4th International Congress on Stratigraphy

8:00 - 9:00 (1h)

Registration

9:00 - 9:45 (45min)

Keynote : Alegret

Room A - Plenary Session

› Global events of the Paleogene: towards a refined and complete record - Laia Alegret, Dept. Earth Sciences & IUCA, University of Zaragoza 09:00-09:45 (45min)

9:45 - 10:30 (45min)

GP2: From rock to time: evolutionary lineages and the calibration of the Chronostratigraphic Scale

Room A - Plenary Session

› Cutting time in slices - Annalisa Ferretti, Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences (DSCG), University of Modena and Reggio Emilia 09:45-10:00 (15min)

› Much more than a biostratigraphic tool: A geochemical and histological reappraisal of the conodont - Poul Emsbo, US Geological Survey 10:00-10:15 (15min)

› Mending the chronostratigraphic record - PATRICK IAN MCLAUGHLIN, Illinois State Geological Survey 10:15-10:30 (15min)

10:30 - 11:00 (30min)

Coffee

11:00 - 12:30 (1h30)

SC9: Triassic Integrated Stratigraphy, GSSPs, and Extreme Climatic, Environmental and Biotic Events

Room A

› Major biotic evolutionary tempos constraining Triassic stratigraphical subdivisions - Zhong-Qiang Chen, State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 11:00-11:15 (15min)

› Embracing Uncertainty: Integrating Geochronologic Data to Model Accurate Age Constraints for Triassic Earth-Life Events - Randall Irmis, Natural History Museum of Utah, University of Utah 11:15-11:30 (15min)

› Multiple organic carbon isotope reversals across the Middle Permian and Upper Triassic of eastern Tasmania: clues to Carbon Cycle Perturbations and Paleoclimate Reconstruction Near the South Pole - Wahyuningrum Lestari, Khalifa University 11:30-11:45 (15min)

› An updated of conodonts biostratigraphy at the Wantou section (South China) - A potential candidate of GSSP for base of Anisian - Yan Chen, China University of Geosciences [Wuhan] 12:15-12:30 (15min)

11:00 - 12:15 (1h15)

GP3: Quantitative stratigraphic analysis using databases

Room B

› OneStratigraphy: harmonizing global stratigraphic data - Junxuan Fan, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China 11:00-11:15 (15min)

› Building a high-resolution digital geological timeline: A perspective for stratigraphy - Shuzhong Shen, State Key Laboratory for Mineral Deposits Research, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Frontiers Science Center for Critical Earth Material Cycling, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023 11:15-11:30 (15min)

› Confidence of taxonomic identification: the first step of biostratigraphy - Yukun Shi, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering and Frontiers Science Center for Critical Earth Material Cycling, Nanjing University 11:30-11:45 (15min)

› Newly designed CONOP program helps tackle the stratigraphic correlation problem of late Paleogene foraminifera - Zhengbo Lu, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering and Frontiers Science Center for Critical Earth Material Cycling, Nanjing University, Nanjing 11:45-12:00 (15min)

› PalynofAIcies – a new artificial intelligence-assisted tool to analyse palynology slides - Gil Machado, ChronoSurveys Lda, Instituto Dom Luiz 12:00-12:15 (15min)

11:00 - 12:30 (1h30)

SC15: Cambrian stratigraphy, palaeontology and depositional dynamics

Room C

› New U-Pb age from the Shuijingtuo Formation (Yangtze Gorges area) and its implications for the Cambrian timescale - Chuan Yang, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences 11:00-11:15 (15min)

› Biodiversity across space and time in the Cambrian - Lin Na, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing East Road 39, 210008 Nanjing, China 11:15-11:30 (15min)

› Phosphatized calcified cyanobacteria from the latest Ediacaran and the early Cambrian - Xiao Min, Chengdu Center of China Geological Survey 11:30-11:45 (15min)

› The success of Cambrian hyoliths in the "arms race" and their ecological significance - Haijing Sun, State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Centre for Excellence in Life and Palaeoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences 11:45-12:00 (15min)

› Strenuaeva (Trilobita) from the Marianian (Cambrian Series 2) of Iberia: systematic assessment, biostratigraphy and palaeobiogeography - Luis Collantes, Centro de Geociências, Departamento de Ciências da Terra, Universidade de Coimbra 12:00-12:15 (15min)

› Upper Marianian (Cambrian Series 2) trilobites from the Totanés–Noez area (Central Iberian Zone, Toledo province, Spain) - Luis Collantes, Centro de Geociências, Departamento de Ciências da Terra, Universidade de Coimbra 12:15-12:30 (15min)

11:00 - 12:30 (1h30)

SC5: Advances in Paleogene research

Room D

› Early Paleocene Os isotope stratigraphy within the Chicxulub impact basin - Honami Sato, Kyushu University [Fukuoka] 11:00-11:15 (15min)

› Deciphering the nature of subaerial/submarine Hg emissions associated with the North Atlantic Igneous Province during the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum - Weimu Xu, School of Earth Sciences, University College Dublin, SFI Research Centre in Applied Geosciences (iCRAG) 11:15-11:30 (15min)

› Diachroneity in early Eocene planktic foraminiferal biohorizons - VALERIA LUCIANI, University of Ferrara 11:30-11:45 (15min)

› Recognizing the Bartonian Stage in the Eastern Gulf Coastal Plain of the USA: The Little Stave Creek Section of Alabama - Richard Fluegeman, Ball State University 11:45-12:00 (15min)

› Planktonic foraminifera from the upper Eocene of northern Saudi Arabia: Implications for stratigraphic ranges - Bridget Wade, University College London, Department of Earth Sciences 12:00-12:15 (15min)

› Changes in benthic foraminiferal assemblages at the Eocene-Oligocene transition in the Transylvanian Basin (Romania) - Anna Kicsi, Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Department of Geology, Budapest, Hungary, 1117 Budapest, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/C 12:15-12:30 (15min)

12:30 - 13:30 (1h)

Lunch and poster session

12:30 - 13:30 (1h)

Subcommission Stratigraphy Classification

13:30 - 15:30 (2h)

SC9: Triassic Integrated Stratigraphy, GSSPs, and Extreme Climatic, Environmental and Biotic Events

Room A

› The multielement apparatus of the conodont genus Gladigondolella in the Anisian - Ali Murat Kilic, Balikesir University Faculty of Engineering Department of Geological Engineering 13:30-13:45 (15min)

› Characteristics of reproduction and newborns of Keichousaurus hui. (Reptilia Sauropterygia) from Xingyi Fauna(Ladinian,Middle Triassic),Guizhou Province - Wen Qianqian, Wen Qianqian 13:45-14:00 (15min)

› NEW RADIOISOTOPIC DATES REVEAL A MIDDLE TRIASSIC AGE FOR LACUSTRINE SUCCESSIONS IN SW GONDWANA - Randall Irmis, Natural History Museum of Utah, University of Utah 14:00-14:15 (15min)

› Age determination of the “Black Zhifang Formation” (Triassic) in sourthern Ordos, North China through palynological biostratigraphy - Dan Lyu, Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration & Development, Beijing 100083, China 14:15-14:30 (15min)

› The first definitely record of Dicroidium Gothan (seed fern) in China - Yanqi Sun, Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development, PetroChina, Beijing 100083, China, State Key Laboratory of Enhanced Oil Recovery, Beijing 100083, China, Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir, CNPC, Beijing 100083, China 14:30-14:45 (15min)

› The Late Ladinian to Early Carnian Daonella and Halobia from Spiti (Tethys Himalaya, northern India) and their bearing for the calibration of the Carnian GSSP - Marco Balini, Department of Earth Sciences “Ardito Desio”, University of Milano, Department of Earth Sciences “Ardito Desio”, University of Milano 14:45-15:00 (15min)

› Integrated stratigraphy of Carnian deposits in the Dinaric Alps, Glamoc (SW Bosnia-Hercegovina) - Wolfram Kürschner, University of Oslo 15:00-15:15 (15min)

› Linkage between Carnian Pluvial Episode and Wrangellia-Sambosan LIP - Tetsuji Onoue, Department of Earth and Eivironmental Sciences, Kyushu University 15:15-15:30 (15min)

13:30 - 15:30 (2h)

GP4: Palynology as tool of multidisciplinary researches applied to stratigraphy and palaeobiogeographical, palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction: advances and perspectives

Room B

› A freshwater assemblage from the Hirnantian of Saudi Arabia - Paul Strother, Boston College 13:30-13:45 (15min)

› On-going studies on vegetative and encysted fossil euglenids. - Wilson Taylor, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire 13:45-14:00 (15min)

› The early land plant fossil record from the Silurian of the Arabian Plate: palaeophytogeographical and palaeoclimatological implications - Charles Wellman, University of Sheffield 14:00-14:15 (15min)

› Palynology of the Devonian rocks of the Arabian Plate: the migration of the first forests - John Marshall, University of Southampton 14:15-14:30 (15min)

› Application of Palynomorph Darkness Index (‘PDI') for thermal maturity assessment: a case study from the early Silurian Qusaiba Member of the Qalibah Formation, Saudi Arabia - Geoffrey Clayton, University of Sheffield 14:30-14:45 (15min)

› A taxonomic and stratigraphic database for Saudi Arabian Paleozoic palynomorphs - Philippe Steemans, EDDy Lab, University of Liège 14:45-15:00 (15min)

› Identifying depositional units in complex clastic successions with palynology: understanding reservoir heterogeneity for CO2 storage - Michael Stephenson, Stephenson Geoscience Consulting Ltd 15:00-15:15 (15min)

› Permian palynostratigraphy of Northern Namibia: new data from the Huab, Owambo and Waterberg Basins - Gil Machado, ChronoSurveys Lda, Instituto Dom Luiz 15:15-15:30 (15min)

13:30 - 15:15 (1h45)

SC14: Ordovician: correlation of events

Room C

› The Dawn of the Dapingian: the search for early radiations of Ordovician rhynchonelliform brachiopods - David Harper, Durham University 13:30-13:45 (15min)

› A new framework for reinterpreting the Late Ordovician mass extinction on Anticosti Island (Québec, Canada): Sequence stratigraphic correlation within the eastern Ellis Bay Formation - Joshua B. Zimmt, University of California [USA] 13:45-14:00 (15min)

› Late Ordovician beachrock as far-field indicator for glacial meltwater pulse - Qijian LI, State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology 14:00-14:15 (15min)

› Did the Late Ordovician mass extinction event trigger the earliest evolution of ‘strophodontoid' brachiopods? - Bing Huang, State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences 14:15-14:30 (15min)

› Paleovalleys preserve new insights into the genesis of Upper Ordovician REE-enriched phosphorites - Timothy Paton, Illinois State Geological Survey 14:30-14:45 (15min)

› Biostratigraphic subdivision of the Ordovician System in Australia incorporating water depths and facies - IAN PERCIVAL, Geological Survey of New South Wales 14:45-15:00 (15min)

› Cyclostratigraphic study of the Middle-Late Ordovician Pagoda Formation on the Upper Yangtze Platform, China and the implications on palaeoclimate - Xueying Ma, Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development, PetroChina 15:00-15:15 (15min)

13:30 - 15:15 (1h45)

SC4: SNS Neogene stratigraphy and paleoceanography

Room D

› The Neogene/Quaternary boundary at the Monte San Nicola Gela section and its global correlation - Antonio Caruso, Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche Chimiche e Farmaceutiche, Università degli studi di Palermo 13:30-14:00 (30min)

› Capturing Late Miocene ice volume variability from a global benthic foraminiferal oxygen isotope stack (8.0-4.0 Ma) - Anna Joy Drury, Department of Earth Sciences [UCL London], Center for Marine Environmental Sciences [Bremen] 14:00-14:15 (15min)

› Coiling directions in the mid Miocene paragloborotaliids (planktonic foraminifera): A correlation event for the base of the Langhian in the low latitudes - Bridget Wade, University College London, Department of Earth Sciences 14:15-14:30 (15min)

› Late Burdigalian to Langhian (Early to Middle Miocene) planktonic foraminiferal high-resolution biostratigraphy from Walvis Ridge Site 1264 (south-eastern Atlantic Ocean). - Elena Turco, Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, Parma University 14:30-14:45 (15min)

› Miocene sequence stratigraphy of the northeastern North Sea Basin: An eustatic fairytale interrupted by tectonism - Erik Skovbjerg Rasmussen, GEUS 14:45-15:00 (15min)

› Integrated stratigraphy of Neogene diatom-rich sediments (Bahía Inglesa Formation) in northern-central Chile - Fatima Bouhdayad, Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne 15:00-15:15 (15min)

15:30 - 16:00 (30min)

Coffee

16:00 - 17:30 (1h30)

SC9: Triassic Integrated Stratigraphy, GSSPs, and Extreme Climatic, Environmental and Biotic Events

Room A

› Drastic changes in weathering processes around the Norian-Rhaetian Boundary - Sylvain Richoz, Department of Geology - Lund University – Lund 16:00-16:15 (15min)

› Major biotic evolutionary tempos constraining Triassic stratigraphical subdivisions - Zhong-Qiang Chen, State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 16:15-16:30 (15min)

› Calcareous nannofossil biozonations for the Rhaetian (Upper Triassic) - Isaline Demangel, Department of Geology - Lund University – Lund 16:30-16:45 (15min)

› Biostratigraphic revision of extinction patterns of radiolarians and conodonts across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary in the pelagic Panthalassa - Yuki Tomimatsu, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Kyushu University 16:45-17:00 (15min)

› New insights into the timing and causes of the end-Triassic extinction in Southern Tethyan carbonate platforms - Francesca Falzoni, Istituto di Geologia Ambientale e Geoingegneria (IGAG), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Milano, Italy, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, dell'Ambiente e delle Risorse, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy 17:15-17:30 (15min)

16:00 - 17:45 (1h45)

GP4: Palynology as tool of multidisciplinary researches applied to stratigraphy and palaeobiogeographical, palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction: advances and perspectives

Room B

› Chitinozoan contributions to unraveling the origin of rare earth element-enriched Upper Ordovician phosphorites in the eastern U.S. - Cristiana J. P. Esteves, Ghent University 16:00-16:15 (15min)

› Integrated stratigraphy (from radiolarians, conodonts, palynomorphs, ammonoids, ostracods) of the Early Carnian deepening upward sequence (the Huglu Unit) within the tectonic slices/blocks of the Mersin Mélange, southern Turkey: biochronologies and paleogeographic implications - Wolfram Kürschner, University of Oslo 16:15-16:30 (15min)

› Palynological changes across the Triassic/Jurassic boundary in the terrestrial basins in China - Yuanzheng LU, Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration & Development 16:30-16:45 (15min)

› Palynology of the Early and Middle Jurassic and its evolution during the Sinemurian-Pliensbachian boundary event and the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (Sichuan Basin, China) - Ru Fan, Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration & Development, PetroChina 16:45-17:00 (15min)

› High-resolution statistical palynology reveals climatic changes in coastal wetlands of the Early Eocene proto-North Sea - Olaf K. Lenz, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum [Frankfurt], Technische Universität Darmstadt - Technical University of Darmstadt 17:00-17:15 (15min)

› How the Mar Piccolo (Taranto, southern Italy) has changed from the Late Pleistocene to today: the evidence from organic matter and pollen analyses - Gabriele Niccolini, Dipartimento di Scienze Della Terra e Geoambientali, Università di Bari Aldo Moro 17:15-17:30 (15min)

› THE CONTRIBUTION OF DINOCYSTS AND OTHER NON-POLLEN PALYNOMORPHS IN PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES AT MAR PICCOLO (SOUTHERN ITALY; LATEST QUATERNARY) - Niccolò Degl'Innocenti, Università degli studi di Bari Aldo Moro = University of Bari Aldo Moro 17:30-17:45 (15min)

16:00 - 18:00 (2h)

SC13: New stratigraphic insights into the Silurian story

Room C

› Review of the Silurian in Belgium. - Jacques Verniers, Ghent University, Geology 16:00-16:15 (15min)

› Integrated stratigraphical study of the Rhuddanian-Aeronian (Llandovery, Silurian) boundary succession in the Rheidol Gorge, Wales: A proposed Global Stratotype Section and Point for the base of the Aeronian Stage - Michael Melchiin, St. Francis Xavier University 16:15-16:30 (15min)

› Hlásná Třebaň section, Czech Republic: A proposed global stratotype for the base of the Aeronian Stage - Petr Storch, Institute of Geology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Rozvojová 269, 165 00, Praha 6 16:30-16:45 (15min)

› The El Pintado section, Spain: replacement GSSP for the base of the Telychian - David Loydell, University of Portsmouth 16:45-17:00 (15min)

› Proposal for the subdivision of Přídolí Series based on stratigraphic markers defined in Central Bohemia - Ladislav Slavik, Institute of Geology of the Czech Academy of Sciences 17:00-17:15 (15min)

› An overview of black shales through the Ordovician–Silurian transition in South China: stratigraphy, distribution, and environment - 17:15-17:30 (15min)

› Silurian conodonts from western Yunnan and southern Xizang (Tibet), China - Zhongyang Chen, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China 17:30-17:45 (15min)

› The imprint of Astronomical cycles in the Ludlow part of the type-Silurian Cellon section in the Carnic Alps, Austria - Michiel Arts, Université de Liège 17:45-18:00 (15min)

16:00 - 16:30 (30min)

SC1: Time-scale calibration

Room D

› Can we quantify chronostratigraphic uncertainty for timescale calibration? - Brad Cramer, University of Iowa [Iowa City] 16:00-16:30 (30min)

› Timing and pacing of the Hangenberg Crisis (Devonian-Carboniferous Boundary) in the Chanxhe sections, Belgium - Anne-Christine Da Silva, Université de Liège 16:15-16:30 (15min)

16:30 - 16:45 (15min)

GP7: Miscellaneous Session

Room D

› Lithofacies and Sequence Stratigraphy of Saraburi Group Located in Na Din Dum Village, Mueang District, Loei Province, Thailand - Boonnarong Arsairai, Suranaree University of Technology 16:30-16:45 (15min)

18:00 - 19:30 (1h30)

Triassic subcomm.
> Room A

Triassic subcommission

18:00 - 19:30 (1h30)

Cretaceous subcomm.
>Room B

Cretaceous subcommission.

18:00 - 19:30 (1h30)

Silurian subcomm.
> Room C

Silurian subcommission

18:00 - 19:30 (1h30)

Devonian subcommission
> Room D

Devonian subcommission

18:00 - 19:30 (1h30)

Permian subcomm.
> Room Y

Permian subcommission

18:00 - 19:30 (1h30)

Cambrian subcomm.
> Room S11

Cambrian subcommission