51 Paleontology: Movement & Distribution

Sunday, 18 October 2009
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Portland Ballroom 255

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  NEOICHNOLOGY OF THE WHIP SCORPION PHRYNUS MARGINEMACULATA: INTERPRETING THE ROLE OF PREDATORY ARTHROPODS IN EARLY SOIL ECOSYSTEMS
  Daniel I. Hembree, Ohio University, Athens, OH
  162391 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:45 PM
  TRACKWAYS OF MODERN BASAL INSECTS (JUMPING BRISTLETAILS AND SILVERFISH) AND THE ORIGIN OF PENNSYLVANIAN ARTHROPOD TRACE FOSSILS FROM EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS
  Patrick Ryan Getty, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT and Robert Sproule, Plymouth, MA and David Wagner, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT and Andrew Bush, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
  163235 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:00 PM
  LIFE IN A SAND SEA: BURROWS EXCAVATED BY MAMMALS OR THERAPSIDS IN THE NAVAJO SANDSTONE AND THEIR ASSOCIATION WITH OTHER ORGANISMS REPRESENTED BY TRACE FOSSILS IN A WET DESERT ECOSYSTEM
  David J. Riese, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN and Stephen Hasiotis, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Georges Odier, Moab, UT
  163189 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  EXCEPTIONALLY WELL-PRESERVED ANT NEST FOSSILS IN CALCIC PALEOSOLS OF THE OGALLALA FORMATION (MIOCENE), SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS, USA
  Jon Jay Smith, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Brian F. Platt, Univ of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Greg A. Ludvigson, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Joseph R. Thomasson, Sternberg Museum of Natural History, Hays, KS
  162249 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:30 PM
  FROM CRAYFISH TO DINOSAURS: EARLY CRETACEOUS TRACE FOSSILS OF VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA AND THEIR USES IN INTERPRETING CIRCUMPOLAR PALEOENVIRONMENTS
  Anthony J. Martin, Emory University, Atlanta, GA and Thomas H. Rich, Museum of Victoria, Melbourne and Patricia Vickers-Rich, Monash University, Clayton, N/A and Lesley Kool, Monash University, Clayton, N/A and Peter Trusler, Monash University, Clayton
  163055 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:45 PM
  PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE MICROBIAL, INVERTEBRATE, AND VERTEBRATE TRACE FOSSILS FROM DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, ALASKA: INSIGHTS INTO THE BIODIVERSITY OF A POLAR ECOSYSTEM
  Stephen Hasiotis, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Anthony Fiorillo, Museum of Nature and Science, Dallas, TX and Yoshitsugu Kobahyashi, Hokkaido University Museum, Sapporo, Hokkaido, N/A and Phil Brease, Dept. of Interior - National Park Service - Denali National Park, Alaska, Denali Park, AK
  165070 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:00 PM
  IS INSECT DAMAGE DIVERSITY CORRELATED WITH INSECT DIVERSITY? PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM THE PANAMA CANOPY CRANES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PLANT-INSECT ASSOCIATIONAL DIVERSITY IN THE FOSSIL RECORD
  Monica Ramirez-Carvalho, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA and Peter Wilf, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA and Hector Barrios, Universidad de Panamá, Panamá, N/A and Ellen D. Currano, Miami University, Oxford, OH and Carlos Jaramillo, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancon, Panama, N/A and Conrad Labandeira, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Paleobiology, Washington, DC and Donald M. Windsor, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, N/A
  166971 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:15 PM
  MUSEUM COLLECTIONS ARE BETTER THAN EXPECTED: MINIMAL EFFECTS OF COLLECTION BIAS IN DETECTING INSECT HERBIVORY ON FOSSILIZED LEAVES
  Erin H. Leckey, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO and Dena Smith, Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO
  166889 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:45 PM
  CAMBRIAN COPROLITES: A RECORD OF NON-ANOMALOCARIDID GNATHOBASIC PREDATION
  James W. Hagadorn, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, CO
  165391 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:00 PM
  PALEOECOLOGICAL INFORMATION FROM PALEONTOLOGY AND SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY OF INTERDUNAL SEDIMENTS OF THE EARLY JURASSIC GLEN CANYON GROUP IN AND AROUND DINOSAUR NATIONAL MONUMENT (DNM) IN NORTHEASTERN UTAH
  George F. Engelmann, University of Nebraska - Omaha, Omaha, NE and Daniel J. Chure, National Park Service, Jensen, UT and Brooks Britt, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
  167088 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:15 PM
  CRYPTIC TRACE FOSSILS AS CLUES TO THE TAPHONOMY OF BACULITID CONCHS (UPPER CRETACEOUS PIERRE SHALE, WESTERN INTERIOR, NORTH AMERICA)
  Mark A. Wilson, The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH and John A. Sime, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC and Paul D. Taylor, Natural History Museum, London, N/A
  160297 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  SHELL SIZE AND SCLEROBIONT COLONIZATION: AREA EFFECTS ON ENCRUSTATION AND BORING FREQUENCY, ABUNDANCE, DIVERSITY AND RECRUITMENT IN HARD-SUBSTRATE COMMUNITIES
  David L. Rodland, Muskingum University, New Concord, OH and Elizabeth M. Bullard, Muskingum University, New Concord, OH and Michal Kowalewski, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL and Marcello Simoes, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu, N/A
  164875 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:45 PM
  CLUMPED OR DISPERSED? USING NEAREST NEIGHBOR ANALYSIS TO ASSESS VARIATIONS IN SETTLEMENT PATTERNS OF FOUR ORDOVICIAN ISOROPHID EDRIOASTEROIDS
  René A. Shroat-Lewis, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN and M.L. McKinney, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN and Colin D. Sumrall, Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
  161528 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:00 PM
  NEW PUBLIC LAW TO PROTECT AND PRESERVE PALEONTOLOGICAL RESOURCES ON FEDERAL LAND
  Scott E. Foss, Bureau of Land Management, Utah State Office, Salt Lake City, UT and Michelle L. Mary, Bureau of Land Management, Utah State Office, Salt Lake City, UT and Lucia Kuizon, Bureau of Land Management, Washington Office, Washington, DC
  166631 (Technical Sessions)