230 Paleontology/Paleobotany (Posters) II: Fossils in Time, Space, and Morphospace

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF LONGEVITY DATA FOR SPECIES AND GENERA OF MISSISSIPPIAN CRINOIDS FROM NORTH AMERICA
  Kara A. Walton, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV and Thomas W. Kammer, West Virginia Univ, Morgantown, WV and William I. Ausich, The Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH
  105913 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  THE PROXIMAL TYPE DEVELOPMENT IN CYMATOGRAPTUS (GRAPTOLOIDEA) FROM ARGENTINA AND ITS RELEVANCE FOR THE EARLY EVOLUTION OF THE DICHOGRAPTACEA
  Blanca A. Toro, IANIGLA, CRICyT, CONICET, Mendoza, N/A and Jörg Maletz, Univ at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY
  107360 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  EDIACARAN BODY FOSSILS OF SOUTH-CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA: REVIEW AND ANALYSIS OF A NEOPROTEROZOIC-EARLY CAMBRIAN FAUNA
  Patricia G. Weaver, NC Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, NC and R. Christopher Tacker, NC Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, NC and Mark A.S. McMenamin, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA and Richard A. Webb, NC Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, NC
  107375 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  OSTRACODS AND ROCK FACIES OF THE EIFELIAN/GIVETIAN AND GIVETIAN/FRASNIAN BOUNDARY STRATOTYPES
  Jean-Georges Casier, Royal Belgian Institute of natural Sciences, Brussels, N/A and Ahmed El Hassani, Institut Scientifique, Rabat Agdal, N/A and Alain Préat, University of Brussels, Brussels, N/A
  107690 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF GENERIC LONGEVITY PATTERNS IN MISSISSIPPIAN CRINOIDS FROM EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA
  Thomas Kammer, West Virginia Univ, Morgantown, WV and William Ausich, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
  108279 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  A NEW GENUS OF BELOSAEPIID (COLEOIDEA) AND ASSOCIATED, RARELY SEEN PHRAGMACONE STEINKERNS FROM THE CASTLE HAYNE LIMESTONE (EOCENE) OF SOUTHEASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
  Charles N. Ciampaglio, Wright State University, Celina, OH and Patricia G. Weaver, North Carolina Museum of Nat History, Raleigh, NC and Richard E. Chandler, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
  108292 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  ENAMEL MICROSTRUCTURE IN THE TRIASSIC ARCHOSAURS REVUELTOSAURUS CALLENDERI AND KRZYZANOWSKISAURUS HUNTI AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR PHYLOGENY
  Jessica A. Camp, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC and Andrew B. Heckert, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
  108818 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  HOMOLOGY IN TERMINOLOGY FOR CRINOID CALCIFIED HINDGUT STRUCTURES (PHYLUM ECHINODERMATA)
  William I. Ausich, The Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH and Thomas Kammer, West Virginia Univ, Morgantown, WV
  108990 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  PALEONTOLOGIC EVIDENCE FOR SEDIMENTARY DISPLACEMENT IN NEOGENE FOREARC BASINS OF CENTRAL CHILE
  Kenneth L. Finger, University of California, Berkeley, CA and Sven N. Nielsen, GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, 14473 Potsdam, N/A and Thomas J. DeVries, Univ of Washington, Seattle, WA and Alfonso Encinas, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, N/A and Dawn E. Peterson, University of California, Berkeley, CA
  109481 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  THE FIRST RECORD OF PROBABLE HOLOCENTRIDS FROM THE LATE CRETACEOUS–EARLY TERTIARY OF NEW JERSEY
  Martin A. Becker, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ and John A. Chamberlain, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY and William J. L'Amoreaux, College of Staten Island, Staten Island, NY and Rebecca B. Chamberlain, College of Staten Island, Staten Island, NY and John G. Lundberg, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA and Todd M. Holden, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
  109677 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  THE ONSET OF NON-PLANKTOTROPHY IN SCHIZASTERID SPATANGOID SEA URCHINS
  John A. Cunningham, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, N/A and Charlotte H. Jeffery, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, N/A
  109727 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  EARLIEST RECORD OF SHELTERING STRATEGY FOR PREDATOR AVOIDANCE FROM THE EARLY CAMBRIAN OF THE MARBLE MOUNTAINS, CALIFORNIA
  Emre Unal, Purdue Universitry, West Lafayette, IN and William J. Zinsmeister, Purdue Universitry, West Lafayette, IN
  109912 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  BIOSTRATIGRAPHY OF AN EARLY ORDOVICIAN (TREMADOC) EPICONTINENTAL CARBONATE FACIES: THE BALTOSCANDIAN BJØRKÅSHOLMEN FORMATION
  Åsa M. Frisk, Palaeobiology, Uppsala, N/A and Jan Ove R. Ebbestad, Uppsala, N/A
  110115 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  INTEGRATED PALEONTOLOGIC, SEDIMENTOLOGIC, AND STABLE ISOTOPIC DATA ACROSS THE IREVIKEN AND LUNDGRENI EXTINCTION EVENTS IN THE CAPE PHILLIPS FORMATION, NUNAVUT, CANADA
  Paula J. Noble, University of Nevada, Reno, NV and Alfred C. Lenz, Univ Western Ontario, London, ON, N/A and Chris Holmden, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK and Monika Masiak, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, N/A and Simon R. Poulson, Univ of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV and Matthew K. Zimmerman, Univ of Nevada, Reno, NV and Anna Kozlowska, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, N/A
  110369 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY OF CINCINNATIAN (LATE ORDOVICIAN) BRACHIOPODS: UTILIZING GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS) TO ANALYZE SPECIES RESPONSE TO ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  Brandon C. Klingensmith, Ohio University, Athens, OH and Alycia L. Stigall, Ohio University, Athens, OH
  110449 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  VERTEBRATE BIOSTRATIGRAPHY AND THE TRIASSIC-JURASSIC BOUNDARY
  Spencer G. Lucas, New Mexico Museum of Natural History, Albuquerque, NM and Lawrence H. Tanner, LeMoyne College, Syracuse, NY and Andrew B. Heckert, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
  110714 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  CHONDRICHTHYANS OF THE CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY SEQUENCE, MONMOUTH COUNTY, NEW JERSEY
  Kinga Mielnik, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY and John A. Chamberlain, Brooklyn College, New York, NY and Matthew P. Garb, Brooklyn College, New York, NY and Martin A. Becker, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ
  110729 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  THE FOOTPRINT APATOPUS LINEATUS FROM LATE TRIASSIC STRATA OF MILFORD, NJ: TO BE A PHYTOSAUR OR NOT TO BE A PHYTOSAUR, THAT IS THE QUESTION…
  Jared Osborne, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah, NJ and Emma C. Rainforth, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah, NJ
  110980 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  SEDIMENTOLOGIC AND PALEONTOLOGIC ANALYSIS OF THE LOWER MEMBER OF THE EARLY TRIASSIC UNION WASH FORMATION: PALEOCEANOGRAPHIC CONDITIONS ALONG THE WESTERN COAST OF NORTH AMERICA FOLLOWING THE PERMIAN-TRIASSIC MASS EXTINCTION
  Scott Andrew Mata, California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, CA and Adam Woods, California State University, Fullerton Geological Sciences, Fullerton, CA
  111041 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  REEVALUATING PROSOPID DECAPOD CRUSTACEANS: THE ROOTSTOCK OF THE TRUE CRABS
  Carrie E. Schweitzer, Kent State University Stark Campus, Canton, OH and Rodney M. Feldmann, Kent State Univ, Kent, OH
  111113 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION OF CUTICULAR MICROSTRUCTURE WITHIN THE RANINOIDEA (DECAPODA, BRACHYURA)
  David A. Waugh, Kent State University, Kent, OH and Rodney M. Feldmann, Kent State Univ, Kent, OH and Carrie E. Schweitzer, Kent State University Stark Campus, Canton, OH
  111135 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  DEVONIAN PANTHALASSA AND PHACOPID TRILOBITES
  Yumiko Iwasaki, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY
  111744 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  PRESS/PULSE: A GENERAL THEORY OF MASS EXTINCTION?
  Nan Crystal Arens, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY and Ian D. West, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
  111772 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  PHYLOGENETIC IMPLICATIONS OF THE MORPHOLOGY OF THE EMBRYONIC SHELLS OF DEVONIAN AMMONOIDS
  Susan M. Klofak, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY and Neil Landman, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY and Royal H. Mapes, Ohio Univ, Athens, OH
  113180 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  SECOND-ORDER SEA-LEVEL FLUCTUATIONS TRIGGER GRAPTOLITE MIGRATION INTO DEEP WATER
  Sven Egenhoff, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO and Jorg Maletz, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY
  113182 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  AN INITIAL APPROACH TO THE ESTIMATION OF UNCERTAINTY IN BIODIVERSITY ESTIMATES OBTAINED FROM COMPOSITE SECTIONS, WITH AN EXAMPLE FROM THE HIRNANTIAN MASS EXTINCTION
  H. David Sheets, Canisius College, Buffalo, NY and Colleen Lanz, Canisius College, Buffalo, NY and Michael Melchin, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS and Stanley C. Finney, California State Univ-Long Beach, Long Beach, CA and Charles Mitchell, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
  113257 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  OLIGOCENE REEF DEPOSITS LINKED TO ODP SITE 999 WITH STRONTIUM ISOTOPE STRATIGRAPHY
  Claudia Johnson, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN and Wilson R. Ramírez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Mayaguez, PR and R. Mark Leckie, Univ of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA and Sonya Y. Hernandez, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN and Erica A. Barrow, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN and Morgan Hegewald, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN and Jorge Velez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Mayaguez, PR
  113587 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  A SPHENODONTIAN (REPTILIA:LEPIDOSAURIA) FROM THE UPPER TRIASSIC WHITAKER (COELOPHYSIS) QUARRY, ROCK POINT FORMATION (APACHEAN: NORIAN) AT GHOST RANCH, NEW MEXICO, U.S.A
  Andrew B. Heckert, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC and Spencer G. Lucas, New Mexico Museum of Natural History, Albuquerque, NM and Larry F. Rinehart, New Mexico Museum of Natural History, Albuquerque, NM and Adrian P. Hunt, New Mexico Museum of Natural History, Albuquerque, NM
  113973 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  THE FIRST RECORD OF CENOMANIAN (LATE CRETACEOUS) INSECT BODY FOSSILS FROM THE KAIPAROWITS BASIN, NORTHERN ARIZONA
  Alan L. Titus, Kanab, UT and L. Barry Albright, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL and Richard S. Barclay, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
  114714 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO: NEW TOOLS FOR BAYESIAN MODELING IN PALEONTOLOGY
  Michael D. Karcher, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA and Steve C. Wang, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA and Peter Roopnarine, California Academy of Sciences Invertebrate Zoology & Geology, San Francisco, CA and Kenneth D. Angielczyk, University of Bristol, Bristol, N/A
  114958 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  THE PHI KAPPA FORMATION IN THE TRAIL CREEK REGION (CENTRAL IDAHO): INTEGRATED BIOSTRATIGRAPHY OF ORDOVICIAN TO SILURIAN GRAPTOLITE AND CONODONT FAUNAS
  Jorg Maletz, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY and Daniel Goldman, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH and Stephen A. Leslie, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR and Charles E. Mitchell, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY and Gary Motz, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
  115203 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  HOW IMPORTANT IS IMAGE INTERPRETATION TO PALEONTOLOGY? CASE STUDIES IN DATA AQUISITION FIDELITY AND RETRODEFORMATION USING BILATERALLY SYMMETRIC GRAPTOLITES (ISOGRAPTUS AND PSEUDISOGRAPTUS) AND TRILOBITES (TRIARTHRUS BECKI AND T. EATONI)
  Tammy L. Dunlavey, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY and Charles E. Mitchell, Univ. at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY and H. David Sheets, Canisius College, Buffalo, NY
  115236 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  AN EARLY EOCENE LEAF FLORA FROM THE RED HOT TRUCK STOP LOCALITY (MERIDIAN, MISSISSIPPI) AND ITS BIOGEOGRAPHIC AND PALEOENVIRONMENTAL SIGNIFICANCE
  Daniel R. Danehy, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA and Peter Wilf, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
  115351 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  CLAW MORPHOLOGY OF PTERANODON AND POSSIBLE AQUATIC LOCOMOTION
  Amy C. Smith, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
  115477 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  MILLIPEDS (DIPLOPODA) FROM THE FORT SILL FISSURES (LOWER PERMIAN) OF SOUTHWESTERN OKLAHOMA: RARE EXAMPLES OF PERMIAN MILLIPEDS AND OF FOSSIL MILLIPEDS FROM A PALEOZOIC FISSURE FILL
  Joseph Hannibal, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, OH and William J. May, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Norman, OK
  115587 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  A TEST OF MORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE TO DWARFING IN A MIDDLE DEVONIAN BRACHIOPOD FROM WESTERN NEW YORK
  Ashley Perez, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY and James J. Zambito, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
  115801 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  BEYOND THE HALF-SHELL: MORPHOLOGICAL INTEGRATION AND MODULARITY OF VENERID BIVALVE SHELLS
  Peter Roopnarine, California Academy of Sciences Invertebrate Zoology & Geology, San Francisco, CA and Christopher Laumer, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI and Kenneth D. Angielczyk, University of Bristol, Bristol, N/A and Laurie C. Anderson, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
  115883 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  PALEOGEOGRAPHIC AND STRATIGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF UPPER SUNWAPTAN AND BASAL IBEXIAN SPECIES OF THE CAMBRIAN TRILOBITE GENUS PLETHOPELTIS
  Jeremy D. Bader, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX and John F. Taylor, Indiana Univ of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA and David K. Brezinski, Maryland Geol Survey, Baltimore, MD and Paul Myrow, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
  115893 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  A FOSSIL WOOD FROM THE IRATI FORMATION (UPPER PERMIAN), PARANÁ BASIN, SÃO PAULO STATE, BRAZIL
  Laureen Sally da Rosa Alves, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro - UERJ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, N/A
  115999 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  UPPER DEVONIAN (FRASNIAN-FAMENNIAN) CONODONTS FROM THE HIGH-LATITUDE MADRE DE DÍOS BASIN, NORTHERN BOLIVIA
  Sarah R. de la Rue, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA and D. Over, SUNY - College at Geneseo Dept Geological Sciences, Geneseo, NY and Peter E. Isaacson, Univ of Idaho, Moscow, ID
  116086 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  RECOVERY STRATEGIES AND PALEOENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES ACROSS THE CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE BOUNDARY AND DANIAN AT SOUTH ATLANTIC LOW LATITUDES: THE FORAMINIFERAL RECORD
  Eduardo A.M. Koutsoukos, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, N/A
  116122 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  ARTHROPOD PRODUCED BURROWS FROM THE EARLY TRIASSIC OF CANADA: GULLIVER'S FOOTPRINTS?
  Tyler W. Beatty, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB and John-Paul Zonneveld, Geological Survey of Canada, Calgary, AB and Charles M. Henderson, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB and Mark A. Radomski, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
  116457 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  NEW ASSOCIATED SKELETON OF ARCHAEOSPHENISCUS (SPHENISCIFORMES: SPHENISCIDAE) FROM THE KOKOAMU GREENSAND (CHATTIAN, LATE OLIGOCENE) OF NEW ZEALAND
  Jeremy A. Riedel, Marietta College, Marietta, OH
  116478 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  MORPHOLOGICAL PHYLOGENY OF THE REEF CORAL FAMILY MEANDRINIDAE (ANTHOZOA, SCLERACTINIA)
  Troy R. Fadiga, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA and Ann F. Budd, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
  116518 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  A NEW VERTEBRATE FAUNA FROM THE EARLY CRETACEOUS WILLOW TANK FORMATION OF SOUTHERN NEVADA
  Joshua W. Bonde, Montana State University, Bozeman, Bozeman, MT and David J. Varricchio, Montana State University Bozeman, Bozeman, MT and Frankie D. Jackson, Montana State University Bozeman, Bozeman, MT
  116562 (Technical Sessions)