154 Paleontology/Paleobotany VI: Ancient Terrestrial Ecosystems

Tuesday, 24 October 2006
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  MULTIPLE LINES OF EVIDENCE SUPPORT THE PRESENCE OF CAMBRIAN LAND PLANTS
  Paul K. Strother, Boston College, Weston, MA
  114319 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:45 PM
  SPATIAL PATTERNS IN THE FINAL FOREST OF A DROWNED PEAT MIRE, SPRINGFIELD COAL (MIDDLE PENNSYLVANIAN), ILLINOIS BASIN
  William DiMichele, Smithsonian Inst Dept Paleobiology, Washington, DC and W. John Nelson, Illinois State Geological Survey, Champaign, IL and Scott D. Elrick, Illinois State Geological Survey, Champaign, IL
  112530 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:00 PM
  PALEOBOTANY OF AN EXTRAORDINARY POND DEPOSIT FROM THE MIDDLE HELL CREEK FORMATION (UPPER MAASTRICHTIAN; UPPER CRETACEOUS) OF HARDING COUNTY, NORTHWESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA
  Kirk R. Johnson, Denver Museum of Nature & Sci, Denver, CO
  116412 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  PALYNOLOGICAL CHANGES ACROSS THE CRETACEOUS-PALEOCENE BOUNDARY IN THE NEOTROPICS
  Carlos Jaramillo, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Ancon, N/A and Felipe de la Parra, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Ancon, N/A
  112410 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:30 PM
  AN EXCEPTIONALLY PRESERVED PALEOCENE FLORA FROM THE MIDDLE PARK FORMATION, COLORADO: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE LARAMIDE PALEOTOPOGRAPHY OF THE CENTRAL ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION
  Ian Miller, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Denver, CO and Kirk Johnson, Denver Museum of Nature & Sci, Denver, CO and Beth Ellis, Denver Museum of Nature & Sci, Denver, CO
  116540 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:45 PM
  THE PALEOCENE ENIGMA: HIGH DIVERSITY FLORAS ALONG THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN FRONT RANGE
  Beth Ellis, Denver Museum of Nature & Sci, Denver, CO and Kirk Johnson, Denver Museum of Nature & Sci, Denver, CO and Ian Miller, Denver Museum of Nature & Sci, Denver, CO and Richard Barclay, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
  116032 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:00 PM
  NORTH AMERICAN PARATROPICAL FLORAL EXTINCTION IN THE LATE PALEOCENE-EARLY EOCENE
  Guy J. Harrington, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, N/A and Carlos A. Jaramillo, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, N/A
  110103 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:30 PM
  EXCEPTIONAL DIVERSITY IN LATE EOCENE FRESHWATER DIATOMS FROM THE FLORISSANT FORMATION, TELLER COUNTY, COLORADO
  Mary Ellen Benson, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO and Dena M. Smith, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO and Sarah Spaulding, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
  116382 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:45 PM
  CENOZOIC VEGETATION CHANGE IN AFRICA: A LARGE-SCALE VIEW OF A SMALL-SCALE PROCESS
  Bonnie F. Jacobs, Southern Methodist Univ, Dallas, TX and Aaron D. Pan, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX and Christopher Scotese, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX
  113132 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:00 PM
  FOSSIL LEAF ECONOMICS FROM SCALING PRINCIPLES
  Dana Royer, Wesleyan University Dept Earth & Environmental Sciences, Middletown, CT and Lawren Sack, Univ. of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI and Peter Wilf, Pennsylvania State Univ, University Park, PA and Christopher H. Lusk, Macquarie Univ, Sydney, N/A and Gregory J. Jordan, Univ. of Tasmania, Hobart, N/A and Ülo Niinemets, Estonian Univ. of Life Sciences, Tartu, N/A and Ian J. Wright, Macquarie Univ, Sydney, N/A and Mark Westoby, Macquarie Univ, Sydney, N/A
  109201 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:15 PM
  PLANT-INSECT INTERACTIONS IN THE MIDDLE MIOCENE OF NEVADA
  Erin Leckey, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO and Dena M. Smith, Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO
  116430 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  NEW RESULTS ABOUT THE ARTHROPOD FAUNA FROM THE LOWER CRETACEOUS CRATO FORMATION OF BRAZIL
  Günter Bechly, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Stuttgart, N/A
  106698 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:45 PM
  ISOTOPIC INTERPRETATION OF ECOLOGICAL RELATIONSHIPS AMONG CARNIVORES AND HERBIVORES FROM THE UPPER PLEISTOCENE HOMINID BEARING DEPOSITS OF VALDEGOBA CAVE, NORTHERN SPAIN
  Robert Scott Feranec, New York State Museum, Albany, NY and Nuria Garcia, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, N/A and Juan Luis Arsuaga, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, N/A and Ana Isabel Ortega, Universidad de Burgos, Burgos, N/A and Juan Carlos Diez, Universidad de Burgos, Burgos, N/A
  113246 (Technical Sessions)