10 Evolutionary Morphology

Wednesday, 3 April 2002
1:20 PM - 5:00 PM

Presentations

• 1:20 PM
  EVOLUTION OF HERBIVORY, NECK ELONGATION, AND LOCOMOTION IN SAUROPOD DINOSAURS
  J. A. Wilson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  32579 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 1:35 PM
  PHALANGEAL MORPHOLOGY OF PALEOCENE PLESIADAPIFORMES (MAMMALIA: ?PRIMATES): EVALUATION OF THE GLIDING HYPOTHESIS AND THE FIRST EVIDENCE FOR GRASPING IN A POSSIBLE PRIMATE ANCESTOR
  Jonathan I. Bloch, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI and Doug M. Boyer, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  32387 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 1:50 PM
  BOOTSTRAP COMPARISONS OF VERTEBRAL MORPHOLOGY OF PALEOCENE PLESIADAPIFORMS (MAMMALIA: ?PRIMATES): FUNCTIONAL IMPLICATIONS
  Doug M. Boyer, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI and Jonathan I. Bloch, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  32375 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 2:05 PM
  IMPLICATIONS OF LUMBOSACRAL VERTEBRAL MORPHOLOGY IN CATARRHINE PRIMATES FOR AUSTRALOPITHECINE SPINAL FUNCTION AND POSITIONAL BEHAVIOR
  William J. Sanders, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  32071 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 2:20 PM
  EXPLORING THE EVOLUTIONARY MORPHOLOGY OF DASYCLADALEAN ALGAE: ADAPTIVE WALKS IN THE R LANDSCAPE
  Steven T. LoDuca, Eastern Michigan Univ, Ypsilanti, MI and Ernest R. Behringer, Eastern Michigan Univ, Ypsilanti, MI
  30871 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 2:35 PM
  THE ROLE OF CONSTRAINTS AND CHARACTER INTERDEPENDENCE IN FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY WITH AN EXAMPLE FROM PRODUCTIDE MUSCLE SYSTEMS
  Lindsey R. Leighton, San Diego State Univ, San Diego, CA and Peter D. Roopnarine, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA
  31596 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 2:50 PM
  ECOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THEORETICAL MORPHOLOGIC DISTRIBUTIONS OF ARCHIMEDES COLONY MORPHOLOGIES
  Frank K. McKinney, Appalachian State Univ, Boone, NC and George R. McGhee, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
  31154 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 3:25 PM
  EXTINCTION AND INFAUNALITY: ECOMORPHOLOGICAL PATTERNS IN LATE CRETACEOUS AND EARLY CENOZOIC VENEROID BIVALVES
  Rowan Lockwood, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
  32456 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 3:40 PM
  HOW DEVELOPMENTAL DIVERSITY GENERATES MORPHOLOGICAL DISPARITY
  Peter Kaplan, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  31945 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 3:55 PM
  STRATIGRAPHIC TRENDS IN MORPHOLOGY: THE EVOLUTION OF BRISTOLIA (TRILOBITA, CAMBRIAN)
  Mark Webster, Univ of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
  31791 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 4:10 PM
  A REVIEW AND REASSESSMENT OF PREDATION-DRIVEN EVOLUTIONARY TRENDS IN CRINOIDS IN LIGHT OF NEW DATA ON PALEOZOIC PREDATION INTENSITIES
  Forest J. Gahn, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI and Tomasz K. Baumiller, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  32696 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 4:25 PM
  RECOGNIZING SIBLING SPECIES AMONG REEF-DWELLING COMATULID CRINOIDS: IMPLICATIONS FOR ECOLOGICAL PARTITIONING AND TAXONOMY
  Allison M. Cornett, Univ of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH and David L. Meyer, Univ of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
  32391 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)
• 4:40 PM
  PHYLOGENETIC IMPLICATIONS AND FUNCTIONAL INTERPRETATION OF GLYPTOCYSTITOID RHOMBIFERAN STEM MORPHOLOGY
  Colin D. Sumrall, Cincinnati Museum Ctr, Cincinnati, OH
  31320 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)