Keynote speakers

Valéria Vaškaninová
Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

In shining armour: the story of placoderms and their rescue from the dungeon of taxonomy

Hannah Byrne
Naturalis, Leiden, Netherlands

The evolution of tessellated calcified cartilage in chondrichthyans

Jing Lu
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Beijing, China

New Late Silurian osteichthyans from Yunnan illuminate the early diversification of bony fishes

Sam Giles
University of Birmingham, UK

Forgotten fossils and hidden treasures: a window into early actinopterygian evolution 

Sophie Sanchez
Uppsala University, Sweden

Evolution of the humerus microanatomy during the water-to-land transition

Yara Haridy
University of Chicago, USA

Fragmentary bones and persistent unknowns of vertebrate skeletal origins

Mélina Jobbins
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Anatomical, ecological, and phylogenetic insights from placoderms from Moroccan and Canadian basins

Susan Turner
Queensland Museum Biodiversity and Geosciences, Australia

Game of Spines: sorting out the enigmatic gyracanth fish

Jorge Mondéjar Fernández
Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Tetrapod roots: from the earliest bony fishes to the first land vertebrates

Richard Dearden
Naturalis, Leiden, Netherlands

Spines and scales but no skeletons? An inside look into "acanthodians" using tomographic imaging

Abdelouahed Lagnaoui
Hassan 1st University, Berrechid, Morocco

Palaeozoic vertebrate trace fossil record - Behavioural and palaeobiological implications