2017 Canadian Paleontology Conference

Final circular

Conference venue information

Venue: Aloft Hotel, 2359 Banff Trail NW, Calgary, AB T2M 4L2, phone: (403) 289-1973, website: www.aloftcalgaryuniversity.com

Parking: Aloft offers free, limited outdoor parking as well as underground parking for $10/day.

Meals: Wxyz lounge at Aloft as well as other restaurant options near the conference venue, including the food court at MacEwan Hall (University of Calgary),

Transportation: Aloft can be easily accessed using public transportation, located only a short walk from Banff Trail c-train station along the 201 Red line. From the airport, Aloft is accessible by Taxi, Uber or public transportation. See page 9 for c-train map or visit www.calgarytransit.com for bus and c-train maps and schedules.

Specifications for presentations:

Oral presentations:

Oral presentations will take place in the lower level of Aloft Hotel in the Tactic 4 Room on Saturday, September 30th and Sunday October 1st. The allotted time for an oral presentation is 25 minutes (20 speaking + 5 for questions). The presentations should be in a 4:3 PowerPoint format. Please bring a back-up copy of your presentation in .pdf format in case problems should arise with the PowerPoint version. Presentations are to be uploaded on the provided computer before the start of the technical sessions on the day of your presentation. There will be a volunteer available to assist with this.

Poster presentations:

Poster presentations will take place in the main level of Aloft Hotel on Saturday, September 30th. Maxiumum display dimensions are 4 feet high x 6 feet wide. Display panels and pins will be provided during poster set up from 8:00 AM to 8:45 AM on Saturday morning. Posters are to be removed by the presenter at the end of the poster reception (5:00pm) on Saturday; any posters left hanging will be removed by organizers and cannot be guaranteed to be returned to the author(s).

Schedule of Events

Friday, September 29th

Fieldtrip: Fossils of the Middle Cambrian Stephen Formation at Stanley Glacier, Kootenay National Park, B.C. (with Chad Morgan and Jean-Bernard Caron)

• Departure from Aloft at 7:30. • Wear sturdy hiking boots. Bring the following: a warm jacket (snow and cold

conditions may be encountered), hat/toque, work gloves, daypack, and sunglasses. Note: Do not bring collecting equipment. This locality is in Kootenay National Park and fossil/rock collecting is strictly prohibited.

• Return to Calgary arriving at Aloft at approximately 20:30

Icebreaker party and early registration: Join us at the Wxyz lounge of Aloft for a casual icebreaker (19:30 until late).

• Registration desk will be open 19:30-21:30: pick up your registration package and meet some of the organizers!

Saturday, September 30th

Registration desk at Aloft: 8:00-8:45 and during breaks Technical Sessions at Aloft in Tactic 4. Welcome and opening remarks at 8:45 (see

Technical Sessions schedule below). Poster cocktail reception in the lounge of Aloft following the technical sessions 16:00-

17:00 Conference banquet at Aloft in Tactic 3,cocktails from 18:00-19:00, dinner at 19:00;

presentation of the Billings Medal to Prof. S.G. Pemberton and verbal address by Prof. S.G. Pemberton to follow

Sunday, October 1st

Registration desk at Aloft: 8:30-9:00 and during breaks Technical Sessions at Aloft in Tactic 4. Opening remarks at 9:00 (see Technical Sessions

schedule below). Alberta Palaeontological Society Public lecture featuring Dr. Donald Henderson (Royal

Tyrrell Museum) on “Sauropod dinosaurs were the colossal corks of the Mesozoic.” and Dr. Jean-Bernard Caron (Royal Ontario Museum) on “The latest discoveries from the middle Cambrian Burgess Shale site in Marble Canyon” will start at 15:00 in Tactic 4 at Aloft

Monday, October 2nd

Fieldtrip: Upper Cretaceous (Campanian to Maastrichtian) Ammonites and semi-precious Gemstones of the Bearpaw Formation, along Saint Mary’s River, Southern Alberta (with John Issa and Rene Trudel of Korite Limited)

• Departure from Aloft at 7:30 am • Wear sturdy work boots. Bring a daypack, fossil collecting equipment, warm

jacket (conditions may be cold), hat, safety glasses/sun glasses, and work gloves • Return to GSC-Calgary at approximately 19:30

Technical Sessions

Saturday, September 30th

08:45 Welcome by the Geological Survey of Canada and the Alberta Palaeontological Society and opening remarks

09:10 175 YEARS OF PALEONTOLOGY AT THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA (keynote) G. Nowlan

10:00 SIR WILLIAM LOGAN AND THE ADVENTURE OF THE ANCIENT AMPHIBIOUS ARTHROPOD R.B. MacNaughton, C.P. Brett, M. Coyne and K. Shepherd

10:25 Coffee break and poster session

10:45 AN ICONIC PROFESSOR: THE LIFE OF CHARLES RICHARD STELCK O.C., PH.D., F.R.S.C., P. GEOL. (MAY 20, 1917 – MAY 14, 2016) S.G. Pemberton, J.A. MacEachern and M.K. Gingras

11:10 MIDDLE CAMBRIAN COPROLITES FROM NORTHWESTERN CANADA: NOVEL INSIGHT ON BENTHIC PALEOBIOLOGY AND PALEOECOLOGY B.R. Pratt and J. Kimmig

11:35 THE FIRST GIANT PALEODICTYON: A NEW ICHNOSPECIES FROM THE MID-CAMBRIAN OF ALBERTA C.A. Morgan, C.M. Henderson and B.R. Pratt *

12:00 Lunch break

13:15 NEW OBSERVATIONS ON THE ENIGMATIC CAMBRIAN STENOTHECOIDA P.A. Johnston, M. Streng and N. Virmani

13:40 REDESCRIPTION OF THE MIDDLE CAMBRIAN AMISKWIA SAGITTIFORMIS AS A STEM LOPHOTROCHOZOAN

B. Cheung and J.-B. Caron *

14:05 CONFRONTING THE AGNOSTID PROBLEM: NEW MORPHOLOGY REVEALED BY EXCEPTIONAL BURGESS SHALE FOSSILS J. Moysiuk and J.-B. Caron *

14:30 Coffee break and poster session

14:45 AN ORDOVICIAN EURYPTERID FROM THE WILLIAM LAKE LAGERSTÄTTE, MANITOBA – PHYLOGENETIC AND PALEOBIOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS M.B., Cuggy, D.M. Rudkin and G.A.Young

15:10

UPDATING THE MIDDLE-UPPER DEVONIAN CONODONT BIOSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE HORN RIVER GROUP (NORTHERN MACKENZIE MOUNTAINS, NWT, CANADA): STAGE BOUNDARIES AND OTHER ISSUES S.A. Gouwy and T.T.Uyeno

15:35

THE IMPORTANCE OF RARE CONODONTS FROM THE CANADIAN CORDILLERA FOR STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION, TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION, AND CONODONT PHYLOGENY M.L. Golding

16:00 Poster cocktail reception

Sunday, October 1st

09:00 Short opening remarks

09:10 THE BOUNTIFUL COPROLITES OF THE JOGGINS FORMATION M. Chipman, M. Grey and P. Pufahl

09:35

A VERTEBRATE MICROFOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE FROM THE EASTERNMOST DINOSAUR PARK FORMATION (UPPER CAMPANIAN) SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA: RECONSTRUCTING DIVERSITY IN A COASTAL ECOSYSTEM M. Gilbert and E.L. Bamforth

10:00 STRATIGRAPHIC AND CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHIC IMPLICATIONS OF NEW U-PB ZIRCON AGES IN MARINE JURASSIC STRATA, SOUTHWESTERN INTERIOR CANADA T.P. Poulton, D.I. Pana, L. Heaman and A. Dufrane

10:25 Coffee break

10:45 AN ENIGMATIC MARINE BONEBED FROM THE LATE CRETACEOUS (72-74 MA) BEARPAW FORMATION OF SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA E.L. Bamforth, T.T. Tokaryk and M.M. Gilbert

11:10

USING PALYNOSTRATIGRAPHY FOR IMPROVED REGIONAL CORRELATION OF MIDDLE JURASSIC-LOWER CRETACEOUS FORMATIONS IN THE SVERDRUP BASIN AND MACKENZIE DELTA AREA A.V. Nguyen, J.M. Galloway, B. Beauchamp, A. Dutchak and T. Poulton *

11:35

HOLOCENE INVESTIGATIONS OF THREE LAKES IN THE SUB-ARCTIC CANADA: CLIMATE CHANGE ACROSS ECOTONE GRADIENTS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURE CHANGEJ.M. Galloway, K.S. Sulphur, S.A Goldsmith, R.T. Patterson, G.T. Swindles, C. Crann, A.L. Macumber, H. Falck, F. Griffith and I.D. Clark

12:00 Lunch break

13:30 CHASING MAMMOTHS ON THE CANADIAN PRAIRIES: RECENT DISCOVERIES AND REDISCOVERIES M.C. Wilson

13:55 DO NOT TOUCH THE DINOSAURS: PUBLIC OUTREACH WITHOUT A MUSEUM C.W. Gross

14:20 Best Student Presentation Award Ceremony 14:35 Closing remarks

14:45 Break

15:00 -16:15

Public lectures Dr. Donald Henderson (Royal Tyrrell Museum) on “SAUROPOD DINOSAURS WERE THE COLOSSAL CORKS OF THE MESOZOIC” Dr. Jean-Bernard Caron (Royal Ontario Museum) on “THE LATEST DISCOVERIES FROM THE MIDDLE CAMBRIUM BURGESS SHALE SITE IN MARBLE CANYON”

Oral Presentations – Tactic 4 Poster Session – Lounge Breaks

Posters

UPPER CAMBRIAN BRACHIOPODS FROM THE FRANKLIN MOUNTAIN FORMATIONS, MACKENZIE MOUNTAINS, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES K. Dewing and R.B. MacNaughton

SAVING PALEONTOLOGICAL HERITAGE FROM ACTIVE QUARRIES: LARGE SCALE IN-SITU FOSSIL COLLECTING AT THE ‘CARRIÈRE DE LOMPRET’, SW BELGIUM (EUROPE) DELIVERING MANY UNEXPECTED DISCOVERIES S. Goolaerts, S. A. Gouwy and X. Devleeschouwer

TRILOBITE FAUNA, BIOSTRATIGRAPHY AND BIOFACIES: MIDDLE–UPPER CAMBRIAN ABRIGO FORMATION, SOUTHEASTERN ARIZONA M. A. Łabaj and B. R. Pratt

A STRATIGRAPHICALLY VALUABLE OCCURRENCE OF THE ICHNOFOSSIL PSAMMICHNITES GIGAS IN THE CAMBRIAN OF THE MACKENZIE MOUNTAINS, NWT R.B. MacNaughton, K.M. Fallas, and T.D. Finley

THE ALBERTA PALAEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN THE PUBLIC AND THE SCIENCE OF PALAEONTOLOGY FOR OVER 31 YEARS M. Marsovsky and G. Hoffman

PALEOGALLERY: IMAGES FROM THE PAST ABOUT STUDYING THE PAST A.D. McCracken

AN INVESTIGATION OF SAMPLING BIAS IN THE SWIFT CURRENT CREEK MAMMALIAN FAUNA OF THE

CYPRESS HILLS FORMATION, SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA W. Petryshen and A. Dutchak *

DINOSAUR RESEARCH INSTITUTE (DRI): FUNDING DINOSAUR RESEARCH VIA PUBLIC OUTREACH A. Rasmuson and M. Marsovsky

* Student presentation/student poster

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