Acabou hoje (27 de Abril de 2008) no Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, Estado Unidos, um simpósio espectacular sobre o Jurássico para o qual eu tive a honra e o prazer de ter sido convidado a participar. Um interessante grupo de pessoas apaixonadas pelo Jurássico.
THE BREAKUP OF PANGAEA AND THE ORIGIN OF MODERN TERRESTRIAL VERTEBRATE FAUNAS
April 25-27, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC
April 25-27, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC
Organized by James Clark, Hans-Dieter Sues, and Matthew Carrano
Nick Fraser, National Museums of Scotland,
“Heterogeneity of Late Triassic floras (and faunas)”
Paul Olsen, Columbia University,
”Tetrapod diversity, disparity, and provincialism following the end-Triassic mass-extinction”
Hans-Dieter Sues, National Museum of Natural History,
”Early Jurassic continental tetrapod faunas and paleobiogeography”
Paul Upchurch, University College London,
”Pangaean fragmentation and the biogeographic history of Middle and Late Jurassic dinosaurs”
Susan Evans, University College London,
”The British Middle Jurassic faunas and their global context”
John Flynn and Sterling Nesbitt (w/Andre Wyss), American Museum of Natural
History,
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”Mid-Mesozoic (?Late Triassic to Middle Jurassic) vertebrate faunas of Madagascar”
Jim Clark, um dos organizadores do evento. 
James Clark, George Washington University,
”The fauna of the Middle-Upper Jurassic Shishugou Fm., Xinjiang”
Thomas Martin, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn,
”Paleobiogeography and Middle to Late Jurassic vertebrate faunas (particularly
mammals) from western Central Asia.”
mammals) from western Central Asia.”
Guillermo Rougier, Louisville University,
”Jurassic and Cretaceous mammals from South America: Paleogeography and diversity”
Oliver Rauhut, Bayerische Staatsammlung für Naturkunde,
”Jurassic dinosaurs from Gondwana and the Jurassic evolution of the Dinosauria”
Octávio Mateus, Museu da Lourinhã e Universidade Nova de Lisboa,
“The Jurassic vertebrates of Portugal: comparisons and paleogeography”
Paul Barrett, The Natural History Museum, London,
”Changes in dinosaur diversity across the Middle-Upper Jurassic boundary”
Matthew Carrano, National Museum of Natural History,
"The Morrison Formation as window, anchor, and attractor in studies of Jurassic dinosaur evolution, diversity, and biogeography”
Catherine Forster, George Washington University,
”Chinese Middle-Upper Jurassic Ornithischians”
Walter Joyce, Yale University,
”The response of turtles, distant cousins of T. rex, to the breakup of Pangaea”
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