10th Anniversary Conference of the Czech, Polish and Slovak Paleontologists

Conference programme

October 13, 2009

7:00 – 8:00 Breakfast (for the participants arriving on October 12, 2009)
8:00 – 10:30 Registration of participants on conference table, Congres Centre hotel Šachtička

Room A
9:30 - Opening ceremony of the conference with friendly welcome of representatives of hosting
city Banská Bystrica, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Matej Bel University, and other
conference sponsors.
10:30 – Paleozoic section (convenor: P. Kraft)
10:0 – 10:50 Tonarová Petra: New groups of scolecodonts in the Silurian of the Prague Basin
(Barrandian, Czech Republic).
10:50 – 11:10 Šrámková Iva, Fatka Oldřich & Szabad Michal: The genus Stromatocystites
Pompeckj, 1896 (Echinodermata, Cambrian).
11:10 – 11:30 Turek Vojtěch & Manda Štěpán: Comparison of early growth stages of shell of the
Silurian genus Boionautilus with the Recent genus Nautilus (Nautiloidea)
11:30 – 11:50 Čejchan Petr: Upper devonian radiolaria of the southern Tien-Shan, Uzbekistan.
11.50 – 12.10 Steinová Marika: The revision of genera Praeleda Pfab, 1934 and Praenucula
Pfab, 1934 (Ordovician, Nuculidae, Bivalvia): preliminary report:
12:10 – 12:30 Bek Jiří: Two examples of faunal interaction on Carboniferous-Permian spores and
plants.
12:30 – 12:50 Mencl Václav, Matysová Petra & Sakala Jakub: Upper Carboniferous silicified
calamite stems from the Krkonoše Piedmont Basin – preliminary report.

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

Room A
14:15 – 15:00 Steyer J.Sébastien: Darwin and fossils (Plenary lecture)
15:00 – Paleozoic section (convenor V. Turek)
15:00 – 15:20 Kraft Petr & Štorch, Petr: Graptolite assemblages across the upper Katian faunal
diversity maximum in the Prague Basin (Kralův Dvůr Formation, Czech Republic)
15:20 15:40 Rak Štěpán & Lerosey - Aubril Rudy: Terrace lines and ridges as an autecological
factor of Genus Bollandia Reed, 1943 (Trilobita).

15:40 – 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 – Mesozoic section (convenor J. Soták)

16:00 – 16:20 Pisera Andrzej, Niknahad M., Senowbari-Daryan Baba & Seyed-Emami
Kazem: Siliceous sponges form the Dalichai Formation (Middle Jurassic), Alborz Mts, NW
Iran
16:20 – 16:40 Olšavský Mário, Michalík Jozef, Šimo Vladimír & Golej Marián: Early Triassic
biotopes in the Hronic Superunit of the Western Carpathians
16:40 – 17:00 Golej Marián: The colour pattern and the shell microstructure of some Upper
Triassic and Lower Jurassic bivalves from the Western Carpathians.
 17:00 – 17:20 Jamrichová Miroslava: Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous calpionellids and
calcareous dinoflagellates from the selected sections of the Czorstyn Unit of the Klippen
Belt (Western Carpathians)
17:20 – 17:40 Reboulet Stéphane, Ploch Izabela & Rard Anthony: Paleoecology of some
Valanginian ammonoids: evidence from their abundance variations and isotopic data of the
shells.
17:00 – 18:00 Skupien Petr: Albian to Cenomanian dinoflagellate cysts from the Fore-Magura
Unit.

18.00 – 19.00 Poster presentation

19.00 - Dinner

Poster section (order of contributions agrees with numbers of palnel boards):

1. Bérdi, Laura, Pálfy, József & Főzy, István: Early Cretaceous aptychus assemblages from the Bersek Hill (Gerecse
Mts., Hungary)

2. Frank Jiří: The European Upper Cretaceous Nautiloidea (Cephalopoda)/ palaeogeographic distribution –
preliminary report

3. Fišáková Nývltová Miriam: Hunting strategies of Gravettian hunters based on paleoecology of large gregarious
animals.

4. Gregorovičová Eva & Banasová Mariana: New Miocene taxa (Pirumella gigantea n. sp. and Pirumella gigantea
granulata n. sp.) of calcareous dinoflagellate cysts from the Vienna Basin.

5. Halásová Eva: Príspevok vápnitých nanofosílií k datovaniu spodnokriedových sedimentov Západných Karpát

6. Horváth Janina: Multivariable statistical method and potential application of non-controlled learning neural
networks in paleontology

7. Ivanov Alexander , Mešķis Sandijs, Mikuláš Radek & Zupiņš Ivars: A rich ichnofossil assemblage from the Frasnian
(Upper Devonian) deposits at Andoma Hill, Russia (Onega Lake, Russia)

8. Iwańczuk Jolanta: Stratigraphic investigations of the Świniarski Źleb-Kopy Soltysie area (Lower-Middle Jurassic,
Krizna Unit, Tatra Mts., Poland) - preliminary studies

9. Jach Renata, Elzbieta Machaniec, Gradziński Michal: Nummulitic Eocene deposits in the Polish Tatra Mountains

10. Jeleň Stanislav, Mamoňová M. & Soták Ján: Occurence of the tertiary opalised chestnut near Povrazník village.

11. Kędzierski Mariusz, Machaniec Elżbieta, Rodríguez-Tovar Francisco J., Tabol Wójcik Patrycja & Uchman Alfred:
Palaeontological and mineralogical studies of the Cenomanian Turonian interval in the Nowe Rybie section,
Subsilesian Unit, Polish Outer Carpathians

12. Kočí Tomáš: Serpulidní červi z klasické příbřežní lokality Předboj (svrchní cenoman, ČKP) u Prahy

13. Kronome Katarína: First results of study of Upper Triassic limestones of Hallstatt-facies on selected outcrops of
the Silica Nappe

14. Krstic Nadezda: Characteristics of subtropic karstic Dinaride Lake in its unstable geotectonic regime

15. Krzemiński Wiesław, Krzemińska Ewa & Prokop Jakub: Fauna of the Carboniferous locality Sosnowiec (Silesia) -
prelimnary results

16. Kučerová Jana: Palaeoclimate Interpretation at the Locality Veľká Čausa (Early Miocene, Western Carpathians)
based on CLAMP Method
17. Malina Luiza, Wronka Aneta , Boratyn Józef, Machaniec Elżbieta & Gasiński M., Adam: Biostratigraphy and
palaeoecology of the Late Campanian – Maastrichtian sediments of the South-Eastern part of the Lublin Upland
based on foraminiferal assemblages

18. Ociepa Anna Maria: Problematic fossil from Jurassic Antarctica.

19. Ozdinová Silvia: Paleoecological interpretatin of the Rapovce GTL-2 Borehole (Lučenská kotlina depression).

20. Pálfy József: Early Cretaceous aptychus assemblages from the Bersek Hill (Gerecse Mts., Hungary)

21. Smoleń Jolanta:

22. Sabol Martin, Ábelová Martina, Gullár Juraj & Horvát Ján: Cave lion from the Western Tatras Mts.: taxonomy,
age and palaeoenvironment

23. Smrečková, Miroslava & Soták, Ján: Radiolarian microfauna from the Coniacian – Campanian formation of the
Manín Unit: implications for biostratigraphy and paleoenvironments.

24. Studencka, Barbara & Jasionowski, Marek: Badenian / Sarmatian boundary in the bivalve record of the Medobory
Hills (West Ukraine, Paratethys).

25. Szives Ottilia: Integrated micro-and macrofossil data of some Late Albian sections of Hungary.

26. Tóth Csaba: Diversity of Neogene proboscideans in Slovak part of Western Carpathians.

27. Vasiļkova Jeļena, Lukševičs Ervīns, Stinkulis Ģirts & Zupiņš Ivars: Taphonomy of the Upper Devonian vertebrate
bonebeds at Langsēde Cliff, Latvia

28. Virág Attila: A useful tool in biochronology based on a morphometric study of Elephantidae molars from Hungary

29. Zlinská Adriena, Fordinal Klement, Halásová Eva & Kováčová Marianna: SarmatIan sediments from the vicinity
of Pernek (Western rim of the Malé Karpaty Mts.)

30. Zupinš Ivans: A rich ichnofossil assemblage from the Frasnian (Upper Devonian) deposits at Andoma Hill, Russia
(Onega Lake, Russia)

October 14, 2009

7.00 – 8.30 Breakfast

Room A
8:30 Mesozoic section (convenor J. Michalík)
8:30 – 8:50 Vašíček Zdeněk: The basic system of Early Cretaceous ammonites and the current
Standard ammonite zonation in the Western Carpathians.
8:50 – 9:10 Bitner Maria Aleksandra & Kaim Andrzej: A new species of Eucalathis
(Brachiopoda: Chlidonophoridae) from the Upper Cretaceous seep deposits of Omagari,
Hokkaido, Japan.
9:10 – 9:30 Soták Ján & Smrečková Miroslava: High-resolution microbiostratigraphy across the
Cenomanian-Turonian boundary (Western Carpathians): a proxy data for Oceanic Anoxic
Event 2.
9:30 – 9:50 Svobodová Marcela, Hradecká Lenka & Švábenická Lilian: The Cenomanian-
Turonian boundary event in hemipelagic sediments of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin
(Czech Republic) – palynoflora, foraminifera, and calcareous nannofossils record.
9.50 – 10.15 Coffee break

Room A
10:15 Mesozoic section (convenor Z. Vašíček)
10:15 – 10:35 Bodor Emese & Váchová Zuzana: Spirellea seeds from the Iharkut locality (Upper
Santonian, Hungary) and their classification based on type material (Upper Cretaceous,
Czech Republic).
10:35 – 10:55 Boorová Daniela & Józsa Štefan: Microfauna of Párnica Marl Formation from
Lúčky-Hlboké (Choč Mts.).
10:55 – 11:15 Frank Jiří: Deltocymatoceras galea (Fritsh 1982) the remarkable Upper Cretaceous
nautilid (Cephalopoda).

11:15 Advanced and actualistic methods in paleontology (convenor J. Pálfy)

11:15 – 11:35 Tomašových Adam & Kidwell Susan M.: Modeling the effects of time averaging
on species composition and diversity.
11:35 – 11:55 Majewski Wojciech: Cribroelphidium webbi: An Antarctic foraminifer for detecting
climate change in glacier-proximal sediments.
11:55 – 12:15 Vodrážka Radek: A new method for the extraction of macrofossils from calcareous
rocks using sulphuric acid.

Room B
10:15 Cainozoic section (convenor N. Oszczypko)
10:15 – 10:35 Prillo Simon, Krstić Nadežda & Pipík Radovan: The Pliocene brackish and the
freshwater ostracoda assemblages in Albania
10:35 – 10:55 Holcová Katarína: Successions of foraminifera and calcareous nannoplankton
assemblages during the Early Badenian transgresion in the Western Carpathians (Central
Paratethys).
10:55 – 11:15 Studencka Barbara, Popov Sergey, Bieńkowska Małgorzata & Wasiluk
Radosław: Oligocene bivalve fauna of the Solenovian type from the Polish Outer
Carpathians.
11:15 – 11:35 Pipík Radovan & Staňová Sidónia: Extrinsic factors and morphometrical
variability of Cyprideis (Ostracoda) in the non-marine basins.
11:35 – 11:55 Halásová Eva & Jamrich Michal: Calcareous nannofossils of the Late Badenian
(Early Serravallian) of the Western Carpathians Neogene sequences - „state of art“.
11:55 – 12:15 Hara Urszula: Distribution pattern of the Sarmatian lamellar bryozoan colonies in
the NE part of the Central Paratethys: a key to ecological reconstruction.

12.30 – 14.00 Lunch

Room A
14:00 Cainozoic section (convenor K. Holcová)
14:00 – 14:20 Dulai Alfréd: Late Eocene micromorphic brachiopods from Austria.
14:20 – 14:40 Jach Renata, Machaniec Elżbieta & Gradziński Michał: Development of the
Eocene deposits in the Polish Tatra Mountains.
14:40 – 15:00 Łukowiak Magdalena: Eocene record of soft demosponges from southern
Australia: preliminary report.
15:00 – 15:20 Ozdínová Silvia & Soták Ján: First evidence of the Early Eocene Climatic
Optimum (EECO) in the Central Western Carpathians: results from the foraminiferal and
nannofossil study.
15:20 – 15:40 Oszczypko-Clowes Marta: Calcareous nannoplankton of the terminal Magura
Basin (Polish Outer Carpathians).
15:40 – 16:00 Oszczypko Nestor & Oszczypko-Clowes Marta: Preorogenic position of the
Magura Basin.

Room B
14:00 Vertebrate section (convenor P. Holec)
14:00 – 14:20 Lukševičs Ervīns & Ivanov Alexander: Devonian vertebrate assemblages and
elpistostegid-tetrapod diversity in the Baltic palaeozoogeographic province.
14:20 – 14:40 Steyer J. Sébastien & Jalil Nour-Eddine: First evidence of a temnospondyl in the
Late Permian of the Argana Basin, Morocco.
14:40 – 15:00 Janeček Jiří & Kundrát Martin: 3D neurocranial visualization in the Mongolian
oviraptorid dinosaur Conchoraptor.
15:00 – 15:20 Gregorová Ružena, Schultz Ortwin, Harzhauser Mathias, Kroh Andreas &
Coric Stjepan: A giant early Miocene sunfish from the North Alpine Foreland Basin
(Austria) and its implication for molid phylogeny.
15:20 – 15:40 Tvarožková Barbora, Kundrát Martin & Janáček Jiří: Evolutionary shaping of
the temporal region in Chelonia.
15:40 – 16:00 Ivanov Martin: Neogene evolution of the genus Varanus (Platynota, Varanidae) v
Europě.

16.00 – 16.20 Coffee break

Room A
16.20 Cenozoic section (convenor R. Pipík)
16:20 – 16:50 Čerňanský Andrej: Earliest world occurrence of Lacerta viridis (Sauria, Lacertida)
from the Lower Miocene of central Europe.
16:50 – 17:10 Váchová Zuzana: “Preliminary report on Palaeoaldrovanda splendens carnivorous
plant or insect eggs?”
17:10 – 17:30 Hyžný Matúš: Generic assignment of some miocene callianassoid mud shrimps
from Western Carpathians.
17:30 – 17:50 Břízová Eva: Development of the forest vegetation in the Českomoravská
vrchovina Upland in the Late Glacial and Holocene (Czech Republic)
17:50 – 18:10 Beňová Alena & Orvošová Monika: Paleontological collections in the Slovak
Museum of Nature protection and speleology in Liptovský Mikuláš

19.00 Conference dinner

Announcement of awards for young paleontologists under 32 years-old:
1. The best scientific publication
2. The best presentation
3. The best poster
October 15, 2009
7.00 – 8.00 Breakfast (participants will take lunch packets)
8.00 Post-conference field trip
Field trip route: Banská Bystrica - Zvolen – Veľký Krtíš – Fiľakovo – Šomoška (Slovak –
Hungary boundary). Transport by buss and accompanying cars. For Stops see the Field trip guide
of the Conference volume.
The participants could leave the field trip route in all sites, taking a train and bus connections to
home (e.g. Zvolen, Lučenec, Banská Bystrica).

The services including in the conference fees in the Congress Centrum of the hotel Šachtička:
swimming pool, fitness, table-tennis and free parking.