T275 Fossil Preservation and Climate Change: Trends from Polar to Tropical Regions

Wednesday, 21 October 2009
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Portland Ballroom 256

Presentations

• 1:45 PM
  POLAR OPHIUROID TAPHONOMY: DISINTEGRATION AND OSSICLE DESTRUCTION OF OPHIONOTUS VICTORIAE IN EXPLORERS COVE, ANTARCTICA
  Molly F. Miller, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN and Ellery R. Richardson, Nashville, TN and Katherine M. Ratliff, Duke University, Durham, NC and Kimberly A. Mead, University of Houston, Houston, TX and Samuel S. Bowser, Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY and Sally Walker, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
  165669 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:00 PM
  OBSERVED VS. MODELED ABUNDANCE OF THE ANTARCTIC SCALLOP ADAMUSSIUM COLBECKI IN THE RECENT SEDIMENTARY RECORD, EXPLORERS COVE ANTARCTICA
  Kyle H. Broach, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA and Molly F. Miller, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN and Kimberly A. Mead, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN and Ellery R. Richardson, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN and Katherine T. Murray, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN and David J. Furbish, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN and John C. Roseberry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN and Sally Walker, University of Georgia, Athens, GA and Samuel S. Bowser, Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
  164317 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  BIOTURBATION ON ANTARCTICA'S EXPLORERS COVE SEAFLOOR: WHY ANIMAL ACTIVITY HAS A GREATER IMPACT ON THE SEDIMENTARY RECORD THAN ANIMAL ABUNDANCE
  Kimberly A. Mead, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN and Molly F. Miller, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN and Kyle H. Broach, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN and Sally Walker, University of Georgia, Athens, GA and Samuel S. Bowser, Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
  161074 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:30 PM
  PRESERVATION POTENTIAL AND CARBONATE BIOMASS OF EPIBIOTA: PROTIST COMMUNITIES FROM SUBTROPICAL AND POLAR SHELLY HABITATS
  Sally E. Walker, University of Georgia, Athens, GA and Karla Parsons-Hubbard, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH and Samuel S. Bowser, Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY and Suzanne Richardson White, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
  166628 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:00 PM
  POLAR PRESERVATION: EXCEPTIONAL BUT SELECTIVE PRESERVATION OF FOSSILS IN UPPER CRETACEOUS MARINE SEDIMENTS FROM DEVON ISLAND IN THE CANADIAN HIGH ARCTIC
  Karen Chin, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO and David Harwood, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE and Jakub Witkowski, University of Warsaw, Warszawa, N/A
  166353 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:15 PM
  CLIMATIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS ON BONE WEATHERING: TIME-AVERAGING, ACCUMULATION HISTORIES, AND ECOLOGICAL INSIGHT
  Joshua Miller, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
  167146 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:30 PM
  PREDATION RATES IN A MODERN CARBONATE SETTING, SAN SALVADOR ISLAND, BAHAMAS
  Sara B. Pruss, Smith College, Northampton, MA and Siobhan Duffey, Smith College, Northampton, MA and Marquela Stevenson, Smith College, Northampton, MA
  164714 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:45 PM
  LATITUDINAL PATTERNS IN PREDATION BY SHELL-DRILLING GASTROPODS: ARE DIFFERENCES IN PRESERVATION POTENTIAL RESPONSIBLE?
  Patricia Kelley, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC and Christy Visaggi, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC
  166064 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:15 PM
  WILL GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES INFLUENCE PRODUCTION AND PRESERVATION OF LARGER BENTHIC FORAMINIFERAL SHELLS IN CARBONATE SEDIMENTS?
  Pamela Hallock, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL
  161220 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  TAPHONOMIC RESPONSE OF CRUSTACEAN CARCASSES PLACED AT THE SEDIMENT WATER INTERFACE AT SHALLOW TO MID-SLOPE DEPTHS IN CARBONATE AND SILICICLASTIC ENVIRONMENTS
  Karla Parsons-Hubbard, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH and Richard A. Krause, Yale University, New Haven, CT and Sally Walker, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
  166491 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:45 PM
  LATE PLEISTOCENE CLIMATIC INFLUENCES ON THE SEDIMENTARY ARCHITECTURE OF THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY: IMPLICATIONS FOR FOSSIL PRESERVATION AND PALEOENVIRONMENTAL RECONSTRUCTION
  Matthew Kuchta, University of Wisconsin - Stout, Menomonie, WI
  165462 (Technical Sessions)