SVPCA 1999

[darren.naish@port.ac.uk]

Though Richard Ellis tells me I shouldn't be wasting my time on 
email:), I have to write seeing as I've just received the 
provisional programme for this year's SVPCA (Symposium on Vertebrate 
Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy - Europe's version of the SVP 
meeting). Held at the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, 
between 8th and 11th September, and with its official meal being held 
at the world famous Edinburgh Zoo, I think this will be one of the 
best SVPCAs ever, a fact also reflected by some of the people 
scheduled to attend. Oliver Rieppel, Ewan Fordyce and Hans Sues will 
be joining us for (I think) the first time. 

Talks scheduled to occur (I am not giving the full titles as it would 
take too long - I have to leave and feed the cat in a few minutes) 
include....

MARINE REPTILES

A.R.I. Cruickshank: _Eurycleidus_
D.S. Brown: Hugh Miller's plesiosaur
L.F. Noe: Kimmeridge pliosaurs
O. Rieppel: Cyamodontoid phylogeny + biogeography

PTEROSAURS

D.M. Martill & E. Frey: Pterosaur hind legs
M. Wilkinson: Pterosaur flight performance
D.M. Unwin: Pterosaur wing fibres

DINOSAURS

P. Upchurch: Early sauropodomorph evolution
M.J. Benton: _Thecodontosaurus_
P.M. Barrett: Japanese Cretaceous ornithischian
A.C. Milner: Spinosaur update
H.-D. Sues, E. Frey & D.M. Martill: _Irritator_
E. Rayfield: FE analysis theropod skulls
D. Naish: Tree-climbing theropods (what???)

BIRDY DINOSAURS

P. Davis: Evolution of avian endothermy
E. Buffetaut: _Gastornis_ + _Diatryma_
G.J. Dyke: London Clay birds
A. Walsh: Chilean Neogene seabirds

MAMMALS

E. Fordyce: Oligocene squalodontids
N. Inuzuka: Desmostylian morphology
P.D. Polly: _Viverravus_ skull

Many more talks and numerous posters are also scheduled. I'm looking 
fwd to it, though terrified at the prospect of doing yet another 
laughably bad talk. I will follow this with another at SVP.

DARREN NAISH 
PALAEOBIOLOGY RESEARCH GROUP
School of Earth, Environmental & Physical Sciences
UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH
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