Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

From J. Barrande to H. B. Wittington

2014; Linguagem: Inglês

10.3140/bull.geosci.1510

1802-8225

P. Budil, O. Fatka, David M. Holloway, Nicola Hughes,

Each of those volumes presented important new work that is representative of the plethora of publications on trilobite taxonomy, taphonomy, anatomy and palaeoecology that have appeared within the last 50 years.The meetings have also served a function in bringing the dispersed international community of specialists together and defining common goals.For example, completion of the revised trilobite volume of the Treatise on invertebrate paleontology (Kaesler 1997) and the list of all existing trilobite genera of Jell & Adrain (2003), both important milestones, benefited from the meetings.The Prague meeting was preceded by an excursion to the Barrandian area and was followed by a post-conference excursion to Sardinia.Despite the financial crisis, over 90 participants from more than 20 countries presented nearly 40 oral and poster presentations on diverse aspects of trilobite systematics, palaeoecology and taphonomy, with some contributions also on their arthropod relatives.The conference was dedicated to the memory of Professor Harry Blackmore Whittington, and we also dedicate this special volume to him.