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The 7th International Brachiopod Congress
23-25 May, 2015, Nanjing China
Itinerary and Programme
Friday 22 May
6:00-10:00pm
Registration and welcome reception (Icebreaker)
Saturday 23 May
Opening ceremony (Chair: ZHAN Renbin)
8:30-8:45 am
Welcoming Remarks
Speeches:
Prof. YANG Qun (Director of Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology);
Dr. LIU Yu (National Natural Science Foundation of China)
Academic Sessions
Plenary sessions
Chairs: ZHAN Renbin and Ian PERCIVAL
8:45-9:15 am
9:15-9:45 am
9:45-10:15 am
10:15-10:35 am
10:35-11:05 am
David A.T. HARPER: The Ordovician rhynchonelliform brachiopod fauna: Occupation of
morphospace during the great Ordovician biodiversification event
RONG Jiayu: Phanerozoic brachiopod genera of China: A brief introduction
Uwe BRAND: Trace and isotope chemistry of brachiopods: proxies of geologic events
Morning Tea (Group Photo)
ZHANG Zhifei: Exceptionally preserved brachiopods from fossil-Lagerstätten in
southwestern China: perspectives on the Cambrian explosion of metazoans
Session 1: Systematics, phylogeny and morphological patterns of brachiopods
Chairs: Jisuo JIN and Lars HOLMER
11:05-11:25 am
11:25-11:40 am
11:40-12:05 pm
Glenn A. BROCK, Marissa J. BETTS, Lars E. HOLMER et al.: Lower Cambrian
brachiopod assemblages from east Gondwana – biostratigraphic review and correlation
(keynote)
Colin D. SPROAT and Jisuo JIN: Redefining the Middle–Late Ordovician brachiopod
Plectorthis from North America
Andrzej BALINSKI and SUN Yuanlin: The aberrant Middle Devonian ambocoeliid
Cyrtinoides Yudina and Rzhonsnitskaya, 1985 from China
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12:05-1:30 pm
Lunch break and Posters
1:30-1:45 pm
Adam T. HALAMSKI, Maria Aleksandra BITNER, Andrzej KAIM et al.: A large-scale
paedomorphic evolutionary lineage among terebratulides (Permian to Recent)
Lucia ANGIOLINI, Mark CAMPAGNA, Tatiana GRUNT et al.: A silicified brachiopod
fauna from the Cisuralian-Guadalupian Gundara Formation of Darvaz, Pamir, Tajikistan
Ryutaro GOTO and Kazuyoshi ENDO: Genetic variations and species boundaries among
the Pacific populations of Lingula
Sangmin LEE, Guang R. SHI, Tae-Yoon S. PARK et al.: Virtual palaeontology: x-ray
microtomography of Palaeozoic brachiopod fossils embedded in various rocks
Anna A. GEBRUK, Elena N. TEMEREVA and Vladimir V. MALAKHOV: Description
of the preoral coelom in adult brachiopods and its phylogenetic significance
1:45-2:00 pm
2:00-2:15 pm
2:15-2:30 pm
2:30-2:45 pm
Session 2: Brachiopod palaeoecology, taphonomy and interactions with other organisms
Chairs: Alberto PEREZ-HUERTA and CHEN Zhongqiang
2:45-3:05 pm
3:05-3:20 pm
3:20-3:35 pm
Jisuo JIN: Paleoecological and paleogeographical gradient of Late Ordovician
dalmanelloid brachiopods in Laurentia (keynote)
Timothy P. TOPPER, Luke STROTZ, Lars E. HOLMER et al.: Water above and mud
below: life strategies of brachiopods from the middle Cambrian Burgess Shale
Giuseppe BUONO, Mena SCHEMM-GREGORY and Tõnu MEIDLA: Estonirhynchia
estonica and Uncinuloidea (Brachiopoda): a multidisciplinar investigation
3:35-3:55 pm
Afternoon Tea and Posters
3:55-4:15 pm
LÜ Dan and MA Xueping: Small-sized brachiopods from the late Frasnian (Devonian) of
the Jiangjiaqiao section, Hunan, China
ZONG Pu, MA Xueping, ZHANG Meiqiong et al.: Comparative study of Late Devonian
(Famennian) brachiopod assemblage successions, depositional environments, and
geo-events in northwestern Junggar, Xinjiang and central Hunan, China
HUANG Kangjun, SHEN Bing, TENG Fangzhen et al.: Brachiopod fossil richness
controlled by the intensity of chemical weathering
Yuta SHIINO and Lucia ANGIOLINI: Die hard under high energy flow conditions: a case
of shell functionality in the spiriferinide brachiopod Pachycyrtella
ZHANG Yang, HE Weihong, Guang R. SHI et al.: Study of Changhsingian (Late
Permian) brachiopod fauna of shallow-water clastic-shelf facies in South China: see
Zhongzhai section as an example
Donald A.B. MACFARLAN: Terebratulide brachiopods from the Middle and Late
Jurassic of New Zealand
Alfréd DULAI, Michael GATT, Pierre MOISSETTE et al.: Oligocene and Miocene
brachiopods of the Maltese Islands: taxonomy, diversity, distribution
4:15-4:30 pm
4:30-4:45 pm
4:45-5:00 pm
5:00-5:15 pm
5:15-5:30 pm
5:30-5:45 pm
Sunday 24 May
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Session 3: Biostratigraphy, chemostratigraphy, and past environmental and climate changes
Chairs: Lucia ANGIOLINI and Uwe BRAND
8:30-8:50 am
8:50-9:05 am
9:05-9:20 am
9:20 -9:35 am
9:35-9:50 am
9:50-10:05 am
Christoph KORTE: Palaeoenvironment and palaeoclimate from geochemistry of low-Mg
calcite brachiopod shells (keynote)
Amir ZAKY, Uwe BRAND and Karem AZMY: A new sample processing protocol: an
important update for procuring reliable ree signatures
Claudio GARBELLI and Lucia ANGIOLINI: Brachiopods biomineralization patterns
during the Late Permian
Giuseppe BUONO, Liisa LANG, Tõnu MEIDLA et al.: Brachiopod geochemistry and the
Early-middle Paleozoic of Estonia
Ulrich JANSEN: Pridolian to Eifelian brachiopod faunas, biofacies and events of the
Rhenish Massif (Germany)
GUO Wen, NIE Ting, SUN Yuanlin et al.: Lower Emsian (Lower Devonian) brachiopod
fauna from Nandan, Guangxi, South China
10:05-10:25 am
Morning Tea and Posters
10:25-10:40 am
Horng-Sheng MII, Tsai-Wen LIN, Shih-Wei WANG et al.: Carbon and oxygen isotope
records of Devonian brachiopods from the southern China and their palaeoenvironmental
implications
SUN Yuanlin, SHEN Bing, HUANG Kangjun et al.: Response of brachiopod fauna to
environmental change related to the Upper Kellwaser Event --a case study on a carbonate
platform section in central Guangxi, China
10:40-10:55 am
10:55-11:10 am
11:10-11:25 am
Claudio GARBELLI, Lucia ANGIOLINI, Uwe BRAND et al.: Neotethys seawater
chemistry and temperature at the dawn of the latest Permian events
11:25-11:45 am
Hideko TAKAYANAGI, Ryuji ASAMI, Tsuguo OTAKE et al.: Within- and inter-shell
variations in carbon and oxygen isotope composition of modern brachiopods
Alberto PÉREZ-HUERTA, Ethan L. GROSSMAN, Gregory A. HENKES et al.: Electron
backscatter diffraction (EBSD) as a tool for evaluating fossil brachiopod shell preservation:
Implications for carbonate clumped isotope paleothermometry (key note)
11:45-1:00 pm
Lunch break and Posters
1:00-5:30 pm
Mid -conference excursions
5:30-7:30 pm
Conference dinner (Confucius Temple)
Monday 25 May
Session 4: Origination, diversity and extinction of brachiopods
Chairs: David HARPER and SHEN Shuzhong
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8:30-8:50 am
8:50-9:05 am
9:05-9:20 am
9:20-9:35 am
9:35-9:50 am
9:50-10:05 am
10:05-10:20 am
10:20-10:35 am
CHEN Zhongqiang, WANG Jialin, YANG Hao et al.: Permian-Triassic evolutionary
dynamics of the Brachiopoda: paleobiogeography, extinction-survival-recovery, latitudinal
diversity gradients, body size variation, and longevity changes (key note)
ZHANG Zhifei and Lars E. HOLMER: An agglutinated early Cambrian actinotroch-like
phoronid from the Chengjiang Lagerstātten and its implications
LI Guoxiang, Zhang Zhifei and Lars E. Holmer: Early Cambrian Stem-Group
Brachiopods from China
Christian B. SKOVSTED, Marissa J. BETTS, Timothy P. TOPPER et al.: The tommotiid
Dailyatia from the Lower Cambrian of South Australia – Complications to the brachiopod
stem
ZHANG Zhiliang and ZHANG Zhifei: The epithelial cell moulds on the shells of the
earliest acrotretoids from the Cambrian Series 2 (Shuijingtuo Formation) in the Three
Gorges area, China
Adam T. HALAMSKI: Case studies in evolution and palaeobiogeography of Devonian
brachiopods
TU Chenyi and CHEN Zhongqiang: How did bivalve take over brachiopod's governorship
over the Permian-Triassic transition? An old question with new insights
Fernando GARCÍA JORAL, JoséFrancisco BAEZA-CARRATALÁ and Antonio GOY:
Size changes in brachiopods at the Early Toarcian (Jurassic) Mass Extinction Event
10:35-10:55 am
Morning Tea and Posters
Session 5: Palaeobiogeography, gradients and palaeogeographical implications
Chairs: Guang SHI and Robin COCKS
10:55-11:15 am
10:15-11:35 am
11:35-11:50 am
11:50-12:05 pm
12:05-1:30 pm
1:30-1:45 pm
1:45-2:00 pm
2:00-2:15 pm
L. Robin M. COCKS and Trond. H. TORSVIK: Ordovician to Devonian brachiopod
distributions and palaeogeography (key note)
HE Weihong, Guang R. SHI, Richard J. TWITCHETT et al.: Late Permian marine
ecosystem collapse began in deeper waters: evidence from brachiopod diversity and body
size changes (key note)
SHEN Shuzhong, ZHANG Yichun, LI Wenzhong et al.: Permian brachiopods from the
Gyanyima exotic block in southwestern Tibet, China and their palaeogeographical and
palaeoenvironmanetal implications
Gabriela A. CISTERNA and Andrea F. STERREN: Carboniferous postglacial brachiopod
faunas in the Southwestern Gondwana margin
Lunch break
David A.T. HARPER and L. Robin. M. COCKS: The brachiopod fauna of the Portrane
Limestone (Upper Ordovician), County Dublin, Ireland
Sangmin LEE, Guang R. SHI and Jun-Ichi TAZAWA: Antitropicality and convergent
evolution: a case study of Permian neospiriferine brachiopods
QIAO Li, SUN Dongli and SHEN Shuzhong: A preliminary report on the Lower
Carboniferous brachiopod fauna from the Qiangtang area (northwestern Tibet) and its
palaeobiogeographical significance
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2:15-2:30 pm
2:30-2:45 pm
2:45-3:00 pm
3:00-3:15 pm
Ian G. PERCIVAL: Katian (Late Ordovician) lingulate brachiopods from eastern
Australia – an appraisal of their palaeoecology and palaeobiogeographical affinities
Guang R. SHI, ZHANG Yichun, SHEN Shuzhong et al.: Onshore-offshore-basin species
diversity and body size patterns in Changhsingian (Late Permian) brachiopods
Des STRUSZ and Ian G. PERCIVAL: Palaeoecology and palaeobiogeographical
significance of Silurian (Wenlock-Ludlow) brachiopods from Quidong, New South Wales,
Australia
WU Huiting, HE Weihong, ZHANG Yang et al.: A global review on Neochonetes and
Tethyochonetes (Brachiopoda) in late Palaeozoic and early Mesozoic:
Palaeobiogeographical distributions, sedimentary facies and size changes
3:15-3:35 pm
Afternoon Tea and Posters
Session 6: Modern brachiopod biology and ecology
Chairs: Maria Aleksandra BITNER and Carsten LUETER
3:35-3:55 pm
3:55-4:10 pm
4:10-4:25 pm
4:25-4:40 pm
4:40-4:55 pm
4:55-5:10 pm
5:10-5:25 pm
5:25-5:40 pm
Carsten LÜTER and Ronald SEIDEL: Peeping through a bivalved shield –
non-destructive X-ray micro-computed tomography (µCT) elucidates brachiopod internal
anatomy (keynote)
Jeffrey ROBINSON: A review of extant species in the craniid brachiopod genus
Novocrania
Maria Aleksandra BITNER and Alan LOGAN: Recent Brachiopoda from the
Mozambique-Madagascar area, western Indian Ocean
Nina FURCHHEIM, Yale PASSAMANECK, Andreas HEJNOL et al.: The ancestral
brachiopod larval eye – a glimpse of bilaterian eye evolution.
Tatyana V. KUZMINA, Elena N. TEMEREVA and Vladimir V. MALAKHOV:
Structure of the blood system in rhynchonellid brachiopods.
Elena N. TEMEREVA and Vladimir V. MALAKHOV: Data on innervation of the
lophophore in brachiopods support the monophyly of the lophophorates.
Yi-Jyun LUO, Takeshi TAKEUCHI, Ryo KOYANAGI et al.: The brachiopod genome of
Lingula anatina and the evolution of lophotrochozoans and biomineralization
Natalia LÓPEZ CARRANZA, Holly A. SCHREIBER and Sandra J. CARLSON: Putting
3D models to the test: quantifying loop variability in Laqueus erythraeus and Terebratalia
transversa
Closing ceremony (Chair: SHEN Shuzhong)
5:40-6:00 pm
Closing remarks
Discussion on next IBC
Tips for post-conference field excursions
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LIST OF POSTERS
ANGIOLINI, Lucia, Giovanna DELLA PORTA, Flavio JADOUL, Melanie LENG, Leah NOLAN and Michael
STEPHENSON: What can a shell tell you? The many stories told by Gigantoproductus, a multiproxy-archive
brachiopod genus.
BERROCAL-CASERO, Mélani, Fernando GARCÍA JORAL and Fernando BARROSO-BARCENILLA:
Morphometric study of asymmetric rhynchonellids from the Coniacian (Upper Cretaceous) of Northern Spain.
BITNER, Maria Aleksandra and Neda MOTCHUROVA-DEKOVA: Badenian (Middle Miocene) brachiopod
assemblage from Yasen, northwestern Bulgaria (Central Paratethys): composition and biogeographic
significance.
BUONO, Giuseppe: Brachiopods and collections: the Philatelic record.
BUONO, Giuseppe: Mena Daniela Schemm-Gregory: remembering a colleague and a friend.
BUTTS, Susan H.: Silicification bias in brachiopods: Implications for paleoecological studies.
CHEN Feiyang, ZHANG Zhifei: Shell concentration of Palaeobolus from the Cambrian (Stage 4) Hongjianshao
Formation of eastern Yunnan.
CHEN Jing, TONG Jinnan, SONG Haijun, LUO Mao, HUANG Yunfei: Recovery pattern of brachiopods after the
Permian-Triassic crisis in South China.
CLARK, Joanna V., Anthony E. ALDRIDGE, Matí
as REOLID, Kazuyoshi ENDO and Alberto PÉREZ-HUERTA:
Application of shell spiral deviation methodology to fossil brachiopods: Implications for obtaining specimen
ontogenetic ages.
COLÁS, Jorge: Evidences of taphonomic reelaboration in jurassic brachiopods from the Iberian Range (NE Spain).
COLÁS, Jorge and Fernando GARCÍA JORAL：New taxonomically important observations on the microestructure
of the cardinalia of Jurassic Norellidae (Rhynchonellida).
GASPARD, Danièle: Hierarchical structure of calcite layers in the shell of the brachiopod Aerothyris
kerguelenensis.
GEBRUK, Anna A. and Elena N. TEMEREVA: Organization of the coelom in Lingula anatina: 3D and
ultrastructural studies.
HOU Jing, CHEN Zhongqiang, ZHAO Laishi and LI Yang: Covariations between seawater temperature and
benthic biodiversity immediately after the glacial maxima of the Late Palaeozoic ice age, Western Australia.
HUGHES, ZoëE. and L. Robin M. COCKS: The Thomas Davidson collection in the Natural History Museum,
London.
ISOWA, Yukinobu, Isao SARASHINA, Kenshiro OSHIMA, Keiji KITO, Masahira HATTORI and Kazuyoshi
ENDO: Proteome analysis of shell matrix proteins in the brachiopod Laqueus rubellus.
KUZMINA, Tatyana V. and Vladimir V. MALAKHOV: The accessory hearts of the rhynchonellid brachiopod
Hemithyris psittacea.
LI Yang, CHEN Zhongqiang, ZHAO Laishi and HOU Jing: Predatory drill holes from the Lower Permian
brachiopods, Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia: marine predatory interactions immediately after glaciation
of the Late Paleozoic ice age.
MA Xueping, Volker EBBIGHAUSEN and R. Thomas BECKER: New observations on Spinatrypina brachiopods
from the Frasnian (Upper Devonian) Refrath Formation of the Bergisch Gladbach area, Germany.
NIE Ting, GUO Wen and SUN Yuanlin: New knowledge of productinide brachiopods from the Tangbagou
Formation (Tournaisian, Lower Carboniferous) of Dushan, South Guizhou.
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NIE Ting, GUO Wen, SUN Yuanlin, SHEN Bing, HUANG Kangjun, TANG Zhuanhong, HUANG Xianglin, MAI
Chi and LI Yukun: New discoveries of the Late Devonian brachiopod genus Dzieduszyckia Siemiradzki, 1909
in south China.
PERCIVAL, Ian G., Michael ENGELBRETSEN and PENG Shanchi: Wulingian (middle Cambrian) linguliformean
brachiopods from Hunan Province, South China.
SHIINO, Yuta and Yuki TOKUDA: How does flow recruit epizoans onto brachiopod shells?
SICCARDI, Aron: A revisited Silurian-Lower Devonian brachiopod biostratigraphy of North Patagonian Massif,
Ventania system and Southern ParanáBasin. A regional correlation.
SOUR-TOVAR, Francisco and Sara A. QUIROZ-BARROSO: Lower-Middle Permian brachiopods from two
localities of Central-South Mexico; faunas of a closing ocean.
TEMEREVA, Elena N., Tatyana V. KUZMINA: Immunocytochemical and ultrastructural peculiarities of the
innervation of tentacles and the lophophore among brachiopods
TORRES-MARTÍNEZ, Miguel A. and Francisco SOUR-TOVAR: Productid brachiopods from the Carboniferous
of Ixtaltepec Formation, Oaxaca, Southern Mexico.
WANG Haizhou, ZHANG Zhifei and Lars E. HOLMER: New observations on the most mineralized brachiopod
Diandongia from the Chengjiang Lagerstätte (Cambrian, Stage 3) of eastern Yunnan, China.
ZAKY, Amir, Uwe BRAND, Karem AZMY, Alan LOGAN and Jörundur SVAVARSSON: Rare earth elements of
modern shelf and deep-water articulated brachiopods: evaluation of seawater masses.
ZHANG Meiqiong, MA Xueping and ZHANG Yubo: Leiorhynchid brachiopods across the Middle-Upper
Devonian boundary in South China.
ZHANG Zhiliang and ZHANG Zhifei: The epithelial cell moulds on the shells of the earliest acrotretoids from the
Cambrian Series 2 (Shuijingtuo Formation) in the Three Gorges area, China
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