans-Gert Walde (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil) The Neoproterozoic sedimentary record in the context of the Amazon and San Francisco cratons, Brazil 5:30 pm Paulo Cesar Boggiani (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)

Integrated bio- and chemostratigraphy of Corumbá and Jacadigo Groups (Neoproterozoic, Brazil) 6:00 pm Claudio Gaucher (UDELAR, Uruguay)

General discussion 6:30 pm

August 6 th Oral presentations Nacional Palace Hotel – Corumbá Chairman: Paulo C. Boggiani

Welcome from the convenors 8:50 am KEYNOTE: Ediacaran Biostratigraphy and Chemostratigraphy of South China: An Update 9:00 am Shuhai Xiao (internet transmitted) A biostatistical approach to species identification of monotaxonomic clusters from the Ediacaran 9:30 am Leslie A. Kriesfeld New discoidal fossils of Ediacaran Fauna in Jaibaras Basin (Northeastern Brazil) 9:50 am Francisco Rony Gomes Barroso, Maria Somália Sales Viana, Sonia Maria Oliveira Agostinho, Mario Ferreira de Lima Filho Coffee-break 10:10 am KEYNOTE: A critical review of potential Precambrian/Cambrian boundary stratotype sections with special reference to sections on the Yangtze Plate in South-Central China 10:40 am Bernd-Dietrich Erdtmann Fluctuation of shelf basin redox conditions in early Ediacaran: evidence from Lantian Formation black shales in South China 11:20 am Chuanming Zhou, Chengguo Guan, Wei Wang, Bin Wan, Xunlai Yuan, Zhe Chen

The dawn of macrophages predators? – new evidences of hole on Cloudina shell (Tamengo Formation, Corumbá Group), Brazil 11:40 am Bruno Becker Kerber, Juliana de Moraes Leme, Mírian Liza Alves Forancelli Pacheco.

Lunch 12:00 am Oral presentations Chairman: Bernd-D. Erdtmann Unveiling ancient life with the use of synchrotron light and spectroscopic techniques 2:00 pm Douglas Galante, Fabio Rodrigues, Mírian Liza A. F. Pacheco, Tamires Michelle Gallo, Evelyn A. M. Sanchez Establishing Global “Range Zones” for Marinoan O-17 Depletion (MOSD) Event 2:20 pm Huiming Bao The enigmatic Ediacaran fossil Corumbella: A conulariid-like evolutionary puzzle? Mírian L.A.F. Pacheco, Bidola Pidassa, Fábio Rodrigues, Douglas 2:40 pm Galante, Juliana M. Leme, Marco Sotckmar, Julia Herzen, Franz Pfeiffer, J. Whitney Hagadorn, Antonio C. Marques New Discoveries of Ediacarans/Vendians in Namibia, Saudi Arabia, India and Argentina Patricia Vickers-Rich, Andrey Ivantsov, Peter Trusler, Mike Hall, Guy Narbonne, Maxim Leonov, Ekaterina Serezhnikova, Mikhail Fedonkin, Fayek Kattan, Ashraf Kubisani, Abdullah 3:00 pm Yazidi, Wadee Khashgari, Guillermo Aceñolaza, Florentino Aceñolaza, Mukund Sharma, Suresh C. Mathur, Ulf Linnemann, Mandy Hofmann, Karl-Heinz H. Hoffmann, Chia-Wei Li, Thomas H. Rich, Jeffrey Smith, Ben Rich Ernietta from the late Ediacaran of Namibia David A. Elliott, Peter Trusler, Guy M. Narbonne, Patricia 3:20 pm Vickers-Rich, Nicole Fournie, Karl-Heinz Hoffmann, Gabi Schneider

Coffee-break 3:40 pm KEYNOTE: Solving the Cryogenian stratigraphic puzzle: A critical appraisal of global correlations and environmental interpretations 4:20 pm Alan J. Kaufman

Poster presentation 5:00 – 7:00 pm

August 7 th Visit to Urucum Montains (Vetria Mine)

Jacadigo Group 7:30 am Fieldguide: Detlef Walde & Paulo C. Boggiani Visit to Lajinha quarry

Tamengo and Guaicurus formations – Corumbá Group 2:00 pm Fieldguide: Claudio Gaucher & Evelyn Sanchez

August 8 th Visit to Sobramil quarry

Tamengo Formation - Corumbá Group 7:30 am Fieldguide: Detlef Walde & Mírian Pacheco Visit to Corcal quarry

Tamengo and Guaicurus formations – Corumbá Group 2:00 pm Fieldguide: Paulo C. Boggiani & Bernd-D. Erdtmann

August 9 th Visit to Cacimba Ecopark

Tamengo Formation – Corumbá Group 8:00 am Fieldguide: Mírian Pacheco & Edi Guimarães Mendes Marina Gataz Park

Guaicurus Formation – Corumbá Group Fieldguide: Paulo C. Boggiani & Detlef Walde

Boat trip – Paraguay River 4:00 pm

Poster Presentation

A New Ediacaran Conulariid from the Tamengo Formation, Corumbá Group, Brazil, and the deep Precambrian evolutionary history of cnidarians Juliana M. Leme, Heyo Van Iten, Marcello G. Simões, Thomas R. Fairchild, Fabio Rodrigues, Douglas Galante, Mírian Liza A.F. Pacheco

On a common provenance history for the Neoproterozoic/Early Cambrian Puncoviscana Formation and the Cambrian Mesón Group of NW Argentina Guillermo Aceñolaza, Alejandro J. Toselli, Robert Frei, Claudio Gaucher, Daniel Poiré, Patricia Vickers- Rich, Karin Frei, Juana Rossi, Florencio Aceñolaza

Awakening talents in Paleontology Sandra Garcia Gabas, Ivo Ojeda Leite Filho

Corumbella werneri and the rise of animal biomineralisation? Silvio Yuji, Douglas Galante, Fábio Rodrigues, Márcia A. Rizzutto, Adriana O. Delgado, Juliana Leme, Mirian Liza A. F. Pacheco

Palynomorphs of Nobres Formation, Araras Group, Neoproterozoic, State of Mato Grosso, Brazil Thais C. Tobias, Evelyn A. M. Sanchez, Silane A. Caminha

Raman spectra of Cloudina shells (Tamengo Formation, Corumbá Group, Brazil): implications on the study of biomineralization process in Ediacaran metazoans Bruno Becker Kerber, Juliana de Moraes Leme, Douglas Galante, Fabio Rodrigues, Mírian Liza Alves Forancelli Pacheco

Possible trace fossils in the Corumbá Group? Luana Morais, Thomas R. Fairchild, Bruno Becker Kerber, Juliana Leme, Mírian Liza A. F. Pacheco

Clay minerals of the Ediacaran fossiliferous beds from Tamengo Formation (Corumbá Group, Brazil) Edi Mendes Guimarães, Lucas Freyer Sampaio, Detlef Hans-Walde, Dermeval Aparecido do Carmo

Approach on taxonomy and paleozoogeographic distribution of Cloudina Germs, 1972 Dermeval A. do Carmo, Juliana Vasconcelos, Thais C. Tobias, Detlef H. G. Walde

Chemostratigraphy of the Ediacaran fossiliferous beds from the Tamengo FOrmation (Corumbá Group, Brazil) Lucieth Cruz Vieira, Luis Henrique Mancini, Eduardo Neiva, Edi Mendes Guimarães, Detlef Hans- Walde, Dermeval Aparecido do Carmo, Silane A. Ferreira da Silva Caminha, David M. Pinho, Paulo Suarez.

Tube structures in calcareous rocks of Una Group, Bahia Benjamin Bley Brito Neves, Marcio Pimentel, Detlef Hans-Gert Walde

See you at Campo Grande! The Organizing Committee

Map – General view - Auditorium of Clinical Analysis Laboratory - Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul

Avenida Costa e Silva (Costa e Silva Avenue )

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