paleonet Lyell Meeting 2002

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Lyell Meeting 2002: Approaches to reconstructing phylogeny

Wednesday June 5th 2002
Geological Society of London, Burlington House, Piccadilly,
London, United Kingdom

organised by
Andy Gale (University of Greeenwich; asg@nham.ac.uk) and
Philip Donoghue (University of Birmingham;
p.c.j.donoghue@bham.ac.uk)

Currently used approaches to the reconstruction of phylogeny
are very diverse, and are determined both by the tradition
of study (often itself particular to an individual group of
organisms), the philosophical approach adopted and partly by
the quality of the data available. Extremes are illustrated
by studies in which lineages are identified from a direct
stratigraphical reading of the fossil record, to those which
consider that phylogeny can only be reconstructed by
time-independant cladistic analysis of morphological and
molecular data.  This meeting seeks to illustrate this
diversity of approach and provide a forum for discussion and
comparison of methodologies.

Speakers will include:

Time and phylogeny reconstruction
Jon Adrain (University of Iowa, USA)

Molecular evidence for the phylogeny of ratites
Alan Cooper (University of Oxford, UK)

Conodonts meet cladistics: phylogenetic systematics and the
microfossil record
Philip Donoghue (University of Birmingham, UK)

Rock-record bias and phylogenetic reconstruction
Andy Gale (University of Greenwich, UK) & Andrew Smith
(Natural History Museum, UK)

Palaeobotanical approaches to reconstructing phylogeny
Paul Kenrick

What use is the fossil record?
Chris Paul (University of Liverpool, UK)

Title TBA
Paul Pearson (University of Bristol, UK)

Cladistic biogeography and phylogeny
Paul Upchurch (University of Cambridge, UK)

Likelihood tests of general phylogenetic hypotheses: a case
study with bellerophont molluscs.
Peter Wagner (Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, USA)

Consensus trees and consensus supertrees.
Mark Wilkinson (Natural History Museum, UK)

Nannofossil phylogenies
Jeremy Young (Natural History Museum, UK)

Registration is free to members of the Palaeontological
Association, Geological Society of London,
Palaeontographical Society and Micropalaeontological Society
(formerly British Micropalaeontological Society). A
registration fee of £20 will be charged to all others.

For further details and registration, please contact Helen
Wilson <helen.wilson@geolsoc.org.uk>