Geological Society of America

8:00 AM

RETRODEFORMATION OF FOSSIL INSECT WINGS: A CASE STUDY

Olivier Béthoux, Yale Univ, New Haven, CT

80167 (Technical Sessions)

8:15 AM

PALEOBIOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF A FUNCTIONAL DESIGN SPACE OF SINGLE VEINED LEAVES

C. Kevin Boyce, Univ of Chicago, Chicago, IL and Maciej A. Zwieniecki, Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA and N. Michele Holbrook, Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA

77783 (Technical Sessions)

8:30 AM

GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF SHARK TEETH OF THE GENUS RHIZOPRIONODON. MODERN TOOTH SHAPE ANALYSIS AND TEST OF ANCESTRAL PREDICTION METHODS BY COMPARISON TO FOSSIL SHAPES

Aspen Garry, Iowa State Univ, Ames, IA

79527 (Technical Sessions)

8:45 AM

DYNAMICS OF MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION IN THE NAUTILOIDEA: A COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRIC APPROACH

Sofya Low, Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA

79520 (Technical Sessions)

9:00 AM

IDENTIFICATION OF MAMMALIAN POSTCRANIA USING MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS: CLASSIFYING ASTRAGALI OF CAMELIDAE (MAMMALIA) FROM THE LATE MIOCENE OF NEVADA

Edward Davis, Univ of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

79856 (Technical Sessions)

9:15 AM

PRELIMINARY COMPARISON OF PALEOZOIC AMMONOID SUTURE MORPHOLOGY QUANTIFIED USING A WINDOWED, SHORT-TIME FOURIER TRANSFORM TO EXTERNAL SHELL COILING

Emily G. Allen, Univ of Chicago, Chicago, IL

80855 (Technical Sessions)

9:30 AM

MORPHOMETRIC AND TAPHONOMIC ANALYSES OF TANYTRACHELOS AHYNIS FROM THE LATE TRIASSIC COW BRANCH FORMATION, SOLITE QUARRY, VIRGINIA

Michelle Casey, Towson University Physics, Astronomy and Geosciences, Towson, MD and Nicholas Fraser, Virginia Museum of Nat History, Martinsville, VA and Michal Kowalewski, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

76366 (Technical Sessions)

9:45 AM

HIERARCHICAL INTEGRATION OF MODULAR STRUCTURES IN THE EMERGENCE OF COMPLEXITY AMONG EARLY METAZOAN SKELETONS

Roger D.K. Thomas, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA

81046 (Technical Sessions)

10:00 AM

DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN CLOSELY RELATED SPECIES WITHIN A LINEAGE: GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICS OF MULINIA OF THE ATLANTIC COASTAL PLAIN, U.S.A

Jennifer A. Stempien, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ, Blacksburg, VA

77006 (Technical Sessions)

10:15 AM

INTRASPECIES VARIATION BETWEEN TWO EXTANT POPULATIONS OF LAQUEUS CALIFORNIANUS AS MODELED BY ELLIPTICAL FOURIER ANALYSIS

Amanda B. Seigle, Univ of California, Davis, Davis, CA and Paul C. Fitzgerald, Univ of California, Davis, Davis, CA and Sandra J. Carlson, Univ of California, Davis, Davis, CA

80473 (Technical Sessions)

10:30 AM

DEVELOPING INTERNAL VOLUME ESTIMATES FOR INEQUIVALVED SPECIES: TESTING CONSTRAINTS ON SHELL SHAPE AND DESIRABILITY AS A PREY ITEM IN CORBULID BIVALVES

Audrey Aronowsky, Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA and Laurie C. Anderson, Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA and David H. Goodwin, Denison Univ, Granville, OH and Peter D. Roopnarine, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA

75574 (Technical Sessions)

10:45 AM

MORPHOMETRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS OF INTEGRATION IN MORPHOLOGICALLY CONSERVATIVE MOLLUSCAN CLADES

Laurie C. Anderson, Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA and Peter D. Roopnarine, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA and Audrey Aronowsky, Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA and Viviane Callier, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA

78188 (Technical Sessions)

11:15 AM

APPLYING GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICS TO SIBLING SPECIES OF POLYSTIRA (GASTROPODA:TURRIDAE)

Ursula Smith, Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY and Jonathan A. Todd, The Natural History Museum, London and Norman McLeod, The Nat History Museum, London, N/A

80191 (Technical Sessions)

11:30 AM

HOW TO GROW A SABER-TOOTH: FELID CANINE GROWTH RATES

Robert S. Feranec, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

77361 (Technical Sessions)

11:45 AM

TRACING THE ANCESTRY OF THE GREAT WHITE SHARK USING MORPHOMETRIC ANALYSES OF FOSSIL TEETH

Charles N. Ciampaglio, Wright State Univ, Celina, OH and Kevin Nyberg, Duke Univ, Durham, NC and Gregory A. Wray, Duke Univ, Durham, NC

73857 (Technical Sessions)

130 Paleontology VI: Quantitative and Analytical Morphology

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