Geological Society of America

8:00 AM

TALES OF THE UNPUBLISHED: ‘NEW' CRINOIDS FROM THE LLANDOVERY OF BRITAIN

Fiona E. Fearnhead, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, N/A and Stephen K. Donovan, National Natuurhistorisch Museum, Leiden, N/A

89740 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

OSTRACODS FROM THE LOWER MEMBER OF THE DEVILS GATE FORMATION (FRASNIAN) IN THE TYPE LOCALITY (NEVADA) - RELATION WITH THE ALAMO EVENT

Jean Georges Casier, Belgian Royal Institute of natural Sciences, Brussels, N/A and Ewa Olempska, Polska Akademia Nauk, Warszawa, N/A and Yvan Berra, University of Brussels, Brussels, N/A and Alain Préat, University of Brussels, Brussels, N/A

89780 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

FLUORINE RELATIVE DATING AND TAPHONOMY OF MOA BONE FROM PYRAMID VALLEY, NEW ZEALAND

Rachel G. Sauvageot, Scripps College, Claremont, CA and Richard Holdaway, Christchurch, N/A and Donald A. McFarlane, The Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA

90193 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

CONSTRUCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY AND CUTICULAR MICROSTRUCTURE OF EXTANT AND FOSSIL CRAB CLAW DENTICLES

David A. Waugh, Kent State University, Kent, OH and Amanda M. Schroeder, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA and Rodney M. Feldmann, Kent State University, Kent, OH

90713 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

TRIASSIC ALATOFORM BIVALVES OF TETHYS: WALLOWACONCHID MEGALODONTOIDS IN THE OMAN RANGE OF THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Thomas E. Yancey, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX and Mark A. Woods, Keyworth, Nottingham, N/A

90880 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

SILURIAN GASTROPODA FROM THE ALEXANDER TERRANE, PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND, SOUTHEAST ALASKA

David M. Rohr, Sul Ross State University, Alpine, TX and Robert B. Blodgett, US Geological Survey, Anchorage, AK

91192 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY AND AGE OF THE LOWER FAIRPOINT MEMBER OF THE FOX HILLS FORMATION (MAASTRICHTIAN), BADLANDS AREA OF SOUTH DAKOTA

J.A. Chamberlain, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY and S. Palamarczuk, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024, Tierra del Fuego, N/A and D.O. Terry, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA and P.W. Stoffer, USGS, Menlo Park, CA and M.A. Becker, College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ and M.P. Garb, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY and P. Jannett, URS Corporation, Fort Washington, PA

91479 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

EXOTIC BIOGENIC STRUCTURES FROM EARLY CAMBRIAN OF THE MARBLE MOUNTAINS, CALIFORNIA

Emre Unal, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN and William J. Zinsmeister, Purdue Universitry, West Lafayette, IN

91871 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

LATE QUATERNARY AND EARLY HOLOCENE FOSSILS FROM NEW YORK CITY BEACHES: IMPLICATIONS FOR STABILITY IN COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS IN WESTERN LONG ISLAND AND NEW JERSEY

Philip W. Stoffer, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA and John A. Chamberlain, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY and Roland Scal, Queensborough Community College, Bayside, NY and Paula Messina, San Jose State Univ, San Jose, CA

92266 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

ACRITARCHS AND PRASINOPHYTES FROM THE MANACAPURU FORMATION, LOWER DEVONIAN OF THE AMAZON BASIN, BRAZIL

Tereza Regina M. Cardoso, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, N/A and Maria Antonieta Rodrigues, Rio de Janeiro, N/A

92360 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

STRATIGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF LOWER CARBONIFEROUS CRINOIDS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IRELAND

Thomas Kammer, West Virginia Univ, Morgantown, WV and William Ausich, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

92635 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

PALEOCENE CRUSTACEA FROM COAHUILA, NORTHEASTERN MEXICO; STRATIGRAPHIC AND PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHIC IMPLICATIONS

Francisco J. Vega, UNAM, Mexico DF, N/A and Torrey Nyborg, Loma Linda, CA and Rene H.B. Fraaije, Oertijdmuseum de Groene Poort, Boxtel, N/A and Jose Ventura, Saltillo, N/A

93629 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

PERMIAN SHELF-EDGE DEPOSITION IN THE MARFA BASIN AT SHAFTER, TEXAS

Karen L. Immel, Sul Ross State University, Alpine, TX and Lance L. Lambert, Univ of Texas At San Antonio, San Antonio, TX and Sandra D. Romero, Sul Ross State University, Alpine, TX and David Rohr, Sul Ross State Univ, Alpine, TX

93655 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

MARJUMAN-STEPTOEAN (CAMBRIAN) TRILOBITE BIOSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE COW HEAD GROUP, WESTERN NEWFOUNDLAND

Jennifer D. Eoff, Central Energy Resources Science Center, Denver, CO and Alyce A. Dengler, Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Norman, OK and Stephen R. Westrop, Univ of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

93872 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

MIDDLE-UPPER DEVONIAN PALYNOLOGY FROM THE PONTA GROSSA FORMATION, PARANÁ BASIN, BRAZIL

Tereza Regina M. Cardoso, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, N/A and Laureen Sally da Rosa Alves, UERJ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, N/A

94108 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

SYSTEMATICS OF THE GENUS GASTROCHAENA (MOLLUSCA, BIVALVIA, SUPERFAMILY GASTROCHAENOIDEA)

Trent A. McDowell, Univ of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC and Joseph G. Carter, Univ of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

94166 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

THE GILCREASE RANCH MAMMOTH SITE, LAS VEGAS VALLEY

Lael Vetter, Univ of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV and Stephen M. Rowland, Univ of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV and Cory Patterson, Univ of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV

94460 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

PYRITE TEXTURES OF SKIN-LIKE MEMBRANES IN BRITTLESTARS (OPHIUROIDEA, ECHINODERMATA) FROM THE HUNSRÜCK SLATE (LOWER DEVONIAN, EMSIAN) OF GERMANY: PRELIMINARY RESULTS

Sara Johnson, Beloit College, Beloit, WI and Alexander Glass, Univ of Illinois, Urbana, IL and Christoph Bartels, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum, Bochum, N/A

94557 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

FOSSIL FLORAS FROM THE SENTINEL BUTTE FORMATION OF NORTH DAKOTA: A NEW COMPRESSION FLORA AND NEW INSIGHTS INTO MODES OF PLANT PRESERVATION

Alex Kittle, Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, GA and Deborah Freile, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ and Melanie DeVore, Georgia College & State Univ, Milledgeville, GA and Kathleen Pigg, Arizona State Univ, Tempe, AZ

95343 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

NATURAL RADIOACTIVITY AND THE NATURE OF VERTEBRATE FOSSILS AT HAGERMAN FOSSIL BEDS NATIONAL MONUMENT, HAGERMAN, ID

Thomas J. Williams, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID and Mickey Gunter, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID and Neal Farmer, U.S. Dept. of Interior, Hagerman, ID and Gensler Philip, U.S. Dept. of Interior, Hagerman, ID

95373 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

IS THE PERMIAN (GUADALUPAIN) REEF COMPLEX OF THE DELAWARE BASIN, SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO AND WEST TEXAS, A WELL UNDERSTOOD GEOLOGICAL PROVINCE?

Christopher J. Crow, Indiana Univ - Purdue Univ, Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, IN and Gorden L. Bell, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Salt Flat, TX

95387 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

ORGANIC MATRIX IN THE PORIFERA AND CNIDARIA: DÉJÀ VU THROUGH A TEMPORAL TELESCOPE

George R. Clark, Kansas State Univ, Manhattan, KS

95902 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

THE TAXONOMY AND BIOSTRATIGRAPHY OF CENOMANIAN AND TURONIAN (LATE CRETACEOUS) OSTRACODA FROM THE WESTERN INTERIOR BASIN, SOUTHWEST UTAH, USA

Neil Tibert, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA and Jean-Paul Colin, 3 Impasse des Biroulayres, N/A and Robert Leckie, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA and James Ian Kirkland, Utah Geological Survey, Salt Lake City, UT and Jeffrey G. Eaton, Weber State University, Ogden, UT

95940 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

FOSSIL ECHINODERMATA FROM PUERTO RICO

Jorge Velez-Juarbe, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus, Mayaguez, PR and Hernan Santos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus, Mayaguez, PR

96992 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

STRATIGRAPHY AND DEPOSITIONAL HISTORY OF THE UPPER CRETACEOUS STRATA IN SOUTHWESTERN

Hernán Santos, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez, Mayaguez, PR

97047 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

RECURRENT FAUNAS REVISTED: THE UPPER DEVONIAN ITHACA SHALE TROPIDOLEPTUS FAUNAS OF CENTRAL NEW YORK

Patrick R. Brennan, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY and Carlton E. Brett, Univ of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH and Alexander J. Bartholomew, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH and Warren Allmon, Paleontological Research Institution, Ithaca, NY

97076 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

HIGH RESOLUTION BIOSTRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION OF ACRITARCH DIVERSITY IN THE NEOPROTEROZOIC AND EARLIEST CAMBRIAN USING CONOP9

Phoebe A. Cohen, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

97118 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

TOWARDS A STRATIGRAPHY OF THE MIOCENE/PLIOCENE PISCO FORMATION, PERU

Leonard R. Brand, Loma Linda Univ, Loma Linda, CA and Mario Urbina, Museo de Historia Nat UNMSM, Lima 14, N/A

97215 (Technical Sessions)

8:00 AM

MAZON CREEK (DESMONESIAN, PENNSYLVANIAN) FERN AND PTERIDOSPERM FOSSILS: STEMS, WOOD, BARK, BRANCHES, RACHIS

Janez Pecar, N/A, Cadiz, OH