programme, abstracts, and field guides ; 24.09. - 29.09.2012 Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

This volume contains the program, abstracts and field guides of the centenary meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft (September 2012, Berlin). The topics of the symposia are: • The Alfred Wegener Centennial Symposium: The Idea that Changed the World – 100 Years of Continental Drift • Biodiversity in the Fossil Record – Going Beyond How Many Taxa • Frontiers in Geobiology • Stories from the Past – Reading Biomineralized Diaries • New Challenges in Micropalaeontology – Going Beyond the Standards • Evolution, Development, and Developmental Paleontology – the Interplay of Ontogenetic and Deep Time • Anomalies and Pathologies – the Other Sources of Variation • Taphonomy – Preservation of Ecological and Biogeographic Attributes in the Sedimentary Record • Bridging the Gap – Cross-Discipline Research in Biology and Palaeontology • The Cambrian Bioradiation of Metazoa – an Interdisciplinary Approach • Climate Change and Biodiversity Patterns in the Mid-Paleozoic (IGCP 596) • The Triassic – Organismic Evolution Between Two Mass Extinction Events • The Early Evolution of Tetrapods and their Ecosystems • Tendaguru and Beyond – Vertebrates in Jurassic Terrestrial Ecosystems • Biological Factors of Sauropod Gigantism • Mammalian Dentitions – Diversity, Form, and Function • Amber as a Window to Terrestrial Palaeoecosystems • More than just Wet Feet – Tetrapod Transitions from Land to Sea and Hot Spots of Marine Tetrapod Evolution • The Evolution of Modern African Biogeography • Gymnosperm Evolution – Major Events and Mysteries • The Development of Modern Vegetation Belts During the Cretaceous and Tertiary • Öffentlichkeitsarbeit – Vernetzung oder Abgrenzung? • The Young Palaeontologist Award • Open Symposia • Tilly-Edinger Awardconferenc