35^TH INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS

27 AUGUST - 4 SEPTEMBER 2016 | CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

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27 AUGUST - 4 SEPTEMBER 2016 | CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

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Palaeontology and Palaeo-anthropology

Paper Title	Presenting Author Names
A Laurentian record of the earliest fossil eukaryotes	Dr. Nicholas Butterfield
Paleoneurology of Therapsida (Synapsida) and the Evolution of soft tissue traits in the mammalian ancestry	Dr. Julien BENOIT
Multi-stratigraphic Subdivision of the Middle-Upper Jurassic of the Junggar Basin，with discussion on the Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary in Xinjiang, Northwest China	Prof. Shenghui Deng
Geoarchaeology of the Douglas Korongo East and Bell's Korongo East sites, Olduvai Gorge: Preliminary results	Dr. Cynthia M. Fadem
Lacustrine expansion and carbon drawdown during the early Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event	Prof. Dr. Stephen P. Hesselbo
Biostratigraphic succession of acanthomorphic acritarchs of the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation at the Yangtze Gorges area and its implication for the global correlation	Prof. Pengju Liu
Distribution of Bio-essential trace elements from Ediacaran to early Cambrian, South China	Prof. Kunli Luo
Implications of U-Pb zircon CA ID-TIMS ages for high-resolution stratigraphy and timescale of Jurassic-Cretaceous continental strata of northern China	Mr. Sean Kinney
Temporal and spatial distribution pattern of the marine-brackish-water bivalve Waagenoperna in China and its implications for Triassic‒Jurassic transition climate and palaeogeography	Prof. Jingeng Sha
Why Corumbella is a cloudinid and not a conularid	"Dr. Bernd Erdtmann Dr. Detlef Walde"
The record of caddisfly-dominated microbial-carbonated bioherms from the Early Cretaceous Yixan Formation in western Liaoning, China: occurrence and palaeoenvironmental implications	"Mr. Jiang Xu Mr. Enpu Gong"
Primary producers and detritivores: Microbial fossils from the lowest Cambrian of South China	Professor Xingliang Zhang
The diversity and systematics of early Cambrian lophotrochozoans (the Chengjiang Lagerstātte, China): discoveries and new progress	Prof. Zhifei Zhang
The relationships between Middle-Late Jurassic tectonics and formation of the Yanliao biota	Prof. Diying Huang
Evaluating aridity using triple oxygen isotopes in tooth enamel	Ms. Sophie B. Lehmann
Biostratigraphy, chemostratigraphy and kerogen paleothermometry of the Proterozoic Mbuji-Mayi Supergroup (Kasaï, Democratic Republic of Congo)	Mr. Blaise KABAMBA BALUDIKAY
Tetrapod biocorrelation of Pangea: the Permo-Triassic terrestrial vertebrate faunas of South Africa and Russia	Dr. Fernando Abdala
Evolutionary trends of the earliest eukaryotes: evidence from the 1.8 Ga Changcheng Group and the 1.7-1.4 Ga Ruyang Group, North China Craton	Dr. Heda Agić
Assessing the fidelity of fossil marine microvertebrate oxygen isotope signatures and their potential palaeo-ecological and -climatic utility	Dr. Milo Barham
Use of morphometric data in taxonomy and functional morphology: a case study of modern and Cretaceous diving birds	Dr. Alyssa Bell
Early sponges and toxic protists: Cryostane, a new biomarker antedating Sturtian Snowball Earth	Dr. Jochen Brocks
Thylacocephalan arthropods from the Upper Devonian of Poland.	Mr. Krzysztof Broda
Subtropical precipitation and the evolution of ocean temperature gradients over the last 5 million years	Dr. Natalie Burls
Evidence for former land surfaces on the emergent South Coast shelf, South Africa	Dr. Hayley Cawthra
The influence of coastal and marine geology on archaeological occupation in Pondoland: the South African Wild Coast	Dr. Hayley Cawthra
40Ar/39Ar age for the fossil-bearing Tiaojishan Formation in NE China	Dr. Su-Chin Chang
South Africa's Triassic-Jurassic sauropodomorph fauna: phylogenetic fit to stratigraphy, evolutionary rates, and the biased appearance of characters in time	Prof. Jonah Choiniere
New Precambrian trace fossils, the end of the Ediacara biota, and the first mass extinction of complex life	Dr. Simon Darroch
The Pristerognathus AZ and the aftermath of the Capitanian extinction event in the main Karoo Basin	Dr. Michael Day
A new Burgess Shale-type deposit from the Ediacaran of western Mongolia	Dr. Stephen Dornbos
The Environmental Context of the Cryogenian-Ediacaran Diversification of Metazoa	Dr. Douglas Erwin
A new locality of the Burgess Shale-type fauna from the Lower Cambrian Shuijingtuo Formation in Changyang, Hubei, South China	Dr. Dongjing Fu
Ediacaran tubular fossils with Burgess Shale-type preservation, Arroyo del Soldado Group, Uruguay	Dr. Claudio Gaucher
Preliminary findings: An in depth litho‐ and biostratigraphic analysis of the Lower Beaufort Group, Karoo Supergroup, between Jagersfontein and the Orange river in the central Free State Province, South Africa, and implications for the depositional history of a distal bulge.	Mr. David Groenewald
Controls on fossil pyritization: Redox conditions, sedimentary organic matter content, and Chuaria preservation in the Ediacaran Lantian biota	Dr. Chengguo Guan
Why is sexual size dimorphism restricted to a single lineage of post-Triassic nautiloids?	Dr. Kalyan Halder
The Beaufort-Stormberg contact in the main Karoo Basin – the most important unconformity surface for understanding the basin’s development	Dr. Philip John Hancox
Early diversification of the Cambrian Explosion: Significance of a remote graveyard in the Sirius Pass, North Greenland	Dr. David Harper
Angolan fossil vertebrates and geotectonic influences inform Cretaceous and Cenozoic paleoenvironments of Africa	Dr. Louis Jacobs
Evolution of biological innovations in early complex cells	Prof. Emmanuelle J. Javaux
On the evolutionary history of the Gorgonopsia, with new information on their global first and last appearances	Dr. Christian Kammerer
Studies In Ediacaran Preservation	Dr. Marc Laflamme
Mesozoic nonmarine palaeogeography and palaeotectonic evolution in the Middle-East China	Dr. Yongqing Liu
Onychophorans: a key role in understanding arthropod origins?	Prof. Jianni Liu
(U-Th)-He dating of CaCO3 speleothems: a new perspective for dating fossil-bearing cave deposits	Mr. Tebogo Vincent Makhubela
Palaeoclimatic implications of summer breeding frog taxa from Langebaanweg at 5.1 Mya at the south-western tip of Africa	Dr. Thalassa Matthews
Palaeoecology and palaeoenvironments of Glossopteris forests from the heart of Gondwana: the Lambert Graben, east Antarctica	Prof. Stephen McLoughlin
Beyond the stony veil; reconstructing early trace fossils using Micro-CT analysis, a case study from the Yangtze Gorges area, South China.	Dr. Michael Meyer
New record of organic-walled, morphologically distinct microfossils from the late Paleoproterozoic Changcheng Group in the Yanshan Range, North China	Ms. Lanyun Miao
The Geology and Palaeontology of Tanzania	Dr. Emma Msaky
The paradox of “clam shrimp” paleoecology	Dr. Paul Olsen
Feathered dinosaurs of Chinese Mesozoic lacustrine lagerstätten: Extraordinary preservation or extraordinary effort?	Dr. Paul Olsen
Unraveling biological information from early single-celled eukaryotes in the Paleo-Mesoproterozoic Ruyang Group, North China	Dr. Ke Pang
Biogeographic mixing in the Maastrichtian of Angola	Mr. Michael Polcyn
Tapinocephalid dinocephalians, the first large terrestrial tetrapods – Potential for refined Middle Permian Biostratigraphy?	Prof. Bruce Rubidge
Astronomical constraints on the duration of the early jurassic pliensbachian and toarcian stages and global carbon-cycle and climatic perturbations	Dr. MICHA RUHL
Jurassic reef events in Moroccan Atlasic domain (Middle Atlas and Central High Atlas in particular)	Dr. Driss SADKI
Mio-Pliocene environmental changes in Southern Africa	Dr. Loïc SEGALEN
Origin and diversification of Precambrian eukaryotes: Evidence from Proterozoic successions of India	Dr. Mukund Sharma
Behavioural and taphonomical testimony of Treptichnus pedum, inferences from the Nagaur Sandstone, Marwar Supergroup, India	Dr. Mukund Sharma
USING THE ISOTOPIC CONTENT OF FOSSIL REMAINS AS EVIDENCE OF PALEOENVIRONMENTAL CONDITION OF THE LATE JURASSIC WEST GONDWANA.	Dr. Paulo Roberto Souto
An Early Ediacaran Predator from the Southwestern Siberian Craton: When did the Dawn of Metazoan Begin?	Dr. Julius Sovetov
Substrate-related phenotypic variation in the Cambrian Burgess Shale brachiopod Micromitra burgessensis	Dr. Timothy Topper
A new bio-fabric from the late Ediacaran of Namibia and Nevada	Ms. Sarah Tweedt
Systematic description of putative animal fossils from the early Ediacaran Lantian Formation of South China	Dr. Bin Wan
Late Cretaceous ostracod fauna from the Shenjiatun section (Songliao Basin, Northeast China) and its biostratigraphic, palaeoenvironmental implications	Dr. Yaqiong Wang
The Earliest Herbaceous Seed Plant from the Middle Jurassic of China	Prof. Xin Wang
Low-latitude terrestrial climate cooling event in the Late Triassic (Norian-Rhaetian): palaeobotanical evidence from the Sichuan Basin, southern China	Prof. Yongdong Wang
Demise of Ediacaran anoxic dolomite seas triggered widespread biomineralisation on the Siberian Platform	Prof. Rachel Wood
Improving the Ediacaran geological time scale for the study of oceanic redox history and early animal evolution	Prof. Shuhai Xiao
The contribution of Orsten-type fossils to the origin and evolution of Ecdysozoa — a South China-based review	Dr. Huaqiao Zhang
The fossil plants from the Middle Triassic Linjia Formation in Benxi of eastern Liaoning, China and its paleoclimatic implication	Prof. Yi Zhang
Decimeter-scale multicellular eukaryotes from the 1.56-billion-year-old Gaoyuzhuang Formation, North China	Prof. Maoyan Zhu
Ediacaran macroalgae and the early evolution of animals	Mrs. Natalia Bykova
The palaeobiology of Ediacaran rangeomorphs: reproduction, environmental sensitivity and ecological succession	Ms. Charlotte Kenchington
New discoveries of diverse tetrapod footprints from the Upper Triassic Timezgadiouine Formation of the Argana Basin (Western High Atlas, Morocco): ichnotaxonomic implications	Dr. Abdelouahed Lagnaoui
New species of Vetulicolians from the Lower Cambrian Guanshan Biota, China	St. Jinshu Li
Plio-Pleistocene hominin evolution in the Malawi Rift: Persistent C3 vegetation in heterogeneous wooded savanna ecosystems	Mrs. Tina Luedecke
Authigenic and early diagenetic minerals as indicators of geomicrobiological processes in shelly fossil preservation and their significance for late Neoproterozoic-early Palaeozoic near-surface environments	Mr. Drew Muscente
The shell beds of the Araripe Basin (Romualdo Formation, early Cretaceous) as paleogeographic proxies during the South Atlantic Opening	Dr. Fernanda Quaglio
Ecology and phylogenetic affinity of the early Cambrian tubular microfossil Megathrix longus	Mr. Xiaodong Shang
The Last of the Ediacara Biota: The Precambrian-Cambrian Boundary at Mt. Dunfee, Nevada, USA	Dr. Emmy Smith
New advance of Guangweicaris from the Cambrian (Stage 4, Series 2) Guanshan Biota in Kunming , Yunnan , South China	St. Yichen Wu
PALYNOFLORA AND PALAEOENVIRONMENT OF THE CİHANBEYLİ-YENİCEOBA SENOZOIC BASIN (SALT LAKE, TURKEY)	professor Funda Akgün
Different morphogrades and palaeobiogeography of pleurotomariid gastropod assemblage from the Jurassic of Kutch, western India – an insight into the development of Indo-Madagascan Faunal Province.	Dr. Shiladri S. Das
Naticid drilling predation on bivalve assemblage during the latest Maastrichtian in Rajahmundry, India	Mr. SUMANTA MALLICK
The largest carnivore, the largest bird, and the small elephant of the Middle Pleistocene of Madhya Pradesh, India: The fossil evidence.	Mr. SURESH NARAYAN MESHRAM
Biostratigraphic and paleoenvironmental study of the Upper Disang Formation, Manipur region, India	Dr. YENGKHOM RAGHUMANI SINGH
Did early eukaryotes thrive in ancient lakes? New evidence from the Torridonian Supergroup, NW Scotland	Dr. Eva Stüeken
Jurassic artematopodid beetles and their implications for the early evolution of Artematopodidae (Coleoptera)	Dr. Chenyang Cai
Conchostracans of the Middle-Late Jurassic Daohugou and Linglongta beds in NE China	"Mr. Huanyu Liao Dr. Diying Huang Mr. Yanbin Shen"
Multicellular macrofossils from the Tonian Liulaobei Formation, North China	Mr. Qing Tang
New findings of galeaspids (Agnatha) from the Siluro-Devonian of China	"Dr. Zhikun Gai Dr. Yuhai Liu Dr. Min Zhu"
Caddisfly-dominated microbial-carbonate bioherms from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation, Western Liaoning China	"Mr. Enpu Gong Mr. Jiang Xu"
Dwarfism of irregular echinoids from Poland during the Campanian-Maastrichtian Boundary Event (CMBE)	"Ms. Katarzyna Leśko Dr. Mariusz Salamon"
A first report of wood-boring trace fossil Asthenopodichnium and Teredolites from the Barmer Hill Formation of the Barmer Basin, Western Rajasthan, India.	Dr. Suresh Chandra Mathur
The complex mineralogical and physical-chemical investigation of Cretaceous vertebrate remains from the Hațeg Basin, Romania	Dr. Antonela NEACSU
Preliminary paleontological and mineralogical study of the diatomites from Adamclisi, South Dobrogea, Romania	Dr. Oana-Gabriela RADOI-SEBE
Paleoecological and taphonomic analysis of Permian coal seam of Rio Bonito Formation, Paraná basin, western Gondwana	Dr. FRESIA RICARDI-BRANCO
Dwarfism of irregular echinoids from Poland during the Campanian-Maastrichtian Boundary Event (CMBE)	Ms. Katarzyna Leśko
Phosphatized Quadrapyrgites from the Early Cambrian of South China	Professor TieQuan Shao
Eopriapulites sphinx from the Early Cambrian of South China	Professor TieQuan Shao
Xixiang Biota of the Early Cambian from the Northern Yangtze Platform	Professor TieQuan Shao
New Small Shelly Fossils Acanthocassis from the Early Cambrian	Professor TieQuan Shao
Stratigraphy and paleoecology of Middle Jurassic dinocyst assemblages from the Dnieper-Donets Basin of central Ukraine	"Dr. Olena Shevchuk Professor Vivi Vajda"
New Discoveries in the late Neoproterozoic of Namibia: New Material-New Analysis	Dr Patricia Vickers Rich
New Discoveries in the late Neoproterozoic of Iran	Dr. Patricia Vickers Rich
Problem of terrestrial Jurassic and Cretaceous boundary in northern China	Prof. Xiaoqiao Wan
Maikhanellid and Siphogonuchitid from the Cambrian Fortunian of South China	Ms. Qi Wang
The ultimate record of Ediacaran soft-bodied fauna in South America	Dr Lucas Warren
Study on the fusulinid fauna at Tanggula area, Golmud in Qinghai Province, China	"Mr. Jun Wu Mr. ZhiJun Niu"
Hexactinellid sponge Amphispongia from Pennsylvanian of United States of America	Msc. Lucas Mouro
Biostratigraphy and Lithostratigraphy from the Oligocene – Miocene deposits in Zagros Basin , SW Iran	Dr. Vahid Ahmadi
The Cenomanian – Turonian transition successions of The Ouarsenis Massif (Algeria, southern margins of Tethyan Realm): A biostratigraphic update	Dr. Moez Ben Fadhel
Early Permian foraminifera from the Badhaura Formation, Rajasthan, India: paleobiogeographic, paleoenvironmental significance	Dr. Shivranjan Kr. Bharti
Silicified remains of giant tetrapod reptile from Early Triassic sandstone of Kamthi Formation, Ib-River Coalfield, Odisha, India	Dr. Sudip Bhattacharyya
Larger Benthic Foraminifera of Sylhet Limestone, Meghalaya, NE India : An Indicator of Palaeogene Palaeoecology and Global Warming	Mr. Amitabha Bhattacharyya
Terminal Cretaceous Dinosaurs associated with Cretaceous-Paleocene Kutch Volcanics and the Trans-K/T paleoenvironment, Kutch, Gujarat, Western India	Dr. Srikarni C
Advance in Cretaceous bennettitalean trunk from China	Dr. Yeming Cheng
Exploring for Vertebrate Fossils in the Riversleigh Area of Queensland using Field-Portable XRF	Prof. David Cohen
Spina bifida in an Early Triassic tetrapod from South Africa	Dr. Jörg Fröbisch
Turritelline dominated assemblages from the Miocene of Kutch, western India reveal depositional histories and the nursery ground of the species	Dr. Kalyan Halder
Observations on the Molluscan assemblage from Quaternary sediments of parts of south-western coast of India- Palaeoecological Inklings	Mrs. Nidhi Misra
Intertrappean Beds of Deccan Volcanic Province, and it’s Implications on K-T Boundary in Central India	Mr. Vijay Mugal
Role of temperature in brachiopod migration? Evidence from the Jurassic sediments of western India	Dr. Debahuti Mukherjee
Corals of Narara Bet, Jamnagar District, Gujarat and its implication in Sea level Changes	Dr. Arpita Pankaj
First report on Trace Fossils from flysch sediments of Nagaland, Northeast India and their Significance	Dr. Hemanta Singh Rajkumar
New discovery of plant fossil imprints of Lauraceae Family (Leaflet of Litsea Species) in Tipam Sandstone, Mizoram, India and its palaeoenvironmental significance in Mizoram Geology	Mr. Pankaj Vaidya
The Hirnantia fauna and the stratigraphic assessment of the uppermost Ordovician in the central Anti-Atlas (Morocco)	Dr. Enrique Villas
Ordovician acritarch studies in China	Dr. Kui Yan
The Relationship between the “Green-Bean Rock” Layers and Conodont Chiosella timorensis and Implications on Defining the Early–Middle Triassic Boundary in the Nanpanjiang Basin, South China	Mr. Chunbo Yan
Early Cambrian palaeobiogeography of the Zhenba–Fangxian Block (South China): Independent terrane or part of the Yangtze Platform?	Dr. Ben Yang
Juvenile Kosoidea sp. from Lower Paleozoic strata, Paraná Basin, Brazil	Dr. Carolina Zabini
Biodiversity changes of Devonian bivalves in South China	Dr. Renjie Zhang
Middle Ordovician La Cristalina Formation: After 50 years new fossil localities were found, including the first Ordovician foraminifera in Colombia	Ms. Maria Fernanda Almanza Melendez
Diversification of early life: microfossils of the c. 2.4 Ga Turee Creek Group, Western Australia	Ms. Erica Barlow
Foraminiferal Study at Birampur Area of Dinajpur District, Bangladesh	Mr. Mohammed Masum
Fossil woods from the Cretaceous deposits of Russian Far East	Dr. Maxim Afonin
On Damonella ultima from the Santana Formation (Upper Aptian, Lower Cretaceous), Araripe basin, Northeastern Brazil	Dr. Lucas Antonietto
Comparative study between fossil composition and their matrix rocks from Corumbataí Formation (Permian/Triassic) and Corumbá Group (Neoproterozoic), Western Brazil	Mr. Marcos Baptista
Towards a better understanding of the origins of microlens arrays in Mesozoic echinoderms	Dr. Przemysław Gorzelak
The Microvertebrate fauna from the Palaeocene – Eocene of Akli Formation of Barmer Basin, Western Rajasthan, India	Dr. Shanker Lal Nama
First Report of Trace Fossils from Lower Odania Member of Lathi Formation of Jaisalmer Basin, Akal area, district -Jaisalmer, Western Rajasthan, India.	Dr. Virendra Singh Parihar
Changes in rodents associations from cave sediments (Romania) during the Upper Pleistocene main climatic events	Dr. Alexandru Petculescu
Southeastern Australia’s Cretaceous polar tetrapods in a Greenhouse World	Dr. Thomas Rich
Observations on the Lower Cambrian ichnospecies Monomorphichnus multilineatus recorded from the Marwar Supergroup, India: A review	Dr. Mukund Sharma
Carbon isotope in tooth enamel of Pleistocenic megamammals from Alagoas and Pernambuco, northeastern Brazil	Dr. Alcides Sial
Chemosymbionte bivalves associated with cold seep methane exudations in intracratonic basins: a case study from the Brazilian Permian Gondwana	Prof. Marcello Simoes
Geochemical evidences for photic zone euxinia during the end - Ordovician mass extinction event from the black shales of Poland	Mrs. Justyna Smolarek
Changes in carbon dioxide concentrations across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary revealed by first Southern Hemisphere (New Zealand) stomatal proxy-based pCO2 reconstruction	Prof. Vivi Vajda
Coastal foraminifera from the Iranian coast of Makran, Oman Sea (Chabahar Bay to Gawater Bay) as an indicator of tsunamis	Prof. Seyed Hamid Vaziri
Ediacaran fossils from Kushk Series in Bafq region of Central Iran	Prof. Seyed Hamid Vaziri
An Early Multicellular Holozoan from the 1 Ga Torridon Group, Scotland	Dr. David Wacey
Digital Reconstruction and Anatomy of the Cranial Endocast, Petrosal and Inner Ear and of Tetramerorhinus lucarius (Litopterna, Proterotheriidae) from Patagonia (Early Miocene), Argentina	Hon. Santiago Ezequiel Hernández Del Pino
Morphological response of the bivalve Corbulomima prora to changes in the abiotic palaeoenvironment of the Kimmeridge Clay (Normandy, France)	Mr. Andreas Labohm
Evaluating Uranium as a Tool to Infer Cryogenian Marine Oxygenation	Ms. Claire Miles
Taxonomy of Cypridea Bosquet 1852 (Crustacea, Ostracoda) from Quiricó Formation, Lower Cretaceous from São Francisco basin, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil: new relative dating and remarks on nodding	Ms. Amanda Moreira Leite
New contribution to the knowledge of the Genus Daphnogene from the Petroșani Basin, Romania	Mrs. Roxana Pirnea