Abstracts: Portsmouth 2000 - University of Portsmouth
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SVPCA Conference
Ichthyosaurs of the Volga region (Russia)
M S Arkhangelsky
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Department of Paleontology, Geological Faculty, Saratov State University, Astra-Khanskaya, 83 St. Saratov 410026 Russia.
A helodermatid-like lizard from the basal Cretaceous of England
Paul M Barrett
1
Jane B Clarke
2
1
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3PS, UK
2
School of Earth, Environmental and Physical Sciences, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, PO1 3QL, UK
The PhyloCode - look out
Michael J Benton
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1
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1RJ, UK
Triassic sauropods from Thailand
Eric Buffetaut
Another look at haramiyids
Percy M Butler
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1
School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, UK.
New data on Upper Cretaceous fishes from the Trieste-Komen Plateau (Slovenia)
Lionel Cavin
Bent E Jurkovsek
T Kolar-Jurkovsek
Speed and appendicular anatomy in mammals
Per Christiansen
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1
Dept. of Vertebrates, Zoological Museum of Copenhagen, Denmark
A complete Hybodont shark from the Lower Triassic of Greenland
Suzanne Brett
1
Gilles Cuny
1
Richard J Twitchett
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1
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Wills Memorial Building, Queens Road, Bristol, BS8 1 RJ, UK
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Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0740, USA.
Fun with dinosaur fluff: Interpreting Mesozoic feathers
Paul G Davis
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1
Department of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum, London, UK.
Protornis and the concept of 'centres of origin' in Tertiary palaeornithology
Gareth J Dyke
The Lower Triassic 'lizard' Colubrifer : a reassessment
Susan E Evans
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1
Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, University College London, UK.
The cheek of it: The skull of the plesiosaur Muraenosaurus.. .revisited
Mark Evans
The fossil record of Cretaceous vertebrates and the molecular challenge
Emmanuel Fara
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1
Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1RJ, UK.
Tomognathus - a Cretaceous rottweiler
Peter L Forey
1
Colin Patterson
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1
Department of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK.
Plesiosaur necks, service cores & statistics
Pterosaurs, flying machines and the first living bottom deckers in the world
Marie-Celine Buchy
1
Eberhard �Dino� Frey
2
David M Martill
3
1
Gerberstra�e 18, D-76185 Karlsruhe, Germany
2
Staatliches Museum f�r Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Erbprinzenstra�e 13, D-76133 Karlsruhe, Germany
3
School of Earth, Environmental and Physical Sciences, University of Portsmouth, UK
Some functional aspects of the skull of the South American horned theropod Carnotaurus sastrei (Saurischia: Theropoda)
Gerardo V
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1
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford South Parks Road Oxford OX1 3PS, UK.
Evolutionary history of shoulder girdles: implications from engineering morphology
Michael Gudo
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1
Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany. (m.gudo@em.uni-frankfurt.de)
Show some backbone! Axial body mass distribution and differing supportstrategies in theropod and ornithopod dinosaurs.
Donald M Henderson
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1
School of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, 725 N. Wolfe St. Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
The Upper Miocene locality from Kerasia, Greece
George Iliopoulos
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1
Department of Geology, University Road, University of Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK.
Evolution of pacing locomotion in camelids
Bethany Boisvert
1
Christine M. Janis
1
Jessica Theodor
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1
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence RI, USA.
Embryonic heterochrony in tetrapod phylogeny
Michael I Coates
Jonathan E Jeffery
M Richardson
Gorgonopsid ecomorph niche filling after the P-Tr extinction by 'aeluromorph' moschorhinid therocephalians: a finite element approach
Ian Jenkins
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1
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Queens Road, Bristol, BS8 1RJ, UK
Postcranial anatomy and the diagnosis of Dinosauria
Max C Langer
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1
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Queens Road, Bristol, UK
The Leeds diaspora: a new unity?
Jeff J Liston
1
Leslie F Noé
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1
Hunterian Museum Research Store, Glasgow University, First Floor, 13 Thurso Street, Glasgow, G11 6PE, Scotland
2
School of Environmental and Applied Sciences, University of Derby, Kedleston Road, Derby, DE22 1GB, UK.
Leedsichthys
Jeff J Liston
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1
Hunterian Museum Research Store, Glasgow University, First Floor, 13 Thurso Street, Glasgow, G11 6P E, Scotland.
A 23 m ichthyosaur from the Upper Triassic of Canada
Makoto Manabe
1
Elizabeth L Nicholls
2
1
National Science Museum, Tokyo
2
Royal Tyrrell Museum, Drumheller.
New discoveries in the Yorkshire Jurassic
Phillip L Manning
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1
Yorkshire Museum, York, UK.
The dinosaur and the snail
M J Barker
1
M Green
2
David M Martill
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1
School of Earth, Environmental and Physical Sciences, University of Portsmouth, Burnaby Road, Portsmouth PO1 3QL VK
2
Coastguard Cottages, Brighstone, Isle of Wight, UK.
'Dodgy Fossils - the culture question'
John G Martin
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1
Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester LE1 7EA, UK.
Ancient Lake Messel: Death Trap or Cradle of Species?
Norbert Micklich
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1
Department of Geology, Palaeontology & Mineralogy, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Friedensplatz 1, D-64283 Darmstadt, Germany.
'Little and Large': theropods from the Purbeck
Angela C Milner
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1
Department of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD.
An enigmatic new coelurosaurian theropod from the Early Cretaceous of the Isle of Wight
M J Barker
1
G Hullman
2
Stephen Hutt
2
David M Martill
1
Darren Naish
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1
School of Earth, Environmental and Physical Sciences, The University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth PO1 3QL, UK
2
Museum of Isle of Wight Geology, Sandown, Isle of Wight
Pachycostasaurus dawni , a Callovian pliosaur (Reptilia, Sauropterygia): is the new genus a juvenile?
Leslie F Noé
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1
School of Environmental and Applied Sciences, University of Derby, Kedleston Road, Derby, DE22 1GB, UK.
A new dinosaur from Transylvania
Z Csiki
D Grigorescu
C M Jianu
David B Norman
David B Weishampel
The current status of the Balfour-Goodrich head model.
Robert Presley
Patterns of tooth wear in aquatic vertebrates and the ecological and evolutionary implications
Mark A Purnell
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1
Department of Geology, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK.
Muscles, mobility & jaws: more finite element analysis of theropod skulls
Emily J Rayfield
Patterns of amniote diversification during the Late Palaeozoic
Robert R. Reisz
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1
University of Toronto, Zoology Department, 3359 Mississauga Road, Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6, Canada.
Short review of the Middle Eocene (MP 13) lacertilian fauna from the fossillagerst�tte Geiseltal near Halle (Saale), Germany
Torsten Rossmann
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1
Abteilung f�r Geowissenschaften, Staatliches Museum f�r Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Erbprinzenstr. 13, D-76133 Karlsruhe, Germany
A reassessment of the tetrapod Caerorhachis bairdi from the Lower Carboniferous of Scotland
Michael I Coates
1
Andrew R Milner
2
Marcello Ruta
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1
Department of Biology, Darwin Building, University College London, Gower Street, London, UK
2
Birkbeck College, Department of Biology, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX, UK
New fossils and morphological data in the study of the phylogenetic relationships of South American marsupials
Marcelo R S�nchez-Villagra
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1
Lehrstuhl f�r Spezielle Zoologie, Universit�t T�bingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 28, D-72076, T�bingen, Germany.(marcello.sanchez
Internal helical reinforcing of the pterosaur wing skeleton
David M Martill
1
Lorna Steel
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1
School of Earth, Environmental and Physical Sciences, University of Portsmouth, Burnaby Building, Burnaby Road, Portsmouth PO
Digital models of joint articulation
Kent A Stevens
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1
Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA.
Stable isotopes and dinosaur physiology: Reassessing the data.
M J Collins
1
Z Kain
C Neilsen-Marsh
Clive N Trueman
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Geochemical palaeontology, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BSS 1RJ, UK.
A history of snake retinas.
Garth Underwood
Sharovipteryx: what can it tell us about the origin of pterosaurs
David M Unwin
Big-chested birds- exciting new avian material from the Neogene of Chile
Stig. A Walsh
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1
School of Earth, Environmental and Physical Sciences, The University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth PO1 3QL, UK.
Wither Sauropoda? New data from a British 'Prosauropod'
Adam M Yates
Unknown coastal "oil mud" deposits & mass extinction in the Upper Poubellian (Recent) of Western Europe.
Marie-Celine Buchy
Eberhard �Dino� Frey
To be or not to be carinate - is that really the question? The Jaws IV experiment on tooth function
Marie-Celine Buchy
Eberhard �Dino� Frey
The shark fauna from the Middle Triassic (Anisian) of North-Western Nevada
Gilles Cuny
Oliver Riepel
P Martin Sander
The Upper Miocene mammal fauna from Kezesie, Greece
G Diopoulos
Locomotor behaviour estimates for North American hyaenodontid creodonts based on limb bone dimensions
Naoko Egi
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1
Dept. Geology, National Science Museum, Shinjuku Tokyo 169-0073 Japan. (anaokoegi@kahaku.go.jp)
Preliminary report on Pondaung mammalian fauna (Eocene; central Myanmar)
Naoko Egi
1
Aye Ko Aung
2
Maung Maung
3
Nobuo Shigehara
4,5
Aung Naing Soe
6
Masanaru Takai
4,5
Tin Thein
9
Takehisa Tsubamoto
5
Soe Thura Tun
2
1
National Science Museum
2
Dagon University
3
Mandalay University.
4
Kyoto University, Primate Research Institute
5
Kyoto University
6
Yangon University
9
Pathein University
The flying crash test dummies - FEM analysis of pterosaur skulls
Michael Fastnacht
1
Eberhard �Dino� Frey
2
Natascha Hess
3
Hans-Peter Weiser
3
1
Johannes-Gutenberg-Universit�t, Institut f�r Geowissenschaften, LE Pal�ontologie
2
Staatliches Museum f�r Naturkunde Karlsruhe
3
Institut f�r CAE-Anwendungen, Fachhochschule f�r Gestaltung und Technik Mannheim
A cetothere-grade baleen whale from the Late Miocene of Denmark
Bent E Lindow
1
1
Geological Institute, University of Copenhagen, �ster Voldgade 10, DK-1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark.
Some functional aspects of the skull of the South American horned theropod Carnotaurus sastrei (Saurischia: Theropoda)
G V Mazzetta
The first solemydid turtle skull from Europe: a specimen collected from the Early Cretaceous of the Isle of Wight
Sandra D Chapman
Richard T J Moody
C A Walker
Continents, carcasses, conifers and coprolites: documenting the Early Triassic
Susan E Evans
Caroline Northwood
Bryan Woods
Pleistocene pantherine cats - problems of determination
Hannah O'Regan
A Turner
Morphological, palaeontological & molecular data: in search of congruence
Davide Pisani
Sharks in the Early Jurassic: focus on Scandinavia
Jan Rees
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1
Department of Geology, Lund University, S�lvegatan 13, SE-223 62 Lund, Sweden.
Ontogenetic and phylogenetic transformations of the ear ossicles in marsupial mammals
Sven Gemballa
1
Wolfgang Maier
2
Sirpa Nummela
2
Marcelo R S�nchez-Villagra
1
1
Lehrstuhl f�r Spezielle Zoologie, Universit�t T�bingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 28, D-72076 T�bingen, Germany
2
Department of Ecology and Systematics, P.O. Box 17, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
Anatomy, functional morphology & systematics of the early pterosaur Dimorphodon macronyx
Sarah Sangster
A new coelacanthid fish of the genus Mawsonia from Brazil
Y Yabumoto
On a new feathered Dinosaur from Northeastern China
D Zhiming
SPPC/GCG Conference
Cleaning fossil material with Lasers
Lorraine Cornish
Managing a barrier film 'microclimate enclosure'
Adrian M Doyle
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1
Department of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK.
Skeleton in the cupboard: using dermestid beetles for cleaning bones.
Michaela Forthuber
1
1
Staatliches Naturhistorisches Museum, Pockelsstra�e 10, 38106-Braunschweig, Germany.
One solution to producing a replica of a large specimen on display in the Natural History Museum
David Gray
1
1
Department of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK.
New technology to reveal the past
Sabine Gwosdek
Eric Milsom
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1
Apartment 610, Nahestra�e 2, 55118 Mainz, Germany.
Dinosaur trackways in Oxfordshire
Juliet Hay
Messel pit: Research excavations in a World Heritage Monument
Norbert Micklich