T77 Jurassic Marine Paleobiology: Tracing the Roots of the Modern Biota

Monday, 17 October 2005
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Presentations

• 8:15 AM
  THE JURASSIC AND ITS PLACE IN THE HISTORY OF ESCALATION
  Geerat J. Vermeij, Univ of California Davis, Davis, CA
  95494 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:35 AM
  JURASSIC MACROBENTHIC COMMUNITIES: BIOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS, MACRO-EVOLUTION, AND THE MESOZOIC MARINE REVOLUTION
  Martin Aberhan, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, N/A and Wolfgang Kiessling, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, N/A and Franz T. Fuersich, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, N/A
  90000 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:55 AM
  ASPECTS OF JURASSIC BIVALVE PALEOBIOLOGY
  Anthony Hallam, Univ of Birmingham, Birmingham, N/A
  88092 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:15 AM
  BATTLE OF THE BENTHOS: DOCUMENTING THE TRANSITION FROM BRACHIOPOD TO BIVALVE DOMINATED FAUNAS
  Nicole Bonuso, Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA and David Bottjer, Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  91951 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:30 AM
  BIOGEOCHEMISTRY OF THE TRIASSIC-JURASSIC BOUNDARY
  Kenneth H. Williford, University of Washington, Seattle, WA and Peter D. Ward, University of Washington, Seattle, WA and Geoff Garrison, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
  97037 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:45 AM
  STRATIGRAPHY, SEDIMENTOLOGY AND FAUNAL DISTRIBUTION OF TRIASSIC-JURASSIC BOUNDARY SECTIONS IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN FRONT RANGES OF NORTHEASTERN BRITISH COLUMBIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR BIOSTRATIGRAPHY AND PALEOECOLOGY
  John-Paul Zonneveld, Calgary, AB and Charles M. Henderson, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB and Russell Hall, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB and Christopher A. McRoberts, SUNY - College at Cortland, Cortland, NY and Michael Orchard, Geol Survey of Canada, Vancouver, BC and Simona Pitaru, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
  97420 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:00 AM
  NEW CONSTRAINTS ON THE TIMING OF THE TRIASSIC-JURASSIC EXTINCTION AND RECOVERY
  Roland Mundil, Berkeley Geochronology Ctr, Berkeley, CA and József Pálfy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences-Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, N/A and Jennifer Matzel, Berkeley Geochronology Ctr, Berkeley, CA
  96862 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:30 AM
  BRYOZOANS IN TRANSITION: THE DEPAUPERATE AND PATCHY JURASSIC BIOTA
  Paul D. Taylor, Natural History Museum, London, N/A and Andrej Ernst, Universität Kiel, Kiel, N/A
  90468 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:45 AM
  MIDDLE AND UPPER JURASSIC BRACHYURAN CRABS – PHYLOGENETIC AND PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THEIR EARLY EVOLUTIONARY STAGE
  Michal Krobicki, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, N/A and Pál Müller, Hungarian Geol Survey, Budapest, N/A and Michal Zaton, Silesian University, Sosnowiec, N/A
  94929 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:00 AM
  CLADES BUILT ON SHIFTING SANDS? THE JURASSIC FOSSIL RECORD OF IRREGULAR ECHINOIDS
  Colin G. Barras, Natural History Museum, London, N/A
  93389 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:15 AM
  “PALEOECOLOGY OF JURASSIC ENCRINITES” RECONSTRUCTING CRINOID COMMUNITIES FROM THE JURASSIC OF THE WESTERN INTERIOR SEAWAY
  Aaron W. Hunter, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, N/A
  93507 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:30 AM
  A NEW EQUATORIAL, VERY SHALLOW MARINE SCLEROZOAN FAUNA FROM THE MIDDLE JURASSIC (CALLOVIAN) OF SOUTHERN ISRAEL
  Mark A. Wilson, The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH and Jeffrey C. Bowen, The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH and Yoav Avni, Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, N/A and Howard R. Feldman, Touro College, New York, NY
  91323 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:45 AM
  THE JURASSIC SEAWAY OF THE U.S. WESTERN INTERIOR AS A LABORATORY FOR EVOLUTIONARY PALEOECOLOGY
  Carol M. Tang, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA
  97529 (Technical Sessions)