2025 International Symposium on Fossil Wood
Study and Protection
Program
November 23–26, 2025, Chengdu, China
1.会议主题与目的
木化石是植物化石的重要组成部分，是在漫长地史时期形成的珍贵地质遗迹和化石记录，在探究地质历史时期植物群组成和演化、恢复陆地生态系统古气候变化和古环境重建等方面发挥着重要作用。为了进一步推动木化石的科研合作与国际交流，加强对木化石的保护和利用，“2025年木化石研究与保护国际研讨会”将于2025年11月23-26日在中国四川成都召开。本次会议的主题是“木化石研究与深时全球变化”以及“木化石保护利用与文旅发展”。会议的召开旨在展示国内外木化石研究的新发现和新成果，促进交流合作，进一步提升木化石及地质遗迹的保护与利用、科普传播工作能力与水平，推动地质公园与地学旅游高质量融合发展。
2.会议组织单位
1)组织单位
指导：中国古生物学会，中国古生物化石保护基金会，国际古植物学会，国际木材解剖学家协会
主办：中国科学院南京地质古生物研究所，中国古生物化石保护基金会专家委员会，成都理工大学，四川省地质矿产勘查开发局
承办：成都自然博物馆（成都理工大学博物馆），崇州天演博物馆，四川省第十一地质大队，辽宁古生物博物馆
2) 会议日程
2025年11月23日（星期日）:与会代表抵达成都，会议注册
2025年11月24日（星期一）:开幕式、全体会议及专题研讨会
2025年11月25日（星期二）:专题研讨会；参观成都自然博物馆及崇州天演博物馆
2025年11月26日（星期三）:会议闭幕，代表离会
3) 参会人员
本次研讨会预计参会总人数超过80人。其中国际代表20余位，分别来自德国、希腊、日本、俄罗斯、美国、罗马尼亚、西班牙、南非、印度、泰国、柬埔寨、越南、尼泊尔、印度尼西亚等国；中国代表约60位，包括古植物学家、古生物学家、地质学家等杰出学者，以及从事科研、科普、化石保护、重点化石产地、地质公园、博物馆和文化旅游等领域的专业人士。
本次研讨会的官方工作语言为英语。为促进中外同行的顺畅交流，会议将为部分涉及科普教育、化石保护等主题的报告提供科大讯飞翻译服务。
4） 会议地点
成都自然博物馆（成都理工大学博物馆）：四楼报告厅、学术报告厅（负一楼）。
成都自然博物馆（成都理工大学博物馆）
3.学术会议日程
November 24 Monday
Morning Opening Session, Plenary Session
Fourth Floor Meeting Room
8:30-9:00 Opening Session
9:00-10:00 Plenary Session
1)9:00-9:30 Robert A. Spicer: The Power of the Ring
2)9:30-10:00 Nickolas C. Zouros: A significant geo-conservation project in the Lesvos Petrified Forest, Lesvos Island UNESCO Global Geopark, Greece (Video Talk)
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3)10:30-11:00 Carole T. Gee: The forested landscape of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation, USA, and the spectacular 150-million-year-old log assemblage in Escalante, Utah
4)11:00-11:30 Lixia Wang: Fossil protection study and perspectives in China
5)11:30-12:00 Yongdong Wang: Overview on recent advances of fossil wood studies and protection in China
November 24 Monday Afternoon
14:00-18:00 Keynote talk session Fourth Floor Meeting Room
Symposium Sessions Topic A: Fossil wood studies and global change in deep time
1)13:30-13:55 Honghe Xu: Quantitative assessment of community structure of fossil forests from the Devonian to Jurassic periods
2)13:55-14:20 Kazuo Terada: Triassic—Cretaceous coniferous woods in Japan: revisions of their geological horizons and associated nomenclatural problems
3)14:20-14:45 Aowei Xie: Conifer wood diversity in Middle to Upper Jurassic of Sichuan Basin
4)14:45-15:10 Eugenia V. Bugdaeva: The Early Cretaceous plant communities and paleoenvironments of Transbaikalia
5)15:10-15:35 Yeming Cheng: Research Advances in Cretaceous Fern Stems from China
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6)16:00-16:25 Dieter Uhl: Charcoal as a source of information about fossil wood - some examples (Video Talk)
7)16:25-16:50 Paul J. Grote: The usefulness of wood in studying the palaeoenvironment and past human activities: lessons from Khorat Geopark
8)16:50-17:15 Roxana Pirnea: Unveiling Paleoflora and Fostering Geoscience Education: Fossil Wood, Foliage, and Fructification from the Petroșani Basin and the Proposal for ‘The Paleobotanical Garden’
9)17:15-17:40 Vanchan Lim：New Discoveries of Mesozoic and Cenozoic Fossil Wood from Cambodia: Implications for Paleobotany and Geoheritage Development
10)17:40-18:05 Ezequiel Ignacio Vera: The uppermost Cretaceous woods from Patagonia: what we know and what we are working on
November 25 Tuesday Morning
8:30-12:10 Fourth Floor Meeting Room
Symposium Invited Talk Sessions Topic A: Fossil wood studies and global change in deep time
1)8:30-8:50 Zikun Jiang: New palaeoclimate relevance from Cretaceous woods of the Jiaolai Basin, Shandong Province
2)8:50-9:10 Mahasin Ali Khan: The prevalence and diversity of palms in the Deccan K-Pg flora of India: Evidence by stem fossils
3)9:10-9:30 Xiaoping Xie: Sedimentary environment and Palaeogeography of Late Jurassic in Central Sichuan Basin
4)9:30-9:50 Guolin Yang: Fossilized gymnosperm wood from the Xiagou Formation of the Lower Cretaceous in the Yumen Basin, Gansu Province and its paleoenvironmental significance
5)9:50-10:10 Yanbin Zhu: New progress in the study of Miocene gymnosperm fossil wood from Lesvos, Greece and its palaeoclimatic significance
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6)10:25-10:45 Qing Li: The petrified woods discovered in the Sichuan Basin and their implications for the basin’s evolution
7)10:45-11:05 Ruiyin Hao: New investigations on Cretaceous woods from the Jiaolai Basin, Shandong Province and their palaeoclimate relevance (Student)
8)11:05-11:25 Nguyen Ba Hung: Late Eocene ring-porous wood signals monsoon seasonality and the rise of deciduousness in East Asia
9)11:25-11:45 Alexandru Gabriel Călin: Revisiting Oligocene Cupressaceous Fossil Woods from the Petroșani Basin (Southern Carpathians, Romania) (Student)
10)11:45-12:05 Mengyu Chen: First records of a typical East Asian Mesozoic fossil wood——Shimakuroxylon in China (Student)
November 25 Tuesday Morning
8:30-12:00 Museum Lecture Meeting Hall
Symposium Invited Talk Sessions B: Fossil wood protection and geotourism
1)8:30-8:50 Lei Mao: Study and Application of On-site Fossil Wood Conservation—Taking Lesvos, Yanqing, Guangde Fossil Wood as Examples.
2)8:50-9:10 Wilailuck Naksri: Excavation and Conservation of a New Giant Late Jurassic Petrified Trunk from Nakhon Ratchasima, Northeastern Thailand
3)9:10-9:30 Pratueng Jintasakul: Formation of Gem-Quality Petrified Wood in Khorat UNESCO Global Geopark
4)9:30-9:50 Nattinee Thongdee: Driving Community -Based Geotourism through Petrified Wood Heritage within the Khorat UNESCO Global Geopark, Thailand
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5)10:05-10:25 Achyut Tiwari: Wood Provenance, Climate, Culture & Geotourism Potentiality in Nepal Himalaya
6)10:25-10:45 Puspita Insan Kamil: Two Decades of palaeobotany in Indonesia: Fossil Wood Discovery, Protection, Outreach, and Opportunities Moving Forward
7)10:45-11:05 Shihui Bai: Fossil Wood Conservation practice in the Shehong Fossil Forest Geopark
8)11:05-11:25 Mohammad Taghi Badihagh: A Review of Fossil Wood Studies in Iran: Evidence from the Jurassic to the Pleistocene
9)11:25-11:45 Ruizhi Zhang: Wood fossils in basalt of Shanxi province in north China region (Student)
November 26 Wednesday Morning Fourth
9:00-11:30 Fourth Floor Meeting Room
Plenary session and closing session
1)9:00-9:30 Alexei A. Oskolski: The Late Pleistocene woods from the Maoming Basin (Guangdong, South China): a refuge of tropical vegetation during the Last Glaciation?
2)9:30-10:00 Nareerat Boonchai: Fossil Wood Conservation around the World: What Works, What Fails, and What We Learn
3)10:00-10:30 Bihong Fu: Spatial Information Technology Empowers the Conservation and Sustainable Development of the UNESCO-Designated Heritage Sites
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1)10:50-11:30----Closing remarks and Field Excursion Introduction
11:30-13:00 Lunch time
14:00 Close of the symposium; Departure for Field Excursion
