Conference Agenda

Session
01.27 The BROMACKER project: A novel combination of multidisciplinary research and science communication in a UNESCO Geopark
Time:
Wednesday, 17/Sept/2025:
2:45pm - 4:15pm

Session Chair: Jörg Fröbisch, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
Session Chair: Tom Hübner, Friedenstein Stiftung Gotha
Session Chair: Peter Frenzel, Insitut für Geowissenschaften, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Session Chair: Mauro Alivernini, UNESCO Global Geopark Thüringen Inselsberg-Drei Gleichen
Location: ZHG 006

170 PAX

Presentations
2:45pm - 3:00pm
Topics: 01.27 The BROMACKER project: A novel combination of multidisciplinary research and science communication in a UNESCO Geopark

The exceptional vertebrate burrow record of the early Permian Bromacker locality

Lorenzo Marchetti1, Michael Buchwitz2, Max Herde1,3, Jörg Fröbisch1,3

1Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung, Invalidenstraße 43, 10115, Berlin, Germany; 2Museum für Naturkunde Magdeburg, Otto-von-Guericke-Straße 68-73, 39104 Magdeburg, Germany; 3Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Invalidenstraße 42, 10115, Berlin, Germany



3:00pm - 3:15pm
Topics: 01.27 The BROMACKER project: A novel combination of multidisciplinary research and science communication in a UNESCO Geopark

Revision of Ichniotherium track-trackmaker correlation and implications for models of diadectid locomotion

Michael Buchwitz1, Lorenzo Marchetti2, Tom Hübner3, Andreas Jannel4, Jörg Fröbisch2,5

1Museum für Naturkunde Magdeburg, Germany; 2Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung; 3Friedenstein Stiftung Gotha; 4Liverpool John Moores University; 5Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Biologie



3:15pm - 3:30pm
Topics: 01.27 The BROMACKER project: A novel combination of multidisciplinary research and science communication in a UNESCO Geopark

The “Megatambichnus” riddle: Investigating possible producers of large vertebrate burrows from the Cisuralian Bromacker locality

Max Herde1,2, Lorenzo Marchetti1, Jörg Fröbisch1,2

1Museum für Naturkunde – Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung; 2Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin



3:30pm - 3:45pm
Topics: 01.27 The BROMACKER project: A novel combination of multidisciplinary research and science communication in a UNESCO Geopark

Permian Feeding Remains: A Study of Bromalites from Bromacker (Thuringia, Germany)

Arnaud Rebillard1,2,3, Andreas Jannel4, Lorenzo Marchetti1, Mark J. MacDougall5, Christopher Hamann1, Jean Sébastien Steyer3, Grace Townsend1,6, Jörg Fröbisch1,2

1Museum für Naturkunde Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung, Berlin, Germany; 2Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Biologie, Berlin, Germany; 3Centre de Recherches en Paléontologie – Paris, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France; 4Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom; 5Cape Breton University, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada; 6University of Helsinki, Finland



3:45pm - 4:00pm
Topics: 01.27 The BROMACKER project: A novel combination of multidisciplinary research and science communication in a UNESCO Geopark

Closely related tetrapods from the early Permian of North America and Germany had different life history traits

Aurore Canoville

Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Germany



4:00pm - 4:15pm
Topics: 01.27 The BROMACKER project: A novel combination of multidisciplinary research and science communication in a UNESCO Geopark

CT-based re-evaluation of the anatomy and phylogeny of the trematopid temnospondyl Rotaryus gothae

Lena Schmitz1,2, Mark MacDougall2,3, Andréas Jannel2,4, Jörg Fröbisch1,2

1Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Biologie, Invalidenstraße 42, 10115 Berlin, Germany; 2Museum für Naturkunde Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung, Invalidenstraße 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany; 3Cape Breton University, Grand Lake Rd 1250, Sydney, NS B1M 1A2, Kanada; 4Liverpool John Moores University, James Parsons Building, L3 3AF, Liverpool, United Kingdom