226 Paleontology XI: Species Concepts and Phylogenetic Relationships

Wednesday, 10 November 2004
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  DIVERSITY OF CRETACEOUS CONIFERS: A NEW SPECIES WITH POLLEN CONES THAT BEAR ADAXIAL POLLEN SACS AND POLLEN WITH FEATURES OF THE TAXODIACEOUS CONIFERS
  Heather L. Sanders, Ohio Univ, Athens, OH and Gar W Rothwell, Ohio Univ, Athens, OH and Ruth A. Stockey, Univ of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
  78168 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:45 PM
  CHANGING PHYLOGENIES THROUGH TIME: A REVIEW OF THE SPHENODONTIA WITH INSIGHTS FROM SUPERMATRICES AND SUPERTREES
  Julia F. Heathcote, N/A, Nottingham, N/A
  79933 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:00 PM
  EVOLUTION AND BIOSTRATIGRAPHY OF MIDDLE ORDOVICIAN RADIOLARIANS
  Jorg Maletz, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY and David L. Bruton, Oslo, N/A
  80197 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  VARIATION AND STRATIGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF ALLOSAURUS WITHIN THE LATE JURASSIC MORRISON FORMATION
  Mark A. Loewen, Salt Lake City, UT
  80940 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:30 PM
  HETEROSPOROUS FERNS: PHYLOGENY, ORIGIN AND RADIATION
  Richard Lupia, Univ of Oklahoma, Norman, OK and Michael Nowak, Univ of Oklahoma, Norman, OK and Harald Schneider, Duke Univ, Durham, NC and Nathalie Nagalingum, Duke Univ, Durham, NC and Kathleen Pryer, Duke Univ, Durham, NC
  80062 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:45 PM
  MORPHOLOGY AND PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS OF THE LASIOGRAPTINAE (DIPLOGRAPTACEA): ITERATIVE AND DRIVEN TRENDS IN THE EVOLUTION OF “RETIOLITE-TYPE" GRAPTOLITE COLONIES
  Charles E. Mitchell, Univ. at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY and Daniel Goldman, Univ of Dayton, Dayton, OH
  75760 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:00 PM
  A NEW MODEL FOR PLATE HOMOLOGY IN BLASTOZOAN ECHINODERMS
  Colin D. Sumrall, The Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
  78298 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:30 PM
  MORPHOLOGY AND PHYLOGENY OF THE DICRANOGRAPTIDAE: SOLVING A LONG STANDING PROBLEM IN GRAPTOLITE SYSTEMATICS
  Daniel Goldman, Univ of Dayton, Dayton, OH and Charles E. Mitchell, Univ. at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY and Susan L. Klosterman, Wright State Univ, Dayton, OH
  76751 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:45 PM
  OVERLAPPING SPECIES BOUNDARIES AND RETICULATE EVOLUTION IN REEF CORALS: EVIDENCE FROM THE FOSSIL RECORD
  Ann F. Budd, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA and John M. Pandolfi, Univ of Queensland, Brisbane, N/A
  77622 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:00 PM
  EXAMINING PATTERNS OF TAXONOMIC AND PHYLOGENETIC EXTINCTION SELECTIVITY IN PALEOZOIC TEREBRATULIDE BRACHIOPODS
  Sandra J. Carlson, Univ of California, Davis, Davis, CA and Paul C. Fitzgerald, Univ of California, Davis, Davis, CA and Lindsey R. Leighton, San Diego State Univ, San Diego, CA and Peter A. Kaplan, Univ of California, Davis, Davis, CA
  81010 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:15 PM
  FOSSIL AND MOLECULAR EVIDENCE FOR THE TIMING OF MILLIPEDE CLADOGENESIS IN THE PALEOZOIC
  Heather M. Wilson, Yale Univ, New Haven, CT
  74673 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  AFFINITIES OF THE LOWER SILURIAN WAUKESHA ‘MYRIAPOD’
  H.M. Wilson, Yale Univ, New Haven, CT and D.E.G. Briggs, Yale Univ, New Haven, CT and D.G. Mikulic, Illinois State Geol Survey, Champaign, IL and J. Kluessendorf, Univ of Wisconsin, Menasha, WI
  76793 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:45 PM
  A SILURIAN SEA SPIDER
  Derek J. Siveter, Univ of Oxford, Oxford, N/A and Mark D. Sutton, Univ of Oxford, Oxford, N/A and Derek E.G. Briggs, Univ of Yale, New Haven, N/A and David J. Siveter, Univ of Leicester, Leicester, N/A
  74162 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:00 PM
  THE HUNSRÜCK SLATE (LOWER DEVONIAN, LOWER EMSIAN) IN THE CONTEXT OF THE PALEOZOIC HISTORY OF THE OPHIUROIDEA (ECHINODERMATA)
  Alexander Glass, Univ of Illinois, Urbana, IL and Daniel B. Blake, Univ of Illinois, Urbana, IL
  78122 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:15 PM
  TRANSITORY PYGIDIA IN HINTZEIA SP. NOV. AND THE DYNAMICS OF THE POSTERIOR “TAGMA” IN TRILOBITES
  Andrew G. Simpson, Univ of California Riverside, Riverside, CA and Nigel C. Hughes, Univ of California Riverside, Riverside, CA and David Kopaska-Merkel, Geol Survey of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
  78554 (Technical Sessions)