Published on May 21st, 2013 | by David Marshall
ProgPal 2013 @ Leeds
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Schedule (all times +0 GMT)
The full programme, including abstracts, can be found here
09.00 Welcome to Leeds
Professor Jane Francis & Tom Fletcher
Session 1 – Reconstructing Life Habits
09.20 Reconstructing Ammonite Life-Habits: A Modern Perspective on a Centuries Old Question
Robert Lemanis
09.40 Determining the dietary preferences of the Port Jackson shark
Laura McLennan
10.00 Getting geometric with ruminant rostra
Jon Tennant
10.25 Biomechanical evidence for niche partitioning between sympatric sauropod dinosaurs
David Button
Break
Session 2 – Palaeoenvironments
11.45 Late Pliocene lakes and soils: A global data set for the analysis of climate feedbacks in a warmer world
Dr Matt Pound
12.05 TBA (unfortunately the original speaker’s visa could not be processed in time for the meeting)
TBA
12.25 Adventures in the Atacama: a high fidelity record of Neogene seasonality for the East Pacific?
Nicola Clark
Lunch Break
Session 3 – Vertebrate Evolution
14.00 Early Vertebrate Skeletogenesis
Joseph Keating
14.20 Rates of morphological evolution in the origin of the birds
Mark Puttick
14.40 Redescription of Elachistosuchus huenei and a reappraisal of the phylogenetic relationships of basal Sauria (Neodipasida) based on Computed micro-Tomography
Gabriela Sobral
15.00 The evolutionary radiation of Triassic marine reptiles
Tom Stubbs
Break
Session 4 – Exceptional Preservation
15.55 A Doushantuo-type acritarch assemblage from phosphorite pebbles of the Ediacaran Biskopås Formation of Southern Norway
Peter Adamson
16.20 Preserving Cambrian bodies in the Sirius Pass, North Greenland
Katie Strang
16.40 Dumbbells and Basil Brushes – painting a new picture of the Ediacaran macrofossils of Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire
Charlotte Kenchington
17.00 Experimental decay and disarticulation of phyllocarids and the implications for the arthropod fossil record
Oliver Knevitt
