Programme - Bristol 1992 - University of Bristol
Schedule of Events
Tuesday 15th September
10:00
Coffee & Biscuits
10:30
William Lindsay*
Westlothiana: seeking evidence for the earliest amniote
11:00
Chris Collins*
Helping with the jigsaw! How preparators can help conservators
11:30
Lorraine Cornish*
Rubbers, resins and replicating Baryonyx
12:00
Jane B Clarke*
Authigenic minerals within vertebrate fossils from the Wealden, Isle of WighL
12:30
Lunch
02:00
David Hill*
A review of preparation techniques used in the Geology Conservation Lab at Bristol Museurm
02:30
Caroline Buttler*
The conservation of the Sedgwick Museum Quaternary Hippopotamus skeleton
03:00
Coffee Break
03:30
Eberhard ‘Dino’ Frey*
Messel crocs - excavation, preparation and display
04:00
Richard J Twitchett*
Preparation of the A303 ophthalmosaur
04:15
David Hill*
Preparation, art or science?
Wednesday 16th September
Session: 1
Chair: Colin Patterson
09:00
Opening remarks and welcome from Professor R. S. J. Sparks
09:10
Richard P S Jefferies*
Developmental genetics and the calcichordates
09:30
Peter L Forey*
Agonies over agnathans
09:50
Robert Presley*
Fish head cavities and new views on head segmentation
10:10
John A Long*
New discoveries of Late Devonian fishes from Gogo, Western Australia
10:30
Susan Turner*
IGCP 328 workshop: international co-operation on Palaeozoic fish microremains
10:50
Coffee Break
Session: 2
Chair: Alec Panchen
11:10
Ervins Luksevics, Per Erik Ahlberg*
Ventastega curonica a new Devonian tetrapod from Latvia
11:30
Mark Willkinson*
Permutation tests of tetrapod phylogenies
11:50
Rainer R Schoch*
Ossification events in Permian branchiosaurs
12:10
Gilles Cuny*
Faunal turnover at the end of the triassic: French data
12:30
Glenn W Storrs*
Pachystropheus rhaeticus (?Neodiapsida, ?Choristodera) from southwest Britain
12:50
Lunch
Session: 3
Chair: Andrew Milner
02:00
Susan E Evans*
Solnhofen lizards revisited
2:00
Natasha N Bakhurina*
An unusual vertebrate fauna from the Karabastau Fm. Upper Jurassic) of Karatau, Kazakhstan
02:40
David M Unwin*
Pterosaur phylogeny and evolutionary history
03:00
Jeremy M V Rayner*
How simllar are modern and Mesozoic flying vertebrates?
03:20
Eberhard ‘Dino’ Frey*, Jürgen Riess
A lightweight in action - pterosaur's wing mechanics
03:40
Coffee Break
Session: 4
Chair: Tom Kemp
04:00
Tim Hamley*
Tails and tales of bipedal reptiIes
04:20
Michael J Simms*
Vertebrate preservation in Karst terrains
04:40
Michael Waldman*
Middle Jurassic vertebrates from the Isle of Skye
Thursday 17th September
Session: 1
Chair: Eric Buffetaut
09:00
D Charles Deeming*
Morphometric analysis of small ichthyosaurs- definitions of embryos
09:20
Axel Hungerbühler*
Early stages in ontogeny of the ichthyosaur Stenopterygius quadriscissus from the Lower Jurassic of Germany
09:40
Nathalie Bardet*
10:00
Chris McGowan*
Ichthyosaurs: new finds, new interpretations
10:20
Arthur R I Cruickshank*
A juvenile plesiosaur (Plesiosauria: Reptilia) from the Lower Lias (Hettangian: Lower Jurassic) of Lyme Regis, England: a plesiosauroid - pliosauroid intermediate?
10:40
Coffee Break
Session: 2
Chair: Angela Milner
11:00
David S Brown*
Cheek structure and anterior cervical vertebrae in the Plesiosauroidea
11:20
Michael A Taylor*
The plesiosaur’s birthplace: Bristol Museum and 19th century palaeontology
11:40
Peter R Crowther*
Recent developments at Bristol City Museum
12:00
John G Martin*
The art of palaeontological reconstruction - is it art? is it science?
12:20
David Scarboro*
A dinosaur footprint site from East Sussex
12:40
Lunch
2:00-6.00
Poster Session. Geology Dept., Wills Building
Special Feature : John Long video on Gogo fishes
2:00-5.00
Bristol City Museum, Geology Division - open for visitors
4:00-5.00
Auction - Geology Dept., Wills Building
6:30for7:00-10.00
Drinks and Conference Banquet - Bristol Zoo
Friday 18th September
Session: 1
Chair: Alan Charig
09:00
Theagarten Lingham-Soliar*
Bipedal dinosaur trackways in Chewore, northern Zimbabwe
09:20
Tony R A Thulborn*
Dinosaur polyphyly revisited
09:40
Eric Buffetaut*, Haiyan Tong
Buffetaut
10:00
Paul Upchurch*
Origin and evolution of sauropod dinosaurs
10:20
Sara Kinzett-Whitley*
0-60 mph suggestions on sauropod speeds
10:40
Coffee Break
Session: 2
Chair: Stan Wood
11:00
Niels Bonde*
Late triassic continental vertebrate fauna of East Greenland
11:20
Paul G Davis*
Taphonomy of birds
11:40
Brian G Gardiner*
Mammals and birds - sister groups?
12:00
J Macquaker*
Bone-beds as palaeoenvironmental indicators
12:20
Russell Savage*
The first mermaid
12:40
Lunch
Session: 3
Chair: Bob Savage
02:00
Pascal Tassy*
Early Miocene elephantoids, parsimony, and stratigraphical gaps
02:20
Véronique Bairiel*, Edith Cirot
The phylogeny of Aictoidea (Carnivora): comparison of some morphological and molecular data
02:40
Paul Mazza*, Maico Rustioni
The phylogeny of the genus Ursus in Eurasia
03:00
Jerry J Hooker*
The beginning of the equoid radiation
03:20
Augusto Azzaroli*
Forest Bed elks and giant deer revisited
03:40
Coffee Break
04:00
Omar J Liñares*
Late Miocene vertebrates from northwestern Venezuela: implication for the Orinoco River paleo-drainage
04:20
Jean-Louis Hartenberger* et al.
Eocene rodents from North Africa
Saturday 19th September
Field Excursion
09:00
trip to triassic and Jurassic localities around Bristol will depart from Manor Hall. We have booked a coach for the day. Lunch will be taken in a country pub en route.
