T203 Seafood Through Time—The Ecologic Context of the History of Life I: In Honor of Richard K. Bambach

Wednesday, 30 October 2002
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Presentations

• 8:15 AM
  EVENNESS, RICHNESS, AND THE CAMBRIAN-PALEOZOIC FAUNAL TRANSITION
  Shanan E. Peters, Univ of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  43853 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:30 AM
  EVALUATING THE TAXONOMIC DISPERSION OF ORDOVICIAN PALEOCOMMUNITIES OF THE GREAT BASIN: A NEW APPROACH TO THE ESTIMATION OF ECOSPACE UTILIZATION
  Seth Finnegan, Univ of California, Riverside, CA and Mary L. Droser, Univ of California, Riverside, CA
  36986 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:45 AM
  PALEOECOLOGY OF TRILOBITES FROM THE VIOLA GROUP OF OKLAHOMA: IMPLICATIONS FOR CHANGES IN ORDOVICIAN MARINE COMMUNITIES
  Lisa Amati, Univ of Oklahoma, Norman, OK and Stephen R. Westrop, Univ of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
  39281 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:00 AM
  MICROSTRATIGRAPHY OF AN AMALAGAMATED STORM BED: SPATIO-TEMPORAL RESOLUTION IN THE FOSSIL RECORD
  Susan L. Barbour Wood, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA and Arnold I. Miller, Univ of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
  44144 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:15 AM
  THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PHANEROZOIC MIXED LAYER: IMPLICATIONS OF INCREASED SEAFOOD UNDER THE SEDIMENT FOR THE PRESERVATION OF EVENT BEDS
  Mary L. Droser, Univ of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA and Soren Jensen, Univ of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA and James G. Gehling, Div of Nat Sciences, Adelaide, N/A
  37694 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:30 AM
  TAXONOMIC DIVERSITY OF DEEP SUBTIDAL, SOFT-SUBSTRATE “COMMUNITIES” DURING THE CAMBRIAN THROUGH DEVONIAN
  Philip M. Novack-Gottshall, Duke Univ, Durham, NC
  46172 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:45 AM
  ANALYSIS OF FOSSIL CONCENTRATIONS WITHIN THE PINYON PEAK LIMESTONE, GREAT BASIN, U.S.A.: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ECOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF THE LATE DEVONIAN MASS EXTINCTION
  Willian T. Phelps, Univ of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA and Mary L. Droser, Univ of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
  38084 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:00 AM
  LATE DEVONIAN BIOSTRATIGRAPHY IN THE CENTRAL SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BASIN: CHANGES IN SEAFOOD AT THE FRASNIAN/FAMENNIAN EXTICTION
  Roderic I. Brame, Wright State Univ, Dayton, OH and Andrew M. Bush, Harvard Univesity, Cambridge, MA and John Coates, Wright State Univ, Dayton, OH
  45642 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:15 AM
  CHANGING THE MENU IN THE LATE DEVONIAN APPALACHIAN SEA: STATISTICAL ANALYSES OF THE FRASNIAN/FAMENNIAN EXTINCTION IN VIRGINIA
  Andrew M. Bush, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard Univesity, Cambridge, MA and Roderic I. Brame, Wright State Univ, Dayton, OH
  45774 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:30 AM
  SUDDEN, GRADUAL, OR STEPWISE? EXPANDING THE NULL HYPOTHESIS IN STATISTICAL TESTS OF MASS EXTINCTION
  Steve C. Wang, Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA
  43845 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:45 AM
  DECOUPLING OF ECOLOGICAL AND TAXONOMIC SEVERITIES OF PHANEROZOIC BIODIVERSITY CRISES
  George R. McGhee, Rutgers Univ, New Brunswick, NJ and Peter M. Sheehan, Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, WI and David Bottjer, Univ of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA and Mary L. Droser, Univ of California, Riverside, CA
  39826 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:00 AM
  A NEW STATE OF THE MARINE ECOSYSTEM DURING THE LATE PALEOZOIC GLACIAL INTERVAL
  Steven M. Stanley, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD and Matthew G. Powell, Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD
  41622 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:15 AM
  WHY ARE EXTINCTION PROBABILITIES OF PALEOZOIC TEREBRATULIDES HIGHER IN THE TROPICS?
  Paul C. Fitzgerald, Univ of California, Davis, Davis, CA and Lindsey R. Leighton, San Diego State Univ, San Diego, CA and Sandra J. Carlson, Univ of California, Davis, Davis, CA
  46429 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:30 AM
  SEARCHING FOR AN EQUILIBRIUM POINT IN GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY: AN EXAMPLE USING A STROPHOMENATE BRACHIOPOD GUILD THROUGH THE PALEOZOIC
  Lindsey R. Leighton, San Diego State Univ, San Diego, CA
  43811 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:45 AM
  SEAFOOD THROUGH LIME: SECULAR CHANGES IN FOOD AVAILABILITY IN CARBONATE ENVIRONMENTS DURING THE PALEOZOIC ERA
  Arnold I. Miller, Univ of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
  44158 (Technical Sessions)