SYMPOSIUM-PROGRAM

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-REGISTRATION – Sunday, 13th September 2009-

17:30h Registration (will also be possible during the week) 19:30h-21:00h Icebreaker

-ORAL & POSTER PRESENTATIONS – Monday, 14th September 2009: T1-T10 & P1-P13-

09:00h-09:50h OPENING CEREMONY

09:50h-10:35h KEYNOTE LEHNERT, O. The Early Palaezoic climate – a control of macroevolutionary changes, major radiations and extinction events.

COFFEE BREAK: 10:35h-11:00h

CHAIR SESSION 1: Peter KÖNIGSHOF

11:00h-11:25h T1 BOGOLEPOVA, O.K. & GUBANOV, A.P. The Palaeozoic of the Eurasian high Arctic.

11:25h-11:50h T2 SINGH, B.P. Trilobite and trace fossils biostratigraphy of the Cambrian successions of the Zanskar region, Northwest Himalaya.

11:50h-12:15h T3 RAK, S. & VIKTORÝN, T. Articulated exoskeleton of the trilobite Spinibole (Spinibole) olgae CHLUPÁČ, 1966 in the Moravian Karst (Trilobita, Czech Republic).

12:15h-12:40h T4 LEHNERT, O., STOUGE, S. & BRANDL, P. The Tremadocian through Darriwilian conodont succession of NE Spitsbergen: faunal affinities and intercontinental correlation.

12:40h-13:05h T5 MEIDLA, T., TINN, O., WILLIAMS , M. & A INSAAR, L. Latest Ordovician ostracod assemblages and biogeography.

LUNCH: 13:05h-14:30h

CHAIR SESSION 2: Olga BOGOLEPOVA

14:30h -14:55h T6 CORRADINI, C. & BARRICK J.E. The Standard Zonation concept - examples from the Silurian conodont zonation.

14:55h-15:20h T7 PERRIER, V., VANNIER, J. & SIVETER, D.J. Are there pelagic ostracods in Silurian Seas?

15:20h-15:45h T8 OSWALD, I. & MUNNECKE, A. Exceptional microbial carbonates in the Silurian of Gotland in the aftermath of the Ireviken extinction event: Indication of an anachronistic facies?

15:45h-16:10h T9 WACKER, U., JOACHIMSKI, M.M. & MUNNECKE, A. Stable carbon and oxygen isotope values from Silurian brachiopod shells from Gotland (Sweden): primary or diagenetically altered signals?

16:10h-16:35h T10 SCHEMM-GREGORY, M. Howellella – the root of the delthyridoid Spiriferids (Brachiopoda, Silurian to Devonian).

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COFFEE BREAK: 16:35h-17:00h

17:00h-18:30h P1-P14

P1 NARDIN, E., LE HIR, G., BEAULIEU, E., GODDERIS, Y. & DONNADIEU, Y. Did the primary productivity trigger the Early Palaeozoic biodiversification?

P2 SINGH, B.P. Dorypyge perconvexalis (Trilobita, Middle Cambrian) from Zanskar region of Northwest Himalaya: significance in global correlation.

P3 SCHALLREUTER, R. & HINZ-SCHALLREUTER, I. Ostracodes as a tool for palaeogeographic reconstructions in the Ordovician.

P4 CALNER, M., LEHNERT, O. & NÕLVAK , J. Sedimentary successions on Baltoscandia support an early start of the Ordovician-Silurian Icehouse period.

P5 SUTTNER, T.J. & VINN, O. Relicts of the oldest reefs built by tubicolous fossils of Austria.

P6 CORRIGA, M.G., CORRADINI, C., LEHNERT, O., JOACHIMSKI, M.M., PONDRELLI, M. & SIMONETTO, L. The Silurian-Devonian Boundary in the Rifugio Lambertenghi Fontana III Section (Wolayer area, Carnic Alps, Italy).

P7 DOJEN, C. Late Silurian ostracodes from the Hazro Anticline (SE Turkey) and the question of the Rheic Ocean.

P8 JUYAL , K.P., SUTTNER, T.J. & HUBMANN , B. Silurian to Devonian microfossils from the Saser Brangsa and Aq Tash formations, Eastern Karakoram, India.

P9 SCHEMM-GREGORY, M. A bizzare new brachiopod genus from the Cantabrian Mountains (northern Spain, Lower Devonian).

P10 POHLER, S.M.L., PONDRELLI, M. & SUTTNER, T.J. Devonian shallow water carbonates of the Carnic Alps – current state of knowledge and future prospects.

P11 PERRI, M.C., POHLER, S.M.L., PONDRELLI, M., SPALLETTA, C., SCHNELLBÄCHER, P. & SUTTNER, T.J. The Pragian–Frasnian ‘transitional’ facies of the Carnic Alps (Austria-Italy).

P12 HUBMANN , B. & SUTTNER, T.J. Eifelian and Givetian reef pioneer communities: examples from the Graz Paleozoic.

P13 CHEN, X.-Q., MAWSON, R., SUTTNER, T.J., TALENT, J.A., FRÝDA, J., MATHIESON, D., MOLLOY, P. & BERKYOVÁ, S. Late Devonian (latest Frasnian–Famennian) faunas from the ‘Hongguleleng Formation’ and the F–F boundary in northern Xinjiang, NW China.

P14 SCHEMM-GREGORY, M. & JANSEN, U. The Graue Phyllite in the Goldsteintal (Rheinisches Schiefergebirge, Germany) – Do the new finds confirm their age?

19:30h RECEPTION AT TOWN HALL

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-ORAL PRESENTATIONS & IGCP WORKSHOP – Tuesday, 15th September 2009: T11-T22-

CHAIR SESSION 3: Carlo CORRADINI

09:00h-09:25h T11 DOJEN, C. Biostratigraphy and Palaeobiogeography of Early Devonian ostracodes from the Ibarmaghian Faunal Province.

09:25h-09:50h T12 SCHNELLBÄCHER, P. Gravity and current induced resedimentation of a Devonian carbonate platform (Mt. Freikofel, Carnic Alps).

09:50h-10:15h T13 JANSEN, U. Pridolian to Eifelian history of the Rhenish Sea in the mirror of brachiopod evolution (Rhenish Massif, Germany).

10:15h-11:40h T14 BERKYOVÁ, S., BROCKE, R., FATKA , O., FRÝDA, J., SCHINDLER, E., FILIPIAK , P., KOPTÍKOVÁ, L., BUDIL, P. & SUTTNER, T.J. Prasinophyte bloom and intense micritization as evidences for enhanced nutrient load during Basal Choteč Event – a preliminary report.

COFFEE BREAK: 10:40h-11:05h

CHAIR SESSION 4: Ulrich JANSEN

11:05h-11:30h T15 KÖNIGSHOF, P., NESBOR, D. & FLICK, H. Volcanism and reef development in the Devonian: a case study from the southern shelf of the Old Red Continent (Rheinisches Schiefergebirge, Lahn syncline, Germany).

11:30h-11:55h T16 WATERS, J. Origination and Extinction of the Silurian – Devonian Blastoidea (Echinodermata).

11:55h-12:20h T17 HORACEK, M. & KRYSTYN, L. Climate change across the Permian–Triassic Boundary – from cool-house to hot-house.

12:20h-12:45h T18 RICHOZ, S., BAUD, A., JENNY, C. & MARCOUX, J. Peculiar water geochemistry and faunal association in Upper Permian carbonate platform and Early Triassic microbial reef in Turkey.

LUNCH: 12:45h-14:30h

CHAIR SESSION 5: Johnny WATERS

14:30h-14:55h T19 HORACEK, M. & BRANDNER, R. Lower Triassic marine δ34S trend in the Dolomites (Northern Italy).

14:55h-15:20h T20 FORKE, H.C., SCHEIBNER, C. & BLOMEIER, D.

Cyclic carbonate shelf deposits on an Upper Carboniferous platform (Ny Friesland, NE Svalbard) – a video presentation.

15:20h-15:45h T21 NOVAK, M. & FORKE, H.C. Evolution of the Late Paleozoic platform from a ramp into a rimmed shelf (Karavanke Mts., Slovenia).

15:45h-16:10h T22 FORKE, H.C., BLOMEIER, D., CARMOHN, A. & SCHEIBNER, C. Environmental change in the Permian of Spitsbergen: From a (warm-water) peritidal, carbonate platform (Gipshuken Formation) to a (temperate) storm-dominated, mixed siliciclastic-carbonate ramp (Kapp Starostin Formation).

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16:10h-16:35h INFORMATION: EXCURSIONS 1 & 2

COFFEE BREAK: 16:35h-17:00h

17:00h-18:30h IGCP WORKSHOP

19:30h BREZEL & BEER

-SOCIAL DAY – Wednesday, 16th September 2009-

08:00h Departure for Zotter and Volcano & Wine near lecture hall (Attemsgasse); after lunch we will return to Graz for the city tour 17:30h guided tour through the brewery of Puntigam 19:00h Conference Dinner at the brewerys restaurant

-EXCURSION 1: GRAZ PALEOZOIC – Thursday, 17 th September 2009-

GUIDED BY: Bernhard H UBMANN & Thomas SUTTNER

09:00h Departure near lecture hall (Attemsgasse) The sequence includes Silurian to Carboniferous strata, of which the Devonian neritic units around Graz are very well developed. We are going to visit Emsian to Givetian sections such as the road-cut at St. Pankrazen or Forstweg Attems where coral frame- and rudstones are outcropping. Additionally to a very well known algal flora and coral fauna, some of these localities yield a diverse microfauna including scolecodonts, conodonts and other vertebrate remains like shark teeth or placoderm plates.

Lower-Middle Devonian section of Forstweg Attems; coral limestone; microfauna.

-EXCURSION 2: CARNIC ALPS – Friday, 18th September 2009-

GUIDED BY: Holger F ORKE & Hans Peter SCHÖNLAUB

07:00h Departure near lecture hall (Attemsgasse) The field trip to the Carnic Alps will take us to the Carboniferous of Nötsch and to the Nassfeld area. At the first mentioned locality brachiopods like Gigantoproductus, trilobites (Proetidae, Phillipsiidae), gastropods, crinoids and ostracods occur. At the second locality, Mount Auernig, we are going to visit the Upper Carboniferous sequence yielding calcareous algae and silicified foraminifers (Fusulinoidea), bryozoans and ostracods.

Carboniferous sequence of Mount Auernig; calcareous algae; silicified foraminifers (fusulinids).

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Upper pics: main building of Karl-Franzens-University of Graz; direction to the lecture hall “HS 06.03”; building hosting the Institute of Earth Sciences (Geology & Palaeontology). Lower pics: clock-tower of Graz at the Schlossberg; main-place at city centre; view at the Town Hall from the top of the Schlossberg.

Map of the city of Graz. Indicated is the airport at Thalerhof (1), the main train station “Graz Hauptbahnhof” (2), the lecture hall “HS 06.03” (3), the Institute of Earth Sciences (4), the lunch place MENSA (5), a taxi service-point (6), and the Town Hall at the main-place of the city centre (7).