Conference Agenda
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| Location: E001 |
| Date: Monday, 01/Sept/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 9:45am |
Opening Ceremony Location: E001 |
| 9:45am - 10:30am |
Invited Talk by SCS Chair Ian Jarvis "Defining and refining the Cretaceous time scale: integrated stratigraphy, stages, substages, GSSPs and SABSs for the last 77 Myr of the Mesozoic Era" Location: E001 Invited presentation Defining and refining the Cretaceous time scale: integrated stratigraphy, stages, substages, GSSPs and SABSs for the last 77 Myr of the Mesozoic Era |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
3b - Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Events Location: E001 Chair: Ismail Omer Yilmaz, Middle East Technical University Chair: Mihaela Melinte-Dobrinescu, National Research and Development Institute for Marine Geology and Geoecology Chair: Michael Wagreich, University of Vienna Chair: Gabriele Gambacorta, University of Florence Chair: Xi Chen, China University of Geosciences Beijing Early Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Events (OAEs) in Peri-Tethyan shallow-water carbonate systems: Evidence from the Latium-Abruzzi Carbonate Platform (Ernici Mts, Central Italy) 11:15am - 11:30am Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Events in Turkey 11:30am - 11:45am THE ANOXIC EVENT OF THE ALBIAN-CENOMANIAN BOUNDARY INTERVAL IN THE TETHYAN REALM 11:45am - 12:00pm Palynostratigraphical characterization of the Marne a Fucoidi Formation from the Umbria-Marche Basin (Northern Apennines, Italy). 12:00pm - 12:15pm Mid-Cenomanian Event recorded by sedimentological, geochemical, and biotical proxies in the Eastern Carpathians 12:15pm - 12:30pm Carbonate and organic carbon production at the OAE2 on SE Newfoundland Ridge |
| 2:00pm - 2:45pm |
Plenary Talk: Silke Voigt "The impact of chemical weathering on the Late Cretaceous climatic cooling" Location: E001 Chair: Jochen Erbacher, Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Ressources Invited presentation The impact of chemical weathering on the Late Cretaceous climatic cooling |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
3b - Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Events Location: E001 Chair: Ismail Omer Yilmaz, Middle East Technical University Chair: Mihaela Melinte-Dobrinescu, National Research and Development Institute for Marine Geology and Geoecology Chair: Michael Wagreich, University of Vienna Chair: Gabriele Gambacorta, University of Florence Chair: Xi Chen, China University of Geosciences Beijing Quantifying the pattern of organic carbon burial through Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 4:15pm - 4:30pm Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon evidence for increased wildfire frequency during Cretaceous OAE 2 4:30pm - 4:45pm Resilience and extinction of calcareous plankton and shallow-water benthic biocalcifiers across the Late Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 4:45pm - 5:00pm Iron isotope signatures of hydrothermally sourced nutrients that triggered Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 5:00pm - 5:15pm Calcareous nannofossil paleoceanography across Oceanic Anoxic Event 3: From local to global perturbations 5:15pm - 5:30pm Cretaceous Sea Surface Temperature Reconstruction in the Eastern Tethyan Realm |
| Date: Tuesday, 02/Sept/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
1a - Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary interval Location: E001 Chair: Jacek Grabowski, Polish Geological Institute - National Research Institute Chair: Gregory Price, University of Plymouth Calpionella alpina Ecoevent – may it be better defined? 9:15am - 9:30am Integrated chronostratigraphy of the VOICE (VOlgian Isotopic Carbon Excursion) in the Neuquén Basin 9:30am - 9:45am Chasing the cycle – astronomical forcing during the Jurassic/Cretaceous transition: A case study of the pelagic successions of the Torre de’ Busi (Southern Alps, Italy) and Lókút (Transdanubian Range, Hungary) sections 9:45am - 10:00am ROCK-MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF THE BOSSO VALLEY SECTION, ITALY – SUPPLEMENTS FOR THE PROPOSED STRATOTYPE SELECTION OF THE J/K BOUNDARY 10:00am - 10:15am BERRIASIAN PALEOSOLS IN THE LOWER YELLOW CAT MEMBER OF THE CEDAR MOUNTAIN FORMATION IN EASTERN UTAH: EVIDENCE OF EUROAMERICAN JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS (J-K) DINOSAUR EXTINCTION DURING AN EXCEPTIONALLY WET PERIOD IN THE SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES 10:15am - 10:30am Depositional models and their implications for sequence stratigraphy in the Bückeberg Group, Lower Saxony Basin, Germany |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
1c - Integrated stratigraphy and refining the Cretaceous timescale Location: E001 Chair: Ian Jarvis, Kingston University London Chair: Zofia Dubicka, University of Warsaw Revised calcareous nannofossil biozonation of the Cretaceous at low and middle latitudes 11:15am - 11:30am From the Andes to the Tethys: A multidisciplinary approach to Valanginian correlations 11:30am - 11:45am Bridging the gap between the Boreal and Tethyan Realms: Sr-Isotope correlation of the Barremian–Albian interval 11:45am - 12:00pm The Aptian GSSP at Cau (Spain) 12:00pm - 12:15pm Relative Paleointensity Variability During the Aptian–Albian: Insights from the Sergipe-Alagoas and Umbria-Marche Basins 12:15pm - 12:30pm Albian integrated stratigraphy and radioisotopic ages of the Yezo Group, northern Japan |
| 2:00pm - 2:45pm |
Plenary Talk: Bradley Singer "Radioisotopic dating and the Cretaceous time scale" Location: E001 Chair: Ulrich Heimhofer, Leibniz University Hannover Invited presentation Radioisotopic dating and the Cretaceous time scale |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
1c - Integrated stratigraphy and refining the Cretaceous timescale Location: E001 Chair: Maria Rose Petrizzo, University of Milan Chair: Francesca Falzoni, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche New insights into absolute age and stratigraphic analyses of the Greenhorn marine cycle in Central, KS 4:15pm - 4:30pm Integrated stratigraphy of the Turonian-Coniacian Opole Succession, a pivotal link in the Central European Cretaceous 4:30pm - 4:45pm Carbon and oxygen stable-isotopes and holostratigraphy of Seaford Head (southern England): integrating biostratigraphy and the Turonian – Campanian time scale 4:45pm - 5:00pm The Santonian-Campanian Boundary in the Pacific Basin: correcting Gale et al, 2023 5:00pm - 5:15pm The Campanian-Maastrichtian boundary interval at the Peritethyan Oslen-Krivodol reference section (Bulgaria): bioevents, isotope data and palaeoceanography 5:15pm - 5:30pm Dinoflagellate cyst events from around the Campanian–Maastrichtian transition: State of knowledge and potential candidates for boundary markers |
| Date: Wednesday, 03/Sept/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
3c - Cretaceous environmental perturbations: paleoecology, paleoceanography and geochemistry Location: E001 Chair: Cinzia Bottini, Università degli Studi di Milano Paleoceanographic control on the spatiotemporal distribution and extinction of the Late Jurassic – Early Cretaceous pygopide brachiopods 9:15am - 9:30am Biotic and environmental perturbations during the OAE 1a in the Southern Iberian Palaeomargin (western Tethys): Insights from organic and inorganic proxies 9:30am - 9:45am Late Aptian climate change and evidence for the Equatorial Humid Belt in Tunisia 9:45am - 10:00am Long-term variations in palaeoenvironmental conditions during the Late Aptian–Late Cenomanian in the western Tethys: Insights from the Umbria-Marche Basin (central Italy) 10:00am - 10:15am Size response of Eprolithus floralis to Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 (Cenomanian-Turonian, Late Cretaceous) 10:15am - 10:30am Escalating environmental instability exacerbated the end-Cretaceous ecosystem collapse |
| 11:00am - 12:00pm |
2a - Drivers of Cretaceous climate change: Evidence from new proxies and numerical modeling Location: E001 Chair: Emmanuelle Pucéat, Université Bourgogne Europe Chair: Silke Voigt, Goethe University Frankfurt Paleotemperature reconstruction in the Late Cretaceous through clumped isotopes in rudist bivalves 11:15am - 11:30am Temperatures of the Cretaceous Ocean 11:30am - 11:45am Consequences of Late Cretaceous uplift of Africa on continental weathering systems and global climate 11:45am - 12:00pm The evolution of seawater temperature and oxygen isotopes in the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway using carbonate clumped isotope paleothermometry |
| Date: Thursday, 04/Sept/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am Live Now |
2d - Cretaceous Eustasy: State of the Art – contributions in honour of Peter R. Vail (1930 – 2024) Location: E001 Chair: Mike Simmons, Halliburton Chair: Frans van Buchem, KAUST Chair: Markus Wilmsen, Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung Towards a calibrated and plausible short-term eustatic curve for the mid-Cretaceous 9:15am - 9:30am Deciphering eustatic signals using high-resolution biostratigraphy and chemostratigraphy: examples from the Albian and Cenomanian Stages. 9:30am - 9:45am Sea-Level Fluctuations during the Cenomanian–Coniacian on the NW Arabian Plate Margin: Insights from a Sequence Stratigraphic Case Study from West-Central Jordan 9:45am - 10:00am Cenomanian fluvial to marine valley backfilling controlled by palaeotopography and eustatic sea-level changes (Saxonian Cretaceous Basin, Germany) 10:00am - 10:15am Sea-level changes through OAE2 in a high-resolution, carbon- isotope temporal framework, Western Canada Cretaceous foredeep 10:15am - 10:30am Carbon-isotope stratigraphy and sea level changes in the Turonian of the Western Interior Seaway, North America |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
1b - Non-marine Cretaceous stratigraphy and terrestrial ecosystem Location: E001 Chair: Yaqiong Wang, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Chair: DERMEVAL CARMO, University of Brasília The diachronous development of the rift basins in the Early Cretaceous of northeastern China and its implications 11:15am - 11:30am Turtle remains from Koh Moul (Koh Kong Province, SW Cambodia) and their stratigraphical implications 11:45am - 12:00pm Evolution of pre-salt lake-systems during Barremian-Aptian: A multiproxy study of high-frequency paleoenvironmental variations 12:00pm - 12:15pm The Songhuajiang Biota, a window to understanding Late Cretaceous terrestrial ecosystem 12:15pm - 12:30pm Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) endemic ostracods, charophytes and dinosaurs from the Lameta Formation at Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India: palaeoenvironment, palaeobiogeographic and biostratigraphical implications |
| 2:00pm - 2:45pm |
Plenary Talk: Lawrence Percival "To heat, or not to heat, that is the question: Cretaceous environmental crises and their links to climate change" Location: E001 Chair: François-Nicolas Krencker, Leibniz University Hannover Invited presentation To heat, or not to heat, that is the question: Cretaceous environmental crises and their links to climate change |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
1b - Non-marine Cretaceous stratigraphy and terrestrial ecosystem Location: E001 Chair: Zhonghe Zhou, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology Chair: Dangpeng Xi, China University of Geosciences, Beijing The modes and patterns of limb size evolution close to the origin of birds 4:15pm - 4:30pm Ostracod fauna from the Lower Cretaceous Lisangou Formation of the Guyang Basin and its applications on: Biostratigraphy and palaeoecology 4:30pm - 4:45pm Biochronostratigraphic remarks on limnic ostracoda assemblage from Maracangalha Formation, Lower Cretaceous, Recôncavo Basin, NE-Brazil 4:45pm - 5:00pm High-resolution non-marine ostracod richness in the Late Cretaceous of China 5:00pm - 5:15pm New lagerstätte fossils from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of the Lingyuan Basin, North China 5:15pm - 5:30pm Geomorphological control on the palaeosol evolution in an Upper Cretaceous distributive fluvial system (Bauru Basin, Brazil). 5:30pm - 5:45pm Palynological evidence for the Late Cretaceous lake transgression event in the Songliao Basin, NE China |
| Date: Friday, 05/Sept/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
2b - Paleoecology, paleobiogeography and biostratigraphy of Cretaceous marine fossils… Location: E001 Chair: Erik Wolfgring, University of Vienna Chair: Ottilia Szives, Szabályozott Tevékenységek Felügyeleti Hatósága Chair: Paula Granero Ordóñez, University of Vienna Chair: Maria Rose Petrizzo, University of Milan Early Aptian Marine Incursions and Stratigraphic Evolution of the Lower Cretaceous Barbalha Formation, Araripe Basin, Northeastern Brazil 9:15am - 9:30am Organic walled dinoflagellate cyst assemblages from parts of the Byers Group, Livingston Island, Antarctica – biostratigraphical, palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic assessment 9:30am - 9:45am Re-organization of ocean circulation patterns and sea-level change revealed by foraminifera across Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 at Eastbourne (SE England) 9:45am - 10:00am Palaeoecological response to Earth System changes across the Cenomanian – Turonian interval in the UK Chalk Sea 10:00am - 10:15am The Marine Lower Cretaceous of England: Geological Conservation Review 10:15am - 10:30am New hypothesis on the origin and early evolution of the Hippuritidae (Bivalvia) |
| 11:00am - 11:45am |
Plenary Talk: Cinzia Bottini "The response of calcareous nannoplankton to paleoenvironmental changes: case studies from the Cretaceous" Location: E001 Chair: André Bornemann, Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe Invited presentation The response of calcareous nannoplankton to paleoenvironmental changes: case studies from the Cretaceous |
| 11:45am - 12:30pm |
2b - Paleoecology, paleobiogeography and biostratigraphy of Cretaceous marine fossils… Location: E001 Chair: Erik Wolfgring, University of Vienna Chair: Ottilia Szives, Szabályozott Tevékenységek Felügyeleti Hatósága Chair: Paula Granero Ordóñez, University of Vienna Chair: Maria Rose Petrizzo, University of Milan Coccolithophore production and calcification in the western Tethys Ocean during the Albian-Cenomanian 12:00pm - 12:15pm THE “HILL 991” SECTION (MONTE CUCCO, ITALY): A HIGH-RESOLUTION REFERENCE RECORD FOR THE APTIAN–ALBIAN INTERVAL IN THE UMBRIA–MARCHE BASIN 12:15pm - 12:30pm Integrated biostratigraphy (foraminifera and ostracod) of a middle Cretaceous carbonate sequence from North-Eastern Algeria, North African Tethyan margin. |
