The third circular

Tenth International Workshop on Agglutinated ForaminiferaApril 19th–23rd, 2017 Congress centre of Slovak Academy of SciencesSmolenice Castle, Slovakia

PROGRAMME AND LIST OF LECTURES

Wednesday, April 19th

Leaving of Bratislava, meeting point in front of the Družba Hotel and bus transport to the Smolenice Castle

Registration and lunch

Welcome speech

Jozef Michalík: Meso/Cenozoic history and paleogeography of the Western Carpathians (introductory lecture)

Miroslav Bubík: Way of Czechoslovak foraminiferal micropalaeontology (1918-1992) and its contribution to agglutinated foraminifer research (introductory lecture)

Ján Soták and Adriena Zlinská: A memorial of the Carpathian foraminiferal micropaleontologists – tribute to Jozef SALAJ and Ondrej. SAMUEL

Meeting of Commision for Classification of Agglutinated formaninifera, study of Western Carpathian foraminiferal microfauna collected by O. Samuel and J. Salaj. Demonstration of foraminiferal collections from Micropress Europe Kraków.

Icebreaker party

Thursday, April 20th

Morning session:

800– 830 Opening ceremony of Tenth International Workshop on Agglutinated foraminifera

Session I. Systematics

Chairmans: Nagy J., Tyszka J.

830– 900 Valeria Mikhalevich (keynote): The evolutionary approach to the foraminiferal classification

900– 930 Johann Hohenegger (keynote): The genus in biological systematics: dead or could it be reanimated?

930– 950 Michael A. Kaminski: Updates to the Classification of the Agglutinated Foraminifera

950–1010 Maria Holzmann and Jan Pawlowski: An outlook on the molecular diversity of agglutinated foraminifera

1015–1045 Coffee break

Session II. Evolution and techniques

Chairmans: Hohenegger J., Mikhalevich, V.

1045–1115 Jarosław Tyszka (keynote): Morphogenesis of chamber formation in globothalamean Foraminifera

1115–1135 Lóránd Silye and Michal Kučera: Made of planktonic foraminifera: a detailed analysis of some Lagenammina cf. atlantica tests from the Quaternary of the Red Sea

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1135–1155 Katarína Holcová and Stanislava Vodrážková: Calcareous vs. agglutinated: test material variation among Early Devonian microfossils

1155–1215 Michael A. Kaminski and Pramudya Perdana: Early Silurian Agglutinated Foraminifera from Saudi Arabia

1215–1330: Lunch break

Thursday, April 20st

Afternoon session

Session III. Ecology and modern foraminifera

Chairmans: Fiorini F., Holzmann, M.

1330–1350 Sev Kender and Michael A. Kaminski: Modern deep-water agglutinated foraminifera from IODP Expedition 323, Bering Sea

1350–1410 Matias Reolid, Jesús Reolid, Michael A. Kaminski, Dorothea Bunzel and Christian Betzler: Spiculidendron from upper Pleistocene cold-water corals from the Inner Sea of the Maldives

1410–1430 Syed M. Saalim, Theejasino Suokhrie, Rajeev Saraswat and R. Nigam: Assessing the ecological preferences of agglutinated benthic foraminifera morphogroups from western Bay of Bengal

1430–1450 Eric Armynot du Châtelet and Fabio Francescangeli: Salt marsh agglutinated foraminifera and testate amoebae used for local and eustatic sea level change: true proxies or patchiness response?

1450–1510 Rowan Dejardin, Sev Kender, Claire Allen, Melanie J. Leng, George Swann and Victoria L. Peck: Live (stained) benthic foraminiferal assemblages offshore South Georgia, Southern Ocean

1510–1545 Coffe break

1545–1715 Annotations of posters – sessions I., III. (conveners: Frontalini F., Kaminski, M.A.)

1715–1830 Poster session

1900 Conference Dinner and visit of wine cellars/ tasting of wine

Friday, April 21th

Morning session

Session IV. Paleoecology and paleoenvironments

Chairmans: Kender S., Reolid M.

820– 850 Jenő Nagy (keynote): Foraminifera reflecting facies changes in transgressive ̶ regressive sedimentary sequences

850– 910 Miroslav Bubík: Some Remarks on quantitative analysis of deep-sea foraminifer taphocoenosis with special attention to tubular astrorhizids

910– 930 Raluca Bindiu-Haitonic and Sorin Filipescu: Fossil agglutinated foraminifera and their relationship to the depositional environments in the Northern part of the Eastern Carpathians, Romania

930– 950 Andrzej Szydło: Response of agglutinated foraminifera to changes in depositional environment during the Cretaceous-Paleogene transition in the Carpathian Basin (Silesian zone, Poland)

950–1010 Katarína Holcová, Andrej Ruman and Natália Hudáčková: Agglutinated foraminifera horizons (AFG): phantoms or effective ecostratigraphical tools in the Central Paratethys Sea?

1010–1040 Coffee break

Session V. Biostratigraphy and foraminiferal biofacies

Chairmans: Filipescu S., Setoyama E.

1040–1100 Anna Waśkowska, Jan Golonka and Grzegorz Machowaski: Agglutinated foraminifera from changing oxygen conditions in Paleocene turbidities (Outer Carpathians, Poland) – preliminary results

1100–1120 Jozef Michalík and Ján Soták: Rapid uppermost Triassic colonization of the Zliechov Basin (Western Carpathians) by benthic marine ecosystems: foraminiferal responses to eustatic and climatic changes

1120–1140 Svitlana Hnylko and Oleh Hnylko: Early Eocene assemblages of agglutinated foraminifera (Silesian Nappe, Ukrainian Carpathians)

1140–1200 Hassan A. Soliman: Studies on some late Cretaceous – Paleocene Agglutinated Foraminifera from different localities in Egypt

1200–1330 Lunch break

Friday, April 21th

Afternoon session

Session V. Biostratigraphy and foraminiferal biofacies

Chairmans: Holcová K., Mancin N.

1330–1350 Ján Soták, Kamil Fekete and Silvia Ozdínová: How agglutinated foraminifera survived in pelagic realm of the Western Carpathian basins: Late Cretaceous – Paleogene events and environmental proxies

1350–1410 Justyna Kowal-Kasprzyk: Agglutinated foraminifera from the latest Jurassic–earliest Cretaceous carbonate platform – a case study of the exotic limestones from the Polish Outer Carpathians

1410–1430 Ewa Malata, Weronika Baliniak and Zuzanna Olejniczak: Agglutinated foraminifera of the Paleocene-Eocene pelagic deposits of the Fore-Magura zone in the western part the Polish Outer Carpathians

1430–1500 Coffee break

1500–1600 Annotations of posters - sessions II., IV., V. (conveners: Bubík M., Waśkowska A)

1600–1700 Poster session

1700–1730 General discussion

1730 Closing of the IWAF-10 workshop

1900 Dinner

Friday afternoon, April 21st: Voluntary excursion to the Driny Cave – Underground pearl of the Malé Karpaty Mts. (the only show cave in Western Slovakia)

DIVISION OF POSTER SESSIONS

IWAF poster sessions will be conducted by conveners, providing a short time for presentation of the posters (5 –7 minutes).

Session I. Systematics

Luca Giusberti and Nicoletta Mancin: First report of the lituolid Navarella Ciry & Rat (1951) in the Thanetian of northeastern Italy: an upper Paleocene Lazarus occurrence?

Justyna Kowal-Kasprzyk, Michael A. Kaminski and Anna Waśkowska: Type specimens of Agglutinated Foraminifera housed in the collections of the European Micropalaeontological Reference Centre

Nicoletta Mancin and Michael A. Kaminski: A new Pliocene species of the agglutinated foraminifer Colominella Popescu, 1998 from the Mediterranean record

Anna Waśkowska and Michael A. Kaminski: Taxonomical status and variability in “Ammodiscus” latus Grzybowski, 1898

Adriena Zlinská: New foraminifers described by O. Samuel from West Carpathians of Slovakia. In memory of RNDr. Ondrej Samuel, DrSc.

Session II. Evolution and techniques

Jan Goleń and Jarosław Tyszka: Foraminarium and the SIM-Lab: Culturing foraminifera in Kraków

Maria Virgínia Alves Martins, Cristina Sequeira, Cintia Yamashita, Silvia Helena de Mello e Sousa and Maria Antonieta da Conceição Rodrigues: Compositional analysis of the wall of some textulariid species

Fabrizio Frontalini, Michael A. Kaminski, Rodolfo Coccioni and Michał Kowalewski: Foraminiferal Assemblages as a Bathymetric Proxy: Direct Multivariate Tests from Modern Environments

Session III. Ecology and modern foraminifera

Abduljamiu O. Amao and Michael A. Kaminski: Distribution of Agglutinated foraminiferal groups in the Arabian Gulf

Geise S. Anjos-Zerfass, Nicte A. Gutiérrez-Puente, Denize S. Costa, Maria A. Lisniowski and Ivo B. Pessanha: Agglutinated foaraminifera from Miocene-Pleistocene section of the Rio Grande Rise (drill-hole L2P3), South Atlantic

Flavia Fiorini and Stephen W. Lokier: Agglutinated foraminifera from Recent mangrove environments of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Elena Golikova, Dmitrii Mikhailov and Sergei Korsun: The salt marsh foraminifer Trochammina inflata with a distinct morphotype in the White Sea: a local variety or new subspecies?

Elizaveta Novikhina, Anton Kuznetsov and Evgeny Gusev: Late Cenozoic agglutinated foraminifera from the northern part of the Mendeleev Ridge (Arctic ocean)

Ferry Siemensma, Maria Holzmann, Laure Apothéloz-Perret-Gentil and Jan Pawlowski: A new freshwater monothalamid foraminifera from China and its possible relationship to Allogromia saxicola (Penard, 1905)

Silvia Helena de Mello e Sousa, Cintia Yamashita and Maria Virgínia Alves Martins: Distribution of living (stained) Reophax spp. in an oligotrophic area

Cintia Yamashita, Maria Virgínia Alves Martins, and Silvia Helena De Mello E Sousa: Record of living (stained) Marsipella elongata Norman, 1878 in Campos Basin, southeastern Brazilian continental margin

Session IV. Paleoecology and paleoenvironmnets

Vladimír Šimo and Silvia Ozdínová: Giant Bathysiphon – significant microfacies features of Lower Jurassic bioturbated marly limestones (Fleckenmergel/Fleckenkalk) of the Western Carpathians

Session V. Biostratigraphy and foraminiferal biofacies

Richard Besen: An old method newly applied - Agglutinated foraminifera from the Albian to Turonian from Wunstorf (NW-Germany)

Miroslav Bubík: Foraminifers across the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary in radiolaria-rich pelagic limestones of the Kurovice Section (Magura Flysch, Western Carpathians).

Štefan Józsa and Ján Schlögl: Upper Sinemurian - Lower Pliensbachian Agglutinated foraminifera from the eastern part of the Pieniny Klippen Belt (Transcarpathian Ukraine, Western Carpathians)

Mahmoudi Omelkhir and Nebiha Ben Haj Ali: Agglutinated foraminifera from Hauterivian of Jebel Rhazouane (Northwestern Tunisia)

Eiichi Setoyama: Jurassic benthic foraminifera from the COST G-2 well, Georges Bank Basin, Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf

* * * *English will be the official language of the conference. In the case of oral presentations and posters, English text and description of figures will be welcome.

Oral presentations

All speakers will be allocated 20 minutes (15+5) for the presentation. Data projector and notebook will be available.

Posters

Size format up to 1 m width and 1.5 m tall. Poster exhibition will be placed in the lecture room.

IWAF-10 FIELD TRIP ROUTE

April 22nd 2017: Middle Váh Valley

Field stop 1: Vršatec — Upper Cretaceous microfauna of the oceanic red beds

Field stop 2: Butkov — Mesozoic foramtions of the Manín Unit and Albian-Cenomanian microfauna of the Butkov Marlstones

Field stop 3: Nosice-Dubový háj — Albian–Early Cenomanian microfauna of the Klape Unit (Upohlav Fm)

Field stop 4: Manín Strait and Kostolec — Urgonian-type carbonate platform facies with orbitolinids, Late Albian and Cenomanian planktonic and agglutionated microfauna (Praznov Fm)

Field stop 5: Súľov-Čierny potok Creek, Jablonové — Alveolina-bearing sandstones of the Jablonové Fm (Paleocene), Súľov Fm with deep-water microfauna and breccia-conglomerate lithosomes

Field stop 6: Ovčiarsko-Hradisko near Žilina — Paleocene microfauna of the Hričovské Podhradie Fm, Early Eocene red marlstones and Middle Eocene variegated claystones with agglutinated microfauna

Field stop 7: Veľké Rovné-Bieščary — DWAF associations of the Upper Eocene turbiditic foramations of the Magura Unit

Field stop 8: Hôrka Hill near Považská Bystrica — Orlové Sandstones with oyster coquinas (Cenomanian –Early Turonian?)

April 23rd 2017: Malé Karpaty Brezovské Karpaty Mts and Vienna basin

Field stop 9: Baranec-Brezová p. Bradlom — Coniacian microfauna of the Štverník Marlstones

Field stop 10: Early Miocene transgressive formation of the Vienna Basin with conglomerates, sandstones (Lužice Fm.) and related claystones (microfauna).

Field stop 11: Cerová-Lieskové — Karpatian (late Burdigalian) microfauna of the deep-water calcareous clays

Field stop 12: Sološnica-Jelenia hora-Mt Roštún (Veľká Vápenná) — Late Paleocene–Early Eocene transgressive formations with large foraminifers

Field stop 13: Hrabník — Late Eocene – Oligocene microfauna of the turbiditic formations of the Buková Depression (agglutinated forms)

Field stop 14: Devínska Kobyla — Middle Miocene (Early Badenian) benthic foraminiferal microfauna of the marginal transgressive sediments of the Vienna Basin (Sandberg Mb.)

Field stop 15: Devín castle — historical and geological site

CONFERENCE VENUE

The IWAF-10 will be held in the Congress Centre of Slovak Academy of Sciences in Smolenice Castle, Slovakia, April 19th – 23th 2017. Smolenice Castle (www.kcsmolenice.sav.sk) shelters the Congress Centre of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, where numerous congresses and symposiums with international attendance take place. Smolenice village is located about 50 km from the capital city Bratislava in north-east direction, on the eastern foothills of Malé Karpaty Mts (Little Carpathian Mts.). Bratislava is connected by regular flights from several European aiports, but also from Vienna Schwechat International Aiport with frequent connection by coach to Bratislava bus station.

TRAVEL INFORMATION

Arriving to Bratislava:

by car:The motorways in Slovakia are toll based. You need an e-vignette:(https://www.eznamka.sk/selfcare/purchase/?sessionexpired=False&frompayment=False) to use Slovakian motorways and expressways in Slovakia. Electronic vignettes are also available at many petrol stations near border crossings. For further details: http://www.ndsas.sk/homepage/44964s#Homepage

by train:There is one central railway station in Bratislava. Bratislava hlavná stanica (Main Railway Station). For more information and tickets: http://www.slovakrail.sk/en.html

by bus:International buses arrive to, and depart from Autobusová stanica Mlynské nivy (Main Bus Station). The bus station is one of the central public transport spots in Bratislava, so you can get here easily using wide variety of buses or trolleybuses. The trolleybus number 210 provides the connection between the bus station and the Main Railway Station and the journey takes no more than 10 minutes.

by plane:Letisko M. R. Štefánika – Airport Bratislava (BTS) is located in the eastern part of the capital city of Bratislava, with a direct link to the D1 motorway by-pass. You can travel from BTS to the city by public transport (bus 61, 96), taxi, minibus. Vienna, Schwechat Airport has international bus connection to Bratislava. For tickets and timetables see: https://www.slovaklines.sk/vienna/im-flying-from-the-vienna-airport.html or http://regiojet.sk/novinky/autobusy-regiojet-predstavujeme-linku-bratislava-vieden.html

Public transport:Tickets are available at every public transport stations in Bratislava (train, plain, or international/domestic bus stations). Please always buy your ticket before entering one of the transport vehicles. More information: https://imhd.sk/ba/public-transport

How to get to Družba Hotel (meeting point of IWAF-10):

From Autobusová stanica Mlynské nivy (Main Bus Station)Most SNP with bus line 70Botanická záhrada with tram line 4From Bratislava hlavná stanica (Main Train Station)Botanická záhrada with bus line 32From Vienna, Schwechat AirportMost SNP with international bus connection Vienna-BratislavaBotanická záhrada with tram line 4

Map of Bratislava with the location of Družba Hotel and train/bus/tram stations and Bratislava line network are available on the conference website: http://geo.sav.sk/event/iwaf-10/venue-and-accommodation/

Organizing committee:Ján SotákKamil FeketeZuzana PulišováĽubica PuškelováSilvia OzdínováMarek Vďačný(Earth Science Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences)

Natália HudáčkováŠtefan JózsaAndrej Ruman(Department of Geology and Paleontology,Comenius University in Bratislava)

Adriena Zlinská(State Geological Institute of Dionýz Štúr, Bratislava)

Mike Kaminski(Earth Sciences Department, King Fahd University, Dhahran)

Miroslav Bubík(Czech Geological Survey, Brno)

Scientific committee:Anna Waśkowska(AGH University, Kraków)

Ján Soták (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Banská Bystrica)

Miroslav Bubík (Czech Geological Survey, Brno)

Johann Hohenegger (University of Vienna)

Jaroslaw Tyszka (Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków)

Sorin Filipescu (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluy-Napoca)

Mike Kaminski (King Fahd University, Dhahran)

Organizing Institutions:Earth Science Institute of Slovak Academy of Sciences

The Grzybowski FoundationFaculty of Natural Sciences of Comenius University

State geological institute of Dionýz ŠtúrSlovak Geological Society

Sponsors and Supporting Organizations:

Slovak Commission for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural OrganizationThe Micropalaeontological Society

Bratislava Tourist BoardBeta Analytics

Kreativika MicroslidesGeologica Carpathica

Contact adressesJán SotákEarth Science InstituteSlovak Academy of sciencesĎumbierska 1 974 01 Banská Bystrica, Slovakiasotak@savbb.skPhone: +421 48 321 3211Mobile: +421 908 289 349

We are looking forward to meet you in Smolenice!The Organizing Committee

Kamil FeketeEarth Science InstituteSlovak Academy of SciencesDúbravská cesta 9840 05 Bratislava, Slovakiakamil.fekete@savba.skPhone: +421 2 3229 3224Mobile: +421 907 468 860