Conference Agenda

Session
02.01 The Tethys Ocean – the cradle of modern tropical life
Time:
Tuesday, 16/Sept/2025:
10:30am - 12:00pm

Session Chair: Baran Karapunar, University of Leeds
 Location: ZHG 006

170 PAX

Presentations
10:30am - 10:45am
Topics: 02.01 The Tethys Ocean – the cradle of modern tropical life

Palynological insights into the Carnian Pluvial Episode (CPE) in Switzerland

Mathilde LE PALLEC1, Elke SCHNEEBELI1, Evelyn KUSTATSCHER2,3

1Paläontologisches Institut, University of Zurich, Switzerland; 2Museum of Nature South Tyrol, Bindergasse/Via Bottai 1, 39100 Bozen/Bolzano, Italy; 3Department of Natural History, Tirolean State Museums, Hall in Tirol, Austria;


10:45am - 11:00am
Topics: 02.01 The Tethys Ocean – the cradle of modern tropical life

Plant fossils from the Carnian Pluvial Episode (CPE) of Monte Pora (N-Italy)

Emily Chantal Giehl1, Roberta Branz2, Evelyn Kustatscher1,2,3

1Department für Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften, Paläontologie und Geobiologie, Ludwig- Maximilians-Universität; 2Museum of Nature South Tyrol, Bindergasse/Via Bottai 1, 39100 Bozen/Bolzano, Italy; 3Department of Natural History, Tirolean State Museums, Hall in Tirol, Austria


11:00am - 11:15am
Topics: 02.01 The Tethys Ocean – the cradle of modern tropical life

Terrestrial floras during the Carnian Pluvial Episode in the Northwestern Tethys

Evelyn Kustatscher1,2, Elke Schneebeli-Hermann3, Roberta Branz1, Guido Roghi4

1Museum of Nature South Tyrol, Bolzano/Bozen, Italy; 2Department of Natural History, Tirolean State Museums, Hall in Tirol, Austria; 3Department of Palaeontology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; 4Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources (IGG-CNR), Padova, Italy


11:15am - 11:30am
Topics: 02.01 The Tethys Ocean – the cradle of modern tropical life

Isolated marine reptile teeth from the Lower Jurassic Posidonia Shale Formation of Schandelah, northern Germany - Description, classification and implications for biodiversity

Dag Ruge

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany


11:30am - 11:45am
Topics: 02.01 The Tethys Ocean – the cradle of modern tropical life

Palaeobiogeographic implications in the co-fauna of the World’s Largest Ammonite Parapuzosia (P.) seppenradensis (Landois, 1895)

Christina Ifrim

Staatliche Naturwissenschftliche Sammlungen Bayerns, Germany


11:45am - 12:00pm
Topics: 02.01 The Tethys Ocean – the cradle of modern tropical life

Tethyan biodiversity hotspots at the community level

Wolfgang Kiessling, Ádám T. Kocsis

Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany