SVPCA 51 TALKS

[darren.naish@port.ac.uk]

The third circular for the 51st SVPCA arrived today. The 
following talks are among those listed..

Buffetaut: A mysterious giant pterosaur from the Lower 
Cretaceous of eastern France

Dyke: Fossils, basal relationships, and timing of divergence 
of Palaeognathiformes

Elzanowski: The missing principles of palaeontological 
reconstruction

Evans, M: An intriguing new plesiosaur from the 
Pliensbachian of England

Evans, S. E. et al: Fossil salamanders from the Jurassic of 
Euramerica

Forrest: Plesiosaur vertebrae from the Rhaetian bone beds: 
what's the point?

Henderson: Sauropod body shapes and narrow- and wide-
gauge trackways

Herkner & Spitz: A never-ending story - confusion about 
the limb position of _Triceratops_

Hutt: seriously large dinosaurs from seriously small scraps

Maderson: Feather development: the whole story and how it 
impacts putative feathered dinosaurs

Milner et al: A bird-like brain in _Archaeopteryx_ - 
evidence from high resolution tomography of the braincase

Naish: An enigmatic small theropod from the Cretaceous of 
Brazil

Norman: _Heterodontosaurus_: its cranial anatomy and 
systematics

Parish: The phylogenetic placement and the evolution of the 
dodo (_Raphus cucullatus_) and solitaire (_Pezophaps 
solitaria_)  (Aves: Columbifomes)

Parrish: New insights into the anatomy of _Azendohsaurus_ 
and implications for the phylogeny of basalm ornithodirans

Renesto: New data on the anatomy and biogeography of the 
Drepanosauridae

Steel: A new pterosaur from the Isle of Wight

Unwin: Pterosaur tracks: one steo beyond

Upchurch & Martin: _Cetiosaurus_: the 'first' sauropod 
genus

Also loads of interest in the posters but no time to list them 
too. Check out the website for further info.. www.svpca.org

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Darren Naish
School of Earth & Environmental Sciences
University of Portsmouth UK, PO1 3QL

email: darren.naish@port.ac.uk
tel: 023 92846045