Programme - Belfast 1986
Schedule of Events
Monday 15th September
12:00-6:30
Registration in Queens Elms Halls of Residence
7:00
Dinner: Common Room
8:00
Video Programme. “Mr Wood's Fossils” and “King Kong's' Dinosaurs”
Tuesday 16th September
8:00-9:00
Breakfast: Common Room.
9:00-9:15
Introductory remarks: Professor A.D.Wright
Session: 1
Chair: Dr. A.L.Panchen
9:15-9:40
L B Halstead*
Calcified tissues in heterostracan agnathans:the nature of aspidin (3rd version)
9:40-9:55
Brian G Gardiner*
Dermal roofing bone patterns in Actinopterygians
9:55-10:20
Jennifer A Clack*
Devonian Tetrapods revisited
10:20-10:30
Eric Buffetaut*
Plans for the 1988 VPCA Symposium
10:30-11:00
Coffee
Session: 2
Chair: Professor B.G.Gardiner
11:00-11:30
Andrew R Milner*
Westphalian asphibian envIronments: did Coleridge get it right?
11:30-11:55
G Dickson*
Growth cartilage development in the proximal femur of the frogPans temporariaand the salamanderSalarandra salamandra
11:55-12:25
Michael J Benton*
The rhynchosaurPhynchosaurusfrom the Middle Triassic of England
12:25-2:00
Lunch:Common Room
Session: 3
Chair: Dr.A.R.I. Cruickshank
2:00-2:30
Susan E Evans*
The inter-relationships of the Permian gliding reptiles
2:30-3:00
Eric Buffetaut*, H Haubold
A new interpretation ofLongisguama, a peculiar reptile from the Triassic of Fergana (USSR)
3:00-3:30
David M Unwin*
Myths, models and measurements: some aspects of Pterosaur bones in cross-section
3:30-4:00
Tea
Session: 4
Chair: Dr. E. Buffetout
4:00-4:30
Alan J Charig*, Angela C Milner
A remarkable new theropod dinosaur from the Wealden of Surrey
4:30-4:50
R E H Reid*
Bone from the new Surrey Theropod: significance of zonal bone and an unusual rib structure
4:50-5:20
David B Norman*
Nopaca's Transylvanian dinosaurs
6:30-7:30
University Reception: Canada Rooms, Main Buildings.
7:30
Dinner: Common Room
Wednesday 16th September
8:00
Breakfast: Common Room
Session: 1
Chair: Professor J. Hopson
9:00-9:25
Arthur R I Cruickshank*
The quadrate region in dicynodonts, and the monophyly of the Therapsida
9:25-9:55
Gillian M King*
The origin of the dicynodont feeding system
9:55-10:15
Jean-Michel Mazin*
A dicynodont skull from the Upper Permian of Madagascar
10:15-10:45
Coffee
Session: 2
Chair: Dr. T.S. Kemp
10:45-11:10
J A Hopson*
Morphology and relationships of the Ictidosauria (Synapsida, Cynodontia)
11:10-11:35
Percy M Butler*
Docodon as a tribosphenic analogue
11:35-12:05
E Freeman*
Large-scale recovery of microvertebrates from sediment residues using an Interfacial Method
12:05-12:30
Nigel T. Monaghan*
Fossil vertebrate collections in the National Museum of Ireland
12:30-2:00
Lunch:Common Room
2:00-3:00
Visit to QUB Palaeoecology Laboratory, with demonstration of specimens and equipment (Dr. F. McCormick and others).
3:00-3:30
Tea
3:30-5:30
Special session - Mass Extinctions in Vertebrate History
7:30for8:00
Symposium Dinner: Common Room
Thursday 18th September
Session: 1
Chair: Mr.S.P.Wood
9:00-9:20
Henry Gee*
Ice Age bison from Wretton, Norfolk
9:20-9:50
A Kitchener*
The fighting behaviour of the Irish Elk
9:50-10:15
Haiyan Tong*
Review of the Pleistocene Rodents of China
10:15-11:00
Coffee
Session: 2
Chair: Professor W.A. Clemens
11:00-11:30
P Dullemeijer*
Mechanics of fossil tarsal cow bone
11:30-11:55
Leslie F Noé*
Thoughts on the bones of domestic animals
11:55-12:15
A El-Gadi*
Observations on the renal structure of a Algerian hedgehogErinaceus algericus
12:15-2:00
Lunch
Session: 3
Chair: Professor R.J.G. Savape
2:00-2:20
C Horner*
Cunningham revisited
2:20-2:45
Nick C Fraser*
Some problems associated with a disassociated assemblage
2:45-3:05
Jean-Jacques Jaeger*
Palaeontological evidence for the inaccuracy of the molecular clock
3:05-3:35
I Montgomery*
Structure and interspecific competition: what can extant faunas tell us about the past?
3:35-4:05
Tea
Session: 4
Chair: Dr.C. Patterson
4:05-4:30
Richard P S Jefferies*
The paraphyly of plesions
4:30-5:15
Tom S Kemp*
Are palaeontological scenarios proper science?
5:15-5:30
R E H Reid*
Concluding remarks
7:00-8:00
Dinner: Common Room
8:00
Reception: The Ulster Museum
Friday 19th September
8:00-8:45
Breakfast: Common Room
8:45-9:00
Minibus leaves for Dublin train
9:00
Coach leaves for Mammoth and Giant's Causeway Fieldtrip, returning to Belfast c. 6.00 p.m. It may be possible to stop at Aldergrove Airport about 5.30 p.m.
7:30
Dinner: Common Room
Saturday 20th September
8:00-8:40
Breakfast: Common Room
8:40
Minibus leaves for Dublin train
