T250 Paleoenvironments and Taphonomy of Cambrian Lagerstatten

Wednesday, 19 October 2005
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  EXCEPTIONAL PRESERVATION: PHYSICAL, CHEMICAL, AND BIOLOGICAL FACTORS
  Loren E. Babcock, The Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH
  96820 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:45 PM
  DEGRADATION, DIAGENESIS AND DISPARITY: THE IMPACT OF TAPHONOMY ON MORPHOLOGICAL DATA IN CAMBRIAN LAGERSTÄTTEN
  Patrick J. Orr, Univ College Dublin, Dublin 4, N/A and Derek E. Briggs, Yale University, New Haven, CT and Stuart L. Kearns, University of Bristol, Bristol, N/A
  95322 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:00 PM
  SEDIMENTOLOGY AND DEPOSITIONAL SETTING OF THE BURGESS SHALE'S GREATER PHYLLOPOD BED
  Kevin E. Gostlin, Univ Toronto, Toronto, ON and Andrew D. Miall, Univ Toronto, Toronto, ON
  96181 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  TAPHONOMY OF THE GREATER PHYLLOPOD BED COMMUNITY, BURGESS SHALE
  Jean Bernard Caron, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON
  93907 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:30 PM
  EARLY DOLOMITIZATION, ANCIENT BRINE SEEPS, AND THE BURGESS SHALE AT MONARCH MOUNTAIN, SOUTHEASTERN BRITISH COLUMBIA
  Paul A. Johnston, Mount Royal College, Calgary, AB
  94996 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:45 PM
  MINERALOGICAL AND LITHOLOGICAL FEATURES ASSOCIATED WITH BRINE SEEPS IN THE BURGESS SHALE, WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR THE INTERPRETATION OF THE KINZERS SHALE, PA
  Wayne Powell, Brooklyn College, New York, NY
  96460 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:15 PM
  BURGESS SHALE-TYPE BIOTA AND DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE VERMILION/DUCHESNAY UNITS, UPPER MIDDLE CAMBRIAN, SE BRITISH COLUMBIA
  Kimberley J. Motz, Paleos Canada, Calgary, AB
  97746 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:30 PM
  SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY AND LAGERSTÄTTEN IN THE MIDDLE CAMBRIAN, GREAT BASIN, UTAH
  Carlton Brett, Univ of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH and Michael K. DeSantis, Univ of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH and Peter A. Allison, Imperial College, London, N/A and W. David Liddell, Utah State University, Logan, UT
  97416 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:45 PM
  HOW DO BURGESS SHALE-TYPE DEPOSITS WORK? PALEOENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL OVER FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGES IN THE THREE UTAH LAGERSTÄTTEN
  Robert R. Gaines, Pomona College, Claremont, CA and Mary L. Droser, Univ of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
  94593 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:00 PM
  THE TAPHONOMY OF LOWER AND MIDDLE CAMBRIAN ARTHROPODS FROM THE PIOCHE SHALE OF NEVADA
  Rachel A. Moore, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Bruce S. Lieberman, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
  96940 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:15 PM
  WHAT DOES GEOCHEMISTRY TELL US ABOUT HOW THE CHENGJIANG BIOTA WAS PRESERVED?
  Nancy W. Hinman, University of Montana, Missoula, MT and Aaron Tenesch, University of Montana, Missoula, MT and George D. Stanley, Univ. Montana, Missoula, MT and X.-G. Hou, Yunnan University, Kunming, N/A
  97366 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  A NEW MODE OF PRESERVATION IN A BURGESS SHALE-TYPE LAGERSTÄTTE, GUIZHOU PROVINCE, SOUTH CHINA
  Jih-Pai Lin, Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH and William I. Ausich, The Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH
  90857 (Technical Sessions)