28 Paleobotany

Monday, 5 November 2001
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  FLORAL TURNOVER AND CLIMATIC CHANGES ASSOCIATED WITH THE CRETACEOUS/PALEOGENE (K/T) BOUNDARY, NORTH DAKOTA, USA
  Peter Wilf, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI and Kirk R. Johnson, Denver Museum of Nature and Sci, Denver, CO
  13994 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  ESTIMATES OF MEAN ANNUAL TEMPERATURE USING LEAVES AND WOOD FROM MODERN SITES ALONG A TEMPERATURE GRADIENT IN EASTERN NORTH AMERICA
  Elizabeth A. Kowalski, Florida Museum of Nat History, Gainesville, FL and David L. Dilcher, Florida Museum of Nat History, Gainesville, FL
  18669 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  FOSSILS OF THE CRETACEOUS/TERTIARY TRANSITION, BADLANDS REGION OF SOUTH DAKOTA
  John A. Chamberlain, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY and Dennis O. Terry, Temple Univ, Philadelphia, PA and Philip W. Stoffer, USGS Library, Menlo Park, CA and Martin A. Becker, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ
  20155 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  THE PRESERVATION OF WOODS IN VOLCANIC PYROCLASTIC FLOWS AND SURGES
  Andrew C. Scott, Royal Holloway, Univ of London, Egham, Surrey, N/A
  21101 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  FIRE-DRIVEN VEGETATION DYNAMICS IN CENOZOIC FOREST ECOSYSTEMS, WESTERN NORTH AMERICA
  Ralph E. Taggart, Michigan State Univ, East Lansing, MI and Aureal T. Cross, Michigan State Univ, East Lansing, MI
  22815 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  PALEOGENE PALYNOLOGICAL RECORD OF VEGETATION RESPONSE TO CLIMATIC WARMING IN THE BIGHORN BASIN, WYOMING
  Martin B. Farley, Univ of North Carolina at Pembroke, Pembroke, NC
  24277 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  FLORAL CHANGE LAGS WARMING AT THE PALEOCENE-EOCENE THERMAL MAXIMUM
  Scott L. Wing, Smithsonian Inst, Washington, DC and Gabe Bowen, Univ of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA and Paul Koch, Univ of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA and Guy J. Harrington, Univ of Cork, Cork, N/A
  25292 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  MESOFOSSILS FROM BLACK WOLF, KANSAS
  Xin Wang, Florida Museum of Nat History, Gainesville, FL and David Dilcher, Univ of Florida, Gainseville, FL
  27436 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  WARM INTERVAL BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF THE CARBONIFEROUS ICE AGE INDICATED BY PLANT FOSSILS FROM THE LATE EARLY CARBONIFEROUS OF GONDWANA
  Hermann W. Pfefferkorn, Univ Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA and Roberto Iannuzzi, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, N/A
  27571 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  RECOGNITION OF A NEW ANGARAN-TYPE FLORA AND FACIES VARIATION IN THE LATE PALEOZOIC MT. DALL CONGLOMERATE, FAREWELL TERRANE, ALASKA
  David Sunderlin, Univ of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  27859 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  EVALUATING SHIFTS IN ANGIOSPERM DIVERSIFICATION RATES
  Hallie J. Sims, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
  27950 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  PHYTOLITH CARBON ISOTOPE RECORDS OF NEOGENE GRASSES
  Francesca A. Smith, University of Chicago, Boulder, CO
  28193 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  PATTERNS OF MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION IN THE LEAVES OF FERNS AND SEED PLANTS
  Charles Kevin Boyce, Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA
  28214 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  THE LATE CRETACEOUS AND EARLY PALEOCENE MEGAFLORA OF THE DENVER BASIN: RECONSTRUCTING THE VEGETATION, TOPOGRAPHY, AND CLIMATE OF AN EVOLVING SYNOROGENIC LANDSCAPE
  Kirk R. Johnson, Denver Museum of Nature and Sci, Denver, CO and Beth L. Ellis, Denver Museum of Nature and Sci, Denver, CO
  28763 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  LATE CARBONIFEROUS PLANT ECOLOGY ACROSS AN ALLUVIAL PLAIN TO COASTAL PLAIN TRANSECT, JOGGINS, NOVA SCOTIA
  Howard J. Falcon-Lang, Dalhousie Univ, Halifax, NS
  8811 (Technical Sessions)