82 Paleontology/Paleobotany (Posters): Non-Marine

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  IDENTIFICATION OF FOSSIL "FAKES" USING RARE EARTH ELEMENT(REE) SIGNATURES
  Doreena Patrick, Temple Univ, Philadelphia, PA and D. O. Terry, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA and D. E. Grandstaff, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
  13862 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  DEPOSITIONAL SETTING AND PALEOECOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF A NEW SAUROPOD BONEBED IN THE JAVELINA FORMATION (CRETACEOUS) OF BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, TEXAS
  Homer Montgomery, Univ of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX and Anthony Fiorillo, Dallas Museum of Nat History, Dallas, TX
  14555 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  ESR DATING THE VILLAFRANCHIAN IN FRANCE AND ELSEWHERE: A "HANDICAPPED" STUDY?
  Tony D.G. Mei, Flushing, NY and Bonnie A.B. Blackwell, Williams College, Williamstown, MA and Eric Delson, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY and Steve Frost, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY and Joel I.B. Blickstein, Flushing, NY and Mimi N. Divjak, Flushing, NY
  16495 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  OPALIZED WOOD FROM THE UPPER PLIOCENE OF BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR: A COASTAL-PLAIN DEPOSIT ON THE GULF OF CALIFORNIA
  Darius E. Mitchell, Williams College, Williamstown, MA and David H. Backus, Williams College, Williamstown, MA and Markes E. Johnson, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
  18576 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  TAPHONOMY OF FOSSIL TURTLES FROM THE LOWERMOST NAVESINK FORMATION (MAASTRICHTIAN) IN MONMOUTH COUNTY, NEW JERSEY
  Martin A. Becker, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ and John A. Chamberlain, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY and Ryan J. Earley, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ
  18970 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  A PLEISTOCENE RODENT FAUNA FROM CURAÇAO, NETHERLANDS ANTILLES
  Donald A. McFarlane, The Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA and Joyce Lundberg, Carleton Univ, Ottawa, ON
  19778 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  EARLY PENNSYLVANIAN TETRAPOD ICHNITES OF WARREN CO., INDIANA
  Joe Monks, Purdue Univ, West Lafayette, IN
  21283 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  THE EARLIEST KNOWN GYMNOSPERM-DOMINATED SWAMP COMMUNITIES
  Elizabeth D.J. Slone, Texas A&M Univ, College Station, TX and Anne Raymond, Texas A&M Univ, College Station, TX and Suzanne H. Costanza, Malden, MA and Alicia D. Lesnikowska, Georgia Southwestern State Univ, Americus, GA
  22306 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  AN UNUSUAL FRESHWATER BIVALVE FROM THE UPPERMOST CRETACEOUS OF MONTANA: A PREVIOUSLY UNEXPLORED ECOLOGICAL NICHE IN THE HELL CREEK FORMATION
  Joseph H. Hartman, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND and Arthur E. Bogan, North Carolina State Museum of Natural History, Raleigh, NC
  23134 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  A REMARKABLE VERTEBRATE ASSEMBLAGE FROM THE LANCE FORMATION, NIOBRARA COUNTY, WYOMING
  Lee Spencer, Earth History Research Center, Jacksonville, OR and Lawrence E. Turner, Southwestern Adventist Univ, Keene, TX and Arthur V. Chadwick, Southwestern Adventist Univ, Keene, TX
  23759 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  BIOSTRATIGRAPHIC AGE CONSTRAINTS ON THE MOONSTONE FORMATION, CARBON AND NATRONA COUNTIES, WYOMING: A WINDOW INTO POST-LARAMIDE TECTONISM
  Jessica W. Scott, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY and Kevin R. Chamberlain, Univ of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
  24833 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  USING MOLECULAR DATA AND COMPUTERS IN SYSTEMATICS: WHAT THE TORTOISE GEOCHELONE TAUGHT US
  K. Hauser, Fachhochschule Ansbach, Ansbach, N/A
  25413 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  LATE TERTIARY CLIMATE VARIATIONS INFERRED FROM OSTRACODES, ANZA-BORREGO DESERT REGION, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, USA
  Timothy N. Cosma, Kent State Univ, Kent, OH and Alison J. Smith, Kent State University, Kent, OH and Donald F. Palmer, Kent State Univ, Kent, OH
  25500 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  A SPECIES-AREA RELATION FOR LOWER MICHIGAN FISHES
  Brandon McElroy, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI and Gerald Smith, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI and Bruce Wilkinson, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  25508 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  FOSSIL INSECT DAMAGE ON PALEOCENE LEAVES FROM WANNAGAN CREEK, ND
  Scott A. Haire, Sci Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN and H. Douglas Hanks, Sci Museum of Minnesota, St Paul, MN and Emily S. Tremain, Gustavus Adolphus College, St Peter, MN and Georgia E. Knauss, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD and Tyler R. Lyson, N/A, Marmarth, ND and Jeremiah Kokes, Tennessee Technological Univ, Cookeville, TN
  25556 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  A NEW METHOD FOR MEASURING UNILATERALLY HYPSODONT TEETH WITH EXAMPLES FROM LAGOMORPHA AND RODENTIA
  Andrea R. Bair, Univ of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE
  27709 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  LATE CRETACEOUS EQUATORIAL COASTAL VEGETATION: NEW MEGAFLORA ASSOCIATED WITH DINOSAUR FINDS IN THE BAHARIYA OASIS, EGYPT
  Mandela A. Lyon, Univ of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA and Kirk R. Johnson, Denver Museum of Nature and Sci, Denver, CO and Scott L. Wing, Smithsonian Inst, Washington, DC and Douglas J. Nichols, US Geol Survey, Denver, CO and Kenneth J. Lacovara, Drexel Univ, Philadelphia, PA and Joshua B. Smith, Univ Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
  27824 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  TAPHONOMY OF TWO MIOCENE RHINOCEROS ASSEMBLAGES, DECATUR COUNTY, KANSAS
  Danielle L. Deemer, Univ of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA and William W. Korth, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY and Harold B. Rollins, Univ of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
  28002 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  A DIVERSE MEGAFLORA FROM EARLY PALEOCENE SYNOROGENIC STRATA IN THE DENVER BASIN, COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO
  Michele L. Reynolds, Denver Museum of Nature and Sci, Denver, CO and Kirk R. Johnson, Denver Museum of Nature and Sci, Denver, CO and Joseph R. Thomasson, Fort Hays State Univ, Hays, KS
  28412 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  PALEOCLIMATIC AND PALEOECOLOGIC RECONSTRUCTIONS IN WESTERN GONDWANA: THE ROLE OF ARBORESCENT LYCOPHYTES
  Margot Guerra-Sommer, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS, Porto Alegre, RS, N/A and Rualdo Menegat, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS, Porto Alegre, RS, N/A and Miriam Cazzulo-Klepzig, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS, Porto Alegre, RS, N/A and André Jasper, UNIVATES - Centro Universitário, Lajeado, RS, N/A and Laureen Sally da Rosa Alves, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro - UERJ, Rio de Janeiro, N/A
  28505 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  EPISODIC DEPOSITION IN THE CRETACEOUS AND PALEOGENE DENVER BASIN: HOW TECTONICS CONTROLS THE CONTINUITY OF THE STRATIGRAPHIC RECORD
  Robert G. Raynolds, Denver Museum of Nature and Sci, Denver, CO
  28546 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  TAPHONOMY AND SEDIMENTOLOGY OF A TYRANNOSAURID LOCALITY FROM THE LATE CRETACEOUS (MAASTRICHTIAN) HELL CREEK FORMATION OF EASTERN MONTANA
  Joseph B. Cooley, Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman, MT and James G. Schmitt, Montana State Univ, Bozeman, MT
  28782 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  SOME ODD THINGS FOUND IN RED ROCKS: SHERMAN CREEK MEMBER
  Katherine J. Van Horn, Susquehanna Univ, Selinsgrove, PA and Jennifer M. Elick, Susquehanna Univ, Selinsgrove, PA
  28880 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  PATTERNS OF POST K-T BOUNDARY PLANT DIVERSITY AND RATES OF RECOVERY IN THE DENVER BASIN, COLORADO
  Richard S. Barclay, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL and David L. Dilcher, Florida Museum of Nat History, Gainesville, FL and Kirk R. Johnson, Denver Museum of Nature and Sci, Denver, CO
  28883 (Technical Sessions)