Conference Agenda

Session
02.01 The Tethys Ocean – the cradle of modern tropical life
Time:
Tuesday, 16/Sept/2025:
8:30am - 10:00am

Session Chair: Thomas A. Neubauer, The Bavarian State Collections of Natural History
Location: ZHG 006

170 PAX

Presentations
8:30am - 9:00am
Invited Session Keynote
Topics: 02.01 The Tethys Ocean – the cradle of modern tropical life

The Tethys – a mosaic of biodiversity hotspots

Elke Schneebeli-Hermann

University of Zurich, Switzerland



9:00am - 9:15am
Topics: 02.01 The Tethys Ocean – the cradle of modern tropical life

Crickites – investigation of a unique extinction taxon of Palaeozoic goniatites (Ammonoidea)

Mieke Löw, Ralph Thomas Becker

Universität Münster, Germany



9:15am - 9:30am
Topics: 02.01 The Tethys Ocean – the cradle of modern tropical life

Inference of secondary extinctions in marine communities using food-web modelling across the Permian–Triassic mass extinction

Baran Karapunar1, Tanya Strydom2, Andrew Beckerman2, William Foster3, Crispin T.S. Little1, Alexander Dunhill1

1School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, United Kingdom; 2School of Biosciences, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Sheffield; 3Department of Earth System Sciences, Universität Hamburg



9:30am - 9:45am
Topics: 02.01 The Tethys Ocean – the cradle of modern tropical life

Calibrating Early Triassic biotic rebound and carbon cycles based on coupled Bayesian zircon eruption age and Bayesian age-depth models

Xu Dai1,2,3, Maria Ovtcharova4, Joshua Davies5, Arnaud Brayard2, Haijun Song1

1China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), China; 2Université Bourgogne Europe, France; 3Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany; 4University of Geneva, Switzerland; 5Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada



9:45am - 10:00am
Topics: 02.01 The Tethys Ocean – the cradle of modern tropical life

The composition of the Tethyan plankton in the Triassic

Alexander Nuetzel1, Evelyn Kustatscher2, Axel Munnecke3, Mike Reich4,5,6, Elke Schneebeli- Hermann7

1SNSB-Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie, Germany; 2Department of Natural History, Tirolean State Museums, Hall in Tirol, Austria; 3Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Germany; 4Staatliches Naturhistorisches Museum, Braunschweig, Germany; 5paläon Forschungsmuseum, Paläon 1, Schöningen, Germany; 6Department Geobiologie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany; 7Department of Palaeontology, University of Zurich, Karl Schmid-Str. 4, CH-8006 Zurich