30 Paleontology II: Biogeography and the History of Life

Sunday, 7 November 2004
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  CARMELOPODUS AND THE SUNDANCE VERTEBRATE ICHNOFAUNAL PROVINCE: INSIGHTS INTO THE PRESERVATIONAL COMPLEXITIES OF VERTEBRATE ICHNOTAXA
  Brent H. Breithaupt, Univ of Wyoming, Laramie, WY and Thomas Adams, Univ of Wyoming, Laramie, WY and Elizabeth H. Southwell, Univ of Wyoming, Laramie, WY and Neffra A. Matthews, Univ of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
  77677 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  EXAMINING THE LATITUDINAL DIVERSITY GRADIENT IN PALEOZOIC TEREBRATULIDE BRACHIOPODS : SHOULD SINGLETON DATA BE REMOVED?
  Paul C. Fitzgerald, Univ of California, Davis, Davis, CA and Sandra J. Carlson, Univ of California, Davis, Davis, CA
  79445 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:45 PM
  ABELISAUROID THEROPOD DINOSAURS FROM THE LATE CRETACEOUS OF EGYPT: EVIDENCE FOR GONDWANAN COSMOPOLITANISM
  Joshua B. Smith, Washington Univ, St. Louis, MO and Matthew C. Lamanna, Univ of Pennsylvania, Philadephia, PA and David W. Krause, Stony Brook Univ, Stony Brook, NY
  79538 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:00 PM
  NEW DATA REINFORCE THE CONCLUSION THAT THE INTER-REALM BARRIER IN NORTH AMERICA WAS SELECTIVELY BREACHED BY THE STROMATOPOROID HABROSTROMA CENTROTUM DURING THE LOCHKOVIAN AGE (EARLY DEVONIAN)
  Carl W. Stock, Univ of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL and Judith A. Burry-Stock, Univ of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
  78350 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  THE BIOGEOGRAPHIC SIGNIFICANCE OF ANTARCTIC NEOGENE INSECTS
  Allan C. Ashworth, North Dakota State Univ, Fargo, ND
  74777 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:30 PM
  THE ARCHOSTEMATA (COLEOPTERA) OF NORTH AMERICA: WHERE ARE THE FOSSILS?
  Sara H. Lubkin, Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY
  76865 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:45 PM
  PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY OF HADOPRIONIDS, PALEOZOIC JAWED POLYCHAETES
  Claes F. Bergman, Kristianstad Univ, Kristianstad, N/A and Mats E. Eriksson, Lund Univ, Lund, N/A
  79010 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:00 PM
  IMPLICATIONS OF MIXED BIOGEOGRAPHIC AFFINITY OF A COASTAL FLORA AND FAUNA IN THE EARLY PERMIAN DALL BASIN, ALASKA, USA
  David Sunderlin, Univ Chicago, Chicago, IL
  77229 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:15 PM
  A LATE WASATCHIAN (LATE EARLY EOCENE) VERTEBRATE ASSEMBLAGE PRESERVED IN MEANDERING STREAM CHANNEL DEPOSITS, NORTHERN RED DESERT, WYOMING
  Gregg F. Gunnell, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI and William S. Bartels, Albion College, Albion, MI and John-Paul Zonneveld, Calgary, AB
  81109 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:30 PM
  DENSE PERMIAN POLAR FORESTS WITH LARGE TREES: UPPER BUCKLEY FORMATION, CENTRAL TRANSANTARCTIC MOUNTAINS
  Nichole Elizabeth Knepprath, Vanderbilt Univ, Nashville, TN and Molly F. Miller, Vanderbilt Univ, Nashville, TN and John L. Isbell, Univ of Wisconisn, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
  80603 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:45 PM
  MICROVERTEBRATE BIOSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE UPPER TRIASSIC CHINLE GROUP, SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A
  Andrew B. Heckert, New Mexico Museum of Nat History & Sci, Albuquerque, NM and Spencer G. Lucas, New Mexico Museum of Nat History & Sci, Albuquerque, NM and Larry F. Rinehart, New Mexico Museum of Nat History & Sci, Albuquerque, NM and Justin A. Spielmann, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
  77812 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:00 PM
  PETROGRAPHY AND BIOSTRATIGRAPHY OF #101 LAS CANAS & MESITA #1 CORES, GOLDEN LANE/POZA RICA TREND, MEXICO
  Paul R. Krutak, P. Krutak Geoservices Intl, Rye, CO
  75891 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:15 PM
  BASAL PALEOGENE BIOSTRATIGRAPHY AND BIOCHRONOLOGY OF THE COLLISION-INDUCED PARALIC-FLUVIAL PACKAGE: INTERPRETATIONS FOR PALEOENVIRONMENTS AND PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY OF A NARROWING TETHYS, NW HIMALAYA, INDIA
  Raminder S. Loyal, Centre of Advanced Study in Geology, Chandigarh, N/A
  77221 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  BIOSTRATIGRAPHICALLY DIAGNOSTIC GRAPTOLITES ASSOCIATED WITH HINDE’S (1879) SCOLECODONTS
  Mats E. Eriksson, Lund Univ, Lund, N/A and Charles E. Mitchell, Univ. at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY
  74129 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:45 PM
  HOPE AND DESPAIR IN SONORA; THE LOWER AND "MIDDLE" CRETACEOUS VERTEBRATE RECORD OF MEXICO
  Stephanie Ellen Novak, Washington Univ, St. Louis, MO and Thomas Vincent Evans, Washington Univ, St. Louis, MO and Joshua B. Smith, Washington Univ, St. Louis, MO and Carlos M. González-León, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Hermosillo, N/A
  73557 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:00 PM
  DIPNOAN AND CHONDRICHTHYAN REMAINS FROM THE UPPER KERBER FORMATION (PENNSYLVANIAN), BASSAM PARK, SAN ISABEL NATIONAL FOREST, COLORADO
  Wayne Itano, Boulder, CO and Karen J. Houck, Univ of Colorado at Denver, Denver, CO and Nicole Heimink, Univ of Colorado at Denver, Denver, CO
  75220 (Technical Sessions)