Royal Tyrrell Museum, Drumheller, Alberta
September 22-23, 2007
General Information | Talk Schedule and Poster Titles
Ceratopsian Symposium Field Trip | Accommodations
Access to Museum Collections | Transporting Fossils Into Canada
 Ceratopsia are anatomically unique animals with a 95 million year evolutionary history extending from the Late Jurassic to the end of the Cretaceous. During the past century, ceratopsians have been the basis for innovative and groundbreaking palaeobiological and evolutionary interpretations that relate to many other dinosaurs. More recently, studies of ceratopsian biomechanics, growth, diversification, biogeography and other aspects have resulted in an explosion of information about this intriguing group.
The goal of the Ceratopsian Symposium is to bring together 200 palaeontologists, geologists, and palaeontological enthusiasts to share the results of recent research on ceratopsians. Approximately 75 contributors will offer a variety of oral and poster presentations. Keynote speakers, Peter Dodson, Catherine Forster, and David Eberth, will speak on ceratopsian evolution, biology and ecology, and preservation. A published abstract volume, and book presenting the results of the symposium will follow. The symposium is being convened by Donald Brinkman, Brenda Chinnery-Allgeier, Michael Ryan, David Eberth and Philip Currie, and the organizing committee also includes Dennis Braman, François Therrien, Don Henderson, and staff from the Tyrrell Museum.
The Ceratopsian Symposium coincides with the opening of a new ceratopsian dinosaur exhibit at the Royal Tyrrell Museum that will feature many new kinds of horned dinosaurs from Alberta. This Symposium will be one of Canada's palaeontological highlights for 2007.
Other significant events associated with the Symposium include:
- Ice-breaker at the Royal Tyrrell Museum held the evening of Friday, September 21, starting at 6pm.
- Viewing of new specimens, including Dinosaur Provincial Park's newest ceratopsian
- Barbeque at the Royal Tyrrell Museum on Saturday, September 22, starting at 6pm.
- Post-symposium field trip to Dinosaur Provincial Park, Monday, September 24, 2007 (there is a separate fee for this field trip).
Registration
Early Registration is $50 (CDN) and runs through September 1, 2007, after which registration increases to $75 (CDN). This fee provides access to the symposium’s technical presentations, social events and barbeque supper (Saturday starting at 6pm), and entitles the participant to one copy of the abstract volume. The ice-breaker on Friday evening includes a cash bar. Cost for the field trip on Monday, September 24 is an additional $75 (CDN), and requires separate registration. Please register as early as possible as the Symposium attendance is limited to 200 people.
Drumheller is a rural community with a population of 7,500 located 140 kilometres northeast of the Calgary International Airport. We strongly recommend that you book your accommodation early.
For further information about the Symposium contact Donald Brinkman don.brinkman@gov.ab.ca
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Talk Schedule and Poster Titles
| Ceratopsian Symposium Program |
| Saturday September 22, 2007 - Auditorium |
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| Time |
Speaker |
Title |
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| Moderators: Don Brinkman & Brenda Chinnery-Allgeier |
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| 8:30-8:40 |
Introduction and Greeting |
| 8:40-9:20 |
Peter Dodson |
Forty years in the vineyards of paleontology - personal reflections of a ceratophile |
| 9:20-9:40 |
Catherine A. Forster & Andrew A. Farke |
Forget theropods - For variety we'll take a ceratopsian any day |
| 9:40-10:00 |
Hailu You, Kyo Tanoue & Peter Dodson |
Horned dinosaurs from the Lower Cretaceous Mazongshan area in northwestern China |
| 10:00-10:30 |
break |
| 10:30-10:50 |
Peter J. Makovicky, Gregory M. Erikson & Mark A. Norell |
Life history of Protoceratops andrewsi from Bayn Zag, Mongolia |
| 10:50-11:10 |
Nick Longrich |
The better to see you with: the function of large eyes in Protoceratops |
| 11:10-11:30 |
Peter Dodson, Hailu You & Kyo Tanoue |
Comments on the palate and basicranium of basal ceratopsians |
| 11:30-11:50 |
Brenda J. Chinnery-Allgeier & James I. Kirkland |
Neoceratopsian biogeography: what's changed in the last ten years |
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| 11:50-1:40 |
Lunch & poster viewing |
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| Moderators: Michael Ryan & Phil Currie |
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| 1:40-2:00 |
Scott Sampson & Mark Loewen |
New information on the diversity, stratigraphic distribution, biogeography, and evolution of ceratopsid dinosaurs |
| 2:00-2:20 |
Douglas G. Wolfe, James I. Kirkland, David Smith, Karen Poole, Brenda Chinnery-Allgeier & Andrew McDonald |
Zuniceratops christopheri: an update on the North North American ceratopsid sister taxon, Zuni Basin, west-central New Mexico |
| 2:00-2:40 |
James I. Kirkland & Donald D. Deblieux |
New centrosaurine ceratopsians from the Wahweap Formation, Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument, southern Utah |
| 2:40-3:00 |
Mike A. Getty, Mark A. Loewen, Alan L. Titus & Scott D. Sampson |
Ceratopsid taphonomy from the Kaiparowits Formation, Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument, southern Utah |
| 3:00-3:30 |
break |
| 3:30-3:50 |
Michael J. Ryan |
A possible new chasmosaurine ceratopsid from the Judith River Formation (Campanian) of Montana, with implications for Late Cretaceous ceratopsid evolution and palaeobiogeography |
| 3:50-4:10 |
Robert M. Sullivan & Spencer Lucas |
A new chasmosaurine (Ceratopsidae, Dinosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous Ojo Alamo Formation (Naashoibito Member), San Juan Basin, New Mexico |
| 4:10-4:30 |
Andrew T. Macdonald & John R. Horner |
New material of Styracosaurus ovatus (Dinosauria: Ceratopsia) from the Two Medicine Formation of Montana and its implications for the evolution of late Campanian centrosaurines |
| 4:30-4:50 |
Philip J. Currie, Wann Langston & Darren H. Tanke |
A new pachyrhinosaur from the Wapiti Formation of Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada |
| 4:50-5:10 |
Darren H. Tanke |
History of ceratosian collections in Alberta, Canada 1888-2007 |
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| Sunday September 23, 2007 - Auditorium |
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| Moderators: David Eberth and Brenda Chinnery-Allgeier |
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| 8:30-9:00 |
David A. Eberth |
Ceratopsians: a review of paleoenvironments and taphonomy |
| 9:00-9:20 |
Anthony R. Fiorillo, Paul J. McCarthy Erik Brandlen, Peter P. Flaig, David Norton Louis Jacobs, Pierre Zippi & Roland A. Gangloff |
Paleontology, sedimentology, paleopedology, and palynology of the Kikak-Tegoseak Quarry (Prince Creek Formation: Late Cretaceous), northern Alaska |
| 9:20-9:40 |
Julia Sankey, Stacy Atchley, Lee Nordt, Steve Dworkin & Steve Driese |
Vertebrates and paleoclimate from a Chasmosaurus mariscalensis bonebed, (late Campanian), Big Bend National Park, Texas |
| 9:40-10:00 |
ReBecca K. Hunt & & Andrew A. Farke |
Behavioral and depositional dynamics in interpreting chasmosaurine ceratopsid bonebeds |
| 10:00-10:30 |
break |
| 10:30-10:50 |
Ken Noriega |
Digital reconstruction of a centrosaurine pes |
| 10:50-11:10 |
Shin-ichi Fujiwara |
Estimation of elbow joint angles in ceratopsian dinosaurs |
| 11:10-11:30 |
Elizabeth Rega, Rob Holmes & Alex Tirabasso |
Animation of locomotor behaviour based on manual pathology in two chasmosaurine ceratopsid dinosaurs |
| 11:30-11:50 |
Donald M. Henderson |
Skull shapes as indicators of niche partitioning by sympatric chasmosaurine and centrosaurine dinosaurs |
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| 11:50-1:40 |
Lunch |
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| Moderators: Don Brinkman and Michael Ryan |
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| 1:40-2:00 |
Andrew H. Lee |
How Centrosaurus (and other ceratopsians) grew to large size |
| 2:00-2:20 |
Caleb M. Brown, Anthony P. Russell & Michael J. Ryan |
Size-associated surficial bone texture changes of the centrosaurine frill: patterns and implications |
| 2:20-2:40 |
Allison R. Tumarkin-Deratzian |
Histology of Centrosaurus frill elements: implications for understanding otogenetic bone texture change |
| 2:40-3:00 |
Mark B. Goodwin & John R. Horner |
Historical collecting bias and the fossil record of Triceratops |
| 3:00-3:30 |
break |
| 3:30-3:50 |
Xiao-chun Wu, Donald B. Brinkman David A. Eberth & Dennis R. Braman Dennis R. Braman |
A new ceratopsian dinosaur (Ornithischia) from the uppermost Horseshoe Canyon Formation (upper Maastrichtian), Alberta, Canada and the succession of ceratopsians through the Edmonton Group |
| 3:50-4:10 |
John W. Happ |
New evidence regarding the structure and function of the horns of Triceratops (Ceratopsidae, Dinosauria) |
| 4:10-4:30 |
Joseph Hatcher |
Why Triceratops did not live in herds: evidence from the geological component |
| 4:30-4:50 |
Brenda J. Chinnery-Allgeier |
Concluding remarks and prospectus |
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| Poster Session (Saturday & Sunday) - Rooms 1, 2 & 3 |
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| Booth |
Presenter |
Title |
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| #1 |
James I. Kirland & Kenneth Bader |
Insect scavenging of Protoceratops carcass preserved in the Upper Cretaceous Djadokhta Formation, Tugrikin Shireh, Mongolia |
| #2 |
Darren H. Tanke & Bruce M. Rothschild |
Examples of paleopathology among Albertan Ceratopsia |
| #3 |
Kyo Tanoue, Hailu You & Peter Dodson |
Anatomy of basal ceratopsian lower jaws |
| #4 |
Nicolas E. Campione & Darren H. Tanke |
Variation in the syncervical of Ceratopsia |
| #5 |
Jordan C. Mallon & Robert Holmes |
Reexamination of a postcranium previously assigned to Anchiceratops (Dinosauria: Ceratopsia) |
| #6 |
François Therrien, Darla K. Zelenitsky, Apostolos Kantzas, Yubin Li & Matthew C. O'Neill |
Biomechanical properties of limb bones in Centrosaurus apertus, the Pipestone Creek Pachyrhinosaurus, and Triceratops horridus: implications for forelimb posture in ceratopsids |
| #7 |
Tracy L. Ford, Larry M. Martin & Alexander Averianov |
Alternative lifestyle of Psittacosaurus |
| #8 |
Richard Bykowski & Gregory Retallack |
Was Triceratops like a bison, rhino or hippo? Implications for lifestyle and habitat |
| #9 |
Andrew A. Farke, Ralph E. Chapman & Art Andersen |
Structural properties of the frill of Triceratops |
| #10 |
David A. Krauss, Antoine Pezon, Peter Nguyen & Issa Salame |
Horn morphology determines frill morphology in chasmosaurine ceratopsians |
| #11 |
Tetsuto Miyashita |
First record of basal Neoceratopsia from the Oldman Formation (Belly River Group), southern Alberta |
| #12 |
Eric K. Lund, Mark A. Loewen, Scott D. Sampson, Michael A. Getty, Martha C. Aquillón Martínez, Rubén A. Rodríguez De la Rosa & David A. Eberth |
Ceratopsian remains from the Late Cretaceous Cerro del Pueblo Formation, Coahuila, Mexico |
| #13 |
Darren H. Tanke |
Lost in plain sight: discovery of William E. Cutler's lost "Eoceratops" |
| #14 |
Darren H. Tanke |
Harold D'acre Robinson Lowe (1886-1952): Albertan ceratopsian discoveries and collections by a long forgotten GSC field assistant |
| #15 |
Robert Holmes, Michael Ryan & David Lloyd |
Restoration of the pathological parietal ornamentation of the holotype skull of Styracosaurus albertensis (CMN 344) with reference to new undistorted specimens |
| #16 |
Federico Fanti |
Unfolding the geological history of the north: new comprehensive survey of the Wapiti Formation, Alberta, Canada |
| #17 |
Federico Fanti & Philip J. Currie |
A new Pachyrhinosaurus bonebed from the Late Cretaceous Wapiti Formation |
| #18 |
Patricia E. Ralrick |
Transportability and orientation of elements for the Pipestone Creek Pachyrhinosaurus bonebed, Alberta, Canada |
| #19 |
Sheldon Graber, Katalin Ormay & Bert Hunt |
Significant palaeontological resource concentrations of the Peace Country |
| #20 |
Tony Scott |
What is a fossil species? |
| #21 |
Dan Quinsey |
The Alberta Palaeontological Society |
| #22a |
Darren Tanke |
A new scholarship supporting neoceratopsian research |
| #22b |
Darren Tanke |
History of ceratosian collections in Alberta, Canada 1888-2007 (CD Rom version) |
Ceratopsian Symposium Field Trip
Date:
Monday September 24, 2007
Cost:
$75 (CDN) includes travel, lunch and snacks. Dinner is not included in fee.
Transportation:
47-passenger bus
Departs:
8:00am (front of the Ramada Inn Suites)
Returns:
8:30pm (front of the Ramada Inn Suites)
Description:
Southern Alberta is uniquely famous for its richness of Campanian-Maastrichtian dinosaurs and other fossil vertebrates that have been collected and studied since the 1880’s. This one-day field trip focuses on ceratopsian dinosaurs and other fossil resources in the Oldman and Dinosaur Park formations at Dinosaur Provincial Park. We will visit classic and new localities at the Park, and review current research activities, ceratopsian bonebeds, dinosaur palaeoenvironments and palaeoecology, vertebrate microfossil studies, and bonebed taphonomy. This is one of the best times of year to visit the Park!
Physical Requirements:
You must be in good or better physical condition. We are taking a large bus to the Park, and therefore, will be unable to drive into the badlands preserve area. Thus, we will hike to all localities – a round-trip distance of approximately 8 kilometers.
Extras:
We will stop at the Patricia Hotel for beer and a 'cook your own' barbeque at the end of the day (5:00 pm). The cost is not included in your field trip registration.
Hazards:
Because the weather is always variable in Alberta in late September, you should be prepared for a full range of Western Interior temperatures, wind and precipitation. This is badlands terrain, thus, good hiking boots/shoes are recommended. The cactuses at Dinosaur Park are small but painful if ignored.
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Access to Museum Collections
Access to specimens housed in the collections of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology is restricted to legitimate researchers who are affiliated with a recognized institution. The collections areas are open weekdays (except statutory holidays) from 08:15-12:00 and 13:00-16:30 before and after the symposium.
The collections areas will not be open on the weekend of the symposium. Researchers interested in visiting the collections are asked to submit their requests well before the symposium directly to the collections manager, Dr. Jim Gardner (e-mail: james.gardner@gov.ab.ca). Requests for access should include the following information: brief summary of research project(s) and rational for requesting access; kind of material you wish to examine; description of any proposed techniques that could alter specimens (e.g., coating specimens for photography, molding, removing samples for histological or isotopic analysis); and proposed dates for visiting the collection. Student requests also must be accompanied by a letter of support from their supervisor.
Please note that specimens already under study by other researchers or on exhibit may not be available to visiting researchers.
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Transporting Fossils Into Canada
Symposium attendees are advised that federal legislation governs the import and export of fossils in Canada. Researchers from outside of Canada who intend to bring fossils with them for comparative study are cautioned that Canadian customs officers may seize fossils and/or detain persons carrying fossils, unless the fossils are accompanied by official loan documents or similar paperwork from the institution where the specimens are permanently curated.
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Accommodation
The following hotels in the Drumheller area have blocked off a number of rooms for Symposium attendees. These rooms will be available at the special rate till September 1. Please mention the Symposium when making your reservations.
Ramada Inn Suites
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Super 8 Motel
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Best Western Jurassic Inn
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