7th International Palaeontological Congress – IPC7

You are warmly invited to attend the 7th International Palaeontological Congress (IPC7) in South Africa in 2026. This is the first time that this meeting will be held in Africa, and we are delighted to be hosting the meeting in Cape Town during our pleasant early summer season from 30 November to 3 December 2026.

The conference is open to any aspect of palaeontology, and we invite you to propose a symposium or themed session on any of the following topics, or on any other topic for which you think you would be able to attract speakers:

• Early Life: origin, and diversification;
• Palaeozoic seas;
• Evolution of trees and forests;
• Early animals;
• Tetrapod diversification;
• Therapsid diversification;
• Diversification of angiosperms;
• Rise of Archosauromorpha;
• The rise and diversification of nonavian dinosaurs;
• Evolution of birds;
• Palaeoneurology; Devonian stratigraphy, environments, and palaeontology;
• Cenozoic vertebrates;
• Extinctions; Ichnology;
• Continental Palaeoecology;
• IndigenousmKnowledge;
• Indigenous palaeontology;
• Evolution of the brain and nervous system;
• Palaeohistology of mineralised tissues;
• Hominin diversification;
• Palaeosciences to the wider public;
• Synchrotron imaging and 3D imaging;
• 3D Morphometrics;
• General palaeontology.

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