7th Triennial Mosasaur Meeting
A global perspective on Mesozoic marine amniotes
Centre Céramique/Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht
Maastricht, the Netherlands
September 12-15, 2024
PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
Thursday, September 12, 2024
| 16.00-18.00 h | Registration desk + Ice breaker party (Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht, De Bosquetplein 6) |
Friday, September 13, 2024
| 8.00-10.00 h | Registration desk (Centre Céramique, Plein 1992) |
| 10.00-10.15 h | Opening address |
| 10.15 h | Start of FIRST SESSION [chairperson to be appointed] |
| 10.15-11.00 h | Melanie A.D. During: Fishes, mosasaurs and the season of the K/Pg extinction [KEYNOTE LECTURE] |
| 11.00-11.25 h | Amelia R. Zietlow: Tylosaurine diversity informed by morphological variation in extant Varanus |
| 11.25-11.50 h | John W.M. Jagt, Rudi W. Dortangs, Eric W.A. Mulder & Lars P.J. Barten: How on earth did they do it? Recovery of the first mosasaurs in the Maastrichtian type area in the latter half of the eighteenth century |
| 11.50-12.15 h | Coffee/tea break |
| 12.15 h | Start of SECOND SESSION [chairperson to be appointed] |
| 12.15-12.40 h | Michael J. Polcyn, Louis L. Jacobs, Anne S. Schulp & Pedro Claude Nsungani: Putting an ocean where one had not previously existed: an update on the marine amniote record of Angola |
| 12.40-13.05 h | Anthony E. Maltese & Michael J. Polcyn: The oldest occurrence of a selmasaurin plioplatecarpine mosasaur from the Coniacian of Kansas, USA |
| 13.05-13.30 h | Femke Holwerda, John W.M. Jagt & Anne S. Schulp: 2D and 3D dental microwear analysis informs us about the feeding ecology of type-Maastrichtian mosasaurs |
| 13.30-13.55 h | Eric W.A. Mulder: On the desirability to designate a lectotype for the Late Cretaceous turtle Allopleuron hofmanni (Gray, 1831) from the Maastrichtian type area |
| 13.55-15.15 h | Lunch break: please make your own arrangements for lunch; you will find a range of pubs and restaurants in the direct vicinity of Centre Céramique |
| 15.15 h | Start of THIRD SESSION [chairperson to be appointed |
| 15.15-15.40 h | Lars P.J. Barten, John W.M. Jagt & Eric W.A. Mulder: Gut contents of a subadult individual of Mosasaurus hoffmannii Mantell, 1829 from the Maastrichtian type area (the Netherlands) hint at the species’ dietary preferences |
| 15.40-16.05 h | Dylan Bastiaans, Jeroen J.F. Kroll, Dirk Cornelissen, John W.M. Jagt, Lars Barten, Frans Kerren, Jacques Knops, Eric Nieuwenhuis, Jacques Philippens, Lex Meijer, Paul Kisters & Anne S. Schulp: Mosasaur ‘Carlo’, an unusual globidensine mosasaur from the upper Maastrichtian Gulpen Formation of the Maastrichtian type area (southeast Netherlands, northeast Belgium) – an update |
| 16.05-16.30 h | Jacques Knops: What do we tell visitors? The ‘mosasaur story’ at the Natural History Museum of Maastricht |
| 16.30-16.55 | Dunya Handor, Jesse Hennekam, John W.M. Jagt & Eric W.A. Mulder: The De Heer Collection of dissociated mosasaur vertebrae and carapace peripherals of cheloniid turtles |
| 17.00 h | End of first day of lectures |
Saturday, September 14, 2024
| 8.00-10.00 h | Registration desk (Centre Céramique, Plein 1992) |
| 10.00 h | Start of FIRST SESSION [chairperson to be appointed] |
| 10.00-10.25 h | Johan Lindgren: Soft-tissue fossils – implications for the life and habits of ancient marine reptiles |
| 10.25-10.50 h | Mats E. Eriksson, Randolph De La Garza, Esben Horn & Johan Lindgren: Deconstructing ichthyosaur soft tissues and reconstructing Stenopterygius (Reptilia, Ichthyopterygia) |
| 10.50-11.15 h | Juliette C.L. Menon, Walter G. Joyce, Serjoscha W. Evers & Donald B. Brinkman: New perspectives on sea turtles from the Cretaceous to the Neogene |
| 11.15-11.40 h | Miguel Marx, Mats E. Eriksson, Benjamin P. Kear, Sven Sachs & Johan Lindgren: Osteological correlates for a dorsal fin in plesiosaurs? |
| 11.40-12.05 h | Coffee/tea break |
| 12.05 h | Start of SECOND SESSION [chairperson to be appointed] |
| 12.05-12.30 h | Alberto Cabezuelo-Hernández, Carlos de Miguel Chaves, Francisco Ortega & Adán Pérez-García: New data on the holotype of the bizarre eosauropterygian, Paludidraco multidentatus (Nothosauroidea, Simosauridae) |
| 12.30-12.55 h | Anne S. Schulp, Colijn Dijkers, Hanneke Jacobs, Dylan Bastiaans, John W.M. Jagt, Ana Soraya Marques & Michael J. Polcyn: Mosasaurus 3D: scanning, digital reconstruction and 3D-printing of a large Prognathodon skeleton for museum display |
| 12.55-13.20 h | Leon Claessens & Jesse Hennekam: Vertebrate palaeontology at Maastricht University |
| 13.20-14.45 h | Lunch break: please make your own arrangements for lunch; you will find a wide range of pubs and restaurants in the direct vicinity of Centre Céramique |
| 14.45 h | Start of THIRD SESSION [chairperson to be appointed] |
| 14.45-15.10 h | Adiël A. Klompmaker, Harry L. Blewitt, P. George Martin & T. Prescott Atkinson: Late Cretaceous marine tetrapods from the collections of the Alabama Museum of Natural History |
| 15.10-15.35 h | Eric Wetzels, Joes Minis & John W.M. Jagt: Old wine in new bottles? Emerging intellectual networks in Maastricht during the French Period of 1794-1815 |
| 15.35-16.00 h | Mike Polcyn: Glimpses into the early evolution of mosasaurs |
| 16.00-17.00 h | POSTER SESSION [chairperson to be appointed] |
| Mosasaurids from the Maastrichtian phosphates of Morocco: an extraordinary ecological diversity prior to the K/Pg crisis – Nathalie Bardet, Valentin Fischer, Nour-Eddine Jalil, Fatima Khaldoune, Oussama Khadiri Yazami, Xavier Pereda Suberbiola & Nicholas Longrich | |
| The Bulgarian fossil record of Mosasauridae – Vladimir Nikolov | |
| Mosasaur remains from the Puskwaskau Formation (Santonian-lower middle Campanian) of Alberta, Canada – Trevor H. Rempert, Brennan P. Martens, Alexander P.M. Vinkeles Melchers & Darius Azmayesh-Fard | |
| The marine reptile fauna of the Bekrit syncline (El Koubbat Formation, lower Maastrichtian), Middle Atlas Mountains, Morocco – Alexander P.M. Vinkeles Melchers, Brennan P. Martens & Trevor H. Rempert | |
| A calculation of acceleration capabilities of Mosasaurus hoffmanni – David van der Mark & Wietse ten Hoor | |
| Evening – CONFERENCE DINNER | |
| Restaurant Brandsøn, Het Bat 2, 6211 EX Maastricht, phone + 31-43-201 2620 [details will be announced during the meeting – make sure to inform us well in advance of any dietary preferences!] |
Sunday, September 15, 2024
| 10.00-17.00 h | Fieldtrip: coach starts at 10.00 h (sharp!) from Plein 1992, in front of Centre Céramique. Packed lunches will be supplied |
Fieldtrip
On September 15, 2024, a coach will take registered participants to the former ENCI quarry, where we shall visit the Gulpen and Maastricht formations, with limited opportunities to sample and collect. Lunch break in the field, to be followed by a visit to the underground galleries with a spectacular Cretaceous-Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary section. More details will follow soon.
Posters
At Centre Céramique space will be available for posters, to be displayed for the duration of the meeting. Posters should not exceed 90 × 120 cm (landscape or portrait). Materials for attaching posters will be available, but please bring personal equipment should you have special requirements. Please also be sure to indicate if you are requesting a poster or an oral presentation when you register; see details below.
Questions
Should you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us by email: museum@maastricht.nl
Travel and accommodations
Details on flights train and bus/coach services, as well as on hotel accommodation [all participants are expected to take care of their hotel bookings themselves] will follow soon. We are negotiating reduced room rates at one of the hotels.