Paleonet: IPC5 Paris: Shell bed session

[James Nebelsick]

Dear colleagues,

My co-conveners and I would like to draw your attention to the following 
session of the upcoming 5th International Palaeontological Congress in 
Paris this summer (July 9th -13th, 2018). See https://ipc5.sciencesconf.org/

Symposium  S33: Shell beds through time: implications for palaeoecology, 
taphonomy and evolution

The Abstract Submission Deadline is Feb 15th 2018.


S33 Shell beds through time: implications for palaeoecology, taphonomy 
and evolution
Organizers:
James H. Nebelsick (University of Tübingen, Germany)
Martin Zuschin (University of Vienna, Austria)
Adam Tomašových (Slovak Academy of Science, Slovakia)

A great deal of palaeontological data has been gained by studying shell 
beds through time including general diversity trends, trends in 
carbonate productivity and recycling, morphological and ecological 
gradients, evolutionary developments, taphonomic bias, the extent of 
spatial and temporal averaging, and sedimentological and geochemical 
implications. In this session, investigations on shell beds originating 
from both siliciclastics and carbonate environments will be highlighted 
irrespective of dominant organism types. The presented examples can 
include shell beds dominated by mass accumulations of monotypic species 
to highly divergent mixed assemblages. Analysis using qualitative 
descriptions as well as high resolution quantitative analytic methods 
for assessing shell beds and their content are welcome. The study of 
taphonomic features and sedimentological implications with respect to 
their representation will also be of interest. Presentations can cover 
both specific examples, deal with trends in shell bed development 
through time, and/or explore actualistic approaches that evaluate 
formation of shell beds in present-day environments.

We are looking forward to your contributions and meeting you in Paris.


Yours,

James Nebelsick

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James Nebelsick
Institute for Geosciences
University of Tübingen
Sigwartstrasse 10, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
nebelsick at uni-tuebingen.de
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http://homepages.uni-tuebingen.de/nebelsick