PALEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY SHORT COURSE AT GSA 2014 Reading and Writing of the Fossil Record: Preservational Pathways to Exceptional Fossilization Instructors: Marc Laflamme, [email protected] James D. Schiffbauer, [email protected] Simon Darroch, [email protected] When: Saturday, October 18th, 9 a.m.–6 p.m. Where: Vancouver Convention Centre West, 211 *** This course is FREE *** no registration needed and no course attendance limit Speaker Itinerary 1. M. Laflamme, J.D. Schiffbauer, and S. Darroch; Reading and writing of the fossil record: Preservational pathways to exceptional fossilization 2. S.H. Butts; Silicification 3. Ú.C. Farrell; Pyritization of soft-tissues in the fossil record: An overview 4. J.D. Schiffbauer, A.F. Wallace, J. Broce, and S. Xiao; Exceptional fossil conservation through phosphatization 5. J.A. Cunningham, P.C.J. Donoghue, and S. Bengtson; Distinguishing biology from geology in soft-tissue preservation 6. R.A. Raff and E.C. Raff; The role of biology in the fossilization of embryos and other soft bodied organisms: Microbial biofilms and Lagerstätten 7. C.G. Kenchington and P.R. Wilby; Of time and taphonomy: Preservation in the Ediacaran 8. R.R. Gaines; Burgess Shale-type preservation and its distribution in space and time 9. lunch 10. V.E. McCoy; Concretions as agents of soft tissue preservation: A review 11. C.C. Labandeira: Amber 12. E.R. Locatelli; The exceptional preservation of plant fossils: A review of taphonomic pathways and biases in the fossil record 13. R.S. Sansom; Experimental decay of soft tissues 14. R.E. Summons; The exceptional preservation of Interesting and informative biomolecules 15. P.J. Orr; Late Proterozoic–early Phanerozoic ‘taphonomic windows’: The environmental and temporal distribution of recurrent modes of exceptional preservation 16. D.E.G. Briggs: Konservat-Lagerstätten 40 years on: The exceptional becomes mainstream