Early Palaeozoic theme

Speaker and talk titles

• Howard Armstrong (Durham) & Alan Owen (Glasgow) – Conodont provinces and biofacies in a closing Iapetus Ocean.
• Mike Bassett (National Museum of Wales, Cardiff), Leonid Popov (NMW Cardiff) & Lars Holmer (Uppsala) – Brachiopods: late Cambrian-Tremadoc precursors to Ordovician radiation events. 
• Joe Botting (Cambridge) - Volcanism and population - a catalyst for Ordovician diversity? 
• John Cope (Cardiff) - Biogeography and diversification of bivalves in the Ordovician 
• Dave Harper (Copenhagen) - Early Ordovician brachiopod biodiversity: comparing platforms, margins and intra-oceanic sites around the Iapetus Ocean. 
• Paul Smith (Birmingham), Phil Donoghue & Ivan Sansom (Birmingham) - The biogeography and habitat of Early Palaeozoic vertebrates. 
• Sam Turvey (Oxford) – The Gondwanan trilobite genus Neseuretus: implications for Ordovician biogeography and biodiversity.