CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Oral Presentation Schedule
Monday, June 8
8:50 AM - Opening Remarks- Stephen A. Leslie
ISOTOPE STRATIGRAPHY/CLIMATE
Session Chairs: Stephen A. Leslie and Daniel Goldman
9:00 AM
Deciphering the movement of the Argentine Precordillera from tropical to higher latitudes,
Late Cambrian–Late Ordovician, through conodont δ18O paleothermometry
Guillermo L. Albanesi, Christopher R. Barnes, Julie A. Trotter, Ian S. Williams, and Stig M.
Bergström
9:15 AM
An integrated scheme for δ13C chemostratigraphy and conodont biostratigraphy in the
Ordovician of Sweden and useful tie-points for global correlation
Mikael Calner, Oliver Lehnert, Rongchang Wu and Michael M. Joachimski
9:30 AM
Lower-Middle Ordovician carbon and sulfur isotope stratigraphy at Shingle Pass, Nevada,
USA: changes in the carbon and sulfur cycles and a link between oxygen levels and
biodiversity
Cole Edwards and Matthew R. Saltzman and David A. Fike
9:45 AM
Upper Ordovician carbon isotope chemostratigraphy on the Yangtze Platform, South
China: Implications for the correlation of the Guttenberg δ13C excursion (GICE)
Ru Fan, Stig M. Bergström, Yuanzheng Lu, Xuelei Zhang, Shiben Zhang, Xin Li, and
Shenghui Deng
10:00 AM
Paired δ13Ccarb-δ13Corg records from the Laurentian margins during late Katian glaciation
David Jones, Seth Finnegan, Mark Hellmer
10:15-10:45 AM
Break
10:45 AM
Neodymium isotopes and the Late Ordovician evolution of the North American Midcontinental Seaway
Ken MacLeod and Kelsey Putman Hughes
11:00 AM
Evidence of warming during the early Katian- Conodont apatite δ18O and bulk carbonate δ
13
C records from the Upper Mississippi Valley, US
Page Quinton, Achim D. Herrmann, Stephen A. Leslie, Kenneth G. MacLeod
11:15 AM
Ordovician temperature trends: constraints from δ18O analysis of conodonts from New
South Wales, Australia (Short paper)
Page Quinton, Ian G. Percival, Yong-Yi Zhen, and Kenneth G. MacLeod,
11:30 AM
Coupled carbon and strontium isotope stratigraphy of a Middle Ordovician Bahamian-type
carbonate platform at Clear Spring, Maryland
Matthew Saltzman, Cole Edwards, and Stephen A. Leslie
11:45 AM
Middle–Late Ordovician (Darriwilian–Sandbian) paired δ34S and δ13C records reveal
dynamic cycling through the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event
Seth A. Young, Benjamin C. Gill, Cole T. Edwards, Matthew R. Saltzman, and Stephen A.
Leslie
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch
BIOSTRATIGRAPHY
Session Chairs: Achim Herrmann and John Haynes
1:30 PM
Proposed Auxiliary Stratigraphic Section and Point (ASSP) for the base of the Ordovician
System at Lawson Cove, Utah, USA
James Miller, Ethington, Raymond L., Repetski, John E., Ripperdan, R.L., and Taylor, John
F.
1:45 PM
A biostratigraphic reappraisal of Tremadocian graptolites from SW Europe and NW Africa
Juan Carlos Gutiérrez-Marco, Gian Luigi Pillola, Artur A. Sá and Emmanuel L.O. Martin
2:00 PM
The Cambrian-Ordovician boundary in the Cordillera Oriental, NW Argentina (Short
Paper)
Guillermo L. Albanesi, M. Eugenia Giuliano, Fernanda E. Pacheco, Gladys Ortega and C.
Rubén Monaldi
2:15 PM
Iberian Ordovician and its international correlation
Juan Carlos Gutiérrez-Marco, Artur A. Sá , Isabel Rábano, Graciela N. Sarmiento, Diego
C. García-Bellido, Enrique Bernárdez, Saturnino Lorenzo, Enrique Villas, Andrea JiménezSánchez, Jorge Colmenar and Samuel Zamora
2:30 PM
The Pygodus serra Zone in Cuyania, Argentina (Short Paper)
Susana Heredia, Ana Mestre, Tatiana Soria, and Cintia Kaufmann
2:45-3:15 PM
Break
3:15 PM
Biostratigraphy and paleoecology of Late Ordovician (Ka2) conodonts and
microbrachiopods from north Queensland, Australia (Short Paper)
Yong Yi Zhen and Ian Percival
3:30 PM
Latest Ordovician-earliest Silurian chitinozoans from Puna, western Gondwana
G. Susana de la Puente, Claudia V. Rubinstein, N. Emilio Vaccari, and Florentin Paris
4:00 PM
A revised biostratigraphic framework for the near-field Hirnantian deposits of the Central
Anti-Atlas (southern Morocco) and their correlation to the Wangjiawan GSSP (Yichang,
China)
Lorena Tessitore, This R. A. Vandenbroucke, Jean-François Ghienne, Marie-Pierre
Dabard, Alfredo Loi, Florentin Paris, and Philippe Razin
4:15 - 5:30 PM
POSTER SESSION
Authors present at posters
Tuesday, June 9
INTEGRATED APPROACHES IN STRATIGRAPHY
Session Chairs: Matt Saltzman and John Taylor
9:00 AM
Correlation of Upper Ordovician K-bentonites in the East Baltic – A combined approach of
chitinozoan biostratigraphy and sanidine geochemistry
Heikki Bauert, Garmen Bauert, Jaak Nõlvak, and Tarmo Kiipli
9:15 AM
Chronostratigraphic correlation of the North American Upper Ordovician Standard: the
2015 Edition
Charles Mitchell, Bryan K. Sell, Stephen A. Leslie, and Daniel Goldman
9:30 AM
The more the merrier? Reconciling sequence stratigraphy, chemostratigraphy and multiple
biostratigraphic indices in the correlation of the Katian Reference Section, central
Oklahoma.
Stephen Westrop, Lisa Amati, Carlton E. Brett, Robert E. Swisher, Jesse R. Carlucci,
Daniel Goldman, Stephen A. Leslie, and Roger Burkhalter
9:45 AM
A CONOP9 quantitative stratigraphic model of Baltic Ordovician and Silurian chitinozoan
distribution and K-bentonites
Liina Antonovitš, Viiu Nestor, Jaak Nõlvak, Garmen Bauert, Olle Hints, and Tarmo Kiipli
10:00 AM
High-Resolution Stratigraphic Correlation and Biodiversity Dynamics of Middle and Late
Ordovician Marine Fossils from Baltoscandia and Poland
Daniel Goldman, David H. Sheets, Stig M. Bergström, Jaak Nõlvak, and Teresa
Podhalanska
10:15-10:45 AM
Break
10:45 AM
Ordovician sequence stratigraphy of the Siberian Platform revised
Andrei Dronov, Kanygin, A.V., Timokhin, and T.V. Gonta
11:00 AM
Trilobite biofacies and sequence stratigraphy: an example from the Upper Ordovician of
Oklahoma
Jesse Carlucci and Stephen Westrop
11:15 AM
Milankovitch cycles in the Juniata Formation, Late Ordovician, Central Appalachian
Basin, USA
Linda Hinnov and Richard J. Diecchio
11:30 AM
Traces of explosive volcanic eruptions in the Upper Ordovician of the Siberian Platform
Warren Huff, A.V. Dronov, B. Sell, A.V. Kanygin, & T.V. Gonta
11:45 AM
Early-middle Darriwilian graptolite and conodont faunas from the central Precordillera of
San Juan Province, Argentina (Short paper)
Fernanda Serra, Nicolás A. Feltes, Gladys Ortega and Guillermo L. Albanesi
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch
ORDOVICIAN OF THE WORLD
Session Chairs: John Repetski and Charles Mitchell
1:30 PM
Characterization of a platform to basin transition in a mixed siliclastic-carbonate basin:
Upper Ordovician of central, KY and Cincinnati, Ohio
Allison Young, Carlton E. Brett, and Patrick I. McLaughlin
1:45 PM
Recurring Taphofacies in the Upper Ordovician (Katian) of the Cincinnati Arch: A
Predictive Model Based on Sequence Stratigraphy
Christopher Aucoin, Carlton E Brett, James R Thomka, Benjamin F Dattilo,
2:00 PM
Taphonomic comparisons of two Laurentian Upper Ordovician epeiric sea “small shelly
faunas”
Benjamin F. Dattilo, Rebecca L. Freeman, Jessie L. Reeder, Amanda Straw, Christopher
Aucoin, Carlton Brett, and Anne Argast
2:15 PM
Lithofacies differentiation of the Late Ordovician Lianglitag Formation limestones on the
central part of the Central Tarim Uplift, Tarim Block, NW China
Yuanyuan Zhang, Yue Li, Axel Munnecke, and Wang Guan
2:30 PM
Geographic distribution and dynamics of the graptolite biodiversity during the endOrdovician mass extinction in South China
Qing Chen and Junxuan Fan
2:45 - 3:15 PM
Break
3:15 PM
In search of the elusive Hirnantian Stage in the High Arctic: a preliminary report from
North Greenland
Christian Rasmussen, Jan Rasmussen, Svend Stouge, Jisuo Jin, and Axel Munnecke, and
David Harper
3:30 PM
Clast Research in northern Germany – How erratics contribute to the Ordovician picture
Adrian Popp
3:45 PM
A new type of cool-water carbonate buildups: Middle Ordovician Moyeronia-Angarella
“reefs” of the Siberian platform
Andrei Dronov, Axel Munnecke, and Veronica B. Kushlin
4:00 PM
Middle Ordovician strata of western Inner Mongolia: depositional and tectonic history
Paul Myrow, Jitao Chen, Anne Hakim, Zachary Snyder, Stephen A. Leslie, David A. Fike,
and Peng
Tang
4:15 PM
Ordovician of the Anarak Region: implications in understanding Early Palaeozoic history
of Central Iran (Short Paper)
Vachik Hairapetian, Mansoureh Ghobadi Pour, Leonid E. Popov, S. Hassan Hejazi, Lars E.
Holmer, David Evans and Ali Sharafi
4:30 PM
Field and petrographic evidence for late diagenetic silicification of Cambrian and
Ordovician carbonates of the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia
Daniel Doctor
4:45 PM
Early Ordovician lithistid sponge-Calathium reefs on the Yangtze Platform and their
paleoceanographic implications
Qi-jian Li, Yue Li, Jianpo Wang, and Wolfgang Kiessling
Thursday, June 11
PALEOBIOLOGY/PALEOGEOGRAPHY/PALEOECOLOGY
Session Chairs: Randall Orndorff and Stig Bergström
9:00 AM
Risk and resilience during and after the Late Ordovician extinctions
Seth Finnegan, David Harper, and Christian Rasmussen
9:15 AM
Immigration, speciation, and biodiversity in Ordovician seas of Laurentia
Alycia Stigall, Jennifer E. Bauer, Hannah-Maria R. Brame, Adriane R. Lam, and David F.
Wright
9:30 AM
Biogeographic origins and dispersal pathways of invasive taxa: the Late Ordovician
(Katian) Richmondian Invasion, Cincinnati area, Ohio
Adriane Lam and Alycia Stigall
9:45 AM
Palaeobiogeographic distribution of Lituitidae cephalopods in late Dapingian to early
Katian (Ordovician) and its implications
Xiang Fang, Yunbai Zhang, Chen Tingen, Zhang Yuandong, Song Yanyan, and Ma Xuan
10:00 AM
Preferential extinction of mesopelagic species and disruption of graptolite community
structure during the Late Ordovician mass extinction
Charles Mitchell, H. David Sheets, Michael J. Melchin, Jason Loxton, and Petr Štorch
10:15-10:45 AM
Break
10:45 AM
Brachiopod Community Response to the Ordovician Mass Extinction on Anticosti Island
Amelinda Webb and Lindsey Leighton
11:00 AM
Foreland basin formation, environmental change and trilobite paleoecology, Late
Ordovician of eastern Laurentia
Stephen Westrop, Lisa Amati, Jesse R. Carlucci, Carlton E. Brett, Robert E. Swisher
11:15 AM
Evolution of the Darriwilian to Katian graptolites from NW China
Junxuan Fan, Daniel Goldman, Qing Chen, Xu Chen, and Yuandong Zhang
11:30 AM
Early-Middle Ordovician chitinozoan biodiversification of Upper Yangtze Platform, South
China
Yan Liang, Peng Tang, and Renbin Zhan
11:45 AM
The onset of the 'Ordovician Plankton Revolution' in the late Cambrian
Thomas Servais, Taniel Danelian, Ronald Martin, Axel Munnecke, Hendrik Nowak,
Alexander Nützel, Vincent Perrier, Thijs Vandenbroucke, and Mark Williams
12:00 - 1:30 PM
Lunch
Systematic Paleontology: Session Chairs: Jesse Carlucci and Stephen Westrop
1:30 PM
Late Ordovician, deep-water Foliomena brachiopod fauna from the island of Bornholm,
Denmark
David Harper and Arne Nielsen
1:45 PM
Ordovician (Darriwilian-Sandbian) linguliform brachiopods from the southern Cuyania
Terrane of west-central Argentina
Lars E. Holmer, Leonid E. Popov, Oliver Lehnert, and Mansoureh Ghobadi Pour
2:00 PM
New Cryptostome Prophyllodictya (Bryozoa) from the Nantzinkuan Formation (Early
Tremadocian, Lower Ordovician) of Liujiachang Section, Western Hubei, China and Its
Phylogenetic Implications
Junye Ma, Paul D. Taylor, and Fengsheng Xia
2:15 PM
A new tube-like enigmatic animal and its burrows from the Upper Ordovician of the
Siberian platform
Veronica Kushlina, Andrei V. Dronov, and David A.T. Harper
2:30 PM
The Early-Middle Ordovician acritarch assemblage from eastern Yunnan
Yan Kui, Li Jun, and Thomas Servais
2:45 - 3:15 PM
Break
2:45 PM
Graptolite faunas and biostratigraphy from the Hulo Formation (Ordovician) in the
Anji area, SE China
Xuan Ma, and Yuandong Zhang
3:00 PM
The Sandbian (Upper Ordovician) Raphiophorid trilobite Ampyxina powelli: new insights
on its description and taphonomy
Michael Meyer, Edward Fowler, Aaron Howard, and William Fleming
3:15 PM
Life on the edge in eastern Alaska: basal Ordovician (Tremadocian), platform margin
faunas of the Jones Ridge Limestone (Short Paper)
John F. Taylor, Tyler J. Allen, John E. Repetski, Justin V. Strauss, and Savannah J. Irwin
3:30 PM
Agglutinated benthic foraminifera in Upper Ordovician black shales from the northern
Holy Cross Mountains (Poland)
Wieslaw Trela and Sylwester Salwa
3:45 – 5:30 PM
WORKSHOPS
People are encouraged to bring specimens for other specialists to examine and discuss.
Microscopes will be available to examine fossil specimens.
Poster Presentations
Lithologies, ages, and provenance of clasts in the Ordovician Fincastle Conglomerate,
Botetourt County, Virginia, USA
Harvey Belkin, John E. Repetski and Randall C. Orndorff
Carbon isotope stratigraphy of the Ordovician-Silurian boundary interval and associated
oolites in southern Norway
Hanna Calner, Mikael Calner, and Oliver Lehnert
Geographic differentiation of the Middle and Upper Ordovician strata in South China
Linna Zhang, Junxuan Fan and Yuandong Zhang
Was the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE) caused by increased
atmospheric oxygen?: Evidence from paired carbon isotopes from bulk carbonate (δ13Ccarb)
and organic matter (δ13Corg) from North America
Cole Edwards and Matthew R. Saltzman
The presence of the Lower-Middle Ordovician genus Baltoniodus in the central Andean
Basin, Argentina: the stratigraphic significance (Short paper)
Susana Heredia, Josefina Carlorosi, and Graciela Sarmiento
The balognathiid apparatuses of Eoplacognathus robustus Bergström and E. lindstroemi
Hamar (Short Paper)
Susana Heredia and Ana Mestre
New data on the Late Ordovician acritarchs and cryptospores from the Moyero and
Moyerokan River sections, northeast of the Siberian Platform
Elena Raevskaya and Andrei Dronov
Biostratigraphy of the Cambrian–Ordovician boundary beds and the position of the lower
Ordovician boundary at Kopet-Dagh, Iran (Short Paper)
Hadi Jahangir, Mansoureh Ghobadi Pour, Lars E. Holmer, Leonid E. Popov, Ali-Reza
Ashuri, Adrian Rushton, Tatiana Yu. Tolmacheva and Arash Amini
Early Ordovician (Tremadocian) faunas and biostratigraphy of the Gerd-Kuh section,
eastern Alborz, Iran (Short Paper)
Mansoureh Ghobadi Pour, Leonid E. Popov, Lars E. Holmer, Mahmud Hosseini-Nezhad,
Rahimeh Rasulic, Khadijeh Fallah, Arash Amini and Hadi Jahangir
The first sphinctozoan-bearing reef from an Ordovician back-arc basin
Qi-jian Li, Yue Li, and Wolfgang Kiessling
A taxonomic restudy of Ningxiagraptus Geh, 2002
Xuan Ma, Xu Chen, and Daniel Goldman
The Stairsian-Jeffersonian Stage boundary in southern New Mexico and westernmost
Texas, USA
James Loch, J. F. Taylor, R. L. Ripperdan, P. M. Myrow, and S. J. Irwin,
A long-overdue systematic revision of Ordovician graptolite faunas from New South Wales,
Australia (Short Paper)
Ian Percival, Petr Kraft, Zhang Yuandong, and Lawrence Sherwin
Lower Silurian “hot shales” in Poland as a response to Late Ordovician climatic changes
Teresa Podhalańska and Wieslaw Trela
Chitinozoan biodiversity in the Ordovician of Gondwana using the quantitative
stratigraphic correlation program CONOP9
Rachael Kathleen Sales, Daniel Goldman, Florentin Paris and H. David Sheets
Determining absolute depths of Ordovician (Katian) benthic assemblages in the upper
Cincinnatian (Maysvillian to Richmondian) of the Cincinnati Arch region, USA
Cameron E. Schwalbach, Carlton E. Brett, Christopher D. Aucoin, and James R. Thomka
Ordovician Chronostratigraphy Changes through Time as Recorded in the USGS Geologic
Names Lexicon
Nancy Stamm and Randall C. Orndorff
New conodont records from the Rinconada Formation, eastern margin of the Argentine
Precordillera: tectono-stratigraphic implications (Short Paper)
Gustavo G. Voldman, Guillermo L. Albanesi, Juan L. Alonso, Luis P. Fernández, Aldo L.
Banchig, Raúl Cardó, Gladys Ortega and Alberto M. Vallaure
Carbonate microfacies analysis of the Middle-Upper Ordovician succession of the Moyero
River section, NE of Siberian Platform
Alexey Zaitsev, Inna Ziyatdinova, Evdokiya Kozhevnikova, and Andrei Dronov