The summary as well as detailed thematic sessions are listed and expanded below.
Please note that APC3 does not provide financial assistance to symposium or keynote speakers.
- TS1: The flourishing of the Tree of Life: evolutionary events during the Early Palaeozoic and their environmental context
- TS2: Palaeozoic marine communities and geochemistry as a tool for palaeoenvironment and palaeoclimate interpretation
- TS3: Evolutionary dynamics of reef ecosystems from past to present
- TS4: Marine microfossils and their implications
- TS5: Key innovations in Palaeozoic vertebrates: new evidence from Lagerstätte fossils, scanning technologies, evo–devo, and big data
- TS6: Biota and environments under the background of volcanism during the Palaeozoic–Mesozoic transition
- TS7: Triassic biotic and environmental events
- TS8: Evolution of Triassic tetrapods and establishment of modern–type ecosystem after end–Permian mass extinction
- TS9: New fossils inform on the temp and mode of the dinosaur–bird transition
- TS10: The evolution of flight in vertebrates
- TS11: Mesozoic and Cenozoic fish clades: the origin of modern ichthyofaunas
- TS12: Herpetofauna diversity in the Cenozoic of Asia and its relationships with tectonics, climate change, and human impacts
- TS13: Non–marine fossil–bearing formations in Asia and their correlations
- TS14: The floral diversity variation and palaeoenvironmental background across the terrestrial Triassic and Jurassic transition
- TS15: The evolution of Cenozoic plant diversity in Asia: patterns and driving factors
- TS16: Recent progress of fossil plant study
- TS17: Paleobionics: biomechanical and biomaterial factors in long–term evolution
- TS18: Studying the evolution through combined geochronology and palaeontology
- TS19: Molecular Palaeobiology: novel techniques for an emerging field
- TS20: Palaeontological and palaeoanthropological heritage as fundamentals for geopark development
- TS21: Open session
