29 Recent Advances in Systematics, Evolution, and Paleobiology of Fossil Vertebrates

Friday, 21 April 2006
8:00 AM - 12:20 PM

Presentations

• 8:00 AM
  DIVING DISEASE IN MARINE REPTILES FROM THE CRETACEOUS TO THE PRESENT
  Bruce M. Rothschild, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Youngstown, OH and Larry D. Martin, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
  101713 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 8:20 AM
  THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF INTEGUMENTARY SENSE ORGANS IN CROCODYLOMORPHS
  David J. Allen, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
  103599 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 8:40 AM
  TAPHONOMY OF A SAUROPOD QUARRY IN THE UPPER MORRISON FORMATION, BIGHORN BASIN, WYOMING
  Emmanuel E. Ergas, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA and Brian E. Bodenbender, Hope College, Holland, MI and Timothy M. Demko, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN
  103747 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 9:00 AM
  THE TAPHONOMY OF A CHASMOSAURINE DINOSAUR BONE BED FROM THE JAVELINA FORMATION (MAASTRICHTIAN) OF BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, TEXAS
  ReBecca Kathleen Hunt, Augustana College, Rock Island, IL
  103389 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 9:20 AM
  ON THE STRATIGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF TRICERATOPS IN THE LATEST MAASTRICHTIAN DEPOSITS OF THE UPPER HELL CREEK FORMATION IN GARFIELD COUNTY, MONTANA
  Joseph Hatcher, PaleoWorld Research Foundation, Jordan, MT and Clay C. Garretson, PaleoWorld Research Foundation, Van Buren, AR and Kenneth W. Newman, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
  103241 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 9:40 AM
  THE STATUS OF THE PROBLEMATIC TAXON MONOCLONIUS (ORNITHISCHIA:CERATOPSIDAE) AND THE RECOGNITION OF ADULT-SIZED DINOSAUR TAXA
  Michael J. Ryan, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, OH and Anthony P. Russell, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
  102994 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 10:20 AM
  PALEOSOLS AS CLIMATE INDICATORS FOR DINOSAUR SITES, BRUSHY BASIN MEMBER OF THE JURASSIC MORRISON FORMATION, EAST-CENTRAL UTAH
  David M. VanDeVelde, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH and James E. Evans, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH and Sharon A. Lewandowski, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
  103553 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 10:40 AM
  A COMPARATIVE INVESTIGATION OF BONE DIAGENESIS FROM MARINE AND TERRESTRIAL FACIES IN THE CAMPANIAN JUDITH RIVER FORMATION OF NORTH-CENTRAL MONTANA
  Cara Harwood, Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN and Raymond Rogers, Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN
  103669 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 11:00 AM
  BIOGEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF ARCHAEOCETES IN NORTH AMERICA
  Mark Uhen, George Mason Univeristy, Fairfax, VA
  103575 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 11:20 AM
  DIETARY INFERENCE FOR SOUTH AMERICAN NOTOUNGULATES FROM THE SANTA CRUZ FORMATION
  K.E. Beth Townsend, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH and Darin A. Croft, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
  103077 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 11:40 AM
  PALEOHABITAT RECONSTRUCTION FOR SOUTH AMERICAN CENOZOIC PALEOFAUNAS: ARE THERE APPROPRIATE MODERN ANALOGS?
  Darin A. Croft, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH and Kathryn E. Townsend, Washington Univ, St. Louis, MO and John J. Flynn, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY and André R. Wyss, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
  102823 (THEME SESSIONS)
• 12:00 PM
  TESTING THE VALIDITY OF THE FOSSIL FELID SPECIES: FELIS AMNICOLA
  Kurt D. Spearing, Morningside College, Sioux City, IA
  103741 (THEME SESSIONS)