Quick Jump Link: Friday 14th December | Saturday 15th December | Sunday 16th December | Monday 17th December
Friday 14th December
Pre-meeting workshops
09.00 – 12.30 | Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of morphological character data using RevBayes Old Council Chamber, Wills Memorial Building |
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10.00 – 12.00 | 3D data visualization and segmentation using Avizo Room 138, Life Sciences Building. Meet at the entrance of the building by the porter’s lodge |
10.00 – 12.30 | ‘Friends of the Rotten’ discussion meeting Room 3.30, Wills Memorial Building |
Symposium “Frontiers and Advances in Dinosaur Palaeobiology”
Great Hall, Wills Memorial Building
14.25 – 14.30 | WELCOME ADDRESS |
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14.30 – 14.55 | Evolution of nesting and reproductive traits in dinosaurs Darla K. Zelenitsky, François Therrien and Kohei Tanaka |
14.55 – 15.20 | Dinosaur biomechanics: a tale of hard tissues and soft evidence? Karl T. Bates |
15.20 – 15.45 | Approaches for understanding the evolution of weaponry in dinosaurs Victoria M. Arbour |
15.45 – 16.00 | BREAK |
16.00 – 16.25 | Why do dinosaurs have different shaped skulls? Emily J. Rayfield |
16.25 – 16.50 | How fossil biomolecules unveil the hidden stories of dinosaur biology Jasmina Wiemann |
16.50 – 17.15 | The trophic habits of Mesozoic birds: data from the Jehol avifauna Jingmai K. O’Connor |
17.15 – 17.30 | BREAK |
17.30 – 18.00 (Public Event) | Embryonic genesis of the dinosaur body Bhart-Anjan S. Bhullar |
18.00 – 18.30 (Public Event) | The rise and fall of the dinosaurs Stephen L. Brusatte |
18.30 – 19.00 (Public Event) | Tracing the evolution of major bird characteristics: recent advances and future prospects Xing Xu |
Icebreaker reception
Life Sciences Building
19.15 – 21.00 | Icebreaker reception |
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Quick Jump Link: Friday 14th December | Saturday 15th December | Sunday 16th December | Monday 17th December
Saturday 15th December
08.00 – 08.45 | Poster set-up in Life Sciences Building |
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Session 1A (in parallel with sessions 1B and 1C)
Priory Road complex, Lecture Room A | Chair: Robert Goodall
09.00 – 09.15 | Clarifying the Kukruse–Haljala stage boundary in northwest Estonia *Tõnn Paiste, Tõnu Meidla, Peep Männik and Jaak Nõlvak |
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09.15 – 09.30 | Trace fossil insights into Early Devonian terrestrial ecosystems – a case study from Gaspé, Quebec *Anthony P. Shillito and Neil S. Davies |
09.30 – 09.45 | Body size changes in bivalve molluscs following the end-Triassic mass extinction event *Jed W. Atkinson and Paul B. Wignall |
| 09.45 – 10.00 | Organically-preserved epithelia of a multicellular eukaryote from the late Neoproterozoic of Arctic Norway Heda Agić, Anette E.S. Högström, Małgorzata Moczydłowska, Sören Jensen, Teodoro Palacios, Guido Meinhold, Jan Ove R. Ebbestad, Wendy L. Taylor and Magne Høyberget |
| 10.00 – 10.15 | Silurian and Devonian trilobites of Japan: ‘eye witnesses’ to the early geological evolution of the Japanese islands *Christopher P. Stocker, Philip D. Lane, Derek J. Siveter, Mark Williams, Tatsuo Oji, Gengo Tanaka, Toshifumi Komatsu and Simon R. Wallis |
Session 1B (in parallel with sessions 1A and 1C)
Priory Road complex, Lecture Room B Chair: Luke Parry
09.00 – 09.15 | Exceptionally preserved soft parts in echinoderms from the Fezouata Shale (Lower Ordovician, Morocco) Bertrand Lefebvre, Elizabeth G. Clark, Aaron W. Hunter, Martina Nohejlova and Farid Saleh |
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09.15 – 09.30 | Predatory behaviour and taphonomy of a Jurassic belemnoid coleoid (Diplobelida, Cephalopoda) Christian Klug, Dominique Jenny, Dirk Fuchs, Alexander I. Arkhipkin and Rolf B. Hauff |
09.30 – 09.45 | The Kingswood Limestone – a Mississippian terrestrial Konservat Lagerstätte Andrew C. Scott and Jean Galtier |
| 09.45 – 10.00 | A new Lagerstätte from the Lower Cretaceous La Huérguina Formation in Buenache de la Sierra (Castilla-La Mancha, Spain) Jesús Marugán-Lobón, Hugo Martín-Abad, Irene Prieto, Candela Blanco-Moreno, Guillermo Navalón, Fernando Blanco and Mario A. Martinez Monleón |
| 10.00 – 10.15 | Tackling the evolution of the Early Cretaceous palaeowetland of Las Hoyas Hugo Martín-Abad, Candela Blanco-Moreno, Jesús Marugán-Lobón, Sandra Barrios-de Pedro, Marian Fregenal-Martínez, Francisco José Poyato-Ariza, Bernard Gomez and Ángela D. Buscalioni |
Session 1C (in parallel with sessions 1A and 1B)
Priory Road complex, Lecture Theatre | Chair: Sam Giles
09.00 – 09.15 | Different evolutionary dynamics govern body size evolution in dinosaur groups Manabu Sakamoto, Chris L. Organ, Joanna Baker, Michael J. Benton, Andrew Meade, Mark Pagel and Chris Venditti |
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09.15 – 09.30 | A three-dimensionally preserved Middle Jurassic monofenestratan pterosaur from the Isle of Skye, Scotland Elizabeth G. Martin-Silverstone and Paul M. Barrett |
09.30 – 09.45 | The long and the short of it: a transformational tale of pterosaur tails David M. Unwin |
| 09.45 – 10.00 | Long-term climate and environmental changes did not lead to the extinction of dinosaurs: evidence from the latest Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada François Therrien, Darla K. Zelenitsky, Don B. Brinkman, Annie Quinney, Kohei Tanaka and David A. Eberth |
| 10.00 – 10.15 | Morphological disparity and the ‘double burst’ avian expansion Thomas L. Stubbs and Michael J. Benton |
Life Sciences Building
10.15 – 11.00 | TEA/COFFEE BREAK and POSTERS |
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Session 2A (in parallel with sessions 2B and 2C)
Priory Road complex, Lecture Room A | Chair: Laura Cotton
11.00 – 11.15 | From order to disorder: Pleistocene beetle scales reveal diverse 3D photonic nanostructures Luke T. McDonald, Maria E. McNamara, Vinodkumar Saranathan and Peter Vukusic |
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11.15 – 11.30 | Coralline algae as a recorder of climate change and its impacts in the past and in the future Leanne A. Melbourne, Federica Ragazzola and Daniela N. Schmidt |
11.30 – 11.45 | A new life for old leaves: can herbarium dried leaves be used in CLAMP? David C. Steart and Norman MacLeod |
| 11.45 – 12.00 | Evolution of a lower Famennian (Upper Devonian) fossil assemblage from Kowala quarry (Holy Cross Mountains, central Poland) Krzysztof Broda and Anna Łazuka |
| 12.00 – 12.15 | Sunny, rain later: 30 years of the Carnian Pluvial Episode Michael J. Simms and Alastair Ruffell |
Session 2B (in parallel with sessions 2A and 2C)
Priory Road complex, Lecture Room B | Chair: Maria McNamara
11.00 – 11.15 | Giant stem group gastrotrichs from the early Cambrian Ailin Chen, Luke A. Parry, Fan Wei, Jakob Vinther and Peiyun Cong |
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11.15 – 11.30 | Comparative taphonomy of embryo-like fossils from the Ediacaran Doushantuo and Cambrian Kuanchuanpu formations of South China *Emma N. Landon, John A. Cunningham, Xi-Ping Dong and Philip C. J. Donoghue |
11.30 – 11.45 | Uncovering the impact of palaeogeography on taphonomy: an investigation of the Mazon Creek Lagerstätte *Thomas Clements, Mark A. Purnell and Sarah E. Gabbott |
| 11.45 – 12.00 | Synchrotron X-ray fluorescence analysis of melanosomes reveals soft tissue anatomy of fossil vertebrates *Valentina Rossi, Maria E. McNamara and Samuel M. Webb |
| 12.00 – 12.15 | Palaeobiology of the Ediacaran Rangeomorpha: resolving morphological disparity *Frances S. Dunn, Charlotte G. Kenchington, Philip C. J. Donoghue, Dmitriy V. Grazhdankin, Philip R. Wilby and Alexander G. Liu |
Session 2C (in parallel with sessions 2A and 2B)
Priory Road complex, Lecture Theatre | Chair: Thomas Stubbs
11.00 – 11.15 | Morphological convergence obscures functional disparity in sabre-toothed carnivores Stephan Lautenschlager, Thomas L. Stubbs and Borja Figueirido |
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11.15 – 11.30 | Convergent evolution of toothed whale cochlea Travis Park, Natalie Cooper, Loïc Costeur, Bastien Mennecart and Camille Grohé |
11.30 – 11.45 | 3D geometric morphometric analysis of endocranial shape variation in the squirrel-related clade and their fossil relatives: contributions of locomotion and phylogeny to brain shape Ornella C. Bertrand and Mary T. Silcox |
| 11.45 – 12.00 | Craniodental functional morphology indicate niche partitioning amongst sympatric marine reptiles *Davide Foffa, Mark T. Young and Stephen L. Brusatte |
| 12.00 – 12.15 | Cracking the link between brain and skull in Archosauria: evolutionary and developmental perspectives Matteo Fabbri, Daniel Smith, Miccaela Vergara-Cereghino, Macarena Faunes, Joao Botelho and Bhart-Anjan S. Bhullar |
Life Sciences Building
12.15 – 13.30 | LUNCH and POSTERS |
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| 12.30 – 13.30 | LGBTQ+ Meet-up Life Sciences Building, Flyby 1 (LG). Follow the rainbow trilobites and bring your packed lunch for an informal gathering and chat during the lunch break |
Session 3
Priory Road complex, Lecture Theatre | Chair: Mark Puttick
13.30 – 13.45 | The distribution and cladogenesis of Middle Jurassic (Callovian) to Early Cretaceous (Valanginian) marine reptiles in the Northern Hemisphere Aubrey J. Roberts, Victoria S. Engelschiøn, Lene L. Delsett and Jørn H. Hurum |
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13.45 – 14.00 | Strontium isotopes reveal migratory behaviour in Late Cretaceous hadrosaurs of Alberta, Canada *David F. Terrill, Jason S. Anderson and Charles M. Henderson |
14.00 – 14.15 | The extraordinary diversity of Teleosauroidea (Crocodylomorpha, Thalattosuchia): a comprehensive analysis of their evolutionary relationships *Michela Johnson, Mark T. Young and Stephen L. Brusatte |
| 14.15 – 14.30 | Using ancestral duplications to date the origin of fundamental genes *Holly Betts, Tom A. Williams, Philip C. J. Donoghue and Davide Pisani |
| 14.30 – 14.45 | Recovering from an extinction event: a serpent approach *Catherine G. Klein, Davide Pisani, Daniel J. Field, Rebecca J. Lakin, Matthew A. Wills and Nicholas R. Longrich |
Annual General Meeting
Priory Road lecture theatre
14.45 – 15.30 | Annual General Meeting (AGM) |
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Life Sciences Building
15.30 – 16.00 | TEA/COFFEE BREAK and POSTERS |
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Annual Address
Priory Road lecture theatre
16.00 – 17.00 | Ice in a greenhouse world – 60 Ma and 2060 Jane E. Francis |
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Life Sciences Building
17.00 – 18.45 | POSTER SESSION with REFRESHMENTS |
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Recption and Annual Dinner
Bristol City Museum
19.00 – 20.00 | Reception |
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| 20.00 – 01.00 | Annual Dinner |
Quick Jump Link: Friday 14th December | Saturday 15th December | Sunday 16th December | Monday 17th December
Sunday 16th December
Session 4A (in parallel with sessions 4B)
Priory Road complex, Lecture Room B | Chair: Nick Butterfield
09.15 – 09.30 | Reconstruction of skeletal architecture of conodont Clydagnathus using non-destructive methods Nicola Vuolo, Carlos Martinez Perez, Mark A. Purnell and Philip C. J. Donoghue |
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09.30 – 09.45 | Does the diversity and succession of microbial communities during decay influence character loss? Robert H. Goodall, Martha R. J. Clokie, Christopher J. R. Turkington and Mark A. Purnell |
09.45 – 10.00 | Impact of diagenesis on the chemistry of vertebrate eye melanosomes Christopher S. Rogers, Maria E. McNamara and Samuel M. Webb |
| 10.00 – 10.15 | A strange case of two fishes: enigmatic disappearance of bone tissue or an originally unossified osteostracan Oive Tinn, Liisa Lang, Tiiu Märss and Kalle Kirsimäe |
| 10.15 – 10.30 | Endocranial anatomy of a 400-million-year-old stem-gnathostome: new insights into jawed vertebrate origins Sam Giles, You-an Zhu, Gavin C. Young, Min Zhu and Jing Lu |
| 10.30 – 10.45 | Sticky fish: the unusual skeletal taphonomy of Middle Triassic actinopterygians Susan R. Beardmore, Patrick J. Orr, Heinz Furrer and Duncan J.E. Murdock |
Session 4B (in parallel with sessions 4A)
Priory Road complex, Lecture Theatre | Chair: Delphine Angst
09.15 – 09.30 | Community variation within the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation *Elspeth Wallace, Victoria M. Egerton, Philip L. Manning, William I. Sellers and Robert S. Sansom |
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09.30 – 09.45 | A third “acanthodian” stem-chondrichthyan endoskeleton in a uniquely well-preserved specimen of Diplacanthus crassisimus *Richard Dearden and Martin D. Brazeau |
09.45 – 10.00 | The rise of dinosaurs: tetrapod diversity and climate during the Late Triassic *Emma Dunne, Alexander Farnsworth, Sarah E. Greene, Daniel J. Lunt, Roger B. J. Benson and Richard J. Butler |
| 10.00 – 10.15 | Testing hypotheses of heterochrony in the skull evolution of strisoran birds *Guillermo Navalón, Sergio M. Nebreda, Jen A. Bright, Jesús Marugán-Lobón and Emily J. Rayfield |
| 10.15 – 10.30 | The nature and preservation of soft tissues in exceptionally preserved Jurassic ichthyosaurs *Fiann M. Smithwick, Kieran Goss, Ian Fletcher and Jakob Vinther |
| 10.30 – 10.45 | Towards improving the use of morphological data in inferring phylogeny – data from extant archosaurs Roland B. Sookias |
Life Sciences Building
10.45 – 11.30 | TEA/COFFEE BREAK and POSTERS |
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Session 5A (in parallel with sessions 5B and 5C)
Priory Road complex, Lecture Room A | Chair: Alex Dunhill
11.30 – 11.45 | Diversity of neuropteran larvae (Insecta) in Early Cretaceous ambers Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente, Dany Azar, Xavier Delclòs, Michael S. Engel and Enrique Peñalver |
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11.45 – 12.00 | Palaeoecology of Voulteryon parvulus (Eucrustacea, Polychelida) from the Middle Jurassic of La Voulte-sur-Rhône fossil Lagerstätte (France) Denis Audo, Ninon Robin, Javier Luque, Michal Krobicki, Joachim T. Haug, Carolin Haug, Clément Jauvion and Sylvain Charbonnier |
12.00 – 12.15 | Ultra- and nanostructure of conodont dental skeleton and implications for its properties Emilia Jarochowska, Corinna Böhm, Katrin Hurle, Michel Bestmann, Pat Trimby, Ingo Mey, Vitaliy Pipich, Bryan Shirley and Stephan E. Wolf |
| 12.15 – 12.30 | How an eye of a phacopid trilobite is constructed or the solution of Stürmer’s enigma Brigitte Schoenemann and Euan N. K. Clarkson |
| 12.30 – 12.45 | Modelling extinction cascades across a Mesozoic hyperthermal event Alexander M. Dunhill, Andrew P. Beckerman, Karolina Zarzyczny, Aislinn Vickers-Arrigo, Jed W. Atkinson and Crispin T. S. Little |
Session 5B (in parallel with sessions 5A and 5C)
Priory Road complex, Lecture Room B | Chair: Xiaoya Ma
11.30 – 11.45 | The Ediacaran fauna of the Llangynog Inlier, Carmarthenshire John C. W. Cope |
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11.45 – 12.00 | Constructional and functional morphology of Ediacaran rangeomorphs Nicholas J. Butterfield |
12.00 – 12.15 | Early ontogeny of the shells of pelagiellid molluscs from the Cambrian (Stage 4) Pioche Formation, southeastern Nevada, USA John L. Moore, Susannah M. Porter and Mark Webster |
| 12.15 – 12.30 | A Cambrian peanut worm and the peramorphic origin of the sipunculan body plan Martin R. Smith and Zhifei Zhang |
| 12.30 – 12.45 | Oxygen, temperature, and the stenothermal cradle of Ediacaran evolution Thomas Boag, Richard Stockey, Leanne E. Elder, Pincelli M. Hull and Erik A. Sperling |
Session 5C (in parallel with sessions 5A and 5B)
Priory Road complex, Lecture Theatre | Chair: Rob Sansom
11.30 – 11.45 | The partial skeleton of the docodont Borealestes serendipitus, from the Kilmaluag Formation (Middle Jurassic) of the Isle of Skye, Scotland *Elsa Panciroli, Zhe-Xi Luo, Julia A. Schultz, Vincent Fernandez, Matthew Humpage, Stig Walsh and Nicholas C. Fraser |
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11.45 – 12.00 | Changes in mammalian mandibular ecomorphological disparity across the K–Pg boundary *Gemma L. Benevento, Matt Friedman and Roger B. J. Benson |
12.00 – 12.15 | Developmental innovation in the evolution of complex mammalian teeth *Aidan M. C. Couzens and Martin Rücklin |
| 12.15 – 12.30 | Elephas recki: the wastebasket? *Hanwen Zhang |
| 12.30 – 12.45 | Quantifying patterns of convergent evolution: a case study on mammalian insectivores *Robert J. Brocklehurst, Nick Crumpton, Louise Tomsett and Natalie Cooper |
Life Sciences Building
12.45 – 14.00 | LUNCH and POSTERS |
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Session 6A (in parallel with sessions 6B)
Priory Road complex, Lecture Room B | Chair: Emily Mitchell
14.00 – 09.15 | Growth and development of fuxianhuiid arthropods from the lower Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 3), Chengjiang biota David A. Legg, Hong Chen, Yu Liu and Xian-guang Hou |
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14.15 – 14.30 | Critically exploring the fossil record of the deep biosphere Sean McMahon and Magnus Ivarsson |
14.30 – 14.45 | A bioturbation control on the Phanerozoic record of shallow marine sole marks Lidya G. Tarhan |
| 16.45 – 15.00 | Rooting the eukaryotic radiation with new models of genome evolution Celine Petitjean, Gergely J. Szöllősi, David Bass and Tom A. Williams |
| 15.00 – 15.15 | Integrating fossil data refines plant divergence time estimates Joseph E. O’Reilly, Philip C. J. Donoghue and Mark N. Puttick |
Session 6B (in parallel with sessions 6A)
Priory Road complex, Lecture Theatre | Chair: Manabu Sakamoto
14.00 – 09.15 | Does morphology evolve under drift or selection? Comparing empirical and simulated data Robert S. Sansom, Joseph N. Keating and Russell J. Garwood |
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14.15 – 14.30 | Recent discoveries about the ecology of the dodo and future developmen Delphine Angst, Anusuya Chinsamy, Lorna Steel and Julian P. Hume |
14.30 – 14.45 | Stratigraphic and environmental control on marine benthic community change through the early Toarcian extinction event (Iberian Range, Spain) Silvia Danise, Marie-Emilie Clémence, Gregory D. Price, Juan J. Gómez and Richard J. Twitchett |
| 16.45 – 15.00 | Persistence of the Lilliput effect across evolutionary and ecological scales Kenneth De Baets and Wolfgang Kiessling |
| 15.00 – 15.15 | When forams go big: drivers of extreme size in the genus Nummulites Laura J. Cotton and Caitlin R. Keating-Bitonti |
Life Sciences Building
15.15 – 16.00 | TEA/COFFEE BREAK (take down posters) |
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Session 7
Priory Road complex, Lecture Theatre | Chair: Rachel Warnock
16.00 – 16.15 | Using intra-specific variation to detect sexual reproduction in Ediacaran organisms Emily G. Mitchell and Catherine Clark |
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16.15 – 16.30 | Why is the Chengjiang biota exceptionally well preserved? Xiaoya Ma |
16.30 – 16.45 | Australia’s polar Cretaceous mammals: longer lifespans may be indicative of hibernation Pamela G. Gill, Elis Newham, Thomas H. Rich and Ian J. Corfe |
| 16.45 – 17.00 | The independent origin of plant roots and their gradual evolution in lycophytes Alexander J. Hetherington and Liam Dolani |
| 17.00 – 17.15 | The first vertebrate skeletal tissues and the ‘biomineralization toolkit’ Duncan J. E. Murdock |
Closing Business
Priory Road complex, Lecture Theatre
17.15 – 17.30 | Presentations from the organizing committees of PalAss 2019 (Valencia) and Progressive Palaeontology 2019 (Birmingham) |
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| 17.30 | Presentation of the President’s Prize and the Council Poster Prize, followed by closing remarks. |
Quick Jump Link: Friday 14th December | Saturday 15th December | Sunday 16th December | Monday 17th December
Monday 17th December
Field-trip 1: Triassic-Jurassic section in Watchet, North Somerset
07.00 – until late | Coach travel from The Hawthorns on the corner of Woodland Road and Elton Road. Expect to return in the late afternoon/early evening. Field-trip leaders: Benjamin Moon and Jakob Vinther. |
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Field-trip 2: Classic microvertebrate sites near Bristol
08.30 – until late | Coach travel from The Hawthorns on the corner of Woodland Road and Elton Road. Expect to return in the late afternoon/early evening. Field-trip leaders: Mike Benton, David Whiteside and Pamela Gill. |
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