A proceedings volume of the congress will be published and will be available to the attendants to the meeting.

The deadline for contributors to submit an abstract is May 1st, 2009. Abstracts should be submitted in its electronic format to this e‐mail: Aquesta adreça de correu electrònic està protegida contra robots de spam. Necessites activar JavaScript per a poder veure-la .

Author guidelines

The abstract should not exceed two pages (less than 1000 words, with references included). The main text should be written in Times New Roman at 11pp, double‐spaced and justified. Genera and species names must be in italics. The text must be preceded by the title, author(s) of the work and their affiliation(s) and contact address(es) using the following format:

Title: Must be in capital letters and centered and should not have more than 150 characters spaces included.
Author(s): Must be in lower case‐letters and centered.
Affiliation(s) and address(es): They should be numbered following authorship order and indicated next to the name of each author using a superindex. The center of affiliation and the address will be aligned to the left preceded by the number in brackets. Full postal addresses must be given for all authors. Next to the postal address the authors must include their contact e‐mail.
Example: (1) Institut Català de Paleontologia. C/ Escola Industrial, 23. 08201 Sabadell (Spain). Aquesta adreça de correu electrònic està protegida contra robots de spam. Necessites activar JavaScript per a poder veure-la
References: A reference list including all and only these references cited in the text must be included following the main text. Authors are encouraged to keep the references to a minimum. References must be prepared according to the following format:

1. Papers written by just one author [Ex. (Pérez, 2006)]; two authors [Ex. (Pérez & Martínez, 2006)]; three authors or more [Ex. (Pérez et al., 2006)].
2. References in the text should be arranged chronologically. The list of references should be arranged alphabetically by authors' names, and chronologically per author. If an author's name in the list is also mentioned with co‐authors, the following order should be used: Publications of the single author, arranged according to publication year ‐ publications of the same author with one co‐author, arranged according to publication year ‐ publications of the author with more than one co‐author, arranged according to publication year. If two publications of one author of the same year are to be listed they should be arranged according to citation in the text and the year should include correlative letters according to this order [Ex. (Pérez, 2006a) ; (Pérez, 2006b].
3. The following system should be used for arranging references in the reference list:
   1. Journal papers: Names and initials of all authors, year. Title of paper. Journal name (given in full or abbreviated using the International List of Periodical Title Word Abbreviations), volume number (issue number): first and last page numbers of the paper
   2. Monographs and books: Names and initials of all authors, year. Title of the monograph or book.
      Publisher, location of publisher.
   3. Edited volume papers: Names and initials of all authors, year. Title of the paper. Names and initials of the volume editors, title of the edited volume. Publisher, location of publisher, first and last page numbers of the paper.
   4. Conference proceedings papers: Names and initials of all authors, year. Title of the paper. Name of the conference. Publisher, location of publisher, first and last page numbers of the paper.
   5. Unpublished theses, reports, etc.: Names and initials of all authors, year. Title of the item. All other relevant information needed to identify the item (e.g., technical report, Ph.D. thesis, institute, etc.).

Figures: The author(s) may include one single figure, either a picture or graph. Black and white or grayscale figures should be sent in jpg. or tiff. format with a minimum resolution of 600 pp. Color figures are not allowed.
Tables: The author(s) may include one single table only if it is less than one page in length and the abstract does not contain any figure.