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paleonet Re: workshop on Taphonomy



Dear Paleonetters,
The paleontological workshop entitled "3rd MEETING ON TAPHONOMY AND
FOSSILIZATION. Taphos2002" will be held at Valencia (Spain) during February
14-17, 2002. If you are interested to attend this meeting, please contact
with the Secretary of the workshop at the International University Menéndez
Pelayo in Valencia (UIMP) at the e-mail address: secretaria_valencia@uimp.es

Subscription fee is 108,18 euros. Payments can be done by bank transfer to
the account of UIMP or, alternatively, by cash the opening day of the
workshop. Although the possibility of sending contributions is now closed,
the participants will receive a copy of the proceedings book (more than 500
pages), entitled "Current Topics on Taphonomy and Fossilization". The web
page for this volume is at:
http://paleopolis.rediris.es/paleontologia/Taphos2002/Book.html

Account for payments by bank transfer:
2077 0063 51 3101275278 
Bank: BANCAIXA
C/ Pintor Sorolla, nº 8 (Oficina Principal 63)
Valencia (Spain).

Additional information at the web page of the meeting:
http://paleopolis.rediris.es/paleontologia/Taphos2002
where you can check possibilities for hotel accommodation and useful
information on the city.

The information on the invited lectures and talks (PDF and HTML formats) is
at: 
http://paleopolis.rediris.es/paleontologia/Taphos2002/Taphos2002.pdf
http://paleopolis.rediris.es/paleontologia/Taphos2002/Schedule.html

For further details of the scientific sessions, please contact with the
chairman of the meeting, Professor Miquel De Renzi (Miquel.De.Renzi@uv.es),
or with the Secretary of the Organizing & Scientific Commitee, Dr.
Margarita Belinchón (museociencias@ayto-valencia.es).

Below you will find a list of lectures and communications.
We hope to meet you at Valencia,
Paul Palmqvist
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Invited lectures and scientific contributions of particpants (oral
communications and posters):

Theory of Taphonomy

               C. Emig
               Death: a key information in marine palaeoecology.

               S.R. Fernández-López & Y. Fernández-Jalvo
               The limit between biostratinomy and fossildiagenesis.

               S.R. Fernández-López, Y. Fernández-Jalvo & L. Alcalá
               Accumulation: taphonomic concept and other palaeontological
uses.

               P. Palmqvist, M. De Renzi & A. Arribas
               Taphonomic analysis as a source of paleobiologic information.

               B. Soutullo
               Hysteresis and the fossil record. Fossils as dissipative
structures.


Taphonomy and Evolutionary Paleobiology

               R. Martin
               Cyclic and secular trends in preservation through geologic
time: implications
               for the evolution of biogeochemical cycles.

               De Renzi, M. & Ros, S.
               How do factors affecting preservation influence our
perception of rates of
               evolution and extinction? The case of bivalve diversity
during the
               Phanerozoic.

               E. Molina, L. Alegret, I. Arenillas & J.A. Arz
               Taphonomy in analysis of the pattern of extinction at the
Cretaceous/Tertiary
               boundary.


Paleoecology and Paleobiogeography

               R. A Fariña
               Taphonomy and Palaeoecology of the South American giant
mammals.

               C. D’Arpa & G. Meléndez
               Oxfordian Passendorferiinae (Perisphictidae, Ammonoidea) from
               West-Sicilian and Iberian basins: testing biogeographic and
taphonomical
               dispersal.

               D. R. Gröcke, P. Palmqvist & A. Arribas
               Biogeochemical inference on the early Pleistocene
paleocommunity of large
               mammals from Venta Micena (Guadix-Baza basin, Southeastern
Spain).

               A.C. Marra & L. Bonfiglio
               Taphonomy of hyena dens: an insular perspective.

               P. Palmqvist
               On the community structure of the large mammals from Dmanisi
(Georgia,
               Caucasus).

               M. Tappen, R. Ferring, D. Lordkipanidze, A. Vekua & G.Kiladze
               Observations on the Vertebrate Taphonomy of Dmanisi Locality
in The
               republic of Georgia.


Taphonomy of Shell Concentrations

               S. M. Kidwell
               Ecological fidelity of time-averaged marine mollusks: Good
News from the
               Dead.

               S. M. Kidwell
               The stratigraphy of skeletal concentrations – applied
taphonomy.

               I. Di Geronimo, C. Messina, A. Rosso & R. Sanfilippo
               Taphonomic data in paleoenvironmental reconstruction of shelly
               concentrations in a dune system.

               E. Farinatti, J.O. Spagnuolo & S. Aliotta
               Bioerosion and dissolution of molluscs in Holocene deposits
in the Bahía
               Blanca estuary, Argentina.

               A. Márquez-Aliaga & S. Ros
               Taphonomic richness of the scarce Spanish record of Triassic
bivalves: some
               examples to be discussed.

               A. Parras & S. Casadío
               Oyster concentrations from San Julián Formation, Paleogene
of Patagonia,
               Argentina: taphonomic analyisis and paleonvironmental
implications.

               F. Olóriz, M. Reolid & F.J. Rodríguez-Tovar
               Taphonomic features in Upper Oxfordian ammonite assemblages
(Bifurcatus
               Zone) from the Navalperal section (Internal Prebetic, Betic
Cordillera).

               J. Sandoval & A. Checa
               Taphonomy of cephalopod concentrations in the Jurassic of
the Subbetic
               (Southern Spain).


Special preservation cases

               A. Seilacher 
               Non olet: the strange taphonomy of coprolites and cololites.

               N.J. Butterfield
               Permineralization vs. compression; disparate modes of
exceptional
               preservation in the Burgess Shale and their palaeobiological
significance.

               E. Barrón, A. Arillo & V. Ortuño
               Taphonomic analysis of lacustrine arthropod and
plant-bearing concretions
               from the lower Miocene lacustrine basin of Izarra (lava
province, Spain).

               M.D. Gil Cid, F. Arroyo, R. Lara, N.P.C. Rodrigues & A. Torices
               Taphonomic features on the marine assemblages in the Lower
Palaeozoic
               (Cambrian-Ordovician) from the SW of Spain.

               M.V. Pardo Alonso & M. De Renzi
               Microenvironmental conditions as inducers of differential
preservation: a
               case study in the Guadalmez Formation (Upper Devonian).

               E. Peñalver, X. Martínez-Delclós & M. De Renzi
               Evidence of microbian veils and their sticking action on
large remains of
               fossil insects –examples from two Spanish Konservat
Fossil-Lagerstätten.

               J. F. Petrulevicius
               Taphonomic cycles at the insect bearing strata of Maíz Gordo
Formation, a
               Paleogene sequence of Northwest Argentina.


Vertebrate and Chordate Taphonomy

               A.K. Behrensmeyer
               Bones through time: the importance of biotic versus abiotic
taphonomic
               processes in the vertebrate fossil record.

               L. Alcalá, C.M. Escorza & L. Luque
               Taphonomic models of 3D orientation of fossil bones from
continental
               vertebrate sites.

               E. Bernáldez
               Biostratinomy of terrestrial macromammals from Doñana.

               C. Castillo, E. Martín-González, J.J. Coello & Y. Yanes
               Taphonomy of reptilian fósil concentrations of volcanic
caves of El Hierro
               (Canary Islands, Spain).

               R. Esperante & L. Brand
               Taphonomy of fossil whales in the diatomaceous sediments of the
               Miocene/Pliocene Pisco Formation, Perú.

               M.D. Marín, C. de Santisteban, L. Merino & P. Montoya
               Petrographic study of macrovertebrates fossil bones from
Venta del Moro
               (Valencia, Spain).

               A. Nasti 
               A model for bone transport by hydric action of Lama sp. in
gorges of
               altitude in the meridional Puna: new evidences for an old
problem.

               P. Palmqvist, M. De Renzi, A. Arribas, G.G. Alvarez Coto & V.
               Torregrosa
               Characterizing the sedimentary context and taphonomic mode
of vertebrate
               assemblages: towards a multidimensional approach.

               P. Plasencia, A. Márquez-Aliaga & J.I. Valenzuela-Ríos
               Some fossildiagenetic features in Triassic conodonts from
Spain.


Taphonomy and Paleobotany

               David K. Ferguson
               Plant Taphonomic Processes and the Fossil Record.

               G. Cladera & R. Cúneo
               Fossil plants buried by volcanic ashes in the lower
Cretaceous of Patagonia.


               Taphonomy, Sedimentology and
               Biostratigraphy

               G. Meléndez, J. Bello, J. Ramajo, H. Ziani
               Iberian Chain revisited: taphonomic gradients and
palaeogeography.

               P. Monaco
               Taphonomy of three dimensional boxworks systems by decapod
               crustaceans in carbonate platform parasequences of the Lower
Jurassic
               (Calcari Grigi, Southern Alps).

               A. Szydlo
               Tithonian foraminiferal assemblages from the Silesian
(Ciescyn) basin in the
               Polish Outer Carpathians.

               J. Yesares-García and J. Aguirre
               A methodological procedure for taphonomic analysis and tapho
facies
               models. An experimental approach a case study.


Taphonomy and Archeology

               E. Allué
               Preliminary questions for the taphonomic study of
archeologic coals from the
               Abric Romaní record (Capellades, Spain).

               G. Bar-Oz & T. Dayan
               On the use of the petrosum bone to detect postdepositional
destruction and
               selective transport in archaeofaunal assemblage.

               E. Bernáldez
               Archaeological rubbish tips: a new taphonomic approach.

               I. Cáceres, P. Bravo, M. Esteban, I. Expósito & P. Saladié
               Breakage of fresh bones and warmed bones: experimental
approach and
               methodological perspectives.

               P.M. Guillem Calatayud
               Vulpes vulpes and the micromammal concentration within
karstic cavities.
               Parallelism with archaeological localities.

               A. Marciniak
               Natural formation processes of the Neolithic animal bone
assemblages.
               Taphonomy and statistic in the microscale.

               M. Pérez Ripoll
               Relevance of taphonomic studies in the rabbit bones from
archeological
               localities.

               A.C. Pinto & P.J. Andrews
               Scavenging behaviour patterns in cave bears Ursus spelaeus.

               F. Savanti
               A regional taphonomic model for Lake Cardiel basin,
Patagonian Steppe,
               Argentina.

               J. Yravedra Sainz de los Terreros, M. Domínguez Ródrigo & A.
               González-Ruibal
               The out dated basis of anatomical representation patterns
for interpretation
               of archeological sites.

Taphonomy in Didactics and Museums

               C. Martínez-Pérez, A. García-Forner, J. Guillem, M.A.
Maroto, J.A.
               Villena & A. Márquez-Aliaga
               The taphonomic collection in the Museu de Geologia of the
Universitat de
               València (Spain) and its didactic application.



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Dr. Paul Palmqvist, Profesor Titular
Departamento de Ecología & Geología (Área de Paleontología)
Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Málaga
Campus Universitario de Teatinos, 29071 Málaga (Spain)
Phone: +34 952 132002 (office), +34 952 212870 (home)
Shared Fax: +34 952 132000, E-mail: Paul.Palmqvist@uma.es
Internet: http://webpersonal.uma.es/de/ppb/
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