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IMPRINT TERRA NOSTRA – Schriften der GeoUnion Alfred-Wegener-Stiftung Publisher Verlag GeoUnion Alfred-Wegener-Stiftung c/o Universität Potsdam, Institut für Erd- und Umweltwissenschaften Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25, Haus 27, 14476 Potsdam, Germany Tel.: +49 (0)331-977-5789, Fax: +49 (0)331-977-5700 E-Mail: [email protected] Editorial office Dr. Christof Ellger Schriftleitung GeoUnion Alfred-Wegener-Stiftung c/o Universität Potsdam, Institut für Erd- und Umweltwissenschaften Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25, Haus 27, 14476 Potsdam, Germany Tel.: +49 (0)331-977-5789, Fax: +49 (0)331-977-5700 E-Mail: [email protected] Vol. 2018/1 13th Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota (MTE13) Heft 2018/1 Abstracts Editors Thomas Martin, Rico Schellhorn & Julia A. Schultz Herausgeber Steinmann-Institut für Geologie, Mineralogie und Paläontologie Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Nussallee 8, 53115 Bonn, Germany Editorial staff Rico Schellhorn & Julia A. 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ISSN 0946-8978 GeoUnion Alfred-Wegener-Stiftung – Potsdam, Juni 2018 MTE13 13th Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany 2018 2 MTE13 ABSTRACTS Scientific Committee Angela BUSCALIONI, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain Richard CIFELLI, University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA David DILCHER, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA Susan EVANS, University College London, United Kingdom David FERGUSON, Universität Wien, Austria Jörg FRÖBISCH, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Germany Pascal GODEFROIT, Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles, Bruxelles, Belgium James KIRKLAND, Utah Geological Survey, Salt Lake City, USA Jürgen KRIWET, Universität Wien, Austria Conrad LABANDEIRA, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA Zhe-Xi LUO, University of Chicago, USA Oliver RAUHUT, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany Jes RUST, Universität Bonn, Germany Martin SANDER, Universität Bonn, Germany Rainer SCHOCH, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Germany Robert SPICER, The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom Ge SUN, Shenyang Normal University, China Romain VULLO, Université de Rennes 1, France MTE13 ABSTRACTS 3 Foreword Welcome to the 13th Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota (MTE13), hosted by the University of Bonn, Germany! This is the second time that the MTE has been held in Germany, after MTE3 at the University of Tübingen in 1984. Germany has a long tradition of Mesozoic terrestrial research, going back to the early 19th century with the description of iconic fossils such as the pterosaur Scaphognathus (1831), the ichnotaxon Chirotherium (1835), the prosauropod Plateosaurus (1837), and the earliest bird Archaeopteryx (1861). Exciting discoveries still continue today, such as the theropod Juravenator (2006) from the Solnhofen limestone or the dwarf sauropod Europasaurus (2006) from the Harz Mountains. MTE13 is a showcase for the most up-to-date and groundbreaking research on Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems and organisms. Presentations cover a wide variety of Mesozoic life, from protists to mammals, and Mesozoic environments, from organism interactions to biomes. They comprise stunning 3D reconstructions based on computed x-ray investigations as well as exciting discoveries from new fossil localities in the field – just to pick a few of the many topics presented at the symposium. We hope that you find MTE13 inspiring and that you enjoy the opportunity to interact with experts in Mesozoic terrestrial research from all over the world. We wish to express our sincere gratitude to the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) for their financial support of this symposium. We thank Karl Schilling, director of the Institute of Anatomy, who provided a venue for the congress. Finally we would like to thank the members of the scientific committee for reviewing the abstracts, Victoria McCoy for linguistic corrections, and the student helpers and volunteers from Steinmann-Institut for their valuable contributions to the success of MTE13. Thomas Martin, Rico Schellhorn & Julia A. Schultz MTE13 Organizing Committee 4 MTE13 ABSTRACTS Past Meetings 1978 – MTE1 Paris, France 1981 – MTE2 Jadwisin, Poland 1984 – MTE3 Tübingen, Germany 1987 – MTE4 Drumheller, Canada 1991 – MTE5 Oslo, Norway 1995 – MTE6 Beijing, China 1999 – MTE7 Buenos Aires, Argentina 2002 – MTE8 Cape Town, South Africa 2006 – MTE9 Manchester, United Kingdom 2009 – MTE10 Teruel, Spain 2012 – MTE11 Gwangju, South Korea 2015 – MTE12 Shenyang, China MTE13 ABSTRACTS 5 Content Scientific Committee ................................................................................................................................ 2 Foreword .................................................................................................................................................. 3 Past Meetings ........................................................................................................................................... 4 Content ..................................................................................................................................................... 5 Abstracts Earliest mordellid-like beetles from the Jurassic of Kazakhstan and China (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) [oral presentation]................................................................................................... 9 Soft tissue preservation in amber – a comparative study on the taphonomy and limits of fossilization of resin embedded arthropods [poster presentation] ..................................................10 Dental microwear texture analysis: a taphonomically robust dietary proxy for non-mammalian tetrapods? [poster presentation] ......................................................................................................12 Living alone or moving in herds? Inferring social behaviour in ankylosaurs: a review [oral presentation] .....................................................................................................................................14 Main achievements of the research program at the Las Hoyas Fossillagerstätte (Lower Cretaceous Spain) [plenary talk] ..........................................................................................................................16 The last triconodonts [oral presentation] ..............................................................................................18 Age of the feathered neornithischian dinosaur from Siberia, Kulindadromeus zabaikalicus [oral presentation] .....................................................................................................................................20 New squamate material from the Upper Cretaceous of Bayan Mandahu, China, and a faunal comparison with other Upper Cretaceous Gobi localities [oral presentation] .................................21 The history of albanerpetontid amphibians in Asia [oral presentation] ................................................23 The mid-Triassic Madygen Lagerstätte (Southwest Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia) [oral presentation] .......25 The diversity of Mesozoic Tettigarctidae and palaeoecological significance (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea) [oral presentation] ........................................................................................................27 Las Hoyas Early Cretaceous spinicaudatan fauna (Crustacea-Diplostraca) from Cuenca (Spain) [oral presentation] .....................................................................................................................................29 Terrestial habitats in the heart of the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation, and implications for ecosystems dominated by herbivorous dinosaurs [oral presentation] ............................................31 Australia's polar Cretaceous mammals: longer lifespans may be indicative of hibernation [oral presentation] .....................................................................................................................................32 Jurassic flora from Cianowice (Southern Poland) [poster presentation] ...............................................35 Early evolution and palaeobiology of pygmy grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) with the description of a new genus and species [oral presentation] ............................................................38 Epidermal structure of Sinozamites (Cycadales) deciphered from the Middle Triassic Linjia flora in Northeast China [oral presentation] .................................................................................................40 A re-evaluation of the taxonomy and diversity of the Late Jurassic sphenodontian Opisthias rarus Gilmore 1909 (Lepidosauria: Rhynchocephalia) [oral presentation] ................................................42 Late Cretaceous climate change recorded in the Songliao lacustrine deposits, China [oral presentation] .....................................................................................................................................45 The Middle–Late Jurassic Yanliao Biota and the Yanshan Movement [oral presentation] ...................47 Dental