Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Location: A310
Date: Monday, 01/Sept/2025
11:00am
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12:30pm		 2e - Terrestrial environments and climates in the Cretaceous
Location: A310
Chair: Marina Bianca Suarez, University of Kansas
 
11:00am - 11:15am

Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous Climate Changes in the Asian Interior: Environmental Magnetism and Chromaticity Records of sediment from northern Qaidam Basin, East Asia

ChunYan Li, Shuang Dai, Zhaobin Zhang, Pengju Cao, Tianqi Ji, Xiaohui Wang, Xinnan Fang


11:15am - 11:30am

PALAEOSOLS OF THE BARRA VELHA FORMATION AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH ENVIRONMENTAL EVOLUTION OF THE SANTOS BASIN, BRAZIL

ALESSANDRO BATEZELLI, Taynah Buratto Rebelo, Bruna Husak, Emilson Pereira Leite, Gelvam André Hartmann


11:30am - 11:45am

Geochemical Analysis of Mid versus Low Latitude Palaeo-ecosystems of Continental Vertebrates from the North American Albian-Cenomanian Western Interior Basin

Clayton William Forster, Celina Angelica Suarez


11:45am - 12:00pm

Inner-continental paleotemperature estimates based on brGDGT analyses from lignites (Aptian-Albian, Mongolia)

Fritz-Lukas Stoepke, Ralf Littke, Thorsten Bauersachs, Alex Wheeler, François-Nicolas Krencker, Sebastian Steinig, Sascha Flögel, Hitoshi Hasegawa, Niiden Ichinorov, Ulrich Heimhofer


12:00pm - 12:15pm

Aptian-Albian Stable Isotope Paleotemperature Estimates From North American Continental Records

Marina Bianca Suarez, Matthew Allen, Annette Weldon, Clayton Forster, Celina Angelica Suarez
4:00pm
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5:30pm		 2e - Terrestrial environments and climates in the Cretaceous
Location: A310
Chair: Laiming Zhang, China University of Geosciences (Beijing)
 
4:00pm - 4:15pm

Proxy-based reconstructions of climate extremes at high- and low-latitudes during the Cretaceous greenhouse

Landon Burgener, Ethan Hyland, Brian Reich, Aaron Harris, Britton Beggs, Carina Kentish, Christopher Scotese


4:15pm - 4:30pm

Identifying the correlation between a terrestrial geological occurrence and Oceanic Anoxic Event 2

Xiangyu Zhang


4:45pm - 5:00pm

Terrestrial ecosystem response against environmental change across the Cenomanian/Turonian boundary recorded by biomarkers in sediments from the Great Valley Sequence, California, USA

Masashi A. Ikeda, Ken Sawada, Takuto Ando, Reishi Takashima, Hiroshi Nishi


5:00pm - 5:15pm

Wood anatomical evidence on the climate of the upper Campanian Jose Creek Member, McRae Formation

Garland Upchurch


5:15pm - 5:30pm

Volcanic Drivers of East Asian Precipitation Changes During the K-Pg Mass Extinction

Yitian Yin, Xue Gu, Laiming Zhang, Chengshan Wang
Date: Tuesday, 02/Sept/2025
9:00am
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10:30am		 Combined 5e - Cretaceous tetrapods from Europe & 5f - Cretaceous vertebrates – open session
Location: A310
Chair: Achim H. Schwermann, LWL-Museum für Naturkunde
Chair: Denis Theda, Lippisches Landesmuseum Detmold
 
9:00am - 9:15am

Cretaceous dinosaurs from Normandy (north-western France)

Eric Buffetaut


9:15am - 9:30am

Iridescent structural coloration in a crested Cretaceous enantiornithine bird from Jehol Biota

Zhiheng LI, Jinsheng Hu, Thomas Stidham, Mao Ye, Min Wang, Yanhong Pan, Tao Zhao, Jingshu Li, Zhonghe Zhou, Julia Clarke


9:30am - 9:45am

New Insights into the Early Cretaceous Polar Vertebrate Faunas of Australia

Matthew Carrano, Tim Ziegler, Lesley Kool, Erich Fitzgerald, Patricia Vickers-Rich, Thomas Rich


9:45am - 10:00am

Sauropods Strategically Established Nesting Colonies on Mid-channel Bar

Seongyeong Kim, Yuong-Nam Lee, Noe-Heon Kim, Yong Sik Gihm


10:00am - 10:15am

Soft tissue preservation in cretaceous teleost larvae reveals evolutionary patterns of peritoneum pigmentation

Jing Zhang, Baoxia Du, Aijing Li


10:15am - 10:30am

The upland theropod fauna from an Early Cretaceous fissure fill in Balve (NW Germany)

Denis Theda, Darius Nau, René Dederichs, Christophe Hendrickx, Achim Schwermann
11:00am
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12:30pm		 5b - Ammonites – what else?
Location: A310
Chair: Frank Wiese, Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR)
Chair: Christina Ifrim, Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns
 
11:00am - 11:15am

Valanginian ammonite biostratigraphy of northern Mexico

Ricardo Barragán-Manzo, José Roberto Ovando-Figueroa, Miguel Company, José Antonio Jacobo-Delgado, Josep Anton Moreno-Bedmar


11:15am - 11:30am

Upper Hauterivian – lowermost Upper Barremian ammonite record of the San Isidro Formation, Santiago Huauclilla, Oaxaca State, southern Mexico

Josep Anton Moreno-Bedmar, Diego Iván Serrano-Monroy, Miguel Company


11:30am - 11:45am

Ammonoid mass-mortality events due to submarine explosive volcanism. Uppermost Albian of Sopela (Basque-Cantabrian basin, Western Pyrenees)

Mikel A. López-Horgue, Iñaki Rojo-Legarra, Santiago N. González, Fernando Á. Fernández-Álvarez, Isabelle Kruta


11:45am - 12:00pm

Not ammonites, but squids: “the Cretaceous squid ocean” revealed by digital fossil-mining

Shin Ikegami, Yusuke Takeda, Jörg Mutterlose, Yasuhiro Iba


12:00pm - 12:15pm

Not ammonites, but sepioids: the oldest sepioid cephalopod from the Cretaceous discovered by zero-shot learning AI

Kanta Sugiura, Shin Ikegami, Yusuke Takeda, Jörg Mutterlose, Mehmet Oguz Derin, Aya Kubota, Harufumi Nishida, Kazuki Tainaka, Takahiro Harada, Neil H Landman, Yasuhiro Iba


12:15pm - 12:30pm

Palaeobiogeographic implications in the co-fauna of the World’s Largest Ammonite Parapuzosia (P.) seppenradensis (Landois, 1895)

Christina Ifrim
4:00pm
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5:30pm		 Combined 4d - Cretaceous sedimentation patterns in the southern Boreal Realm [...] & 4e - Regional geology and integrated stratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous of NW-Europe
Location: A310
Chair: Joerg Mutterlose, Ruhr University Bochum
Chair: Peter Alsen, GEUS
Chair: Roel Verreussel, TNO Geological Survey of the Netherlands
 
4:00pm - 4:15pm

Tectonostratigraphic framework and regional correlation of Lower Cretaceous sandstones in the Broad Fourteens and West Netherlands basins of the Netherlands

Roel Verreussel, Renaud Bouroullec, Stefan Peeters


4:15pm - 4:30pm

The Cretaceous fossil record of the Sverdrup Basin

Simon Schneider, Michael A. Pointon, Benoit P. H. Vautravers


4:30pm - 4:45pm

The limestones in the Lower Cretaceous of Greenland – and their associated fossils

Peter Alsen, Mutterlose Jörg


4:45pm - 5:00pm

A new sequence stratigraphic model for the German Wealden (upper Berriasian) of northwest Germany

Anton Christoph Schneider, Robert Lippmann, Friedrich W. Luppold, Jörg Mutterlose


5:00pm - 5:15pm

Deciphering the sequence stratigraphic symphony of Lower Cretaceous pelagic carbonates in the Danish Central Graben

Mads E. Jelby, Jon Ineson, Emma Sheldon, Nicolas Thibault, Carlette N. Blok, Stéphane Bodin, Kresten Anderskouv


5:15pm - 5:30pm

Opoka: unlocking the mineralogical composition of Upper Cretaceous carbonate-siliceous facies of the European Basin

Agata Jurkowska, Ewa Świerczewska-Gładysz, Szymon Kowalik Filipowicz
Date: Wednesday, 03/Sept/2025
9:00am
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10:30am		 Combined 4a - Shallow-marine Carbonate Systems & 4c - Cretaceous Geodynamics
Location: A310
Chair: François-Nicolas Krencker, Leibniz University Hannover
Chair: Dominik Hennhoefer, Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt
Chair: Rute Coimbra, GeoBioTec, Dpt. of Geosciences
Chair: Christian Brandes, Leibniz Universität Hannover
Chair: Piotr Krzywiec, Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
Chair: Aleksandra Stachowska, Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
 

Correlation of Spatial Variations of Sedimentary Facies to Seismic Facies of the Maastrichtian Carbonate Successions in Arabian Platform, Southeast Türkiye

Damla Altintas, Ismail Omer Yilmaz, Sevinç Ozkan Altiner, Halil Emre Celep


Crustal-scale flexure during Late Cretaceous inversion of the Polish Basin and its influence on depositional systems

Piotr Krzywiec


Dislocation Enhancement in Seismic Imaging: A Case Study from the Upper Cretaceous complex in the Polish Carpathian Foreland

Anna Kwietniak, Andrzej Urbaniec, Anna Łaba-Biel, Benedykt Kubik


From Mesozoic faults to neotectonic activity in northern Central Europe – the legacy of the Late Cretaceous inversion phase

Christian Brandes, Jutta Winsemann, Peter Sandersen, Holger Steffen, Rebekka Steffen, Jonas Kley
11:00am
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12:00pm		 2c - Land-Ocean linkage in the circum-Pacific and Asia during the Cretaceous
Location: A310
Chair: Takashi Hasegawa, Kanazawa University
 
11:00am - 11:15am
Invited Talk

Cretaceous seawater osmium isotopic record

Hironao Matsumoto


11:15am - 11:30am

The Weissert Event records from terrigenous sequences exposed in the Pacific coast of NE Japan

Taiga Tomaru, Reishi Takashima, Yuji Orihashi, Toshiro Yamanaka, Hisao Ando, Yoshihiro Asahara, Azumi Kuroyanagi, Hiroshi Nishi


11:30am - 11:45am

Chorono- and sequence stratigraphy, and depositional history of the Upper Cretaceous Kuji Group, Northeast Japan: shallow-marine to fluvial sedimentation of the eastern margin of Paleoasian continent

Hiso Ando, Shunsuke Mitsuzuka, Hikari Uno, Ren Hirayama


11:45am - 12:00pm

Centennial–millennial-scale climate variability during the OAE1a interval: Insights from a lacustrine varve record in Mongolia

Hitoshi Hasegawa, Ulrich Heimhofer, Takashi Hasegawa, Niiden Ichinnorov, Mihoko Kawabe, Aki Sakuma, Yukiko Kozaka, Keitaro Yamada, Kazuhide Mimura, Takuya Itaki
Date: Thursday, 04/Sept/2025
9:00am
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10:30am		 Combined 5a - Cretaceous Larger Benthic Foraminifera & 5c - Unravelling the [...] significance of inoceramid bivalves & 5d - Cretaceous Invertebrates
Location: A310
Chair: Ireneusz Walaszczyk, Uniwersytet Warszawski; Wydział Geologii
Chair: Frank Wiese, Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR)
 
9:00am - 9:15am

Orthoptera (grasshoppers and crickets) of the Cretaceous

Ole-Kristian Odin Schall, Ulrich Kotthoff, Martin Husemann


9:15am - 9:30am

Arachnids in Cretaceous amber

Ulrich Kotthoff, Danilo Harms, Stephanie Loria, Constantin Mey


9:30am - 9:45am

Complex chemical communication and advanced sociality of 100-million-year-old ants

Ryo Taniguchi, David A. Grimaldi, Hidehiro Watanabe, Kosuke Nakamura, Yasuhiro Iba


9:45am - 10:00am

Evolutionary development trend of ostracods of the genus Cythereis Jones, 1849 at the Cenomanian-Turonian boundary

Vitalii Syniehubka


10:00am - 10:15am

USE OF MICROTOMOGRAPHY FOR THE CREATION OF A 3D ATLAS FOR NON-MARINE OSTRACODS FROM THE LOWER CRETACEOUS OF BRAZIL

Marcos Antonio Batista dos Santos Filho, Bernardo Vázquez García, Julia da Silva Pereira, Gerson Fauth, Francisco Henrique de Oliveira Lima


10:15am - 10:30am

How many, and where from? The rudist genus Torreites (Palmer 1933) revised

Dominik Hennhoefer
11:00am
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12:30pm		 Combined 5a - Cretaceous Larger Benthic Foraminifera & 5c - Unravelling the [...] significance of inoceramid bivalves & 5d - Cretaceous Invertebrates
Location: A310
Chair: Ireneusz Walaszczyk, Uniwersytet Warszawski; Wydział Geologii
Chair: Lorenzo Consorti, Institute of Marine Sciences
Chair: Frank Wiese, Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR)
 
11:00am - 11:15am

Biostratigraphic and biogeographic insights from inoceramid bivalves and microfossils (calcareous nannofossils and foraminifers) of the basal Santa Marta Formation, James Ross Island, Antarctica

Ireneusz Walaszczyk, Miroslav Bubík, Lilian Švábenicka, Radek Vodrážka


11:15am - 11:30am

Campanian gastropods: An evolutionary view on Xenophoridae and Pterocerellidae of Northern Germany

Ulrich Wieneke, Manuel Pietzonka, Joachim Peter, Manfred Heising, Han Stoutjesdijk


11:30am - 11:45am

Reconstructing the richest ancient rocky shore ecosystem

Finn Surlyk, Anne Mehlin Sørensen


11:45am - 12:00pm

Beast from the deep – what are you?

Frank Wiese, Schlüter Nils, Friedrich Oliver, Norris Richard D.


12:00pm - 12:15pm

Micropaleontological Constraints on the Age and Paleoenvrionments of the Cenomanian-Turonian Ajlun Group within a Sequence Stratigraphic Framework (Central Jordan)

Ali Alibrahim, Tojo Chirakal, Jihede Messaoud, Abdulkader AlAfifi, Frans van Buchem


12:15pm - 12:30pm

Tracing Paleoenvironmental Change with Benthic Foraminifera in the Cretaceous Austral Realm

Erik Wolfgring, Giulia Amaglio, Michael A. Kaminski, Maria Rose Petrizzo, David Watkins
4:00pm
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5:30pm		 3a - Cretaceous Environmental Benchmarks: Volcanism, Oceanic Anoxia and climate change
Location: A310
Chair: Thierry Adatte, Lausanne University
Chair: Gianluca Frijia, Università di Ferrara
Chair: Brahimsamba BOMOU, University of Lausanne
 
4:00pm - 4:15pm

Beyond the KPg Impact: Volcanism as the Slow Burn Behind Sudden Extinction

Thierry Adatte, Nils Baumann, Marcel Regelous, Blair Schoene, Gerta Keller, Syed Khadri


4:15pm - 4:30pm

Multi-Proxy Chemostratigraphy of the Cenomanian-Turonian Boundary (OAE2) in the Southeast Anatolian Basin (İnişdere, Türkiye): Anoxia, and Platform Drowning

Oguz Mulayim, Fatih Köroğlu, Onur Alkaç


4:30pm - 4:45pm

Possible record of the end-Cretaceous tsunami passage in the epicontinental Europe – case study from the Nasiłów (Poland)

Zbyszek Remin, Michał Cyglicki, Marcin Barski, Zofia Dubicka, Joanna Roszkowska-Remin


4:45pm - 5:00pm

The Drowning of the El Doctor platform as a response to the Oceanic Anoxic Event 2

Fernando Nuñez-Useche, Eduardo Miguel Gómez-Estrada, Thierry Adatte, Jorge Spangenberg, Lourdes Omaña-Pulido, Teresa Pi-Puig


5:00pm - 5:15pm

Complexes of Upper Cretaceous planktonic foraminifera on the background of volcanic activity in Georgia

Khatuna Mikadze, Nino Lapachishvili, Zviadi Chkhaidze


5:15pm - 5:30pm

Origin and thermal maturity of the organic matter in the Cenomanian–Turonian Eagle Ford Formation in northeastern Mexico

Angélica Ruiz-Correa, Luis Dethere Caro-González, Daniel Carrizo, Juan Josué Enciso-Cárdenas, Genaro de la Rosa-Rodríguez, María Colín-García, Fernando Núñez-Useche
Date: Friday, 05/Sept/2025
9:00am
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10:30am		 5g - Terrestrial flora evolution during the Cretaceous
Location: A310
Chair: Baoxia Du, Lanzhou University
Chair: Jiří Kvaček, National Museum Prague
 
9:00am - 9:15am

A New Aquatic Flora in the Late Cretaceous Ecosystem of Egypt: Evidence from Palynology and Mesofossils

Haytham El Atfy, Hans Kerp, Harald Schneider, Ahmed Kassem, Benjamin Bomfleur


9:15am - 9:30am

New investigations on Cretaceous woods from the Jiaolai Basin, Shandong Province and their palaeoclimate relevance

Zikun Jiang, Ruiying Hao, Yongdong Wang, Kemin Xu


9:30am - 9:45am

Evolution of Cretaceous vegetation in Europe with particular focus on monocots and their palaeogeographical consequences

Jiří Kvaček, Marcela Svobodová, Jana Čepičková, Veronika Veselá, Jiřina Dašková, Mario Mendes


9:45am - 10:00am

Floral Turnover and Its Climatic Significance in the Continental Interior of East Asia During the Early Cretaceous

Mingzhen Zhang, Shuang Dai, Peihong Jin, Guolong Liu, Zhen Du


10:00am - 10:15am

Early Cretaceous flora transition in the Jiuquan area, Northwest China

Baoxia Du, Aijing Li, Jing Peng, Yiqiao Fu, Chong Dong


10:15am - 10:30am

Late Cretaceous paleowildfire event recorded in Dayangshu Basin, eastern Inner Mongolia, northern China and their paleo-environmental significance

Jianguo Hui, Jungang Peng, Chong Dong, Ting Wang, Suxin Yin, Gongle Shi
11:45am
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12:30pm		 5g - Terrestrial flora evolution during the Cretaceous
Location: A310
Chair: Baoxia Du, Lanzhou University
Chair: Jiří Kvaček, National Museum Prague
 
11:45am - 12:00pm

The first record of fossils of Pinuxylon wood and Xenoxylon wood from the Cretaceous period in Shandong Province

Ruiying Hao, Zikun Jiang, Kemin Xu, Zhenguo Ning, Ning Tian, Aowei Xie, Xiao Shi, Yongdong Wang, Guohua Xu, Fuxia Zhang


12:00pm - 12:15pm

Early Cretaceous palynofloras of the #15 coal seam (Hailar Basin, Inner Mongolia)

Alexander Wheeler, Tim A. Moore, Jian Shen, Ofentse M. Moroeng, Jingjing Liu


12:15pm - 12:30pm

Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota Flourished in Humid Mountain Lake Drainage

Yuan Gao, Jiquan Chen, Daniel E. Ibarra, Lijuan Sha, Chengshan Wang