T138 Life on Late Devonian Continents—Organisms and Ecosystems in Transition: In Honor of James Richard "Dick" Beerbower

Tuesday, 24 October 2006
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Presentations

• 8:15 AM
  THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF CONTINENTAL ECOSYSTEMS REVISITED
  Richard Beerbower, State Univ of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY
  108898 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:30 AM
  PALEOENVIRONMENTS OF EARLY DEVONIAN LAND PLANTS, GASPÉ, QUEBEC: RESEARCH INSPIRED BY J.R. BEERBOWER
  David H. Griffing, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY and Carol Hotton, NCBI/NLM/NIH, Bethesda, MD and John S. Bridge, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY
  115189 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:45 AM
  DEVONIAN FOREST EXPANSION INCREASED LAND-BASED TROPHIC CAPACITY AND FOOD WEB CONNECTIONS
  Stephen E. Scheckler, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
  115232 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:05 AM
  COMPARATIVE STUDIES ON THE LATE DEVONIAN FLORAS FROM CHINA AND USA
  Qi Wang, Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, N/A
  114601 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:20 AM
  MIOSPORE STRATIGRAPHY, THE TOOL TO LINK LATE DEVONIAN CONTINENTAL MACROFAUNA, MACROFLORA AND EVENTS TO THE STANDARD CONODONT ZONATION
  Maurice J. Streel, Université de Liège, Liège, N/A and Alfred Traverse, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, N/A
  112363 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:35 AM
  LANDSCAPE AND CLIMATE RECORDS DERIVED FROM DEVONIAN VERTIC FLOODPLAIN PALEOSOLS, CATSKILL FORMATION, CENTRAL PA
  Steven Driese, Baylor University, Waco, TX and Claudia I. Mora, Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN and Jennifer Elick, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA
  106357 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:10 AM
  THE ORIGIN OF WIDESPREAD FIRE SYSTEMS AND THEIR WIDER IMPACT
  Andrew C. Scott, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, N/A and Ian J. Glasspool, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL and Susan M. Rimmer, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY and Walter L. Cressler, West Chester University, West Chester, PA
  111956 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:25 AM
  TERRESTRIAL-MARINE LINKAGES: RECORDS OF DEVONIAN CHARCOAL, FIRE, AND PALEOATMOSPHERIC OXYGEN LEVEL
  Susan M. Rimmer, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY and Andrew C. Scott, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, N/A and Walter L. Cressler, West Chester University, West Chester, PA
  114127 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:40 AM
  THE AGE AND ENVIRONMENT OF THE LATE DEVONIAN EAST GREENLAND TETRAPODS
  Timothy R. Astin, University of Reading, Reading, N/A and John E.A. Marshall, National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, N/A
  108052 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:55 AM
  FAMENNIAN VERTEBRATE BIOGEOGRAPHY EMPHASIZING EURAMERICA: SOUTH MARGIN (PENNSYLVANIA, BELGIUM) VS INLAND (EAST GREENLAND)
  Gaël Clement, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala, N/A and Henning Blom, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala, N/A and Edward B. Daeschler, Academy of Nat Sciences, Philadelphia, PA
  116658 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:10 AM
  FEEDING SHIFTS ACROSS THE FISH-AMPHIBIAN TRANSITION ARE REVEALED BY CHANGES IN CRANIAL SUTURAL MORPHOLOGY
  Molly J. Markey, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA and Charles R. Marshall, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
  115183 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:25 AM
  SARCOPTERYGIAN APPENDAGES ON LATE DEVONIAN FLOODPLAINS
  Neil H. Shubin, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  111464 (Technical Sessions)