Programme - Liverpool 2016 - John Moores University
Schedule of Events
Monday 22nd August
SPPC/GCG Conference
09:00-09:30
SPPC registration open
09:30-09:40
Welcome and Opening Remarks
10:00-10:20
Donald M Henderson*
Moulding, casting and laser scanning of dinosaur trackways from the Late Cretaceous of southern Alberta, Canada
10:20-10:40
Jeff Liston*, Glenys Wass
Part seen, part remembered: the preparation, conservation and curatorial challenges of virtually raising leviathan
10:40-11:20
Coffee
12:00-12:15
Lighting Talks - Poster Presentations
12:15-12:40
Poster Session
12:40-14:00
Lunch
14:00-16:00
Tour of the Liverpool World Museum Collections (SPPC Fieldtrip)
19:00-22:00
Ice Breaker event at the Liverpool World Museum
Tuesday 23rd August
08:45-16:45
Registration
09:15-09:20
Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:20-09:40
Valeria Vaskaninova*, Per Erik Ahlberg
A new look at Radotina – a unique diversity of basal gnathostomes in the Early Devonian of the Prague Basin
09:40-10:00
Benedict King* et al.
Bayesian morphological clocks and the phylogeny of early gnathostomes (jawed vertebrates)
10:00-10:20
Timothy R. Smithson* et al.
The diverse dentition of early Carboniferous lungfish: an adaptive response to the end-Devonian extinction?
10:20-10:40
Emma Randle*, Robert S Sansom
Phylogenetic relationships of the 'higher heterostracans'
10:40-11:20
Coffee
11:20-11:40
Michael I Coates* et al.
Arches and actinopts: hyoid bar composition near the base of the ray-fin tree.
11:40-12:00
Jennifer A Clack* et al.
Phylogenetic analysis implies early diversification of tetrapods in the Tournaisian
12:00-12:20
Neil Brocklehurst*, Kirstin Brink
Selection towards larger body size in both herbivorous and carnivorous synapsids during the Carboniferous.
12:20-12:40
Thomas J. Smith* et al.
Re-evaluation of Pholidosaurus purbeckensis (Crocodyliformes: Tethysuchia) from the Early Cretaceous of England, with implications for the evolution of Pholidosauridae and Dyrosauridae
12:40-14:00
Lunch
14:20-14:40
Richard J. Butler* et al.
Controlling for the species-area effect removes long-term diversity trends in Mesozoic terrestrial vertebrates
14:40-15:00
Jonathan Tennant* et al.
Sea level regulated tetrapod diversity through the Jurassic/Cretaceous transition
15:00-15:40
Coffee
15:40-16:00
Zerina A Johanson* et al.
Diversity of chondrichthyan skin denticles and the origins of vertebrate dentitions
16:00-16:20
Emma-Louise Nicholls*
Patterns in the palaeoecology of Modern and Cretaceous Chondrichthyan faunas
16:20-16:40
Jeff J Liston*
Leviathan rising: the shark of public sector deadlines biting the bleeding edge of research
16:40-17:00
Jonathan Rio* et al.
Biogeographic and phylogenetic implications of the giant madtsoiid snake Gigantophis garstini from the Eocene of North Africa
17:00-18:00
Paleontology and the REF An open forum, chaired by Dave Unwin
Wednesday 24th August
09:00-09:20
Elis Newham*, David Grossnickle*
Therian mammals experience an ecomorphological radiation during the Late Cretaceous and selective extinction at the K–Pg boundary
09:20-09:40
Elsa Panciroli* et al.
Size isn’t everything: re-examining Stereognathus hebridicus (Tritylodontidae, Synapsida) from the Middle Jurassic of Skye, Scotland
09:40-10:00
Robin M D Beck*
What, if anything, is a polydolopimorphian? Resolving the affinities of a mammalian mouthful
10:00-10:20
Juan David Carrillo* et al.
An associated notoungulate skeleton from Patagonia: postcranial osteology and body size of Thomashuxleya externa (Mammalia, Notoungulata)
10:40-11:20
Coffee
11:20-11:40
Jordan Bestwick* et al.
Resolving the diets of pterosaurs: shifting from qualitative inferences to quantitative methodologies via 3D textural analysis of tooth microwear
11:40-12:00
Nicholas R Longrich* et al.
Late Maastrichtian pterosaurs from the Tethys Seaway provide evidence for mass extinction of pterosaurs at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary
12:00-12:20
Mark P Witton* et al.
A small bodied, non-juvenile azhdarchoid pterosaur from the age of flying giants
12:40-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:20
Lightning Talks Poster Presenters
15:20-17:00
Coffee followed by Poster Session
19:00-22:00
Annual Auction (The Chapel, Foresight Centre) In aid of the Jones_Fenleigh Fund
Thursday 25th August
09:20-09:40
Philip D Mannion* et al.
New data sheds light on titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur evolutionary history
09:40-10:00
Susannah C R Maidment* et al.
Environmental partitioning and differential growth in species of the thyreophoran dinosaur Stegosaurus in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation, USA
10:20-10:40
Jakob Vinther* et al.
Camouflage patterns in an ornithischian dinosaur and reconstructing the habitat it lived in
10:40-11:20
Coffee
11:20-11:40
Donald M Henderson*
Testing the buoyancy of an immersed Spinosaurus (Dinosauria: Theropoda) with a digital model
12:00-12:20
Edina Prondvai* et al.
Intraskeletal histovariability and its ontogenetic implications in the limb bones of "dinobirds"
12:20-12:40
Juliet McClymont* et al.
The relationship between maximum cortical bone thickness and maximum curvature of metatarsal bones in Pan and Homo and it's functional relationship to locomotion
12:40-14:00
Lunch
14:20-14:40
Dean R Lomax*, Judy A Massare*
A Tale of Two Species: Ichthyosaurus communis and I. intermedius
14:40-15:00
Mark Evans*, Adam Stuart Smith
To catch a kipper: reassessment of an early Jurassic rhomaleosaurid plesiosaurian.
15:00-15:40
Coffee
Ariel L Camp* et al.
Role of axial muscles in powering suction feeding in Largemouth Bass (Micropterus salmoides)
Juliet McClymont* et al.
The nature and magnitude of variability in plantar pressure during human walking
18:30-22:00
Annual Dinner
Friday 26th August
