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Annual Meeting 2014: Schedule

Wednesday 17th December

Conference Auditorium 2

TimeslotRoomEvent
08:45-09:00Conference Auditorium 2Opening of the Annual Meeting by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds, Sir Alan Langlands; followed by logistical information.
09:00-09:15Conference Auditorium 2

Life and death at high latitudes: a reassessment of the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction event in Antarctica

*James D. Witts, Paul B. Wignall, Jane E. Francis, Robert J. Newton, J. Alistair Crame, Vanessa C. Bowman and Rowan J. Whittle

09:15-09:30Conference Auditorium 2

Implications for the foraminifera over the Toarcian (Early Jurassic) Oceanic Anoxic Event (TOAE), following development of the freeze-thaw extraction technique

*Alice E. Kennedy and Angela L. Coe

09:30-09:45Conference Auditorium 2

Decoupling of the terrestrial and marine record during the Eocene-Oligocene transition

*Matthew J Pound and Ulrich Salzmann

09:45-10:00Conference Auditorium 2

The role of microbial anaerobic respiration in the end-Permian mass extinction

*Martin Schobben, Alan Stebbins, Abbas Ghaderi, Harald Strauss, Dieter Korn, Robyn Hannigan and Christoph Korte

10:00-10:15Conference Auditorium 2

Palaeoecology of benthic marine communities in the wake of the Late Permian mass extinction event.

*W.J. Foster, R.J. Twitchett and S Danise

10:15-10:30Conference Auditorium 2

Post-Chicxulub radiation and dispersal of Worm Lizards (Amphisbaenia)

*Nicholas R Longrich, Jakob Vinther, Alexander Pyron, Davide Pisani and Jacques Gauthier

10:30-11:00Sports Hall 2Tea/coffee break and posters
11:00-11:15Conference Auditorium 2

A quantitative comparison of dispersed spores/pollen and plant megafossil assemblages from a Middle Jurassic plant bed from Yorkshire, UK

*Sam M. Slater and Charles H. Wellman

11:15-11:30Conference Auditorium 2

Dark and disturbed or just disturbed?  Modelling thermal tolerance to determine habitat preferences in early angiosperms

*Alexandra P Lee

11:30-11:45Conference Auditorium 2

Global Dinoflagellate Diversity and Temperature Preference Compared to Neogene Climate Development

*Jamie L Boyd, Matthew J Pound, Jim B Riding, Alan M Haywood and Ruza F Ivanovic

11:45-12:00Conference Auditorium 2

An exceptional three-dimensionally preserved Pararaucaria (Cheirolepidiaceae) ovuliferous cone from the late Jurassic of Southern England: non-destructive recovery of full anatomical and histological detail using Diamond Light Source synchrotron.

*Alan R.T. Spencer, Paul Kenrick, Dave C. Steart, Russell J. Garwood, Jason Hilton, Martin Munt and John Needham

12:00-12:15Conference Auditorium 2

Paleocene forests and climates of Antarctica: signals from fossil wood

*Laura Tilley, Jane Francis, Vanessa Bowman and Alistair J Crame

12:15-12:30Conference Auditorium 2

Fungal and fungal-like interactions with plants in early terrestrial ecosystems : state of the art and future direction

*Christine Strullu-Derrien and Paul Kenrick

12:30-13:30Sports Hall 2Lunch and posters
13:30-13:45Conference Auditorium 2

Extratropical peaks in Cretaceous terrestrial vertebrate diversity: the influence of primary producers on vertebrate species distribution

*Mark A. Bell, Paul Upchurch, Philip D. Mannion, Roger B. J. Benson and Anjali Goswami

13:45-14:00Conference Auditorium 2

A Morphological Analysis of the Pectoral Girdle Skeleton of Soaring Birds

*Megan E Williams

14:00-14:15Conference Auditorium 2

Craniodental biomechanical character evolution within the Sauropodomorpha, and the influence of dietary evolution on gigantism.

*D. J. Button

14:15-14:30Conference Auditorium 2

A 3D approach: investigating dietary evolution in Archaeocete whales (Cetacea: Archaeoceti) using tooth microtextures

*Robert H Goodall, Mark A Purnell, Julia M Fahlke and Katharina A Bastl

14:30-14:45Conference Auditorium 2

Eccentric conodonts from extreme environments: specialized biota of late Wenlock (Silurian) sabkhas

*Emilia Jarochowska and Axel Munnecke

14:45-15:00Conference Auditorium 2

Turtle diversity in the Mesozoic

*David B. Nicholson, Roger B. J. Benson, Patricia A. Holroyd, Matthew T. Carrano and Paul M. Barrett

15:00-15:30Sports Hall 2Tea/coffee break and posters
15:30-15:45Conference Auditorium 2

The curious case of chaetae in brachiopods from the middle Cambrian Burgess Shale 

*Timothy P. Topper, Lars E. Holmer, Luke Strotz, Noel Tait, Zhifei Zhang and Jean-Bernard Caron

15:45-16:00Conference Auditorium 2

Deciphering brachiopod origins:  The Cambrian Explosion, small shelly fossils and early evolutionary history of Lophotrochozoa.

*Aodhàn D. Butler, Michael Streng, Zhifei Zhang, Russell Garwood and Lars E. Holmer

16:00-16:15Conference Auditorium 2

Minerals in the gut: Scoping a Cambrian digestive system

*Katie M. Strang, David A T. Harper and Howard A. Armstrong

16:15-16:30Conference Auditorium 2

Puckered, Woven and Grooved: the Importance of Substrate for Ediacara Paleoecology, Paleoenvironment and Taphonomy

*Lidya G. Tarhan, Mary L. Droser and James G. Gehling

16:30-17:45Sports Hall 2Poster session; Sports Hall 2
17:45-18:15Conference Auditorium 2AGM; Conference Auditorium 2
18:30-lateLeeds City MuseumAnnual Dinner; Leeds City Museum

Thursday 18th December

Roger Stevens Lecture Theatre 22

TimeslotRoomEvent
09:00-09:15RSLT22

An agglutinated early Cambrian actinotroch-like phoronid from the Chengjiang Lagerst?tten and its implications

Z Zhang and LE Holmer

09:15-09:30RSLT22

Loriciferan SCFs from the Cambrian of Canada: the origins of a meiofaunal phylum

Thomas H. P. Harvey and Nicholas J. Butterfield

09:30-09:45RSLT22

Burgess Shale-type preservation of ‘shelly’ metazoans

Monica Marti Mus

09:45-10:00RSLT22

A new problematic colonial organism from the Cambrian of Morocco

Christian Skovsted and Sebastién Clausen

10:00-10:15RSLT22

Thaumaptilon walcotti and the early evolution of the Cnidaria

Jonathan B Antcliffe

10:15-10:30RSLT22

High-resolution of the Changhsingian succession in Iran and correlation with China

Dieter Korn, Abbas Ghaderi, Lucyna Leda and Martin Schobben

10:30-11:45Sports Hall 2Tea/coffee break and posters
11:00-11:15RSLT22

Sediment permeability and exceptional preservation within concretions

*Victoria E. McCoy, Robert T. Young and Derek E.G. Briggs

11:15-11:30RSLT22

The Winneshiek Lagerstätte (Middle Ordovician, Darriwilian) of Iowa yields the oldest known eurypterids

*James C. Lamsdell, Derek EG. Briggs and Huaibao P. Liu

11:30-11:45RSLT22

Systematic excavation in the Lower Ordovician Fezouata Lagerstätte (Zagora area, Morocco)

*Emmanuel L. O. Martin, Ninon Allaire, Abdelfattah Azizi, Khadija El Hariri, Khaoula Kouraiss, Juan Carlos Guttiérez-Marco, Bertrand Lefebvre, Rudy Lerosey-Aubril, Ahmid Hafid, Moussa Masrour, Elise Nardin, Bernard Pittet, Abel Prieur, Emmanuel Robert, Peter Van Roy, Jean Vannier, Romain Vaucher, Muriel Vidal and Daniel Vizcaïno

11:45-12:00RSLT22

Solving Darwin’s Dilemma? Differential taphonomy reveals tissue biochemistry dependence of mould/cast exceptional fossil preservation

*Breandán Anraoi MacGabhann, James D. Schiffbauer, James W. Hagadorn, Peter Van Roy, Edward P. Lynch, Liam Morrison and John Murray

12:00-12:15RSLT22

Favourable Impressions: Ammonoids Taxonomy and Biostratigraphy in the Carboniferous Shannon Basin, Western Ireland.

*Anthea Lacchia

12:15-12:30RSLT22

Modelling Functional Morphology and Extinction selectivity in Ammonites.

*Timothy Astrop, Matthew Wills, Qilong Ren, Michael Carley, Sylvain Gerber and Stefan Angioni

12:30-13:30Sports Hall 2Lunch and posters
13:30-13:45RSLT22

Recognising the reproductive mode of Fractofusus through spatial analysis

*Emily G. Mitchell, Alex G. Liu, Charlotte G. Kenchington and Nicholas J. Butterfield

13:45-14:00RSLT22

Oxygen, age and facies controls on the appearance of Ediacaran and Cryogenian macroscopic fossils in the Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada

*Erik A Sperling, Calla Carbone, David T Johnston, Guy M Narbonne and Francis A Macdonald

14:00-14:15RSLT22

A diverse late Ediacaran skeletal fossil assemblage from central Spain

*Iván Cortijo Sánchez, Mónica Martí Mus, Sören Jensen and Teodoro Palacios

14:15-14:30RSLT22

Hallucigenia’s head and the Cycloneuralian ancestry of Panarthropoda

*Martin R. Smith and Jean-Bernard Caron

14:30-14:45RSLT22

Non-actualistic Ediacaran conditions drove the formation of Salter’s (1856) Longmyndian discoidal fossils

*Latha R. Menon, Duncan McIlroy, Alexander G. Liu and Martin D. Brasier

14:45-15:00RSLT22

Using growth models to test the vendobiont hypothesis for the Ediacara Biota

*Renee S. Hoekzema and Martin Brasier

15:00-15:30Sports Hall 2Tea/coffee break and posters
15:30-15:45RSLT22

The Middle Permian Mass Extinction in High Latitudes

Paul B. Wignall and David P.G. Bond

15:45-16:00RSLT22

Death Metal in the Early Palaeozoic

Thijs R. A. Vandenbroucke, Poul Emsbo and Axel Munnecke

16:00-16:15RSLT22

Evolving phytoplankton stoichiometry in response to marine-terrestrial interactions: the late Palaeozoic “phytoplankton blackout”

Ronald E. Martin, Thomas Servais and Alexander Nützel

16:15-16:30RSLT22

The cause of late Cenozoic mass extinction in the western Atlantic: insights from sclerochronology

Andrew L.A. Johnson, Annemarie Valentine, Melanie J. Leng, Donna Surge and Mark Williams

16:30-16:45RSLT22

Aragonite / Calcite seas and the evolution of biomineralization

Uwe U.B. Balthasar

16:45-17:00RSLT22

Disparity trends in the shell shape of non-heteromorph ammonoids (Cephalopoda)

Matthew E. Clapham

Roger Stevens Lecture Theatre 25

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09:00-09:15RSLT25

Morphology or environment: factors affecting preservation of the Middle Triassic actinopterygian Saurichthys

*Susan R. Beardmore and Heinz Furrer

09:15-09:30RSLT25

‘Fish’ (Actinopterygii and Elasmobranchii) diversification patterns through deep time

*Guillaume Guinot and Lionel Cavin

09:30-09:45RSLT25

Denticle Déjà Vu, and the Evolution of Speed

*Tom Merrick-Fletcher, John D Altringham, Jeff Peakall, Paul B Wignall, Robert M Dorrell and Gareth M Keevil

09:45-10:00RSLT25

A fight for survival: Megalodon vs the Great White shark

*L Mclennan and M Purnell

10:00-10:15RSLT25

Patterns of morpho-functional disparity during the explosive radiation of acanthomorph fishes

*Roger A Close, Matt Friedman, Zerina Johansen, Hermione Beckett and Dan Delbarre

10:15-10:30RSLT25

Exceptionally preserved Devonian actinopterygian skull presents a new model for early ray-fin evolution

*Sam Giles, Laurent Darras, Gaël Clément and Matt Friedman

10:30-11:00Sports Hall 2Tea/coffee break and posters
11:00-11:15RSLT25

Derived ornithopod dinosaurs: a case of evolutionary parallelism and convergence

David B Norman

11:15-11:30RSLT25

Automated generation of large phylogenies and a probabilistically time-scaled 1,000-taxon phylogenetic hypothesis for Mesozoic dinosaurs: dating the origins of flight and crown-birds

Graeme T. Lloyd, David W. Bapst, Katie E. Davis and Matt Friedman

11:30-11:45RSLT25

Function and evolution of theropod jaws

Emily J Rayfield, Roger BJ Benson and Philip SL Anderson

11:45-12:00RSLT25

Unlocking geological and sea level biases reveals cryptic evolutionary history of early vertebrates

Robert Sansom, Emma Randle and Philip C. J. Donoghue

12:00-12:15RSLT25

Dinosaur body size maxima driven by global temperature

Roger Benson, Nicolas Campione, Philip Mannion and David Evans

12:15-12:30RSLT25

Use and misuse of cladistic matrices for morphospace analyses

Sylvain Gerber

12:30-13:30Sports Hall 2Lunch and posters
13:30-13:45RSLT25

Chondrichthyan diversity and distribution in the Early Carboniferous: new evidence from the Tournaisian of northern Britain

Timothy R Smithson, Kelly R Richards, Rebecca Bennion and Jennifer A Clack

13:45-14:00RSLT25

Enameloid microstructure in sharks and bony fishes: What do we really know?

Gilles Cuny, Sébastien Enault, Guillaume Guinot and Martha Koot

14:00-14:15RSLT25

Long snouted lungfish and the variable dipnoan endocranium

Tom Challands and Alexey Pakhnevich

14:15-14:30RSLT25

Chitons of the Permian Capitan Reef, and the nature of late Palaeozoic Polyplacophora

Michael J. Vendrasco, Richard D. Hoare, Jr. Bell and Jonena M. Hearst

14:30-14:45RSLT25

A surfeit of sponges: unexpected Ordovician diversity in central Wales, UK

Joseph P. Botting and Lucy A. Muir

14:45-15:00RSLT25

Finding food efficiently: the origin and evolution of optimal foraging strategies

Richard J. Twitchett, Andrew M. Reynolds, Nicolas E. Humphries, Emily J. Southall, Victoria J. Wearmouth, Brett Metcalfe and David W. Sims

15:00-15:30Sports Hall 2Tea/coffee break and posters
15:30-15:45RSLT25

Cladistic analysis of the enigmatic Polychelidan lobsters.

*Denis Audo, Sylvain Charbonnier and Jean-Paul Saint Martin

15:45-16:00RSLT25

Epibioses of fossil crustaceans: insights on specific palaecoecology and true palaeosymbioses

*Ninon Robin, Sylvain Charbonnier, Barry Van Bakel, Sylvain Bernard, Jennyfer Miot and Gilles Petit

16:00-16:15RSLT25

A global perspective of the Trigoniida (Bivalvia: Palaeoheterodonta), with a focus on their Mesozoic and Cenozoic representatives

*Simon Schneider and Simon R K Kelly

16:15-16:30RSLT25

Repeat colonisation of temporary water-bodies by Early Carboniferous invertebrates

*Carys Bennett, Peter Brand, Sarah Davies, Tim Kearsey, Dave Millward, Tim Smithson and Mark Williams

16:30-16:45RSLT25

Rudist myophores: constructional constraints and phylogenetic informativeness

Peter W. Skelton

16:45-17:00RSLT25

Phylogeny of the barnacles  –  combining molecular and morphological approaches.

Andy Gale

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