• Welcome - Purpose of the Conference
• Organising Committee
• Symposium-Chair and Contact Address
• Scientific Themes - Keynote Lectures
• Scientific Programme
• Oral Presentations
• Poster Presentations
• Field Meeting — Geological Excursion
  
• Participants of the Field Trip
  
• Social Events
• Meals
• Accommodation 
• How to get to Erlangen
• Climate 
• Immigration and Visa Requirements
• Insurance 
• Currency and Banking 
• Registration and Fees

Welcome - Purpose of the Congress

We cordially invite you to join the First International Symposium on Early Palaeozoic Palaeogeography and Palaeoclimate in September 2004. 

We will convene in the city of Erlangen, an old Huguenot town, and site of a prospering university. Erlangen is located in Franconia, northern Bavaria, which is famous for its surrounding geology with spectacular Jurassic sponge-microbial reefs. The world famous Archaeopteryx-site in Solnhofen is not far from Erlangen and will be visited during our meeting.

Franconia has the greatest density of micro-breweries in the world - about 1500. At least some of those genuine German beers will be offered during our symposium. Additionally, we have the pleasure to invite all participants to a traditional  brewery in the city centre of Erlangen at the end of our meeting.

Our symposium will serve as the Opening Meeting for the new IGCP project n° 503 "Ordovician Palaeogeography and Palaeoclimate", the successor project to the very successful IGCP project n° 410 "The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event" (1997-2002). After a three days indoor meeting at Erlangen, we have planned a field meeting to the Lower Palaeozoic in southern Sweden (palaeocontinent Baltica) with visits to the GSSP of the base of the Upper Ordovician at Fågelsång, the Ordovician of the island of Öland, and the Silurian succession of the island of Gotland.

Please, contact us for information about this meeting and we look forward to seeing you in Erlangen.

On behalf of the organising institutions and the Scientific Committee

Axel Munnecke and Thomas Servais
 
 

Organising Committee
 

International Scientific Committee    D.A.T. Harper, Copenhagen, Denmark Jun Li, Nanjing, China A. Munnecke, Erlangen, Germany A.W. Owen, Glasgow, Scotland, UK F. Paris, Rennes, France P. Sheehan, Milwaukee, USA T. Servais, Lille, France Chen Xu, Nanjing, China

Local Organising Committee  (Institute of Palaeontology, Erlangen University) Tim Beck Lydia Beuck André Freiwald Oliver Lehnert Sonja-B. Löffler Axel Munnecke Alexander Nützel Chris Schulbert Barbara Seuß Jürgen Titschack Petra Wenninger

Symposium-Chair and Contact Address

Axel Munnecke
Institute of Palaeontology, Erlangen University
Loewenichstr. 28, D-91054 Erlangen (Germany)
Phone: +49 (0)9131 / 85-26957 Fax: +49 (0)9131 / 85-22690
E-mail: palaeo2004@pal.uni-erlangen.de
Web-site: www.pal.uni-erlangen.de/IGCP503/

For questions regarding IGCP n° 503 "Ordovician Palaeogeography and Palaeoclimate" please contact:

Thomas Servais
UMR 8014 du CNRS, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille
Cité Scientifique, SN5, F-59655 Villeneuve d´Ascq (France)
Phone: +32 (0)3 20 33 72 20 Fax: +32 (0)3 20 43 69 00 
E-mail: thomas.servais@univ-lille1.fr
 
 

Scientific Themes - Keynote Lectures - Proceedings

The aim of the Symposium is to provide an interdisciplinary platform for the understanding of Palaeo(bio)geography and palaeoclimate during the Early Palaeozoic - with a particular focus on the Ordovician and Silurian (Ordovician biodiversification, end-Ordovician extinction, Silurian radiation). The congress also serves as the official Opening Meeting of the new IGCP project n° 503 "Ordovician Palaeogeography and Palaeoclimate" that will run from 2004 to 2008, and is followed by the first Field Meeting of this new programme. The Abstracts and the Field Guides will be published in a Symposium Volume (Special Volume of the Erlanger geologische Abhandlungen) available at the congress, and as pdf files. Conference language: all presentations will be given in English.

Scientific Programme

The Symposium venue is Erlangen Castle in the city centre of Erlangen, some 300 m from the Central Railway Station. All keynote lectures and talks will take place in the lecture hall in the Castle on the second floor (no parallel sessions). Registration, the icebreaker party, all coffee and tea breaks, and the poster session will take place in the hall on the first floor of the Castle.

Oral presentations

Except for Key Note Lectures, all presentations are scheduled for 20 minutes, with 15 minutes for the talk and 5 minutes for discussion. The lecture hall will have available: 1 projector for standard 35mm slides, screens, 1 overhead projector, and 1 beamer (PC-projector) for PowerPoint presentations. The latter should be delivered on CD-ROM. 2 laptop computers (Mac OS X and PC Windows XP Professional) for video presentations will be provided by the local organising committee.

We ask all speakers to contact us on August 31st while you register to check your presentation on the systems provided. Please, provide a CD ROM before the opening of the session, and indicate if you prefer presentation from the Mac (OS X) or from the PC (Windows XP Professional). All talks will be saved on the two laptops.

Poster presentations

We will provide poster boards in DIN A0 format (841 mm wide x 1189 mm high; portrait format). All coffee and tea breaks will be in the same hall than the poster presentations in order to assure enough time for discussions in front of the posters. All posters will be presented throughout the period of the congress. Text font size should be no smaller than 14 point, except for references and affiliations, which may be at 12 point. Preferably, a photograph of the presenting author/s should be included on the poster.

Poster Presentations in alphabetical order:

Antoshkina, A.I.: Late Silurian reef biota in the northwestern Salair: Application to Silurian geography

Bagnoli, G., Ribecai, R. & Albani, R.: Changes in some acritarch genera across the Volkhov/Kunda boundary on Öland (Sweden)

Blanchon, M., Raevskaya, E., Servais, T. & Vecoli, M.: The Cambro-Ordovician acritarch Vulcanisphaera

Couto, H., Sodré-Borges, F.,  Roger, G., Gutiérrez-Marco, J.C.: The Ordovician of the Valongo Anticline (Portugal)

Dahlqvist, P., Calner, M., Bergström, S.M. & Harper, D.A.T.: The Upper Ordovician-Lower Silurian stratigraphic succession in the Caledonian foreland basin of central Sweden: relationship to the Hirnantian glacial interval

Ernst, A. & Suttner, T.: Bryozoa from the Pin Formation (Upper Ordovician – Lower Silurian) in the Tethyan Zone of the Indian Himalayas

Fan Juanxuan & Chen Xu: Late Ordovician graptolite extinction and biogeography of graptolites in the Yangtze region

Fan Juanxuan & Zhang Yuandong: SinoCor 3.0, a biostratigraphic program for graphic correlation

Ghobadipour, M., Popov, L.E., Lehnert, O., Hairapetian, V. & Hosseini, M.: Emergence of the Palaeozoic Evolutionary Fauna in the early Ordovician of the Alborz Range, north-eastern Iran

Gubanov, A.P. & Bogolepova, O.K.: The earliest record of a colour pattern in molluscs

Hints, O. & Eriksson, M.E.: Early diversification of jaw-bearing polychaetes

Jankauskas, T. & Gritite, J.: Acritarch assemblages of the Ordovician and Silurian deposits in Lithuania

Jendryka-Fuglewicz, B.: Cambrian brachiopods from near the Teisseyre-Tornquist Line in Poland and their implications for palaeogeography

Kershaw, S. & Young, G.A.: Internal banding in Palaeozoic stromatoporoids and colonial corals: Classification and controls of formation

Kiipli, T., Kiipli, E. & Kallaste, T.: Record of Ordovician and Silurian volcanism in Estonian sections – prospect of research

Lee, S.-b., Lefebvre, B. & Choi, D.K.: Tremadocian stylophoran echinoderms from the Taebaeksan Basin, Korea

Manda, S.: Early Silurian cephalopod migrations to the Prague Basin (Perunica micro-plate, Bohemia)

Mergl, M.: The earliest brachiopod-bryozoan dominant community in North Gondwana: a case from Late Arenigian of the Barrandian, Bohemia

Nardin, E. & Levebvre, B.: Palaeogeography and biodiversity of Cambro-Ordovician echinoderms

Nolvak, J.: Ordovician chitinozoan distribution in the different areas of Baltoskandia

Nützel, A., Lehnert, O. & Frida, J.: Major changes in gastropod larval strategies during the Early Ordovician

Ortega, G., Albanesi, G.L. & Frigerio, S.E.: Early Darriwilian graptolite and conodont biofacies in the Los Azules Formation, Cerro Viejo section, Central Precordillera, Argentina

Podhalanska, T.: New data on the Ordovician ichnofossils from the Koszalin – Chojnice Region (Pomerania, NW Poland) – palaeogeographic implication

Raevskaya, E., Le Hérissé, A. & Steemans, P.: Quantitative distribution and evolution of palynomorphs associated with kukersite deposits in the Middle-Upper Ordovician of the East-European Platform

Stricanne, L., Munnecke, A., Pross, J. & Servais, T.: Development of acritarch communities across the late Silurian positive d13C excursion – data from Gotland, Sweden

Trotter, J.A., Eggins, S.M., McCulloch, M.T., Barnes, C.R., Nicoll, R.S., Nowlan, G.S. & McCracken, A.D: Sr isotopic and Mg cycling in Early Palaeozoic seawater: Implications for tectonic and climatic processes

Vaida, M., Veliciu, S. & Verniers, J.: Basin analysis: a punctual example in the South of Romania

Vaida, M., Verniers, J. & Seghedi, A.: The biostratigraphy of new chitinozoans from the South of Romania

Vandenbroucke, T.R.A., Van Nieuwenhove, N. & Verniers, J.: Towards an Upper Ordovician chitinozoan biozonation on Avalonia? Research on historical type areas and other UK key sections

Vanmeirhaeghe,  J., Van Noten, K., Van Grootel, G. & Verniers, J.: Chitinozoans from the Upper Ordovician of the Fauquez area (Brabant Massif, Belgium)

Vecoli, M., Al-Ruwaili, M., & Le Hérissé, A.: Palaeobiological and palaeoenvironmental significance of cryptospores and acritarchs from the Llanvirn of Saudi Arabia

Vennin, E., Álvaro, J.J., Villas, E. & Destombes, J.: High-latitude bryozoan-dominated communities as a major carbonate factory on mixed carbonate-siliciclastic platforms of the late Ordovician northern Gondwana

Vyhlasová, Z.: Ordovician conulariid diversity in the periGondwana and Baltica regions – a summary with a special view to the Ordovician of Barrandian

Wheeley, J.R., Cherns, L. & Wright, P.: The Ordovician Baltic epeiric sea – taphonomy and early diagenesis of its carbonate sediments

Woo, J. & Chough, S.K.: Depositional environments and sequence stratigraphy of the Jigunsan Formation (Middle Ordovician), Taebaeksan Basin, Mideast Korea

Wrona, R.: Gondwanan provenance of the Lysogóry block  (Holy Cross Mountains, Poland) supported by Upper Ordovician chitinozoans from the Pobroszyn section

Xu Honggen & Yu Guohua: Brief introduction of the Ordovician and Silurian in Northwest Zhejiang

Zuykov, M.A. & Harper, D.A.T: Platystrophia-like brachiopods: their potential use in biostratigraphy, palaeoecology and palaeogeography

Field Meeting - Geological Excursion

Immediately following the opening conference of IGCP n° 503, we are holding the first field meeting of the new IGCP project. We will visit the Lower Palaeozoic of southern Sweden (palaeocontinent Baltica), including the GSSP of the base of the Upper Ordovician at Fågelsång, the Ordovician of the Island of Öland, and the Silurian succession of the Island of Gotland. Departure and arrival point is the Erlangen bus terminal (ca. 100m NW of the main railway station). The field meeting is completely booked out.
 

Participants of the Field Meeting

Per Ahlberg* (guide)
Mikael Calner** (guide)
Chen Xu
Fan Juanxuan
Olle Hints
Lennart Jeppsson** (guide)
Seung-bae Lee
Bertrand Lefebvre
Miriam Lefebvre
Oliver Lehnert
Li Jun
Stepan Manda
Axel Munnecke (guide)
Qiu Jinyu
Rong Jiayu
Sergey Rozhnov
Thomas Servais
Svend Stouge*** (guide)
Su Wenbo
Sun Meirong
Thijs Vandenbroucke
Jan Vanmeirhaeghe
Jusun Woo
Xie Xiaoyan
Xu Honggen
 
(participation restricted to: * Skaane; ** Gotland; *** Skaane and Öland)

Social Events

After the third and last day of scientific sessions on Fri-day, September 3rd, following the closing session of the congress, a guided tour through the 250 year old traditional family Kitzmann brewery will be organ-ised. This guided tour will end in a „sample room“ where the local products can be tasted and en-joyed. Meeting point is the Erlangen Castle at 19.00 p.m.

Meals

Meals are not organised, except the conference dinner on the evening of September 2. As the conference venue is in the city centre of Erlangen, a large number of restaurants are in easy walking distance. Meals are available at all price ranges and in various styles, ranging from fast-food restaurants to typical Franconian style local restaurants. 
 
 

Accommodation

Accommodation is not organised and must be arranged individually. We recommend you to visit the website www.erlangen.de to find information about the city and accommodation. 

The most convenient way to book your room is through the Tourist Information Office. The form sheet "Room Reservation" is available in various formats (WORD, RTF, PDF) under www.pal.uni-erlangen.de/IGCP503/accomm/. Rooms are available at a wide range of prices, from simple rooms in private houses (equivalent to B&B) starting with prices of about 15 Euros per person in single or double rooms, or "Hotels Garni" and ranging up to 3 and 4 stars (up to 200 Euros per night per person). A youth hostel and camping sites are also available. There are a total of almost 50 hotels and guest-houses with over 2800 beds in the city centre, and another 1700 rooms within the city limits.

Please, note that Erlangen is an important regional and national centre and the headquarter of SIEMENS, and that hotel facilities may quickly be booked out. Therefore we suggest you to book your accommodation as soon as possible with the help of the Tourist Information Office (www.erlangen.de).
 
 

How to get to Erlangen

Erlangen is situated in northern Bavaria, a few kilometres north of Nuremberg. Motorways, airports and major railway lines allow easy access from inside and outside Germany.

• By plane

• By car

• By train

 

Climate

The meeting takes place in the late summer. Daily temperatures may still reach up to 20 °C, but be prepared for occasional showers. 
 
 

Immigration and Visa requirements

Participants are advised to check their individual circumstances for entry. Please, note that Germany, Denmark and Sweden are Schengen countries and a single visa is valid for all countries belonging to the Schengen territory. If you need an official invitation to get your visa, please, contact the Organising Chair. 
 
 

Insurance

All insurance is the responsibility of the participants. The Organising Committee accepts no liability or responsibility for death, illness, injury, or financial loss by any person attending the Symposium and the Field Meeting, whatever the cause. It is strongly recommended that overseas participants arrange their own health and accident insurance and travel assistance. 
 
 

Currency and Banking

Germany is a country in the Euro-Zone. Exchange rates vary, but at the time of preparing this circular (July 2004) 1 Euro = ca. 1.23 US$. All banks (except in airports) are closed on Saturdays and Sundays, but automatic cash machines are available. Participants of the field meeting should note that Denmark and Sweden are not in the Euro-Zone, and Danish and Swedish crowns are required for payments in bars, restaurants and shops. 
 
 

Registration 

Late registration to attend the conference is still possible after June 1^st at an increased rate. Late contributions, however, can only be scheduled as poster presentations, and abstracts arriving after July 16th cannot be printed in the abstract volume. Students benefit from a reduced registration fee, but must provide a certificate of their student status.

The registration fees cover the abstract volume (including field guides), final programme, list of participants, the icebreaker reception, coffee and refreshments during the scientific sessions, as well as all social events, except the conference dinner and the Solnhofen excursion. Please, note that registration is required for these social events. The IGCP field meeting to Sweden is booked out.

Mode of payment:
Payment by credit card is not possible. Payments must arrive by (international) bank transfer on the following bank account:

Banking details:
 

Please, note that the international bank transfer costs (varying for each country and each bank) are covered by the participants.

Fees:
 

Please note:  Student members of the Geologische Vereinigung (GV) who do not live in Erlangen get a support of 75 Euro from the GV. Please send the registration confirmation, a copy of the student ID, and the bank account to the Geologische Vereinigung.

• download Registration form sheet as pdf file or rtf file

• download this second circular as pdf file

• download proceedings volume (including abstracts and field guides) as pdf files