Programme - Birmingham 2017 - University of Birmingham
Schedule of Events
Tuesday 12th September
*Indicates platform and poster presentations by students eligible for consideration for presentation prizes.
09:00-18:00
SPPC and SVPCA registration open (Avon Lounge)
09:30-12:30
Workshops (Earth Sciences)
Session: 1
Chair: Cindy Howells — Avon Room
09:20-09:30
SPPC welcome and opening remarks
09:30-09:45
Kieran Miles*
Project Airless: addressing the problem of pyrite oxidation in a large fossil collection
09:45-10:00
Nigel R Larkin*
Replicating the 1.8m long skull of Pliosaurus carpenteri for display.
10:00-10:15
Mark R Graham*
The Remedial Conservation and Support Jacketing of the Neotype dinosaur Massospondylus carinatus.
10:30-10:45
Tim Ziegler* et al.
Blood, sweat, and vinegar: Acetic acid preparation of cetacean fossils yields exceptional results
10:45-11:15
Coffee (Avon Lounge)
11:15-12:45
Tours of the Lapworth Museum exhibition, store and archive
12:45-13:45
Lunch
Session: 2
Chair: Roger Close and Ivan Sampson — Avon Room
13:45-14:00
SVPCA welcome and opening remarks
14:00-14:30
Anjali Goswami*
The macroevolutionary consequences of phenotypic integration: from development to deep time
15:00-15:30
Daniel J. Field*
Macroevolutionary patterns in Avialae: birdwatching through geological time
15:30-16:00
Coffee
16:00-16:30
Lauren Sallan*
Mass Extinction, Recovery, and the Assembly of Biodiversity in Fishes
16:30-17:00
Catalina Pimiento* et al.
The Pliocene marine megafauna extinction and its impact on functional diversity
17:00-17:30
Graeme T Lloyd*
Journeying through discrete character morphospaces: synthesising tempo, disparity, and phylogeny
17:30-18:00
Jason Head*
The future of the past: Integrating fossil and extant anatomy with developmental data to infer vertebrate macroevolution.
18:00-21:00
Icebreaker event, Lapworth Museum of Geology
Wednesday 13th September
SPPC and SVPCA registration open (Avon Lounge)
09:15-09:30
Joseph Keating* et al.
Early Cambrian ostracoderms and the trials and tribulations of total evidence dating
09:30-09:45
Emma Randle*, Robert S Sansom
A novel phylogeny for the Heterostraci: evolutionary relationships of extinct jawless vertebrates on the gnathostome stem
09:45-10:00
Zerina A Johanson* et al.
Fusion in the vertebral column of the pachyosteomorph arthrodire Dunkleosteus terrelli ('Placodermi')
10:15-10:30
Hermione Beckett* et al.
Adaptive radiation of Pelagia (Teleostei: Acanthomorpha) indicated by 3D morphometry
10:30-11:00
Coffee (Avon Lounge)
Session: 1
Chair: Zerina Johanson — Avon Room
11:00-11:15
Francesco Santini*
Testing adaptive radiation scenarios in marine fishes by combining phylogenomic and paleobiological data
11:15-11:30
Emily J Rayfield* et al.
How do mechanical loads influence cranial shape and function during development?
11:30-11:45
Tom Challands, Struan Henderson*
The first virtual cranial endocast of a porolepiform fish and the evolution of the Dipnomorpha
11:45-12:00
Jorge Mondéar Fernández*
New onychodontid (Osteichthyes ; Sarcopterygii) remains from the Middle Devonian of Morocco
12:00-12:15
Timothy R. Smithson et al.
New Late Devonian lungfishes from Greenland morphologically and phylogenetically blur the D-C boundary
12:15-12:30
Tom Challands* et al.
A case of mistaken identity: 'Latvius' obrutus and new dipnoans from the Frasnian of Stolbovo, Russia.
Session: 2
Chair: Lauren Sallan — Avon Room
12:30-13:45
Lunch
Session: 3
Chair: Stephan Lautenschlager — Avon Room
13:45-14:00
Neil Brocklehurst*, Jörg Fröbisch
A re-examination of Milosaurus mccordi, and the evolution of large body size in Carboniferous synapsids
14:00-14:15
David P. Ford*, Roger B J Benson
A re-examination of Orovenator mayorum using μCT data, and its consequences for early amniote phylogeny.
14:30-14:45
Susana Gutarra Diaz* et al.
Using computational fluid dynamics to analyse the hydrodynamic properties of fossil marine reptiles
14:15-14:30
Davide Foffa* et al.
Ecomorphological disparity and evolution of marine reptiles of the Sub-Boreal Jurassic Seaway
14:45-15:00
Pernille Venø Troelsen*, Peter L. Falkingham
Range of motion and hydrodynamic implications of the long-neck in plesiosaurs.
15:00-15:15
Catherine Klein* et al.
Opportunities in disasters: molecular evidence for the rapid radiation of snakes following the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction
15:15-15:30
Hugo Dutel* et al.
Comparative skull biomechanics in Varanus and Salvator ‘Tupinambis’
Lightning Talks
16:00-18:00
Poster Session (Avon Lounge)
20:00-23:00
Annual Auction (Old Joint Stock, city centre)
09:00-14:00
SPPC and SVPCA registration open (Avon Lounge)
Session: 4
Chair: Emily Rayfield — Avon Room
09:15-09:30
Jeff J Liston*, Anthony Maltese
Hips, Tips and Sweet Sweptback Rays: Looking beyond traditional cranial characters in Pachycormiformes
09:30-09:45
Elizabeth Martin-Silverstone*
Pterosaur wing bone geometry and its relationship to pneumaticity and palaeoecology
09:45-10:00
Mark P Witton* et al.
Glide analysis and bone strength tests indicate powered flight capabilities in hatchling pterosaurs
10:00-10:15
David M Unwin*
The complicated and surprisingly early origin of the pterodactyloid bauplan
10:15-10:30
Paul M Barrett* et al.
Upper Karoo vertebrate assemblages (Late Triassic/Early Jurassic) of the Late Kariba region, Zimbabwe
Session: 5
Chair: Paul Barrett — Avon Room
11:00-11:15
Nicholas R Longrich*
High Diversity of of Small Dinosaurs Preceding the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) Mass Extinction
11:15-11:30
Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza* et al.
The effect of spatial fossil bias on dinosaur palaeodiversity estimates in the latest Cretaceous of North America
11:30-11:45
Donald M Henderson* et al.
The Fort McMurray nodosaur – a three-dimensional dinosaur fossil with preserved scales, pigments, and stomach contents
11:45-12:00
Karl T Bates*, Peter L Falkingham
Bite performance in Tyrannosaurus rex: Consensus or controversy?
12:00-12:15
Robert Brocklehurst* et al.
Making Morphology Move: XROMM Ventilation Kinematics of Extant Archosaurs and Reconstructing Rib Motion in Fossils
12:15-12:30
Ryan Marek* et al.
Grabbing evolution by the throat: functional regionalisation of the avian cervical column
Lightning Talks
12:30-12:35
Femke Holwerda*, Jeff J Liston
An anterior sauropod caudal from the Peterborough Oxford Clay: whose tail is it anyway?
12:35-12:40
Hebert Bruno Nascimento Campos* et al.
A unique exceptionally well-preserved pterosaur skull from the Crato Formation of Brazil
12:45-14:00
Lunch
Session: 6
Chair: Susannah Maidment — Avon Room
14:00-14:15
Philip D Mannion* et al.
Spatiotemporal patterns in fossil sampling bias and their impact on understanding the evolutionary history of terrestrial crocodylomorphs
14:15-14:30
Pedro Godoy* et al.
Evolution of body size in Crocodylomorpha in a multi-regime evolutionary landscape
14:30-14:45
Roland B. Sookias*
Improving morphological character choice in phylogenetic inference - data from modern crocodilians
14:45-15:00
Robert S Sansom*, Matthew Wills
Differences between hard and soft data in phylogenetic analyses
15:00-15:15
Aime H Rankin*, Robert J Asher
Morphological data partitioning and phylogenetic signal in rodents.
15:15-15:30
Stephan Lautenschlager* et al.
The role of miniaturisation for cranial function across the cynodont-mammaliaform transition
15:30-15:45
Elsa Panciroli* et al.
The dentary of Wareolestes rex and new fossil mammal material from the Middle Jurassic of Skye, Scotland
15:45-16:15
Coffee
Session: 7
Chair: Phil Cox — Avon Room
16:15-16:30
Gemma Louise Benevento* et al.
New data on Moeritherium from the Birket Qarun Formation (Eocene), Fayum Depression, Egypt
17:15-17:30
Philip J R Morris* et al.
The Biomechanical Significance of the Rodent Mandibular Incisor “Root” – A Finite Element Analysis Study
17:30-17:45
Thomas O’Mahoney* et al.
A virtual reconstruction and volumetric mass estimate of AL288-1, Australopithecus afarensis
20:00-23:00
Annual Dinner (Celebrity Indian Restuarant, city centre)
10:00-14:00
Field Trip to Wollaton Hall, Nottingham. Chinese Dinosaurs Exhibition
Thursday 14th September
Friday 15th September
