236 Paleontology/Paleobotany VI: Paleobotany: Systematics, Ecophysiology, and Paleoclimate

Wednesday, 5 November 2003
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Presentations

• 1:45 PM
  COMPARATIVE GEOCHEMISTRY SUGGESTS PROTOTAXITES WAS A GIGANTIC FUNGUS
  Charles Kevin Boyce, Univ of Chicago, Chicago, IL and Carol Hotton, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD and Marilyn L. Fogel, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC and George D. Cody, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC and Robert M. Hazen, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC and Andrew H. Knoll, Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA
  62279 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:00 PM
  GEOGRAPHIC AND MULTIVARIATE ANALYSES OF MACROFLORAL GENUS OCCURRENCES IN PERMIAN ANGARALAND: A REGIONAL LOOK AT THE PALEOPHYTIC/MESOPHYTIC TURNOVER
  David Sunderlin, Univ Chicago, Chicago, IL
  62622 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  PALEOENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS ON ANGIOSPERM ABUNDANCE AND DIVERSITY IN THE FRUITLAND-KIRTLAND FORMATION, SAN JUAN BASIN, NEW MEXICO
  K. Siân Davies-Vollum, University of Washington, Tacoma, WA and Lisa D. Boucher, University of Nebraska - Omaha, Omaha, NE
  67962 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:30 PM
  A MOLECULAR APPROACH TO PALEO-PLANT ECOPHYSIOLOGY: DECIDUOUS CONIFERS FROM EARLY TERTIARY ACTIC DEPOSITS AS EXAMPLES
  Hong Yang, Bryant College, Smithfield, RI
  63066 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:45 PM
  LATE PALEOCENE PLANTS FROM NORTH DAKOTA: NEW LOCALITIES AND INSIGHTS FROM THE ALMONT FLORA
  Melanie L. DeVore, Georgia College & State Univ, Milledgeville, GA and Kathleen B. Pigg, Arizona State Univ, Tempe, AZ and Steven R. Manchester, Univ of Florida, Gainesville, FL
  66900 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:15 PM
  STRUCTURE OF THE NORTH AMERICAN VEGETATION GRADIENT DURING THE LATE PALEOCENE-EARLY EOCENE WARM CLIMATE
  Guy J. Harrington, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
  61147 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:30 PM
  EOCENE MICROTHERMAL HIGHLAND PLANT COMMUNITIES FROM THE OKANAGAN HIGHLANDS (BRITISH COLUMBIA/WASHINGTON)
  Patrick T. Moss, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI and David R. Greenwood, Victoria Univ of Technology, Melbourne, Vic, N/A and S. Bruce Archibald, Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA
  62058 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:45 PM
  ITEA-LIKE LEAVES FROM THE MIDDLE EOCENE REPUBLIC FLORA, WASHINGTON, USA
  Elizabeth J. Hermsen, Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY
  63713 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:00 PM
  THE PARACHUTE CREEK ATLAS PROJECT: DECIPHERING THE FLORAL DIVERSITY OF THE GREEN RIVER FORMATION OF COLORADO AND UTAH
  Richard S. Barclay, Denver Mus. of Nature & Sci, Denver, CO and William D. Bateman, Denver Mus. of Nature & Science, Denver, CO and Kirk R. Johnson, Denver Mus. of Nature & Science, Denver, CO and Stephen B. Wagner, Denver Mus. of Nature & Science, Denver, CO and Michael L. Graham, Denver Mus. of Nature & Science, Denver, CO
  67810 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:15 PM
  CLAMP ANALYSIS AND MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE EARLY TERTIARY CHUCKANUT FORMATION OF NORTHWEST WASHINGTON
  Linda L. Donohoo, Western Washington Univ, Bellingham, WA and Bernard A. Housen, Western Washington Univ, Bellingham, WA and George E. Mustoe, Western Washington Univ, Bellingham, WA
  63675 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  WHY DO LEAVES HAVE TEETH? EXPERIMENTAL INSIGHTS AND PALEOCLIMATIC IMPLICATIONS
  Dana L. Royer, Pennsylvania State Univ, University Park, PA and Peter Wilf, Pennsylvania State Univ, University Park, PA and John Skelly, Pennsylvania State Univ, University Park, PA
  62099 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:45 PM
  PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSES OF GINKGO BILOBA SEEDLINGS TO CRETACEOUS-LIKE ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITIONS
  Sara M. Decherd, North Carolina State Univ, Raleigh, NC and Barry Goldfarb, North Carolina State Univ, Raleigh, NC and Claude A. Piantadosi, Duke Univ, Durham, NC and Reese E. Barrick, North Carolina State Univ, Raleigh, NC and Dale A. Russell, North Carolina State Univ, Raleigh, NC and Elisabeth Wheeler, N.C. State Univ, Raleigh, NC
  59829 (Technical Sessions)