1 Exceptional Biotas and Fossil Preservation in the Southeast

Thursday, 17 March 2005
8:00 AM - 12:40 PM

Presentations

• 8:10 AM
  EXCEPTIONAL FORAMINIFERAL AND FISH OTOLITH PRESERVATION REVEALS ENVIRONMENTAL FLUCTUATIONS IN THE OLIGOCENE BYRAM FORMATION (BIG BLACK RIVER LOCALITY, MISSISSIPPI)
  Gary Layne Stringer, The Univ of Louisiana at Monroe, Monroe, LA and Vikki Mixon, The Univ of Louisiana at Monroe, Monroe, LA
  82071 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 8:30 AM
  EXCEPTIONAL PRESERVATIONS IN NONEXCEPTIONAL CONDITIONS: CONASAUGA FORMATION, MIDDLE CAMBRIAN, WESTERN GEORGIA
  David R. Schwimmer, Columbus State Univ, Columbus, GA and William M. Montante, Marsh USA, Inc, Atlanta, GA
  82343 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 8:50 AM
  TERRESTRIAL FAUNA AND FLORA OF THE INGERSOLL SHALE: AN UPPER CRETACEOUS KONSERVAT-LAGERSTÄTTE, EUTAW FORMATION, EASTERN ALABAMA
  Patrick Sean Bingham, Auburn Univ, Auburn, AL and Terrell K. Knight, Auburn Univ, Auburn, AL
  82357 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 9:10 AM
  MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE MIO-PLIOCENE GRAY FOSSIL SITE, WASHINGTON COUNTY, EAST TENNESSEE
  Michael J. Whitelaw, East Tennessee State Univ, Johnson City, TN
  82816 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 9:30 AM
  POSSIBLE DNA PRESERVATION FROM PLANT FOSSILS IN THE CLAIBORNE FORMATION (MIDDLE EOCENE) OF WEST TENNESSEE
  Michael A. Gibson, Univ of Tennessee at Martin, Martin, TN and John E. Carlson, Pennsylvania State Univ, University Park, PA and Scott E. Schlarbaum, Univ of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, TN
  82867 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 9:50 AM
  THE PLEISTOCENE VERTEBRATE FAUNA OF CLARK QUARRY, BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA
  Robert A. Bahn, Georgia College and State Univ, Milledgeville, GA and Alfred J. Mead, Georgia College and State Univ, Milledgeville, GA
  82857 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 10:30 AM
  THE BLACK SHALE PARADOX: PRESUMED PELAGIC, PSEUDOPLANKTONIC, AND BURROWING AND OTHER BENTHIC ORGANISMS PRESERVED IN THE CLEVELAND SHALE (FAMENNIAN), A "DEEP WATER" BLACK SHALE DEPOSITED IN ANOXIC CONDITIONS
  Joseph T. Hannibal, Cleveland Museum of Nat History, Cleveland, OH and Kathryn L. Gallup, Case Western Reserve Univ, Cleveland, OH and Laura E. Hulslander, Case Western Reserve Univ, Cleveland, OH and Eric F. Kennedy, Case Western Reserve Univ, Cleveland, OH and Cortni A. Moglovkin, Case Western Reserve Univ, Cleveland, OH and Brian J. Olsen, Case Western Reserve Univ, Cleveland, OH and Melanie V. Prarat, Case Western Reserve Univ, Cleveland, OH and Jennifer A. von Glahn, Case Western Reserve Univ, Cleveland, OH
  83484 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 10:50 AM
  A UNIQUE PRESERVATIONAL MODE: DOLOMITIC CASTS FROM THE EARLY MIOCENE ARCADIA FORMATION IN SARASOTA COUNTY, FLORIDA
  Peter J. Harries, Univ. of South Florida, Tampa, FL and Roger W. Portell, Univ of Florida, Gainesville, FL and Michelle D. Thompson, Univ. of South Florida, Tampa, FL
  83602 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 11:10 AM
  TRACE FOSSILS PRODUCED BY TABULATE CORAL COLONIES, UPPER ORDOVICIAN (MOHAWKIAN) TYRONE FORMATION, CENTRAL KENTUCKY, U.S.A
  Frank R. Ettensohn, Univ of Kentucky, Lexington, KY and Adam C. Lowe, Univ of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
  83628 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 11:30 AM
  EXCEPTIONAL PRESERVATION IN CENOZOIC ECHINODERMS FROM FLORIDA
  Craig W. Oyen, Shippensburg Univ, Shippensburg, PA and Roger W. Portell, Univ of Florida, Gainesville, FL
  83732 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)