Geological Society of America

8:00 AM

PRELIMINARY INTERPRETATION OF PARAGENESIS OF MINERAL AND SEDIMENT INFILL IN SCYPHOCRINITES LOBOLITHS FROM THE LOWER DEVONIAN ROSS FORMATION OF WESTERN TENNESSEE

Matthew S. Huber, University of Tennessee at Martin, Martin, TN and Michael Gibson, Univ. of Tennessee - Martin, Martin, TN

119275 (Technical Sessions)

8:20 AM

PUMP UP THE VOLUME: PARALLEL BODY SIZE INCREASES IN CAMBRIAN-DEVONIAN BRACHIOPOD LINEAGES

M. Adam Lanier, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA and Philip Novack-Gottshall, Benedictine University, Lisle, IL

118917 (Technical Sessions)

8:40 AM

550 MILLION YEARS OF DRILLING PREDATION: INITIAL RESULTS FROM A SPECIES-LEVEL PREDATION DATABASE

John Warren Huntley, VPI&SU, Blacksburg, VA and Michal Kowalewski, VPI&SU, Blacksburg, VA

118806 (Technical Sessions)

9:00 AM

WHAT IS A PYRGOCYSTID? NEW EVIDENCE FROM AN EARLY ORDOVICIAN EDRIOASTEROID FAUNA FROM MOROCCO

Colin D. Sumrall, Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

118664 (Technical Sessions)

9:20 AM

STORM-BED TAPHONOMY OF LATE ORDOVICIAN (EDENIAN) CYCLOCYSTOIDS FROM THE MILLERSBURG MEMBER, LEXINGTON LIMESTONE, CENTRAL KENTUCKY

Neil E. Russell, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY and Frank Ettensohn, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

118775 (Technical Sessions)

9:40 AM

ICHNODIVERSITY DOES NOT EQUAL BIODIVERSITY: BIVALVE TRACE FOSSILS FROM THE UPPER MISSISSIPPIAN PENNINGTON FORMATION OF GEORGIA

Andrew K. Rindsberg, The University of West Alabama, Livingston, AL and Anthony J. Martin, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

119132 (Technical Sessions)

10:20 AM

QUANTIFYING TAPHONOMIC TRENDS AND BIASES IN LATE CENOZOIC COASTAL PLAIN DEPOSITS

Matthew Bychowski, Gloucester High School, Gloucester, VA and Susan Barbour Wood, Colby College, Waterville, ME and Gwen M. Daley, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC and Rowan Lockwood, William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA and Lauck W. Ward, Virginia Museum of Natural History, Martinsville, VA and Michal Kowalewski, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

119364 (Technical Sessions)

10:40 AM

LATE PALEOCENE ALMONT AND BEICEGEL CREEK: FLORISTIC COMPARISONS ARE RELATED TO DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT

Witt Taylor, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ and Kathleen Pigg, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ and Melanie DeVore, BIOL and ENSC SCIENCES CAMPUS 081, Milledgeville, GA and Deborah Freile, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ

119287 (Technical Sessions)

11:00 AM

SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY AND BIODIVERSITY: AN EXAMPLE FROM QUATERNARY SUCCESSIONS OF THE PO PLAIN, ITALY

Michal Kowalewski, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA and Daniele Scarponi, Univ of Bologna, Bologna, N/A

119293 (Technical Sessions)

11:20 AM

ESTIMATES OF TIME-AVERAGING IN TERRESTRIAL GASTROPOD ASSEMBLAGES FROM THE QUATERNARY OF CANARY ISLANDS

Yurena Yanes, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA and Michal Kowalewski, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

118637 (Technical Sessions)

11:40 AM

CHARACTERIZING AND INTERPRETING THE MICROSTRATIGRAPHY OF A STROMATOLITE/THROMBOLITE FROM A HYPERSALINE INLAND LAKE, SAN SALVADOR, BAHAMAS

Nathan Will Landrum, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY and Frank Ettensohn, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY and Marc F. Ettensohn, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

118953 (Technical Sessions)

12:00 PM

BIOGENIC EXPLANATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SECONDARY POROSITY IN LIMESTONES

Stephanie Schwabe, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY and Rodney Herbert, University of Dundee, Dundee, N/A and James L. Carew, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC

118743 (Technical Sessions)

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