Dr. Andy Gale andy.gale@port.ac.uk University of Portsmouth Saturday, 30th of November 2019 (16:00-16:45) at the international symposium on Chalk & Flint The epicontinental Chalk Sea occupied a vast region, extending from western Europe to central Asia, and lasted for approximately 40 million years, from the Cenomanian (Cretaceous, 100 Ma) to the end of the Danian […]
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Dr. Leon Claessens
Dr. Leon Claessens is Professor of Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution at Maastricht University, and Dean of the Maastricht Science Programme. He is an expert on the evolution of archosaurs and the recently extinct dodo. Claessens has been appointed in Maastricht since January 2019, prior to which he worked in North America, where he spent more […]
Characterization of flint from Hainaut and its significance for archaeological research
Géraldine Fiers Geraldine.Fiers@UGent.be Universiteit Gent Saturday, 30th of November 2019 (15:30-16:00) at the international symposium on Chalk & Flint In the Hainaut province (Belgium), flint is present in Upper Cretaceous chalk formations outcropping in the Mons Basin and in the vicinity of the cities of Lille and Tournai. This rock type was used as a raw […]
Géraldine Fiers
Géraldine Fiers is a PhD student at the Department of Geology at Ghent University. Her project, in collaboration with the Department of Archaeology, concerns flint characterization and its post-depositional alteration in a context of the preservation of prehistoric use-wear traces on stone tools. For her PhD dissertation, she is working under the supervision of Prof. […]
The Chalk of NW Europe: from the birth of the chalk to the end of an era
Dr. Nicolas Thibault nt@ign.ku.dk University of Copenhagen Saturday, 30th of November 2019 (14:15-15:00) at the international symposium on Chalk & Flint In presentation at the International Symposium on Chalk & Flint, Nicolas Thibault will give an up-to-date though non-exhaustive history tour of the NW European Chalk through well-documented examples. He will start with the definition of […]
Dr. Nicolas Thibault
Dr. Nicolas Thibault, associate professor (lektor) in paleontology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, is expert on Late Cretaceous calcareous nannofossils. His research focusses on paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatological reconstructions, using micropaleontology, cyclostratigraphy, stable isotopes, integrated stratigraphy and carbonate sedimentology. Nicolas has received his PhD in Earth Sciences in December 2005 at the Université Pierre et […]
The fossil record of modern birds from the type-Maastrichtian
Dr. Daniel Field djf70@cam.ac.uk University of Cambridge Saturday, 30th of November 2019 (13:45-14:15) at the international symposium on Chalk & Flint Our understanding of avian evolution has progressed tremendously in the last decade, and the end-Cretaceous mass extinction has emerged as a key factor responsible for stimulating the modern bird radiation. To better understand the pattern and […]
Dr. Daniel Field
Dr. Daniel Field, University Lecturer at the Department of Earth Sciences of the University of Cambridge (UK), is a leading expert on bird evolution. He studied zoology at the University of British Columbia (Canada), followed by a masters in vertebrate paleontology at Yale University (USA). In 2016, Daniel acquired his PhD at Yale, with a […]
The Maastricht sea as a tetrapod habitat, on a broad and a small scale
Dr. Eric Mulder e.mulder@wonderryck.nl Natura Docet Wonderryck Twente Saturday, 30th of November 2019 (12:15-12:45) at the international symposium on Chalk & Flint The Late Cretaceous sediments around the city of Maastricht document an epicontinental shallow sea containing a newly developed sea grass community. This ecosystem yielded favourable conditions for the turtle Allopleuron hofmanni and for the […]
Nummulieten: kleine tijdcapsules uit de Eocene broeikaswereld
Dr. Peter Stassen KU Leuven & KBIN zondag 10 november 2019 (14:15-14:45) op de PaleoTime-BE Internationale Fossielenbeurs Fossielenjagers kicken op ammonieten, trilobieten en natuurlijk dinosaurussen. Maar ken je ook de nummulieten? Nummulieten zijn foraminiferen, kleine eencelligen met een kalkskelet, die zijn uitgegroeid tot een uitzonderlijk groot formaat. Ze konden namelijk verschillende centimeters groot worden, reusachtig groot voor […]