Organised by: Paläontologische Gesellschaft (PalGes) Palaeontological Society of China (PSC) Georg-August University Göttingen, Geoscience Centre (GZG) Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS) Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IVPP) Sponsored by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur (MWK) Georg-August University Göttingen China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) The National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 中国和德国古生物学会 2013 年古生物学国际会议 Joint conference of the “Paläontologische Gesellschaft“ and the “Palaeontological Society of China“ Palaeobiology & Geobiology of Fossil Lagerstätten through Earth History Göttingen, Germany, September 23-27, 2013 In order to encourage and promote greater understanding and education with regard to the scientific and professional aspects of Palaeontology, the “Paläontologische Gesellschaft” (PalGes) and the “Palaeontological Society of China” (PSC) initiated a memorandum of understanding in 2012 on holding a joint scientific conference in Göttingen (Germany). This represents the first academic conference on palaeontology between the two palaeontological societies of China and Germany. The University of Göttingen, Germany, will host this first joint international conference of the PalGes and the PSC from September 23-27, 2013. Organising committee: Local organising committee: Chairs: Professor Dr Joachim Reitner – Chair Professor Dr Joachim Reitner (PalGes, GZG) Dr Mike Reich – Vice-Chair Professor Dr Yang Qun (PSC, NIGPAS) Gabriele Schmidt – Secretary Co-Chairs: Ines Ringel – Secretary PD Dr Michael Gudo (PalGes) Martina Plaettner – Secretary Dr Mike Reich (PalGes, GZG) Gabriele Röder – Secretary Professor Dr Zhou Zhonghe (PSC, IVPP) Professor Dr Wang Yongdong (PSC, NIGPAS) Dr Thomas Bode – logistics, computer technology Dr Alexander Gehler – public evening presentations Members: Cornelia Hundertmark – logistics, advertising Professor Dr Ji Qiang (PSC, CAGS) Gerhard Hundertmark – logistics, photography Professor Dr Sun Ge (PSC, Shenyang Normal Univ., Qi Qinwen – logistics, translations Jilin Univ.) Luo Cui – logistics, translations Professor Dr Tong Jinnan (PSC, China Univ. Geosci., Vanessa J. Roden – translations Wuhan) Dr Nadine Schäfer – logistics, computer technology Professor Dr Wang Xiangdong (PSC, NIGPAS) Tanja R. Stegemann – logistics, field trips, transports Ms Shan Huachun (CFPF) Professor Dr Wang Bo (PSC, NIGPAS) Christine Berndmeyer – logistics Cornelia Conradt – logistics Wolfgang Dröse – logistics Axel Hackmann – logistics Dorothea Hause-Reitner – logistics Melanie Heinemann – logistics Luciana Macis – logistics Birgit Röring – logistics Holger Schwanke – logistics Jessica Dassow, Monique Eckhardt, Sebastian Esch- struth, Admir Imsirovic, Anna Kral, Franziska Lengeling, Kathrin Froschhammer, Liu Jing, Jörn Piontek, Janna Rothe, Marie Schubart, Elzbieta Teschner – student assistants 2 Scientific committee: Dr Michael Amler (Cologne) PD Dr Gernot Arp (Göttingen) Vanessa J. Roden (Darmstadt) Professor Dr R. Thomas Becker (Münster) Dr Marta Rodríguez-Martínez (Madrid) Dr Martin Blumenberg (Göttingen) PD Dr Ronny Rößler (Chemnitz) Professor Dr Thomas C. Brachert (Leipzig) Dr Irina Ruf (Bonn) Professor Dr Olaf Elicki (Freiberg) PD Dr Alexander R. Schmidt (Göttingen) PD Dr Peter Frenzel (Jena) Professor Dr Hans-Peter Schultze (Lawrence) Dr Alexander Gehler (Göttingen) Dr Leyla J. Seyfullah (Göttingen) Professor Dr Eberhard Gischler (Frankfurt) Professor Dr Shen Shuzhong (Nanjing) Professor Dr Kirsten Grimm (Mainz) Professor Dr Sun Bainian (Lanzhou) Dr Helga Groos-Uffenorde (Göttingen) Professor Dr Sun Chunlin (Changchun) Dr Joachim J. Haug (Munich) Professor Dr Sun Ge (Changchun/Shenyang) Professor Dr Jochen Heinrichs (Munich) Dr Mark Sutton (London) Professor Dr Daniel Jackson (Göttingen) Professor Dr Tong Jinnan (Wuhan) Professor Dr Ji Qiang (Beijing) Professor Dr Wan Xiaoqiao (Beijing) Dr Uwe Kaulfuss (Dunedin) Professor Dr Wang Jun (Nanjing) Professor Dr Hans Kerp (Münster) Professor Dr Wang Weiming (Nanjing) PD Dr Steffen Kiel (Göttingen) Professor Dr Wang Xiangdong (Nanjing) Professor Dr Jürgen Kriwet (Vienna) Professor Dr Wang Yongdong (Nanjing) Dr Cornelia Kurz (Kassel) Professor Dr Wang Yuan (Beijing) Dr Evelyn Kustatscher (Bozen/Munich) Professor Dr Wang Yuanqing (Beijing) PD Dr Oliver Lehnert (Erlangen) Dr Hans Martin Weber (Bergisch-Gladbach) Professor Dr Li Guoxiang (Nanjing) PD Dr Frank Wiese (Göttingen) Professor Dr Jih-Pai Lin (Nanjing) Dr Oliver Wings (Hannover/Berlin) Professor Dr Luo Hui (Nanjing) Professor Dr Gert Wörheide (Munich) Professor Dr Thomas Martin (Bonn) Dr Klaus Wolkenstein (Göttingen) PD Dr Thomas Mörs (Stockholm) Professor Dr Rachel Wood (Edinburgh) Professor Dr Volker Mosbrugger (Frankfurt) Professor Dr Xie Shucheng (Wuhan) Dr Patrick J. Orr (Dublin) Professor Dr Xu Xing (Beijing) Professor Dr Jörn Peckmann (Vienna) Professor Dr Yang Qun (Nanjing) Dr David Penney (Manchester) Professor Dr Yuan Xunlai (Nanjing) Dr Nadia-Valérie Quéric (Göttingen) Professor Dr Zhan Renbin (Nanjing) Dr Mike Reich (Göttingen) Professor Dr Zhang Xingliang (Xi’an) Professor Dr Bettina Reichenbacher (Munich) Professor Dr Zhou Zhonghe (Beijing) Professor Dr Joachim Reitner (Göttingen) Professor Dr Zhu Maoyan (Nanjing) Professor Dr Frank Riedel (Berlin) Professor Dr Zhu Shixing (Wuhan/Tianjin) MN08 MN09 MN14 MN15 3 Scientific programme: All symposia (in parallel sessions) are listed below. There will be also a German and an English public evening lecture. All sessions will be held in the Geoscience Centre of the University of Göttingen (GZG, Northern campus of the university, Goldschmidtstr. 3/5) except for the German public evening lecture on Tuesday evening (September 24th) which will be held at the Assembly Hall of the university (“Aula am Wilhelmsplatz”, Wilhelmsplatz 2). S0: Tilly Edinger Award of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft / Tilly-Edinger-Preis der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft Convenors/Chairs: Joachim Reitner (Göttingen), Michael Gudo (Frankfurt), Mike Reich (Göttingen) Oral presentations: Kathleen Bauer (Bozen/Munich), Kenneth De Baets (Erlangen), Jan Fischer (Thallichtenberg), Stephan Lautenschlager (Bristol), Richard Hofmann (Zurich), Luo Cui (Göttingen), Ben Yang (Berlin) S1: Astrobiology & Archaean and Proterozoic world Convenors/Chairs: Joachim Reitner (Göttingen), Martin Blumenberg (Göttingen) & Zhu Maoyan (Nanjing) Keynote presentation: Zhu Maoyan (Nanjing) et al.: Insight into the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation, South China Invited oral presentation: Zhu Shixing (Wuhan/Tianjin): The megafossils from the 1600-million-year-old Gaoyuzhuang Formation in Yanshan range, North China S2: Biogeochemistry & unconventional preservations Convenors/Chairs: Steffen Kiel (Göttingen) & Klaus Wolkenstein (Göttingen) Keynote presentation: Patrick J. Orr (Dublin): Taphonomic pathways and the temporal and environmental distribution of late Neoproterozoic–early Phanerozoic exceptional biotas S3: Molecular palaeobiology Convenors/Chairs: Yang Qun (Nanjing) & Daniel Jackson (Göttingen) Keynote presentation: Gert Wörheide (Munich): Molecular Paleobiology: on sponges and dinosaurs Keynote presentation: Yang Qun (Nanjing) et al.: Calibrating the molecular tree with fossil dates S4: Tempo and mode of the Cambrian Explosion Convenors/Chairs: Olaf Elicki (Freiberg) & Li Guoxiang (Nanjing) Keynote presentation: Li Guoxiang (Nanjing): Radiation patterns of early Cambrian Small Shelly Fossils (SSFs) in South China Invited oral presentation: Jih-Pai Lin (Nanjing): Kaili Biota: Building a Bridge across the Taphonomic Divide S5: Ordovician/Silurian boundary and Mid-Palaeozoic biodiversity Convenors/Chairs: Mike Reich (Göttingen), R. Thomas Becker (Münster) & Oliver Lehnert (Erlangen) Keynote presentation: Oliver Lehnert (Erlangen): The Early Palaeozoic – a time of dramatic climatic, environmental and evolutionary changes Invited oral presentation: Mark Sutton (London) et al.: The Silurian Herefordshire Lagerstätte 4 S6/7: Late Palaeozoic Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy Convenors/Chairs: Wang Jun (Nanjing), Hans Kerp (Münster), Wang Xiangdong (Nanjing) & Michael Amler (Cologne) Keynote presentation: Leyla J. Seyfullah (Göttingen): Tracing gymnosperms through the Palaeozoic: the road to China Keynote presentation: Wang Jun (Nanjing) & Feng Zhuo (Kunming): Community reproductive ecology of the 300 mys vegetational Pompeii: detecting the phenology of the Wuda Tuff Flora, Inner Mongolia Keynote presentation: Wang Xiangdong (Nanjing) & Qi Yuping (Nanjing): Updating the Carboniferous GSSPs research in South China S8: Permian/Triassic boundary and mass extinctions Convenors/Chairs: Jörn Peckmann (Vienna) & Tong Jinnan (Wuhan) Keynote presentation: Evelyn Kustatscher (Bozen/Munich): How did the end-Permian extinction event affect the flora ? Keynote presentation: Tong Jinnan (Wuhan): The Permian–Triassic Boundary Sequences in South China: Implication to the Great Transitional Events S9: Triassic/Jurassic transition biodiversity and palaeoenvironment Convenors/Chairs: Gernot Arp (Göttingen) & Wang Yongdong (Nanjing) Keynote presentation: Wang Yongdong (Nanjing) et al.: Floral and ecological changes across the Triassic–Jurassic transition in the Sichuan Basin, SW China S10: The Jurassic/Cretaceous terrestrial ecosystems Convenors/Chairs: Sun Chunlin (Changchun), Wang Yuan (Beijing) & Oliver Wings