Programme - Milton Keynes 1990 - The Open University
Schedule of Events
Monday 17th September 1990
15:30-18:00
Registration: Mitchell Hall, Cranfield
18:30-19:30
Dinner
20:00
Programme of videos from the OU Evolution Course, S365.
Tuesday 18th September 1990
7:45-8:45
Breakfast
Buses leave after breakfast from Mitchell Hall for The Open University.
9:00-10:00
Registration outside the OU Lecture Theatre
9:15-9:30
Welcome and introduction by Professor Geoff Brown, Head of Department
Session: 1
Chair: Dr. Peter Skelton
9:30-10:00
Richard P S Jefferies*
The origin of the tunicates
10:00-10:30
Philippe Janvier*
New Lower Devonian antiarchs from Vietnam
10:30-11:00
Coffee
Session: 2
Chair: Dr. Phillipe Janvier
11:00-11:30
Richard Cloutier*
Sarcopterygian interrelationships and the use of basal taxa
11:30-12:00*
Per Erik Ahlberg*
Jaws and feeding in porolepiforme fishes
12:00*-12:30
Paul Lambers*
The fish genus Gyrodus from Solnhofen
12:30-13:30
Cheese and Wine Reception and Lunch
Session: 3
Chair: Dr. Colin Patterson
13:30-14:00*
David M Martill*
Postmortem biommeralization
14:00*-14:30
Martha Richter*
Permian fishes from the Parana Basin of Brazil
14:30-15:00
Stan Wood*
A Scottish MORS site
15:00-15:30
Eberhard ‘Dino’ Frey*
Hic Messel hic Salta: Leptictidiums locomotion, a palaeonto - logical puzzle
15:30-16:00
Tea
Session: 4
Chair: Dr Per Ahlberg
16:00-16:30
M Wilkinson*
A radically divergent caecilian (Amphibia: Gymnophiona): anatomy and evolution
16:30-16:50
Christopher J Duffin*
A new neoselachian shark from Osteno (Lombardy)
16:50-17:30
Plenary session - D M Martill
Wednesday 19th September 1990
7:45-8:45
Breakfast
9:00
Buses leave for QU Campus
Session: 1
Chair: Mr Stan Wood
9:30*-10:00
Brian Boneham*
Dinosaur hunting in the Bathonian
10:00-10:30
David S Brown*, J Keen
Marine vertebrates from the Kellaways Sands of Lincolnshire
10:30-10:50
Coffee
Session: 2
Chair: Dr. Jenny Clack
10:50-11:30
Michael J Benton*
The causes of diversification of tetrapods
11:30-12:00
Eric Buffetaut*
Late Cretaceous titanosaurid graveyards of the Upper Aude Valley (S France)
12:00-12:45
Phillip L Manning*
New dinosaur finds from the Isle of Wight
12:45-14:00
Lunch
Session: 3
Chair: Professor Brian Gardner
14:00-14:30
Tony R A Thulbom*
New dinosaur tracks from Australia
14:30-15:30
Susan E Evans*, Andrew R Milner
The Upper Jurassic reptile Lisboasaurus estei revisited
15:30-16:00
Tea
Session: 4
Chair: Dr. Nick Frazer
16:00-16:30
Giovanni Pinna, Jean-Michel Mazin*
Palaeoecology of armoured placodonts
16:30-17:00
James R Lamb*
The functional morphology of the mosasaur middle ear
17:00-17:30
Arthur R I Cruickshank* et al.
Cat scans, pitot tubes and plesiosaurs
17:30-19:00
Buses leave for Mitchell Hall
19:00for19:30
Symposium dinner in Mitchell Hall
Thursday 20th September 1990
7:45-8:45
Breakfast
9:00
Buses leave for OU Campus
Session: 1
Chair: Dr. Arthur Cruickshank
9:30-10:00*
Gillian M King*
If Lystrosaurus did not swim, what did it do?
10:00*-10:30
David M Unwin*
A tangled tale of taxonomy and toothless pterosaurs: is Pteranodon a junior synonym of Ornithostoma?
10:30-11:00
Coffee
Session: 2
Chair: Dr. Mike Benton
11:00-11:30*
Natasha N Bakhurina*
New pterosaur remains from the continental early Lower Cretaceous of Central Mongolia
11:30*-12:00*
G Hazelhurst*
The flight characteristics of the pterosaurs
12:00*-12:30
G Chancellor*
A new specimen of Liopleurodon (Pliosauridae) from the Oxford Clay of England
12:30-14:00
Lunch
Session: 3
Chair: Dr. Tom Kemp
14:00-14:30
A Kitchener*
Adventures in Wonderland: what did the Dodo really look like?
14:30-15:00
Robert Presley*
Nerves and vessels on the primitive mammalian petrosal
15:00-15:30
J Gál*
Spinal biomechanics of aquatic and terrestrial mammals
15:30-16:00
L B Halstead*
The future of the Natural History Museum
16:00-16:20
Tea
Session: 4
Chair: Professor Bill Clemens
16:20-17:10
Percy M Butler*
Another look at the Jurassic mammal Amphitherium
17:10-17:30
C Cirot*
The postcranial skeleton of Amphicynodon, a primitive carnivore of the Lower Oligocene Quercy phosphorites
17:30
Buses return to Mitchell Hall
Friday 21st September 1990
9:00
Bus leaves for excursion
17:00
Buses return to Mitchell Hall via Milton Keynes Central Station
