T319 Quantifying the Early Evolution of Life: Numerical Approaches to the Evaluation of Precambrian-Cambrian Animals and Ecosystems

Wednesday, 8 October 2008
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  Quantitative Approaches In Precambrian Paleontology - Numbers, Numeracy, Data, and Information
  Hans J. Hofmann, McGill University, Montreal, QC
  145026 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:50 PM
  The Deep Evolution of Metazoans and Metazoan Micrornas
  Kevin J. Peterson, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
  148451 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:10 PM
  Quantitative Analysis of Precambrian Fossils
  Shuhai Xiao, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA and Lin Dong, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA and John Huntley, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO and Bing Shen, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA and Michal Kowalewski, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA
  145023 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:30 PM
  Quantitative Paleontology of Ediacaran (635-550 Ma) Microfossil Assemblages In the Doushantuo Formation: Implications for Biostratigraphic Applications In South China
  K.A. McFadden, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA and Shuhai Xiao, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA and Chuanming Zhou, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing
  145743 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:45 PM
  Putting Numbers to Assemblages of the Ediacara Biota and the Significance of Novel Morphologies and Ecologies
  Mary L. Droser, Univ of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA and James Gehling, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, N/A and Martin Kennedy, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA and Dennis Rice, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, N/A and Mary Dzaugis, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
  152177 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:00 PM
  A Placozoan Affinity for Dickinsonia and the Evolution of Late Precambrian Metazoan Feeding Modes
  Erik Sperling, Yale University, New Haven, CT and Jakob Vinther, Yale University, New Haven, CT and Derek E.G. Briggs, Yale University, New Haven, CT and Davide Pisani, The University of Bristol, Bristol, N/A and Kevin J. Peterson, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
  151743 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:30 PM
  Changes In Feeding Strategies across the Ediacaran/Cambrian Boundary: Who's New and Who's Missing?
  Marc Laflamme, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA and Shuhai Xiao, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA and Michal Kowalewski, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA
  145203 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:45 PM
  The Cambrian Benthic Regime
  Stephen Q. Dornbos, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
  151171 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:00 PM
  Quantifying Early Cambrian Bioturbation along An Onshore-Offshore Transect, Great Basin, USA
  Katherine N. Marenco, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA and David Bottjer, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  149309 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:15 PM
  Comparative Paleoecology of Chancelloriids In the Early Cambrian Maotianshan Shale Biota and the Middle Cambrian Wheeler Shale Biota: Non-Adaptation to the Cambrian Substrate Revolution
  Tristan J. Kloss, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI and Stephen Q. Dornbos, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI and Jun-Yuan Chen, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Nanjing, N/A
  142596 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  Assessing Integration and Regulation in Ancient Developmental Systems: An Example from a Cambrian Trilobite
  Mark Webster, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL and Miriam L. Zelditch, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  151192 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:45 PM
  Quantitative Paleoecology of Cambrian Burgess Shale-Type Deposits
  Jean-Bernard Caron, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON
  147800 (Technical Sessions)