Programme - Le Havre 1994
Schedule of Events
Tuesday, 20th September
1:00
Caroline Buttler*
The Evolution of Wales
2
Terry W Manning*
Embryonic dinosaurs and their importance
3
John G Martin*
Objects and Objectives
4
Katherine J Andrew*
Conservation of a giant Irish Elk skull and antlers for Kendle Museum, an award winning project
5
Richard J Twitchett*
Important sites in Western Canada
6
Eberhard ‘Dino’ Frey*, Susanne Henßen
Mounting the Rhynchosaurian Stenaulorhynchus or -The Correction of an Anatomical Disaster
7
Stephen Hutt*
Preparation for the people
8
Steve Etches*
Fishes of the Kimmeridge Clay
17:30
Visit of Le Havre Natural History Museum, conducted by Gerard Breton (followed by a reception in the Museum)
Wednesday, 21st September
Session: 1
Chair: John Maisey
9:00
Welcome to the 42nd VPCA Symposium.
9:10
Philippe Janvier*
First Devonian placoderm from the Indochina block.
9:30
Natasha Krupina*, Robert R. Reisz
The skull and tooth system construction of Orlovichthys limnatus, a a Late Devonian dipnoan from Russia
9:50
Michel Martin*
Tertiary lepidosirenids from Brazil
10:00
Bernd Herkner*
Crossopterygians fins - Function and evolution
10:30
Coffee
Session: 2
Chair: Philippe Janvier
11:00
Bruno Chanet*
New data concerning fossil Bothidae
11:20
John G Maisey*
Trophic organisation within Mesozoic fish communities
11:40
Gloria Arratia*, Antonio de la Peña-Zarzuelo
About a new esocoid from the Tertiary of Spain and its relationships
12:00
Paul Lambers*
Phylogeny of halecostomes and the tail anatomy of teleosts
12:20
Lunch
Session: 3
Chair: Jenny Clack
14:10
Christopher J Duffin*
Neoselachian sharks from Holzmaden
14:30
Igor V Novikov*, Michael A Shishkin
Relic anthracosaur amphibians in early Mesozoic of Eastern Europe
14:50
Susan E Evans*, Andrew R Milner
A metamorphosed salamander from the Lower Cretaceous of Las Hoyas, Spain
15.10
Liz Cook*
Experimental fluvial taphonomy
15.30
Michael J Benton*
Tetrapods of the Permo-Triassic of Eastern Europe
15.50
Coffee
Session: 4
Chair: Michael J. Benton
16.20
Gilles Cuny*
Effect of the Rhaetian transgression upon the faunal turnover at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary in France
16.40
Axel Hungerbühler*
Scavenging on a prosauropod carcass from the Upper Triassic of Germany
17:00
Adrian Hunt* et al.
Dinosaur tracks and sedimentary environments
17:20
end of session.
18:30
Reception at the City Hall.
Thursday, 22nd September 1994
Session: 1
Chair: David Brown
9:00
Joanna Wright*
Sedimentology, taphonomy and palaeoenvironments of the fossil trackways of the Newark Supergroup, North America
9:20
Michael King*
Triassic vertebrate footprints; new discoveries from north-west England
9:40
Pierre Hantzpergue* et al.
Discovery of probelmatic vertebrate foot-prints and tracks in the Tithonian of Quercy (France)
10:00
Nathalie Bardet*, Javier Pereda-Suberbiola
A marine turtle from the Upper Cretaceous of Touraine, France
10:20
Coffee and auction
Session: 2
Chair: Andrew Milner
11:30
Makoto Manabe*
Heterochrony in the evolution of the ichthyosaurs
12:10
Silvio Renesto*
Climbing reptiles from the Late Triassic of Northern Italy
12:30
Lunch
Session: 3
Chair: John Martin
14:10
Susan E Evans*
Lizards from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation of North America
14:30
Francisco Ortega, Angela D Buscalioni*
The rapid evolution of Lisboasaurus: from lizard to archosaur, new evidences from the Lower Cretaceous of Las Hoyas (Cuenca, Spain)
14:50
David J Gower*
The erythrosuchid tarsus - Morphology and phylogenetic implications
15.10
Stéphane Hua*
Morphofunctional analysis of living osteichthyans in palaeoecological reconstruction of Metriorhynchidae (Crocodylia, Thalattosuchia)
15.30
Daniel Grange*
Kimmeridgian (Upper Jurassic) metriorhynchid crocodiles from England
15.50
Coffee
Session: 4
Chair: Michel Martin
16.20
Justin B Delair*
Discoveries of British fossil "crocodiles" (genuine and false) to 1840, with remarks on the stratigraphical distribution of Goniopholis (paper read by E. Buffetaut)
16.40
Francisco Ortega*
On the palatal anatomy of crocodiles: the case of Notosuchus (Upper Cretaceous, Argentina)
17:00
Eberhard ‘Dino’ Frey*, David M Martill
The vertebrate palaeontology of the Crato Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Brazil)
17:30
Poster Session in Le Havre Museum.
20:00
Symposium Dinner (at Lycée Porte Océane).
Friday, 23rd September
Session: 1
Chair: Ella Hoch
9:00
Eric Buffetaut*
Theropod remains from the marine Jurassic of Normandy
9:20
Michael J Benton*, Michael A Taylor
The first dinosaur from Scotland: a ceratosaur from the Lower Jurassic of Skye
10:00
Stephen Hutt*, Penny Newbery
Excavating a sauropod dinosaur from the isle of Wight
10:20
Coffee
Session: 2
Chair: Gérard Breton
10:50
Terry W Manning*
Dinosaur embryo project: 1988-1994
11:10
Paul Upchurch, Paul M Barrett*
Dietary adaptations of Diplodocus
11:30
Altangerel Perle*, David M Unwin
Death by Zibar? a possible explanation for the "fighting dinosaurs" from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia
11:50
Richard J Twitchett*
Biology and ecology of the Wealden ornithopod Valdosazinis canaliculatus
12:10
Angela C Milner*
An ornithopod dinosaur from Antarctica and its implications for Cretaceous palaeobiogeography
12:30
Lunch
Session: 3
Chair: Angela Milner
14:30
Angela D Buscalioni* et al.
Multitoothed ornithomimosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain
14:50
Jean Le Loeuff*
French hadrosaurids
15.10
Remi Cousin*
Morphologie et morphometrie des coquilles doeufs de dinosaures du lieu de ponte de Rennes-le-Château (Aude)
15.30
Natasha N Bakhurina*, David M Unwin
Hair in pterosaurs: do they have it and what does it mean?
15.50
Coffee
Session: 4
Chair: R.J.G. Savage
16.20
Lucy Hillman*, David M Unwin
The taphonomy of Rhamphorhychus, a primitive, long-tailed pterosau rfrom the Upper Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone of Germany
16.40
Emmanuel Gheerbrant*
The mammalian faunule from Laño, Maastrichtian of Spanish Basque Country
17:00
Eliza Ross*, David M Unwin
How good is the fossil record of birds?
17:20
Anette Vedding Kristoffersen*
Reflections on the diversity and ecology of birds from the Paleocene/Eocene Fur Formation, Denmark
17:40
End of session
18:00
Workshop IGCP 328 (Palaeozoic microvertebrate biochronology and global marine - non-marine correlation) in Le Havre Museum.
Saturday, 24th September
Excursion
8:30
Departure of excursion to Jurassic and Cretaceous cliff sections at Cap de la Hève and the Vaches Noires at Villers-sur-Mer. Lunch (at 12.30) will be provided by the city of Villers. The coach will be back to Le Havre by 16.30.
In Normandy, the weather in September is unpredictable, and the outcrops may be very wet and muddy. Appropriate clothes and shoes are therefore strongly recommended.
