Each year, vertebrate paleontologists, preparators, writers, artists and enthusiasts convene to share the latest research, attend workshops and field trips, and meet new fossil fans as well as old friends. It’s the world’s foremost forum on vertebrate paleontology: the Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. It’s usually referred to simply as “SVP”. The 77th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology will be held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The SVP 2017 logo is reconstruction of UALVP 52613, a juvenile Chasmosaurus belli found at Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta in 2010, drawn by Alberta paleoartist Michael Skrepnick. The description of this specimen was published in 2016 in JVP: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02724634.2015.1048348. Welcome to the Stampede City! Located where the prairies meet the mountains, Calgary has long been the starting point for expeditions into North America’s natural history riches. With several UNESCO World Heritage sites nearby, including Dinosaur Provincial Park and the Burgess Shale, we are confident you will find appealing vertebrate fossils, no matter your interest. There are numerous museums and sites of interest both within the city limits or a short drive from Calgary. The word renowned Royal Tyrrell Museum is an hour and a half drive away, and Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump, another UNESCO World Heritage site, is similarly nearby. Three hours away are the Walcott Quarry to the west in Yoho National Park (Field, BC) and Dinosaur Provincial Park to the east (Brooks, AB). Also 3 hours’ drive away is the collection at the Laboratory of Vertebrate Paleontology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. For the adventurous, consider visits to the Philip Currie Museum of Palaeontology in Grand Prairie, AB, and the Peace River Palaeontological Research Centre in Tumbler Ridge, BC. Between all of these points are some of the world’s richest fossil deposits from Cretaceous and Cenozoic times. We have located this year’s Annual Meeting in the heart of downtown, and amenities for all tastes and budgets are available via a short stroll down the Stephen Ave. pedestrian mall. Please venture out and enjoy our famous hospitality! ... [Information of the supplier]
Die 87. Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft wird vom 11. - 15. September 2016 in Dresden stattfinden. Ausrichter ist Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen, Dresden. Die Tagung steht unter dem Motto Fossils: key to evolution, stratigraphy and palaeo-environments, denn Fossilien geben entscheidende Informationen über die erdgeschichtlichen Veränderungen unseres Planeten. Diese betreffen insbesondere den Verlauf der Evolution der Organismen, die Entwicklung der Lebensgemeinschaften sowie die Veränderung der Lebensräume in Zeit und Raum. Fossilien (Körper-, Spuren und Chemofossilien) sind somit unser Schlüssel für das Verständnis der erdgeschichtlichen Vergangenheit, verlässliche Zeugen und wichtige Archive des vergangenen globalen Wandels sowie hervorragende Werkzeuge in der Paläoumwelt-Rekonstruktion. Der vergangene globale Wandel kann aber auch Hinweise für die Vorhersage möglicher Zukunftsszenarien unseres Planeten Erde geben (the past is the key to future global change). Ziel der Tagung ist es, Wissenschaftler/innen aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen der Geo- und Biowissenschaften zusammenzubringen, um möglichst viele verschiedene Aspekte des fossil records zu betrachten und zu interpretieren. Eine wichtige Rolle dabei soll auch die Anwendung von Fossilien als wertvolle Werkzeuge in der Stratigraphie (z.B. Biostratigraphie) und Paläo-Umweltrekonstruktion (z.B. Mikrofaziesanalyse) sein. ... [Information des Anbieters]
The BFV Online provides interactive access to the SVP's Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates series. Using the BFV Online , users can specify a search criterion, and receive a formatted list of matching literature references. Queries are formed like taxon = 'Tyrannosaurus'. Detailed instructions are available for writing queries. Complicated Boolean queries and pattern-matching are supported. All BFV references are copyrighted material belonging to the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. ... [Information of the supplier]
The Cnidaria, especially the Anthrozoa, are among the most important reef builders. There life cycle (metagenesis) and morphology (two tissue layers) differs significantly for other animals. This web page provides an insight into the biology and ecology of the cnidaria, and their subtaxa. [Editorial staff vifabio]
Digital Morphology, part of the National Science Foundation Digital Libraries Initiative, develops and serves unique 2D and 3D visualizations of the internal and external structure of living and extinct vertebrates, and a growing number of 'invertebrates'. The Digital Morphology library contains nearly a terabyte of imagery of natural history specimens that are important to education and central to ongoing cutting-edge research efforts. The Digital Morphology library site now serves imagery, optimized for Web delivery, for almost 300 specimens contributed by more than 80 collaborating researchers from the world's premiere natural history museums and universities. ... [Information of the supplier]
Corallines are a highly complicated group. The identification of fossil coralline algae bears several problems and the intraspecific variability is very high. Their distribution is very wide spread: Corallines occur from the tropics to polar regions, and from the intertidal down to more than 200 m water depth. The current homepage aims to make this algal group more popular. After an introduction, different growth forms in fossil and present-day corallines are demonstrated. One of the main topics is a comprehensive comparison of fossil and present-day taxonomical features. Moreover, descriptions of corallines from Austria, Italy and the Northern Red Sea are presented. Finally, you can find a list of the described taxa. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
"Where do we come from?", "Who are we?", "Where are we going to?" The exhibition of the Neanderthal Museum is based on those central topics. One can find them in any part of the house. The permanent exhibition traces humankind's long journey from the origins in the African savannahs to the urban centres of our times. Of course, emphasis is given to the Neanderthals and the true-to-life figures based upon skeletal remains which were reconstructed using the latest forensic methods. Multimedia arrangements and audio-experiences, but also classical media such as exhibits and texts give vivid insights into the results of current archaeological and palaeoanthropological research. Computer terminals offer the opportunity for further individual in-depth research. ... [Information of the supplier]
Neogene Marine Biota of Tropical America (NMITA) is an online biotic database containing images and data for taxa used in analyses of Tropical American biodiversity over the past 25 million years. The NMITA WWW Site contains images and information on taxa collected as part of two large multi-taxa fossil sampling programs: (1) the Panama Paleontology Project (PPP) coordinated by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama; (2) the Neogene Paleontology of the northern Dominican Republic (DR) project coordinated by the Natural History Museum in Basel, Switzerland. NMITA is designed for use in research and education in systematics and evolutionary paleontology. Partial information is currently available for bryozoans, corals (zooxanthellate and azooxanthellate), molluscs (gastropods and bivalves), ostracodes, and fish. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
The Laboratory of Arthropods, Palaeontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences is dedicated to research on to fossil insects (Palaeoentomology). Fossil insect studies in Russia started just before the establishment of the Palaeontological Institute. They were initiated by a renowned entomologist A.V. Martynov (1879-1938), who became a founder of the Laboratory of Entomology in this Institute. During the years of its existence, the Laboratory of Arthropods accumulated the most extensive collection of fossil insects and arachnids comprising approximately 200,000 specimens and being one of the best collections in the World. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
Die Paläontologische Gesellschaft ist eine internationale Vereinigung für den deutschsprachigen Raum. Sie wurde 1912 in Greifswald gegründet. Ziele der Gesellschaft sind die Förderung der Paläontologie und der Kontakt unter den Paläontologen, Geowissenschaftlern und interessierten Laien aller Länder. Wesentliches Ziel ist auch, die Paläontologie der Öffentlichkeit besser verständlich zu machen. Die politische Aufgabe der Gesellschaft ist, die Interessen der Paläontologie gegenüber den Verantwortlichen in Politik, Hochschulen, Wirtschaft, Behörden und Medien zu vertreten. Die Mitglieder der Gesellschaft sind Wissenschaftler und Studierende der Paläontologie, Geologie und Biologie (sowie anderer Fächer) und interessierte Laien und Sammler. Neben der erdgesteinsgeschichtlich-historischen Betrachtung der Entstehung der Erde steht die Evolution des Lebens im Vordergrund der Forschung der Mitglieder der Gesellschaft. ... [Information des Anbieters]