Special issue: recent advances in Cambrian to modern cephalopod research I
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Special issue: recent advances in Cambrian to modern cephalopod research I Christian Klug1 • Rene´ Hoffmann2 • Dirk Fuchs3 • Daniel Marty4
Received: 30 June 2015 / Accepted: 2 July 2015 / Published online: 18 September 2015 Ó Akademie der Naturwissenschaften Schweiz (SCNAT) 2015
Abstract In September 2014, the 9th International Symposium Cephalopods—Present and Past was held at the Universitz of Zurich in combination with the 5th International Coleoid Symposium. Here, give a short account of these two events. Keywords
Cephalopoda Coleoidea Fossil Recent
Introduction From the 04th to 14th September 2014, the 9th International Symposium Cephalopods—Present and Past (ISCPP) was held in combination with the 5th International Coleoid Symposium at the University of Zurich (Lectures on the 07th to 10th September 2014 in KO2-F-180, Universita¨t
& Christian Klug [email protected] Rene´ Hoffmann [email protected] Dirk Fuchs [email protected] Daniel Marty [email protected] 1
Palaeontological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich, Karl Schmid-Strasse 4, 8006 Zurich, Switzerland
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Institut fu¨r Geologie, Mineralogie und Geophysik, Ruhr Universita¨t Bochum, Universita¨tsstrasse 150, 44801 Bochum, Germany
3
Earth and Planetary System Science, Department of Natural History Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Augustinergasse 2, 4001 Basel, Switzerland
Zentrum). This series of ISCPP meetings was launched in the seventies in York. Thereafter, they were held each third to fourth year in various cities including Tu¨bingen, Granada, Vienna, Fayetteville, Sapporo, and Dijon. It is the only occasion, on which cephalopod workers from the entire planet with both paleontological and neontological approaches meet, and in September 2014 in Zurich, it was again an equally friendly and stimulating meeting. Zurich had already run for the 2010-meeting, which was then carried out in Dijon. When it came to decide, which institution could organise the meeting after Dijon, the Palaeontological Institute and Museum of the University of Zurich was the only candidate. Since the same organisers had agreed to organise the Annual meeting of the Palaeontological Association in 2013, it was decided that the ISCPP can be held in 2014 instead. This led to the seeming ‘‘conflict’’ in the timing of the International Coleoid Symposium, which was quickly resolved by fusing the two series of symposia for the first time. The fusion made sense since many participants of the International Coleoid Symposium also tend to visit the ISCPPs (Figs. 1, 2). As in the preceding ISCPPs, 4 days of scientific presentations were organised. One of the main foci of this meeting is that both biologists and palaeontologists meet; as always, however, there were more palaeontologists like in the preceding meetings. Although the 2014-meeting the symposium Cephalopods—Present and Past hosted the International Coleoid Symposium, the percentage of researchers working on recent forms was still not very high
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