Programme - York 2001 - The Yorkshire Museum
Schedule of Events
Monday 3rd September
11:15
Welcome by Sandra Bickrell, Head of York Museums
Session: 1
Chair: Phil Manning
11:20
Patricio Dominguez-Alonso*, Richard P S Jefferies
The origin of the hemichordates?
11:40
Patricio Dominguez-Alonso*, Richard P S Jefferies
CAT evidence of gill slits in the mitrate Jaekelocerpus
12:00
Sergey Moloshnikov*
Morphological and functional aspects of antiarchs (Devonian placoderms)
12:00
Lunch at local hostelries
Session: 2
Chair: Leslie Noè
14:00
David M Unwin*
Giant pterosaurs, and how to grow them
14:20
Matthew T Wilkinson*
Gliding performance of Cretaceous pterosaurs
14:40
Michael J Benton*
Erpetosuchus from the Late Triassic of Elgin, and the origin of crocodiles
15:00
Tea and posters
Session: 3
Chair: Mike Benton
15:30
Eric Buffetaut* et al.
New semionotiform fishes from the Late Jurassic - Early Cretaceous of Thailand
15:50
Leslie F Noé, Jeff J Liston*
Leedsichthys -the world's biggest fish - or just another that got away?
16:10
Jennifer A Clack*
Early tetrapod phylogeny gets two fingers from the Tournaisian
Tuesday 4th September
09:55
Notices
Session: 1
Chair: Dick Jefferies
10:00
Henning Blom*
New light on diversity and distribution of Ichthyostega
10:20
Garth Underwood*
The oral glands of snakes
10:40
Sven Baszio*
Analysing complex structures: landmarks on snake vertebrae
11:00
Coffee and posters
Session: 2
Chair: Arthur Cruickshank
11:30
Ben Davies*
Pelycosaur limb posture
11:50
Paul Upchurch, Paul M Barrett*
Hidden dragon, crouching palaeontologist
12:10
Kenneth Carpenter*, Virginia Tidwell
Early Cretaceous sauropod faunas from the United States and England
12:30
Lunch at local hostelries
Session: 3
Chair: Paul Barrett
14:00
Stephen Hutt*
Building Dino Isle
14:20
Arthur R I Cruickshank*, Norton Hiller
New light on old New Zealand elasmosaurs
14:40
Leslie F Noé*
Reconstruction of the Callovian pliosaur Simolestes vorax
15:00
Tea and posters
Wednesday 5th September
Thursday 6 September
SPPC
9:00
Welcome
Session: 1
Chair: David Gray
9:10
Adrian M Doyle*
Relative humidity induced physical responses in fossil material (might bring a small demonstration)
9:30
Steve Etches*
The amateur's perspective
10:10
Jeff J Liston*
Caught short in the field - emergency field techniques for the unprepared
10:30
Morning coffee & posters
11:00
Discussion on the future of SPPC chaired by Phil Manning
11:30
Michaela Forthuber*
Workshop: Colouring casts with powder pigments
12:30
Lunch
Session: 2
Chair: Adrian Doyle
13:30
David Gray*
Liopleurodon and pyrite; a case study
13:50
Stephen Hutt*
Exhibiting techniques
14:50
Afternoon tea & posters
17:00
Coach leaves Museum for James College
19:00
Coach leaves James College for St William College and Symposium Dinner
23:00
Coach leaves St William College for James College
15:30
Visit the Yorkshire Museum Collections and the two displays Walking with Dinosaurs and The Upright Ape
09:55
Notices
Session: 3
Chair: Jenny Clack
10:00
Mark Evans*, Leslie F Noé
Polyptychodon - a British Cretaceous pliosaur
10:20
Will Watts*
Ichthyosaurs of the Yorkshire coast
10:40
Chris McGowan*
A new and complete skeleton of Excalibosaurus from the Lower Lias of Somerset
11:00
Coffee and view auction goods
11:30
Auction conducted by David Brown, assisted by Leslie Noè;
12:30
Lunch at local hostelries
Session: 4
Chair: David Brown
14:00
Neil D L Clark*
Triassic tracks from the Isle of Arran, Scotland
14:20
Phillip L Manning*
Jurassic and Cretaceous tracks; formation, preservation and interpretation
14:40
Forrest
A new Portlandian marine vertebrate locality in north Lincolnshire
15:00
Tea and posters
Session: 5
Chair: Neil Clark
15:30
Pamela Gill*
An update on the Mesozoic Mammal Kuehneotherium
15:50
Hannah O'Regan*
Panthera gombaszoegensis, understanding a Pleistocene cat
16:10
Bent E Lindow*
The trouble with cetotheres - a contribution to the study of baleen whale interrelationships
