Let us meet across the P/T boundary

Workshop on Permian - Triassic Palaeobotany and Palynology
Bolzano / Bozen (Italy), June 16-18, 2005

Cartoon P-Tr-Boundary

The Bolzano workshop (held at the Natural Science Museum of South Tyrol) has been provided a forum for all researchers interested in the studies of palaeobotany and palynology of the Permian and Triassic time interval. The main topics included comparisons between micro- and macrofloras of similar age as well as the extinction event at the P/Tr boundary and its biotic recovery. Also more general relevant questions as if and how sporomorphs and fossil plants provide information about climate changes during the time have been discussed.

Organising and Scientific Committee

Evelyn Kustatscher (South Tyrol Museum of Natural Sciences, University of Ferrara)
e-mail: Evelyn.Kustatscher@naturmuseum.it
Johanna H.A. van Konijnenburg-van Cittert (University of Utrecht, University of Leiden)
Hans Kerp (University of Münster)
Vito Zingerle (South Tyrol Museum of Natural Sciences)


Oral Presentations, Abstracts

[*] Hans Kerp (keynote lecture): Permian floras: where does it begin, where does it end?

[*] Paola Pittau: Sequence of significative palynological events in the Upper Permian South Alpine successions: potential tool for delineating biochronological units

[*] Dieter Uhl: Permian and Triassic wildfires and atmospheric oxygen levels

[*] Johanna H.A. van Konijnenburg-van Cittert et al.: Vegetation succession through the end-Permian ecologic crisis

[*] Annette E. Götz et al.: Distribution of sedimentary organic matter in Anisian carbonate series of S Poland: evidence of third-order sea-level fluctuations

[*] Evelyn Kustatscher et al.: Triassic plant fossils from N-Italy: a general overview

[*] Klaus-Peter Kelber: Beyond the Permian-Triassic extinction events: The highly diverse Lower Keuper flora (Ladinian, Triassic) of southern Germany

[*] Carmen Heunisch: A rare microflora from the Mainhardt Formation (km3o; Upper Triassic) of southern Germany

[*] Wolfram M. Kürschner: Palaeofloristic patterns across the Triassic - Jurassic transition: catastrophic extinction or long term gradual change?



Poster Presentations, Abstracts

[*] Georg Heumann: Neuropteridium intermedium Schimper et Mougeot 1844 - a pteridophyte from the Upper Buntsandstein of Western Germany

[*] Michael Hiete et al.: Organic carbon isotopic and palynological excursions near the PTB in NW-Germany

[*] Evelyn Kustatscher et al.: Seedferns and horsetails from the Anisian plant locality Kühwiesenkopf / Monte Prà della Vacca (Dolomites, N-Italy)

[*] Christian Pott et al.: Cuticular analysis of seed plants from the Upper Triassic of Lunz (Austria): preliminary results

[*] Guido Roghi et al.: Late Triassic plant fossils from north-eastern Italy

[*] Katrin Ruckwied et al.: Palynofacies of the Wielkie Koryciska section (Middle Triassic, Tatra Mts.): tool for reconstruction of the eustatic evolution of the Hronicum Basin

[*] Birgit Vörding et al.: Cuticular features of Dicroidium from the uppermost Permian of Jordan


Field Trip

June 18, 2005: Field trip to the Bletterbach/Butterloch canyon, western Dolomites, through the Upper Permian.

Some Web Links:
Geoparc Bletterbach (in German)
Laboratory of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Utrecht University: Excursion Italia 2000
Butterloch (in Italian)
Der Bletterbach - ein Naturdenkmal (in German)
Südtirols Süden: Die Bletterbachschlucht (in German)







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