T228 Whole-Organism Paleoecology and the Relationship of Form, Function, and Ecological Interactions II: In Memory of Richard Alexander

Wednesday, 31 October 2007
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  IS IT TIME TO QUIT?
  William I. Ausich, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
  128175 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:45 PM
  QUANTIFYING ECOLOGICAL RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE: USING RANK-ABUNDANCE CURVES OF MICRO-BENTHIC COMMUNITIES DURING THE PALEOCENE-EOCENE THERMAL MAXIMUM
  Amelinda E. Webb, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA and Elizabeth Landau, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA and Lindsey R. Leighton, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA and Stephen S. Schellenberg, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
  129904 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:00 PM
  WITH MASS EXTINCTIONS, ECOLOGY MATTERS
  Peter Sheehan, Shorewood, WI and David Bottjer, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA and Mary L. Droser, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA and George R. McGhee, Rutgers Univ, New Brunswick, NJ
  125102 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  EPIFAUNA-DOMINATED BENTHIC SHELF ASSEMBLAGES AND OXYGEN CRISES: LESSONS FROM THE MODERN ADRIATIC SEA
  Martin Zuschin, University of Vienna, Vienna, N/A and Michael Stachowitsch, University of Vienna, Vienna and Bettina Riedel, University of Vienna, Vienna, N/A
  126997 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:30 PM
  SHELL ENCRUSTING EPIBIONT BIOFACIES ALONG DEPTH/PHOTIC ZONE TRANSECTS: COMPARISON OF RECENT AND LATE ORDOVICIAN GRADIENTS
  Trisha A. Smrecak, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH and Carlton E. Brett, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
  129107 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:45 PM
  SUBTROPICAL TROPHIC CASCADES: HERMIT CRABS SKEW THE FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY OF GASTROPOD ASSEMBLAGES
  Sally Walker, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
  130976 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:00 PM
  BURIED ALIVE AND DEAD: USING ICHNOLOGIC, PALEOECOLOGIC AND TAPHONOMIC DATA FROM FOSSIL BIVALVE SHELLS TO RECONSTRUCT PALEOENVIRONMENTS
  Gwen M. Daley, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC and Dana Geary, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI and Summer Ostrowski, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI and Emily M. Kleiber, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
  128855 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:30 PM
  ANTICIPATED VERSUS REAL TAPHONOMIC BIASES ASSOCIATED WITH GASTROPOD BORE HOLE-WEAKENED BIVALVES: KEEPING DR. PANGLOSS AWAY FROM EXPERIMENTAL TAPHONOMY
  Michael Savarese, Florida Gulf Coast Univ Department of Marine & Earth Sciences, Fort Myers, FL and Patricia Kelley, Southport, NC and Kristen Hagstrom, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
  129086 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:00 PM
  ON THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF OPPORTUNITY IN ESCALATION: THE COMPLEMENTARITY PRINCIPLE
  Gregory P. Dietl, Paleontological Research Institution, Ithaca, NY
  130579 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:15 PM
  THE HYPOTHESIS OF COEVOLUTIONARY ALTERNATION WITH ESCALATION: A PRELIMINARY TEST USING NATICID GASTROPODS AND THEIR BIVALVE PREY
  Gregory P. Dietl, Paleontological Research Institution, Ithaca, NY and Patricia Kelley, Southport, NC
  131418 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  FUNCTIONAL HYPOTHESES AND FEEDING IN FOSSILS – TOOTH MICROWEAR AND TROPHIC ECOLOGY IN EXTANT AND EXTINCT NON-MAMMALIAN VERTEBRATES
  Mark A. Purnell, University of Leicester, Leicester, N/A
  126750 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:45 PM
  A PHYLOGENETIC INVESTIGATION OF THE MECHANISMS REGULATING DIVERSITY AND RATE OF EVOLUTION IN POST-DEVONIAN LUNGFISH (OSTEICHTHYES: DIPNOI)
  Jason D. Pardo, N/A, Boulder, CO
  132203 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:00 PM
  BIOFACIES ANALYSIS ALONG A MIDDLE DEVONIAN PALEOGRADIENT: WATER DEPTH AS A PRIMARY CONTROL ON BIOFACIES FORMATION IN THE STAGHORN POINT CORAL BIOSTROME
  Alexander Bartholomew, S.U.N.Y. New Paltz, New Paltz, NY and Carlton Brett, Univ of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH and Gordon Baird, SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY and Jaclyn Martin, S.U.N.Y. New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
  132445 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:15 PM
  ROTATING RHYNCHONELLIDES REVISITED: FUNCTIONAL INSIGHTS INTO THE MORPHOLOGY OF BICONVEX BRACHIOPODS
  Lindsey R. Leighton, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
  128991 (Technical Sessions)