11 All Things Paleo: Diversity, Ecology, Morphology, Phylogeny and Taphonomy

Thursday, 20 April 2006
1:20 PM - 5:40 PM

Presentations

• 1:20 PM
  MODELING TERRESTRIAL FOOD WEB COLLAPSE IN THE END-PERMIAN EXTINCTION
  Steve C. Wang, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA and Kenneth D. Angielczyk, University of Bristol, Bristol, N/A and Peter D. Roopnarine, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA
  103089 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:40 PM
  HOW LAKES GOT THEIR FAUNAS: THE INITIATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF PALEOZOIC LAKE FAUNAS
  Lisa E. Park, University of Akron, Akron, OH and Elizabeth Gierlowski-Kordesch, Ohio University, Athens, OH
  103358 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:00 PM
  PALEOECOLOGY OF A LOWER PERMIAN LOCALITY IN NORTHERN OKLAHOMA
  Jim Foote, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
  103286 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:20 PM
  PALEOENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS OF THROMBOLITES IN THE BASAL PURBECK FORMATION (UPPER JURASSIC OF SOUTHERN ENGLAND)
  Erica Christine Clites, The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH and Timothy J. Palmer, c/o Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth, N/A and Mark A. Wilson, College of Wooster, Wooster, OH
  103134 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:40 PM
  BIOTIC AND TAPHONOMIC RESPONSE TO LAKE LEVEL FLUCTUATION IN THE GREATER GREEN RIVER BASIN, WYOMING
  B.R. Ingalls, The University of Akron, Akron, OH and Lisa E. Park, The University of Akron, Akron, OH
  103313 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:00 PM
  RESPONSES OF LIVING (ROSE BENGAL STAINED) BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA TO CONTAMINANTS IN THE VENICE LAGOON, ITALY
  Jared Kluesner, Indiana State Univ, Terre Haute, IN and Tony Rathburn, Indiana State Univ, Terre Haute, IN and Elena Pérez, Indiana State Univ, Terre Haute, IN and Chandranath Basak, Indiana State Univ, Terre Haute, IN and Cassie Gray, Indiana State Univ, Terre Haute, IN and Ellen Brouillette, Indiana State Univ, Terre Haute, IN and Joris Gieskes, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA
  103639 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:40 PM
  ENVIRONMENTALLY INDUCED DIFFERENTIAL LEVELS OF MORPHOLOGICAL VARIABILITY
  Donna C. Jones, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD and Rebecca Z. German, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
  103699 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:00 PM
  CORAL GROWTH VERSUS REEF ACCRETION: PROBLEMS OF SCALE, TAPHONOMY AND PERCEPTION
  Dennis K. Hubbard, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH and Wilson Ramirez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR
  103624 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:20 PM
  A MORPHOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION OF BAPTEMYS WYOMINGENSIS AND AN ANALYSIS OF ITS PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIP WITHIN KINOSTERNOIDEA (TESTUDINES)
  Georgia E. Knauss, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
  103735 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:40 PM
  MORPHOMETRIC AND FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE GREEN ALGA CHAETOCLADUS (DASYCLADALES)
  Steven T. LoDuca, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI and Ernest R. Behringer, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI
  103521 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:00 PM
  A PHYLOGENETIC HISTORY OF THE ORDOVICIAN DIPLOGRAPTACEA: ASSESSING THE CONGRUENCE OF STRATIGRAPHIC AND CLADISTIC DATA IN GRAPTOLITE EVOLUTIONARY PATTERNS
  Daniel Goldman, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH and Susan L. Klosterman, Univ of Dayton, Dayton, OH and Charles Mitchell, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY and H. David Sheets, Canisius College, Buffalo, NY
  103084 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:20 PM
  FORAMINIFERAL EVIDENCE FOR THE AGE OF THE MISSISSIPPIAN PELLA FORMATION (SOUTHEASTERN IOWA)
  John R. Groves, Univ of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA and Scott R. Beason, Univ of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA
  103023 (Technical Sessions)