Programme - York 2014 - Centre for Anatomical and Human Sciences, Hull York Medical School
Schedule of Events
Monday 1st September
10:30-18:00
Field trip to Saltwick Bay, led by Dean Lomax
Tuesday 2nd September
13:00-14:00
SPPC/GCG Registration in the York Medical Society Rooms
SPPC/GCG talks in the York Medical Society Rooms
Session: 1
Chair: Mark Evans
14:00-14:20
Mark R Graham*, Lu Allington-Jones*
CHALLENGES ENCOUNTERED DURING THE PREPARATION BY ACID-RESIN TRANSFER OF FOSSIL FISH FROM MONTE BOLCA, ITALY.
14:20-14:40
Howe* et al.
GB/3D fossil types online – not only the largest collection of 3D digital fossils, but, with 2,500 years of legacy data, also major format, schema and vocabulary conundrums
14:40-15:00
Liston
Resourcing Palaeontological Collection Care in a Time of Crisis: The Legacy of the Earth Science Review, Twenty Years On.
15:00-15:20
Frank Osbæck*
Preparation of Ardiodus sp? from the Eocene Moclay in Denmark New approaches in acid preparation.
15.20-15:40
Roberts* et al.
The Upper Jurassic Marine Reptiles from Spitsbergen – from field conservation to laboratory preparation
16:00-17:00
Tours round the collections of the Yorkshire Museum, led by Sarah King
18:30-19:30
SVPCA registration and ice-breaker event at the Yorkshire Museum
19:30-20:30
Plenary talk _Yorkshire and Palaeontology_ by Stuart Ogilvy, Assistant Curator of Natural Sciences, Tempest Anderson Hall, Yorkshire Museum
Wednesday 3rd September
08:15-09:00
SVPCA registration in the Huntingdon Room, King_s Manor
SVPCA Presentations in the Rahtz Lecture Theatre (K/133), King_s Manor
09:00-09:10
Welcome by Professor Trevor Sheldon, Dean of the Hull York Medical School
Session: 1
Chair: Roger Benson
09:10-09:30
Foffa*, Mark T Young
A new metriorhynchid from the Oxford Clay Formation and its implications for the evolution of Geosaurinae
09:30-09.50
Benton* et al.
Nothosaur foraging tracks from the Middle Triassic of southwestern China
10:10-10:30
Forrest
A plesiosaur from the Aalenian of Ormalingen, Switzerland or How a creationist web site contributed to science.
10:30-11:00
Coffee break
Session: 2
Chair: Jenny Clack
11:20-11:40
Smithson*, Rebecca Bennion
Chondrichthyan diversity in the Early Carboniferous: new evidence from the Tournaisian of northern Britain
11:40-12:00
Close
Probing the third dimension: are morphospaces derived from 2D and 3D fossil fish crania congruent?
12:00-12:20
Challands
Opening up the dipnoan brain: new insights from the cranial endocast of Dipterus valenciennesi
12:20-12:40
Ahlberg* et al.
A Devonian tetrapod-like fish from China reveals parallelism in stem tetrapod evolution
12:40-14:00
Lunch break
Session: 3
Chair: Susan Evans
14:00-14:20
Bell
Extratropical peaks in Cretaceous terrestrial vertebrate diversity: the influence of primary producers on vertebrate species distribution
14:20-14:40
Marianne Pearson*, Mark Wilkinson
Testing a morphological dataset for the robustness of fossil placement: a case study using salamanders
14:40-15:00
Alexander Tinius*, Anthony P. Russell
3D geometric morphometric analysis of the breast-shoulder apparatus: implications for the locomotor kinematics of anole (Squamata: Dactyloidae) ecomorphs on Caribbean islands
15:00-15:20
Brocklehurst*, Robert R. Reisz
A re-description of “Mycterosaurus” smithae, an Early Permian eothyridid, and an examination the phylogeny of pelycosaurian-grade synapsids
15:20-15:40
Corfe*, Gregory Wilson
Testing developmental biology predictions with fossils – dental complexity and evolutionary rates of the Multituberculata
15:40-16:10
Coffee break
Session: 4
Chair: Pam Gill
16:10-16:30
Close*, Andrzej Wolniewicz
A new representative of stem-lineage Zatheria (Mammalia) from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) of the Isle of Skye
16:50-17:10
Sansom*, Tamara Williams
Dental morphology of mammals is less reliable than osteology: Phylogenetic differences align with taphonomic biases
17:10-17:30
Halliday
PALAEOCENE TAXA SUPPORT A CRETACEOUS ORIGIN AND CENOZOIC DIVERSIFICATION OF PLACENTAL MAMMALS
18:00-20:00
Real Ale Tasting Event in the King_s Manor courtyard
Thursday 4th September
08:45-09:10
SVPCA registration in the Huntingdon Room, King_s Manor
SVPCA Presentations in the Rahtz Lecture Theatre (K/133), King_s Manor
Session: 1
Chair: Laura Fitton
09:10-09:30
Gertrud E. Rössner* et al.
The Gerenuk's Reversal: an Integrative Approach to the Evolutionary History of the Giraffe-Necked Antelope
09:30-09.50
Anneke H. van Heteren*
LIFE HISTORY OF PLEISTOCENE DWARFED HIPPOPOTAMI FROM CYPRUS AND CRETE
09:50-10:10
Heckeberg
Evolutionary history of antlers in Cervidae (Ruminantia, Artiodactyla, Mammalia)
10:30-11:00
Coffee break
Session: 2
Chair: Paul O_Higgins
11:20-11:40
Stuart Humphries*, Joe Tomkins
Thermoregulation and scaling of ear size in the Proboscidea
12:00-12:20
Goswami* et al.
Developmental integration channelled morphological response to environmental stress in Late Pleistocene carnivorans
12:40-14:00
Lunch break
Session: 3
Chair: Robert Asher
14:00-14:20
Ricardo Godinho*
Do the large browridges in Homo heidelbergensis have a mechanical role?
14:20-14:40
Kerr*, Sabrina Renaud
Variation of Apodemus mandibular morphology: functional implications
14:40-15:00
Hester Baverstock*
FUNCTIONAL MAINTENANCE AND VARIATION IN CRANIAL LENGTH OF THE MOUSE MASTICATORY SYSTEM
15:00-15:20
Helder Gomes Rodrigues*
Chisel-tooth digging behaviour strongly constrains cranial shape: the case of African mole-rats (Bathyergidae, Rodentia)
15:40-16:10
Coffee break
16:10-17:10
Poster session in the Huntingdon Room, King_s Manor
18:00-20:00
Auction in aid of the Jones-Fenleigh Fund in the York Medical Society Rooms
Friday 5th September
08:45-09:10
SVPCA registration in the Huntingdon Room, King_s Manor
SVPCA Presentations in the Rahtz Lecture Theatre (K/133), King_s Manor
Session: 1
Chair: Emily Rayfield
09:10-09:30
Sookias*, Jun Liu
First evidence for a monophyletic, non-monospecific Euparkeriidae, and a reassessment of the Chinese euparkeriids
09:30-09.50
Palmer
A three dimensional structural model of a large pterosaur wing: implications for the membrane properties.
10:30-11:00
Coffee break
Session: 2
Chair: Jeff Listion
11:20-11:40
Wedel* et al.
Pneumatic diverticula associated with the spinal cord in birds, sauropod dinosaurs, and other ornithodiran archosaurs
12:20-12:40
Henderson
THE LONG TAILS OF SAUROPODS DID NOT EVOLVE TO COUNTER-BALANCE THEIR LONG NECKS
12:40-14:00
Lunch break
Session: 3
Chair: Michael Benton
14:20-14:40
David Button*
Biomechanical trends and functional shifts in sauropodomorph craniodental evolution
14:40-15:00
Rayfield* et al.
Morphological and functional variation in the theropod dinosaur mandible
15:00-15:20
Thulborn
Some unusual sauropod dinosaur tracks in the Broome Sandstone (Lower Cretaceous) of Western Australia
15:20-15:40
Falkingham*, Stephen Gatesy
The birth of a dinosaur track: sub-surface 3-D motion reconstruction and discrete element simulation reveal footprint ‘ontogeny’
15:40-16:10
Coffee break
Session: 4
Chair: Sam Cobb
16:10-16:30
David Button*
Biomechanical trends and functional shifts in sauropodomorph craniodental evolution
16:30-16:50
Bright*, Jesus Marugan-Lobon
Ecomorphological and functional convergence in extant birds of prey
16:50-17:10
Walsh*, Carl Jones
By the mouse divided: testing sub-segmentation volume values in avian endocasts
17:10-17:30
Martin-Silverstone* et al.
The relationship between skeletal mass and total mass in birds
19:00-23:00
Conference banquet in the Merchant Taylors Hall
Saturday 6th September
10:00-16:00
Field trip to the Rotunda Museum, Scarborough, Ravenscar alum works and the Whitby Museum, led by Will Watts
