International Conference Taphos 2002
3rd Meeting on Taphonomy and Fossilization. FEBRUARY 2002
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Schedule
| Thursday 14 | |
| 9h-10h | Registration and delivery of documentation |
| 10h-10h30 | Presentation of the Conference and Official Opening |
| 10h30-11h | Coffee break |
| 11h -12h | Opening lecture: Adolph Seilacher (Universities of Tübingen and Yale, Germany and USA): "Non olet: the strange taphonomy of coprolites and cololites". |
| 12h30 -13h | Talk: Julia Lee-Thorp (University of Cape Town, South Africa): "Assessing Fidelity of Stable Light Isotope Signals in the Light of Mineral Structural Changes from Fossils in Karstic South African Hominid Sites" |
| 13h -16h | Lunch |
| 16h -16h30 | Talk: Nicholas J. Butterfield (University of Cambridge, UK): "Permineralization vs. compression; disparate modes of exceptional preservation in the Burgess Shale and their palaeobiological significance" |
| 16h30 -17h30 | Presentation of posters |
| 17h30 -18h | Coffee break |
| 18h -19h | Presentation of posters |
| Friday 15 | |
| 9h-9h30 | Talk: Richard A. Fariña (Universidad de la República de Montevideo, Uruguay): "Taphonomy and Palaeoecology of the South American giant mammals" |
| 9h30-10h30 | Presentation of posters |
| 10h30-11h | Coffee break |
| 11h -12h | Plenary lecture: Susan Kidwell (University of Chicago, USA): "Ecological fidelity of time-averaged marine mollusks: Good News from the Dead" |
| 11h -13h | Round Table: “Taphonomy and Archeology” (A. K. Behrensmeyer, D. K. Ferguson, J. Lee-Thorp and R.A. Fariña) |
| 13h -16h | Lunch |
| 16h –17h | Plenary lecture: Ronald E. Martin (University of Delaware, USA): "Cyclic and Secular Trends in Preservation Through Geologic Time: Implications for the Evolution of Biogeochemical Cycles" |
| 17 -17h30 | Coffee break |
| 17h30-18h30 | Presentation of posters |
| 18h30 -19h30 | Talk: David Kay Ferguson (Palaeontological Institute, Viena, Austria): "Plant Taphonomic Processes and the Fossil Record" |
| Saturday 16 | |
| 10h-11h | Round Table: “Taphonomy and Evolutionary Rates” (A. Seilacher, S.M. Kidwell, N.J. Butterfield y R.E. Martin) |
| 11h -11h30 | Coffee break |
| 11h30 -12 | Talk: Susan M. Kidwell (University of Chicago, USA): "The stratigraphy of skeletal concentrations – applied taphonomy" |
| 12h30-13h30 | Closing lecture: Anna Kay Behrensmeyer (Smithsonian Institution, USA): "Bones through Time: The Importance of Biological versus Physical Taphonomic Processes in the Vertebrate Fossil Record" |
| 13h30 -16h30 | Lunch |
| 16h30 - 18h | Free time |
| 18h -19h | Guided tour to the Museu de Ciències Naturals de l’Ajuntament de València |