Plesiosaur Day
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New Walk Museum, Leicester
18th November 2004
Revised Schedule.
- Welcome by Arthur Cruickshank
- Franziska Grossman - Plesiosaurs from the Posidonia Shale of S. W. Germany
- Adam S. Smith - The cladistic analysis of plesiosaurs.
- Coffee
- Mark Evans - Current research (Presented by Arthur Cruickshank)
- Denis Parsons - The Somerset plesiosaur.
- Lunch
- Richard Forrest - Morphometric and statistical methods of analysing plesiosaur vertebral columns.
- Richard Forrest - Introduction to the Lincoln plesiosaur.
- Tea
- Brief presentation and commentary on some plesiosaur gastroliths by Mike Everhart.
- Open forum for discussion
- The meeting closed at about 17:00
Present and attending
Dave Martill, Darren Naish, Arthur Cruickshank, Franziska Grossmann, Denis Parsons, Mark Evans, Richard Forrest, Adam S. Smith.
Apologies from
Leslie Noè, Marcela Gomez and David Brown.
Additional Contributions.
Some unanswered questions and potential areas for research.
- Plesiosaur ancestry
- European Cretaceous plesiosaurs
- Kimmeridge Clay plesiosaurs
- Lower Cretaceous plesiosaurs
- General
- Taxonomy
- Behaviour
- Gastroliths
References
Acknowledgements
My thanks to all those who attened the meeting, and especially to Darren Naish for his notes which contributed substantially to this account.
Plesiosaur Day, 18th November 2004,
New Walk Museum, Leicester.
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