Progressive Palaeontology 2016

Progressive Palaeontology (ProgPal) is an annual conference for postgraduate research students who wish to present their results at any stage of their research.

This year the conference was hosted by The University of Oxford in the beautiful Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

Session 1
Pedro L. Godoy
Tracking changes in the ecological diversity of Crocodylomorpha through deep geological time

Melanie Tietje
From fossil record to amphibian conservation

James Ormiston
Evolutionary Biomechanics of the Dinosaur Jaw Mechanism

Claire Bullar
What were they thinking? Exploring the potential of neurocranial anatomical studies throughout Ceratopsia

Daniel D. Cashmore
The completeness of the tetrapod fossil record

Serjoscha W. Evers
Homology issues with the trigeminal nerve foramina in turtles and saurians

Session 2
Orla Bath Enright
Turbulent behaviour: Preservation and survivorship potential of softbodied organisms in sediment-density flows

Thomas Hearing
Cambrian microfossils to Cambrian climates: can ‘small shelly fossils’ be used to quantify ancient ocean conditions?

Frances S. Dunn
Ediacaran Developmental Biology

Thomas Clements
Seeing into the Carboniferous: eyes of Tullimonstrum gregarium (Mazon Creek, Carboniferous) reveal a vertebrate affinity

Elspeth Wallace
Microvertebrates from the Hell Creek Formation of South Dakota, USA

Harriet B. Drage
Exceptional preservation of trilobite moulting behaviour from the Emu Bay Shale, South Australia

Session 3
Armin Elsler
Macroevolution of parareptiles

Suresh Singh
Investigating the decline of the Synapsida across the Permo-Triassic extinction and early Mesozoic using mandibular morphometrics

Edward Strickson
Dynamics of dental evolution in ornithopod dinosaurs

Katherine Williams
Quantitative virtual histology: visualising the microstructure of avian bone using high-resolution and high-throughput synchrotron-based computed tomography

Maurizio Sansonetti
Multidisciplinary methodological study on the origin of tissue-specific uv luminescence emission on well preserved vertebrate fossils