The 12th Romanian Symposium of Palaeontology

Cluj-Napoca, September 19th-21st, 2019

Dedicated to the 100th Aniversary of Romanian University in Cluj-Napoca

THIRD CIRCULAR

The 12th Romanian Symposium of Palaeontology, organized by the Romanian Society of Palaeontologists and the Department of Geology of the Babeş-Bolyai University, will be held in Cluj-Napoca, September 19th to 21st, 2019.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Ioan I. Bucur Executive President (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca) Iuliana Lazăr Vice-President (University of Bucharest)

Liana Săsăran Vice-President (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca) Viorel Ionesi Vice-President (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iași)

Sorin Filipescu (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca) Carmen Chira (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca) Ioan Tanţău (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca)

Emanoil Săsăran (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca)

Secretariate

Mirela Popa (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca) George Pleş (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca)

Raluca Haitonic (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca)

Lorand Silye (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca) Cristian Mircescu (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca)

Alin Oprişa (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca) Andrei-Cosmin Diaconu (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca)

Andrei Panait (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca) Szabolcs Kövecsi (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca) Voichiţa Reszeg (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca)

VENUE The 12th Romanian Symposium of Palaeontology will be held at the Department of Geology of the Babeş-Bolyai University, 1 M. Kogălniceanu Str., Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

LANGUAGE OF THE SYMPOSIUM English will be the official language of the Symposium.

SYMPOSIUM THEMES Invertebrate Palaeontology Vertebrate Palaeontology Micropalaeontology Palaeobotany and Palynology Palaeoecology and Palaeogeography Taphonomy and Ichnology Biostratigraphy Sedimentology and Microfacies Geoheritage and Geoconservation

REGISTRATION FEE

Full, Non-SPR members 50 EUR (or the equivalent in RON) Full, SPR members: 30 EUR (or the equivalent in RON) Students, non-SPR members: 10 EUR (or the equivalent in RON) Students, SPR members: Free of charge. Symposium registration fee covers the coffee breaks during the symposium and the abstract - field trip volume.

Payment options The fees should be paid in cash at the registration desk at the beginning/during the symposium. MEETING SCHEDULE • Registration: starts on Wednesday, 18th September 2019 at 3:00 p.m. and will be open on Thursday 19th September 2019 from 8.00 to 9.00 a.m. • Opening session: starts on Thurstday, 19th September 2019 at 9:00 a.m. • Scientific Sessions: Thursday and Friday, 19th–20th September 2019 •The General Assembly of the RSP Members: Fiday, 20th September 2019 at 5:00 p.m. • Post-meeting field trip: Saturday, 21st September 2019

ACCOMMODATION Cluj-Napoca offers a wide range of accommodation facilities. Some discount reservations will be also available in the University’s hosting facilities (see table at the end).

SOCIAL PROGRAMME Icebreaker party - The icebreaker party will be held on Thursday, 19th September 2019, 7:00 p.m. at the venue of the Symposium. Symposium dinner - The Symposium Dinner will be held on Fiday, 20th September 2019, 7:30 p.m. at the “Hotel Victoria” restaurant. The rate is 20 Euro per person. SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME

September 18, 2019 – Registration (at the Symposium venue)

September 19, 2019 From 8.00 onwards – Registration (will be available all day at the symposium venue)

9.00 – Opening (E. Stoicovici room)

9.05-9.15 – 100 years of Romanian university in Cluj (Liana Sasaran)

9.15-10.45 – Plenary lectures (E. Stoicovici room)

9.15-9.45 – Riding, R. - Ocean acidification and the interglacial decline of coral reef

stromatolites

9.45-10.15 – Granier, B. - Microfossil stratigraphy in carbonate platforms of the Tethys Ocean, in

Urgonian facies and at the Jurassic-Cretaceous transition (methods and implications)

10.15-10.45 – Papazzoni, C.A. - Nummulite banks: a review

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10.45-11.20 – Coffee break

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11.20 – 13.00 – Oral presentations

E. Stoicovici room 11.20-11.40 – Grădinaru, M., Lazăr, I., Ducea, M.N. & Petrescu, L. - Geochemical and

mineralogical evidence of microbial signatures related to genesis of the Middle Jurassic

ferruginous stromatolites (Southern Carpathians, Romania)

11.40-12.00 – Lazăr, I., Pleș, G., Grădinaru, M., Bucur, I.I., Săsăran, E., Oprișa, A & Ungureanu,

R. - Facies and depositional setting of the Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous platform

carbonates from eastern South Carpathians (Bucegi Mountains, Romania)

12.00-12.20 – Schlagintweit, F., Rashidi, K. & Thajbakhsh, G.R. - The Mount Chah Torsh

section, Central Iran: a new K/T shallow marine sequence

12.20-12.40 - Popescu, G. & Crihan, I.M. - Paleogene Foraminifera from Micești (Cluj district,

Romania)

12.40-13.00 - Ioniţă , C. & Singhel, C.-V. - Lithology and dating using microfauna analysis on

Sarmatian cutting samples recovered by 2 wells in the Siliştea area

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13.00-15.30 – Lunch Break

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15.30-16.30 – Oral presentations

E. Stoicovici room 15.30-15.50 - Stoica, M. & Rausch. L. - Pliocene-Pleistocene ostracods from Caspian Basin

15.50-16.10 - Tîrlă, M.–L., Lazăr, I., Stoica M., Grădinaru M. & Mirea, I.–C. - Preliminary

microfacies analyses on the Middle–Upper Jurassic transition in the Buila-Vânturarița

Massif (Southern Carpathians, Romania)

16.10-16.30 - Belhadji A., Bartolini A., Belkebir L., Saint Martin J.-P. & Bessedik M. -

Morphological variability in planktonic foraminifers from Messinian sediments (Eastern

Dahra, Algeria)

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16.30-17.00 – Coffee break

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E. Stoicovici room

17.00-17.20 – Grădinaru, E. & Vašíček, Z. - Dating the final stage of the Eastern Getic Carbonate

Platform, by ammonite fauna

17.20-17.40 - Głowniak, E., Wierzbowski, H. & Grabowski, J. - The Prososphinctes Bioevent

(Ammonoidea, Perisphinctidae) in the Cordatum Zone (Lower Oxfordian) as a proxy for

environmental changes in the marine ecosystem — Polish Jura Chain, central Poland

17.40-18.00 - Posmoșanu, E. - Analyses of bioerosion on Middle Miocene bivalve shells and

corals from Tășad, Bihor, Romania

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18.30-21 – Icebreaking party __________________________________________________________________________________

September 19, 2019

11.20 – 13.00 – Oral presentations

I. Popescu-Voiteşti room 11.20-11.40 - Cavin, L., Ferrante, C. & Grădinaru, E. - European Triassic coelacanths: new

occurrence and the impact on the evolutionary history of the group

11.40-12.00 - Choi, S., Csiki-Sava, Z., Moreno-Azanza, M., Prondvai, E. & Lee, Y.-N. - The

lizard "pseudo-extinction" that was not - EBSD analysis reveals true affinities of a

widespread Late Cretaceous eggshell type from Europe

12.00-12.20 - Csiki-Sava, Z., Vremir, M., Meng, J., Brusatte, S. L. & Norell, M. A. - Being

(relatively) simpleminded – how does is work for you? A weird new multituberculate from

the Upper Cretaceous of Romania adds to the list of peculiar island adaptations known in

vertebrates

12.20-12.40 - Dyke, G., Laurent, C. & Lendvai, A. - The evolution of bird feathers: New and old

evidence from the fossil record

12.40-13.00 - Laurent, C. & Dyke, G. - The rediscovery of Burmite and it’s palaeontological

significance for understanding the development of Avian flight in the mid-Cretaceous

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13.00-15.30 – Lunch break

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15.30-15.50 - Vasile, Ș., Drăgușin, V., Petculescu, A., Constantin, S., Sava, T.B. & Sava, G.O. -

Preliminary data on the Late Pleistocene-Holocene herpetofaunal fossil assemblages from

Stoieni Cave (Mehedinți Mountains, Romania)

15.50-16.10 - Țibuleac, P. - New data about the Early Jurassic nautiloids of Prașca Klippe (Rarău

Syncline, Eastern Carpathians, Romania)

16.10-16.30 - Ionesi, V., Grădianu, I., Copilaș-Ciocianu, D., Loghin, S., Mare, S., Dumitriu, S.-

D. & Matei, C. - New data on the fossil fauna from the Cryptomactra Formation reveals

unexpected diversity

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16.30-17.00 – Coffee break

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17.00-17.20 – Iamandei, E. & Iamandei, S. - New identified trees in the late Cretaceous Petrified

Forest from Mureș corridor, Apuseni Mts, Romania

17.20-17.40 – Iamandei, S., Iamandei, E., Velitzelos, D. & Velitzelos, E. - Palaeoxylotomical

studies in the Cenozoic Petrified Forests of Greece. Part two-conifers

17.40-18.00 - Akkemik, Ü. & Çelik, H. - Petrified wood identifications from Turkey and their

evaluations

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18.30-21 – Icebreaking party _________________________________________________________________________________

September 20, 2019

9.00-10.40 - Oral presentations

E. Stoicovici room 9.00-9.20 - Botka, D., Csoma, V., Tóth, E., Šujan, M., Braucher, R., Sant, K., Baranyi, V., Ćorić,

S., Bartha, I. R., Magyar, I., & Silye, L. - Integrated stratigraphic results on the lower

Pannonian (upper Miocene) sediments in the Transylvanian Basin (Romania)

.2 - . - Filipescu S., Szekely F. S., Bindiu Haitonic R. & Pașcalău P. - Discussion on the

stratigraphic position of the upper Oligocene to middle Miocene shallow marine sediments

in the noth-western Transylvanian Basin, based on fossil foraminifera

9.40-10.00 - Cociuba I. & Papp D. - Preliminary note on the post- Middle Miocene evolution and

structural model of the NW part of the Transylvanian Basin

10.00-10.20 – Cociuba, I. - Pre-Middle Miocene in the Cluj-Napoca area

10.20-10.40 – Silye, L., Kövecsi, Sz.-A., Less, Gy., Bindiu Haitonic, R., Pleș, G., Zágoršek, K.,

Bălc, R., Filipescu, S., Barabás, E. & Jakab, A. - New insights on the middle Eocene

nummulitic accumulations from the Transylvanian Basin

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10.40-11.20 - Coffee break

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11.20-12.40 – Oral presentations

E. Stoicovici room 11.20-11.40 - Ilieș, I. A., Oltean, G., Bindiu Haitonic, R. & Filipescu, S. - Reconstructing the

palaeoambiental parameters of the Middle Miocene of the Hațeg Basin with the use of

fossil foraminifera assemblages and statistical methods

11.40-12.00 - Ruskal, A., Diaconu, A., Grindean, R., Panait, A. & Tanțău, I. - Quantitative

hydroclimate reconstruction between 12,7-6,2 ka BP from the Apuseni Mountains

12.00-12.20 - Mircescu, C.V., Bucur, I.I., Ghionea, Ș & Popa, G.L. - Facies associations and

microfossils from the Middle-Upper Triassic limestones of Perșani Mountains (Eastern

Carpathians, Romania)

12.20-12.40 – Pleș, G., Schlagintweit, F., Lazăr, I., Bucur, I.I., Săsăran, E. & Grădinaru, M. -

Calcified sponge assemblage in Upper Jurassic carbonates of the eastern Getic Carbonate

Platform (Southern Carpathians, Romania). Palaeoecology, microfacies analysis and reef

zonation

12.40-13.00 - Bucur, I.I., Sudar, M.N., Schlagintweit, F., Polavder, S., Săsăran, E., Jovanovic, D.

& Pleş, G. - The lowermost Cretaceous from the western part of Carpatho-Balkanides

(Eastern Serbia): the Kamenica section

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12.40-15.00 – Lunch break

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15.00-16.00 – Poster presentations (1 to 16)

1. Anton, M.E. & Melinte-Dobrinescu, M.C. - Black Sea Pleistocene to Holocene

palaeoenvironmental changes based on calcareous nannoplankton fluctuation pattern

2. Antoniade C., Crusoveanu (Rusu) S. & Stoica M. - Senonian microfauna from South Dobrogea

3. Bălc R., Bercea R.-I. & Tămaș A. - Integrated biostratigraphy, sedimentology and structural

geology of the internal Pucioasa-Fusaru lithofacies (Pucioasa, Carpathian Bend Zone,

Romania)

4. Bindiu Haitonic, R., Kövecsi, S-A., Pleș, G., Bălc, R., Barabás, E., Jakab., A., Veciunca , A.,

Filipescu, S. & Silye, L. - Assemblages of smaller foraminifera associated with the

nummulites banks of the Transylvanian Basin (Romania): palaeoecological remarks

5. Bozukov, V. & Ivanov, D. - New palaeobotanical data from the Pernik Coal Basin (W

Bulgaria)

6. Chira, C. M., Aroldi., C., Bindiu Haitonic, R., Popa, M.V., Juravle, D.T. & Dromereschi, P. -

The Oligocene – Miocene micropaleontological assemblages and sedimentological data

from Moldoviţa Basin (Bucovina)

7. Diaconu, A.-C., Gałka, M., Feurdean, A., Panait, A., Ruskal, A. & Tanţău, I. - Last millennium

hydroclimate evolution in Eastern Carpathians, Romania

8. Diaconu, A.-C., Tanţău, I., Grindean, R., Ruskal, A. & Feurdean, A. - South-eastern Europe

(Romania) fire patterns of a grassland ecosystem during the Holocene

9. Dragoş, A.-G. - A review of the flight adaptations in the paravian group of dinosaurs and the

ambiguous transition between birds (Aves) and theropods

10. Haiduc, B.-S., Brânzilă, M., Răţoi, B.G. & Păun, E.-I. - Dental microwear texture analysis -

"New Data from Old Fosils"

11. Hoan, D.T., Săsăran, E., Bucur, I.I., Bia, T. & Oprișa, A. - Upper Jurassic – Lower

Cretaceous limestone from Mănăstirii valley – Întregalde Gorge zone (Trascău mountains):

microfacies and depositional environments

12. Juravle, D.-T., Ursu, A., Chelariu, C., Juravle, V. - Lithofacial and tectono-structural reflex in

post-Moldavian morphogenesis from Obcina Mare (Eastern Carpathians)

13. Kövecsi, S.-A., Pleș, G., Bindiu Haitonic, R., Less, G. & Silye, L. - Eocene larger benthic

foraminiferal accumulations from Albești Limestone: microfacies analysis and

paleoecological implications

14. Lázár, B. & Silye, L. - Lower Sarmatian foraminiferal assemblages from the NW border of

the Transylvanian Basin

15. Loghin, S., Dumitriu, S.D., Seserman, A. & Brânzilă, M. - Biostratigraphy and paleoecology

of the Sarmatian deposits (Middle Miocene) from Ciofoaia section

16. Oprișa, A., Pleș, G., Bucur, I.I., Săsăran, E. & Mircescu, C.V. - Microfacies and

micropaleontological assemblages in Upper Jurassic limestones from Fundătura Ponorului

(Hațeg-Pui Zone, Romania)

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16.00-16.30 – Coffee break

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16.30 – 17.00 – Poster presentations (17 to 24)

17. Pașcalău, P., Bindiu Haitonic, R., Filipescu, S. & Szekely, F.S. - Palaeoecological

interpretations on the Racăș section (Transylvanian Basin, Romania), based on fossil

foraminifera assemblages 18. Păun, E.-I., Ursachi, L., Rățoi, B.G., Brânzilă, M., Haiduc, B.-S., Guy, F., Daver, G. & Badea, D.-D. -

Equidae (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from the late Miocene of Pogana (Scythian Platform,

Romania) 19. Pleș, G. & Gawlick, H.-J. - Strâmtura Valley section of the Codru Nappe System revisited. An

example of the mid-Carnian drowning of the Wetterstein Carbonate Platform (Apuseni Mts.,

Romania)

20. Popescu, A. - Scapula and coxal of Mammuthus meridionalis (Nesti, 1825) from Leu, SW of Romania

21. Rățoi, B.G., Ursachi, L., Brânzilă, M., Haiduc, B.S., Păun, E.I., Badea, D., Guy, F. & Daver, G. -

Rhinocerotidae and Chalicotheriidae (Perissodactyla, Tapiromorpha) from the Late Miocene of

Pogana (Scythian Platform, Romania)

22. Săsăran, L., Bălc, R., Săsăran, E. & Țuțuianu, M. - Biostratigraphy of the Late Cretaceous shallow-

marine deposits from Misea Hill, Roşia basin, Apuseni Mountains, Romania

23. Schlagintweit, F. & Bucur, I.I. - Cantabriconus? meridionalis n. sp., a new orbitoliniform benthic

foraminifera from the Barremian of the Reşita–Moldova Nouă zone, Romania

24. Țabără, D., Tudor, E. & Chelariu, C. - Palynology and palynofacies of Devonian – Carboniferous

deposits from the Eastern part of the Moesian Platform (Romania)

NOTE: For poster presentation we ask the authors to prepare one slide. Three minutes are reserved

for each poster presentation.

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17.00-19.00 – S.P.R. General Assembly

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19.30-22 – Symposium dinner

Post-symposium fieldtrip THE EOCENE FROM THE NW TRANSYLVANIAN BASIN Date: September 21 Leaders: Ioan I. Bucur, Emanoil Săsăran and George Pleş Duration: 1 day. Departure: Babeş-Bolyai University, Department of Geology, 1 M. Kogălniceanu str. (in front of the main entrance), 21th September 2019 (Saturday), 08:30 a.m. Return: same day, ~06:00 p.m. Transportation: Bus. Personal insurance: Not included in the fee; participants should have their own travel insurance. Description: Stop 1 – Letca Quarry. – Upper Eocene-lower Oligocene bio-constructed and bio-accumulated

limestones. Coralgal bioconstructions consist of bafflestones built-up by flat or dendriform coral

colonies. Ecological sequences can be recognized within these bioconstructions, with flat coral

colonies in the base encrusted by red algae, followed by dendriform corals associated with red

algae. Stop 2 – Cuciulat-Băbeni Quarry. The limestones from the ―Marble‖ quarry are mined as

ornamental building stones. The ―Marble‖ quarry from Cuciulat is located at about 1 km from

Băbeni village. Bioaccumulated and bioconstructed facies types have been identified. Stops 3 – Botanical Garden Jibou. The botanical garden of Jibou has a rich dendrological fund

of exotic plants. The basic dendrological sector dates back to 1781 and contains numerous and

valuable species The greenhouses contain various and valuable tropical, subtropical and

Mediterranean collections, the plants being grouped systematically or ecologically. The garden

also has an aquarium for tropical plant collections, a huge sector of ornamental plants, herbarium

and museum pieces.

Stop 4 - Price: 25 euro (including transport and lunch). Contact Ioan Bucur E-mail: ioan.bucur@ubbcluj.ro

Phone: +40 751 301086 Liana Săsăran E-mail: liana.sasaran@ubbcluj.ro Phone: +40 741 792255

Further information about the 12th Romanian Symposium of Palaeontology will be available on the SPR web page http://geo-paleontologica.org/en/forthcoming-events/ on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Romanian-Society-of-Palaeontologists-1217880801568436/)

IMPORTANT NOTICE for SPR Members! The General Assembly of the RSP Members will be held during the 12th Romanian Symposium of Palaeontology, on September 20th, 2019, 5.00 p.m. The meeting is essential

for the activity of the Society of Romanian Palaeontologists, according to the new RSP statute

and internal regulations. During the General Assembly of the RSP Members, the new leadership

of the RSP will be elected.

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