
7th INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON MESOZOIC FISHES
Systematics and Paleobiogeographic Patterns



The Palaeontological Research and Education Centre in cooperation with the Faculty of Science of Mahasarakham University (Thailand), the University Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (France), and the Natural History Museum of Geneva (Switzerland) are pleased to announce and host the 7th INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON MESOZOIC FISHES. The meeting is dedicated to reflect the progress in Mesozoic fish research that has been accomplished in the past 25 years since the first meeting in 1993, to discuss old and new methodologies, and to present novel information about the evolution, diversification, and the palaeobiogeography of fishes during the Mesozoic.
Oral Presentations
Each oral presentation please prepares your slides corresponding to the screen proportion at 9:16 and uploads them to our computer before your Oral session. Each presentation will be allotted 25 minutes (20 minutes for a talk and 5 minutes for questions).
Poster Presentations
Poster have to be A0 (841 x 1189 mm), portrait orientation, and in English. Please bring your poster to the Poster Session by coffee break, August 1st. Student and staffs will help you set your poster up.
MONDAY 31 JULY | |
09.00-20.00 | Shuttle service for participants from Khon Kaen Airport |
16.00-20.00 | Ice-breaker party and Registration at Palaeontological Research and Education Centre, Mahasarakham University |
TUESDAY 1 AUGUST | |
09.00-09.30 | Registration at Fourth floor – Computer Centre B412 |
09.30-10.30 | OFFICIAL OPENING
Introduction to the conference by Dr. Varavudh Suteethorn PRC director |
10.30-11.00 | Coffee Break |
Session 1 | |
11.00-11.30 | Thai Fossil Fishes and Geology of Thailand Romain Liard, Lionel Cavin, Gilles Cuny, Uthumporn Deesri & Varavudh Suteethorn |
11.30-12.00 | New data on Cretaceous freshwater hybodont sharks from Guangxi Province, South China Gilles Cuny, Jinyou Mo, Romain Amiot, Eric Buffetaut, Suravech Suteethorn, Varavudh Suteethorn & Haiyan Tong |
12.00-13.00 | LUNCH BREAK |
13.00-14.00 | MSU Site seeing by shuttle bus |
Session 2
Chairperson: Gilles Cuny | |
14.00-14.30 | The Late Cretaceous chondrichthyan fauna of the Elbtal Group (Saxony, Germany) Jan Fischer, Ilja Kogan, Evgeny Popov, Nadine Janetschke & Martin Licht |
14.30-15.00 | First hybodont shark assemblage from the Cretaceous of Malaysia: Updated report Yu He Teng, Masatoshi Sone, Ren Hirayama, Masataka Yoshida, Toshifumi Komatsu, Suchada Khamha & Gilles Cuny |
15.00-15.30 | Revision of the fossil batomorphs from the Cretaceous of Lebanon, and their impact on our understanding of the early step of the evolution of the clade Georges Kachacha, Gilles Cuny, Dany Azar & Pierre Abi Saad |
15.30-16.00 | COFFEE BREAK |
16.00-16.30 | A comparison between the fossil fish faunas from the Talbragar Fossil Fish Bed near Gulgong, NSW and the Koonwarra Fossil Bed, Gippsland, Victoria, Australia: Upper Jurassic vs Lower Cretaceous times Lynne Bean |
16.30-16.35 | Presentation of the shark-references project Gilles Cuny |
16.35-18.00 | POSTER SESSION Fourth floor – Computer Centre B412 |
18.30-21.00 | DINNER MSU’s Traditional Museum |
WEDNESDAY 2 AUGUST | |
Session 3
Chairperson: Anne Kemp | |
09.00-09.30 | Diversity of Cretaceous continental actinopterygians from Argentina, South America P. Guillermina Giordano |
09.30-10.00 | Systematic revision of the Cretaceous actinopterygian fauna from Bernissart, Belgium Sébastien Olive, Louis Taverne, Adriana López-Arbarello, Lionel Cavin & Uthumporn Deesri |
10.00-10.30 | COFFEE BREAK |
Chairperson: Andrea Tintori | |
10.30-11.00 | Taxic diversity and ecology of Mesozoic bony fish assemblages from the Khorat Group, NE Thailand Uthumporn Deesri, Kamonlak Wongko & Lionel Cavin |
11.00-11.30 | New advances on Triassic marine fossil fishes of South China Zuoyu Sun |
11.30-12.00 | 250 million years of freshwater fish biogeography: vicariance or dispersal? Lionel Cavin |
12.00-13.00 | LUNCH BREAK |
13.00-14.00 | Visit of the Center of Excellence for Silk Innovation/ The Mollusk and Natural Medicinal Mushroom Museums |
Session 4
Chairperson: Paulo M. Brito | |
14.00-14.30 | 40 years of field work in the Triassic marine vertebrate sites Andrea Tintori |
14.30-15.00 | A new specimen of (Osteichthyes, Actinopterygii) from the Longobardian (Ladinian, Middle Triassic) of Xingyi, Guizhou, South China Peigang Ni, Andrea Tintori, Sun Zuoyu & Jiang Dayong |
15.00-15.30 | COFFEE BREAK |
Chairperson: Yoshitaka Yabumoto | |
15.30-16.00 | The invention of fast-start predation: hydrodynamics of the predator-prey interaction in Triassic saurichthyids (Actinopterygii, ‘Palaeopterygii’) Ilja Kogan |
16.00-16.30 | Triassic actinopterygians across Tethys: state of the art Tintori Andrea, Da-Yong Jiang, Cristina Lombardo &Zuo-Yu Sun |
16.30-18.00 | POSTER SESSION |
18.30-21.00 | Dinner |
THURSDAY 3 AUGUST | |
Session 5
Chairperson: Jan Fischer | |
09.00-09.30 | New information about Late Cretaceous pycnodont fishes (Actinoptergyii, Pycnodontiformes) from the Near East John Cawley & Jürgen Kriwet |
09.30-10.00 | Exceptional fossils from China highlight the origin and early diversification of ionoscopiform halecomorphs Xin-Ying Ma & Guang-Hui Xu |
10.00-10.30 | COFFEE BREAK |
Chairperson: Lionel Cavin | |
10.30-11.00 | Taxonomic revision of Su, 1959 (Halecomorphi, Holostei) from the Middle Triassic (Ladinian) of Guizhou and Yunnan, China Guang-Hui Xu & Xin-Ying Ma |
11.00-11.30 | New light on the paleobiogeography of the labyrinth fishes Feixiang Wu, Dekui He, Mee-mann Chang & Desui Miao |
11.30-12.00 | Danian teleosteans of the North Atlantic Region – compared with the Maastrichtian Niels Bonde & Maria E. C. Leal |
12.00-13.00 | LUNCH BREAK |
Session 6
Chairperson: Zuoyu Sun | |
13.00-13.30 | Mesozoic clupeomorphs of North Africa: diversity and phylogeny Bouziane Khalloufi, Didier Dutheil, Paulo Brito, Théo Mora & René Zaragüeta Bagils |
13.30-14.00 | New data on ichthyofauna from the Lower Triassic of Northern Siberia Eugenia Sytchevskaya et al. |
14.00-14.30 | Coelacanths from the Middle Triassic of Switzerland and the pace of actinistian evolution Christophe Ferrante, Rossana Martini, Heinz Furrer & Lionel Cavin |
14.30-15.00 | COFFEE BREAK |
Chairperson: Bouziane Khalloufi | |
15.00-15.30 | The homology among extant and fossil coelacanth lungs Camila Cupello |
16.00-16.30 | Living animals for comparison in studies of Mesozoic fossils Anne Kemp |
16.30-17.00 | CLOSING CEREMONY |
18.00-21.00 | FAREWELL DINNER MSU’s Traditional Museum |
FRIDAY 4 AUGUST: VISIT SIRINDHORN MUSEUM | |
09.00-10.30 | Traveling to Sirindhorn Museum |
10.30-14.00 | Visit the Sirindhorn Museum |
12.00-13.00 | LUNCH TIME |
14.00-15.00 | Visit temple at Phu Khao, Kalasin Province |
15.00-16.30 | Back to Mahasarakham |
18.00-20.00 | DINNER |
1. | The aspidorhynchid in the Jurassic of Mexico Brito Paulo |
2. | Possible sexual dimorphism in (Neopterygii, pycnodontiformes) from the Cenomanian, Hagel, Lebanon Cawley John & Jürgen Kriwet |
3. | A review of Mawsonia from the Ilhas Group, Marfim Formation (? Late Hauterivian), Recôncavo Basin Cupello, Camila, Léo G. C. Fragoso, and Paulo M. Brito |
4. | A new Pycnodontid (Actinopterygii) in the late Jurassic of the Solnhofen Archipelago Ebert Martin, Martina Kölbl-Ebert & Christian Schulbert |
5. | New Cretaceous lungfish material from southern South America, Argentina Giordano P. Guillermina, Soledad Gouiric-Cavalli & Leonardo Filippi |
6. | Late Mesozoic marine Antarctic fishes: future perspectives based on the newly collections recovered in the Ameghino and López de Bertodano formation Gouiric-Cavalli Soledad, Leonel Acosta Burllaile, Ari Iglesias, Juan J. Moly, José P. O´Gorman, Marcelo Reguero, Sergio Santillana, Marianella Talevi, Carolina Vieytes, Mauricio A. Bigurrarena Ojeda & Jorge Lusky |
7. | Revision of the fossil batomorphs from the Cretaceous of Lebanon, and their impact on our understanding of the early step of the evolution of the clade Kachacha Georges, Gilles Cuny, Dany Azar & Pierre Abi Saad |
8. | Origin and Diversification of the Otophysi clade during the Mesozoic: a case of mosaic evolution? Mayrinck Diogo, Paulo M. Brito, Jesus Alvarado-Ortega & Olga Otero |
9. | A new specimen of (Osteichthyes, Actinopterygii) from the Longobardian (Ladinian, Middle Triassic) of Xingyi, Guizhou, South China Ni, Pei-Gang |
10. | New Materials of Ctenopharyngodon fossils and its distribution pattern Su Ruifeng & Mee-Mann Chang |
11. | Ptycholepidid fishes of central Asia Sytchevskaya, Eugenia |
12. | X-ray phase technology shed new light on Weberian apparatus evolution: context and aim of the case study of † (otophysi, incertae sedis) Tristan Martial, Diogo Mayrinck, Renaud Boistel & Olga Otero |
13. | Comparative study between Su, 1959 and (Liu in Liu et al., 2003) from Zhuganpo Member (Ladinian, Middle Triassic) of Falang Formation, Xingyi, Guizhou Province, China Xin, Yu |
14. | An Upper Cretaceous ichthyodectiform fish from Kyushu, Japan Yositaka Yabumoto, Paulo M. Brito & Koji Hirose |
SATURDAY 5 AUGUST | |
08.00-12.00 | Traveling to Amnat Charoen Province |
12.00-13.00 | LUNCH TIME |
13.00-15.00 | Traveling to Khok Pha Suam locality Si Mueang Mai, Ubon Ratchathani Province |
15.00-16.30 | Visit Khok Pha Suam locality Si Mueang Mai, Ubon Ratchathani Province |
16.30-21.00 | Departure to hotel and have dinner Khong Chiam, Ubon Ratchathani Province |
SUNDAY 6 AUGUST | |
08.00-09.00 | Visit of a fish market |
09.00-10.00 | Visit of the two colors river |
10.00-10.30 | Travel to Pha Taem National Park |
11.00-12.00 | Visit of Pha Taem National Park |
12.00-13.00 | LUNCH TIME Khemarat District, Ubon Ratchathani Province |
13.00-15.00 | Travel to Phu Pha Thoep National Park |
15.00-16.30 | Visit of Phu Pha Thoep National Park |
16.30-18.00 | Travel to hotel in Mukdahan Province |
18.00-21.00 | DINNER |
MONDAY 7 AUGUST | |
08.00-09.30 | Travel to Phu Din Daeng locality NaKae District, Nakhorn Phanom Province |
09.30-12.00 | Visit of Phu Din Daeng locality NaKae District, Nakhorn Phanom Province |
12.00-13.00 | LUNCH TIME |
13.00-15.30 | Travel to Phu Noi locality Kham Muang District, Kalasin Province |
15.30-17.00 | Visit of Phu Noi locality Kham Muang District, Kalasin Province |
17.00-18.30 | Travel to hotel in Maha Sarakham |
19.00-21.00 | DINNER Maha Sarakham Province |
TUESDAY 8 AUGUST | |
05.00-12.00 | Shuttle service for participants to Khon Kaen Airport |