The meeting programme and abstract booklet can be downloaded:
Underlined author denotes designated speaker. * denotes eligibility for President’s Prize or Council Poster Prize.
Summary of Schedule
Sunday 17th December: Registration, Symposium and Reception
Registration will open at 12.30 in the foyer of the Sir Alexander Fleming Building.
The Annual Meeting will begin with a welcome at 13.30 in Lecture Theatre G.16 of the Sir Alexander Fleming Building, followed by the symposium “Evolutionary modelling in palaeontology”.
Following the symposium there will be an icebreaker reception at 18.00 in the Queen’s Tower Rooms, less than 5 minutes walk from the Sir Alexander Fleming Building.
Monday 18th December: Conference, AGM, Annual Address and Dinner
Registration will open at 08.00 in the foyer of the Royal School of Mines Building.
The conference will commence at 09.00 with a full day of talks and posters. The morning sessions are held in parallel, in rooms 2.28, 1.47 and 1.31 (Royal School of Mines building). During the break, delegates can either view the posters in room 3.01 BCDE (Royal School of Mines Building), or visit the exhibitors and the Bearded Lady art exhibition in G.41 (Royal School of Mines Building). Both rooms will serve refreshments.
The afternoon sessions are not parallel, and will commence at 13.45 in Lecture Theatre G.16 (Sir Alexander Fleming Building). The first session comprises 10 shorter (10 minute) talks. During the break, posters, exhibitors, refreshments and the Raising Horizons art exhibition will all be available adjacent to the lecture theatre.
The Association Annual General Meeting commences at 17.00, and the Annual Address at 17.30, both in Lecture Theatre G.16 (Sir Alexander Fleming Building).
The Annual Dinner takes place at the Millennium Hotel, Gloucester Road, less than 15 minutes walk from the Imperial College Campus. It will commence with a drinks reception at 19:00.
Tuesday 19th December: Conference and Prizes
The conference programme will procede as on the previous day, although posters will be rotated so a new set will be available to view.
Talks will complete by 17.00, when the conference will close with the award of the President’s Prize and the Council Poster Prize, presentations by the organising committees of upcoming meetings, and concluding remarks.
Wednesday 20th December: Post-Conference Fieldtrips
Fieldtrips to Down House and the Isle of Sheppey will depart from the Royal School of Mines at 08.00 and 07.30 respectively. Please see the Association website for further details.
Quick Jump Link: Sunday 17th December | Monday 18th December | Tuesday 19th December | Wednesday 20th December
Sunday 17th December - Symposium and Icebreaker Reception
Registration
12.30 – 18.00 | Foyer, Sir Alexander Fleming Building |
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Symposium “evolutionary modelling in palaeontology”
G.16, Sir Alexander Fleming Building | Chair: Paul Smith
13.30 – 13.45 | WELCOME ADDRESS |
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13.45 – 14.15 | Journeys through discrete character morphospace Graeme Lloyd |
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14.15 – 14.45 | How different is reality from mathematical perfection in taxonomy? Julia Sigwart |
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14.45 – 15.15 | Using evolutionary models to assess the accuracy of phylogenies estimated with Bayesian, Maximum-Likelihood, and Parsimony methods Mark Puttick, Joseph O’Reilly, Davide Pisani and Phil Donoghue |
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15.15 – 15.45 | BREAK AND REFRESHMENTS |
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15.45 – 16.15 | Simulating evolution in space and time Russell Garwood, Mark Sutton, Chris Knight, Guillaume Gomez, and Alan Spencer |
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16.15 – 16.45 | Slicing the stratigraphic cake: the effects of time subsample variation in disparity-through-time analysis Natalie Cooper and Thomas Guillerme |
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16.45 – 17.15 | Evolution and Earth Systems: modeling population-level processes on palaeontological scales P. David Polly |
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17.15 – 17.45 | Modelling biotic interactions using data from the fossil record Lee Hsiang Liow |
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RECEPTION
Queen’s Tower Rooms, Sherfield Building
18.00 – 20.00 | Icebreaker Reception and Bearded Lady Exhibition |
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Quick Jump Link: Sunday 17th December | Monday 18th December | Tuesday 19th December | Wednesday 20th December
Monday 18th December - Conference, Association AGM, Annual Address, and Annual Dinner
Registration
08.00 – 13.00 | Foyer, Royal School of Mines Building |
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13.15 – 18.00 | Foyer, Sir Alexander Fleming Building |
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Posters
08.00 – 09.00 | Poster group A – setup in Royal School of Mines |
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09.00 – 12.45 | Poster group A on display in Royal School of Mines, Room RSM 3.01 BCDE |
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12.45 – 13.45 | Poster group A – move from Royal School of Mines to Sir Alexander Fleming |
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13.45 – 17.00 | Poster group A on display in Sir Alexander Fleming Foyer |
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Session 1a (in parallel with sessions 1b and 1c).
1.31, Royal School of Mines | Chair: Nick Butterfield
09.00 – 09.15 | A 3.77 (or possibly 4.28) billion year history of microbial communities associated with marine hydrothermal vents Crispin Little [View abstract] |
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09.15 – 09.30 | Life at the end of the Boring Billion: microfossil record from the ca. 1 Ga Bylot Supergroup, Arctic Canada *Heda Agic, Susannah M. Porter, Sarah Wörndle, Timothy M. Gibson, Peter W. Crockford, Malcolm S.W. Hodgskiss, Marcus Kunzmann and Galen P. Halverson [View abstract] |
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09.30 – 09.45 | Substrate relationships and biomineralisation of an Ediacaran encrusting poriferan Rachel Wood and *Amelia Penny [View abstract] |
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09.45 – 10.00 | Evolution of complex life: Late Neoproterozoic co-divergence of bilaterians and their gut microbiota Joanna Wolfe [View abstract] |
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10.00 – 10.15 | Colonies, clones and modularity: a new view of Ediacaran fronds Alex Liu, Frances Dunn, Charlotte Kenchington and Philip Wilby [View abstract] |
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10.15 – 10.30 | What were the Ediacaran biota? Answers from the Chengjiang Lagerstätte Jennifer Hoyal Cuthill and Jian Han [View abstract] |
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10.30 – 10.45 | A mineralogical signature for Burgess Shale-type preservation *Ross P. Anderson, Nicholas J. Tosca, Robert R. Gaines, Nicolás Mongiardino Koch and Derek E. G. Briggs [View abstract] |
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Session 1b (in parallel with sessions 1a and 1c).
2.28, Royal School of Mines | Chair: Richard Butler
09.00 – 09.15 | A ‘reptilian’ mode of reproduction in pterosaurs and its implications for pterosaur palaeobiology David Unwin [View abstract] |
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09.15 – 09.30 | Scotland’s Jurassic Park: new dinosaurs, crocodylomorphs, pterosaurs, and fishes from the Middle Jurassic of Skye Stephen Brusatte, Thomas J. Challands, Neil D.L. Clark, Paige de Polo, Davide Foffa, Nicholas C. Fraser, Mojirayo Ogunkanmi, Elsa Panciroli, Dugald A. Ross, Stig Walsh, Mark Wilkinson and Mark T. Young [View abstract] |
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09.30 – 09.45 | The ‘pliable’ nature of the phylogenetic relationships within early ornithopods Daniel Madzia and Clint A. Boyd [View abstract] |
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09.45 – 10.00 | High diversity of small dinosaurs preceding the Cretaceous- Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction Nicholas Longrich [View abstract] |
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10.00 – 10.15 | Mosiacism, development, and the early evolution of birds Ryan Felice and Anjali Goswami [View abstract] |
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10.15 – 10.30 | The multiple origins of powered flight among paravian theropod dinosaurs: constraints from new phylogenetic, aerodynamic and anatomical data Michael Pittman, Rui Pei, Pablo A. Goloboff, Thomas A. Dececchi, Mark A. Norell, Thomas G. Kaye, Hans C.E. Larsson, Michael B. Habib, Stephen L. Brusatte and Xing Xu [View abstract] |
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10.30 – 10.45 | Newly discovered complete skull of Ichthyornis reveals unforeseen mosaicism late in the dinosaur-bird transition *Daniel Field, Michael Hanson and Bhart-Anjan Bhullar [View abstract] |
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Session 1c (in parallel with sessions 1a and 1b).
1.47, Royal School of Mines | Chair: Margaret Collinson
09.00 – 09.15 | Tracking genome size variation in a 407 milion year old plant Zuzanna Wawrzyniak and Paul Kenrick [View abstract] |
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09.15 – 09.30 | Assessing changes in leaf morphology in Ginkgo biloba and their suitability to act as a palaeo-climate proxy Karen Bacon and Claire Belcher [View abstract] |
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09.30 – 09.45 | Stomata, carbon isotopes and past CO2 reconstruction: a critical comparison of fossil plant based CO2 proxy models and methods Jennifer McElwain, Amanda Porter, Charilaos Yiotis, Christianna Evans-Fitzgerald and Isabel Montañez [View abstract] |
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09.45 – 10.00 | Fossil plant cuticles may track SO2 pollution during LIP volcanisms - implications for understanding mass extinctions Margret Steinthorsdottir, Caroline Elliott-Kingston and Karen L. Bacon [View abstract] |
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10.00 – 10.15 | The Tournaisian recovery of terrestrial vegetation following the end Devonian mass extinction *Emma Reeves, John Marshall, Carys Bennett, Sarah Davies, Timothy Kearsey, David Millward, Timothy Smithson and Jennifer Clack [View abstract] |
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10.15 – 10.30 | Insights into the taphonomy of Weichselia reticulata *Candela Blanco, Hugo Martín-Abad, Bernard Gomez and Ángela D. Buscalioni [View abstract] |
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10.30 – 10.45 | The importance of microenvironment in determining the roles of early diverging fungi in early terrestrial ecosystems Christine Strullu-Derrien, Paul Kenrick and Tomasz Goral [View abstract] |
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10.45 – 11.15 | BREAK – Refreshments available in TWO rooms: Royal School of Mines G.41: Refreshments, Exhibitors, Bearded Lady exhibition Royal School of Mines 3.01 BCDE: Refreshments, Poster Group A |
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Session 2a (in parallel with sessions 2b and 2c).
1.31, Royal School of Mines | Chair: Derek Briggs
11.15 – 11.30 | Cambrian weird wonders and the origin of ctenophores Jakob Vinther, Zhao Yang, Peiyun Cong, Luke Parry, Davide Pisani and Gregory D. Edgecombe [View abstract] |
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11.30 – 11.45 | Naked chancelloriids from the lower Cambrian of China: evidence for sponge-type growth P.-Y. Cong, T.H.P Harvey, M. Williams, D.J. Siveter, D.J. Siveter, S.E. Gabbott, Y.-J. Li, F. Wei and X.-G. Hou [View abstract] |
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11.45 – 12.00 | Helcionelloid molluscs from Cambrian Series 2, Stages 3-4 of East Antarctica and outline morphometric approaches to problematic taxonomy Thomas Claybourn, Illiam Jackson, Lars Holmer, Christian Skovsted, Tim Topper and Glenn Brock [View abstract] |
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12.00 – 12.15 | Three-dimensional priapulid trace fossils from the early Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 4) of Sweden Giannis Kesidis, Graham Budd and Sören Jensen [View abstract] |
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12.15 – 12.30 | The earliest evidence of metazoan symbiosis Xiaoya Ma, Peiyun Cong, Mark Williams, David Siveter, Derek Siveter, Sarah Gabbott, Dayou Zhai, Tomasz Goral, Gregory Edgecombe and Xianguang Hou [View abstract] |
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12.30 – 12.45 | An Early Ordovician somasteroid from Morocco reveals the origin of crown-group Echinodermata Aaron Hunter and Javier Ortega-Hernández [View abstract] |
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Session 2b (in parallel with sessions 2a and 2c).
2.28, Royal School of Mines | Chair: Michael Benton
11.15 – 11.30 | The Middle Devonian Kačák Event: its identification and effects in Northern Spain *Alexander Askew an Charles Wellman [View abstract] |
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11.30 – 11.45 | Climate change and rates of crocodylomorph body size evolution *Maximilian Stockdale and Michael Benton [View abstract] |
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11.45 – 12.00 | Faunal response to sea level and environmental change in the Jurassic Sundance Seaway, western United States: a stratigraphic palaeobiological approach Silvia Danise, Steven Holland [View abstract] |
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12.00 – 12.15 | The ecological consequences of extinctions: from giant sharks to small mollusks Catalina Pimiento, John Griffin, Daniele Silvestro, Alexandre Antonelli and Carlos Jaramillo [View abstract] |
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12.15 – 12.30 | The Estuary Effect and the origin of lake faunas: critical linkages between global tectonics, sea level and biodiversity Lisa Park Boush, Andrew Bush, Michael Hren, Gary Motz and Timothy Astrop [View abstract] |
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12.30 – 12.45 | A minimum population extinction time driven by stochastic environmental forcing Christopher Spalding, Charles Doering and Glenn Flierl [View abstract] |
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Session 2c (in parallel with sessions 2a and 2b).
1.47, Royal School of Mines | Chair: Anjali Goswami
11.15 – 11.30 | An enigmatic amphibian from the Early Cretaceous of Japan Susan Evans and Ryoko Matsumoto [View abstract] |
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11.30 – 11.45 | High-dimensional geometric morphometric approach to understanding skull shape evolution in squamates Akinobu Watanabe, Ryan Felice, Jessica Maisano, Johannes Müller, Anthony Herrel and Anjali Goswami [View abstract] |
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11.45 – 12.00 | A new chroniosuchian (non-amniotic tetrapod) from Laos revealed by micro-CT scan: anatomy and palaeobiology *Thomas Arbez, Christian Sidor and Jean-Sébastien Steyer [View abstract] |
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12.00 – 12.15 | A bizarre early tetrapod from the Early Permian of Kansas, USA, provides further support for radical polyphyly of ‘lepospondyls’ *Jason Pardo, Aja Carter, Lauren C. Sallan and Jason S. Anderson [View abstract] |
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12.15 – 12.30 | Sampling biases constrain interpretation of the fossil records of non-marine lepidosaurs and turtles *Terri Cleary [View abstract] |
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12.30 – 12.45 | Increased disparity in Therapsida coincides with emergence of novel ecologies, Cistecephalidae (Therapsida:Anomodontia) as a case study *Jacqueline Lungmus and Kenneth Angielczyk [View abstract] |
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12.45 – 13.45 | LUNCH BREAK – Packed lunches available from Royal School of Mines, G.41 See maps for locations of cafeterias on campus |
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Session 3
G.16, Sir Alexander Fleming Building | Chair: Mark Sutton
13.45 – 13.55 | Oxygen minimum zones in the early Cambrian ocean Romain Guilbaud, Ben J. Slater, Simon W. Poulton, Thomas H.P. Harvey, Jochen J. Brocks, Benjamin J. Nettersheim and Nicholas J. Butterfield [View abstract] |
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13.55 – 14.05 | Coupling palaeoclimate data and numerical climate models to constrain Cambrian palaeogeography *Thomas Hearing, Alexandre Pohl, Mark Williams, Thomas Harvey and Yannick Donnadieu [View abstract] |
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14.05 – 14.15 | Carbon characterization in the Sirius Passet Biota and a geothermal gradient through Cambrian Lagerstätten Timothy Topper, Francesco Greco, Axel Hofmann, Andrew Beeby, Zhifei Zhang and David Harper [View abstract] |
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14.15 – 14.25 | Experimental modelling of sedimentary processes for the Burgess Shale: implications for the transport and preservation of soft-bodied organisms *Orla Bath Enright, Nic Minter, Esther Sumner, Gabriela Mángano and Luis Buatois [View abstract] |
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14.25 – 14.35 | Burgess Shale fossils reveal the ancestral state of annelid nervous systems *Luke Parry and Jean Bernard Caron [View abstract] |
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14.35 – 14.45 | Dietary ecology of pterosaurs from quantitative 3D textural analysis of tooth microwear *Jordan Bestwick, David Unwin, Richard Butler, Don Henderson and Mark Purnell [View abstract] |
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14.45 – 14.55 | Hidden diversity of small theropods from the Bathonian (Middle Jurassic) of the UK *Simon Wills, Charlie J. Underwood and Paul M. Barrett [View abstract] |
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14.55 – 15.05 | Approaching sexual dimorphism in non-avian dinosaurs and other extinct taxa *Evan Saitta, Maximilian Stockdale, Vincent Bonhomme, Michael Benton, Nicholas Longrich, Innes Cuthill [View abstract] |
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15.05 – 15.15 | Phylogenetic position of a new Late Cretaceous duck-billed dinosaur (Hadrosauroidea) from the Dorotea Formation, Chilean Southern Patagonia *Alexis Jujihara, Sergio Soto-Acuña, Wolfgang Stinnesbeck, Alvaro Zúñiga-Reinoso, Penélope Cruzado-Caballero, Alexander O. Vargas, Marcelo Leppe, Hector Mansilla, David Rubilar-Rogers, Jhonatan Alarcón-Muñoz, Manfred Vogt and Eberhard Frey [View abstract] |
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15.15 – 15.25 | Integrating genomic and fossil evidence to date the tree of life *Holly Betts, Mark N. Puttick, Tom A. Williams, Philip C. J. Donoghue and Davide Pisani [View abstract] |
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15.25 – 16.00 | BREAK Posters (group A), exhibitors, refreshments and the Raising Horizons exhibition will all be available in the Foyer of the Sir Alexander Fleming Building |
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Session 4
G.16, Sir Alexander Fleming Building | Chair: Phil Donoghue
16.00 – 16.15 | The environmental context of early animal evolution Erik Sperling, Una Farrell and the SGP Collaborative Team (https://sites.stanford.edu/sgp/) [View abstract] |
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16.15 – 16.30 | Geobiology and palaeogenomics: genes that make rocks David Bottjer [View abstract] |
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16.30 – 16.45 | Reconciling the commonality of long-term stasis in the fossil record and the rare detectability of stabilizing selection in extant biota Bert Van Bocxlaer [View abstract] |
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16.45 – 17.00 | The "push of the past": an important bias in the fossil record Graham Budd and Richard Mann [View abstract] |
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Annual General Meeting of the Palaeontological Association
G.16, Sir Alexander Fleming Building
17.00 – 17.30 | Annual General Meeting |
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Palaeontological Association Annual Address (Sponsored by Wiley)
G.16, Sir Alexander Fleming Building
17.30 – 18.30 | 101 uses for a dead fish. Experimental decay, exceptional preservation, and fossils of soft bodied organisms Professor Mark Purnell, University of Leicester |
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Palaeontological Association Annual Dinner
Millennium Hotel, Gloucester Road
19.00 – 23.30 | Drinks Reception and Annual Dinner |
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Quick Jump Link: Sunday 17th December | Monday 18th December | Tuesday 19th December | Wednesday 20th December
Tuesday 19th December - Conference and Prizes
Posters
08.00 – 09.00 | Poster group B – setup in Royal School of Mines |
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09.00 – 12.45 | Poster group B on display in Royal School of Mines, Room RSM 3.01 BCDE |
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12.45 – 13.45 | Poster group B – move from Royal School of Mines to Sir Alexander Fleming |
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13.15 – 17.00 | Poster group B on display in Sir Alexander Fleming Foyer |
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Session 5a (in parallel with sessions 5b and 5c).
1.31, Royal School of Mines | Chair: Greg Edgecombe
09.00 – 09.15 | Asymmetry of paired endites on frontal appendages in Amplectobeluidae (Radiodonta: stem Euarthropoda) and its taxonomic significance Peiyun Cong, Gregory Edgecombe, Allison Daley and Xianguang Hou [View abstract] |
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09.15 – 09.30 | Diversity and disparity of USA Radiodonta *Stephen Pates and Allison C. Daley [View abstract] |
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09.30 – 09.45 | Punctualistic disparity patterns and step-wise body plan canalization in euarthropods *Cedric Aria [View abstract] |
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09.45 – 10.00 | Molecular clocks on Chelicerata recover monophyly of mites and arachnids and suggest an early colonization of land Jesus Lozano-Fernandez, Alastair R. Tanner, Jakob Vinther, Gregory D. Edgecombe and Davide Pisani [View abstract] |
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10.00 – 10.15 | The central nervous system of Trilobitomorpha – taphonomy, morphology and evolutionary implications Javier Ortega-Hernandez [View abstract] |
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10.15 – 10.30 | A total-evidence approach to resolving pancrustacean phylogeny Albert Chen, Davide Pisani, Jesus Lozano-Fernandez, David Legg and Jakob Vinther [View abstract] |
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10.30 – 10.45 | Trilobite evolutionary faunas Jonathan Adrain [View abstract] |
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Session 5b (in parallel with sessions 5a and 5c).
2.28, Royal School of Mines | Chair: Paul Taylor
09.00 – 09.15 | Brachiomatic: automated measurement of brachiopod size using new museum collections digitisation protocols Rachel Belben, Kenneth Johnson, Zoë Hughes, Chris Hughes and Richard Twitchett [View abstract] |
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09.15 – 09.30 | Accounting for differences in species frequency distributions when calculating beta diversity in the fossil record Neil Brocklehurst, Michael Day and Jörg Fröbisch [View abstract] |
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09.30 – 09.45 | The murky history of Cenozoic coral reefs in the Coral Triangle Kenneth Johnson, Nadia Santodomingo and Brian Rosen [View abstract] |
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09.45 – 10.00 | Differences in extinction rates explain contrasting regional diversity patterns in modern tropical bryozoans Emanuela Di Martino, Jeremy B.C. Jackson, Paul D. Taylor and Kenneth G. Johnson [View abstract] |
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10.00 – 10.15 | Species discovery and changing taxon concepts in Cenozoic molluscs - after 50+ years what does revision of a popular handbook tell us? Jonathan Todd and Kenneth Johnson [View abstract] |
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10.15 – 10.30 | New record of an abundant ammonite assemblage from the latest Cretaceous Corsicana Formation, Brazos River, Texas. Implications for the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) mass extinction event in the Gulf of Mexico James Witts, Neil Landman, Matthew Garb, Nicolas Thibault, David Jones, Ekaterina Larina and Thomas Yancey [View abstract] |
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10.30 – 10.45 | New insights on the correlation of Permo-Triassic terrestrial faunas of South Africa with those of European Russia Michael O. Day, Fernando Abdala, Valeriy K. Golubev, Andrey G. Sennikov and Bruce S. Rubidge [View abstract] |
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Session 5c (in parallel with sessions 5a and 5b).
1.47, Royal School of Mines | Chair: Zerina Johanson
09.00 – 09.15 | The first functional analysis of the lateral line system in fossil fish Tom Challands and Mark Naylor [View abstract] |
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09.15 – 09.30 | Skull development and biomechanics in the coelacanth Latimeria; implication for fossil coelacanths and fossil lobe-finned fishes Hugo Dutel, Peter J. Watson and Michael J. Fagan [View abstract] |
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09.30 – 09.45 | The evolution of acellular bone in teleosts: structure-function relationship in fish bone histology Donald Davesne, François J. Meunier, Olga Otero, Matt Friedman and Roger B.J. Benson [View abstract] |
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09.45 – 10.00 | Tooth replacement and tooth resorption mechanisms in Osteichthyes Martin Ruecklin, Phillip C.J. Donoghue, Kate Trinajstic, John A. Cunnigham and Floortje P.C. Mossou [View abstract] |
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10.00 – 10.15 | A new ray-finned fish from the late Devonian: fresh insights into the rise of actinopterygians Sam Giles, Stephanie Pierce and Matt Friedman [View abstract] |
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10.15 – 10.30 | A chondrichthyan-like shoulder girdle in an “acanthodian” helps tease apart early chondrichthyan relationships *Richard Dearden, Jan den Blaauwen, Carole Burrow, Mike Newman, Bob Davidson and Martin Brazeau [View abstract] |
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10.30 – 10.45 | Patterns of morphological evolution in Pelagia (Teleostei: Acanthomorpha) consistent with ancient adaptive radiation *Hermione Beckett, Zerina Johanson, Sam Giles and Matt Friedman [View abstract] |
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10.45 – 11.15 | BREAK – Refreshments available in TWO rooms: Royal School of Mines G.41: Refreshments, Exhibitors, Bearded Lady exhibition Royal School of Mines 3.01 BCDE: Refreshments, Poster Group B |
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Session 6a (in parallel with sessions 6b and 6c).
1.31, Royal School of Mines | Chair: David Harper
11.15 – 11.30 | Breathing life into an extinct sea scorpion: revealing the gill structure of a three-dimensionally preserved eurypterid through MicroCT scanning James Lamsdell, Victoria McCoy and Melanie Hopkins [View abstract] |
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11.30 – 11.45 | The Downton Bonebed: insights into a lost world *Luke Hauser [View abstract] |
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11.45 – 12.00 | Rotten livers, muscles and guts: controls on exceptional preservation of internal organs *Thomas Clements, Mark Purnell and Sarah Gabbott [View abstract] |
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12.00 – 12.15 | The end-Ordovician Anji Biota (Zhejiang, China) and a wider Hirnantian sponge mega-community Joseph Peter Botting, Lucy A. Muir, Yuandong Zhang and Wenhui Wang [View abstract] |
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12.15 – 12.30 | Biomineralisation of Palaeozoic sponges and aragonite-calcite seas Uwe Balthasar, S Kershaw, A.C Da Silva, B. Seuss, M. Cusack, K. Eichenseer and P. Chung [View abstract] |
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12.30 – 12.45 | Phylogenomic analysis of Brachiopoda and Phoronida: implications for morphological evolution, biomineralization, and the Cambrian radiation Aodhan Dermot Butler, Michael Eitel, Gert Wörheide, Sandra J. Carlson and Erik A. Sperling [View abstract] |
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Session 6b (in parallel with sessions 6a and 6c).
2.28, Royal School of Mines | Chair: Christine Janis
11.15 – 11.30 | Long-term mammalian stable isotope record across the Great American Biotic Interchange Laura Domingo, Rodrigo L. Tomassini, Claudia I. Montalvo and Paul L. Koch [View abstract] |
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11.30 – 11.45 | The influence of cranial biomechanics on the evolution of the mammalian jaw joint and definitive mammalian middle ear Emily Rayfield, Stephan Lautenschlager, Pamela Gill, Zhe-Xi Luo and Michael Fagan [View abstract] |
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11.45 – 12.00 | Evolutionary adaptation to aquatic lifestyle can lead to systemic alteration of bone structure Eli Amson, Guillaume Billet and Christian de Muizon [View abstract] |
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12.00 – 12.15 | A model for marine reptile taphonomy in the Late Jurassic Slottsmøya Member Lagerstätte *Lene L. Delsett, Aubrey J. Roberts, Patrick S. Druckenmiller an Jørn H. Hurum [View abstract] |
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12.15 – 12.30 | First virtual endocasts of fossil Aplodontidae and their relevance in understanding the relationship between brain evolution and locomotion *Ornella Bertrand, Farrah Amador-Mughal, Madlen Lang and Mary Silcox [View abstract] |
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12.30 – 12.45 | Sporadic sampling not climatic forcing drives early hominin diversity *Simon Maxwell, Philip Hopley, Paul Upchurch and Christophe Soligo [View abstract] |
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Session 6c (in parallel with sessions 6a and 6b).
1.47, Royal School of Mines | Chair: Lesley Cherns
11.15 – 11.30 | A dichotomous key for the morphological identification of coprolites *Sandra Barrios, Francisco Jose Poyato-Ariza, Jose Joaquin Moratalla and Ángela D. Buscalioni [View abstract] |
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11.30 – 11.45 | Evolution or revolution at the J/K boundary: The case of the Ammonoidea Luc Georges Bulot and William A.P. Wimbledon [View abstract] |
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11.45 – 12.00 | Jurassic onychites (arm hooks from squid-like cephalopods) associated with the statolith occurrences in the Wessex Basin, southern England Malcolm Hart, Zoe Hughes, Gregory Price and Christopher Smart [View abstract] |
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12.00 – 12.15 | Get across the wood: exceptional preservation of Cretaceous soft-bodied xylophagous mollusks Ninon Robin, Anaïs Boura, Marcel Velasquez, Géraldine Garcia, Clément Jauvion, Jean-Marie Boiteau and Xavier Valentin [View abstract] |
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12.15 – 12.30 | A Triassic-Jurassic window into the early evolution of Lepidoptera Bas van de Schootbrugge, Timo Eldijk, Torsten Wappler, Paul Strother, Carolien van der Weijst, Hosein Rajaei and Henk Visscher [View abstract] |
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12.30 – 12.45 | Gymnosperm–insect pollination relationships in Early Cretaceous amber from Spain Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente, David Peris, Antonio Arillo, Eduardo Barrón, Xavier Delclòs, David A. Grimaldi, Conrad C. Labandeira, André Nel, Patricia Nel and Enrique Peñalver [View abstract] |
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12.45 – 13.45 | LUNCH BREAK – Packed lunches available from Royal School of Mines, G.41 See maps for locations of cafeterias on campus |
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Session 7
G.16, Sir Alexander Fleming Building | Chair: Philip Mannion
13.45 – 13.55 | Evaluating bite marks and predation of fossil jawless fish during the rise of jawed vertebrates *Emma Randle and Robert Sansom [View abstract] |
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13.55 – 14.05 | The other old red continent: ichnological signatures of arthropod terrestrialization throughout the Silurian of Australia *Anthony Shillito and Neil Davies [View abstract] |
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14.05 – 14.15 | High-resolution virtual histology in 3D for understanding development in living and fossil birds *Katherine Williams, Neil J. Gostling, Gareth Dyke, Richard O.C. Oreffo and Philipp Schneider [View abstract] |
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14.15 – 14.25 | Get low: the evolution of the baleen whale auditory pathway Travis Park, Alistair Evans and Erich Fitzgerald [View abstract] |
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14.25 – 14.35 | Evidence for a rapid recovery of snakes following the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction *Catherine G. Klein, Davide Pisani, Daniel J. Field, Matthew A. Wills and Nicholas R. Longrich [View abstract] |
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14.35 – 14.45 | The contrasted early evolution of taxonomic richness and morphological disparity of the Ammonoidea: The Devonian record from Morocco *Ninon Allaire, Claude Monnet and Catherine Crônier [View abstract] |
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14.45 – 14.55 | Towards more accurate inference of phylogeny from morphology: a case study in extant crocodilians Roland Sookias [View abstract] |
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14.55 – 15.05 | The positive influence of continuous characters and extended implied weighting on phylogenetic reconstruction: a crocodylian case study *Selina Groh, Paul Upchurch, Julia Day and Paul Barrett [View abstract] |
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15.05 – 15.15 | Is parsimony dead? Bayesian and parsimony phylogenies tested using both empirical and simulated morphological data *Joseph Keating, Russell Garwood, Mark Sutton and Robert Sansom [View abstract] |
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15.15 – 15.25 | Incorporating inapplicable data in phylogenetic analysis Martin Smith, Martin D. Brazeau and Thomas Guillerme [View abstract] |
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15.25 – 16.00 | BREAK Posters (group B), exhibitors, refreshments and the Raising Horizonsexhibition will all be available in the Foyer of the Sir Alexander Fleming Building |
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Session 8
G.16, Sir Alexander Fleming Building | Chair: Paul Barrett
16.00 – 16.15 | The search for physical sedimentary-stratigraphic signatures of ancient life Neil Davies [View abstract] |
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16.15 – 16.30 | Re-evaluating the function of cephalopod septa Robert Lemanis [View abstract] |
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16.30 – 16.45 | Decoupled morphological and phylogenetic diversification during the rise of the ruling reptiles and their kin Richard Butler and Martin Ezcurra [View abstract] |
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16.45 – 17.00 | Closing the gap between palaeontological and neontological speciation and extinction rate estimates Daniele Silvestro, Rachel C.M. Warnock, Alexandra Gavryushkina and Tanja Stadler [View abstract] |
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Closing Business
G.16, Sir Alexander Fleming Building
17.00 – 17.15 | Presentations from the organising committees of Palass 2018 (Bristol), Progressive Palaeontology 2018 (Manchester) and the 5th International Palaeontological Congress [Paris) |
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17.15 – 17.25 | Presentation of the President’s Prize and the Council Poster Prize |
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17.25 – 17.30 | Closing remarks |
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Quick Jump Link: Sunday 17th December | Monday 18th December | Tuesday 19th December | Wednesday 20th December
Wednesday 20th December
Fieldtrip 1 – Darwin’s Down House
08:00 – 10.00 | Coach travel from the Royal School of Mines to Downe |
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10.00 – 13.00 | Down House and Garden tours |
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13.00 – 15.00 | Lunch in the Queen’s Head, Downe Village |
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15.00 – 17.00 | Coach travel from Downe to the Royal School of Mines. Return time is approximate |
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Fieldtrip 2 – Isle of Sheppey
07:30 – 10.00 | Coach travel from the Royal School of Mines to Isle of Sheppey |
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10.00 – 13.00 | Fossil hunting at Warden Point |
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13.00 – 13.30 | Coach travel from Warden Point to Sheerness |
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13.30 – 15.30 | Lunch at the Abbey Hotel Restaurant and Conference Centre, Sheerness |
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15.30 – 18.00 | Coach travel from Sheerness to the Royal School of Mines. Return time is approximate |
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