Conference talks

Thursday, June 27th

08:45 Joyce WG - Inferring the phylogeny of pan-trionychid turtles using postcranial characters
09:00 Bogado JP - An imperfect watercolour: Reassessing the enigmatic Brazilian pelomedusoid “Podocnemis” brasiliensis 
09:15 Chroust M - A preliminary database of fossil turtles from Czechia and Poland
09:30 Rollot Y - New insights into the anatomy and evolution of Carettochelyidae
09:45 Delfino M - Further notes on the turtle fauna from Langebaanweg (Early Pliocene, South Africa) with a revision of “Geochelone” stromeri
10:00 Coffee break
10:45 Menon JCL - New perspectives on fossil sea turtles from the Cretaceous to the Neogene
11:00 Liaw Y-L - The missing giant: A gigantic softshell turtle (Trionychidae) from the Pleistocene of Taiwan
11:15 Guerrero A - Pathological anomalies in Cretaceous and Paleogene pleurodiran turtles of Spain: an update
11:30 Szczygielski T - Revision of ‘Proganochelys’ ruchae from the Late Triassic of Thailand
11:45 Goulart IV - Cranial morphogeometric analysis of pan-cryptodiran sea turtles
12:00 Mariani TF - Cervical variation and shape similarities in the neck of Pleurodira
12:15 Lunch break
14:00 Joji M - Estimating 3D shell asymmetry of Testudines from preserved specimens
14:15 Hermanson G - Ecomorphology and disparity of the turtle shell through time
14:30 Brinkman DB - Questions regarding the diversity of trionychid turtles in the Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta, Canada
14:45 Cadena E-A - A turtle paleomeeting in Switzerland: A fossil from Colombia represents the youngest record of thalassochelydians
15:00 Rabi M - Pelagization in turtles: Single or parallel origins?
15:15 Hirayama R - Fossil marine turtles (Chelonioidea) from the Kuji Group in Iwate Prefecture and systematic review of the Cretaceous marine turtles from Japan

 

Friday, June 28th

08:15 Gutiérrez-Gálvez M - Preliminary morphological study of the appendicular skeleton of the Spanish Bartonian (middle Eocene) Neochelys salmanticensis (Pleurodira; Podocnemididae)
08:30 Evers SW - Ecomorphology of stylopodial compactness in turtles
08:45 Steinmann X - Trabecular long bone ecomorphology in Testudines: Insights into evolutionary adaptations

09:00

 Tada S - Evolution of the rostral vasculature in turtles
09:15 Spicher GE - Updated cranial and mandibular description of the Late Cretaceous baenid turtle Saxochelys gilberti based on micro-computed tomography scans and new information on the holotype-shell association
09:30 Vega-Pagán KA - First description of the cranium and mandible of the testudinid Gopherus hexagonatus from the Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) Beaumont Formation (Texas, USA): Insights into the phylogenetic relationships among North American fossil gopher tortoises
09:45 Coffee break
10:30 Mazier C - A new “eurysternid” turtle from the Late Jurassic Solnhofen Formation and the paleoecology of thalassochelydians
10:45 Smith HF - First vertebrate reported from the Maastrichtian Neylandville Marl Formation of Texas is a novel marine turtle (Chelonioidea: Ctenochelyidae)
11:00 Anquetin J - A new mature specimen of the Late Jurassic thalassochelydian turtle Jurassichelon oleronensis
11:15 Vlachos E - Turtle species extinction across the Cretaceous/Palaeogene boundary
11:30 Kim DH - Paleobiogeographic review of Early Cretaceous trionychians
11:45 Ferreira GS - Lower jaw functional morphology of the largest freshwater turtle, Stupendemys geographica, suggests an herbivorous diet
12:00 Girard LC - New perspectives on the evolution of pan-trionychids based on the study of plastomenid skulls
12:15 Lunch break
14:00 *Abdel Gawad MK - New chelonian cranial remains from Moghra: Early Miocene, North Western Desert, Egypt
14:15 *Andrade DC - Identification of laminae in the cervical vertebrae of Pelomedusoides
14:30 *Claude J - Phylogenetic uncertainty and the taxonomy of fossil turtles
14:45 *Holroyd PA - Taxonomic richness in middle Eocene turtles of the Washakie Formation
15:00 *Ke Y - The first specimen of pan-trionychids (Reptilia: Testudines) from the Upper Cretaceous of Southern China
15:15 *Luján ÀH - Earliest Vallesian fossil turtle remains from Creu de Conill 20 (Vallès‑Penedès Basin, NE Iberian Peninsula)
15:30 *Martín-Jiménez M - Neuroanatomy of the Paleocene bothremydid turtle Taphrosphys (Pleurodira, Taphrosphyini), based on a skull from Morocco

 

* Pre-recorded talks of online participants

Posters

Posters will be displayed in the coffee room for the duration of the conference.

Poster 1 Bellotti S - Cranial osteology of the Campanian (Late Cretaceous) baenid turtle Plesiobaena antiqua
Poster 2 Georgalis GL - An insular testudinid from the Miocene palaeoisland of Gargano, Italy