T198 Whole-Organism Paleoecology and the Relationship of Form, Function, and Ecological Interactions I: In Memory of Richard Alexander

Wednesday, 31 October 2007
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Presentations

• 8:00 AM
  RICHARD ALEXANDER 1946-2006 – PALEOAUTECOLOGIST EXTRAORDINAIRE
  J. Robert Dodd, Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN
  128156 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:15 AM
  "SAND CORALS" FROM THE EARLY CAMBRIAN OF SWEDEN
  Enrico Savazzi, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, N/A
  127412 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:30 AM
  OPHIUROID ADAPTATIONS TO ANTARCTIC WATERS LINKED TO TAPHONOMIC LOSS, POOR FOSSIL RECORD
  Maria Ruiz-Yantin, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN and Molly F. Miller, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN and Samuel S. Bowser, Wadsworth Ctr, Albany, NY
  132441 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:45 AM
  IMPORTANCE OF MUTABLE COLLAGENOUS TISSUE TO CRINOID BIOMECHANICS, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO LOCOMOTION
  Tomasz K. Baumiller, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  129314 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:00 AM
  THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM: PALEOECOLOGY OF DISTINCTIVE CRINOID ATTACHMENT STRUCTURES FROM THE SILURIAN (WENLOCK) OF GOTLAND
  Stephen K. Donovan, Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum Naturalis, Leiden, N/A and David A.T. Harper, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen K, N/A and Eckart Håkansson, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen K, N/A
  122430 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:15 AM
  FOULING FILTRATION FANS: HOW CHANGING SEDIMENTOLOGICAL REGIMES CHANGED FAN ORIENTATION IN BOTTOM DWELLING BLASTOIDS
  Johnny Waters, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
  123765 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:30 AM
  THE ROLE OF AUTECOLOGY, NICHE TRADEOFFS AND SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY IN COEXISTENCE OF BRACHIOPODS WITH MODERN BIOTA IN SHALLOW HABITATS
  Adam Tomašových, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  129195 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:45 AM
  THE INFLUENCE OF SPIRIFERIDE MICRO-ORNAMENT ON DEVONIAN EPIZOANS
  Chris L. Schneider, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA and Lindsey R. Leighton, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
  131283 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:15 AM
  A MORPHOMETRIC APPROACH TO ANALYZING COMPETITION AND INVASION DYNAMICS IN ORDOVICIAN BRACHIOPODS
  Carrie L. Tyler, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA and Lindsey R. Leighton, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
  125459 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:30 AM
  INTEGRATION OF PLIOCENE TRANS-ARCTIC MOLLUSCAN INVADERS AS TRACKED BY CHANGES IN NATICID GASTROPOD PREDATION ON THE TJÖRNES PENINSULA, ICELAND
  Michelle McCoy, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC and Patricia Kelley, Southport, NC
  125734 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:45 AM
  EVOLUTION AND COEVOLUTION OF ODOR LANDSCAPES AND CHEMORECEPTION
  Roy E. Plotnick, Univ of Ilinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL and Karen A. Koy, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL
  127230 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:00 AM
  RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DRILLING PREDATION AND SHELL MORPHOLOGY OF PATELLID LIMPETS FROM SOUTHWESTERN ENGLAND
  Christy C. Visaggi, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC and Patricia Kelley, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC
  126645 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:15 AM
  MODERN INTENSITIES OF DRILLING PREDATION IN THE NORTHERN ADRIATIC SEA: A POOR PALEOZOIC AND CRETACEOUS ANALOGUE
  Jennifer A. Sawyer, University of Vienna, Vienna, N/A and Martin Zuschin, University of Vienna, Vienna, N/A
  130120 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:30 AM
  FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY OF THE EOCENE COLEOID BELOSEPIA
  Mary K. Wicksten, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX and Thomas E. Yancey, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX and Christopher L. Garvie, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
  123930 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:45 AM
  THE IDENTIFICATION AND INTERPRETATION OF MILLIPEDE-PRODUCED ICHNOFOSSILS USING ACTUALISTIC STUDIES
  Daniel I. Hembree, Ohio University, Athens, OH
  127835 (Technical Sessions)