Convener: Manuel Rigo This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Co-Conveners: Xulong Lai

Conodonts are elements of a feeding apparatus of a jawless eel-like animals belonging to the clade Vertebrata. They are very important microfossils, ubiquitous in the Palaeozoic and Early Mesozoic marine sequences, and they occurred in different habitats, from deep-ocean to shallow- shelf waters. Because of their great abundance, worldwide distribution and rapid evolution, conodonts are important index fossils. Furthermore, because of their mineralogical composition consisting of biogenic apatite and strong resistance to rock diagenesis, they are highly attractive environmental archives. All these features make conodonts reliable tools for biostratigraphic and geochemical investigations, and they have been proven to be primary for chronostratigraphic studies, particularly for the definition of GSSPs, and palaeoclimate and environmental changes.

The proceedings of the session will be printed on an international journal. The conveners will submit a proposal to Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology