169 Paleontology V: Extinction—Theory and Observation

Tuesday, 18 October 2005
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  MATHEMATICAL MODELING AND BAYESIAN ANALYSIS OF PALEOCOMMUNITY COLLAPSE DURING MASS EXTINCTIONS
  Peter Roopnarine, California Academy of Sciences Invertebrate Zoology & Geology, San Francisco, CA and Steve C. Wang, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA and Kenneth D. Angielczyk, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA
  94425 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:45 PM
  CLOSING THE GAP: MASS EXTINCTIONS AND THE DURATIONS OF SEDIMENTARY HIATUSES
  Shanan Peters, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  95204 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:00 PM
  BAYESIAN MODELING OF THE DURATION OF A MULTI-STAGE MASS EXTINCTION EVENT
  Steve C. Wang, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
  97658 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  EXTINCTION SELECTIVITY FOR PALEOZOIC AMMONOID SUTURE MORPHOLOGY
  Emily G. Allen, Univ of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  94591 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:30 PM
  SAMPLING STANDARDIZED REGIONAL DIVERSITY AND TURNOVER PATTERNS DURING THE LATE ORDOVICIAN MASS EXTINCTION
  Andrew Krug, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA and Mark Patzkowsky, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
  95820 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:45 PM
  FAMENNIAN RUGOSE CORALS LIVE IT UP: INCREASED LONGEVITY OF RUGOSE CORALS FOLLOWING THE END-FRASNIAN EXTINCTION
  Leigh M. Fall, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
  97713 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:00 PM
  TAXONOMIC VERSUS PHYLOGENETIC ESTIMATES OF EXTINCTION SEVERITY IN DEVONIAN TEREBRATULIDE BRACHIOPOD GENERA
  Paul C. Fitzgerald, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA
  95934 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:30 PM
  SELECTIVITY OF THE LATE MISSISSIPPIAN MASS EXTINCTION FOR BRACHIOPOD GENERA FROM THE CENTRAL APPALACHIAN BASIN: RESOLVING AN APPARENT PARADOX
  Matthew G. Powell, Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD
  95332 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:45 PM
  THE INFLUENCE OF SUCCESSION ON EXTINCTION SURVIVORSHIP -- LOCAL PROCESS WITH A BIG PUNCH
  Lindsey R. Leighton, San Diego State Univ, San Diego, CA and Chris L. Schneider, Appalachian State Univ, Boone, NC
  97813 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:00 PM
  SMALL TAXONOMIC AND LARGE ECOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF THE END-GUADALUPIAN EXTINCTION (LATE PERMIAN)
  Matthew E. Clapham, Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA and David Bottjer, Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  91935 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:15 PM
  END-PERMIAN MASS EXTINCTION OF LAGENIDE FORAMINIFERS IN THE SOUTHERN ALPS (NORTHERN ITALY)
  John R. Groves, Univ of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA and Roberto Rettori, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia, N/A and Matthew D. Boyce, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK and D. Altiner, Middle East Technical Univ, Ankara, N/A
  95015 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  THE FIRST METAZOAN BUILD-UPS FOLLOWING THE END-PERMIAN MASS EXTINCTION
  Sara B. Pruss, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA and Jonathan Payne, Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA and David Bottjer, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  91809 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:45 PM
  ABUNDANCE CORRELATES WITH EXTINCTION RATE: BIOLOGICAL SIGNAL DECOUPLED FROM SAMPLING EFFECTS IN POST-PALEOZOIC BIVALVE GENERA
  Paul Gwion Harnik, Univ of Chicago, Chicago, IL and Carl Simpson, Univ of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  96302 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:00 PM
  A NEW LOOK AT BUFFERS TO EXTINCTION FOLLOWING LOSS OF PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY AFTER THE K/T IMPACT
  Peter M. Sheehan, Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, WI
  96098 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:15 PM
  TRANSIENT INSECT REBOUND LESS THAN 2 MYR AFTER THE CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE BOUNDARY: DIVERSE INSECT DAMAGE ON A LOW-DIVERSITY EARLY PALEOCENE FLORA FROM SOUTHEASTERN MONTANA
  Peter Wilf, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA and Conrad C. Labandeira, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC and Kirk R. Johnson, Denver Museum of Nature & Sci, Denver, CO
  94085 (Technical Sessions)