Geological Society of America

1:30 PM

LIFE BENEATH THE SEA FLOOR: PALEOECOLOGY OF TIERED ICHNOCOENOSES IN MARINE ENVIRONMENTS

A.A. Ekdale, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT and Leif Tapanila, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID

93256 (Technical Sessions)

1:45 PM

A HARD ROCK LIFE: THE GUILD CONCEPT IN UNDERSTANDING ORGANISMS THAT EXPLOIT THE ENDOLITHIC HABITAT

Leif Tapanila, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID and Allan A. Ekdale, Univ Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

91705 (Technical Sessions)

2:00 PM

HOW BIOEROSION AND SEAWATER GEOCHEMICAL CYCLES HAVE MADE AND DESTROYED MARINE SCLEROBIONT NICHES

Mark A. Wilson, The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH and Timothy J. Palmer, c/o Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth, N/A

91324 (Technical Sessions)

2:15 PM

NICHE PARTITIONING AMONG ENDOLITHIC GASTROCHAENID BIVALVES

Joseph G. Carter, Univ of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC and Trent A. McDowell, Univ of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

90050 (Technical Sessions)

2:30 PM

BORED BRYOZOANS FROM THE ORDOVICIAN OF ESTONIA: A BIOLOGICAL REINTERPRETATION OF THE ICHNOGENUS SANCTUM ERICKSON AND BOUCHARD, 2003

Patrick N. Wyse Jackson, Trinity College, Dublin 2, N/A and Marcus M. Key, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA and Michael E. Burns, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA

90930 (Technical Sessions)

2:45 PM

SPATIAL COMPETITION IN MARINE HARD SUBSTRATE COMMUNITIES: AN OVERVIEW

W. David Liddell, Utah State University, Logan, UT

95583 (Technical Sessions)

3:00 PM

ENCRUSTING BIONT GUILD DISTRIBUTION ON EUPHOTIC TO APHOTIC HARD SURFACES IN THE MODERN GULF OF MEXICO AND BAHAMAS

Karla Parsons-Hubbard, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH and Sally Walker, University of Georgia, Athens, GA and Carlton E. Brett, Univ of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH and Eric N. Powell, Rutgers Univ, Port Norris, NJ and Donna Carlson Jones, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

95959 (Technical Sessions)

3:30 PM

HABITAT PARTITIONING AND TIERING IN TROPICAL INTERTIDAL CALLIANASSID MOUNDS: AN EXAMPLE FROM THE BAHAMAS

H. Allen Curran, Smith College, Northampton, MA

95318 (Technical Sessions)

3:45 PM

PALEOBIOLOGICAL AND TAPHONOMIC STUDY OF TWO MIOCENE SOUTH ATLANTIC SHELF BOTTOM COMMUNITIES DOMINATED BY CRABS

Silvio Casadío, Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Roca, N/A and Robert S. Crawford, Kent State Universitiy, Kent, OH and Rodney M. Feldmann, Kent State University, Kent, OH and Miguel Griffin, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, Santa Rosa, La Pampa, N/A and Ana Parras, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, Santa Rosa, La Pampa, N/A and Carrie E. Schweitzer, Kent State Univ Stark Campus, Canton, OH

90214 (Technical Sessions)

4:00 PM

SHIFTS IN FAUNAL ABUNDANCE AND SKELETAL CARBONATE GRAIN CONTENT OF NORMAL MARINE SOFT SUBSTRATES ASSOCIATED WITH THE LATE DEVONIAN MASS EXTINCTION, WESTERN UNITED STATES

William T. Phelps, Univ of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA and Mary L. Droser, Univ of California, Riverside, CA

96546 (Technical Sessions)

4:15 PM

ECOSPACE UTILIZATION IN EARLY PHANEROZOIC DEEP-MARINE ENVIRONMENTS: DEEP BIOTURBATION IN THE BLAKELY SANDSTONE (MIDDLE ORDOVICIAN), ARKANSAS, U.S.A

Patrick J. Orr, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, N/A

95267 (Technical Sessions)

4:30 PM

EPIBETHIC TO ENDOBENTHIC TRANSITIONS

Frank K. McKinney, Appalachian State Univ, Boone, NC and Steven Hageman, Appalachian State Univ, Boone, NC