5th Regional Symposium of the International Fossil Algae Association, 2005

The abstracts of the congress can be downloaded from: Museologia Scientifica e Naturalistica

The proceedings have been published in Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen (ISSN 0077-7749), vol. 244/2 (2007).

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

Tuesday 30th August 2005

Dipartimento delle Risorse Naturali e Culturali, Corso Ercole I d'Este 32

09:00 11.00

11:00 11.30

Registration, Dip. Risorse Naturali e Culturali, Univ. of Ferrara

Opening session

21:00

Symposium dinner

Wednesday 31st August 2005

Dipartimento delle Risorse Naturali e Culturali

POST-SYMPOSIUM FIELD EXCURSION

Leaders: D. Bassi, J.H. Nebelsick, D. Masetti, R. Posenato, M. Avanzini,

F. Barattolo. R. Romano, N. Pugliese, K. Drobne, B. Ogorelec.

Meeting point: in front to the Dipartimento delle Risorse Naturali e Culturali across from the Palazzo dei Diamanti.

Departure time: 7.45 h.

PROGRAMME

September 1st, 2005

Morning: Ferrara-Mossano (Vicenza). Mossano stratigraphic section where Middle to Upper Eocene shallow water carbonates contain coralline algal and larger foraminiferal facies successions.

Lunch in Mossano.

Afternoon: Mossano - Tonezza del Cimone (Vicenza). Lower Jurassic lagoonal benthic assemblages represented by larger bivalves of the Lithiotis facies, larger foraminifera, cyanobacterial encrustations and non-marine black shales.

Accomodation and dinner in Tonezza.

September 2nd, 2005

Morning: Tonezza del Cimone-Lavini di Marco (Trento). Visit to the famous paleontological site Lavini di Marco in which Lower Jurassic dinosaur tracks are preserved. Stromatolites and dasycladaleans are also present.

Lunch in Lavini di Marco.

Afternoon: Transfer from Lavini di Marco to Rupingrande (Trieste)

Accomodation and dinner in Rupingrande (Trieste)

September 3rd, 2005

Morning: Rupingrande-Padriciano. The Padriciano stratigraphic section with Maastrichtian beds, the K/T boundary and a complete sequence of shallow water carbonates Danian to Thanetian in age (SBZ1-4). The section shows a very rich content of Stromatolites, Charophyta (lower part of the section), foraminifera and red algae (upper part).

Padriciano Dolenia Vas (Slovenja) and ebulovica. Sections of Dolenja vas and ebulovica characterized by abundant and well preserved association of dasycladaleans.

Lunch in Rupingrande

Afternoon: Rupingrande-Medea. Visit of the Medea hill, the type-locality of Microsporangiella buseri and Cymopolia paronai.

Travel back to Ferrara.