Conference Agenda

Session
02.01 The Tethys Ocean – the cradle of modern tropical life
Time:
Tuesday, 16/Sept/2025:
2:45pm - 4:15pm

Session Chair: Evelyn Kustatscher, Tiroler Landesmuseen
 Location: ZHG 006

170 PAX

Presentations
2:45pm - 3:00pm
Topics: 02.01 The Tethys Ocean – the cradle of modern tropical life

Combined stable isotope records and skeletal growth properties of the reef-building coral Porites reveal biological response to environmental forcing relationship (early Tortonian, Crete/Greece)

Thomas Christian Brachert1, Markus Reuter2

1Universität Leipzig, Germany; 2Universität Greifswald, Germany


3:00pm - 3:15pm
Topics: 02.01 The Tethys Ocean – the cradle of modern tropical life

Bringing together otolith and skeleton fossil record: the case of Old-World Cyprinodontiformes

Andrea Herbert Mainero1, Bettina Reichenbacher1,2

1Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany; 2GeoBio‑Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany


3:15pm - 3:30pm
Topics: 02.01 The Tethys Ocean – the cradle of modern tropical life

Widespread fossil freshwater gobies (Teleostei, Gobioidei): true distributions or wastebasket taxa?

Elena Bauer, Bettina Reichenbacher

Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Department for Earth and Environmental Sciences, Palaeontology & Geobiology, Munich, Germany


3:30pm - 3:45pm
Topics: 01.07 Stratigraphy in Earth System Science: methods, applications and case studies

Late Miocene land vertebrate faunas from the Eastern Paratethys area: Geochronology, Climate Evolution, Biotic record

Davit Vasilyan1,2, Sergei Lazarev2,1, Oleg Mandic3, Marius Stoica4, Damien Becker1, Michal Šujan5, Bogdan-Gabriel Răţoi6, Dumitru-Daniel Badea6, Andrain Delinschi7

1Jurassica Museum, Porrentruy, Switzerland; 2Department of Geoscience, University of Fribourg; 3Natural History Museum Vienna, Austria; 4Bucharest University, Faculty of Geology and Geophysics, Department of Geology, Bucharest, Romania; 5Department of Geology and Paleontology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia; 6Faculty of Geography and Geology, Department of Geology, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Romania; 7Institute of Zoology, Moldova State University, Chișinău, Republic of Moldova


3:45pm - 4:00pm
Topics: 06.01 Data Management, Research Data Infrastructures, AI-Applications and 3D Visualization Techniques: Meeting Today’s and Future Needs in Geosciences

What is a species? A new machine learning approach bridging taxonomic concepts in biology and palaeontology

Thomas A. Neubauer, Olena Schüssler

SNSB – Bavarian State Collection for Palaeontology and Geology, Munich, Germany