Programme On Stage: Ice Age Cemeteries

Saturday 21 May 2022

10:00          Welcome and registration
At the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Maastricht University

10:45          Opening address by Prof. Dr Leon Claessens 

11:00          Prof. Adrian M. Lister
Charles Darwin, fossil mammals, and the puzzle of extinction

11:45          Dr H. Gregory McDonald
Building biodiversity: Mammalian immigration and the origin of the North American Pleistocene mammal faunas

12:30          Lunch break
Including opening of side programme and other activities

13:45           Dr H. Gregory McDonald
Exotics and endemics: Sloths in the North American Pleistocene mammalian fauna

14:30          Dr Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales
Giants & airplanes: Mammoths at the airport in Mexico City

15:30          Coffee/Tea break

16:00          Dr Jim I. Mead
Pleistocene (Ice Age) environments in the Black Hills, South Dakota, USA

16:45            Dr Bas van Geel
Botanical information about diet and the environment of large Pleistocene herbivores

17:30          Closing speech by Prof. Dr Leon Claessens

19:30          Dinner
Exclusive for our guest speakers and participants

Sunday 22 May 2022

9:00h          Welcome and guided visit by curator Dr John Jagt (from the Cretaceous to Tiglian, and the giant beaver fossils from Tegelen)
At Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht

10:45          Opening address by Dr Alexandra van der Geer
At the Nieuwenhofkapel (Maastricht University); around the corner of the museum

11:00          Rob van den Berg
Preliminary results of an inventory of Dutch beach fossils of
Trogontherium cuvieri Fischer, 1809 (Castoridae) PART 1

11:35          Bram Langeveld
Preliminary results of an inventory of Dutch beach fossils of Trogontherium cuvieri Fischer, 1809 (Castoridae)
PART 2

12:10          Q&A with Team Trogontherium

12:30          Lunch break

14:00          Tessa Plint
The Ice Age giant beaver

15:00          Remie Bakker
The return of giant beaver
Trogontherium cuvieri: The building of a lifelike and life-sized model

15:30          Closing speech by Dr Alexandra van der Geer

16:00          Giant beaver drinks and bites
At Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht

To the public side programme