Programme - Oxford 2012 - Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Schedule of Events
Monday 10th September
02:00 - 02:20
Opening Remarks
03:20 - 04:00
Coffee/Tea
04:00 - 04:40
SPPC posters, Earth Sciences
05:00 - 07:40
Informal Icebreaker, St John's College Bar
Tuesday 11th September
Session: 1
Chair: Phillip Donoghue
09:00 - 09:20
Opening Remarks
09:20 - 09:40
Purnell*, Lucie Brown
Compositional evidence for homology of exceptionally preserved non-skeletal body-parts in early vertebrates
09:40 - 10:00
Sansom
Can we reconstruct phylogenetic relationships using the vertebrate fossil record? Differences between hard and soft data
10:00 - 10:20
Johanson* et al.
Evolution and development of a morphological innovation: the pufferfish beak (Tetraodontiformes; Teleostei)
10:20 - 11:00
Coffee/Tea
Session: 2
Chair: Robert Sansom
11:00 - 11:20
Laurent Darras*
3D textural analysis of microwear and trophic ecology of placoderms
11:20 - 11:40
Richards
New specimens of Symmoriidae sharks from the Carboniferous limestone of the Derbyshire Peak District
12:00 - 12:20
David Didier Bermúdez-Rochas*
An overview of the hybodont record of the Cameros Basin (northwest of Iberian Range, Spain)
12:20 - 02:00
Lunch Break
Session: 3
Chair: Mark Purnell
02:00 - 02:20
Coates
From Wood to trees: building a new character set for holocephalan phylogeny
02:20 - 02:40
Adriana López-Arbarello*
The controversial phylogenetic relationships of the basal actinopterygian lineages
03:00 - 03:40
Lloyd*, Steve Wang
Affects of ancestral character estimation on methods for estimating rates of evolution in discrete morphological characters
03:40 - 04:00
Coffee/Tea
Session: 4
Chair: Michael Coates
04:20 - 04:40
Smithson*, Stan Wood
The End-Devonian Mass Extinction, Romer’s Gap, and the Lilliput Effect
05:00 - 05:20
Lomax
An Ichthyosaurus breviceps specimen collected by Mary Anning: new information on the species.
05:40 - 07:20
Evening Reception, Earth Sciences
Wednesday 12th September
Session: 1
Chair: Zerina Johanson
09:20 - 09:40
Evans
Mine’s bigger than yours: the most comprehensive phylogeny of the Plesiosauria and the position of the leptocleidians
10:00 - 10:20
James M. Neenan*
The cranial morphology of the Chinese placodont Psephochelys polyosteoderma (Sauropterygia, Placodontia), a reconstruction based on μCT data
10:20 - 11:00
Tea/Coffee
Session: 2
Chair: David Unwin
11:00 - 11:20
Butler
The enigmatic archosaur Parringtonia gracilis from the Middle Triassic Manda Beds of Tanzania, and new insights into the early archosaur radiation
11:20 - 11:40
Steel* et al.
Comparative cranial osteology and feeding mechanics of two Late Jurassic macrophagous metriorhynchids from Europe
11:40 - 12:00
Sweetman*, Ulysse Pedreira-Segade
A new bernissartid crocodyliform from the Barremian Wessex Formation (Wealden Group) of the Isle of Wight, southern England
12:20 - 02:00
Lunch Break
Session: 3
Chair: Michael Benton
02:20 - 02:40
Naish*, Martin Simpson
A small-bodied azhdarchoid pterosaur from the Isle of Wight (UK): its implications for pterosaur phylogeny, anatomy, diversity and distribution
03:20 - 04:00
Coffee/Tea
Session: 4
Chair: Richard Butler
04:00 - 04:20
Norman
Iguanodontian systematics and the origin of Hadrosaurs: A case of not being able to see the roots for the trees?
04:20 - 04:40
Prieto-Marquez*, Shantanu Joshi
A reappraisal of the hollow-crested hadrosaurid (Dinosauria, Iguanodontia) Magnapaulia laticaudus (new combination) from the Late Cretaceous of Baja California, Mexico
05:00 - 05:20
MacLaren
Jaw Disparity in Herbivorous Dinosaurs: Trends in Morphology and Function
05:40 - 07:20
Evening reception OUMNH
Thursday 13th September
Session: 1
Chair: Paul Barrett
09:00 - 09:20
Falkingham
Using penetrative tracks to reconstruct limb kinematics of bipedal dinosaurs traversing semi-fluid substrates.
09:20 - 09:40
Wedel
The Evolution and Development of Skeletal Pneumaticity: Exceptions to the Epithelial Hypothesis Suggest Other Levels of Control
09:40 - 10:00
Taylor
Re-evaluating “Apatosaurus” minimus, a bizarre Morrison Formation sauropod with diplodocoid and macronarian features
10:00 - 10:20
Henderson
Body and tooth mass estimates for the earliest bird, Archaeopteryx lithographica (Late Jurassic), and the insignificance of tooth mass in bird evolution
10:20 - 11:00
Coffee/Tea
Session: 2
Chair: Gareth Dyke
11:00 - 11:20
Maria McNamara*, Zhengrong Wang
Experimental maturation of feathers: implications for reconstructions of fossil feather colour
12:00 - 12::20
Walsh* et al.
The size of the avian cerebellar flocculus fossa cannot be used to predict flying ability in extinct birds
12::20 - 02:00
Lunch
Session: 3
Chair: McNamara
02:00 - 02:20
Asher
Homology and mammalian ear ossicles without evolution: the case of Karl Reichert
02:40 - 03:00
Gill* et al.
If it looks like a duckbill… The first (almost) complete toothrow of Teinolophos.
03:00 - 03:20
Sharp
Cranial form and function in the largest ever marsupial, Diprotodon optatum: A comparative finite element analysis
03:20 - 03:40
Rachel O'Meara*
Evidence for determinate skull growth and rapid juvenile growth in Morganucodon watsoni
03:40 - 04:00
Coffee/Tea
Session: 4
Chair: Robert Asher
04:00 - 04:20
Julien Benoit* et al.
The deep evolutionary root of Sirenia (Mammalia, Afrotheria) in freshwaters of Africa
04:20 - 04:40
Hautier* et al.
Exploration in the Paleogene of Senegal and the end of the sirenian paradox.
04:40 - 05:00
Fiona Straehl*, Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra
Bone histology and bone compactness of fossil and recent xenarthran long bones
05:00 - 05:20
Lister
The interplay of environmental change, behaviour response and morphological evolution: dental adaptation and diet in African Neogene to Quaternary Proboscidea
05:20 - 09:00
SVPCA auction OUMNH
Friday 14th September
Session: 1
Chair: Eric Buffetaut
09:00 - 09:20
Hooker
The evolution of the Pseudorhyncocyonidae, a European Paleogene family of insectivorous placental mammals
09:20 - 09:40
Schulz Ellen*
Variability in tooth wear indicates attritional wear: implications from feeding experiments with lagomorphs
10:00 - 10:20
Joomun
Dietary change and diversity in Palaeotheriidae (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) across the Eocene-Oligocene transition
10:20 - 11:00
Coffee/Tea
Session: 2
Chair: Jeff Liston
11:00 - 11:20
Kolb* et al.
Bone and tooth histological growth patterns in fossil and recent deer and their implications for island evolution
11:20 - 11:40
Thompson*, Eva Bärmann
Justifications for combining data partitions in phylogenetics
11:40 - 12:00
Viscardi
How long is a piece of Strix? Methods in measuring and measuring the measurers
12:00 - 12:20
Conway*, Cevdet Kosemen
All Todays: what would contemporary animals look like if we reconstructed them from fossils?
12:20 - 02:00
Lunch
02:00 - 04:40
SVPCA posters & Light refreshments, Earth Sciences
07:00 - late
SVPCA dinner St Cross College
Session: 3
Chair: Matt Friedman
