93rd Annual Meeting of
Paläontologische Gesellschaft

We are happy to announce that the 93rd Annual Meeting of Paläontologische Gesellschaft will take place from Sep. 19th to 23rd 2022 in Stuttgart, at the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Museum am Löwentor! This is a special event for us, since the last meeting here took place in 1988, three years after our palaeontological exhibition opened. The palaeontological working groups, the scientific outreach, and the exhibition of our museum have changed remarkably in the last years.

The conference is aimed at a broad audience, and the conference languages will be German and English. Students and young scientists are particularly encouraged to contribute. This year, the Young Scientist Award will be awarded by the Paläontologische Gesellschaft in Stuttgart.

Organising committee and contact:

• PD Dr. Michael W. Rasser

• Dr. Eli Amson

• Dr. Günter Schweigert

• Dr. Eudald Mujal

• PD Dr. Anita Roth-Nebelsick

• Dr. Erin Maxwell

Please send all correspondence to: palges2022@smns-bw.de Telefax: +49-711-8936-100

Links

• Conference website: www.palges2022.org

• Third circular

• Programme

• Abstract volume

• Conference email: palges2022@smns-bw.de

• Museum: www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de

Venue

All social events and the scientific presentations will take place at the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Museum am Löwentor Rosenstein 1, D-70191 Stuttgart Telephone: +49-711-8936-0

Organise your travel:

• Google map

• Alternatively: Detailed city map

• Public transportation

• Railway schedule

Museum am Löwentor houses the palaeontological collection and exhibition of the museum (the biological exhibition is shown in nearby Schloss Rosenstein), which was opened in 1985. The exhibition has been renewed continuously since 2007. We have two lecture rooms for oral presentations, workshops and other meetings, and a large special exhibition area for the poster presentations.

Please note that we have a very limited number of parking spaces. We therefore encourage you to attend the meeting via public transport. From the Stuttgart Airport you can use the S-Bahn (S2 or S3 towards main station - Hauptbahnhof), travel time is 30-40 min. The Hauptbahnhof is only one S-Bahn stop from the museum and can be reached by lines S4, S5, and S6. The U6 also runs from the airport to the Hauptbahnhof.

Museum am Löwentor can be reached via the U-Bahn and S-Bahn stations Nordbahnhof (S4, S5, S6, U12; <1 min. walk), Löwentor (U13, U16; ca. 5 min. walk), Löwentorbrücke (U6, U7, U15; ca. 10 min. walk) and Mineralbäder (U1, U2, U11, U14; ca. 25 min. walk through Rosenstein park).

Lecture hall, conference office, lunch and dinner

The lecture hall, poster area and coffee break area are close to the main entrance (see photo above for the entrance area). The icebreaker party will take place on the lower level close to the dinosaurs. If you have pre-ordered lunch, you will receive a voucher. Please pick up your lunch in Café Fossil (entrance through the museum close to the lecture hall) and use one of the reserved tables, or bring it down into the Schulungsraum, which is one floor below, directly under the lecture room. Tables are prepared for lunch there.

Dinner (finger food) on Tuesday and Wednesday will be served directly in the Schulungsraum.

The conference office will be open:

· Monday: 13:00 to 20:00

· Tuesday: 8:00 to 13:00

Or please ask our staff!

Payments

Bank account for money transfer related to the conference:

Michael Rasser

IBAN: DE57 6009 0100 0799 1420 00

BIC: VOBADESS (Volksbank Stuttgart)

Keyword: „palges22“

Scientific Programme and Social Events

All scientific and social events will take place at the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Museum am Löwentor.

The abstract volume and detailed programme are now available for download.

* [YSA] means applicant for the Young Scientist Award

>>>> ORAL PRESENTATIONS AND SOCIAL EVENTS

Monday, Sept. 19th

17:00 Icebreaker Party

Tuesday, Sept. 20th

9:00-9:30 Opening ceremony

9:30-10:45: Oral presentations

• Kaiser, SI, Joachimski, M, Kumpan, T, Hartenfels, S, Girard, G, Rasser, MW: Late Devonian Ice Age: Trigger for the 1st order mass extinctions at the Devonian-Carboniferous Boundary

• Söte, T, Becker, RT: The Frasnian ammonoids (Tornoceratidae) of Ouidane Chebbi (eastern Tafilalt, Morocco).

• Kogan, I., Zierold, T: Bringing the Permian fossil forest of Chemnitz back to life

• Kustatscher et al: The early Permian Athesian Volcanic Group and its fossils

• Spiekermann, R, Jasper, A, Pozzebon-Silva, A, Carniere, JS, Uhl, D: Permian (sub)arborescent lycopsid macrofossils from the Glossopteris Flora: what do we know so far? [YSA]

10:45-11:15: Coffee break

11:15-12:30: Oral presentations

• Argyriou, T, Romano, C, Lopez-Arbarello, A: Early and Middle Triassic fossils illuminate the endoskeletal anatomy and interrelationships of †Perleididae (Actinopterygii)

• Sobral G, Schoch R.: Early lepidosauromorph diversity of Southwestern Germany.

• Hagdorn, H, Reich, M, Gaitzsch, B, Schneider, J: Forgotten for a quarter millenium – The type material of the iconic crinoid Encrinus liliiformis Lamarck, 1801

• Moreno, R & Schoch, RR: Using species distribution modelling to track the distribution of European temnospondyls during the early Late Triassic Gipskeuper [YSA]

• Spiekman, SNF, Ezcurra, MD, Butler, RJ, Fraser, NC, Maidment, SCR: New information on the archosaurs from the Late Triassic fissure fills locality of Pant-y-ffynnon, Wales

12:30-14:00: Lunch break

14:00-15:00: Oral presentations

• Stumpf, S, Villalobos-Segura, E, Kettler, C, Kindlimann, R, Kriwet, S: Taxonomy and systematic position of the Mesozoic hybodontiform shark-like chondrichthyan Strophodus.

• Hiller, P, Bomfleur, B: Fossil plant assemblage of the Lower Jurassic Mount Carson lake deposit, transantarctic mountains, North Victorialand, Antarctica [YSA]

• Miedema F, Klein N, Blackburn D, Sander PM, Maxwell EE, Griebeler EM, Scheyer TM: Heads or tails, a revised look at ichthyosaur birth orientation [YSA]

• Regalado Fernandez, OR, Werneburg, I: Phenotypic plasticity, intraspecific variability and morphological disparity of Late Triassic sauropodomorphs

• Pfeil, F: Lost - forgotten - ignored: „Aliens“ from the Jurassic Limestone.

15:15-15:45: Coffee break

15:45-17:00: Poster session with snacks and drinks

17:00-19:00: Mitgliederversammlung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft (members only!)

19:00-21:30: Dinner (finger food), drinks, and guided tours to the exhibition and collection

Wednesday, Sept. 21st

9:00-10:45: Morning welcome and oral presentations

• López-Arbarello, A, Ebert, M, Winter, R: Fossil record and taxonomy of caturids (Halecomorphi, Amiiformes)

• Martin, T, Averianov, A, Schultz, J, Schwermann, A: Early Cretaceous mammals from Balve-Beckum (North Rhine-Wesphalia, Germany)

• Kiesmüller, C, Haug, GT, Hörnig, MK, Haug, JT: New findings of nymphs of the orthopteran group Elcanidae in 100 million-year-old amber and a functional-morphological discussion about the potential function of their metatibial spurs [YSA]

• De Baets, K, Jarochowska, E, Buchwald, S Z, Klug, C, Korn, D: Lithology controls ammonoid size distributions

• Müller, C, Toumoulin, A, Roth-Nebelsick, A, Wappler, T, Kunzmann, L: Towards an Integrated Leaf Trait Analysis: an example from the Paleogene [YSA]

• Gauweiler, J, Haug, JT: A culinary tip off – pterosaurian skull and tooth shape and their bearing on diet [YSA]

10:45-11:15: Coffee break

11:15-12:30: Oral presentations

• El Atfy, H, Paudayal, KN, Uhl, D: Some new data on the Palaeoflora of the Paleocene Konservat-Lagerstätte Menat (Puy-de-Dôme, France)

• Bauer, E, Simpson, M, Reichenbacher, B: Phylogenetic placement of the ancient gobioid Paralates chapelcorneri using new morphological characters for the distinction of Odontobutidae and Rhyacichthyidae [YSA]

• Höltke, O: Die Hai- und Rochenfauna von Rengetsweiler, Baden-Württemberg (Obere Meeresmolasse, Unter-Miozän) [YSA]

• Dirnberger, M, Reichenbacher, B: Taxonomical revision and phylogenetic placement of a Lower Miocene goby from Western Turkey [YSA]

• Kovar-Eder, J, Teodoridis, V, Collinson, ME, Mazouch, P: Do we really understand the Miocene Climate Optimum?

12:30-14:00: Lunch break

14:00-15:15: Oral presentations

• Hubbe, A, Auler, AA, Casali, D, Penna, A, Melo, D, Vilaboim, L, Strauss, A, Machado, F: What are the odds? Sexual dimorphism can explain morphological difference between the two large extinct New Word Monkeys Caipora bambuiorum Cartelle and Hartwig, 1996 and Cartelles coimbrafilhoi (Halenar and Rosenberger, 2013).

• Wolkenstein, K: Detecting melanin pigments in fossil vertebrates and invertebrates

• Wencker, LCM, Tschopp, E, Upchurch, P, Delfino, M: Giving the right weight: Comparative study of specimen-level phylogenetic analyses.

• Trybin, YS, Kamoun, M, Langer, MR: Diversity and habitat preferences of shallow-water foraminifera from upwelling areas of Oman [YSA]

• Malekhosseini, M, Ensikat, H-J, Wappler T, McCoy, VE, and Rust, J: Indications for calcium-based biominerals (calcium oxalate druses, cystoliths) in fossil leaves of gymnosperms and angiosperms from different sites and periods of time [YSA]

15:15-16:00: Coffee break

16:00-16:30: Seeberg-Elverfeldt, I: DFG-Förderung (Möglichkeiten und aktuelle Änderungen)

16:30-17:30: Early Career Researchers Event

18:00-19:00: Public lecture

19:00-21:30: Dinner (finger food), drinks, and guided tours to the exhibition and collection

Thursday, Sept. 22nd

9:00-10:30: Morning welcome and oral presentations

• Dimitrijević D, Raja NB, Kiessling W: Functional diversity of scleractinian corals through time [YSA]

• Althoff, P, Haug, JP: A scratch in mathematics – comparing claws in bilaterian animals using the logarithmic spiral [YSA]

• Amler MRW, Yancey TE, Raczynski P and Brandt S: The early history of the bivalve family Pinnidae

• Nützel, A, Seuss, B: On the evolution of neritimorph gastropods

• Johnson, J, Loria, SF, Kotthoff, U, Harms, D: A review of fossil pseudoscorpions [YSA]

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:15: Oral presentations

• Braig, F, Haug, JT: Investigating the true diversity of true crabs: the group Carcinidae as a first example [YSA]

• Haug, C, Haug, JT: Convergent evolution and how to find it, using quantifiable traits in "flying crustaceans"

• Hörnig, MK, Jung, SV, Haug, C, Haug JT: The evolution of egg-laying strategies in dictyopteran insects – clues from the fossil record.

• Haug, JT, Haug, C: Quantitative morphology recognises losses in diversity over time where other methods do not, exemplified by the analysis of lacewing larvae

• Zippel, A, Haug, C, Yáñez Iturbe-Ormaeche, B, Haug, JT: What does it take to live in wood? The fossil record of wood-associated beetle larvae and their impact on past ecosystems [YSA]

12:15-13:45: Lunch break

13:45-15:00: Oral presentations

• Penk, SBR, Reichenbacher, B: First scale-atlas for cichlid fishes [YSA]

• Kevrekidis, C, Cerwenka, AF, Reichenbacher, B: The effect of fossils on a morphological phylogeny of herring-like fishes (Teleostei: Clupeiformes)

• Krahl, A., Werneburg, I.: Network analysis reveals functional convergences of flipper motion in secondarily aquatic tetrapods

• Pommerening, S, Martin T: Jaw mechanics in shrews and the role of the double articulation [YSA]

• Wagensommer, A, Tomelleri, I, Baumgartner, B, Kustatscher, E: Eine historische Fossiliensammlung in den Beständen des Naturmuseums Südtirol: die Sammlung Georg Gasser (1857-1931)

15:00-15:30: Coffee break

• Lorenz, M, Elger, K, Achterberg, I, Semmler, M, Meistring, M, Pfurr, N: The Specialised Information Services for Geosciences (FID GEO): Supporting the Cultural Change Towards Open Science in Germany.

• Kiessling, W: Paleosynthesis: The German Seed for Global Collaboration

16:00-16:30: Closing ceremony, Young Scientist Award, Poster award

Friday, Sept. 23rd

• Excursion by foot to the Cannstatt mineral waters and travertines

• 9:00-15:00 Workshop “Fossil behaviour”

>>>> POSTER PRESENTATIONS

• Amson, E: Skeletal fraction scaling in terrestrial and aquatic amniotes.

• Deines, V, Baranov, V: No need to pull a long face – Head shapes in louse flies and their closer relatives

• D'Orazi Porchetti, S, Knoch, U, Wagensommer, A: New fossil vertebrate footprints from the Hassberge Formation of Upper Franconia

• Ehlert, S, Rasser, MW, Rebelo, AC: Einsiedlerkrebse fördern das Wachstum von Rhodolithen auf den Azoren: Implikationen für den fossilen Record

• Fischer, J, Heidtke, UHJ, Voigt, S, Rahm, B: Permian acanthodians - wolves in chainmail?

• Fischer, J, Thiede, K, Thiede, N, Zessin, W: The first completely three-dimensionally preserved shark egg capsule of the morphotype Palaeoxyris.

• Hartenfels, S, Becker, RT: The evolution of early protognathids and their significance for the redefinition of the Devonian/Carboniferous Boundary

• He, W, Wang, X.: A Miocene flora from the Toupi Formation in Jiangxi Province, Southeastern China

• Haug, FI, Haug, GT, Haug, C, Haug, JT: Hold on tight: Evolutionary changes in the morphology of the major claw in lobsters and their relatives

• Haug, GT, Haug, JT, Haug, C: History of venom-injecting appendages in Euarthropoda

• Höltke, O: Haie und Rochen in der Nahrungskette der Oberen Meeresmolasse (OMM) (Unter-Miozän) von Baden-Württemberg [YSA]

• Kotthoff, U, Loria, SF, Harms,D: Assessing Arachnid Diversity in Amber deposits

• Kustatscher et al.: Palynological studies of the fluvio-lacustrine sedimentary rocks of the Athesian Volcanic Group (Cisuralian, early Permian) of South Tyrol

• Maxwell, E: A new specimen of the rare ichthyosaur genus Suevoleviathan from the Early Jurassic of Germany

• Mujal, E, Schoch, RR: The Kupferzell fossil lagerstätte and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the Lower Keuper (Middle Triassic, Germany)

• Mulvey, L, Warnock, R, De Baets, K: Where traditional extinction estimates fall flat: using novel cophylogenetic methods to estimate extinction risk in platyhelminths

• Nowak, E., Kustatscher, E., Roghi, G., Van Konijnenburg-Van Cittert, JHA: Surprisingly different: The in situ spores of Isoetites specimens from the Anisian in northern Italy

• Okamura, B, Gruhl A, De Baets K: Evolutionary transitions of parasites between freshwater and marine environments

• Pint, A, Frenzel, P: Neoflabellina reticulata (Reuss 1851) – The Fossil of the Year 2022

• Pint, A, Scholze, F: Fossil jellyfishes: New material from the lower Permian Bromacker site and selected aspects on the knowledge of fossil medusae preservation.

• Paetzel, C. Hörnig, MK, Schade, M.: Growth in dwarfs: are ontogenetic changes reflected by isolated braincase elements in Europasaurus? [YSA]

• Reeb, A-S, Rebelo, AC, Ramalho, RS, Madeira, JEO, Rasser, MW Fossil corals of the Cape Verde Archipelago [YSA]

• Rebelo, AC, Rasser, MW: Fossil rhodoliths and coralline algal buildups of the Azores archipelago

• Schaeffer, J, Schoch, RR: Redescription of the neotype of Plateosaurus [YSA]

• Jung SV, Hörnig MK: Cockroach oothecae over time - a proven maternal investment for over 100 million years [YSA]

• Trybin, YaS, Langer, MR: The benthic foraminifera from Paleogene of Central Asia

Scientific presentations

In order to present a broad programme, and particularly to provide an audience for students and young scientists, there are no parallel sessions and no separation into symposia.

Oral presentations will take place in the lecture hall of the Museum am Löwentor. Presenters should expect a mixed audience including non-specialists, and their presentations should take this into account.

Speaking time will be 12 min. + 3 min. for discussion. Please use PowerPoint or PDF file formats for presentations. If you have any special requirements, such as videos, please contact us in advance. Further information is provided in the third circular.

Please contact the staff to upload your presentation as soon as possible!

Poster presentations will be given a prominent place without parallel sessions. They will be accompanied by snacks or dinner, as well as by a variety of refreshments. We will do everything to provide a framework for fruitful discussions during the poster session.

Posters may not be larger than A0 format, portrait orientation. Please use only the fixing materials provided at the registration desk.

Social events and food

Conference fees include the icebreaker party (Sep. 19^th, 17:00-22:00), coffee breaks (two per day, from Sept. 20^th to 22^nd), refreshments during the poster session (Sept. 20^th) and the Early Career Research Event, as well as finger food and drinks the evenings of Sept. 20^th and 21^st (19:00-21:00). All catering will be provided by Café Fossil (https://www.cafefossil.de). It will be possible to purchase additional hot and cold drinks in Café Fossil.

Lunch: Since no restaurants or snack bars are close by, we have offered to pre-order lunch at the venue, to be paid separately. Those of you who have pre-paid their lunch, will receive a voucher at the conference office.

Young Scientist Award

The Paläontologische Gesellschaft will award a prize for MSc and PhD students.

Workshop AK Paläobiologie

23.9.2022, 9.00 - 15.00 Uhr

‘Fossil behaviour‘- potential and limitations of behavioural reconstructions of extinct organism

In today living organisms a great variety of different lifestyles and strategies can be observed, e.g. concerning reproduction, social behaviour, defense and nutrition such as predation or parasitism. The evolution of different lifestyles and strategies of organisms is an important topic for understanding ecological aspects, trophic interactions in deep time, but also phylogenetic relationship and is nowadays under focus in many studies. However, behaviour of extinct organisms cannot be observed directly and thus need to be indirectly inferred. Therefore, different approaches can be used, which ranges from cases of ‘frozen behaviour’ or group fossilisation, over trace fossils and pathologies to more indirect indications based on morphology or direct comparison with living organisms. Also, different combinations of approaches can be useful, but can also be challenging. Within this workshop, our aim is to critically discuss different aspects and approaches concerning behavioural reconstructions, their limitations and implications.

Field trip

The Quaternary Cannstatt Travertine and mineral waters

Duration: Half day by foot

Guides: Michael Rasser and Eli Amson, Stuttgart

Costs: Free of charge

Description: Bad Cannstatt (a district of Stuttgart) comprises the highest volume of natural spring water in Western Europe (and second place in Europe, after Budapest). The waters are highly mineralized and caused the deposition of remarkable travertine terraces during the Quaternary. During several interglacials, travertine was deposited as precipitates from these waters, and spectacular fossils and human artefacts were found preserved within these limestones, particularly during the Holsteinian interval. Our walking tour will include the degustation of various mineral waters as well as the visit of various outcrops.

Meeting point: Sep. 23^rd 2022, 9:00, entrance of Mineralbad Leuze (google map link: https://goo.gl/maps/F3jaoTBRbYZAjBBMA) between U-Bahn stations Mineralbäder and Mercedesstrasse.

Accommodation

Please use the common online resources to book your accommodation, such as booking.com.

For low-budget accommodation, we recommend:

• A&O Hostel (close to the museum): www.aohostels.com/de/stuttgart/stuttgart-city

• Hostel Alex30: https://alex30-hostel.de

and two youth hostels:

• www.jugendherberge.de/jugendherbergen/stuttgart-international-112/portraet

• www.jugendherberge.de/jugendherbergen/stuttgart-neckarpark-730/portraet

For students without any funding, we can offer one single and one double room in the museum building. Please send your request via palges2022@smns-bw.de

Data protection notice

For data protection notice, including your rights, please download: https://www.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/fileadmin/forschung/palaeontologie/projekte/dataprot.pdf