Programme - Cambridge 1993 - University Museum of Zoology
Schedule of Events
Wednesday 15th September
9:00
Welcome to Symposium: K. A. Joysey
Taphonomy Preservation and Sediments
Session: 1
Chair: Michael J. Benton
9:10
Liz Cook*
The taphonomy of a Lower Cretaceous vertebrate-bearing clay horizon from Sussex
9:30
Paul G Davis*
The taphonomy of feathers
9:55
Michael King*
A reappraisal of some triassic vertebrate footprint forms
10:15
S Metcalf*
Vertebrate occurrences within marine carbonates of the Northern Cotswolds
10:35
David M Martill*
New finds in the Santana and Crato Formations of Brazil
10:45
Coffee
Testing and Using Phylogeny Reconstructions
Session: 2
Chair: K. A. Joysey
11:05
Michael J Benton*, Glenn W Storrs
Comparing cladistic phylogenies and stratigraphy
11:30
M Wilkinson*
Speciational evolution in Sceloporus, a critique of cladistic tests of the mode of evolution
12:00
Nicholas Arnold*
Investigating the tyranny of history: different origins of lizard sand-diving modifications
12:30
Per Erik Ahlberg*
Some thoughts on the sarcopterygian intracranial joint
13:00
Lunch
Palaeozoic Pisces
Session: 3
Chair: Moya M. Smith
14:00
Peter L Forey*
Recent and fossil agnatha: the dilemma of missing data
14:25
Philippe Janvier*
New information on the structure of galeaspids with remarks on thelodonts
14:40
Oleg Lebedev*
The morphology, evolution and relationships of the enigmatic Palaeozoic chondrichthyan groups, protacrodonts and orodonts
15:00
Tea
In honour of Alec Panchen, who retires this year.
Session: 4
Chair: Barry Cox
15:30
Michael I Coates*
The postcranial anatomy of Acanthostega gunnad
15:55
Jennifer A Clack*
Yet more on the stapes and braincase of Acanthostega gunnari
16:20
Andrew R Milner*, Sandra E K Sequeira
Where do temnospondyls begin?
16:45
Milner
Baryonx and Spinosaurus revisited
17:10
Session Ends
19:00
Reception and Exhibits, University Museum of Zoology
Thursday 16th September
Triassic Palaeoecologv
Session: 1
Chair: Andrew R. Milner
9:15
Gillian M King*
Palaeoecology of the Early triassic in South Africa
9:35
Axel Hungerbühler*
Phytosaurs - a clue to palaeoenvironmental reconstructions of the German Keuper Formation?
9:50
K Tschanz*
Vertebrates from the Prosanto Formation (Mid-triassic) of Switzerland
10:10
M Shiskin*
A find of Gonwanan rhytidosteid (Amphibia: Temnospondyli) in the triassic of the Cis-Urals
10:35
Silvio Renesto*
Palaeoecology and mode of life of the armoured placodont Psephodenna alpinum Meyer.
10:45
Coffee
Biomechanics
Session: 2
Chair: Derek Yalden
11:20
Bernd Herkner, Eberhard ‘Dino’ Frey*
High Walk - two constructions, two ways: I - the synapsid principle
11:40
Bernd Herkner, Eberhard ‘Dino’ Frey*
High Walk - two constructions, two ways: II- the archosaurian principle
12:00
Natasha N Bakhurina* et al.
The pterosaur flight apparatus: structure, function and evolutionary significance
12:30
Theagarten Lingham-Soliar*
New perspectives in plesiosaur locomotion
13:00
Lunch
Mesozoic Marina
Session: 3
Chair: Susan E. Evans
14:00
Stéphane Hua*, Michel Martin
A new complete skeleton of Machimosaurus mosae Sauvage & Leanard 1879
14:15
Glenn W Storrs*, Michael A Taylor
Anatomy of a plesiosaur skull from Street and its implications
14:35
Arthur R I Cruickshank*
A Lower Cretaceous pliosaurid from South Africa rediscovered
14:55
Makoto Manabe*
Morphometry of ichthyosaurs
15:15
Natasha N Bakhurina*
Phobetoropter - a dsungaripterid pterosaur from the early Lower Cretaceous of Western Mongolia
15:40
Tea
Neontology Plus Palaeontology
Session: 4
Chair: Robert Presley
16:00
Richard P S Jefferies*
A morphogen model for the origin of asymmetry and bilateral symmetry in chordates
16:25
Colin Patterson*
The intermuscular system of teleost fishes
17:50
P Martin Sander*
The structural complexity of reptilian enamel: a survey
17:30
Session Ends
20:00
Evening Reception and reprint auction at the Sedgwick Museum.
Friday 17th September
Upper Jurassic Park
Session: 1
Chair: David B. Norman
9:10
Eric Buffetaut*
A Late Jurassic omithomimosaur from Thailand and the origin of ostrich dinosaurs
9:30
I Michelis*
A new Callovian vertebrate fauna from Northern Germany
9:45
Susan E Evans*
The Upper Jurassic lizard Euposaurus: a reassessment
10:15
Peter Griffiths*
The question of Compsognathus eggs
10:45
Coffee
Amniote Phylogeny
Session: 2
Chair: Angela C. Milner
11:15
Michael S.Y. Lee*
Pareiasaur paraphyly
11:45
Tim Hamley*, Tony R A Thulborn
Temporal fenestration and amniote phylogeny
12:10
David J Gower*
Morphology and relationships of the earliest archosaurs
12:30
Alan J Charig*
Scelidosaurus and its implications for dinosaurian synapomorphies, basal bipedality and monophyly
13:00
Lunch
Cenozoic Palaeoecology
Session: 3
Chair: Robert J. C. Savage
14:00
Norbert Micklich*
Scales, bones and other ways to be puzzled about Eocene fish
14:20
Nathalie Bardet*, David S Brown
Eretmosaurus rugosus (Plesiosauria) from the Sinemurian of England: the earliest elasmosaur
14:40
Paul Mazza*, Maico Rustioni
Eco-ethological influences on the primitive artiodactyls from the Miocene site of Scontone, National Park of Abruzzi, central Italy
15:00
Tea
Mammalian Phylogeny and History
Session: 4
Chair: Adrian E. Friday
15:30
Percy M Butler*
Haramyids: what were they? The bearing of tooth patterns on the origin of mammals
15:55
Pascal Chevret*
Morphological versus molecular phylogeny of murine rodents
16:45
Session Ends
Saturday 18th
9:30
Pick up Coach for excursion at New Museums Site.
17:30
Return from excursion to New Museums Site.
