34 Paleontology II: How Do They Do That? Biomechanics and Development

Sunday, 16 October 2005
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  A NEW APPROACH TO STUDYING PHENOTYPIC EVOLUTION IN THE FOSSIL RECORD
  Bjarte Hannisdal, Univ of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  94309 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:45 PM
  DEVELOPING A PROXY FOR PREDATION ON FOSSIL CRABS: GROWTH AND REVERSAL OF HANDEDNESS OF THE MUD CRAB EURYPANOPEUS DEPRESSUS UNDER LABORATORY CONDITIONS
  Jeffrey G. Agnew, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA and Laurie C. Anderson, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
  92162 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:00 PM
  MORPHOLOGIC VARIATION WITHIN THE BRACHIOPOD SPECIES LAQUEUS CALIFORNIANUS ALONG THE WEST COAST OF NORTH AMERICA
  Amanda Seigle, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA and Paul Fitzgerald, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA and Sandra Carlson, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA
  97478 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  HOW DO THOSE CRINKLES FORM?: SUTURE VARIATIONS IN THE EXTREMELY PLASTIC CRETACEOUS AMMONITE NEOGASTROPLITES AND PROCESSES OF SEPTAL FORMATION
  Margaret Yacobucci, Bowling Green State Univ School of Earth, Environment & Society, Bowling Green, OH
  95293 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:30 PM
  HYBRIDIZATION AND ADAPTIVE EVOLUTION IN PLIO-PLEISTOCENE STROMBID SNAILS FROM FLORIDA
  Gregory P. Dietl, Yale University, New Haven, CT and Christin Slaughter, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
  96094 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:45 PM
  A CLOCKWORK MOLLUSK: INVESTIGATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SHELL ACTIVITY AND SUBDAILY GROWTH INCREMENTS IN THE FRESHWATER BIVALVE ANODONTA CYGNEA
  David L. Rodland, J.W.Goethe Universitat-Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, N/A and Bernd R. Schöne, J.W.Goethe Universitat-Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, N/A and Samuli Helama, J.W.Goethe Universitat-Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, N/A and Jan K. Nielsen, J.W.Goethe Universitat-Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, N/A and Sven Baier, J.W.Goethe Universitat-Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, N/A and Wolfgang Dreyer, University of Kiel, Kiel, N/A
  93426 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:00 PM
  THE EFFECT OF ONTOGENY ON HYDROSPIRE RESPIRATORY CAPACITY IN BLASTOIDS
  Troy A. Dexter, Univ of Tennessee, Knoxvulle, TN and Colin D. Sumrall, The Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
  92108 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:15 PM
  BODY SIZE PATTERNS OF VERY LARGE MAMMALS. DOES WATER MATTER?
  S. Kathleen Lyons, Univ of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA and Felisa A. Smith, Univ of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
  96823 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:30 PM
  BODY MASS ESTIMATION OF RODENTS: WAS THERE A RODENT AS BIG AS A BUFFALO?
  Samantha Sara Brittany Hopkins, Univ of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
  94627 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:45 PM
  CONSTRAINING VARIANCE IN DINOSAUR GROWTH STUDIES
  Sarah Werning, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
  96414 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:00 PM
  THE FEATHERED DINOSAUR MICRORAPTOR: ITS BIPLANE WING PLANFORM AND FLIGHT PERFORMANCE
  Sankar Chatterjee, Texas Tech Univ, Lubbock, TX and R.J. Templin, N/A, Ottawa, ON
  91796 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:15 PM
  MULTIVARIATE MORPHOMETRICS AND ALLOMETRY OF THE TRIASSIC REPTILE TANYTRACHELOS AHYNIS
  Michelle Casey, Towson University Physics, Astronomy and Geosciences, Towson, MD and Nicholas Fraser, Virginia Museum of Nat History, Martinsville, VA and Michal Kowalewski, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ, Blacksburg, VA
  96249 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  ZOOLOGICAL PALEOPATHOLOGY AND THE CASE OF THE TYRANNOSAURUS JAW: INTEGRATING PHYLOGENY AND THE STUDY OF ANCIENT DISEASES
  Ewan D.S. Wolff, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT and David J. Varricchio, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
  95518 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:45 PM
  BIOMECHANICS AND ECOMORPHOLOGY OF LATE DEVONIAN ARTHRODIRES FROM THE GOGO FORMATION OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
  Philip S. Anderson, Univ of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  93533 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:00 PM
  MODELING FLUID FLOW IN AN EXTINCT SEED PLANT
  Jonathan P. Wilson, Caltech, Pasadena, CA and N. Michelle Holbrook, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA and Charles R. Marshall, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA and Andrew H. Knoll, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
  92529 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:15 PM
  BOTANICAL FIRST-RESPONDERS FROM THE CARBONIFEROUS THROUGH THE MID-TERTIARY: THE EVOLUTION OF PIONEERING POST-DISTURBANCE TERRESTRIAL PLANT ASSEMBLAGES
  Ralph E. Taggart, Michigan State Univ, East Lansing, MI and Aureal T. Cross, Michigan State Univ, East Lansing, MI
  95109 (Technical Sessions)