Paleontology and stratigraphy of South America

摘要

This special issue of the Journal of South American Earth Sciences gathers contributions presented at the Third European Meeting on the Palaeontology and Stratigraphy of Latin America (EMPSLA), held in Toulouse on September 19-20, 2002. Forty-four participants from 15 countries (Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Venezuela) provided 37 extended abstracts that were published and distributed to the participants (Jaillard, 2002). The meeting itself comprised 23 presentations and 17 posters. Seven of these contributions appear in this special issue of the Journal of South American Earth Sciences.