Pre-Cambrian to Palaeozoic Palaeopalynology and Palaeobotany

Abstract

A set of 14 abstracts and short papers (extended abstracts) of presentations given at a meeting organized by the NFSR Working Group, Micropaleontologie vegetale et Palynologie (MVP), held on May 11, 2005 at the University of Liege, Belgium. These contributions are available only in English. Stratigraphic palynology of Devonian boreholes from northern Saudi Arabia. Modelling atmospheric CO2 changes at geological time scales. The significance of Runcaria (Middle Devonian, Belgium) in the evolution of seed plants. Main changes in microfossil communities during the Upper Proterozoic of Russia. Tracking the record of early life. Early diversification of seeds and seed-like structures. Diversity and distribution of Cambrian acritarchs from the Siberian and East-European platforms - a generalized scheme. Paleontological evidence for Late Cambrian in the Arburese area, SW Sardinia. Ordovician to Lower Silurian palynomorphs from the Sierras subandinas (Subandean ranges), northwestern Argentina: a preliminary report. Late Famennian correlation by miospores between the Refrath 1 borehole (Bergisch Gladbach-Paffrath Syncline, Germany) and the reference section of Chanxhe (Dinant Syncline, Belgium). A Middle Cambrian age for the Ediacara fauna from the Booley Bay Formation, County Wexford, Ireland: new acritarch data and its implications. New evidence for the Hirnantian (Upper Ordovician) in Belgium? An integrated isotopical, biostratigraphical and sedimentological approach. The role of marine microphytoplankton in the Ordovician biodiversification event. Correlation and biostratigraphy of the Kortrijk (Sint-Antonius) and Kortrijk (Lust) boreholes (early Silurian, Belgium).