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The 65th Symposium on Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy & The 26th Symposium on Palaeontological Preparation and Conservation UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM: 12TH–15TH SEPTEMBER 2017 ABSTRACT VOLUME utes min Key 15 G21 Y2 Building name Oakley The Vale Footpath SOM Court ERSET RO Edgbaston Campus Map Information point AD SVPCA & SPPC Venues B9 Level access entrance Medical Practice The Elms and Dental Centre Day Nursery Index to buildings by zone Tennis Court Steps University of Birmingham Visitors car park D G20 P A O Edgbaston Campus (B15 2TT) Red Zone O4 Ash House Hospital Pritchatts House R H RD A R1 Law Building O5 Beech House HO 24 hour security R G19 24 Ashcroft U RQ Park House R2 Frankland Building O6 Cedar House AR Bus stops HA R3 Hills Building O7 New Sports Development - Pritchatts Park UF L Q CANA Village P R Library A AM R 1 University Train Station R4 Aston Webb – Lapworth Museum completion 2016 F I T C Museum 13 Pritchatts Road E Conference H D R5 Aston Webb – B Block D BIRMINGH The Spinney A G18 Priorsfield Park AN G T Sport facilities T B R6 Aston Webb – Great Hall Green Zone S A CESTER R ST G17 Peter Scott House First aid O WOR (R23) R7 Aston Webb – Student Hub G1 32 Pritchatts Road O Avon Room & Lounge A 2 D N G5 R8 Physics West G2 31 Pritchatts Road Food and drink P G16 Lucas House P A 5 Pritchatts Road R - Registration (12th-14th) R9 Nuffield G3 European Research Institute K Retail Car Park R s O R10 Physics East G4 3 Elms Road inute G14 - Poster session (Wed 13th) Toilets B8 10 m Garth House A G4 Conference D G15 Westmere R11 Medical Physics G5 Computer Centre ATM Park - Platform presentations (12th-14th) R12 Bramall Music Building G6 Metallurgy and Materials Canal bridge D B7 B6 A R13 Poynting Building G7 IRC Net Shape Laboratory G1 O R Sculpture trail BRAILSFORD DRIVE R14 Barber Institute of Fine Arts G8 Gisbert Kapp Building S Earth Sciences Department (R4) M 3 L Rail G3 E R15 Watson Building G9 52 Pritchatts Road G6 G2 G13 - Workshops (Tue 12th) R16 Arts Building G10 54 Pritchatts Road average walk time HOSPITAL DRIVE MINDELSOHN WAY B11 Hornton Grange from Chancellor’s Court B4 G12 R17 Ashley Building G11 Nicolson Building G7 Institute of B5 G8 Winterbourne R18 Strathcona Building G12 Winterbourne House and Garden Translational House and Medicine Garden 4 Lapworth Museum of Geology (R4) R19 Education Building G15 Westmere H O OLD QUEEN ELIZABETH B3 HOSPITAL G9 P R20 J G Smith Building G18 Priorsfield North North East G11 - Icebreaker event (Tue 12th) B10 E Gate Car Park Nicolson I V R21 Muirhead Tower G19 Park House R Building D G10 T R23 University Centre G20 Elms Plant N R29 PR E R25 utes ITC C CANAL min H (G16) M 5 A 5 Lucas House Accommodation R24 Staff House G22 Elms Day Nursery IN A Munrow TT GH P R20 S B2 V Sports Centre R B1 MIN North Car Park O ool R A R25 Munrow Sports Centre Green Zone Conference Park ical Sch BI D Med a ND A R R26 Geography G13 Hornton Grange E CEST WOR RIN R27 Biosciences Building G14 Garth House G RO R30 AD R21 NO R19 New R18 R R28 Murray Learning Centre G16 Lucas House C T B12 2 Library H Food Outlets on Campus EST R29 The Alan Walters Building G17 Peter Scott House D W R17 To New StreetOA and Five Ways 1 R University Y R30 New Library IT Station S R26 R R23 R16 E University Centre (R23) Yellow Zone IV A N R27 A Blue Zone Y1 Old Gymnasium U West - SPAR (ground floor) - grocery store serving hot food Gate R28R.30 University Square B1 Medical School Y2 Haworth Building R24 - (ground floor) - hot food, sandwiches, and salads R14 O KING Café GO B2 Institute of Biomedical Research Y3 Mechanical and Civil Y16 R15 The Barber EDWARD’S Institute of SCHOOL - COSTA (access from outside) including IBR West Engineering Building Y9 B Fine Arts Y8 R2 UN R1 IVER SITY B3 Wellcome Clinical Research Facility Y4 Terrace Huts Y2 ROA Y17 D EA ST East Staff House (R24) B4 Robert Aitken Institute for Y5 Estates West Y10 R13 Gate MAIN ENTRANCE B R3 Clinical Research Y6 Maintenance Building Y1 CHANCELLOR’S - (ground floor) - hot food COURT R8 O3 Bratby Bar R4 B5 CRUK Institute for Cancer Studies Y7 Grounds and Gardens Y12 D R9 E D - Café Aroma (1st floor) - coffee and sandwiches Y11 O R5 The Guild G and Denis Howell Building Y8 Chemistry West R12 of Students B 3 O2 A Y13 Bramall R10 - Noble Room (2nd floor) - hot food S R7 Music O1 B6 Research Park Y9 Computer Science R6 T Y3 Building O 24 N B7 90 Vincent Drive Y10 Alta Bioscience Student Hub P Sport, Y4 A C Muirhead Tower (R 21) E R B8 Henry Wellcome Building for Y11 Chemical Engineering Exercise and RIN Rehabilitation G R H K OAD SOUT Biomolecular NMR Spectroscopy Y12 Biochemical Engineering Sciences R11 R - Starbucks Y5 O B9 Medical Practice and Dental Centre Y13 Chemical Engineering Workshop Y14 AD O6 Cultural attractions Y6 4 O7 O5 Sport & Fitness Club B10 Advanced Therapies Facility Y14 Sport, Exercise and O4 To city centre D Bramall Music Building (R 12) B11 BioHub Birmingham Rehabilitation Sciences O Open to public Y15 Y7 - COSTA B12 Health Sciences Research Centre Y15 Civil Engineering Laboratories Barber Institute Sports Pitches of Fine Arts (R14) D (HSRC) Y16 Occupational Health Grange OA New residential L R Guild of Students (O1) Lapworth Museum block - under Road TO E Visitor Y17 Public Health Gate RIS To new School of Dentistry construction South B of Geology (R4) Gate 38 Orange Zone Pedestrian access only A - Subway - sandwiches and salads Parking O1 The Guild of Students Winterbourne House To Jarratt Hall To Selly Oak campus and - - grocery store serving hot food and Garden (G12) F TowardsUniversity of cityBirmingham centre School SPAR O2 St Francis Hall Bus stops O3 University House Towards Selly Oak F Selly Oak pubs/restaurants (student residential area) for restaurants/pubs ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The organizers would like to thank our generous sponsors—The Palaeontological Association, Wiley, eLife, PLOS ONE, Transmitting Science and PeerJ—for their financial support of the meeting. Many thanks to the members of the SVPCA Steering Group— Peter Falkingham, Richard Forrest, Cindy Howells, Susannah Maidment, Liz Martin- Silverstone, Rob Sansom, and Paul Upchurch—for support throughout, with particular thanks to Richard Forrest for running the SVPCA website and handling the abstract submission process. Finally, thanks to everyone who provided donations to the auction. HOST COMMITTEE Richard Butler (chair), Ivan Sansom, Stephan Lautenschlager, Susannah Thorpe, Roger Close, Plamen Andreev, Daniel Cashmore, Emma Dunne, Pedro Godoy, Andy Jones, Juan Benito. STUDENT HELPERS Emily Brown, Luke Meade, Kai McWhirter, Alahna Munks, Matthew Scandrett, Kelly Thompson. ABSTRACT PUBLICATION Abstract authors have been sent instructions via email of how to add their abstract, should they wish to, to a SVPCA/SPPC 2017 proceedings collection at PeerJ Preprints. Presentation slides, posters and resultant papers (if published in PeerJ) can also be added to this collection. The collection can be viewed at: https://peerj.com/collections/49-svpca-sppc-2017/ STUDENT PRESENTATION PRIZES There will be two student presentation prizes this year. The best student talk (platform or lightning) will win a full author processing charge (APC) waiver for a publication at PeerJ. The best student poster will win a tuition fee waiver for their choice of one of the training courses run by Transmitting Science in Barcelona. The judges for the prizes will be Rob Sansom, Susannah Maidment, Paul Upchurch, Cindy Howells, and Richard Forrest. 3 JONES-FENLEIGH FUND Following review of all applications, the Host Committee decided to this year award four full Jones-Fenleigh (JF) grants of up to £250 each, and four partial JF grants of up to £150 each. Subsequently, a generous donation from PeerJ allowed us to provide partial JF grants of up to £100 each to two further applicants. As such, the JF this year was able to support 10 applicants. The awardees of the JF grants for 2017 were: Bruno Campos (Karlsruhe), Sally Collins (Birkbeck), Davide Foffa (Edinburgh), Struan Henderson (Edinburgh), Elizabeth Kerr (Paris), Elizabeth Martin-Silverstone (Southampton), Philip Morris (Hull), Emma Randle (Manchester), Aubrey Roberts (Southampton) and Christina Shears-Ozeki (Portsmouth). LOGO The logo of the 2017 SVPCA meeting features a pterosaur clinging to one of the faces of the clock of the iconic ‘Old Joe’ tower, which lies at the heart of the University of Birmingham (UoB) campus. The logo was designed by Plamen Andreev, a postdoctoral researcher in vertebrate palaeontology at UoB, and the pterosaur was inspired by a reconstruction of Eudimorphodon by Todd Marshall. Old Joe is the tallest free-standing clock tower in the world, a well-known landmark in south Birmingham, home to a breeding pair of peregrine falcons, and much loved by UoB students, even having its own Twitter account. The logo also pays an indirect homage to the work of one of Birmingham’s most famous literary figures, J. R. R. Tolkien, who grew up in what are now the nearby Birmingham suburbs of Kings Heath, Moseley and Edgbaston, and attended the King Edward’s School adjacent to the UoB campus. Tolkien is believed to have drawn inspiration from a number of landmarks in the city when writing his Middle-earth novels, and Old Joe is reputed to have inspired the Eye of Sauron.