Programme - Edinburgh 1999 - National Museums of Scotland
Schedule of Events
Monday 6th September
16:00-20:00
Registration at Pollock Halls
SPPC
Tuesday 7th September
08:30-14:00
Registration at Education Centre, Royal Museum of Scotland Lothian Street entrance)
Session: 1
Chair: John Martin
0900-09:05
Welcome by Mark Shaw (Keeper of Geology and Zoology)
0905-09:30
V Carrió Lluesma*
The making ofBeginnings
09:30-09:55
Neil D L Clark*
CT and MRI of a mouldic fossil
0955-1020
Susanne Henßen*
Tapejara imperator, an incredible fossil skull, caused an even more incredible model
1020-1055
Adrian M Doyle*
Environment and microclimate
Coffee Break
Session: 2
Chair: E. Frey
11:20-11:45
Paul G Davis*
16 museums, 1 man and his computer
11:45-12:10
Michaela Forthuber*
Grasping the past
12:10-12:35
David Gray*
Jesmonite
Lunch Break
14:00
Meet at the door to the Tower, Museum of Scotland (W. end of Chambers Street, opposite Greyfriars Bobby statue), for a visit to Beginnings, the geology and wildlife gallery of the new Museum of Scotland, and/or a visit to Dynamic Earth, the new hightech v
16:00-20:00
Registration at Pollock Halls
20:30
Evening informal talk at Pollock Halls:J.A. Clack:Girls in Greenland
Wednesday 8th September
08:30-17:00
SVPCA registration, Education Centre/Lecture Theatre, Royal Museum
SVPCA
08:55-09:00
Welcome by Mark Jones (Director of the National Museums of Scotland)
Session: 1
Chair: P.E. Ahlberg
09:00-09:20
Richard P S Jefferies*
Peltocystis- the most primitive tunicate known
09:40-10:00
Robert K Carr*
Reanalysis ofHomostius
10:00-10:20
Alex Ritchie*
Australian Upper Devonian vertebrates
10:20-10:40
Ian Macadie*
New Zealand Lower Devonian vertebrates
Coffee Break
Session: 2
Chair: J. Clack
11:05-11:25
Zerina A Johansson*
Unusual sarcopterygian shoulder girdle from the late Devonian of Australia
11:25-11:40
Stan Wood*
Discovery of the largest known Palaeozoic elasmobranch
11:40-12:00
John G Maisey*
Malvinokaffric sharks
12:00-12:20
Eric Buffetaut* et al.
Freshwater hybodont sharks from the Cretaceous of Thailand
12:20-12:40
Keith S Thomson*
The choana inEusthenopteron, again
12:40-13:00
K Monsch*
Combining data of recent and fossil taxa in phylogenetic analyses: the story of scombroid fishes so far
Lunch Break
Session: 3
Chair: H-D. Sues
14:00-14:20
Sally Neininger*
Dermal bone from fish to tetrapods, what can it tell us?
14:20-14:40
Paul M Barrett*, Gillian M King
Evolution of the amniote jaw joint
14:40-15:00
Bernd Herkner*
Hydraulic stabilization of the vertebral column and the bracing systems of early tetrapods
15:00-15:20
Susan Turner*
Not supposed to be there - Lower Carboniferous tetrapod-bearing fauna in central Queensland
Tea Break
Session: 4
Chair: M.J. Benton
16:05-16:25
Neil D L Clark*
The Elgin marvel - Dicynodon
16:25-16:45
Ian Jenkins*
Evolutionary patterns in Permian carnivorous synapsids
16:45-17:05
Andrew R Milner*
A new reptile skull from the Middle Triassic otter Sandstone of Devon
17:05-17:25
B Blessed*
An Upper Triassic cave deposit: ancient cave taphonomy
17:25-17:45
Max C Langer*
Heterochrony and the evolution of rhynchosaur dentition
18:00-20:00
Reception in the new Museum of Scotland (next door to the Royal Museum). Drinks provided by NMS.
Thursday 9th September
Session: 1
Chair: A.C. Milner
09:00-09:20
Leslie F Noé*
"Tarlo's Contention" and its bearing on Kimmeridgian (Upper Jurassic) pliosaur taxonomy
09:20-09:40
David S Brown*
Hugh Miller's Plesiosaur from the Isle of Eigg
09:40-10:00
Oliver Rieppel*
The phylogeny and historical biogeography of cyamodontoid placodonts
10:00-10:20
Paul Mazza*, Maico Rustioni
Taphonomic analysis of Tapirus arvernensis remains from the Lower Vadarno (Tuscany, Central Italy)
10:20-10:40
Eberhard ‘Dino’ Frey*, David M Martill
The hind leg of a pterosaur
Coffee Break
Session: 2
Chair: D.S. Brown
11:00-11:20
M Wilkinson*
Pterosaur flight performance
11:20-11:40
David M Unwin*
Size matters:the case of the giant Spanish dragon
11:40-12:00
Michael Waldman*
A Middle Jurassic crocodile from the Isle of Skye
12:40-13:00
Arthur R I Cruickshank* et al.
In ovo tooth replacement in a therezinodontid dinosaur
Lunch Break
Session: 3
Chair: E. Buffetaut
14:00-14:20
Paul M Barrett*, Makoto Manabe
Dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous Tetori group of Central Japan
14:20-14:40
Jean-Paul Billon-Bruyat*
Theropod dinosaurs from the Late Jurassic lithographic limestones of Europe: an unexpected biodiversity revealed by Crayssac trackways Cfithonian, SW France)
14:40-15:00
Paul Upchurch*
The early stages of sauropodomorph evolution
15:00-15:20
Michael J Benton*
Thecodontosaurus and the evolution of prosauropod dinosaurs
Tea Break
Session: 4
Chair: J.G.Martin
15:45-16:05
Kent A Stevens*
Some principles underlying the design of sauropod necks
16:05-16:25
Donald M Henderson*
Biomechanics of walking theropod dinosaurs
16:25-16:45
Angela C Milner*
An update on spinosaurs
16:45-17:05
Eberhard ‘Dino’ Frey* et al.
Cranial structure of the theropod dinosaurIrritator challengeri
Conference Dinner. Coaches will leave Pollock Halls at 1900 to arrive 1930 at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, Edinburgh Zoo (it will stop at the Royal Museum steps on Chambers Street en route). Coaches will depart from the Zoo at 22.15.
Friday 10th September
Session: 1
Chair: P.M. Barrett
09:00-09:20
Emily J Rayfield*
Stress distribution within the skull of a biting Allosaurus fragitis
09:20-09:40
D Wharton*
Trends in the evolution of the brain and braincase in the Theropoda
0940-1000
Darren Naish*
A brief history of treeclinibing theropod dinosaurs
10:00-10:20
Gareth J Dyke*
Fossil birds from the London Clay
10:20-10:40
Paul F A Maderson*
A new approach to the problem of the evolutionary origin of feathers
10:40-11:00
Eric Buffetaut*
Birds of the same feather,GastornisandDiatryma
Coffee Break
11:35-11:40
Jeremy E Martin*
Update on the Jones-Fenleigh Fund
11:40-13:00
Sale by Brown's Auction House (Newcastle) - proceeds to the Jones-Fenleigh Fund
Lunch Break
Session: 2
Chair: A.R.I. Cruickshank
14:20-14:40
Stig. A Walsh*
A new Neogene marine avian assemblage from North Central Chile
14:40-15:00
Ewan Fordyce*
Oligocene squalodontid dolphins
15:00-15:20
Norihisa Inuzuka*
Comparative morphology of the primitive desmostyliansAshoroaandBehemotops
Tea Break
Session: 3
Chair: D. Yalden
15:40-16:00
Eleanor M Weston*
Ontogeny and the evolution of body size in hippos
16:00-16:20
Jörg Erfurt*
3-D reconstruction of artiodactyls and perissodactyls of the Eocene Geiseltal in Germany
16:20-16:40
Christine M. Janis*
Atmospheric carbon dioxide and the evolution of herbivorous mammals
16:40-17:00
P David Polly*
Skull ofViverravusand the early radiation of Carnivora
