Programme - Southampton 2015 - National Oceanography Centre
Schedule of Events
Monday 31st August
9:00-9:45
SPPC/GCG registration at NOC Security desk (4th floor)
Session: 1
Chair: Mark Young — SPPC
10:20-10:40
Bernard
A brief history of the best collection of fossil fish in the world – probably…
10:40-11:00
Liston
Leviathan Rising: A new collections curation initiative from the Star Pit dig
11:20-11:40
Frank Osbæck*
Preparation of a uniquely preserved turtle from the early Eocene Mo clay formation of northern Denmark.
11:40-12:00
Henderson
Moulding dinosaur tracks on the banks of the St. Mary River in southwestern Alberta, Canada
12:00-14:00
Lunch
14:00-18:00
SPPC/GCG trip to Hampshire County Council collections, arriving back at~NOC before the 18:00
18:00-21:00
Icebreaker Reception and Registration (National Oceanography Centre Seminar Room)
Tuesday 1st September
8:10-8:45
SVPCA registration at NOC Security desk (4th floor)
8:45-9.00
Welcome by Dr Gareth Dyke
Session: 1
Chair: Manabu Sakamoto — Pterosaurs and Dinosaurs
9:00-9:15
Alexander W A Kellner* et al.
Comments on pterosaur reproduction based on recently found specimens from the Jurassic and Cretaceous of China
9:30-9:45
Unwin*, D Charles Deeming
New evidence for sexual dimorphism in the basal monofenestratan pterosaur Darwinopterus
9:45-10:00
Naish* et al.
Romania and the short-necked azhdarchids, flightless avialans and giant lizards of yore
10:00-10:15
Howells* et al.
A new Early Jurassic theropod from Wales: geological and discovery context
10:15-10:30
Martill* et al.
The oldest Jurassic dinosaur: a basal neotheropod from the Hettangian of Great Britain
10:30-11:00
Morning coffee break
Session: 2
Chair: David Martill — Dinosaurs
11:00-11:15
Daniel Vidal*, Ainara Aberasturi
The specialized tail of Spinophorosaurus nigerensis (Sauropoda. Middle Jurassic) and the osteological limits its range of motion.
11:30-11:45
Craig Fraser*
The first comprehensive insight into the histology of the basal ornithopod, Hypsilophodon foxii, from the Isle of Wight
11:45-12:00
Pond
A critical new Polacanthus specimen from the Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight
12:00-12:15
Hone* et al.
Positive allometry in the growth of a ceratopsian frill indicates sexual selection
12:15-12:30
Manabu Sakamoto*, Chris Vendetti
Dinosaurs in decline tens of millions of years prior to the K-Pg boundary
12:30-14:00
Lunch
Session: 3
Chair: Ursula Göhlich — Mummies and Birds
14:00-14:15
Diane Johnson* et al.
Fossils of Qau el-Kebir; an ancient Egyptian funerary fossil collection
14:30-14:45
Eric Buffetaut*, Delphine Angst
Twenty years of Gargantuavis philoinos: a summing up on an enigmatic Late Cretaceous giant bird
14:45-15:00
Vincent Beyrand* et al.
Endocast shape in birds linked with behaviour and flight ability
15:00-15:15
Rachel Frigot*
A geometric morphometric examination of form and function in the avian pelvis
15:15-15:45
Afternoon coffee break
Session: 4
Chair: Eric Buffetaut — Birds
15:45-16:00
Estelle Bourdon*
An exquisitely preserved stem roller (Aves: Coracii) from the Early Eocene Fur Formation of Denmark
16:00-16:15
Ursula Göhlich* et al.
The penguin with an Albatross-like bill: anatomy of Spheniscus urbinai (Aves, Spheniscidae) from the Mio-Pliocene Pisco Formation in Peru
16:30-16:45
Ryan N Felice*, Patrick M O’Connor
Insights into the evolution of the avian tail apparatus from passeriform comparative anatomy
16:45-17:00
James Hansford*
To kill an elephant bird: Diversity and extinction in the aepyornithidae
Free evening -
Space reserved at The Standing Order (Weatherspoons pub) at High Street for those interested
Wednesday 2nd September
8:10-9:00
SVPCA registration at NOC Security desk (4th floor)
Session: 1
Chair: John Clarke — Basal tetrapods & gnathostome evolution
9:00-9:15
Marco Castiello*
The braincase of the petalichthyid Shearsbyaspis revealed by x-ray micro-CT: implications for deep gnathostome phylogeny
9:15-9:30
Smithson
A wandering entepicondylar foramen and the humeral twist: forelimb evolution in early tetrapods.
9:45-10:00
Ascarrunz* et al.
A deeper look into Triadobatrachus massinoti: The earliest known lissamphibian (Vertebrata: Tetrapoda) re-examined by µCT-Scan
10:15-10:30
Benjamin Otoo*
A taxonomic and palaeoecological investigation of an earliest Carboniferous fauna from Burnmouth, Scotland, UK
10:30-11:00
Morning coffee break
Session: 2
Chair: Mark Witton — Taphonomy, trackways & ecosystems
11:00-11:15
Henderson
Exceptional sets of dinosaur tracks and trackways from the St. Mary River Formation (Campanian-Maastrichtian) in Alberta, Canada
12:15-13:30
Lunch
Session: 3
Chair: Gareth Dyke — Crocodylomorphs & Gekkos
13:30-13:45
Young* et al.
An early origin and diversification of macrophagous metriorhynchid crocodylomorphs, with evidence for multiple instances of parallel evolution
13:45-14:00
Foffa
Evidence of macrophagous teleosaurids in the Corallian Group (Oxfordian, Late Jurassic) of the UK
14:00-14:15
Thomas J. Smith*, Mark T. Young
The phylogenetic implications of re-describing the English crocodyliform specimens referred to Pholidosaurus
14:15-14:30
Stockdale*, Gavin Thomas
Temperature-driven evolution and evolutionary stasis among the Crocodylomorpha
14:30-14:45
Andrea Villa*
A review of fossil gekkotans from the Neogene and Quaternary of Italy
14:45-15:45
Afternoon coffee break / Poster Session (I)
Session: 4
Chair: Darren Naish — Phylogenetics and palaeoart
16:00-16:15
Brocklehurst
Rates and modes of body size evolution in early carnivores and herbivores: a case study from Captorhinidae.
16:15-16:30
Maren Jansen* et al.
The Phylogenetic Inference of Cranial Ontogenetic Trajectories of Basal Therapsida
16:45-17:00
Witton*, John Conway
Trends and patterns in modern palaeoartistry: a call for change
18:00-21:00
Annual Auction and Reception (Sea City Museum, Southampton)
Thursday 3rd September
8:10-9:00
SVPCA registration at NOC Security desk (4th floor)
Session: 1
Chair: Christine Janis — Mammals (I)
9:00-9:15
Panciroli
Correlates between calcaneal morphology and locomotion in extant and extinct carnivorous mammals
9:15-9:30
Jamie A MacLaren* et al.
Ecomorphology of the perissodactyl metacarpal: comparing traditional and geometric morphometric approaches
9:45-10:00
Chris Basu*
Estimating body mass of the extinct giraffid Sivatherium giganteum, using a skeletal reconstruction and the minimum convex hull method
10:00-10:15
Roessner
Evolutionary evaluation of fundamental processes in the antler cycle as revealed by internal bone structure
10:30-11:00
Morning coffee break
Session: 2
Chair: Roger Close — Mammals (II)
11:00-11:15
Andrew McIntosh*
Musculoskeletal correlates of digging behaviour in African mole-rats
11:15-11:30
Philip J R Morris* et al.
Morphological convergence of the rodent-like masticatory apparatus in extant rodents and non-rodent diprotodonts
11:30-11:45
Janis*, Borja Figueirido
On the probably predatory behaviour of the "marsupial lion", Thylacoleo carnifex
11:45-12:00
Newham
Cementum histology reveals physiology at the root of the mammalian phylogeny
12:00-12:15
Corfe* et al.
Tooth ultrastructure and development of a 200 million year old mammal revealed with synchrotron nanotomography
12:15-13:30
Lunch
Session: 3
Chair: Ian Corfe — Teeth & Fish
13:30-13:45
Robert Goodall*
How the whale became: 3D tooth microtextures shed light on the complex dietary transition in archaeocete whale evolution (Cetacea: Archaeoceti).
14:30-14:45
Liston* et al.
Back from Purgatory: Three Rakers for Fishes at the Base of a Diversification
14:45-15:45
Afternoon coffee break / Poster Session (II)
Session: 4
Chair: David Unwin — Mesozoic reptiles
15:45-16:00
Saulo Limaverde* et al.
Preliminary information on a new specimen of Araripemys (Pleurodira: Pelomedusoides) from the Early Cretaceous Crato Formation, Brazil
16:15-16:30
Lawrence Wujek
Mary Anning’s marine reptiles: taxonomy, systematics, morphometrics and evolution of the iconic Ichthyosaurus
16:45-17:00
Nicholas R Longrich*, Helmut Tischlinger
Tetrapodophis amplectus, a four-legged snake from the Early Cretaceous of Gondwana, and implications for the origins of snakes
19:00-22:00
Conference Dinner (Royal Thai Pier, Southampton)
