58 Paleontology I: Assessing Biodiversity

Tuesday, 6 November 2001
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Presentations

• 8:00 AM
  PHYLOGENETIC CONGRUENCE BETWEEN HARD AND SOFT PART DATA SETS: HOW TAPHONOMY AFFECTS PHYLOGENETIC RESOLUTION OF AN OSTRACODE CLADE
  Lisa E. Park, Univ Akron, Akron, OH
  18647 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:00 AM
  ARCHAEOCYATHS: A HISTORY OF PHYLOGENETIC INTERPRETATION
  Stephen M. Rowland, Univ Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV
  19383 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:00 AM
  A REAPPRAISAL OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SEA LEVEL AND SPECIES RICHNESS
  Peter J. Harries, Univ. of South Florida, Tampa, FL
  20574 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:00 AM
  GEOBIOLOGY OF MASS EXTINCTION RECOVERY INTERVAL ANACHRONISTIC FACIES: MICROBIAL REEFS IN THE EARLY TRIASSIC
  Sara Pruss, Univ of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA and David Bottjer, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  21242 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:00 AM
  PALEOECOLOGY OF THE BIOTIC RECOVERY FROM THE END-TRIASSIC MASS EXTINCTION, LOWER JURASSIC SUNRISE FORMATION, NEW YORK CANYON, WEST-CENTRAL NEVADA
  Karina G. Hankins, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA and David Bottjer, Univ of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  23881 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:00 AM
  OPTIMAL METHODS FOR ESTIMATING THE STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION OF A MASS EXTINCTION BOUNDARY
  Steve C. Wang, Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA
  24837 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:00 AM
  INCREASED LONGEVITIES OF GENERA THAT ORIGINATED IN SUBSTAGES FOLLOWING MASS EXTINCTIONS
  Arnold I. Miller, Univ of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
  25321 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:00 AM
  THE EVENNESS AND RICHNESS COMPONENTS OF TAXONOMIC DIVERSITY
  Shanan E. Peters, Univ of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  25442 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:00 AM
  BIOGEOGRAPHIC SIGNIFICANCE OF PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS AMONG NEOGENE CORBULIDAE OF TROPICAL AMERICA
  Laurie C. Anderson, Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA and Peter D. Roopnarine, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA
  25661 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:00 AM
  THREE PROVOCATIVE PATTERNS IN HIERARCHICAL EVOLUTION
  Daniel W. McShea, Duke Univ, Durham, NC
  26045 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:00 AM
  IS THERE A SEPARATE CLASS OF "MASS" EXTINCTIONS?
  Richard K. Bambach, Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA and Andrew H. Knoll, Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA
  26413 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:00 AM
  DETERMINING THE LINE OF CORRELATION USING GENETIC ALGORITHMS
  Tao Zhang, Univ of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL and Roy E. Plotnick, Univ Illinois - Chicago, Chicago, IL
  27781 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:00 AM
  EXTINCTIONS IN TIME AND SPACE: SURVIVORSHIP AND GEOGRAPHIC RANGE IN LATE CRETACEOUS AND EARLY CENOZOIC VENEROID BIVALVES
  Rowan Lockwood, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
  27951 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:00 AM
  THE EVOLUTIONARY DIVERSIFICATION OF CYANOBACTERIA: PALENOTOLOGICAL AND MOLECULAR-PHYLOGENETIC PERSPECTIVES
  Akiko Tomitani, Kyoto Univ, Kyoto, N/A and Colleen M. Cavanaugh, Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA and Andrew H. Knoll, Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA
  28090 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:00 AM
  LITERATURE-BASED CHARACTERS AS A SOURCE OF NON-RANDOM BIAS IN PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSES
  Sara A. Marcus, University of Kansas, Bloomington, IN
  28543 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:00 AM
  KILLER VOLCANISM AT THE GUADALUPIAN-LOPINGIAN BOUNDARY (PERMIAN): NOT BASALTIC BUT ACIDIC
  Yukio Isozaki, Univ Tokyo, Tokyo
  29202 (Technical Sessions)