Programme - London 2005 - The Natural History Museum
Schedule of Events
SPPC
Tuesday 6th September
09:00
Registration at Natural History Museum Bronze gate entrance, Exhibition Road
Session: 1
Chair: Adrian M Doyle
09:30
Introduction by the Head of the Palaeontology Conservation Unit – Chris Collins.
09:35
Felicity Bolton*
The Blaschka Glass Models - The Conservation Issues
 
10:00
Leslie F Noé*
A Pliosaur Travels: The Transport and Packaging of a Unique Cretaceous Marine Reptile from Northern South America
 
10:25
Scott Moore-Fay*
And here's one I prepared earlier
 
10:50
Coffee
Session: 2
Chair: Lorraine Cornish
11:15
Nigel R Larkin*
A Life of Grime: Excavating 20th Century Deposits
 
11:40
Adrian M Doyle*
Preventive Conservation; barrier films, anoxia and fossils
 
12:05
Michaela Forthuber*
Lifesize Reconstruction of Longisquama insignis
 
12:30
Lorraine Cornish*
Cleaning Natural History Material with Lasers
 
12:55
Lunch
 
SPPC Afternoon session
02:00
SPPC tours to the PCU
03:30
Tea break
04:00
Close
SVPCA
Wednesday 7th September
09:00
Welcome and Introduction by Dr Richard Lane (Director of Science, NHM)
Session: 1
Chair: Per E. Ahlberg
09:10
Anderson
Biomechanics, evolution and ecomorphology of Late Devonian arthrodires from the Gogo Formation of western Australia
View
09:30
Coates
Gladbachus adentatus Heidtke and Kratschmer: an awkward addition to the set of early jawed fishes
View
09:50
Ralf Britz*, G David Johnson
Ontogeny and homology of the clavus of the Ocean Sunfishes (Molidae, Teleostei)
View
10:10
Ahlberg* et al.
The virtual Eusthenopteron: inside the head of a Devonian lobe-fin with CT
View
10:30
Coffee
11:20
Robinson
The middle ear of the early tetrapod Kyrinion martilli
View
11:40
Milner
Stegops, a problematic spiky-headed temnospondyl
View
12:00
Orangel Aguilera*, Jasmin D Winkler
Palaeobiology and diversity of the turtle fauna from the late Miocene Urumaco Formation in Venezuela
View
12:20
Lloyd
Problems of statistically recovering tetrapod extinction events (Late Permian - Early Jurassic)
View
12:40
Lunch
Session: 2
Chair: Andrew R. Milner
14:00
Renesto
Soft tissue preservation in Tanystropheus (Diapsida Protorosauria): palaeobiological implications
View
14:20
Lü Jun-Chang*
The Jehol Biota of China and its significance for the diversity, ecology and evolutionary history of pterosaurs
View
14:40
Steel
What can bone histology tell us about pterosaurs?
View
15:00
Fastnacht
The flying beams: what biomechanics tells us about pterosaur evolution
View
15:20
Matthew T Wilkinson*
Pterosaur wing shape, and its implications for flight
View
15:40
Tea
Session: 3
Chair: Michael J. Benton
16:10
Kear
Early Cretaceous high-latitude marine reptile assemblages from Australia
View
16:30
Franziska Grossmann*
Reconstructions of the cranial musculature in Liassic elasmosauroids
View
16:50
Dyke*, Dmitry V Malakhov
New vertebrate records from the Late Cretaceous of Kazakhstan
View
17:10
Vasileiadou
Taphonomic study of Late Eocene rodents (Mammalia) from the Isle of Wight (UK)
View
17:30
Session ends
17:45
Annual Auction and refreshments in Courtyard Rooms
Thursday 8th September
Session: 1
Chair: Angela C. Milner
09:10
Jones
Geometric morphometric analysis of the skull in Rhynchocephalia (Diapsida: Lepidosauria)
View
09:30
E Nicholas Arnold*
Lizard teeth and the role of shape, wear and corrosion in inferring diet and habitat
View
09:50
Evans
An Early Cretaceous lizard assemblage from Japan
View
10:10
Mazin
The Purbeckian crocodilians from Cherves-De-Cognac (Berriasian, southwestern France)
View
10:30
Coffee
Session: 2
Chair: Susan E. Evans
11:00
Gowert*, Sterling J Nesbitt
Progress in the morphology and systematics of rauisuchian archosaurian reptiles
View
11:20
Ruth
Walking on water, digging holes, or distant relatives: what affects the shape of the pelvis in lizards?
View
11:40
Sara Bertelli*, Luis M Chiappe
New records of fossil birds from the Early Eocene Fur Formation, Denmark
View
12:00
Annette Broschinski*, Nils Knötschke
New tridactyl dinosaur trackways from the Berriasian of Lower Saxony/Germany
View
12:20
Buffetaut
The dinosaur assemblage from the Khok Kruat Formation of Thailand: continuity and change in the Early Cretaceous of Southeast Asia
View
12:40
Lunch
Session: 3
Chair: David B. Norman
14:00
Benton
The discovery pattern of dinosaurs... and how many more species are to be found?
View
14:20
Butler
The phylogeny and evolutionary history of the ornithischian dinosaurs
View
14:40
Barrett
Small ornithischian dinosaurs from the Middle Jurassic of China: a re-appraisal
View
15:00
Naish
Eotyrannus: extreme makeover
View
15:20
Rayfield
Baryonyx walkeri: functional crocodile, theropod or something else?
View
15:40
Tea
Session: 4
Chair: Paul M. Barrett
16:10
Upchurch*, Zhao Xijin
Chinshakiangosaurus - a cheeky Chinese sauropod?
View
16:30
Taylor
Sweet seventy-five and never been kissed: the Natural History Museum's Tendaguru brachiosaur
View
16:50
Corfe
Clash of the titan(osaur)s - investigating sauropod phylogeny
View
17:10
Schwarz
Neck constructions and pneumaticity in sauropods
View
17:30
Session ends
17:40
Wine and poster reception, Flett Theatre Foyer
Friday 9th September
Session: 1
Chair: Tom Kemp
09:10
Gill
Kuehneotherium: unexpected taxonomic diversity in the Early Jurassic fissure fills of South Wales
View
09:30
Joane Pouech*
Mammals from Cherves-de-Cognac (Charente, France, Berriasian)
View
09:50
Hooker
The affinities of the insectivorous mammal Butselia
View
10:10
Robin M D Beck* et al.
The first comprehensive family-level supertree of extant placental mammals
View
10:30
Coffee
Session: 2
Chair: Marcelo Sánchez-Villagra
11:00
Catherine Badgley*
Faunal turnover of Neogene mammals from Pakistan
View
11:20
Goswami
Morphological integration, modularity, and the evolution of the mammalian skull
View
11:40
Cox
Structure of the mammalian orbit: correlations with masticatory musculature
View
12:00
Kupczik
Tooth root form and dietary specialisation in carnivores
View
12:20
Christiansen
Sabertooth characters in the clouded leopard
View
12:40
Lunch
Session: 3
Chair: Catherine Badgely
14:00
Weisbecker
Evidence at hand: implications of hand proportions for function, evolution and lifestyle in extant diprotodontian marsupials
View
14:20
Brewer
A new genus and species of primitive wombat from the Riversleigh World Heritage Property in northwestern Queensland, Australia
View
14:40
Sánchez-Villagra* et al.
On the phylogeny of talpid moles (Mammalia)
View
15:00
Asher
Island monophyly and the tenrecs of Madagascar
View
15:20
Erik R Seiffert*
Interrelationships of early primates and the origin of crown Strepsirrhini
View
15:40
Tea
Session: 4
Chair: Jeremy J. Hooker
16:10
Weston
'Hormone markers' and the ontogeny and evolution of the human face
View
16:30
Sandra A Martelli*, Paul O'Higgins
The lumbar spine of Gorilla gorilla, Pan troglodytes, Pongo pygmaeus and Homo sapiens sapiens reflects differences in function rather than phylogenetic background or inter-specific differences in body weight
View
16:50
Erfurt
Olseniidae: a new ungulate family from Central Asia
View
17:10
Hannah O'Regan*
The effects of captivity on the morphology of mammals
View
17:30
Polly
Adaptive zones and the pinniped ankle: a 3D quantitative analysis of carnivoran tarsal evolution
View
19:00
Reception in Marine Reptile Gallery of the Museum
19:45
Dinner around Diplodocus
Saturday 10th September
8:00
Meet outside NHM for Field Trip: London Clay, Isle of Sheppey led by Jerry Hooker
9:30
Field trip to Crystal Palace, and Down House led by Paul Barrett and Sandra Chapman
London 2005