17 Innovations in Paleontological Methods II: Novel Insights Into Terrestrial and Marine Depositional Systems Through Taphonomy and Ichnology

Thursday, 19 May 2005
1:20 PM - 5:00 PM

Presentations

• 1:20 PM
  PALEOECOLOGY OF THE MIDDLE CAMBRIAN EDRIOASTEROID ECHINODERM TOTIGLOBUS: IMPLICATIONS FOR UNUSUAL CAMBRIAN BODY PLANS
  Kirk Lewis Domke, Univeristy of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI and Stephen Q. Dornbos, Univ of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
  86443 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 1:40 PM
  FORMATION OF ‘ABIOGENIC’ ANIMIKIE BASIN STROMATOLITES
  Noah Planavsky, Lawrence Univ, Appleton, WI and Russell Shapiro, Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, MN
  86647 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 2:00 PM
  STROMATOLITES: A 3.5 BILLION YEAR ICHNOLOGIC RECORD
  Russell S. Shapiro, Gustavus Adolphus College, St Peter, MN
  86768 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 2:20 PM
  GEOLOGIC CONTEXT IN TAPHONOMIC STUDIES: AN UNDER-APPRECIATED APPROACH TO TAPHONOMY AND GEOLOGY
  David A. Eberth, Royal Tyrrell Museum, Drumheller, AB
  87018 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 2:40 PM
  AN EXPERIMENTAL AND FIELD-BASED APPROACH TO MICROVERTEBRATE BONEBED TAPHONOMY IN THE JUDITH RIVER FORMATION OF NORTH-CENTRAL MONTANA
  Mara Brady, Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN and Raymond Rogers, Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN and Benjamin Sheets, Houston, TX
  87308 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 3:00 PM
  FINE-GRAINED DEBRIS FLOWS AND EXTRAORDINARY VERTEBRATE BURIALS IN THE LATE CRETACEOUS OF MADAGASCAR
  Raymond Rogers, Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN
  87370 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 3:40 PM
  TALES FROM THE DIGESTIVE TRACT: COPROLITES, INCLUDING STRANDS OF FECAL PELLETS, AND STACKED LINGULIDS INTERPRETED AS HAVING BEEN EXCRETED BY A LINGULID-EATING ORGANISM, FROM THE CHAGRIN SHALE (FAMENNIAN) OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO
  Joseph T. Hannibal, Cleveland, OH and G. Alex Janevski, Cleveland, OH and Gilbert M. O'Connor, Cleveland, OH
  84377 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 4:00 PM
  INTERPRETATION OF A DEVONIAN ENCRUSTED BRACHIOPOD ASSEMBLAGE: SOLON MEMBER, CEDAR VALLEY FORMATION, IOWA
  Amelinda E. Webb, Cornell College, Mount Vernon, IA
  86772 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 4:20 PM
  FAUNAL DYNAMICS AND SYSTEMATICS OF DEPAUPERATE POST-EXTINCTION TRILOBITE FAUNAS, TERMINAL SKULLROCKIAN STAGE (LOWER ORDOVICIAN), GREAT BASIN
  Charles C. Monson, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA and Jonathan M. Adrain, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA and Stephen R. Westrop, Univ of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
  87359 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 4:40 PM
  THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POPULATION ABUNDANCE AND SURVIVORSHIP: AN UNEXPECTED RESULT FROM THE P-TR EXTINCTION
  Lindsey R. Leighton, San Diego State Univ, San Diego, CA and Chris L. Schneider, Appalachian State Univ, Boone, NC
  87498 (THEME SESSIONS)