Programme - Leicester 2004 - University of Leicester & New Walk Museum
Schedule of Events
SPPC
Monday 6th September
16:00
Registration for SPPC, Stamford Hall until 21:00
18:30
Evening Dinner, Beaumont Hall
20:00
Bar, Beaumont Hall
SVPCA
Tuesday 7thSeptember
10:00
SPPC Registration and Coffee, Geology Department
11:00
Adrian M Doyle*
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and Palaeontology
11:30
James Fletcher*
The split - V, assessing a new tool for palaeontological preparation
12:00
Tim J Fedak*
Improving consolidant effectiveness: A capillarity based method for evaluating and monitoring consolidant concentration
12:30
Lunch
14:00
Emily Hodgkinson* et al.
Curation history and mineralisation of highly degraded pyrite fossil collection
14:30
Sandra D Chapman*, David Gray
The History and Preparation of the Enigmatic Dinosaur ,Hylaeosaurus armatus. BMNH R 3375
15:00
Sarah Finney*, Leslie F Noé
The dismantling and cleaning of the Sedgwick Museum's Iguanodon
15:30
Discussion on the preparation of a new vertebrate specimen from Somerset
16:00
Tea
16:30
SVPCA Registration, Stamford Hall until 21:00
18:30
Evening Dinner, Beaumont Hall
20:00
Informal "ice breaker" talks, Vertebrate Palaeontology in Exciting Places:
Paul Barrett
Mark Purnell
21:00
Bar in Stamford Hall
Wednesday 8thSeptember
08:45
SVPCA Registration, Bennett Building
09:00
Welcome
09:30
David Jones*, Peter von Bitter
The shape of a species: morphometric analysis of the conodont skeleton
09:50
Mark A Purnell*
The problem of stem group vertebrates and the evolution of the vertebrate body plan
10:30
Coffee, Late Registration
11:00
Lionel Cavin*, Peter L Forey
Long-term sea temperature variations control Cretaceous fish diversity
11:20
David Baines* et al.
Tooth microwear as a tool for investigating the trophic ecology of fossil fishes: an experimental analysis of sticklebacks
11:40
Clement
A Famennian vertebrate assemblage from Belgium: How different from the East Greenland?
12:40
Lunch
14:20
Evans*, Pasquale Raia
Chometokadmon and the early Cretaceous lizard assemblage of Pietraroia, Italy
14:40
Head
Geometric morphometric analysis of taxonomy and phylogeny in recent and fossil snakes: examples from the Hampshire basin
15:00
Arnold
The varying lability of morphological traits: recognition, causes and consequences
15:20
Tea
15:50
Barrett
The `Extant Phylogenetic Bracket' (EPB): a panacea for palaeobiological reconstruction?
16:30
Rebecca Smith*
The description of a new steneosaur specimen, and the diversity and ecology of Steneosaurus from the Yorkshire Lias
16:50
Reception and Poster session, Bennett Building
18:30
Evening Dinner, Beaumont Hall
20:00
Annual Auction, Stamford Hall
Thursday 9th September
09:10
Leslie F Noé*
The rôle of the plesiosaurian neck: an integrated approach
10:10
Grossmann
The taxonomic and phylogenetic position of the plesiosauroidea from the Posidonian shale of southwest Germany
10:30
Coffee
11:00
Jean-Paul Billon-Bruyat*
A new coastal reptilian fauna from the Kimmeridgian of northwestern Switzerland
11:20
David M Unwin*
The principal attributes of pterosaur reproductive biology: oviparity, hyperprecociality and slow growth
11:40
Hutt
A new look at Baryonyx walkeri (Charig and Milner, 1986) based upon a recent fossil find from the Wealden
12:40
Lunch
14:00
Michael P Taylor*
A survey of dinosaur diversity by clade, age, country and year of description
14:40
Darren Naish*
So... what is Yaverlandia?
15:00
Schwartz
Reconstructions of air-sac systems and musculature in the neck of Diplodocus (Sauropodomorpha)
15:20
Kristian Remes*
The Tendaguru sauropod "Barosaurus" africanus and the palaeobiogeography of diplodocid sauropods
15:40
Tea
16:30
Fedak
Ontogeny issues among sauropodomorph dinosaurs and new specimens from the earliest Jurassic
16:50
Oliver Wings*
The distribution of gastroliths in dinosaurs, including birds, and the implications for gastrolith function
18:00
Reception, New Walk Museum
19:45
Evening Dinner, Beaumont Hall
Friday 10th September
09:10
David M Unwin*
The principal attributes of pterosaur reproductive biology: oviparity, hyperprecociality and slow growth
09:30
Michael J Benton* et al.
Ecosystem remodelling among vertebrates at the Permo-Triassic boundary in Russia
09:50
Steven C Sweetman*
Faunal diversity in a British Early Cretaceous (Barremian) ecosystem
10:10
Daniel Ackermann* et al.
3D models of an Ancient Environment - the Eocene Geiseltal as a case study
10:30
Coffee
11:00
Norman MacLeod* et al.
Darwin versus The Matrix: does artificial intelligence have a place in vertebrate palaeontology?
11:20
Calum Adams*, Carol A Hopkins
A new dicynodont from the Upper Permian (Tartarian) of northern Scotland
12:00
Kemp
Phylogeny of therapsids: learning from the molecules, or can morphology ever get it right?
12:20
Robert Presley*
Does Meckel rest easily in his groove?
12:40
Lunch
14:00
Corfe* et al.
Tritylodontid remains from Olgahain, southern Germany, and worldwide relationships of the genus Oligokyphus
14:20
Marcelo R Sanchez Villagra*, Vera Weisbecker
Carpal anatomy of diprotodontian marsupials: systematic and functional aspects
14:40
Marcelo R Sanchez Villagra*
Postcranial development and the marsupial-placental dichotomy
15:00
Arnold
The varying lability of morphological traits: recognition, causes and consequences
15:40
Tea
16:10
K Christopher Beard* et al.
A new assemblage of dichobunid artiodactyls from Shanghuang (middle Eocene, Eastern China): implications in the emergence of the selenodont grade in Asia
16:30
Jose M Carretero* et al.
Computed tomography and 3D reconstruction of the braincase of the first European spotted hyaena
16:50
Hooker
A new primate from the English Early Eocene: implications for intercontinental dispersal
17:10
Pietro Liò*, Eleanor M Weston
Ontogeny of cranial sexual dimorphism in Homo sapiens: implications for hypotheses of sexual selection
17:30
Close
19:15
Pre-Dinner Drinks, Beaumont Hall
20:00
Symposium Dinner, Beaumont Hall
Saturday 11th September
09:00
Coach leaves Stamford Hall for field excursion
Field excursion to Toarcian of East Leicestershire (times approximate)
09:30
Arrive Tilton Cutting
12:00
Lunch
14:15
Arrive Holwell
17:30
Drop off at Leicester Rail Station
17:45
Return to Stamford Hall
18:45
Evening Dinner, Beaumont Hall
