212 Paleontology/Paleobotany X: Marine Ecological Dynamics

Wednesday, 25 October 2006
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  LIFE HISTORY EVOLUTION OF TROPICAL AMERICAN CUPULADRIID BRYOZOANS
  Aaron O'Dea, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, N/A and Jeremy B.C. Jackson, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA and Felix Rodriguez, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, N/A and Amalia Herrera Cubilla, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, N/A
  116217 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:45 PM
  USING MG/CA RATIOS TO INVESTIGATE GROWTH AND LONGEVITY IN CRANIID BRACHIOPODS
  Glenn S. Jaecks, Slovenian Academy of Sciences, Ljubljana, N/A and Sandra Carlson, University of California Geology, Davis, CA
  114907 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:00 PM
  BODY SIZE TRENDS AND ENERGETIC CONSTRAINTS PREDICT DECLINING ABUNDANCE OF TRILOBITES IN THE ORDOVICIAN OF NORTH AMERICA
  Seth Finnegan, Univ of California, Riverside, CA and Mary L. Droser, Univ of California, Riverside, CA
  116581 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  A TEST OF AMBOCOELIID (BRACHIOPODA) SPINOSITY AS AN ADAPTATION FOR SOFT SUBSTRATES USING ABUNDANCE PATTERNS THROUGH TRANSGRESSIVE-REGRESSIVE CYCLES AND WITHIN PYRITIC SHALE BEDS
  James J. Zambito, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
  115847 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:30 PM
  HALF-BORINGS AND MISSING ENCRUSTERS ON BRACHIOPODS IN THE UPPER ORDOVICIAN: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PALEOECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF SCLEROBIONTS
  Mark A. Wilson, College of Wooster, Wooster, OH and W. Cordelia Dennison-Budak, College of Wooster, Wooster, OH and Jeffrey C. Bowen, The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH
  110174 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:45 PM
  IMPLICATIONS OF BORING AND ENCRUSTATION OF LATE CRETACEOUS RUDISTS
  Ann Molineux, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
  115417 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:15 PM
  THE PLEISTOCENE ENCRUSTER SCENE: COMPARISON OF EPIBIONTS ON GASTROPOD AND BIVALVE SHELLS
  Yasmin von Dassow, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA and Ian Hughes, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
  116281 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:30 PM
  DISCRETE EPIBIOFACIES ON EXPERIMENTALLY-DEPLOYED SKELETAL HARDPARTS, ANALOGS FOR PHOTIC-ZONE DEPTH DETERMINATIONS IN CARBONATE ENVIRONMENTS
  Sally Walker, University of Georgia, Athens, GA and Karla Parsons-Hubbard, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH and Carl Brett, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH and Eric N. Powell, Rutgers Univ, Port Norris, NJ
  107513 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:45 PM
  ECOLOGICAL DOMINANCE OF THE PRIAPULID WORM CRICOCOSMIA IN A MAOTIANSHAN SHALE BIOTA COMMUNITY
  Stephen Q. Dornbos, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI and Junyuan Chen, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Nanjing, N/A
  112734 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:00 PM
  MONOSPECIFIC ASSEMBLAGES OF PHYLOGENETICALLY DISPARATE TAXA IN DEVONIAN BLACK SHALES
  Diana L. Boyer, Univ of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA and Mary L. Droser, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
  110990 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:15 PM
  PALEOECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF MESOZOIC HYDROCARBON SEEP FAUNAL COMMUNITIES, GREAT VALLEY GROUP, NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, USA
  Kristin Hepper, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA and Ian Hughes, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
  113585 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  CORAL REEFS AND PATCH REEFS AT DEAD MAN'S BONES: RAPID BURIAL OR SLOW SEDIMENT STRESS
  Sherene A. James, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, N/A and Thomas A. Stemann, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, N/A and Simon F. Mitchell, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, N/A
  116323 (Technical Sessions)