Programme - Portsmouth 2000 - University of Portsmouth
Schedule of Events
Tuesday 29th August
SPPC
09:00
Registration in Portland Building.
09:25
Welcome by Dr David Hughes (Head of School).
Session: 1
Chair: Dave Martill
09:30
Adrian M Doyle*
Managing a barrier film 'microclimate enclosure'
10:00
Michaela Forthuber*
Skeleton in the cupboard: using dermestid beetles for cleaning bones.
10:30
Tea/Coffee
Session: 2
Chair: John Martin
11:00
Sabine Gwosdek*, Eric Milsom
New technology to reveal the past
11:30
Juliet Hay*
Dinosaur trackways in Oxfordshire
12:00
John G Martin*
'Dodgy Fossils - the culture question'
12:30
Lunch
Session: 3
Chair: Dino Frey
14:00
Norbert Micklich*
Messel pit: Research excavations in a World Heritage Monument
14:30
Poster discussions
15:00
Tea/Coffee
15:30
Discussion: The future of the SPPC.
16:00
Posters
17:00
Lorraine Cornish*
Cleaning fossil material with Lasers
17:20
David Gray*
One solution to producing a replica of a large specimen on display in the Natural History Museum
SVPCA
17:00
Registration at Harry Law Halls of Residence.
20:00
Informal ice-breaker at Burnaby Building (3rd Floor).
Wednesday 30th August
08:30
Registration outside lecture theatre (Portland Building).
08:55
Welcome by Dr David Hughes, Head of SEEPS.
Session: 1
Chair: Dr David M. Unwin.
09:00
Gilles Cuny* et al.
The shark fauna from the Middle Triassic (Anisian) of North-Western Nevada
09:20
Peter L Forey*, Colin Patterson
Tomognathus - a Cretaceous rottweiler
09:40
Lionel Cavin* et al.
New data on Upper Cretaceous fishes from the Trieste-Komen Plateau (Slovenia)
10:00
Michael Gudo*
Evolutionary history of shoulder girdles: implications from engineering morphology
10:20
Tea/Coffee
Session: 2
Chair: Dr Peter Forey.
10:50
Michael I Coates* et al.
Embryonic heterochrony in tetrapod phylogeny
11:10
Robert R. Reisz*
Patterns of amniote diversification during the Late Palaeozoic
11:30
Marcello Ruta et al.
A reassessment of the tetrapod Caerorhachis bairdi from the Lower Carboniferous of Scotland
11:50
Ian Jenkins*
Gorgonopsid ecomorph niche filling after the P-Tr extinction by 'aeluromorph' moschorhinid therocephalians: a finite element approach
12:10
Lunch
Session: 3
Chair: Dr Eric Buffetaut
13:40
Robert Presley*
The current status of the Balfour-Goodrich head model.
14:00
Mark Evans*
The cheek of it: The skull of the plesiosaur Muraenosaurus.. .revisited
14:20
Leslie F Noé*
Pachycostasaurus dawni , a Callovian pliosaur (Reptilia, Sauropterygia): is the new genus a juvenile?
14:40
Forrest
Plesiosaur necks, service cores & statistics
15:00
Tea/Coffee
Session: 4
Chair: Mr John Martin.
15:30
Phillip L Manning*
New discoveries in the Yorkshire Jurassic
15:50
Makoto Manabe*, Elizabeth L Nicholls
A 23 m ichthyosaur from the Upper Triassic of Canada
16:10
Leslie F Noé, Jeff J Liston*
The Leeds diaspora: a new unity?
16:30
Mark A Purnell*
Patterns of tooth wear in aquatic vertebrates and the ecological and evolutionary implications
16:50
End
Thursday 31stAugust
Session: 1
Chair: Dr Angela Milner
09:00
Max C Langer*
Postcranial anatomy and the diagnosis of Dinosauria
09:20
Adam M Yates*
Wither Sauropoda? New data from a British 'Prosauropod'
09:40
Eric Buffetaut*
Triassic sauropods from Thailand
10:00
Kent A Stevens*
Digital models of joint articulation
10:20
Tea/Coffee
Session: 2
Chair: Dr Mark Purnell
10:50
Angela C Milner*
'Little and Large': theropods from the Purbeck
11:10
M J Barker* et al.
An enigmatic new coelurosaurian theropod from the Early Cretaceous of the Isle of Wight
11:30
Emily J Rayfield*
Muscles, mobility & jaws: more finite element analysis of theropod skulls
11:50
Donald M Henderson*
Show some backbone! Axial body mass distribution and differing supportstrategies in theropod and ornithopod dinosaurs.
12:10
Lunch
Session: 3
Chair: Professor Michael Benton.
13:40
Z Csiki* et al.
A new dinosaur from Transylvania
14:00
M J Collins* et al.
Stable isotopes and dinosaur physiology: Reassessing the data.
14:20
M J Barker* et al.
The dinosaur and the snail
14:40
Paul G Davis*
Fun with dinosaur fluff: Interpreting Mesozoic feathers
15:00
Tea/Coffee
Session: 4
Chair: Dr Susan Evans
15:30
David M Unwin*
Sharovipteryx: what can it tell us about the origin of pterosaurs
15:50
Marie-Celine Buchy* et al.
Pterosaurs, flying machines and the first living bottom deckers in the world
16:10
Lorna Steel, David M Martill*
Internal helical reinforcing of the pterosaur wing skeleton
16:30
Norbert Micklich*
Ancient Lake Messel: Death Trap or Cradle of Species?
16:50
End
20.00
Conference dinner at the Square Tower, Old Portsmouth.
Friday 1stSeptember
Session: 1
Chair: Dr Paul Barrett.
9:00
Gareth J Dyke*
Protornis and the concept of 'centres of origin' in Tertiary palaeornithology
09:20
Stig. A Walsh*
Big-chested birds- exciting new avian material from the Neogene of Chile
09:40
Emmanuel Fara*
The fossil record of Cretaceous vertebrates and the molecular challenge
10:00
Michael J Benton*
The PhyloCode - look out
10:20
Tea/Coffee
10:50
Brown's Auction House (Newcastle). All proceeds to The Jones-Fenleigh Fund
12:10
Lunch
Session: 2
Chair: Dr David Norman.
13:40
Susan E Evans*
The Lower Triassic 'lizard' Colubrifer : a reassessment
14:00
Paul M Barrett*, Jane B Clarke
A helodermatid-like lizard from the basal Cretaceous of England
14:20
Torsten Rossmann*
Short review of the Middle Eocene (MP 13) lacertilian fauna from the fossillagerstätte Geiseltal near Halle (Saale), Germany
14:40
Garth Underwood*
A history of snake retinas.
15:00
Tea/Coffee
Session: 3
Chair: Dr Paul Davis
15:30
Percy M Butler*
Another look at haramiyids
15:50
Marcelo R Sánchez-Villagra*
New fossils and morphological data in the study of the phylogenetic relationships of South American marsupials
16:10
Per Christiansen*
Speed and appendicular anatomy in mammals
16:30
Bethany Boisvert* et al.
Evolution of pacing locomotion in camelids
16:50
End
Saturday 2ndSeptember
09:00
Field excursion to the Isle of Wight.
