Geological Society of America

8:00 AM

PATTERN MATCHING: IMPLEMENTING GIS APPLICATIONS FOR PALEONTOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF AMMONITIC SUTURES

Lori Manship, Lubbock, TX

57206 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

RESOLVING A GROWTH SERIES WITHIN HELICOPLACOIDS: IMPLICATIONS FOR FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY AND SYSTEMATICS

Bryan C. Wilbur, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX

57256 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

NOT EVERYTHING IS BIGGER IN TEXAS: MICROMORPH AMMONITES OF THE TRANS-PECOS AREA

Karen Jenece Waggoner, Bowling Green State Univ, Bowling Green, OH

57296 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

CLADID CRINOID (ECHINODERMATA) ANAL CONDITIONS AND A TERMINOLOGY PROBLEM

G.D. Webster, Washington State Univ, Pullman, WA and C.G. Maples, Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN

57767 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

SILURIAN (LLANDOVERY) CRINOID FAUNAS FROM ANTICOSTI ISLAND, QUEBEC

William I. Ausich, The Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH and Paul Copper, Laurentian Univ, Sudbury, ON

58384 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

LATE CAMBRIAN PHOSPHATOCOPIDS FROM SOUTHERN SWEDEN

Fredrik Terfelt, GeoBiosphere Sci Centre, Lund, N/A and Mats Eriksson, GeoBiosphere Sci Centre, Lund, N/A and Per Ahlberg, GeoBiosphere Sci Centre, Lund, N/A

58694 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

THE MIDDLE CAMBRIAN EODISCOID TRILOBITE DAWSONIA OELANDICA (WESTERGÅRD, 1936)

Niklas Axheimer, GeoBiosphere Sci Centre, Lund, N/A

58698 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

GROWTH RATES AND TEMPERATURES OF FLORIDA RECENT AND PLEISTOCENE MOLLUSKS USING d18O PROFILES

Josiah Strauss, Florida Atlantic Univ, Boca Raton, FL and Anton Oleinik, Florida Atlantic Univ, Boca Raton, FL

58821 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

COLEOID CEPHALOPODS FROM THE LOWER CARBONIFEROUS OF NORTH AMERICA

Royal H. Mapes, Ohio Univ, Athens, OH and Erika A. Weller, Ohio Univ, Athens, OH

59045 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

ENCRUSTERS OF THE CALIFORNIA PLIO-PLEISTOCENE: A PALEOECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

Yasmin J. Rahman, Univ of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA and Mary L. Droser, Univ of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA

59084 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

CHONETOID GENUS PLICOCHONETES (BRACHIOPODA) IN MORROWAN/ATOKAN (PENNSYLVANIAN) OF UNITED STATES

Janez Pecar, N/A, Cadiz, OH

60116 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

UNIFORM EXTINCTION WITHIN CLADES OF THE MIDDLE PALEOZOIC CRINOID MACROEVOLUTIONARY FAUNA IN THE NORTH AMERICAN MIDCONTINENT

Thomas W. Kammer, West Virginia Univ, Morgantown, WV and William I. Ausich, The Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH

60408 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

LATE TRIASSIC MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATIONS FROM MARINE TO NONMARINE: ARE THEY RELIABLE?

Kate E. Zeigler, New Mexico Museum of Nat History, Albuquerque, NM and Spencer G. Lucas, New Mexico Museum of Nat History, Albuquerque, NM

60462 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

MAGNETIC STRATIGRAPHY OF THE MIOCENE ROUND MOUNTAIN SILT AND OLCESE SAND, BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA

Francisco Sanchez, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA and Donald Prothero, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA

60827 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

WHOLE-COLONY BRYOZOAN GROWTH MORPHOLOGY: AN UNDERUTILIZED TOOL IN UNDERSTANDING TYPE-CINCINNATIAN PALEOECOLOGY

David A. Waugh, Kent State Universitiy, Kent, OH and Robert S. Crawford, Kent State Univ, Kent, OH and J. Mark Erickson, St. Lawrence Univ, Canton, NY

61036 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

STRATIGRAPHY OF THE MIOCENE/PLIOCENE PISCO FORMATION IN THE PISCO BASIN, PERU

Leonard R. Brand, Loma Linda Univ, Loma Linda, CA and Mario Urbina, Museo de Historia Nat UNMSM, Lima 14, N/A and Cristian R. Carvajal, Univ of Wyoming, Laramie, WY and Thomas J. DeVries, Univ of Washington, Seattle, WA

61192 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

PENNSYLVANIAN BRACHIOPODS: SURVIVORSHIP, POPULATION STRUCTURE, AND RESPONSE TO INFLUX OF MUD IN THE MIDCONTINENT OF NORTH AMERICA

Kristen L. Myshrall, Univ of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Roger L. Kaesler, Univ of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

61481 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

UPPER ORDOVICIAN TRILOBITES FROM NORTHERN IRAN AND THEIR BIOGEOGRAPHIC AFFINITIES

Talia S. Karim, Oxford Univ, Oxford, N/A and Richard A. Fortey, The Natural History Museum, London, N/A and Derek Siveter, Oxford University, Oxford, N/A

61831 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

LITHOLOGIC AND FAUNAL PATTERNS RELATED TO SHORELINE POSITION IN THE AMES MEMBER OF THE GLENSHAW FORMATION (VIRGILIAN, UPPER PENNSYLVANIAN)

Joseph G. Lebold, West Virginia Univ, Morgantown, WV

61948 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

ENVIRONMENTAL ADAPTATIONS OF FLEXIBLE CRINOIDS DURING THE MISSISSIPPIAN PERIOD, MIDCONTINENT, USA

Simon Cole, West Virginia Univ, Morgantown, WV and Thomas Kammer, West Virginia Univ, Morgantown, WV

62507 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

EFFECT OF FOOD CONCENTRATION AND GENOTYPE ON HARD-PART MORPHOLOGY OF THE MARINE BRYOZOAN, ELECTRA PILOSA (L.)

Lyndsey L. Needham, Appalachian State Univ, Boone, NC and Steven Hageman, Appalachian State Univ, Boone, NC and Christopher D. Todd, Univ of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, N/A

63084 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

EARLY MIDDLE CAMBRIAN (GLOSSOPLEURA BIOZONE) TRILOBITES IN A STEPTOE SURROUNDED BY COLUMBIA RIVER BASALT NEAR SPOKANE, WASHINGTON

Michael M. Hamilton, Spokane, WA and Robert E. Derkey, WA Dept. of Natural Resources, Division of Geology and Earth Resources, Spokane, WA and Linda B. McCollum, Eastern Washington Univ, Cheney, WA

63418 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

NEGATIVE d13C CARBON ISOTOPIC ANOMALY IN CONTINENTAL STRATA AT THE TRIASSIC-JURASSIC BOUNDARY IN EASTERN NORTH AMERICA (NEWARK BASIN, PENNSYLVANIA, USA)

Jessica H. Whiteside, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia Univ, Palisades, NY and Paul E. Olsen, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia Univ, Palisades, NY and Raymond N. Sambrotto, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia Univ, Palisades, NY

63775 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY AND PALEOECOLOGY OF STELLEROIDS OF THE HUNSRÜCK SLATE (EMSIAN, LOWER DEVONIAN)

Daniel B. Blake, Univ of Illinois, Urbana, IL and Alexander Glass, Univ of Illinois, Urbana, IL

64086 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

EPIBIONTS ON LIVING AND DEAD BAY SCALLOPS (ARGOPECTEN IRRADIANS) AND IMPLICATIONS FOR MODE OF LIFE INTERPRETATION AND TAPHONOMY OF EXTINCT BIVALVED ORGANISMS

Richard H. Bailey, Northeastern Univ, Boston, MA

64389 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

ITERATIVE PATTERNS OF WALL TEXTURE EVOLUTION AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE FOR PHYLOGENETIC RECONSTRUCTION AMONG CENOZOIC PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA

Peter J. Gill, Univ of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI and D.C. Kelly, Univ of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI

64976 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

DEVELOPMENT OF THE WESTERN PACIFIC WARM POOL DURING THE LATE MIOCENE: A PROBE OF INDONESIAN SEAWAY CLOSURE AND SEA LEVEL CHANGE

Stephen A. Nathan, Univ of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA and R. Mark Leckie, Univ of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA and Robert M. DeConto, Univ of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

65189 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

IMAGE INTERPRETATION IS IMPORTANT IN PALEONTOLOGY: EXAMPLES FROM ORDOVICIAN GRAPTOLITES

Tammy L. Dunlavey, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY and Charles Mitchell, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY and David Sheets, Canisius College, Buffalo, NY

65320 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

USING THE DUAL REFERENCE HOMOLOGY SYSTEM AND OTHER HOMOLOGOUS STRUCTURES TO STUDY MORPHOLOGICALLY DIVERGENT AND PROBLEMATIC CRINOIDS

Thomas E. Guensburg, Rock Valley College, Rockford, IL and James Sprinkle, University of Texas, Austin, N/A

65776 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

ORGANIC MATRIX IN BRYOZOANS: IMPLICATIONS FOR CALCIFICATION AND FOSSIL DEGRADATION

George R. Clark, Kansas State Univ, Manhattan, KS

65835 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

TRILOBITE BIOSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE LATE ORDOVICIAN VIOLA GROUP IN SOUTH-CENTRAL OKLAHOMA

Lisa Amati, Univ of Oklahoma, Norman, OK and Stephen R. Westrop, Univ of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

65931 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

EIFELIAN (EARLY MIDDLE DEVONIAN) DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCES AND BIOEVENTS IN EASTERN LAURENTIA: APPALACHIAN BASIN-WABASH PLATFORM COMPARISONS

Michael K. DeSantis, Univ of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH and Carlton Brett, Univ of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

65945 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

IMPROVING THE ACCURACY OF GEOLOGIC MAPS THROUGH THE USE OF AMMONITE BIOSTRATIGRAPHY

Frank J. Varriale, Johns Hopkins Univ School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD and Alvis L. Lisenbee, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD

66074 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

SINGLE-SPECIMEN STABLE ISOTOPE ANALYSES TO INVESTIGATE EVOLUTIONARY CHANGES IN COILING RATIOS AND DEPTH ECOLOGY WITHIN THE MIDDLE MIOCENE GLOBOROTALIA (FOHSELLA) LINEAGE

Adam R. Eisenach, Univ of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI and D.C. Kelly, Univ of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI

66426 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

PHENOTYPIC VARIATION IN AN EPIBIOTIC BRYOZOAN (LEIOCLEMA SP.) FROM CHESTERIAN EPHEMERAL HOST SUBSTRATES

Jennifer A. Sawyer, Appalachian State Univ, Boone, NC and Steven Hageman, Appalachian State Univ, Boone, NC

66529 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

PATHOLOGIC GIGANTISM IN RAYONNOCERAS SOLIDIFORME CRONEIS FROM THE LOWER FAYETTEVILLE SHALE (CHESTERIAN-MISSISSIPPIAN), NORTHWESTERN ARKANSAS

Kevin M. Morgan, Univ of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR and Sarah F. Kee, Univ of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR and Jonathan A. Gillip, Univ of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

66906 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

ONTOGENY OF FUSIFORM FORAMINIFERA

Jere H. Lipps, Univ of California, Berkeley, CA and S. Sameeni, University of California, Berkeley, CA

67408 (Technical Sessions)

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