Programme - Cambridge 1982
Schedule of Events
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Monday 20th September
12:30-1:00
Registration at Sidney Sussex College
1:00
Lunch
2:00-2:30
Registration continued
Session: 1
Chair: K.A.Joysey
2:30-2:50
M J Collins*
Some comments on Didymaspis grindrodi
 
2:50:3:10
Alex Ritchie*
Placoderm Pylloleptida from Australia and Scotland
 
3:10-3:30
Lord Richard Percy*
The hepatic circulation in lampreys
 
3:30-3:55
John G Maisey*
A Carboniferous hybodont shark from Kansas
 
3:55-4:25
Tea
Session: 2
Chair: C. Patterson
4:25-4:50
T S Westoll*
Neuromasts, lateral lines and dermal bones
 
4:50-5:15
John A Long*
The Late Devonian freshwater fishes from Mt Howitt, Victoria, Australia
 
5:15-5:35
K A Joysey*
On the coelacanth air-bladder
 
5:35-6:00
J Griffith*
Sub-Holostean fishes from Monte san Giorgio
 
7:00-8:00
Dinner
8:00-10:00
Reception and Exhibits (University Museum of Zoology).
Tuesday 21st September
Session: 1
Chair: T.Westoll
9:00-9:25
Colin Patterson*
A marine Eocene ostariophysan fish
 
9:25-9:55
P Dullemeljer*
A holistic approach to the ecomorphology of Cichlid fishes of Lake Victoria
 
9:55-10:25
Garth Underwood*
Pragmatism and idealism in taxonomy
 
10:25-10:50
Timothy R. Smithson*
Eoherpeton watsoni: A notchless anthracosaur?
 
10:50-11:20
Coffee
Session: 2
Chair: A.L.Panchen
11:20-11:45
Andrew R Milner*
Branchiosaurs' and the testability of ontogenetic series
 
11:45-12:05
D G Senn*
Embryonic patterns in the CNS of some amphibians and lungfishes
 
12:05-12:25
Don T J Smith*
Do the modern sea turtles possess nasal or prefrental bones?
 
12:25-12:45
David S Brown*
Plesiosaur material from the Isle of Eigg
 
12:45-1:00
Ad'A Bellairs*, Susan E Evans
A triple tail regenerate in a gecko
 
1:00-2:00
Lunch
Session: 3
Chair: Bev Halstead
2:00-2:20
Nick C Fraser*
Problematical archosaurs from the Late Triassic
 
2:20-2:40
EM Northcote*
Some aspects of bird evolution
 
2:40-2:55
A Eastham*
Some Late Pleistocene birds
 
2:55-3:45
Sandra D Chapman*, Alan J Charig
Cataract blindness and dinosaur extinction
 
3:45-4:15
Coffee
Session: 4
Chair: A.J.Charig
4:15-4:40
David B Norman*
Wealden ornithopod dinosaurs
 
4:40-5:05
Eric Buffetaut*
New discoveries of fossil vertebrates in the Mesozoic of Thailand
 
5:05-5:30-6:00
Michael J Benton*
Location and conservation of British fossil reptile sites
 
5:30-6:00-7:00-9:00
R E H Reid*
Bone histology and endothermy: is there a case?
 
7:00-9:00
Symposium Dinner (Sidney Sussex College).
Wednesday 22nd September
Session: 1
Chair: C.B.Cox
9:00-9:30
Arthur R I Cruickshank*
The Permo-Triassic faunas of the Ruhuhu Valley, Tanzania and a stratigraphical puzzle solved
 
9:30-9:50
Bjarne Westergaard*
Evolution of the mammalian dentition ontogeny
 
9:50-10:20
(details missing)
10:20-10:50
Robert Presley*
The development of the mammalian auditory bulla
 
10:50-11:20
Coffee
Session: 2
Chair: K.A.Kermack
11:20-11:50
William Clemens*
Cretaceous-Tertiary transition from a terrestrial viewpoint
 
11:50-12:20
Richard T J Moody*
The vertebrate fauna of the Cretaceous-Tertiary strata of N.E. Mali
 
12:20-1:00
Percy M Butler*
Miocene African bats
 
1:00-2:00
Lunch
Session: 3
Chair: P.Butler
2:00-2:20
L J Flynn*
Palaeobiogeography of rhizomyid rodents and their dispersal from southern Asia to eastern Africa
 
2:20-2:40
J Bugge*
Cephalic arterial pattern in spiny pocket mice with special reference to their phylogenetic relationships and systematic position
 
2:40-3:00
R L E Ford*
Problems concerning broken but ankylosed limb bones of rodents from the Oligocene
 
3:00-3:30
A A Bosma*, A A Macdonald
A comparative anatomical study of the placenta in the Suina
 
3:30-3:55
Christine M. Janis*
Horn evolution in ruminants-an example of importance of fossils in phylogenetic reconstruction
 
3:55-4:25
Tea
Session: 4
Chair: D.Yalden
4:25-4:30
DA Hooijer*
A cryptic mastodont from the Pleistocene of Java
 
4:30-4:50
Lord Cranbrook*
Evidence for post-glacial diminution of Dicerorhinus sumatrensis
 
4:50-5:10
Alan W. Gentry*
The migration of Chalicotherium
 
5:10-5:35
Adrian M Lister*
The evolution of the Elk
 
5:35-6:00
K Scott*, A J Stuart
Vertebrates of the Last Cold Stage (Devensian) in Britain
 
7:00
Dinner
Thursday 23rd September
9:15-5:00
Field trip to Type Cromerian site, West Runton, Norfolk coast.