Programme - Derby 1997 - University of Derby
Schedule of Events
SPPC
Monday 8th September
12:00-14:00
Registration (SPPC)
13:00-14:00
Refreshments
Session: 1
Chair: Eberhard ('Dino') Frey
14:00-14:10
Welcome by Dr Don Smith, University of Derby, symposium notices
14:10-16:30
Workshop :Model making for the next Millennium. Discussion and demonstration of techniques
16:00-18:00
Registration
18:30
SPPC Meal :Followed by an informal social evening in a local hostelry
SVPCA
Tuesday 9th September
10:00-11:00
Registration (SPPC)
Session: 1
Chair: John Martin
10:30
Symposium notices
10:40
Susanne Henßen*
Video and talk - the appeal of reproductions
11:10
Workshop :Moulding and Casting; problematic areas. Discussion and practical demonstrations of the problems and solutions related to fragile, salty or moist casting conditions
13:00-14:00
Refreshments and lunch
Session: 2
Chair: William Lindsay
14:40
Susanne Henßen*
Scymnognathus how a disarranged skeleton can be a 3D model
15:00
Steve Etches*
Collecting problems in the Kimmeridge Clay
15:20
Michaela Forthuber*
Modelling a damselfly at a scale of 201
15:40
Refreshments :Viewing of posters and exhibits
16:00
William Lindsay*
Cracking up
16:20
Glenys Wass*
Building a conservation database
16:40
Daniel Pemberton*
Setting up a collections database, the pros and cons of DIY
17:00
Close of Symposium
17:00-19:00
Registration
19:00
Onwards Expedition Extravaganza. :Exciting tales of vertebrate fossil discoveries, shared in the friendly atmosphere of one of Derby's historic public houses, the Peacock on Old Nottingham Road
Eric Buffetaut*
The delights of Thailand, fossils and much more!
Wednesday 10th September
9:10
Welcome :Dr John Thomas, Acting Dean, School of Environmental and Applied Sciences, University of Derby
Session: 1
Chair: Dr Angela Milner
9:20
Richard P S Jefferies*
The phylogenetic separation between chordates and echinoderms
9:50
Henry Gee*
The Romer's return - the theory of the somatico-visceral animal
10:10
Michel Martin*
A lesson in nomenclature the type of Ceratodus phillipsi Agassiz
10:30
Refreshments :Examination of posters and exhibits
Session: 2
Chair: Dr Richard Jefferies
10:50
Alex Ritchie*
A new phyllolepid (Arthrodira) from the Late Middle Devonian of New South Wales, Australia
11:10
Per Erik Ahlberg*
A primitive rhizodont from Australia
11:30
Jonathan E Jeffery*
Rhizodonts; big dead fish
11:50
Rebecca Hitchin*
Acentropizorus and the origination of neopterygians
12:10
45th SVPCA Group Photograph
12:30
Lunch
Session: 3
Chair: Dr Eric Buffetaut
14:10
Timothy R. Smithson*
When amphibians learned to walk with their ears
14:30
Jennifer A Clack*
A new taxon from the Visean of East Kirkton - reuniting long-lost relatives?
14:50
Ian Jenkins*
The evolution of sabre-toothed carnivory in the Permian: a functional approach
15:10
Gillian M King*
The 'Triassic' fossil Lystrosaurus from the Permian of Zambia
15:30
Refreshments :Examination of posters and exhibits
Session: 4
Chair: Dr David Norman
15:50
Michael J Benton*
Scleromochlus, and the radiation of derived archosaurs
16:10
Oliver W Rauhut*
The cranial anatomy and systematic position of Shuvosaurus, an unusual archosaur from the Upper Triassic of Texas
16:30
Eberhard ‘Dino’ Frey*, Steve Salisbury
Crocs, jam jars and evolutionary processes
16:50
Session ends
19:15for19:30
Civic Reception by his Worship the Mayor and the Lady Mayoress at the Derby City Museum and Art Gallery
20:00
Derby Museum: Buffet Reception
Thursday 11th September
Session: 1
Chair: Dr David Brown
9:10
Arthur R I Cruickshank*
Southern Hemisphere Plesiosaurs
9:30
Forrest
An Elasmosaur (?) from the Hettangian (?) of Nottinghamshire
9:50
Leslie F Noé*
Reinterpretation of the dental morphology of the Oxford Clay Pliosaurs and the implications for their classification
10:10
Refreshments :Examination of posters and exhibits
Session: 2
Chair: Dr Andrew Milner
10:30
Eberhard ‘Dino’ Frey*, David M Martill
Another big flying machine
10:50
David M Unwin*
Hind limb flinction in pterosaurs
11:10
Eberhard ‘Dino’ Frey*, David M Martill
Pterosaurs, head crests and impossible aeronauts
11:30
Michael Fastnacht*
The occurrence of Coloborhynchus (Pterosauria)
11:50
Jean-Michel Mazin*
The Pterosaur beach' of Crayssac (Southern France) New data about an unexpected diversity
Session: 3
Chair: Leslie Noé
12:10
Plenary session: SPPC/SVPCA - The way forward into the next century
12:40
Lunch
Session: 4
Chair: Dr Eberhard 'Dino' Frey
14:10
Eric Buffetaut*
Iguanodontid remains from the Lower Cretaceous of Thailand
14:30
David B Norman*
Evolution of iguanodontid ornithopods and the origin of hadrosaurs
14:50
Eric Buffetaut*
Hadrosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of the Adriatic coast near Trieste, Italy
15:10
Refreshments :Examination of posters and exhibits
Session: 5
Chair: Dr Arthur Cruickshank
15:30
Paul Upchurch*
Phylogenetic relationships of sauropod dinosaurs
15:50
Kent A Stevens*
Getting it straight Reconstructing the necks of Diplodocid dinosaurs
16:10
Paul M Barrett*
Dinosaur dental microwear; using the very small to describe the very large
16:30
Joanna Wright*
New dinosaur footprint site in the Purbeck Limestone Group, Dorset
16:50
Session ends
20:00
Symposium Dinner
Friday 12th September
Session: 1
Chair: Dr Michael Benton
9:10
Gordon Bell*
Evidence of intraspecific competition among Mosasaurus conodon from South Dakota
9:30
Fabiola Barahona*
Subfossil Lacertid lizards from the Canary Islands
9:50
Susan E Evans*, Makoto Manabe
Fossil reptiles from the Early Cretaceous Tetori Group, of Japan
10:10
Refreshments :Viewing of auction items
10:30
45th SVPCA Auction. :Sale of reprints, models and VP memorabilia, in aid of the Jones-Fenleigh Memorial Fund.
Auctioneer: David Brown
Session: 2
Chair: Dr Sue Evans
11:50
Bryony Green*
Palaeogene lizards from the Hampshire Basin - the final chapter?
12:10
Garth Underwood*
Burrowing asps and arteries
12:30
Caroline Northwood*
Coprolites from the Early Triassic Arcadia formation Queensland, Australia
12:50
Lunch
Session: 3
Chair: Prof Percy Butler
14:10
Paul G Davis*
Early birds catch the worm; the Mesozoic birds of East Asia
14:30
Marcel van Tuinen*
Ratite phylogeny and biogeography; fossils, anatomy and molecules
14:50
Stephane Peigné*
Some new materials of Feliformia (Mammalia, Carnivoria) from the Quercy fissures, France
15:10
Refreshments
Session: 4
Chair: Prof Bob Savage
15:30
Gilles Cuny*
Enamel ultrastructure of Rhaetic isolated teeth
15:50
Forrest
How to build a Plesiosaur
16:10
Liz Cook*
Taphonomy of a Lower Cretaceous Vertebrate Assemblage from Japan
16:30
Ian Jenkins*
Finite element analysis Anatomy for the 21St Century
16:50
Christopher J Duffin*
Saturdays field excursion, an overview
17:00
Symposium ends
