11 Paleoecology of the Coastal Plain: An Interdisciplinary Testing Ground

Thursday, 5 April 2001
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Presentations

• 8:00 AM
  DISTRIBUTION OF BRYOZOAN GROWTH HABIT CHARACTERISTICS IN JACKSONIAN (LATE EOCENE) FACIES OF THE GULF COAST
  Steven J. Hageman, Appalachian State Univ, Boone, NC
  4166 (THEME)
• 8:20 AM
  FREE-LYING DOMAL BRYOZOAN COLONIES OF THE CASTLE HAYNE LIMESTONE, EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
  Frank K. McKinney, Appalachian State Univ, Boone, NC and Paul D. Taylor, The Nat History Museum, London, N/A
  3865 (THEME)
• 8:40 AM
  COOL WATER IN THE TROPICS? BRYOMOL CARBONATES ON THE EOCENE ATLANTIC SHELF
  Miklos Kazmer, Eotvos University, Budapest, N/A and David Campbell, Saint Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's City, MD
  4274 (THEME)
• 9:00 AM
  NATICID GASTROPOD PREDATION IN THE PALEOGENE OF THE GULF AND ATLANTIC COASTAL PLAINS: TESTING HYPOTHESES IN EVOLUTIONARY PALEOECOLOGY
  Patricia H. Kelley, Univ North Carolina–Wilmington, Wilmington, NC and Thor A. Hansen, Western Washington Univ, Bellingham, WA
  4327 (THEME)
• 9:20 AM
  PREDATION ON IRREGULAR ECHINOIDS (EOCENE) FROM THE CASTLE HAYNE LIMESTONE, ATLANTIC COASTAL PLAIN (SOUTHEASTERN NORTH CAROLINA)
  Timothy C. Woodcock, Univ of North Carolina at Wilimington, Wilmington, NC and Patricia H. Kelley, Univ of North Carolina at Wilimington, Wilmington, NC
  4550 (THEME)
• 9:40 AM
  ECOLOGICAL AND EVOLUTIONARY PATTERNS FROM PALEOGENE MOLLUSCA OF THE CAROLINAS
  David C. Campbell, St. Mary's College–Maryland, Saint Marys City, MD
  4470 (THEME)
• 10:20 AM
  EOCENE-OLIGOCENE MOLLUSCAN EXTINCTIONS AND FIRST APPEARANCE DATA ACROSS THE NORTH ATLANTIC IN THE NORTH AMERICAN GULF COASTAL PLAIN AND EUROPE
  David T. Dockery, Mississippi Office of Geology, Jackson, MS and Pierre Lozouet, Museum National d'Histoire Naturalle, Paris, N/A
  4922 (THEME)
• 10:40 AM
  AN ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATION FOR PLANT-BEARING "VARVED" SEQUENCES FROM THE WILBANKS CLAY PIT (MIDDLE EOCENE), WESTERN TENNESSEE
  B. Roger Moore, Univ of Tennessee at Martin, Martin, TN and Michael A. Gibson, Univ Tennessee–Martin, Martin, TN and David Dilcher, Univ of Florida, Gainseville, FL
  4677 (THEME)
• 11:00 AM
  LATE CRETACEOUS (SANTONIAN) VEGETATION FROM THE GULF COAST
  James P. Lamb, North Carolina State Univ, Raleigh, NC
  4641 (THEME)
• 11:20 AM
  ROOT AND RHIZOME MORPHOLOGY OF THE SMOOTH CORDGRASS SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA AS A MODEL FOR TRACE FOSSIL EVIDENCE OF ANCIENT SALT MARSH DEPOSITS
  Jessica Mathisen, The Stroud Water Research Center, Avondale, PA and Anthony J. Martin, Emory Univ, Atlanta, GA
  4481 (THEME)
• 11:40 AM
  PALEONTOLOGICAL AND BEHAVIORAL SIGNIFICANCE OF AMPHIBIAN TRACKS FROM THE POTTSVILLE FORMATION (LOWER PENNSYLVANIAN: WESTPHALIAN A), UNION CHAPEL MINE, ALABAMA
  Nicholas D. Pyenson, Emory Univ, Atlanta, GA and Anthony J. Martin, Emory Univ, Atlanta, GA
  4483 (THEME)