Programme - Lyme Regis 2011 - Marine Theatre
Schedule of Events
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Monday 12th September
14:00-14:10
Welcome to the SPPC/GCG Conference
Session: 1
Chair: Mark Evans
14:10-14:30
Frank Osbæck*
Acid Preparation of a pond turtle from the Eocene Mo clay formation of northern Denmark
14:30-14:50
Mike P A Howe*
The UK Continental Shelf on the move: transferring two major core and sample collections.
15:10-15:30
Liston
Resourcing Palaeontological Collection Care in a Time of Crisis: The Legacy of the Earth Science Review, Twenty Years On
15:30-15:50
Tea/coffee
Session: 2
Chair: Mike Howe
15:50-16:10
Evans
Bringing sea dragons back to life: 200 years on from Anning, Conybeare and De la Beche.
16:10-16:30
Martin Abrahamsson*
Simplifying extraction and cross sectioning of microfossils in unlithified sediment
Tuesday 13th September
9:00-9:10
Notices etc
9:30-12:30
Workshop visits in Lyme Regis and Charmouth
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Tea/coffee
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12:30-15:30
Field Trip - Classic Lyme Regis localities
TBA
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16:00-16:10
Welcome to SVPCA
Session: 1
Chair: Jeff Liston
16:30-16:50
Varun Parmar* et al.
New vertebrate fossils from the Lower/Middle Jurassic Kota Formation of Pranhita-Godavari valley, peninsular India
16:50-17:10
Chris King*
Palaeoenvonmental setting of the marine Eocene vertebrate faunes of the Fayum, Egypt.
17:10-17:30
Ward
Whale meat again: the forensic microvertebrate palaeontology of a Basilosaurus skeleton from Wadi Al-Hitan (Zeuglodon valley), Egypt
19:00-21:00
Icebreaker in Skittle Alley:
Wednesday 14th September
9:00-9:10
Welcome to SVPCA
Session: 1
Chair: Per Ahlberg
9:10-9:30
John Clarke*
Teleost superiority: a foregone conclusion? Patterns of teleost and holostean diversification in the Mesozoic.
9:50-10:10
Robert Atwood*, Martin D Brazeau
Synchrotron tomography reveals three-dimensional gill-arch structure in a stem gnathostome from the Hunsrück Slate
10:10-10:30
Johanson*, Moya Meredith Smith
Evolution of elasmobranch (Chondrichthyes) dentitions
10:30-10:50
Tea/Coffee
Session: 2
Chair: Matt Friedman
10:50-11:10
Keating
Filling a gap in Palaeozoic vertebrate diversity: the Wayne Herbert osteostracan fauna
11:10-11:30
Koot* et al.
Effects of the late Permian extinction on Permian-Triassic shark faunas
11:30-11:50
Ahlberg* et al.
A very primitive tetrapod from the earliest Famennian of South Timan, Russia
11:50-12:10
J A and R N G Clack*
A Crassigyrinus-like lower jaw, and other vertebrate elements, from the Tournaisian of Scotland.
12:10-12:30
Poster Session
12:30-14:00
Lunch
Session: 3
Chair: Ian Corfe
14:10-14:30
Susan E Evans*
The Early Cretaceous Chinese lizard Yabeinosaurus: insights from new specimens
14:30-14:50
Mark N Hutchinson*, Adam Skinner
Lizard calibration points the the problem of Tikiguania
14:50-15:10
Neil Curtis*, Marc E H Jones
Shearing in Sphenodon and related character acquisition in Mesozoic Rhynchocephalia (Diapsida: Lepidosauria)
15:10-15:30
Sean Modesto*
The neodiapsid Lanthanolania ivakhnenkoi from the Middle Permian of Russia, and the initial diversification of diapsid reptiles
15:30-15:50
Tea/Coffee
Session: 4
Chair: Susan Evans
15:50-16:10
Benton
Tetrapod evolution through the Permian and Triassic: rock record, supertrees, and detecting events
16:30-16:50
Corfe* et al.
Patterns in the origin of multicuspid teeth among terrestrial amniotes – early adopters from Devon
16:50-17:10
Martin* et al.
A freshwater teleosaurid in the Late Jurassic of northeastern Thailand
17:10-17:30
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18:00-19:00
Public Lecture: David Norman. Scelidosaurus from Lyme Bay, the world's first complete dinosaur
19:00-20:00
Reception in Lyme Regis Museum
20:00-22:00
Auction in Skittle Alley
Thursday 15th September
9:00-9:10
Notices for the day
Session: 1
Chair: David Unwin
9:10-9:30
Button
Continuous character states and their impact on the phylogeny of the Pterosauria
9:30-9:50
Mark P Witton*
The pecotral girdle of Dimorphodon macronyx (Pterosauria, Dimorphodontidae) and the terrestrial abilities of non-pterodactyloid pterosaurs
9:50-10:10
Buffetaut
A ctenochasmatid pterosaur from the Stonesfield Slate (Bathonian) of Oxfordshire, England.
10:10-10:30
S Beardmore*, Emma Lawlor
Skeletal Taphonomy of Pterosaurs from the Late Jurassic of Germany
10:30-10:50
Tea/Coffee
Session: 2
Chair: Eric Buffetaut
11:10-11:30
Unwin
A new dimorphodontid pterosaur from the Lower Jurassic of Dorset, southern England
11:50-12:10
Fischer
High diversity in late Early Cretaceous ichthyosaurs part II: The Cambridge Greensand material
12:10-12:30
Poster Session
12:30-14:00
Lunch
Session: 3
Chair: Roger Benson
14:50-15:10
Tom S Kemp*
Bean bags, modules, systems and the evolvability problem: reflections on how major new vertebrate taxa arise
15:10-15:30
Ketchum
A basal pliosaurid (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Oxford Clay Formation (Callovian, Middle Jurassic) of Bedfordshire: evidence for a gracile, longirostrine grade of Early-Middle Jurassic pliosaurids
15:30-16:30
Bus to Dorchester
16:30-16:40
Welcome to Dorcester County Museum
Session: 4
Chair: Richard Forrest
17:00-17:20
Benson
High diversity, low disparity and small body size in plesiosaurs from the Triassic-Jurassic boundary
17:20-17:40
Sassoon
Cranial anatomy and palaeopathology of an Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) pliosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from Westbury, Wiltshire
18:00-19:00
Public Lecture: Richard Edmonds and Richard Forrest - The Weymouth Bay pliosaur
19:00-21:00
Reception in Dorcester County Museum
21:00
Buses back to Lyme Regis
Friday 16th September
9:00-9:10
Notices for the day
Session: 1
Chair: Tom Kemp
9:10-9:30
Foo* et al.
Form, function and phylogeny: Virtual reconstruction of the inner ear of plesiosaurs
9:30-9:50
Brocklehurst*, Jingmai O'Connor
The Completeness of the Fossil Record of Mesozoic Birds
9:50-10:10
Rosie Barnes*, Zoltan Csiki-Sava
The revision of the genus Magyarosaurus, and titanosaur diversity in the Maastrichtian of the Hateg Basin, Romania - preliminary results
10:10-10:30
Drewitt
The Bristol Dinosaur Project - developing a learning and outreach programme and training research staff and students to help deliver.
10:30-10:50
Coffee/Tea
Session: 2
Chair: Paul Barrett
10:50-11:10
Peter Dodson* et al.
First occurrence of neonatal ornithopod teeth from South America
11:10-11:30
Henderson
Discovery and recovery of a complete, three-dimensionally preserved anklyosaur from the Early Cretaceous of northern Alberta, Canada
11:30-11:50
Holly E Barden* et al.
From Archimedes to Archaeopteryx: Trace metal mapping with Synchrotron Rapid Scanning X-Ray Fluorescence.
12:10-12:30
Thompson
A Combined Analysis Approach to the Phylogeny of the Talpidae (Mammalia: Lipotyphla).
12:30-14:00
Lunch
Session: 3
Chair: Don Henderson
14:10-14:30
Upchurch
A re-evaluation of Wealden sauropod faunas: implications for the evolution of sauropod dinosaurs during the Cretaceous
14:30-14:50
Barrett* et al.
A new skull of Apatosaurus and its taxonomic and palaeobiological implications
14:50-15:10
Wedel*, Adam M Yates
A Diplodocus-sized bipedal basal sauropodomorph from the Late Triassic of South Africa
15:30-15:50
Tea/Coffee
Session: 4
Chair: Don Smith
16:10-16:30
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16:30-16:50
Cox
Biomechanical performance of the rodent skull: sensitivity analyses of finite element models
17:10-17:30
Jerry J Hooker*
A new primate (Omomyidae, Microchoerinae) from the earliest Eocene of southern UK: the beginning of microchoerine evolution.
18:00-19:00
Public Lecture: Mark Witton - Pterosaurs: the Leathery Winged Revolution'
19:30-11:30
Conference dinner in Marine Theatre
Saturday 17th September
9:30
Field trips leave from Lyme Regis
17:30
Latest return from field trips
18:00-19:00
Public Lecture: Michael Benton. The end-Triassic mass extinction and its role in resetting ichthyosaur and dinosaur evolution
12:00
Registration opens in Marine Theatre
