60 Cenozoic to Recent Paleontology

Saturday, 27 March 2004
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Presentations

• 8:00 AM
  BIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF SELECT NEOGENE MELLITID ECHINOIDS FROM THE SOUTHEASTERN U.S.: MORPHOLOGICAL VARIABILITY AND IMPLICATIONS FOR TAXONOMIC ASSIGNMENTS
  Craig W. Oyen, Shippensburg Univ, Shippensburg, PA and Kurtis G. Fuellhart, Shippensburg Univ, Shippensburg, PA
  71019 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:20 AM
  ASSESSING THE USEFULNESS OF LITERATURE-DERIVED ESTIMATES OF BODY SIZE
  Richard A. Krause, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ, Blacksburg, VA and Jennifer A. Stempien, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ, Blacksburg, VA and Michal Kowalewski, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ, Blacksburg, VA and Arnold I. Miller, Univ of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
  70735 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:40 AM
  MICROBIAL BIOMINERALIZATION CONTRIBUTES TO EXCEPTIONAL PRESERVATION OF VERTEBRATE FOSSILS
  Mary H. Schweitzer, North Carolina State Univ, Raleigh, NC and Alan C. Channing, N/A, N/A, N/A and John R. Horner, Montana State Univ - Bozeman, Bozeman, MT
  70060 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:00 AM
  COMATULID CRINOIDS FROM THE CASTLE HAYNE LIMESTONE, SOUTHEASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
  Charles N. Ciampaglio, Wright State Univ, Celina, OH and Patricia G. Weaver, North Carolina Museum of Nat History, Raleigh, NC
  68725 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:40 AM
  QUANTIFYING GEOGRAPHIC VARIABILITY OF A LINEAGE: THE GEOMETRIC MORPHOSPACE OF MULINIA
  J.A. Stempien, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ, Blacksburg, VA and Michal Kowalewski, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ, Blacksburg, VA
  70675 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:00 AM
  LATE PLIOCENE REEF CORAL ASSOCIATIONS FROM THE HOPEGATE FORMATION OF NORTHERN JAMAICA
  Thomas A. Stemann, Univ of the West Indies, Kingston, N/A and Stephen K. Donovan, Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum, Leiden, N/A and Roger W. Portell, FL Museum of Nat History, Gainesville, FL
  71031 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:20 AM
  TIME AVERAGING ON A SHALLOW SUBTROPICAL SHELF: THE SEARCH FOR A TAPHONOMIC CLOCK
  Susan L. Barbour Wood, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ, Blacksburg, VA and Richard A. Krause, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ, Blacksburg, VA and Michal Kowalewski, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ, Blacksburg, VA and John F. Wehmiller, Univ of Delaware, Newark, DE and Marcello G. Simoes, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu, N/A
  70962 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:40 AM
  USING GEOCHEMICAL AND TAPHONOMIC SIGNATURES OF FRESHWATER MUSSEL SHELLS TO EXPLORE INDUSTRY-RELATED EXTIRPATIONS IN THE NORTH FORK HOLSTON RIVER, VA
  Megan E. Brown, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ, Blacksburg, VA and Michal Kowalewski, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ, Blacksburg, VA and Donald S. Cherry, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ, Blacksburg, VA and Richard J. Neves, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ, Blacksburg, VA and Madeline E. Schreiber, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
  70653 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:00 AM
  SYSTEMATICS OF THE GENUS STREPTACIS (GASTROPODA: HETEROSTROPHA)
  Matthew R. Campbell, Indiana Univ - Bloomington, Bloomington, IN
  70796 (Technical Sessions)