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Published on July 6th, 2016 | by David Marshall

EAVP 2016

XIV Annual Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists,
Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands. 6-9th July 2016.

Thursday July 7

08:30 Welcome by EAVP President Dino Frey and Introduction by Trienke van der Spek, Teylers Museum

08:45 Christian Meyer: TRACKING ARCHOSAURS IN SWITZERLAND – PAST AND PRESENT (keynote)

09:15 Ana Baez: NEW EVIDENCE FROM THE LOWER JURASSIC OF PATAGONIA SHEDS LIGHT ON THE HISTORY OF SOME OF THE EARLIEST KNOWN FROGS

09:30 Erin Maxwell: NEW ICHTHYOSAURS FROM THE EARLY CRETACEOUS OF COLOMBIA, WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR DIVERSITY IN THE PALAEOTROPICS (keynote)

Symposium ‘Fossillegal’

10:00 John Martin: INTERNATIONAL LEGISLATION, THE SEMANTICS OF ‘CULTURAL PROPERTY’, AND WHY THEY ARE BAD FOR PALAEONTOLOGY AND PEOPLE (keynote)

11:00 Jeff Liston: introduction

11:15 Eberhard ‘Dino’ Frey: FOSSILS: NATIONAL MONUMENTS, TRADING OBJECTS, OR BOTH?

11.30 Dave Unwin: HANDS OFF, IT’S MY COLLECTION! FOSSILS, MUSEUMS AND THE PROBLEMS OF ACCESS

11.45 Hans-Jacob ‘Kirby’ Siber: 40 YEARS AS A FOSSIL PROSPECTOR, COLLECTOR AND EXHIBITION MAKER

12.00 Anthony Maltese: COLLECTION AND PLACEMENT OF FOSSILS IN COMMERCIAL PALAEONTOLOGY: PRACTICAL AND ETHICAL CONCERNS

12:15 Dave Martill: SHOULD PALAEONTOLOGISTS BEHAVE ETHICALLY? PROTECT THE FOSSILS OR PROTECT THE COMMUNITIES WHO DIG THEM?

14:00 Taissa Rodrigues: BRAZILIAN PALAEONTOLOGICAL LEGISLATION

14:15 Paul Barrett: PUBLISH OR PROHIBIT? THE ETHICS OF PUBLISHING ON PRIVATELY-OWNED FOSSILS

14:30 Oliver Rauhut: PRIVATE COLLECTIONS: PROBLEM OR BONUS FOR SCIENCE?

14:45 Raymund Albersdörfer: FOSSIL LEGISLATION – PROTECTION OR DESTRUCTION?

15:00 Nicola Stead: FOSSILS, PUBLISHING AND OPEN ACCESS

15:45 Jeff Liston: AN INNOCENT ACADEMIC ABROAD?: EASY FOSSILS AND HARD CHOICES, CHINA AS A MICROCOSM OF THE CHALLENGES OF 21ST CENTURY PALAEONTOLOGY

16:00 ‘Fossillegal’ Roundtable

Friday July 8

Symposium ‘Early Tetrapods Awaken’

08:30 Struan Henderson: SHAPE-SHIFTING ENDOCASTS: 3D MORPHOMETRICS AND TRENDS IN PALAEOZOIC FISH ENDOCASTS

08:45 Tom Challands: EARLIEST CARBONIFEROUS DIPNOI: POST-HANGENBERG RECOVERY AND THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA OF LUNGFISH

09:00 Tim Smithson: PREDICTING THE LIKELY LOCATION OF NEW EARLY TETRAPOD SITES: LESSONS FROM RECENT DISCOVERIES IN ROMER’S GAP

09:15 Jennifer Clack: MORPHOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS IN THE EARLIEST POSTDEVONIAN TETRAPODS: ADAPTATIONS FOR TERRESTRIALITY?

09:30 Thomas Arbez: AN EXCEPTIONALLY WELL-PRESERVED SKULL OF STANOCEPHOSAURUS (TEMNOSPONDYLI: CAPITOSAURIA) LEADS TO A NEW HYPOTHESIS ON THE OPERATION OF THE TEMNOSPONDYL AUDITORY SYSTEM

09:45 David Marjanovic: TEMNOSPONDYLS, LISSAMPHIBIANS, AND MIDDLE EARS

10:00 Kamil Gruntmejer: COMBINED OSTEOHISTOLOGICAL AND COMPUTED FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF METOPOSAURUS KRASIEJOWENSIS (AMPHIBIA, TEMNOSPONDYLI) SKULL BIOMECHANICS

10:15 Ella Teschner: HISTOLOGICAL STUDIES AS THE KEY TO POPULATION ANALYSIS – THE EXAMPLE OF METOPOSAURUS KRASIEJOWENSIS FROM KRASIEJOW, SE POLAND

11:00 Sanjukta Chakravorti: INDIAN METOPOSAURID AMPHIBIANS: MORPHOMETRY, TAXONOMY AND DISPERSAL

11:15 Dhurjati Prasad Sengupta: TRIASSIC TEMNOSPONDYL AMPHIBIANS OF INDIA: THEIR DIVERSITY, DISPARITY AND NON-ENDEMISM

11:30 Sebastien Steyer: THE AMPHIBIANS STRIKE BACK – THE FIRST TEMNOSPONDYL FROM THE PALEOZOIC OF ZAMBIA

11.45 Josep Fortuny: SWIMMING WITH TEMNOSPONDYLS: A NEW APHANERAMMA (TEMNOSPONDYLI, TREMATOSAURIDAE) IN THE EARLY TRIASSIC OF MADAGASCAR

12:00 Celeste Pérez Ben: MINIATURIZATION AND PAEDOMORPHOSIS IN TEMNOSPONDYL AMPHIBIANS

12:15 Armin Elsler: DIVERSITY AND BODY SIZE EVOLUTION IN PARAREPTILIA

Symposium ‘Insular Vertebrate Palaeontology’

14:00 Paul Mazza: OVERSEA DISPERSAL TO MADAGASCAR: A GAMBLING MIRACLE?

14:15 Lars van den Hoek Ostende: THE INSULAR PARADOX

14:30 Judith Masters: EVOLUTION OF THE SOUTHERN OCEANS WITH A FOCUS ON MADAGASCAR AND ITS RIF-RAF INHABITANTS

14:45 Hanneke Meijer: A HYDROTAPHONOMIC MODEL FOR THE MARE AUX SONGES DODO-LAGERSTÄTTE IN MAURITIUS: MIRED IN TOXIC LOW VISCOSITY MUD

15:00 Anneke van Heteren: THE FEEDING BIOMECHANICS OF HAAST’S EAGLE (HARPAGORNIS MOOREI)

15:45 Daniela Winkler: HUMAN IMPACT CHANGES TOOTH WEAR OF MALAGASY BLACK RATS

16:00 Elehna Bethune: MULTI PROXY DIETARY TRAIT RECONSTRUCTION IN PLEISTOCENE HIPPOPOTAMIDAE FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN ISLANDS (CETARTIODACTYLA, MAMMALIA)

16:15 Maria Rita Palombo: LIGHTS AND SHADOWS IN THE EVOLUTIONARY PATTERNS OF INSULAR ELEPHANTINI

16:30 Andrea Savorelli: NEW UNEXPECTED BREAKTHROUGHS FROM THE MIOCENE ENDEMIC FAUNA OF THE APULIA PLATFORM (ITALY): A FAR MORE COMPLEX SCENARIO

16:45 Eric Buffetaut: THE GIANT BIRD GARGANTUAVIS: A CASE OF INSULAR EVOLUTION IN LATE CRETACEOUS EUROPE?

17:00 Vlad Codrea: LATEST CRETACEOUS MICROVERTEBRATE DIVERSITY OF THE TRANSYLVANIAN LANDMASS

17:15 Oliver Wings: THE LATE JURASSIC MAMMAL ASSEMBLAGE FROM THE LANGENBERG QUARRY (LOWER SAXONY, GERMANY)

Saturday July 9

08:30 Paul Barrett: THE SCIENCE OF ‘SOPHIE’ THE STEGOSAURUS: BUILDING A RESEARCH PROGRAMME AROUND A NEW ACQUISITION (keynote)

09:00 Suzie Maidment: LATITUDINAL BIODIVERSITY GRADIENTS IN DEEP TIME: A CASE STUDY USING THE DINOSAURS OF THE MORRISON FORMATION, WESTERN USA

09:15 Richard Butler: THE PERMO-TRIASSIC DIVERSIFICATION OF ARCHOSAUROMORPHS (keynote)

Symposium ‘Hominins’

09:45 John de Vos: introduction: DUBOIS: TRINIL, TEYLERS, TEGELEN

10:00 David Lordkipanidze: THE FIRST HOMO OUT OF AFRICA (keynote)

11:00 Luc Amkreutz: DEFINING NEW BOUNDARIES? PALAEOLITHIC RESEARCH IN THE NETHERLANDS AND ADJACENT DOGGERLAND (keynote)

11:30 Adrian Lister: ‘NATIVITY’ IN THE BONE BEDS OF BETHLEHEM

11.45 Ahmet Aytek: A GENERAL OVERVIEW OF PLEISTOCENE HOMININ REMAINS FROM TURKEY

12:00 Berna Alpagut: 32 YEARS OF EXCAVATION IN PAŞALAR (TURKEY): THE RICHEST HOMINOID LOCALITY OF THE WORLD

12:15 Jordi Marcé-Nogué: BIOMECHANICS AS A PREDICTOR OF ENAMEL THICKNESS IN EXTINCT PRIMATES

14:00 Mark Sier: THE FIRST MODERN HUMANS OUTSIDE AFRICA (keynote)

14:30 José Joordens: REVISITING TRINIL: GETTING TO KNOW HOMO ERECTUS (keynote)

15:45 David Unwin: THE REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY OF PTEROSAURS

16:00 Aude Cincotta: STUDY OF PRESERVED INTEGUMENTS FROM THE CRANIUM OF A TAPEJARID PTEROSAUR

16:15 Miguel Moreno-Azanza: HIGH CONCENTRATIONS OF TURTLE EGGSHELLS (TESTUDOOLITHIDAE) IN AN EOCENE DELTAIC PLAIN (SOBRARBE DELTAIC COMPLEX, NORTHERN SPAIN)

16:30 Massimo Delfino: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE EUROPEAN CROCODYLIANS (keynote)