Programme - Newcastle upon Tyne 1995 - The Dental School, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Schedule of Events
Tuesday 19th September
14:00-17:00
Registration at the Dental/Medical Schools Entrance.
17:30-19:00
Registration at Castle Leazes Halls (Main Entrance).
18:00-20:00
Dinner (Castle Leazes)
21:00 onwards
Preliminary Evening in Havelock Bar, Castle Leazes Two exciting tales of vertebrate fossil discoveries:
Eberhard ‘Dino’ Frey*, David M Martill
A wild pterosaur chase through the streets of Amman
Alex Ritchie*
Sudden death in the Devonian: recent discoveries in New South Wales
Wednesday 20th September
09:00
Welcome. (Prof. John Murray, Dean of Dentistry)
Session: 1
Chair: Dr.Per Ahlberg
09:10
Susan Turner*
Hunting the elusive fish bits (Palaeozoic fish microfossils in the UK)
09:30
Christopher J Duffin*
Reworked Carboniferous fossils in Triassic palaeokarst.
09:50
Detlev Thies*
Upper Jurassic microvertebrate remains from Europe
10:05
Ivan Sansom*, Moya Meredith Smith
The Harding Sandstone revisited: a new look at some old bones
10:25
Coffee. Examination of posters.
10:30
Registration for late arrivals: Dental/Medical Schools Entrance
Session: 2
Chair: Dr. Jenny Clack
10:55
Per Erik Ahlberg*
New Devonian sarcopterygians from Australia and Latvia
11:15
Stan Wood*
Carboniferous fishes from Mumbie quarry, Dumfriesshire, Scotland
11:35
Michael I Coates*
The rear end of Acanthostega and other devonian tetrapods
11:55
Sandra E K Sequeira*
Isodectes and the Saurerpetontidae a review
12:15
Franz-Josef Lindemann*
The ontogeny of the early Triassic temnospondyl Aphaneramma rostratum (Amphibia) from Spitzbergen
12:35
Lunch
13:55
43rd SVPCA Group Photograph. Assemble on the steps outside the Dental School Entrance.
Session: 3
Chair: Dr. Alec Panchen
14:10
Wolfgang Kathe*
Comparative anatomy and functional morphology of bone overlap in the skull roof of temnospondylous amphibians
14:03
Robert R. Reisz*
Dental and mandibular pathology in Labidosaurus, a palaeozoic reptile from North America
14:45
Jean-Noel Martinez*
Using parsimony in biochronology: a test for the evolutionary lineages
15:00
Michael J Benton*
The nonprevalence of competition in tetrapod evolution
15:20
David J Gower*
Homoplasy and basal archosaur phylogeny
15:40
Tea. Examination of posters.
Session: 4
Chair: Dr. Eric Buffetaut
16:10
Alan J Charig*
Dinosaur monophyly: subjective, unproven and unlikely.
16:30
David B Norman*
New Mongolian ornithopod dinosaurs
16:50
Paul M Barrett*
Paradigms, prosauropods and iguanas: deducing diet from tooth morphology.
17:10
Paul Upchurch, Paul M Barrett*
Sauropod feeding mechanisms - their bearing on palaeoecology
17:30
Session ends
18:35-18:50
Coach departs from Castle Leazes for Newcastle Civic Centre. (1 coach makes 2 runs.)
19:00
Civic Reception. The Lord Mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne, and the Lady Mayoress.
20:00
Hancock Museum Buffet Reception. Sponsored by the University of Newcastle. (A short walk across the road from the Civic Centre.)
22:45,23:00
Coach departs from Hancock Museum for return to Castle Leazes. (1 coach makes 2 runs.)
Thursday 21st September
Session: 1
Chair: Dr. David Norman
09:00
J R Bolt* et al.
Paleozoic Preserve: a World Wide Web site for interactive systematic data
09:20
Jean Le Loeuff*
Armoured titanosaurids from Southern France
09:35
Laura Canning*
British theropod dinosaurs: the Megalosaurus problem
09:55
Hans-Dieter Sues*
A North American oviraptorosaurian dinosaur
10:10
Eberhard ‘Dino’ Frey*, Hans-Dieter Sues
The flight of the Coelurosauravus
10:30
Coffee. Examination of posters and exhibits
Session: 2
Chair: Dr. Susan Evans
11:00
Peter Griffiths*
The Berlin Archaeopteryx feather
11:20
Torsten Rossmann*
Why serrated teeth - why not?
11:40
Jane B Clarke*
Positively destructive: case studies in palaeohistology
12:00
Plenary discussion (leader: Bob Savage): the future of Symposia of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy.
12:20
Lunch
13:50
VIDEO (Theatre A): Excavations in the Upper Cretaceous of Southern France. Presented by Eric Buffetaut (Paris).
Session: 3
Chair: Dr. David Martill
14:15
Eric Buffetaut*
Dinosaur eggs from tile Upper Cretaceous of southern France: were they all laid by dinosaurs?
14:35
Paul G Davis*
The bioerosion of bones
14:55
Liz Cook*
Preliminary report on the dinosaur taphonomy of the Cornet paleosol, Romania
15:15
Natasha N Bakhurina*
Taphonomy of pterosaurs from the Upper Jurassic of Karatau, Kazakhstan
15:35
Tea. Examination of posters and Exhibits
Session: 4
Chair: Dr. Angela Milner
16:05
David M Unwin*
Rhamphorhynchus: one species or five?
16:25
Eberhard ‘Dino’ Frey*, David M Martill
The hairy neck of pterosaurs.
16:45
Eberhard ‘Dino’ Frey*, David M Martill
A reappraisal of Arambourgiana: giant wings over Tethys
17:05
Session ends
18:25
Coaches depart from Castle Leazes for Dissington Hall, Northumberland. Arrival about 19.00 for 19.30: Symposium Dinner. Return to Castle Leazes about 23.00.
Friday 22nd September
Session: 1
Chair: Dr. Michael Benton
09:00
Michael Rauhe*
Systematic position of the Tertiary crocodile Diplocynodon
09:15
Daniel Grange*
Subaqueous behaviour of the Indo-Pacific crocodile Crocodylus porosus
09:30
Stéphane Hua*
Palaeoecology and biogeography of the Dryosauridae (Crocodylia, Mesosuchia)
09:50
Garth Underwood*
The snake genus Epicrates: analysis of mixed qualitative and quantitative data
10:10
Coffee, and view of auction.
10:40
Auction sale of reprints, models and VP memorabilia, in aid of the Jones-Fenleigh Fund.
Session: 2
Chair: Dr. Andrew Milner
11:20
Jackie Allen*
Prolacertiform relationships
11:40
Susan E Evans*
The Cretaceous lizards of Las Hoyas, Spain
12:00
Arthur R I Cruickshank*, K A Joysey
The dinosaur egg and embryo project
12:20
Lunch
13:50
VIDEO (Theatre A): Paleoworld 2: preview of Earthshakers. Presented by Michael Benton (Bristol).
Session: 3
Chair: Dr. Tom Kemp
14:20
Makoto Manabe*
In the shadow of dinosaurs: the Neocornian diapsid fauna from the Tetori Group, Japan
14:40
Nathalie Bardet*
The "Grand Animal Fossile des Carrières de Maastricht": two centuries of history revisited
14:55
Barry Cox*
The dicynodonts of the Karoo
15:15
Roger M H Smith*
Palaeobiology of Ductodon, a Late Permian dicynodont from the South African Karoo
15:35
Tea
Session: 4
Chair: Prof Bob Savage
16:05
Robert Presley*
The longitudinal chewing component in mammals
16:25
Cécile Blondel*
Evolution of ruminants from the Oligocene of Western Europe
16:40
Percy M Butler*
Artiodactyl premolars
17:00
Derek Yalden*
Dermoptera, Chiroptera and carpi
17:15
Session ends
18:00-19:30
Dinner (Castle Leazes)
Saturday 23rd September
FIELD EXCURSION to Mumbie Quarry, Durnfriesshire, Scodand:
09:20
Coach will depart from Castle Leazes.
The route across country follows Hadrians Wall, the former fortified northern frontier of the Roman Empire.
10:30
Visit Housesteads Roman Fort and Hadrians Wall.
11:45
Coach departs from Housesteads.
12:45
Arrive at Cross Keys Hotel (Canonbie, Dumfriesshire) for lunch.
14:00
Coach departs for short journey to Mumbie quarry.
15:30
Coach departs for return journey, and will call first at Newcastle Central Station: expected time of arrival 17.00.
18:00
Dinner in Castle Leazes for persons prebooked.
