Progressive Palaeontology (ProgPal) 2020 was held online between the 11th to 13th June due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Talks were delivered as videos, and posters placed online. Authors were provided with the option of making their talks or posters public after the event, and these are linked below. You will find a section for talks, then one for lightning talks, and finally posters.
Talks
Below you can find the talks for Progressive Palaeontology 2020 - click on the link to view the talk in your browser.
| Code | Authors | Talk Title | Link to talk |
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| F05 | Thomas Cowgill | Paranasal sinus system evolution in metriorhynchoid crocodylomorphs | Link |
| F10 | Martha Gibson | A tale of 2 reconstructions: how we got the British Late Permian all wrong because we forgot about plants | Link |
| F16 | Alice Maher | The evolution of body shape, locomotion and ecology in terrestrial vertebrates | Link |
| F19 | Elvira Piqueras Ricote | Eolarva kuanchuanpuensis is not the earliest metazoan larva | Link |
| F23 | Amy Shore | Multiple branching and attachment structures in cloudinomorphs, Nama Group, Namibia | Link |
Lightning talks
Below you can find the lightning talks for Progressive Palaeontology 2020 - click on the link to view the talk in your browser.
| Code | Authors | Talk Title | Link to talk |
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| L01 | Sophia Anderson | The Osteology of Goniacodon: Understanding a Poorly Studied Paleocene Mammal | Link |
| L05 | Milan Chroust | In Europe alone: A revision of the soft-shell turtle Rafetus bohemicus (Liebus 1930) from Břešťany Clay (Lower Miocene, Czech Republic) | Link |
| L07 | Jennifer Farrant | Using mass spectrometry with benthic foraminifera to investigate Early and Middle Eocene climate variability in the Rockall Trough, NE Atlantic | Link |
| L10 | Tasnuva Ming Khan | The Effects of Sampling on Extinction Selectivity in Deep Time | Link |
| L13 | Katherine Marriott | Sedimentological and Morphological Basis for Probable Life Appearance of Nostoceratid Heteromorph Ammonoids | Link |
| L14 | Brett Martin | Palaeoenvironment Reconstruction and Biostratigraphy of the Maltese Archipelago and its Implications for Modern Climate Change | Link |
| L20 | Edwin Rodriguez Dzul | Fossil microorganisms from the Rhynie Chert: importance and implications for early ecosystems | Link |
| L24 | Savanna van Mesdag | Hyperossification in the vertebral column of Devonian placoderm fishes (Arthrodira) | Link |
Posters
Below you can find the posters for Progressive Palaeontology 2020 - click on the link to view the poster in your browser.
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Limb proportions indicate Protemnodon’s locomotion was divergent from modern large macropodines.
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Liberating microfossils from indurated carbonates: comparison of three disaggregation methods
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Brainteasers: Evolution and variation in cynodont endocranial anatomy
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A 3D reconstruction of the extinct giant shark Otodus megalodon
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Evolution of reticulate Nummulites across the Eocene-Oligocene transition: comparisons from 2D sections and 3D reconstructions
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Topological and algebraic expressions for the microstructure and septal growth styles of the Zaphrentis delanouei species group.
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