Programme - Leicester 1989 - University of Leicester
Schedule of Events
Monday 18th September
20:00
Social evening starts in upstairs meeting room in College Hall with an informal talk by Peter Forey, "The Comoran Test Case" (about Latimeria)
20:45 approx
social evening continues in bar
8:00
Breakfast
10:10-10:35
R J Aldridge*, Derek E G Briggs
Conodonts as chordates: the story so far
11:15-11:40
Coffee
14:00-14:25
Paul Lambers*
New fishes from Solnhofen, Germany, and Cerin, France
14:45-15:05
Norbert Micklich*
Percoid fishes of the Messel Oishale Formation
15:55-16:15
Keith S Thomson*
The biology of early lungfishes
16:35-17:05
Andrew R Milner*
Temnospondyl relationships and evolution: an overview
17:45
College Hall bar opens
19:45-21:15
Bus departs for County Council Reception at the New Walk Museum, with viewing of local vertebrate fossils
Session: 1
Chair: Dr. A. R. I Cruickshank - Tetrapod allsorts
9:35-9:55
Zhu Yanglong*
The first study of captorhinomorphs discovered in China
9:55-10:20
Gillian M King*
Was Lystrosaurus really aquatic?
11:10-11:30
Giovanni Pinna*
Ecology of armoured placodonts
12:20-12:40
Angela D Buscalioni*
The new specimen of Bernissartia fagesi from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain (Crocodylomorpha, Neosuchia)
14:00-14:25
A Chadwick*, A J Davis
The micro-architecture of plesiosaur ribs: what light does it show on how they swam?
Session: 2
Chair: Dr. G. M. King - Lungfish, mosasaurs and movies
15:40-16:05
Chang Mee-mann*
Diabolepis, a lungfish
16:05-16:25
Nathalie Bardet*
French mosasaurs $
16:25-16:50
Theagarten Lingham-Soliar*
The dynamics of mosasaur locomotion $
Thursday 21st September
Session: 1
Chair: Dr A. C. Milner - Dinosaurs (1)
11:45-12:05
D Charles Deeming*
Morphometric analysis of embryos of extant crocodilians: a means of studying 'embryonic' dinosaurs $
14:20-14:40
David M Unwin, David M Martill*
Extraordinary preservation of a pterosaur wing membrane from the Mid-Cretaceous of Brazil
15:00-15:25
Brian G Gardiner*
Mammals and birds revisited
Session: 2
Chair: Dr. T. S. Kemp - Mixtures and mammals
17:40
Bus returns to College Hall
17:45-19:45
Dinner
19:45
Bus departs for reception in University Department of Geology
Friday 22nd September
9:30-18:30
Excursion to Peterborough (leaders Dr. D. R. Chancellor and Dr. D.M. Martill) leaves from outside College Hall (see separate schedule).
Lunch in Fenland pub.
18:30
Dinner.
