Programme - Cambridge 2002 - Sedgwick Museum & Dept. Earth Sciences, Cambridge University
Schedule of Events
SPPC
Monday 9th September
Preparation and Conservation in the University of Cambridge. An opportunity to see the purpose built conservation and preparation laboratories and storage areas in the 'Brighton Building'.
Tuesday 10th September
David Gray*
The preparation of a new Iguanodon found in Surrey
Nigel R Larkin*
Megafauna support versus adulteration
Michaela Forthuber*
A Virtual Tour of the Brunswick Museum
Break for lunch
Ian Macadie*
Preparation down under!
Elizabeth Biber*
My beautiful Laudrette - preparation with tensides
Vicen Carrio*, Suzie Stevenson
The making of the geology map of Scotland
Roberta Quevedo Montesdeoca*
What lies beneath the CAT scanner digital images? Part I. A technical procedure for finding and locating a hidden embryo in a dinosaur egg
Tuesday 10th September
Gardner Room, Emmanuel College Ice-breaker”. Talks and break-dancing by: Mike Taylor (RSM) and then Dave Martill (Portsmouth) and Jeff Liston (Glasgow).
SVPCA
Wednesday 11th September
David Norman: Welcome to Cambridge and SVPCA 50.
Session: 1
Chair: Dr Susan Evans
Jeff J Liston*
Leedsichthys: full frontal exposé
Jürgen Kriwet*
Late Cretaceous And Cenozoic fishes from the Southern Ocean
Norbert Micklich*
The fish fauna of Messel Pit: A nursery school?
Peter L Forey*
Response of ray-finned fishes during the breakup of Pangaea
Peter Bernstein*
The canalis communicans and the inner ear of Latimeria Chalumnae
Coffee break : Watson Gallery. (Baldwin’s Books)
Session: 2
Chair: Dr Alec Panchen
Ted Daeschler*
Tristichopterid sarcopterygians from the Catskill Formation in Eastern North America
Jillian Garvey*, Warren Turner
Taphonomy and palaeoecology of the Tournaisian fossil fish locality Near Mansfield, Victoria, Australia
Per Erik Ahlberg*
Ventastega curonica and the continuing problem of tetrapod phylogeny
Susan Turner*, Anne Warren
Australian stem tetrapod
Per Erik Ahlberg* et al.
Investigations on Ichthyostega: A uniquely specialised ear in a very early tetrapod
Lunch Break. (Baldwin’s Books)
Session: 3
Chair: Dr Jenny Clack
Marcello Ruta et al.
The Upper Carboniferous-Lower Permian tetrapod Utegenia and the amniote stem-group
Lauren Tucker*
The Late Carboniferous tetrapod ichnofauna of Alveley, South Shropshire
Andrew R Milner*, Sandra E K Sequeira
Branchiosaurs, larvae and metamorphosis
David J Gower*, Mark Wilkinson
The caecilian phallus : a systematic tool?
Tea Break (Baldwin’s Books : Last Chance!)
Session: 4
Chair: Dr Andrew Milner
Simon Harris*
Boiling down the turtle soup
Carmela Barbera* et al.
New specimens of Stereosternum tumidum (Mesosauria) and notes on its palaeoecology
Susan E Evans*
The early cretaceous fossil record of lizards
Tamsin Rothery*
An identity crisis for Acrosaurus frischmanni
Ian Corfe*, Laura K Saila
Questioning the tetrapod diversity of a Jurassic island, Glamorganshire
Pamela Gill, William Clemens*
Welsh fissure fauna diversity: how does Kuehneotherium fit in?
Social event: evening reception at the Sedgwick Museum : Refreshments (drinks and nibbles)
Thursday 12th September
Session: 1
Chair: Dr Garth Underwood
Jonathan Ablett*, David J Gower
Scale surface micro- ornamentation in some burrowing snakes
Inken Mueller-Towe*
Comparison of Jurassic crocodiles from Holzmaden (SW Germany)
David Allen*
Cladistic redescription of Terrestrisuchus and synonymy with Saltoposuchus
Sarah Sangster*
A functional interpretation of the hindlimb of Dimorphodon
Daniel Elvidge*, David M Unwin
Morphometrics, locomotor modules and the hindlimbs of pterosaurs
Coffee Break - Watson Gallery
Session: 2
Chair: Dr Angela Milner
Michael Fastnacht*
Thick bones in thin air: dsungaripterids in europe?
Richard G Bromley*, Jesper Milan
One foot, many tracks: Experiments with undertrack formation in layered cement
Brillon-Bruyat* et al.
The agility of theropod dinosaurs when turning: evidence from trackways from Crayssac, France
Kent A Stevens, Michael Parrish*
Rib angulation, scapulocoracoid position, and thoracic profiles in non-avian dinosaurs
Paul M Barrett*
Diet of the ostrich dinosaurs (ornithomimosauria)
Lunch Break
Session: 3
Chair: Dr Paul Upchurch
G Embery* et al.
Identification of proteinaceous material in the bone of the dinosaur Iguanodon
Darren Naish*
Palaeopathologies in Neovenator; Europe's largest sauropod and more late news from the Isle of Wight
Colette Cherry*
Bone histology of the primitive dinosaur Thecodontosaurus antiquus
Anusuya Chinsamy (Starck)*
Bone depositional rates of extinct and extant dinosaurs
Tea break
Poster Session - Watson Gallery
Brown's Auction House - Watson Gallery
Evening social event: reception in the Zoology Museum. Refreshments (drinks and nibbles)
Friday 13th September
Session: 1
Chair: Dr Paul Barrett
Adam M Yates*
The species taxonomy of the sauropodomorph dinosaurs from the Löwenstein Formation (Norian) of Germany
Keith Simmonds*, Kent A Stevens
Digital reconstruction of the forelimb of a juvenile diplodocid from the Isle of Wight
Eric Buffetaut*, Varavudh Suteethorn
Phuwiangosaurus and the relationships of the nemegtosaurid sauropods
Jeffrey A Wilson*
Evolution of neck elongation in sauropod dinosaurs
Jolyon C Parish*
The evolution and palaeobiology of the armoured dinosaurs (ornithischia: ankylosauria)
Coffee Break- Watson Gallery
Session: 2
Chair: Dr Arthur Cruickshank
Craig A Hunn*, Paul Upchurch
An analysis of dinosaur biogeography
Marco Signore*
Mantids and dinosaurs: learning to fly
Gareth J Dyke*
A new ornithurine bird from the Maastricht Formation of Belgium: was there a bottleneck in avian diversity at the end of the Cretaceous?
David M Waterhouse*
A new charadriiform bird from the Lower-Middle Eocene Green River Formation of Wyoming and its implications on the phylogeny of the order
Annette Mahon*
Truth and lies: estimating body size in mammals
Lunch Break
Session: 3
Chair: Dr Tom Kemp
Matt Allinson*
Gorgonopsian taxonomy and phylogeny
Percy M Butler*
Middle Jurassic forerunners of multituberculates
Robert J Asher* et al.
Discovery of continental mammals and other vertebrates of biogeographic significance in the Early Miocene of Venezuela
Hannah O'Regan*
Large carnivores and Quaternary refugia
Tea Break : Watson Gallery
Session: 4
Chair: Dr Anne Warren
Jean-Renaud Boisserie*
New hippopotamids from Chadian ancient hominid sites
Stig. A Walsh*
Taphonomy and genesis of the Neogene Bahia Inglesa Formation bonebed, Northern Chile
Fabrice Lihoreau*
New species of the genus Microbunodon (Mammalia: Artiodactyla) from the Miocene of Pakistan: a phylogenetical review
Virginie Bouetel*
Phylogenetic implications of skull structure and feeding behaviour in Balaenopterids (Cetacea: Mysticeti)
Eleanor M Weston*
Allometry and sexual dimorphism in primates
Mark Collard*, Danielle Serdoz
Reliability of craniodental morphology in hominid phylogenetics
Social event: Bar and banquet at Emmanuel College. Drinks in Emmanuel College gardens. Banquet in the Great Hall.
Saturday 14th September
Downing Street outside the Sedgwick Museum.
Field excursion by coach. Return at 4.00pm (via the rail station)/
