227 Paleontology XII: The Ecologic Context of Taxonomic Turnover

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

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  USING ENVIRONMENTAL NICHE MODELING TO ASSESS THE ROLE OF CHANGING SPECIES RANGES DURING THE LATE DEVONIAN BIODIVERSITY CRISIS: A CASE STUDY FROM THE APPALACHIAN BASIN
  Alycia L. Rode, Ohio Univ, Athens, OH
  75558 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  DEVELOPING ESR DATING FOR MARSUPIAL TEETH: RECOGNIZING MULTIPLE SEDIMENTATION EVENTS IN THE LAKE EYRE BASIN, AUSTRALIA
  Bonnie A.B. Blackwell, Williams College, Williamstown, MA and Steve J.T. Teng, RFK Sci Rsch Institute, Flushing, NY and Chisara Nicholls, RFK Sci Rsch Institute, Flushing, NY and Richard H. Tedford, AMNH, New York, NY and Joel I.B. Blickstein, RFK Sci Rsch Institute, Flushing, NY and Anne R. Skinner, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
  76438 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  THE NORIAN – RHAETIAN TRANSITION: NEW PALYNOLOGICAL AND PALAEONTOLOGICAL DATA FROM A TETHYAN KEY SECTION IN THE NORTHERN CALCAREOUS ALPS (AUSTRIA)
  Wolfram M. Kürschner, Utrecht Univ, Utrecht, N/A and Leopold Krystyn, Univ of Vienna, Vienna, N/A and Henk Visscher, Utrecht Univ, Utrecht, N/A
  78790 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  INTERPRETATION AND SIGNIFICANCE OF UPPER MISSISSIPPIAN (CHESTERIAN) TERRESTRIAL LYCOPODS (STIGMARIA) IN THE MARINE CARBONATE/REDBED SUCCESSION AT THE BASE OF THE GLOBAL STRATOTYPE SECTION AND POINT FOR THE BASAL BASHKIRIAN/PENNSYLVANIAN, ARROW CANYON, SOUTHERN NEVADA, USA
  Kyle M. Karnes, California State Univ San Bernardino, San Bernardino, CA and W. Britt Leatham, California State Univ San Bernardino, San Bernardino, CA
  80080 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  EARLY FLUVIAL (CATHEDRAL BLUFFS) DEPOSITION INTO A LACUSTRINE BASIN (GREEN RIVER) AND THE RESULTING PRESERVATION OF AN UNUSUAL TERRESTRIAL VERTEBRATE ASSEMBLAGE, HONEYCOMB BUTTES, WYOMING
  William S. Bartels, Albion College, Albion, MI and John-Paul Zonneveld, Calgary, AB and Gregg F. Gunnell, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  81111 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:45 PM
  RAPID TURNOVER OF TRILOBITE FAUNAS RELATED TO STRATIGRAPHIC CONDENSATION IN A LOWER ORDOVICIAN "BIOMERE"
  Jonathan M. Adrain, University of Iowa, Iowa City, N/A and Stephen R. Westrop, Univ of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
  79274 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:00 PM
  THE CRETACEOUS MARINE NUTRIENT INCREASE AND THE INITIAL DIVERSIFICATION OF TURRITELLINE GASTROPODS
  Warren D. Allmon, Paleontological Rsch Institution, Ithaca, NY
  77237 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  EXTANT AND EXTINCT CORALS ON A LATE PLIOCENE REEF TRACT FROM JAMAICA
  Thomas A. Stemann, Univ of the West Indies, Mona Kingston 7, N/A and Stephen K. Donovan, National Natuurhistorisch Museum, Leiden, N/A and Roger W. Portell, FL Museum of Nat History, Gainesville, FL
  81125 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:45 PM
  EARLY PERMIAN CARBONITIDAE (OSTRACODA): PALEOENVIRONMENTS AND EVOLUTIONARY IMPLICATIONS
  Julie B. Retrum, Univ of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Roger L. Kaesler, Univ of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
  75573 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:00 PM
  VARIABILITY OF EQUATORIAL CLIMATE DURING THE PENNSYLVANIAN: EVIDENCE FROM LATE ATOKAN - EARLIEST DESMOINESIAN WETLAND FLORAS
  Anne Raymond, Texas A&M Univ, College Station, TX
  79335 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:30 PM
  THE PALYNOLOGICAL ASSEMBLAGES FROM COURTLAND CLAY PIT, MINNESOTA
  Shusheng Hu, Univ of Florida, Gainesville, FL and David Dilcher, Univ of Florida, Gainesville, FL and David M. Jarzen, Univ of Florida, Gainesville, FL
  76430 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:15 PM
  THE INFLUENCE OF PRESENCE-ABSENCE VS. RELATIVE ABUNDANCE DATA ON INTERPRETATIONS OF FAUNAL STABILITY
  Christy C. Visaggi, Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY and Linda C. Ivany, Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY
  79214 (Technical Sessions)