Geological Society of America

8:00 AM

MORPHOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF THE EDIACARAN FROND CHARNIODISCUS FROM THE MISTAKEN POINT FORMATION, NEWFOUNDLAND

Marc Laflamme, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON and Guy M. Narbonne, Queen’s Univ, Kingston, ON

58475 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

AN UNUSUAL TAPHONOMIC SCENARIO FOR THE BUCK MOUNTAIN (PERMIAN) CEPHALOPOD FAUNA IN NEVADA

Royal H. Mapes, Ohio Univ, Athens, OH and Haruyoshi Maeda, Kyoto Univ, Kyoto 606-01, N/A and Patricia Piercey, Ohio Univ, Athens, OH and Neil H. Landman, American Museum of Nat History, New York, NY

59059 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

ESTIMATING THE COMPLETENESS AND CONGRUENCE OF THE DINOSAUR FOSSIL RECORD: PHYLOGENETIC APPROACHES

Abigail Cermak and Julia F. Heathcote, Washington Univ, St Louis, MO and Redmond Stein and Paul M. Barrett, The Nat History Museum, London, N/A and Tim Cook and Nicholas Balascio

59232 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

THE MUSTELID STHENICTIS IN MONGOLIA: IMMIGRANT FROM NORTH AMERICA

Jingmai O'Connor, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA and Donald Prothero, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA and Xiaoming Wang, Nat History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA

59752 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF PALEONTOLOGICAL RESOURCE MONITORING STRATEGIES FOR THE LAKE DEPOSITS OF COPPER CANYON, DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, CALIFORNIA, USA: THE FIRST EFFORT TO ESTABLISH THE CRITICAL ELEMENTS FOR MONITORING IN SITU PALEONTOLOGICAL RESOURCES IN NATIONAL PARK SERVICE AREAS

Torrey Nyborg, Loma Linda Univ, Loma Linda, N/A and Gregory H. McDonald, Geologic Resource Div, Denver, CO and Ryan Taylor, Geology/Mining, Death Valley, CA

60141 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

LARGE TETRAPODS IN THE EARLY PENNSYLVANIAN - ICHNOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FROM ALABAMA

Adrian P. Hunt, New Mexico Museum of Nat History, Albuquerque, NM and Spencer G. Lucas, New Mexico Museum of Nat History & Sci, Albuquerque, NM

60757 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

STRATIGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF TETRAPOD AND INVERTEBRATE ICHNOFOSSILS IN THE PERMIAN COCONINO SANDSTONE OF GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK AND ADJACENT AREAS, NORTHERN ARIZONA

Vincent L. Santucci, National Park Service, McLean, VA and Adrian P. Hunt, New Mexico Museum of Nat History, Albuquerque, NM and Spencer G. Lucas, New Mexico Museum of Nat History & Sci, Albuquerque, NM

60773 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SPECIES AND FACIES: A STUDY OF TWO PREVIOUSLY UNDESCRIBED FOSSIL CORAL REEFS, SAN SALVADOR ISLAND, THE BAHAMAS

Dorien Kymberly McGee, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

60987 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

VERTEBRATE AND INVERTEBRATE TRACE FOSSILS IN THE UPPER JURASSIC MORRISON FORMATION, BIG HORN BASIN, WYOMING: LINKING ICHNOFOSSILS AND SUBSTRATES IN AVULSION AND FLOODPLAIN DEPOSITS

Brian F. Platt, Univ of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Stephen T. Hasiotis, Univ of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

61024 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

SILURIAN JAWED POLYCHAETES FROM GOTLAND, SWEDEN

Mats E. Eriksson, Lund Univ, Lund, N/A

61046 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

THE FOSSIL RECORD AND PALEOECOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF NORTH AMERICAN AMPHISBAENIANS AND THEIR BURROWS: THE INTERACTION OF FOSSORIAL REPTILES WITH THE SUBSTRATE

Daniel I. Hembree, Univ of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Stephen T. Hasiotis, Univ of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

61951 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

CATASTROPHIC MASS MORTALITY OF A HERD OF YOUNG DIPLODOCID SAUROPODS FROM THE MORRISON FORMATION OF MONTANA

Timothy S. Myers, Univ of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

62138 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

RECONSTRUCTING THE ROSTRUM OF THE SAWFISH, ISCHYRHIZA MIRA, FROM THE LOWER NAVESINK FORMATION (CAMPANIAN-MAASTRICHTIAN), MONMOUTH COUNTY, NEW JERSEY

Martin A. Becker, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ and Daniel Brady, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ and John A. Chamberlain, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY

62263 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

APPLICATION OF GEOCHEMISTRY AND ORGANIC PETROGRAPHY TECHNIQUES IN PALEOBOTANICAL STUDIES

Laureen Sally da Rosa Alves, UERJ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, N/A and João Graciano Mendonça Filho, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, N/A and Taissa Rêgo Menezes, PETROBRAS-CENPES, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, N/A and Marleni Marques-Toigo, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, RS, N/A

62568 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

EARLY PERMIAN (LEONARDIAN) TETRAPOD FOOTPRINTS FROM LAKE KEMP, NORTH-CENTRAL TEXAS

Spencer G. Lucas, New Mexico Museum of Nat History, Albuquerque, NM and Allan J. Lerner, New Mexico Museum of Nat History, Albuquerque, NM and John Nelson, Illinois State Geol Survey, Champaign, IL and Adrian P. Hunt, New Mexico Museum of Nat History, Albuquerque, NM and William A. DiMichele, National Museum of Nat History, Washington, DC

62614 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

CHONDRICHTHYANS FROM THE FAIRPOINT MEMBER OF THE FOX HILLS FORMATION (MAASTRICHTIAN), MEADE COUNTY, SOUTH DAKOTA

John A. Chamberlain, Kean Univ, Union, NJ and Martin A. Becker, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, N/A and Dennis O. Terry, Temple Univ, Philadelphia, PA

62711 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

DEUNFFIA AND DOMASIA FROM THE SILURIAN OF BRAZIL: CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHIC IMPLICATIONS

T.R. Cardoso, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, N/A and Maria Antonieta Rodrigues, Rio de Janeiro, N/A and F. González, Universidad de Huelva, Huelva, N/A

63283 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

LATE QUATERNARY NEOTROPICAL VEGETATION DYNAMICS: CLIMATE CHANGE, PLANT RESPONSE, AND THE FOSSIL POLLEN RECORD

Surangi W. Punyasena, Univ of Chicago, Chicago, IL

63672 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

JELLYFISH SANDWICH: EMBEDDING, PREPARATION, AND SECTIONING OF RECENT JELLYFISH TO AID IN FOSSIL JELLY RECOGNITION

Jane Mason, Univ of California, Berkeley, CA

63753 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

LET US PREY: SIMULATIONS OF SURFACE GRAZING AND MOVEMENT TRACES IN HETEROGENEOUS ENVIRONMENTS

Roy E. Plotnick, Univ of Ilinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL

63977 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

TRILOPHOSAURUS JACOBSI IS NOT A PROCOLOPHONID: DATA FROM A NEW QUARRY FROM THE UPPER TRIASSIC CHINLE GROUP, WEST TEXAS

Andrew B. Heckert, New Mexico Museum of Nat History & Sci, Albuquerque, NM and Spencer G. Lucas, New Mexico Museum of Nat History & Sci, Albuquerque, NM and Larry F. Rinehart, New Mexico Museum of Nat History & Sci, Albuquerque, NM and Justin A. Spielmann, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH and Robert Kahle, New Mexico Museum of Nat History & Sci, Albuquerque, NM

63999 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

VERTEBRATE-RICH PHOSPHATIC CONGLOMERATES FROM THE SHALLOW TRANS-SAHARAN SEAWAY, NORTHEASTERN MALI

Leif M. Tapanila, Univ of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT and Eric M. Roberts, Univ of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT and Maureen A. O'Leary, Stony Brook Univ, Stony Brook, NY and Michael J. Novacek, American Museum of Nat History, New York, NY

64442 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

AN EARLY CRETACEOUS THEROPOD FROM SOUTHWESTERN ARKANSAS

ReBecca K. Hunt, Texas Tech Univ, Lubbock, TX and Dan Chure, Dinosaur National Monument, Jensen, UT

64780 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

METAZOAN REEFS FROM THE UPPER CAMBRIAN OF THE ARROW CANYON RANGE, CLARK COUNTY, NEVADA

Stephanie Mrozek, Univ of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV and Benjamin F. Dattilo, Univ of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV and Melissa Hicks, Univ of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV and James F. Miller, Southwest Missouri State Univ, Springfield, MO

65077 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

DO LOCAL EXTINCTIONS CORRELATE WITH TAPHONOMIC SIGNATURES OF FRESHWATER MUSSEL SHELLS IN THE NORTH FORK HOLSTON RIVER, VA?

Megan E. Brown, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ, Blacksburg, VA and Michal Kowalewski, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ, Blacksburg, VA

65354 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

EXTRACTION OF CALCIFIED RADIOLARIA AND OTHER CALCAREOUS MICROFOSSILS FROM MICRITIC LIMESTONE UTILIZING ACETIC ACID

Seyed Mohsen Kariminia, The Univ of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX and Emile A. Pessagno, The Univ of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX and James Carter, The Univ of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX and Narjes Sabeti Soraiadoost, Department of Geology, Plano, TX

65370 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

ACCELERATING CULTURAL CHANGE INDUCED BY AN EMERGING AND EXPANDING TRILOBITE ECONOMY IN SOUTHERN MOROCCO

Douglas W. Shakel, Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ

65482 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

COMPARISON OF LATE-EARLY CAMBRIAN ARCHAEOCYATHAN REEFS FROM NEVADA, U.S.A. AND THE WESTERN HUBEI DISTRICT, CHINA

Melissa Hicks, Univ of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV and Stephen M. Rowland, Univ of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV and Junming Zhang, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Nanjing, N/A and Guoxiang Li, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Nanjing, N/A and Aihua Yang, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Nanjing, N/A

65846 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

ASSESSING MAMMALIAN PALEOFAUNAL DIVERSITY: DISCREPANCIES BETWEEN PUBLISHED AND MUSEUM COLLECTION DATA FOR THE MIOCENE OF NORTHWESTERN NEVADA, USA

Edward Davis, Univ of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA and Nicholas Pyenson, Univ of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

66274 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

PALEONTOLOGICAL RECONNAISSANCE OF THE FREDERIKA FORMATION, WRANGELL-ST. ELIAS NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA

Theodore Fremd, National Park Service, Kimberly, OR and Regan E. Dunn, National Park Service, Kimberly, OR and Skylar J. Rickabaugh, National Park Service, Kimberly, OR and David B. Graham, National Park Service, Kimberly, OR and Danny Rosenkrans, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Copper Center, AK

66340 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

INTERPRETING THEROPOD COMMUNITY DYNAMICS AND DISPELLING THE MYTHS OF THE SUNDANCE VERTEBRATE ICHNOFAUNAL PROVINCE: COMPARISON OF BATHONIAN DINOSAUR TRACKSITES IN THE BIGHORN BASIN, WYOMING

Brent H. Breithaupt, Univ of Wyoming, Laramie, WY and Thomas L. Adams, Univ of Wyoming, Laramie, WY and Jerome P. Shinn, Univ of Wyoming, Laramie, WY and Elizabeth H. Southwell, Univ of Wyoming, Laramie, WY and Neffra A. Matthews, Univ of Wyoming, Laramie, WY

66341 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

DID CLOVIS HUNTERS BUTCHER PLEISTOCENE MAMMALS AT GYPSUM CAVE, NEVADA?

Elizabeth M. Glowiak, Univ of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV and Stephen M. Rowland, Univ of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV

66402 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

TAPHONOMY OF MOPALIA MUSCOSA AND KATHARINA TUNICATA (PHYLUM MOLLUSCA, CLASS POLYPLACOPHORA) FROM CATTLE POINT AND FALSE BAY, SAN JUAN ISLAND, WASHINGTON, USA

Stephaney S. Puchalski, Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN

66413 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

PALEONTOLOGIC INVENTORY OF MOUNT HOLMES AND TRILOBITE POINT, YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK

Julia Ann Fitzke, Yellowstone National Park, Mammoth Hot Springs, WY and Elaine Hale, Yellowstone National Park, Mammoth Hot Springs, WY

66623 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY OF THE WESTERN INTERIOR SEAWAY AND THE RELEVANCE OF THE AUSTIN AND TAYLOR GROUPS (UPPER CRETACEOUS) OF NE TEXAS TO THE SOUTHERN PROVINCE

Derek J. Main, Dallas Museum of Nat History, Dallas, TX

67077 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

LATE TRIASSIC DINOSAUR LOCALITIES OF LATE REVUELTIAN (R2) AGE (NORIAN), PETRIFIED FOREST NATIONAL PARK, ARIZONA

Howard Beuhler, New Mexico State Univ, Las Cruces, NM and Adrian P. Hunt, New Mexico Museum of Nat History, Albuquerque, NM and Jeremiah Wright, Univ of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Spencer G. Lucas, New Mexico Museum of Nat History & Sci, Albuquerque, NM and Kate E. Zeigler, Univ of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

67147 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

EDIACARAN FOSSIL MYTHS

Jim G. Gehling, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, N/A and Mary L. Droser, Univ of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA and Sören Jensen, Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz, N/A

67244 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

PALEOECOLOGY OF A NEW GIGANTOSPONGIA SPECIES, GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK, TEXAS, USA

Christopher J. Crow, Indiana Univ Purdue Univ Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, IN and Gorden L. Bell, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Salt Flat, TX and J. Keith Rigby, Brigham Young Univ, Provo, UT

67272 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

PALYNOLOGICAL VARIATION IN A BELIZEAN PEAT CORE: EVIDENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE OVER THE PAST ~8000 YEARS

Rebecca Morgan, Univ of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK and Matthew Wooller, Univ of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK and Sarah Fowell, Univ of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK and Hermann Behling, Centre for Tropical Maritime Ecology, D-28359 Bremen, N/A and Marilyn Fogel, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC

67354 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

INCORPORATING FOSSIL TAXA INTO PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSES OF MODERN CLADES: THE CASE OF PROPHAETHON

Bonnie E. Gulas-Wroblewski, Univ of Chicago, Chicago, IL

67380 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

A NEW COLOSTEID AMPHIBIAN FROM HANCOCK COUNTY, KENTUCKY

William J. Garcia, Univ of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

67433 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

THE EVOLVING ROLE OF CONSULTANTS IN PALEONTOLOGICAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN THE WESTERN UNITED STATES

Paul Christopher Murphey, SWCA Environmental Consultants, Mission Viejo, CA and Cara Corsetti, SWCA Environmental Consultants, Mission Viejo, CA and Amy Morrison, SWCA Environmental Consultants, Mission Viejo, CA

67714 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

SILICIFIED MICROFOSSILS FROM BLACK CANYON: MIOCENE BARSTOW FORMATION, SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA

V. Leroy Leggitt, Loma Linda Univ, Loma Linda, CA

67906 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

DETERMINING CONTROLS ON SILICIFICATION IN MISSISSIPPIAN FOSSILS OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION

Susan Harrington Butts, Univ of Idaho, Moscow, ID

67993 (Technical Sessions)

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