Symposium on Turtle Evolution

The Symposium on Turtle Evolution is a meeting of turtle morphologists, evolutionary biologists, and paleontologists, which is organised by different institutions since 1983.

List of conferences

Year	Name	City / Country	Organizers
2015	5th Turtle Evolution Symposium	Rio de Janeiro / Brazil	Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, and Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro
2012	Symposium on Turtle Evolution	Tübingen / Germany	Geowissenschaften, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
2009	Gaffney Turtle Symposium	Drumheller, Alberta / Canada	Royal Tyrell Museum
2003	Symposium on Turtle Origins, Evolution and Systematics	St. Petersburg / Russia	Department of Herpetology, Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
1983	First International Symposium on Fossil Turtles	Paris / France	N.N.

Besides these symposiums, there have been additional smaller meetings:

• 1995: session during the 75th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (Edmonton, Canada),
• 1996: session during the 56th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (New York, USA)
• 2003: one-day symposium during the 10th International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology organized by the International Society of Vertebrate Morphology (Barcelona, Spain)
• 2014: Meeting of Central European Turtle Evolutionary Biologists, organized by Paläontologisches Institut und Museum der Universität Zürich (Zürich, Switzerland)

References

• Brinkman D, Holroyd P., and Gardner J (editors) (2012). Morphology and Evolution of Turtles. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Series. Springer
• Danilov IG and Parham JF (2006). Report on the 3rd Symposium on Turtle Origins, Evolution and Systematics, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2003. Fossil Turtle Research Vol. 1, 2006, pp. 5 – 10, http://www.zin.ru/labs/herplab/doc/Danilov_et_al_2006b.pdf
• de Broin, Jiménez-Fuentes (1984, eds.). Studia Geologica Salamanticensia, vol. especial I. Studia Palaeocheloniologica I
• Joyce WG, Corsini J, Werneburg I, and Rabi M (editors) (2012). Symposium on Turtle Evolution 2012. Program and Abstracts. TOBIAS-lib Hochschulserver der Universität Tübingen, Tübingen 2012, http://tobias-lib.uni-tuebingen.de/volltexte/2012/6210/
• Moustakas-Verho J, Gilbert S (organizers) (2013). The Origin and Evolution of Turtles. In: "Program & Abstracts of the 10th International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology, Barcelona 2013". Anatomical Record 296 (Special Feature): 170-174. (Special Issue to be edited in the Journal of Experimental Zoology B)