Geological Society of America

8:00 AM

EVENT BED DEPOSITION IN THE CINCINNATIAN SERIES: IMPLICATIONS FOR TAPHONOMIC PROCESSES AND ASSESSING MICROEVOLUTIONARY CHANGES WITHIN FLEXICALYMENE

Brenda R. Hunda, Univ of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA and Nigel C. Hughes, Univ California - Riverside, Riverside, CA

14435 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

DIFFERENTIATING BETWEEN SPECIES OF THE STROMATOPOROID HABROSTROMA FROM THE LOCHKOVIAN (LOWER DEVONIAN) OF NORTH AMERICA

Carl W. Stock, Univ of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL and Judith A. Burry-Stock, Univ of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

21092 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

REMARKABLE PRESERVATION OF FOSSIL WORMS (ANNELIDA: POLYCHAETA) FROM THE LA MESETA FORMATION (EOCENE), SEYMOUR ISLAND, ANTARCTICA

Rodney M. Feldmann, Kent State Univ, Kent, OH and Carrie E. Schweitzer, Kent State Univ Stark Campus, Canton, OH

22368 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

COMBINING PALEONTOLOGICAL AND BIOLOGICAL CRITERIA WITHIN THE XANTHOIDEA (DECAPODA): TOWARD A NEW VIEW OF DECAPOD SYSTEMATICS, EVOLUTION, AND PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY

Carrie E. Schweitzer, Kent State Univ Stark Campus, Canton, OH and Rodney M. Feldmann, Kent State Univ - Kent, Kent, OH

22393 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

LATE PLEISTOCENE EVOLUTION OF A DOMINANT CARIBBEAN REEF CORAL: SPECIATION AND EXTINCTION WITHIN THE MONTASTRAEA ANNULARIS COMPLEX

Ann F. Budd, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA and John M. Pandolfi, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC

23589 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

DISTRIBUTION OF FOSSIL DECAPOD CRUSTACEANS FROM THE LA MESETA FORMATION (EOCENE) ON SEYMOUR ISLAND, ANTARCTICA: CHANGING TIMES AND CHANGING PATTERNS

Sergio Marenssi, Instituto Antartico Argentino, Buenos Aires, N/A and Rodney M. Feldmann, Kent State Univ - Kent, Kent, OH and Carrie E. Schweitzer, Kent State Univ Stark Campus, Canton, OH

24234 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

ANALYZING THE LATITUDINAL DIVERSITY GRADIENT: TESTING THE "AGE OF THE TROPICS" HYPOTHESIS USING DEEP TIME

Lindsey R. Leighton, Univ. of California, Davis, CA

24836 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

DISSECTING THE "LITHIOTIS" FACIES: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE EARLY JURASSIC "REEF ECLIPSE

Nicole M. Fraser, Univ of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA and David Bottjer, Univ of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

25614 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

COMMUNITY DIVERSITY IN A PENNSYLVANIAN PHYLLOID ALGAL MOUND FROM TEXAS

Chris L. Schneider, Univ of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

25886 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

EARLY ORDOVICIAN TRILOBITE DIVERSITY, TURNOVER RATES, AND MASS EXTINCTION: HIGH-RESOLUTION BIOSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE HOUSE FORMATION AND CORRELATIVES, GREAT BASIN

Jonathan M. Adrain, Univ of Iowa, Iowa City, IA and Stephen R. Westrop, Univ of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

25909 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

MORPHOLOGICAL STABILIZATION IN THE DEEPWATER TRILOBITE, TRIARTHRUS BECKI (GREEN): A TEST OF THE PLUS ÇA CHANGE MODEL

Keonho Kim, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY and Charles E. Mitchell, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY and H. David Sheets, Canisius College, Buffalo, NY

27371 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS AND EVOLUTIONARY MORPHOLOGY OF DASYCLADALEAN ALGAE

Steven T. LoDuca, Eastern Michigan Univ, Ypsilanti, MI and Ernest R. Behringer, Eastern Michigan Univ, Ypsilanti, MI

27880 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

MORPHOLOGY AND EVOLUTION OF THE AZOOXANTHELLATE CORAL GENERA ANOMOCORA AND ASTEROSMILIA

John P. Dawson, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

28795 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

NEW EARLY CAMBRIAN BRADORIIDA (CRUSTACEA?) FROM ANTARCTICA: IMPLICATIONS FOR BRADORIID BIOGEOGRAPHY AND EVOLUTION

Alycia L. Rode, Univ of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Bruce S. Lieberman, Univ of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

28802 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

ONTOGENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS OF SHAPE DISPARITY IN THE TRILOBITE PHACOPS

Peter Kaplan, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI and Miriam L. Zelditch, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI and H. David Sheets, Canisius College, Buffalo, NY

29032 (Technical Sessions)

156 Marine Invertebrate Paleontology III

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