Conveners: Angela Bertinelli (Università di Perugia), Sabrina Amodio (Università di Napoli Parthenope), Francesca Falzoni (IGAG-CNR, Milano), Sergio Bonomo (IGAG-CNR, Palermo)
angela.bertinelli@unipg.it
angela.bertinelli@unipg.it
Microfossils are fundamental components of sedimentary rocks, and represent key tools for biostratigraphy and age determination due to their common occurrence in the geological record, broad geographic distribution and rapid evolution. Microfossils are also outstanding archives of past environmental and oceanographic changes, and play a key role in the reconstruction of Earth system dynamics, biogeochemical cycles, and their interplay with the evolution of life. Microfossils maintain a leadership role to constrain environmental reconstructions in highly-resolved chronostratigraphic frameworks, understand the sequence of events, and reconstruct cause-effect relationships. This session welcomes contributions addressing all microfossil groups from marine and continental records and from any time interval. Recent developments in their use as bioindicators of ecosystem changes, geological events, evolutionary processes will be much appreciated.