Saturday 21 May 2022
10:00 Welcome and registration
At the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Maastricht University10:45 Opening address by Prof. Dr Leon Claessens
11:00 Prof. Adrian M. Lister
Charles Darwin, fossil mammals, and the puzzle of extinction11:45 Dr H. Gregory McDonald
Building biodiversity: Mammalian immigration and the origin of the North American Pleistocene mammal faunas12:30 Lunch break
Including opening of side programme and other activities13:45 Dr H. Gregory McDonald
Exotics and endemics: Sloths in the North American Pleistocene mammalian fauna14:30 Dr Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales
Giants & airplanes: Mammoths at the airport in Mexico City15:30 Coffee/Tea break
16:00 Dr Jim I. Mead
Pleistocene (Ice Age) environments in the Black Hills, South Dakota, USA16:45 Dr Bas van Geel
Botanical information about diet and the environment of large Pleistocene herbivores17:30 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 Maastricht10:45 Opening address by Dr Alexandra van der Geer
At the Nieuwenhofkapel (Maastricht University); around the corner of the museum11:00 Rob van den Berg
Preliminary results of an inventory of Dutch beach fossils of Trogontherium cuvieri Fischer, 1809 (Castoridae) PART 111:35 Bram Langeveld
Preliminary results of an inventory of Dutch beach fossils of Trogontherium cuvieri Fischer, 1809 (Castoridae) PART 212:10 Q&A with Team Trogontherium
12:30 Lunch break
14:00 Tessa Plint
The Ice Age giant beaver15:00 Remie Bakker
The return of giant beaver Trogontherium cuvieri: The building of a lifelike and life-sized model15:30 Closing speech by Dr Alexandra van der Geer
16:00 Giant beaver drinks and bites
At Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht