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| Tuesday 28th August |
| header | SPPC morning session |
| 10:00-12:00 | Tours of new Hunterian and Kelvingrove Museum vertebrate palaeontological displays |
| John-Paul Sumner | Creating the vertebrate palaeontological displays for the Kelvingrove Museum | Abstract |
| 12:00-13:00 | Leslie F. Noč | Practical demonstration of historical glue-making, and implications for conservation | Abstract |
| header | SPPC Talks |
| | Session 1 - Chair: Richard Forrest |
| 14:00-14:20 | Steve Etches | The rather naive idea of forming a museum on the Jurassic Coast | Abstract |
| 14:20-14:40 | Michaela Forthuber | Fake Rock, Real Sand: The making of the exhibition 'Sahara - living desert' | Abstract |
| 14:40-15:00 | Nigel R. Larkin | The virtual and physical preparation of the Collard Plesiosaur | Abstract |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee |
| | Session 2 - Chair: Leslie Noč |
| 15:30-15:50 | Neffra A. Matthews and Brent H. Breithaupt | Palaeontological preservation with 21st century documentation: using photogrammetry to produce highly detailed 3D image models | Abstract |
| 15:50-16:10 | Cindy Howells | The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: Preparation from the Wild West | Abstract |
| 16:10-16:30 | Emma-Louise Nicholls | Emergency remedial conservation of homeless Mammoth material | Abstract |
| Evening | Icebreaker in Zoology Museum (including JFMF charity auction) |
| header | SVPCA Sessions |
| Wednesday 29th August |
| 09:00-09:10 | Welcome from Ewen Smith, Director of the Hunterian Museum |
| | Session 1 - Chair: Jon Jeffery |
| 09:10-09:30 | Zerina Johanson, Robert Carr and Alex Ritchie | Segmental identity within the vertebral column: what can fossils tell us? | Abstract |
| 09:30-09:50 | Kate Trinajstic, Carina Marshall, John Long and Kat Bifield | Muscling in on placoderms | Abstract |
| 09:50-10:10 | Robert K. Carr, Zerina Johanson, Alex Ritchie, Hervé Leličvre and Daniel Goujet | The contribution of placoderms to our understanding of the ontogeny and evolution of early gnathostomes | Abstract |
| 10:10-10:30 | Emma-Louise Nicholls | Using sharks as indicators of trophic structure within 'mid' Cretaceous watermasses | Abstract |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee |
| | Session 2 - Chair: Marcello Ruta |
| 11:00-11:20 | Matt Friedman, Kenshu Shimada and Anthony Maltese | New insights on the Upper Cretaceous pachycormid 'Protosphyraena' gladius (Actinopterygii: Teleostei) from North America | Abstract |
| 11:20-11:40 | Jonathan E. Jeffery and Martin D. Brazeau | Hyomandibulae of Rhizodontids (Sarcopterygii, Stem-Tetrapoda) | Abstract |
| 11:40-12:00 | Catherine A. Boisvert and Per Erik Ahlberg | The pectoral fin of the near-tetrapod Panderichthys rhombolepis | Abstract |
| 12:00-12:20 | Leslie F. Noč and Jeff J. Liston | Tales from the 'Leeds Collection' - a unique palaeontological and archival resource | Abstract |
| 12:20-14:00 | Group photograph, then break for lunch |
| | Session 3 - Chair: Matt Friedman |
| 14:00-14:20 | Marcello Ruta and Michael J. Benton | Calibrated diversity, tree topology and the mother of mass extinctions: the lesson of temnospondyls | Abstract |
| 14:20-14:40 | Alexandra Houssaye and Jean-Claude Rage | Isolated bones versus articulated skeletons: the problem of parataxonomy in fossil squamates | Abstract |
| 14:40-15:00 | Sarah Fielding | All at sea: Late Jurassic Testudines from Europe | Abstract |
| 15:00-15:20 | Marc E. H. Jones | Skull joints in Sphenodon and other Rhynchocephalia (Diapsida: Lepidosauria) | Abstract |
| 15:20-15:40 | Michael I. Coates, Patrick Gavin and Neil D. L. Clark | New discoveries from Bearsden: reassessing the early record of post-Devonian fishes | Abstract |
| 15:40-16:00 | Coffee |
| | Session 4 - Chair: Mark Evans |
| 16:00-16:20 | Mark Young | A taxonomic tale: What exactly are Metriorhynchus and Geosaurus? | Abstract |
| 16:20-16:40 | Marco Brandalise de Andrade and Reinaldo J. Bertini | The specialized dentition of derived notosuchians (Crurotarsi: Mesoeucrocodylia) | Abstract |
| 16:40-17:00 | Michael J. Benton, Richard J. Twitchett, Tim Kearsey, Andrew J. Newell, Marcello Ruta, Mikhail V.Surkov, Graeme Taylor and Valentin P. Tverdokhlebov | Mass extinction of tetrapods at the Permo-Triassic boundary in Russia | Abstract |
| 17:00-17:20 | Hilary Ketchum | A new global phylogeny of Plesiosauria (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) | Abstract |
| 18:30 | Lord Provost's Civic Reception (location map) |
| Thursday 30th August |
| | Session 1 - Chair: Richard Forrest |
| 08:30-08:50 | Adam Stuart Smith | A skeletal reconstruction of Rhomaleosaurus and the systematics of pliosaurs | Abstract |
| 08:50-09:10 | Donald M. Henderson | A nearly complete elasmosaur from the Late Cretaceous Bearpaw Formation of Alberta, Canada | Abstract |
| 09:10-09:30 | Peggy Vincent | Osteological redescription, taxonomical and phylogenetical position of 'Plesiosaurus' macrocephalus, specimen NHM 49202, from the Lias of England | Abstract |
| 09:30-09:50 | Mark Evans | Processes and flanges: the evolution of the plesiosaur braincase and posterior palate | Abstract |
| 9:50-10:10 | Coffee |
| | Session 2 - Chair: Mike Coates |
| 10:10-10:30 | David M. Unwin, Matthew Wilkinson, Lü Jungchang and Natalie Bakhurina | Further evidence for a broad forewing in pterosaurs | Abstract |
| 10:30-10:50 | David W.E. Hone | Cope's Rule in Mesozoic archosaurs | Abstract |
| 10:50-11:10 | Paul M. Barrett, Victoria Page and Alistair McGowan | Mesozoic dinosaur diversity: taxic, phylogenetic and sampling approaches | Abstract |
| 11:10-11:30 | Nizar Ibrahim, Lahssen Baider, Gareth Dyke, Nour-Eddine Jalil, Fouad Ouanaimi, Remmert Schouten and Samir Zouhri | Vertebrate palaeontology of the Kem Kem Beds, Morocco and palaeoecology of North Africa | Abstract |
| 11:30-11:50 | Vincent Fernandez, Paul Tafforeau and Eric Buffetaut | 3D imaging of enigmatic tiny eggs with embryos from the Lower Cretaceous of Thailand using phase contrast X-ray synchrotron microtomography | Abstract |
| 11:50-13:30 | Lunch |
| | Session 3 - Chair: Brent Breithaupt |
| 13:30-13:50 | Roger B. J. Benson | Basal tyrannosauroids: a new theropod dinosaur from the Kimmeridge Clay (Late Jurassic: Tithonian) of Dorset, UK representing a large-bodied species of the North American genus Stokesosaurus | Abstract |
| 13:50-14:10 | Darren Naish | The large theropods Becklespinax and Valdoraptor from the Lower Cretaceous of England | Abstract |
| 14:10-14:30 | Stephen L. Brusatte, Roger B. J. Benson and Stephen Hutt | Redescription of Neovenator salerii (Dinosauria: Theropoda) and its implications for theropod evolution and phylogeny | Abstract |
| 14:30-14:50 | Manabu Sakamoto | Scaling bite force in predatory tetrapods: bite force is proportional to body mass2/3 | Abstract |
| 14:50-15:10 | Tom Hübner | Dryosaurus lettowvorbecki - first results of a palaeobiological study | Abstract |
| 15:10-15:40 | Coffee |
| 15:40-16:30 | Plenary on SVP 2009 |
| Evening | Whisky-tasting with Dr. Jim Hansom at the Hunterian Museum, including a short introduction to William Hunter's fossil vertebrate collection. more |
| Friday 31st August |
| | Session 1 - Chair: Darren Naish |
| 09:10-09:30 | Neffra A. Matthews and Brent H. Breithaupt | Wading across the pond: a photogrammetric, spatial, and morphological comparison of Middle Jurassic dinosaur tracks from North America and the United Kingdom | Abstract |
| 09:30-09:50 | Brent H. Breithaupt, Neffra A. Matthews and Todd L. Green | Growing up in the Middle Jurassic: ichnological evidence for family groups of theropods in Wyoming; comparison of footprints and growth rates of emus and dinosaurs | Abstract |
| 09:50-10:10 | Kent A. Stevens and Eric D. Wills | Kinematic constraints on the reconstruction of dinosaur gaits | Abstract |
| 10:10-10:30 | Paul Upchurch and Jeffrey A. Wilson | Euhelopus zdanksyi and its bearing on the evolution of East Asian sauropod dinosaurs | Abstract |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee |
| | Session 2 - Chair: Jerry Hooker |
| 11:00-11:20 | Richard J. Butler, Paul M. Barrett, Paul Kenrick and Malcolm G. Penn | Palaeoenvironmental controls on the distribution of Cretaceous herbivorous dinosaurs | Abstract |
| 11:20-11:40 | Eric Buffetaut | The ceratopsian dinosaur Psittacosaurus in Southeast Asia : a review of old and new finds | Abstract |
| 11:40-12:00 | Stig A. Walsh and Angela C. Milner | Wise as an owl - 147 million years of avian brain evolution | Abstract |
| 12:00-12:20 | Felix Marx and Pam Gill | And yet it does replace? Some new thoughts on the diversity and tooth replacement in the Mesozoic mammal Morganucodon watsoni | Abstract |
| 12:20-12:40 | Anjali Goswami, Vera Weisbecker and Marcello R. Sánchez-Villagra | Developmental modularity and the marsupial-placental dichotomy | Abstract |
| 12:40-14:00 | Lunch |
| | Session 3 - Chair: Anjali Goswami |
| 14:00-14:20 | Stephen Wroe, Philip Clausen, Colin McHenry and Karen Moreno | Computer simulation of feeding behaviour in marsupial and placental carnivores | Abstract |
| 14:20-14:40 | J.J. Hooker and David L. Harrison | A new primate clade from the European Eocene | Abstract |
| 14:40-15:00 | Eugenie C. Barrow, Erik R. Seiffert and Elwyn L. Simons | Craniodental and postcranial morphology of a primitive hyracoid (Mammalia, Paenungulata) from the early Priabonian (late Eocene) of Egypt | Abstract |
| 15:00-15:20 | Plenary Session: SVPCA 2009 |
| | Session 4 - Chair: Tom Kemp |
| 15:40-16:00 | Sarah C. Joomun, Jerry J. Hooker and Margaret E. Collinson | Dietary change in a plant eating mammal across the Eocene/Oligocene transition | Abstract |
| 16:00-16:20 | Eleanor M. Weston and Adrian M. Lister | Brain size and insular dwarfism: a case study of the extinct dwarf hippopotamuses from Madagascar | Abstract |
| 16:20-16:40 | Mark D. Hagge | Comparative ontogenetic analysis of extant rhinos and Teleoceras major, a North American rhino | Abstract |
| 16:40-16:30 | Ten minutes on Field Trip and Annual Dinner |
| Evening | Annual Symposium dinner (Arisaig) (location map) |
| Saturday 1st September |
| note | Field Trip |
