T206 The Hunters and the Hunted: Predation On and By Gastropods

Wednesday, 10 November 2004
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Presentations

• 8:00 AM
  TAPHONOMY AND TIME-AVERAGING OF DRILL HOLES: ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF THE FOSSIL RECORD LEFT BY HUNTING GASTROPODS
  Michal Kowalewski, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ, Blacksburg, VA and Alan Hoffmeister, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ
  73726 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:20 AM
  PLATYCERATID GASTROPODS AS PARASITES, PREDATORS, AND PREY AND THEIR POSSIBLE EFFECTS ON ECHINODERM HOSTS: COLLATERAL DAMAGE AND TARGETING
  Carlton E. Brett, Univ of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH and Forest J. Gahn, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC and Tomasz K. Baumiller, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  80201 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:40 AM
  NEW EVIDENCE FOR PLATYCERATID DRILLING ABILITIES FROM CRINOIDS, BRACHIOPODS, AND GASTROPODS OF THE LAKE VALLEY FORMATION (MISSISSIPPIAN, USA)
  Tomasz K. Baumiller, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI and Daniel J. Miller, Univ of Michigan, ann arbor, MI and Forest J. Gahn, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
  79377 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:55 AM
  SNAILS EATING SEA-URCHINS – PREDATION PATTERNS ON THE ECHINOID ECHINOCYAMUS FROM THE OLIGO-MIOCENE OF EUROPE
  James H. Nebelsick, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, N/A and Andreas Kroh, Karl-Franzens University Graz, Graz, N/A
  78583 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:10 AM
  LEARNING TO DRILL IN THE WIS: EXAMPLES FROM THE FOX HILLS FORMATION
  Peter J. Harries, Univ. of South Florida, Tampa, FL and Kenneth M. Schopf, Education Development Center, Newton, MA
  75491 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:25 AM
  GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER? DIVERSITY IN PREDATORS, PREY AND PREDATION METRICS
  Carol M. Tang, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA
  79676 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:40 AM
  MODERN VARIATION IN PREDATION INTENSITY: CONSTRAINTS ON AND IMPLICATIONS FOR ESCALATION
  James Funderburk, Univ of South Florida, Tampa, FL and Peter Harries, Univ of South Florida, Tampa, FL
  75313 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:55 AM
  CLIMATE AND GASTROPOD PREDATION: VARIATION IN DRILLING AMONG RECENT MOLLUSCAN PROVINCES ALONG THE U.S. EAST COAST
  Patricia H. Kelley, Univ of North Carolina, Wilmington, NC and Thor A. Hansen, Western Washington Univ, Bellingham, WA
  73830 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:10 AM
  GASTROPOD PREDATION ON THE PANAMANIAN CARIBBEAN COAST
  Helena Fortunato, Smithsonian Tropical Rsch Institute, Balboa, N/A
  78331 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:25 AM
  PLEISTOCENE ESCALATION IN STROMBID GASTROPODS OF FLORIDA AND A POSSIBLE CATALYST ROLE FOR GLACIAL ‘SUPER-EL NIÑO’ CONDITIONS
  Gregory S. Herbert, Univ of South Florida at Tampa, Tampa, FL and Gregory P. Dietl, Yale Univ, New Haven, CT and Geerat J. Vermeij, Univ of California, Davis, CA
  75957 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:40 AM
  IS THERE A SURVIVAL-RELATED ADVANTAGE OF SINISTRAL COILING IN MARINE SNAILS?
  Jonathan Hendricks, Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY and Gregory P. Dietl, Yale Univ, New Haven, CT
  76278 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:55 AM
  THE FOSSIL RECORD OF FORCE AND POWER: GASTROPOD SHELLS AS OFFENSIVE WEAPONS
  Geerat J. Vermeij, Univ of California, Davis, CA
  73675 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:15 AM
  ARE FASTER MODES OF PREDATION EVOLUTIONARILY DERIVED IN THE BUSYCONINAE?: A TEST WITH MOLECULES AND FOSSILS
  Gregory P. Dietl, Yale Univ, New Haven, CT and Michael A. McCartney, Univ of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC and Christin Slaughter, Univ of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC
  79456 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:30 AM
  EMERGENT EFFECTS OF MULTIPLE PREDATORS ON PREY IN THE FOSSIL RECORD
  Gregory P. Dietl, Yale Univ, New Haven, CT and Patricia H. Kelley, Univ. of North Carolina, Wilmington, NC
  77300 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:45 AM
  THE PERILS OF PREDATION FOR TERRESTRIAL GASTROPODS
  Sally Walker, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
  79586 (Technical Sessions)