SVPCA 2017

The 65th Symposium on Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy (SVPCA), University of Birmingham.

WEDNESDAY 13TH SEPTEMBER

SESSION 3

Joseph Keating et al. – EARLY CAMBRIAN OSTRACODERMS AND THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF TOTAL EVIDENCE DATING

Emma Randle & Robert Sansom – A NOVEL PHYLOGENY FOR THE HETEROSTRACI: EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS OF EXTINCT JAWLESS VERTEBRATES ON THE GNATHOSTOME STEM

Zerina Johanson et al. – FUSION IN THE VERTEBRAL COLUMN OF THE PACHYOSTEOMORPH ARTHRODIRE DUNKLEOSTEUS
TERRELLI (‘PLACODERMI’)

Plamen Andreev – TOOTH-LIKE PATTERNING IN THE SCALES OF EARLY ‘SHARKS’

Hermione Beckett et al. – ADAPTIVE RADIATION OF PELAGIA (TELEOSTEI: ACANTHOMORPHA) INDICATED BY 3D MORPHOMETRY

SESSION 4

Emily Rayfield et al. – HOW DO MECHANICAL LOADS INFLUENCE CRANIAL SHAPE AND FUNCTION DURING DEVELOPMENT?

Struan Henderson et al. – THE FIRST VIRTUAL CRANIAL ENDOCAST OF A POROLEPIFORM FISH AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE DIPNOMORPHA

Jorge Mondéjar – NEW ONYCHODONTID (OSTEICHTHYES; SARCOPTERYGII) REMAINS FROM THE MIDDLE DEVONIAN OF MOROCCO

Jennifer Clack et al. – NEW LATE DEVONIAN LUNGFISHES FROM GREENLAND MORPHOLOGICALLY AND PHYLOGENETICALLY BLUR THE D-C BOUNDARY

Tom Challands et al. – A CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY: ‘LATVIUS’ OBRUTUS AND NEW DIPNOANS FROM THE FRASNIAN OF STOLBOVO, RUSSIA

SESSION 5

Neil Brocklehurst & Jörg Fröbisch – A RE-EXAMINATION OF MILOSAURUS MCCORDI, AND THE EVOLUTION OF LARGE BODY SIZE IN CARBONIFEROUS SYNAPSIDS

David Ford & Roger Benson – A RE-EXAMINATION OF OROVENATOR MAYORUM USING μCT DATA, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES FOR EARLY AMNIOTE PHYLOGENY

Davide Foffa et al. – ECOMORPHOLOGICAL DISPARITY AND EVOLUTION OF MARINE REPTILES OF THE SUB-BOREAL JURASSIC SEAWAY

Susana Gutarra Diaz et al. – USING COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS TO ANALYSE THE HYDRODYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF FOSSIL MARINE REPTILES

Catherine Klein et al. – OPPORTUNITIES IN DISASTERS: MOLECULAR EVIDENCE FOR THE RAPID RADIATION OF SNAKES FOLLOWING THE CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE MASS EXTINCTION

Hugo Dutel et al. – COMPARATIVE SKULL BIOMECHANICS IN VARANUS AND SALVATOR ‘TUPINAMBIS’

Lightning talks
Carla Bardua et al. – MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION OF THE CAECILIAN SKULL

Mark Evans et al. – THE SKULL OF THE MIDDLE JURASSI PLESIOSAURIAN CRYPTOCLIDUS REVISITED

THURSDAY 14TH SEPTEMBER

SESSION 6

Jeff Liston & Anthony Maltese – HIPS, TIPS AND SWEET SWEPTBACK RAYS: LOOKING BEYOND TRADITIONAL CRANIAL CHARACTERS IN PACHYCORMIFORMES

Elizabeth Martin-Silverstone – PTEROSAUR WING BONE GEOMETRY AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO PNEUMATICITY AND PALAEOECOLOGY

Mark Witton et al. – GLIDE ANALYSIS AND BONE STRENGTH TESTS INDICATE POWERED FLIGHT CAPABILITIES IN HATCHLING PTEROSAURS

David Unwin – THE COMPLICATED AND SURPRISINGLY EARLY ORIGIN OF THE PTERODACTYLOID BAUPLAN

Paul Barrett et al. – UPPER KAROO VERTEBRATE ASSEMBLAGES (LATE TRIASSIC/EARLY JURASSIC) OF THE LATE KARIBA REGION, ZIMBABWE

SESSION 7

Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza et al. – THE EFFECT OF SPATIAL FOSSIL BIAS ON DINOSAUR PALAEODIVERSITY ESTIMATES IN THE LATEST CRETACEOUS OF NORTH AMERICA

Donald Henderson et al. – THE FORT MCMURRAY NODOSAUR – A THREE-DIMENSIONAL DINOSAUR FOSSIL WITH PRESERVED SCALES, PIGMENTS, AND STOMACH CONTENTS

Robert Brocklehurst et al. – MAKING MORPHOLOGY MOVE: XROMM VENTILATION KINEMATICS OF EXTANT ARCHOSAURS AND RECONSTRUCTING RIB MOTION IN FOSSILS

Ryan Marek et al. – GRABBING EVOLUTION BY THE THROAT: FUNCTIONAL REGIONALISATION OF THE AVIAN CERVICALCOLUMN

Lightning talks
Femke Holwerda & Jeff Liston – AN ANTERIOR SAUROPOD CAUDAL FROM THE PETERBOROUGH OXFORD CLAY: WHOSE TAIL IS IT ANYWAY?

SESSION 8

Philip Mannion et al. – SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS IN FOSSIL SAMPLING BIAS AND THEIR IMPACT ON UNDERSTANDING THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF TERRESTRIAL CROCODYLOMORPHS

Pedro Godoy et al. – EVOLUTION OF BODY SIZE IN CROCODYLOMORPHA IN A MULTI-REGIME EVOLUTIONARY LANDSCAPE

Roland Sookias – IMPROVING MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTER CHOICE IN PHYLOGENETIC INFERENCE – DATA FROM MODERN CROCODILIANS

Aime Rankin & Robert Asher – MORPHOLOGICAL DATA PARTITIONING AND PHYLOGENETIC SIGNAL IN RODENTS

Stephan Lautenschlager – THE ROLE OF MINIATURISATION FOR CRANIAL FUNCTION ACROSS THE CYNODONTMAMMALIAFORM TRANSITION

SESSION 9

Gemma Benevento et al. – NEW DATA ON MOERITHERIUM FROM THE BIRKET QARUN FORMATION (EOCENE), FAYUM DEPRESSION, EGYPT

Robert Asher – TEETH, DEVELOPMENT, AND HYRAXES

Charlotte Brassey – THE FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY OF THE CARNIVORAN BACULUM

Elizabeth Kerr et al. – THE RECENT NOW: POST-MEDIEVAL WOOD MICE

Philip Morris et al. – THE BIOMECHANICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE RODENT MANDIBULAR INCISOR “ROOT” – A FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS STUDY

Thomas O’Mahoney et al. – A VIRTUAL RECONSTRUCTION AND VOLUMETRIC MASS ESTIMATE OF AL288-1, AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFARENSIS