Programme - Edinburgh 2013 - National Museums Scotland
Schedule of Events
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SPPC/GCG Conference: Tuesday 27th August 2013
08:40 - 08:55
Welcome
08:55 - 09:00
Announcements
Session: 1
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09:00 - 09:20
Jeff J Liston*
‘Kong Long Dan’: excavation, export and experience.
09:20 - 09:40
Natasja den Ouden*, Becky Desjardins
Special care for historical collections – The Timor Collection at Naturalis Biodiversity Center (the Netherlands)
10:00 - 10:20
Robert Nicholls*
The Trento Experience: building life-like models of extinct species and shipping them 1000 miles to Italy.
10:40 - 11:00
Coffee
Session: 2
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11:00 - 11:20
Àngel Galobart* et al.
The use of expansive demolition agents for the extraction of large and delicate dinosaur fossils from the Upper Cretaceous of South-Central Pyrenees (Catalonia, Europe)
11:20 - 11:40
Donald M Henderson*
Estimating the volumes and masses of big plaster field jackets
SVPCA Conference: Wednesday 28th August 2013
08:20 - 08:35
Welcome by Stuart Monro of Our Dynamic Earth.
08:35 - 08:40
Announcements
Session: 1
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08:40 - 09:00
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09:00 - 09:20
Marcelo R Sánchez-Villagra* et al.
The marsupial-placental mammal dichotomy revisited: new morphological data and the relevance of geography on evolutionary patterns of diversity and disparity
09:20 - 09:40
Rachel O'Meara*, Richard S Thompson
Zalambdodonty and the phylogenetic position of Necrolestes patagonensis: assessing the presence of a 45 million year dryolestoid ghost lineage.
09:40 - 10:00
Thomas J. D. Halliday* et al.
Sorting through the wastebasket: a phylogeny of Palaeocene mammals
10:00 - 10:20
Philip G Cox*
The Biomechanics of Feeding in the Laotian Rock Rat, Laonastes aenigmamus
10:20 - 10:40
Coffee break and poster session.
Session: 2
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10:40 - 11:00
Elizabeth Kerr* et al.
Exploring the patterns of cranial and mandibular co-variation within the order Rodentia
11:20 - 11:40
Emma Webster* et al.
Postural Stability During Locomotion: The Effects of Object Tracking and Dual Tasking
11:40 - 12:00
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12:00 - 12:20
Pierre Gueriau* et al.
Trace elemental imaging of exceptionnaly-preserved fossils: paleontological and taphonomical implications
12:20 - 13:50
Lunch
Session: 3
Session Chair : TBA
13:50 - 14:10
David W E Hone* et al.
Cephalopods in the diet of pterosaurs: evidence from a Rhamphorhynchus coprolite
14:30 - 14:50
Michael O'Sullivan*
The taxonomy of GSM 3166 Parapsicephalus purdoni Arthaber 1919, a three dimensional pterosaur skull from the Lower Alum Shale of Whitby.
14:50 - 15:10
Mark P Witton* et al.
Pterosaur overlords of Transylvania: short-necked giant azhdarchids in Late Cretaceous Romania
15:10 - 15:30
David M Unwin* et al.
DGM 1475-R, a fragment of three-dimensionally preserved pterosaur wing membrane from the Santana Formation of Brazil
15:30 - 15:50
Coffee
Session: 4
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15:50 - 16:10
Stephen L Brusatte* et al.
Terrestrial Vertebrates from the Late Triassic of Portugal: New Records of Temnospondyls and Archosauriforms from a Pangaean Rift Sequence
16:10 - 16:30
Darren Naish* et al.
The sexual selection debate: extravagant structures and ‘species recognition’ in Mesozoic dinosaurs and other animals
16:30 - 16:50
Donald M Henderson*
Making some headway: retro-deformation of a tectonically deformed chasmosaurine ceratopsian skull
16:50 - 17:10
Attila Osi*, Paul M Barrett
Wear pattern, dental function and jaw mechanism in the Late Cretaceous ankylosaur Hungarosaurus
17:10 - 17:30
Michael A Taylor*
Edinburgh Museum’s dinosaur, Waterhouse Hawkins’s Hadrosaurus foulkii
17:30 - 17:50
Coffee
Session: 5
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19:00 - 21:00
TBC: Whisky tasting at the Royal Society of Edinburgh
SVPCA Conference: Thursday 29th August 2013
08:30 - 08:45
Announcements
Session: 1
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08:45 - 09:05
Mathew J Wedel, Michael P Taylor*
Barosaurus revisited: the concept of Barosaurus (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) is based on erroneously referred specimens
09:05 - 09:25
Mathew J Wedel*
A giant, skeletally immature individual of Apatosaurus from the Morrison Formation of Oklahoma
09:25 - 09:45
David Button* et al.
Biomechanical evidence of niche partitioning between sympatric sauropod dinosaurs
09:45 - 10:05
Darren Naish, Jeff J Liston*
New data on Early Jurassic theropod diversity in the Lufeng Formation of Yunnan Province, China
10:05 - 10:25
Mark Bell* et al.
Using the Character Completeness Metric to examine completeness of Mesozoic dinosaurs: a Maastrichtian high and a paleoequatorial low.
10:25 - 10:45
Coffee
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12:25 - 13:55
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13:55 - 14:15
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SVPCA Conference: Friday 30th August 2013
08:30 - 08:45
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