Programme - Glasgow 2007 - University of Glasgow IBLS/Hunterian Museum
Schedule of Events
Tuesday 28th August
SPPC morning session
10:00-12:00
Tours of new Hunterian and Kelvingrove Museum vertebrate palaeontological displays
 
John-Paul Sumner*
Creating the vertebrate palaeontological displays for the Kelvingrove Museum
 
12:00-13:00
Leslie F Noé*
Practical demonstration of historical glue-making, and implications for conservation
 
SPPC Talks
Session: 1
Chair: Richard Forrest
14:00-14:20
Etches
The rather naive idea of forming a museum on the Jurassic Coast
View
14:20-14:40
Forthuber
Fake Rock, Real Sand: The making of the exhibition 'Sahara - living desert'
View
14:40-15:00
Nigel R Larkin*
The virtual and physical preparation of the Collard Plesiosaur
View
15:00-15:30
Coffee
Session: 2
Chair: Leslie Noè
15:30-15:50
Matthews
Palaeontological preservation with 21st century documentation: using photogrammetry to produce highly detailed 3D image models
View
15:50-16:10
Howells
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: Preparation from the Wild West
View
16:10-16:30
Nicholls
Emergency remedial conservation of homeless Mammoth material
View
Evening
Icebreaker in Zoology Museum (including JFMF charity auction)
SVPCA Sessions
Wednesday 29th August
09:00-09:10
Welcome from Ewen Smith, Director of the Hunterian Museum
Session: 1
Chair: Jon Jeffery
09:10-09:30
Johanson
Segmental identity within the vertebral column: what can fossils tell us?
View
09:30-09:50
Kat Bifield*, Carina Marshall
Muscling in on placoderms
View
09:50-10:10
Carr*, Hervé Lelièvre
The contribution of placoderms to our understanding of the ontogeny and evolution of early gnathostomes
View
10:10-10:30
Emma-Louise Nicholls*
Using sharks as indicators of trophic structure within 'mid' Cretaceous watermasses
View
10:30-11:00
Coffee
Session: 2
Chair: Marcello Ruta
11:00-11:20
Friedman
New insights on the Upper Cretaceous pachycormid 'Protosphyraena' gladius (Actinopterygii: Teleostei) from North America
View
11:20-11:40
Jeffery
Hyomandibulae of Rhizodontids (Sarcopterygii, Stem-Tetrapoda)
View
11:40-12:00
Boisvert*, Catherine A Boisvert
The pectoral fin of the near-tetrapod Panderichthys rhombolepis
View
12:00-12:20
Noè
Tales from the 'Leeds Collection' - a unique palaeontological and archival resource
View
12:20-14:00
Group photograph, then break for lunch
Session: 3
Chair: Matt Friedman
14:00-14:20
Ruta
Calibrated diversity, tree topology and the mother of mass extinctions: the lesson of temnospondyls
View
14:20-14:40
Houssaye
Isolated bones versus articulated skeletons: the problem of parataxonomy in fossil squamates
View
14:40-15:00
Fielding
All at sea: Late Jurassic Testudines from Europe
View
15:00-15:20
Jones
Skull joints in Sphenodon and other Rhynchocephalia (Diapsida: Lepidosauria)
View
15:20-15:40
Coates*, Patrick Gavin
New discoveries from Bearsden: reassessing the early record of post-Devonian fishes
View
15:40-16:00
Coffee
Session: 4
Chair: Mark Evans
16:00-16:20
Young
A taxonomic tale: What exactly are Metriorhynchus and Geosaurus?
View
16:20-16:40
Reinaldo J Bertini*
The specialized dentition of derived notosuchians (Crurotarsi: Mesoeucrocodylia)
View
16:40-17:00
Benton* et al.
Mass extinction of tetrapods at the Permo-Triassic boundary in Russia
View
17:00-17:20
Ketchum
A new global phylogeny of Plesiosauria (Reptilia: Sauropterygia)
View
18:30
Lord Provost's Civic Reception (location map)
Thursday 30th August
Session: 1
Chair: Richard Forrest
08:30-08:50
Adam Stuart Smith*
A skeletal reconstruction of Rhomaleosaurus and the systematics of pliosaurs
View
08:50-09:10
Henderson
A nearly complete elasmosaur from the Late Cretaceous Bearpaw Formation of Alberta, Canada
View
09:10-09:30
Vincent
Osteological redescription, taxonomical and phylogenetical position of 'Plesiosaurus' macrocephalus, specimen NHM 49202, from the Lias of England
View
09:30-09:50
Evans
Processes and flanges: the evolution of the plesiosaur braincase and posterior palate
View
9:50-10:10
Coffee
Session: 2
Chair: Mike Coates
10:10-10:30
Unwin*, Lü Jungchang
Further evidence for a broad forewing in pterosaurs
View
10:30-10:50
David W E Hone*
Cope's Rule in Mesozoic archosaurs
View
10:50-11:10
Barrett* et al.
Mesozoic dinosaur diversity: taxic, phylogenetic and sampling approaches
View
11:10-11:30
Lahssen Baider* et al.
Vertebrate palaeontology of the Kem Kem Beds, Morocco and palaeoecology of North Africa
View
11:30-11:50
Fernandez*, Vincent Fernandez
3D imaging of enigmatic tiny eggs with embryos from the Lower Cretaceous of Thailand using phase contrast X-ray synchrotron microtomography
View
11:50-13:30
Lunch
Session: 3
Chair: Brent Breithaupt
13:30-13:50
Benson
Basal tyrannosauroids: a new theropod dinosaur from the Kimmeridge Clay (Late Jurassic: Tithonian) of Dorset, UK representing a large-bodied species of the North American genus Stokesosaurus
View
13:50-14:10
Naish
The large theropods Becklespinax and Valdoraptor from the Lower Cretaceous of England
View
14:10-14:30
Brusatte*, Stephen Hutt
Redescription of Neovenator salerii (Dinosauria: Theropoda) and its implications for theropod evolution and phylogeny
View
14:30-14:50
Sakamoto
Scaling bite force in predatory tetrapods: bite force is proportional to body mass2/3
View
14:50-15:10
Hübner
Dryosaurus lettowvorbecki - first results of a palaeobiological study
View
15:10-15:40
Coffee
15:40-16:30
Plenary on SVP 2009
Evening
Whisky-tasting with Dr. Jim Hansom at the Hunterian Museum, including a short introduction to William Hunter's fossil vertebrate collection.