Programme - Southampton 2024 - University of Southampton
Schedule of Events
Wednesday 11th September
Symposium on Palaeontological Preparation and Conservation
Session: 1
Chair: Chair: Lu Allington-Jones, Senior Conservator, Natural History Museum
Building 85, Life Sciences Rm 2207
09:30-09:50
Shannah Rhynard-Gei*,Kane Fleury
Preserving both the tangible and intangible: manakitanga of six moa footprints
09:50-10:10
Kieran Miles*
Combining mechanical, chemical and virtual preparation techniques: a case study on Cretaceous shark teeth
10:10-10:30
Hannah Villines*
Ammonite Amateurs: what happens when you do paleontological conservation without a paleontologist
10:30-10:50
S Potze* et. al.
An Overview of Asphaltic Fossil Preparation and Conservation at La Brea Tar Pits
10:50-11:20
Tea/ coffee break and poster display in B85 Concourse.
Session: 2
11:50-12:10
Richard Forrest*
Preparing the lower jaw of a rhomaleosaurid plesiosaur from Lavernock, South Wales
12:10-12:30
Further questions and discussion
Chaired by Lu Allington-Jones,
12:30-14:00
Closing Remarks and Lunch Break
14:00-14:30
Avenue Campus for Tour of Archaeological laboratories for SPPC delegates
Alison Gascoigne, Head of Archaeology Dept.
Symposium of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy
Session: 1
Chair: Chaired by Neil Gostling
Building 32/ 1015
14:35-14:50
Logan King* et. al.
Endocranial development in non-avian dinosaurs reveals an ontogenetic brain trajectory distinct from extant archosaurs
14:50-15:05
Dino Chu* et. al.
A Massive Broad-Snouted Early Miocene Crocodile from the Kutch of India: A Contenter to Challenge the Supercroc?
15:05-15:20
Yuting Lin* et. al.
Predictive simulations of musculoskeletal function and sit-to-stand in birds: insights for extinct vertebrate locomotion
15:20-15:35
Judyth Sassoon*
Palaeobloopers: Comparing two errors in marine reptile palaeontology
15:35-15:50
Andrzej Wolniewicz* et. al.
A new ichthyosaur from the Early Jurassic of the United Kingdom with implications for the taxonomy and phylogeny of Ichthyosauridae
Thursday 12th September
Session: 1
Chair: Building 32 1015
Chaired by Neil Gostling
09:00-09:15
Gábor Botfalvai* et. al.
New dinosaur excavations in an iconic area of the Haţeg Basin (Romania): results of five years of recent geological and paleontological research in the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of Vălioara Valley
09:15-09:30
Cassius Morrison* et. al.
Dietary partitioning revealed by dental microwear analysis suggests ecosystem structural shifts in the Late Cretaceous from ontogenetic shifts of faunivorous theropod dinosaurs
09:30-09:45
Charlie Roger Scherer* et. al.
Biogeographic analyses of megaraptoran theropods indicates that an Early Cretaceous Gondwanan distribution and vicariance drove megaraptorid diversification and the convergent evolution of tyrannosauroid gigantism.
09:45-10:00
Matthew Dempsey* et. al.
Striding with stegosaurs – building an empirically grounded biomechanical model of an armoured dinosaur.
10:00-10:40
Tea/ coffee break
Session: 2
Chair: Chair:
10:40-10:45
Ricardo Araújo* et. al.
Fossil vertebrate bonebeds and sites from the Carnian-Norian (Algarve, Portugal)
10:45-11:00
Robert Smyth* et. al.
Catastrophic injuries in Solnhofen pterosaurs: preservational and palaeobiological implications
11:15-11:30
Benton Walters
Morphospace Testing of Published Pterosaur Depictions: Are Pterosaur Reconstructions Fit to Fly?
11:30-12:30
Lunch Break
Session: 3
Chair: Chair:
12:30-12:35
Joe Thompson*
Changes in Micro-Vertebrate Assemblages and Taphonomy throughout the Late Eocene Succession at Hordle Cliff
12:35-12:50
Sophie Boerman* et. al.
Black sheep of the eusuchian family tree: “thoracosaurs”, a reappraisal of their fossil record and phylogeny
12:50-13:05
Paul Burke* et. al.
New anatomical evidence provides support for transoceanic dispersal capability in extinct gavialoid crocodylians
13:05-13:20
Samuel L. A. Cooper*,Erin E Maxwell
Rise of the toothless leviathans: unravelling the origins of ‘suspension-feeding’ in pachycormid fishes
13:35-13:50
Hady Geirge* et. al.
Investigating the biomechanical diversity of salamander mandibles to inform on feeding evolution in the fish-tetrapod transition
13:50-14:05
Hugo Dutel* et. al.
Comparative anatomy and biomechanics of the feeding apparatus of extant lungfishes
14:05-14:30
Tea/ coffee break
Session: 4
14:30-14:45
Robert Asher*
One bone can do it: predicting phylogenetic resolution of an uncertain node (Chrysochloridae, Afrotheria)
14:45-15:00
Alyx Elder* et. al.
Using diceCT to describe the musculature of mystacial pads in harbor seals (Phoca vitulina)
15:00-15:15
Thomas Kirkwood*
Endocranial Shape Variation in Extant Caniforms (Carnivora): The Impact of Social and Ecological Factors on Brain Morphology
15:15-15:30
Robyn Grant*,Tom Allen
Using finite element analysis to explore how whisker shape effects bending in three species of Carnivora
15:30-15:45
Julien van der Hoek*
Body mass evolution in terrestrial carnivores and artiodactyls: climatic change and coevolution in competing clades?
15:45-16:00
Richard Butler * et. al.
Determining the relative scientific and cultural “value” of the UK's in-situ dinosaur track sites
Friday 13th September
Session: 1
08:30-08:50
Federica Spani*
Evolutionary patterns and biological significance of genital bones in mammals: from primitive structures to specialized forms
08:50-09:05
Máté Szegszárdi* et. al.
The reassignment of the Late Cretaceous mesoucrocodylian Doratodon carcharidens to Neosuchia, and its paleobiogeographical implications
09:05-09:20
Ben Thomas* et. al.
Skeletal correlates for deep-diving behaviour in Ichthyosauria (Reptilia, Ichthyopterygia)
09:20-09:35
Chris Barker* et. al.
Theropod dinosaur diversity of the lower English Wealden: analysis of a tooth-based fauna from the Wadhurst Clay Formation (Lower Cretaceous: Valanginian)
09:35-09:50
Jan Silva* et. al.
Exploring function of early dinosaur tooth morphologies through comparative computational and physical mechanical tests
10:05-10:40
Tea/ coffee break
Session: 2
10:40-10:45
Livia Roese-Miron* et. al.
The biomechanical role of pneumatization in South American Late Triassic traversodontids (Cynodontia, Cynognathia)
10:45-11:00
Michael Howgate*
The problem of the persistently missing Theropod clavicle for the dinosaur to bird evolutionary link.
11:00-11:15
Megan Jacobs* et. al.
A study on the dinosaur gastroliths of the Early Cretaceous Wessex Formation, Isle of Wight, UK.
11:30-11:45
Niels Bonde*
The brutal taphonomy of a well-preserved bird from the Early Eocene Mo-clay of Denmark.
11:45-12:30
Lunch Break
Session: 3
12:30-12:35
Maximilien Dereme* et. al.
The rich mid-Bathonian microvertebrate fauna from Hornsleasow Quarry, Gloucestershire, UK
12:35-12:50
Zak Lewis*,Michael Benton
Vertebrate Body Size Evolution after the Permo-Triassic Mass Extinction
12:50-13:05
Nathan Winterbone*
The evolutionary biomechanics of the vertebral column in Crocodylomorpha
13:05-13:20
Marton Rabi* et. al.
Expanded phylogeny sheds light on the origin of alligatoroids and elucidates the
systematic affinities and gigantism of the ‘terror crocodile’ Deinosuchus
systematic affinities and gigantism of the ‘terror crocodile’ Deinosuchus
13:20-13:35
Luke Muscutt*
Mysteries of the Mesozoic Seas: An Initial Review of Marine Reptile Locomotion
13:35-13:50
Donald Henderson*
Lost, hidden, broken, cut - estimating and interpreting the shapes and masses of damaged assemblages of plesiosaur gastroliths
13:50-14:30
Tea/ coffee break
Session: 4
14:30-15:00
Davis Laudon*
And now for something squishier: The evolution of the mammalian placenta in 3D
15:30-16:00
Neil Gostling
ECR Prizes (Poster and Presentation)
Saturday 14th September
