XIV Annual Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists 6-10 July 2016, Haarlem, The Netherlands Programme and Abstract Book Edited by: EAVP 2016 Programme & Abstract Committee Femke Holwerda, Anneke Madern, Dennis Voeten, Anneke van Heteren, Jeff Liston, Hanneke Meijer, Natasja den Ouden EAVP 2016 Programme & Abstract Crew Stephan Spiekman, Tom Trapman, Feiko Miedema, Sifra Bijl, Mart Smeets, Pim Kaskes, Tim Rietbergen, Juliën Lubeek XIV EAVP Meeting, 6-10 July, 2016, Haarlem, The Netherlands Contents Map of Haarlem 2 Map of Teylers Museum 3 Programme at a glance 4 Posters at a glance 5 Programme 6 Abstracts 18 List of authors 220 1 XIV EAVP Meeting, 6-10 July, 2016, Haarlem, The Netherlands Map of Haarlem 2 XIV EAVP Meeting, 6-10 July, 2016, Haarlem, The Netherlands Map of Teylers museum and venue information Teylers Museum, Spaarne 16, 2011 CH Haarlem, The Netherlands Phone: 0031 023 51 60 960 Phone (emergencies only!!): 0031 06 483 22 755 3 Programme at a glance day Wednesday July 6 Thursday July 7 Friday July 8 Saturday July 9 Sunday July 10 time museum misc general hall symposium main hall symposium small hall symposium main hall symposium small hall symposium main hall symposium small hall Limburg Maasvlakte 08:00 Maastrichtian Pleistocene coffee/registration coffee coffee 08:15 08:30 welcome address (Trienke van der Spek: history and collections of Teylers) Tetrapods Henderson plenary Rivera plenary keynote 5: Barrett Germanic Basin Sander 08:45 Biogeography intro: Kostopoulos-Konidaris Tetrapods Challands plenary Kaskes plenary keynote 1: Meyer 09:00 Biogeography Vasile Tetrapods Smithson plenary Meyer plenary Maidment Germanic Basin Krahl 09:15 plenary Baez Biogeography Pazonyi Tetrapods Clack plenary Belvedere Germanic Basin Neenan 6 Meeting, EAVP XIV plenary keynote 6: Butler 09:30 Biogeography Bukhsianidze Tetrapods Arbez plenary Razzollini Germanic Basin Heijne plenary keynote 2: Maxwell 09:45 Biogeography Konidaris Tetrapods Marjanovic plenary Castanera Hominins Intro: de Vos Germanic Basin During 10:00 Biogeography Demirel Tetrapods Gruntmejer plenary Bronzati Hominins Germanic Basin Czepiński plenary keynote 3: Joyce Lordkipanidze 10:15 Biogeography Mayda Tetrapods Teschner plenary Diez Diaz Hominins Germanic Basin Marzola 10:30 coffee coffee coffee 10:45 tour Teylers 11:00 Fossillegal intro: Liston Biogeography Belmaker Tetrapods Chakravorti plenary Stein Hominins plenary Nieuwland Amkreutz 11:15 Fossillegal Biogeography Pandolfi Tetrapods Sengupta plenary Tortosa Hominins plenary Monsch Martin 11:30 Fossillegal Biogeography Baigusheva Tetrapods Steyer plenary Rodrigues Hominins Lister plenary Micklich 11:45 Fossillegal Frey Biogeography Madurell-Malapeira Tetrapods Fortuny plenary Marcé-Nogué Hominins Aytek plenary Kaskes 12:00 Fossillegal Unwin Biogeography Maniakas Tetrapods Perez Ben plenary De Esteban-Trivigno Hominins Alpagut plenary Czepiński - 12:15 Fossillegal Martill Biogeography Berlioz Tetrapods Elsler plenary Belvedere Hominins Marcé-Nogué plenary Slowiak Netherlands The Haarlem, 2016, July, 10 12:30 12:45 13:00 LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH 13:15 4 registration 13:30 Transmitting 13:45 Science 14:00 Workshop Fossillegal Rodrigues Biogeography Tesakov Islands Mazza Tetrapods Marchetti Hominins plenary Veitschegger Sier 14:15 Fossillegal Maltese Biogeography Adams Islands vd Hoek Ostende plenary Rabi Hominins plenary Stinnesbeck 14:30 Fossillegal Siber Biogeography Martin Islands Masters plenary Tong Hominins plenary Kummel Joordens 14:45 Fossillegal Barrett Biogeography van Kolfschoten Islands Rijsdijk/Meijer plenary Joyce Hominins plenary Eck 15:00 Fossillegal Rauhut Biogeography discussion Islands van Heteren plenary Foth Hominins spare/discussion plenary spare 15:15 coffee coffee coffee 15:30 15:45 Fossillegal Albersdörfer Biogeography Palombo Islands Winkler plenary Göhlich plenary Unwin North Sea Basin intro: den Ouden/Reumer 16:00 Fossillegal Stead Biogeography Martínez-Navarro Islands Bethune plenary Voeten plenary Cincotta North Sea Basin Mol 16:15 Fossillegal Liston Biogeography Sardella Islands Palombo plenary Pimiento plenary Moreno-Azanza 16:30 Fossillegal Biogeography Croitor Islands Savorelli plenary Muchagata North Sea Basin Jagt roundtable plenary keynote 7: Delfino 16:45 Fossillegal Biogeography Pawłowska Islands Buffetaut North Sea Basin Mulder plenary keynote 4: Hoch 17:00 Islands Codrea 17:15 Islands Wings plenary Liston AGM 17:30 break, remove posters, change for dinner 17:45 Icebreaker party (Rotonde) 18:00 18:15 18:30 18:45 Auction Conference dinner (Cafetaria) 19:00 19:15 19:30 19:45 XIV EAVP Meeting, 6-10 July, 2016, Haarlem, The Netherlands Posters at a glance 5 XIV EAVP Meeting, 6-10 July, 2016, Haarlem, The Netherlands Thursday July 7 Main Hall 08:30 Welcome by EAVP President Dino Frey and Introduction by Trienke van der Spek, Teylers Museum Plenary 08:45 Christian Meyer: TRACKING ARCHOSAURS IN SWITZERLAND - PAST AND PRESENT (keynote) 09:15 Ana Baez: NEW EVIDENCE FROM THE LOWER JURASSIC OF PATAGONIA SHEDS LIGHT ON THE HISTORY OF SOME OF THE EARLIEST KNOWN FROGS 09:30 Erin Maxwell: NEW ICHTHYOSAURS FROM THE EARLY CRETACEOUS OF COLOMBIA, WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR DIVERSITY IN THE PALAEOTROPICS (keynote) 10:00 Walter Joyce: NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE EVOLUTION OF BASAL TURTLES (keynote) 10:30 - 11:00 coffee break 1 and poster session Symposium ‘Fossillegal’ hosted by Jeff Liston 11:00 Jeff Liston: introduction 11:15 John Martin: INTERNATIONAL LEGISLATION, THE SEMANTICS OF ‘CULTURAL PROPERTY’, AND WHY THEY ARE BAD FOR PALAEONTOLOGY AND PEOPLE (keynote) 11.45 Eberhard ‘Dino’ Frey: FOSSILS: NATIONAL MONUMENTS, TRADING OBJECTS, OR BOTH? 12:00 Dave Unwin: HANDS OFF, IT’S MY COLLECTION! FOSSILS, MUSEUMS AND THE PROBLEMS OF ACCESS 12:15 Dave Martill: SHOULD PALAEONTOLOGISTS BEHAVE ETHICALLY? PROTECT THE FOSSILS OR PROTECT THE COMMUNITIES WHO DIG THEM? 12:30 - 14:00 lunch break and poster session 14:00 Taissa Rodrigues: BRAZILIAN PALAEONTOLOGICAL LEGISLATION 14:15 Anthony Maltese: COLLECTION AND PLACEMENT OF FOSSILS IN COMMERCIAL PALAEONTOLOGY: PRACTICAL AND ETHICAL CONCERNS 14:30 Hans-Jacob ‘Kirby’ Siber: 40 YEARS AS A FOSSIL PROSPECTOR, COLLECTOR AND EXHIBITION MAKER 6 XIV EAVP Meeting, 6-10 July, 2016, Haarlem, The Netherlands 14:45 Paul Barrett: PUBLISH OR PROHIBIT? THE ETHICS OF PUBLISHING ON PRIVATELY-OWNED FOSSILS 15:00 Oliver Rauhut: PRIVATE COLLECTIONS: PROBLEM OR BONUS FOR SCIENCE? 15:15 - 15:45 coffee break 2 and poster session 15:45 Raymund Albersdörfer: FOSSIL LEGISLATION – PROTECTION OR DESTRUCTION? 16:00 Nicola Stead: FOSSILS, PUBLISHING AND OPEN ACCESS 16:15 Jeff Liston: AN INNOCENT ACADEMIC ABROAD?: EASY FOSSILS AND HARD CHOICES, CHINA AS A MICROCOSM OF THE CHALLENGES OF 21ST CENTURY PALAEONTOLOGY 16:30- 17:00 roundtable discussion Small Hall Symposium ‘Towards a Biogeographic Synthesis for the European Early Pleistocene based on the Mammal Record’ hosted by Dimitris Kostopoulos and George Konidaris 08:45 Dimitris Kostopoulos and George Konidaris: introduction 09:00 Stefan Vasile: NEW DATA ON THE EARLY PLEISTOCENE VERTEBRATE ASSEMBLAGES FROM COPĂCENI (DACIAN BASIN, SOUTHERN ROMANIA) 09:15 Piroska Pazonyi: TAXONOMICAL, TAPHONOMICAL AND PALEOECOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF A LATE EARLY PLEISTOCENE VERTEBRATE FAUNA FROM THE SOMSSICH HILL 2 SITE (SOUTH HUNGARY) 09:30 Maia Bukhsianidze: DMANISI ARTIODACTYL ASSEMBLAGE 09:45 George Konidaris: TSIOTRA VRYSSI: A NEW VERTEBRATE LOCALITY FROM THE EARLY PLEISTOCENE OF MYGDONIA BASIN (MACEDONIA, GREECE) 10:00 Fatma Demirel: KOCAKIR-2: FIRST RECORD OF EARLY PLEISTOCENE CANIS AND HIPPOPOTAMUS FROM BURDUR BASIN (SW TURKEY) 10:15 Serdar Mayda: SYSTEMATIC, BIOSTRATIGRAPHIC AND PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHIC REEVALUATION OF THE MAMMALIAN FAUNAS FROM THE TURKISH VILLAFRANCHIAN LOCALITIES OF THE KAMISLI, GULYAZI AND Y. SOGUTONU 10:30 - 11:00 coffee break 1 and poster session 11:00 Miriam Belmaker: BIOGEOGRAPHIC ORIGINS OF EARLY PLEISTOCENE MAMMALIAN FAUNA IN THE SOUTHERN LEVANT 7 XIV EAVP Meeting, 6-10 July, 2016, Haarlem, The Netherlands 11:15 Luca Pandolfi: PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY AND CHRONOLOGY OF STEPHANORHINUS ETRUSCUS (FALCONER, 1858) (MAMMALIA, RHINOCEROTIDAE) IN EURASIA 11:30 V. Baigusheva and Vadim Titov: SOME BIOLOGICAL FEATURES OF ELASMOTHERIUM CAUCASICUM (MAMMALIA, RHINOCEROTIDAE) FROM THE LATE EARLY PLEISTOCENE OF EASTERN EUROPE 11.45 Joan Madurell-Malapeira: LATEST EARLY PLEISTOCENE LARGE MAMMAL ASSEMBLAGES FROM THE IBERIAN PENINSULA AND THE EARLY-MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE TRANSITION 12:00 Ioannis Maniakas: BIOGEOGRAPHICAL AND PALAEOECOLOGICAL ASSOCIATIONS OF WESTERN PALAEARCTIC BISON POPULATIONS 12:15 Emilie Berlioz: DENTAL MICROWEAR TEXTURE ANALYSIS OF EARLY PLEISTOCENE CERVIDS: A PALEOENVIRONMENTAL APPROACH AT THE EUROPEAN SCALE 12:30 - 14:00 lunch break and poster session 14:00 Alexey Tesakov: EARLY PLEISTOCENE MAMMALS OF EASTERN EUROPE AND WESTERN ASIA: BIOCHRONOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY 14:15 Neil Adams: ADDRESSING THE ‘ALLOPHAIOMYS GAP’ IN BRITISH BIOSTRATIGRAPHY: A NEW EARLY PLEISTOCENE FAUNA FROM WESTBURY CAVE, SOMERSET, ENGLAND 14:30 Robert Martin: A NEW ARVICOLID RODENT FROM THE EARLY PLEISTOCENE OF THE BAZA BASIN, SOUTHERN SPAIN 14:45 Thijs van Kolfschoten: EARLY PLEISTOCENE ARVICOLINES FROM ZUURLAND (THE NETHERLANDS): NEW INSIGHTS INTO HOLARCTIC BIOCHRONOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY 15:00 roundtable discussion 15:15 - 15:45 coffee break 2 and poster session 15:45 Maria Rita Palombo: FAUNAL DYNAMICS IN SW EUROPE DURING THE LATE EARLY PLEISTOCENE: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE BIOCHRONOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT AND CORRELATION OF MAMMALIAN FAUNAS 16:00 Bienvenido