177 Paleontology III: Early Life

Thursday, 8 November 2001
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  THE NON-PREVALENCE OF CAMBRIAN DEPOSIT FEEDING
  Nicholas J. Butterfield, Univ of Cambridge, Cambridge, N/A and Soren Jensen, Univ California - Riverside, Riverside, CA
  14249 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  GEOBIOS, HYPERSEA AND THE IMPORTANCE OF HYPERMARINE UPWELLING FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMPLEX LIFE
  Mark A.S. McMenamin, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
  14426 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  EVIDENCE FOR ABUNDANT SEAFLOOR MICROBIAL MATS AND ASSOCIATED METAZOAN LIFESTYLES IN THE LOWER CAMBRIAN ZHONGYICUN PHOSPORITES OF CHINA
  Stephen Q. Dornbos, Univ of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA and David Bottjer, Univ of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA and Jun-Yuan Chen, Nanjing, N/A
  17199 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  USING BIOGEOGRAPHY TO CONSTRAIN THE TIMING OF THE CAMBRIAN RADIATION
  Bruce S. Lieberman, Univ Kansas, Lawrence, KS
  18954 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  MICROBIAL ORIGIN OF SOME OF THE EDIACARAN FOSSILS
  D. Grazhdankin, Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge, N/A
  21602 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  CYTOLOGICAL AND ECOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY IN THE EARLY MESOPROTEROZOIC
  Emmanuelle J. Javaux, Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA and Andrew H. Knoll, Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA and Malcolm R. Walter, Australian Centre for Astrobiology, Macquarie Univ, New South Wales, N/A
  22825 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  ENVIRONMENTAL BIAS OF FOSSIL KONSERVAT LAGERSTÄTTEN THROUGH THE PHANEROZOIC
  Donald G. Mikulic, Illinois State Geol Survey, Champaign, IL and Joanne Kluessendorf, Weis Earth Sci Museum, Menasha, WI
  26008 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  A LATE ARCHEAN PALEOSOL WITH MICROFOSSILS, RAINDROP STRUCTURES AND EPHEMERAL PONDS?
  Andrew Paul Abban, Harvard-Smithsonian, Cambridge, MA
  26132 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  FOSSILS, MOLECULAR CLOCKS AND THE CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION
  Kevin J. Peterson, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH and Carter Takacs, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
  26837 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  A SILURIAN CHEMOSYNTHETIC ECOSYSTEM FROM CENTRAL MOROCCO
  Roberto Barbieri, Univ of Bologna, Bologna, N/A and Barbara Cavalazzi, Univ of Bologna, Bologna, N/A and Gian Gabriele Ori, Univ D'Annunzio, Pescara, N/A
  26842 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  HIGH MORPHOLOGICAL DIVERSITY IN NEOPROTEROZOIC VASE-SHAPED MICROFOSSIL ASSEMBLAGES FROM THE CHUAR GROUP, GRAND CANYON: COMPARISONS WITH TESTATE AMOEBAE
  Susannah M. Porter, Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA and Ralf Meisterfeld, Rheinisch-Westfalische Techn. Hochschule, Aachen, N/A
  27044 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  A MIDDLE CAMBRIAN OXYGEN-DEFICIENT BIOFACIES: GREAT BASIN, USA
  Robert R. Gaines, Univ California - Riverside, Riverside, CA and Mary L. Droser, Univ of California, Riverside, CA
  27601 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  CAMBRIAN FIRM MUDDY SUBSTRATES: SIGNIFICANCE FOR THE PRESERVATION OF TRACE FOSSILS
  Mary L. Droser, Univ of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA and Soren Jensen, Univ of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA and James G. Gehling, Div of Nat Sciences, Adelaide, N/A
  28353 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  3D IMAGING OF PYRITIZED SOFT TISSUES IN PALEOZOIC KONSERVAT-LAGERSTÄTTEN
  James W. Hagadorn, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA and Thomas E. Whiteley, Rochester, NY and Kenneth H. Nealson, Univ of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  28583 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  THE "STAR BURST" HYPOTHESIS FOR THE DIVERSIFICATION OF EUKARYOTES AND THE GEOLOGIC RECORD INDICATE VERY EARLY ORIGINS FOR ALL MAJOR LINEAGES
  Jere H. Lipps, Univ of California, Berkeley, CA
  28713 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  POSSIBLE MICROMETAZOAN COPROLITES FROM THE JOHNNIE FORMATION (LATE NEOPROTEROZOIC) OF THE MOJAVE DESERT, CALIFORNIA
  Ben M. Waggoner, Univ of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR
  28780 (Technical Sessions)