Geological Society of America

8:00 AM

TRILOBITE BIOFACIES ALONG A CARBONATE MUD-MOUND TO BASIN GRADIENT IN SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA (ORDOVICIAN; SANDBIAN)

Jesse Carlucci, Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, TX and Stephen R. Westrop, Univ of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

181301 (Technical Sessions)

8:15 AM

CORAL ABUNDANCE, DIVERSITY, AND BODY SIZE DECREASE WITH BATHYMETRY IN THE EARLY MISSISSIPPIAN LODGEPOLE FORMATION, MONTANA

Patrick L. Norby, Brigham Young University-Idaho, Rexburg, ID and Forest Gahn, Brigham Young University Idaho, Rexburg, ID

182387 (Technical Sessions)

8:30 AM

PALEOGENE MACROFLORAS FROM NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: KEYS FOR UNDERSTANDING THE FLORISTIC COMPOSITION OF MODERN NEOTROPICAL RAINFORESTS

Fabiany Herrera, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL and Carlos Jaramillo, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancon, Panama, N/A and Monica R. Carvalho, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY and Steven Manchester, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL and S.L. Wing, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC and Gabriela Doria, Panama, N/A

177121 (Technical Sessions)

8:45 AM

EOCENE RAINFORESTS OF PATAGONIA AND THEIR HIGH-LATITUDE CONNECTION TO MODERN MONTANE AUSTRALASIA

Peter Wilf, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA and Monica R. Carvalho, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA and Elizabeth J. Hermsen, Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY and Maria A. Gandolfo, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY and N. Rubén Cúneo, Museo Paleontologico Egidio Feruglio, CONICET, Trelew, N/A and Kirk R. Johnson, Denver Museum of Nature & Sci, Denver, CO and Taylor S. Feild, Monash University, Victoria, N/A

180495 (Technical Sessions)

9:00 AM

FERNS FROM THE LAGUNA DEL HUNCO PALEOFLORA (51.9 MA), PATAGONIA, ARGENTINA, REVEAL NEW BIOGEOGRAPHIC LINKS TO RAINFOREST GONDWANA

Monica R. Carvalho, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY and Peter Wilf, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA and Maria A. Gandolfo, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY and N. Rubén Cúneo, MEF, Trelew, N/A and Kirk R. Johnson, Denver Museum of Nature & Sci, Denver, CO

180454 (Technical Sessions)

9:15 AM

SYSTEMATICS OF EOCENE ANGIOSPERM REPRODUCTIVE STRUCTURES FROM THE LAGUNA DEL HUNCO FLORA, NW CHUBUT PROVINCE, PATAGONIA, ARGENTINA

Elizabeth J. Hermsen, Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY and Maria A. Gandolfo, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY and Peter Wilf, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA and N. Rubén Cúneo, MEF, Trelew, N/A and Kirk R. Johnson, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Denver, CO

181291 (Technical Sessions)

9:30 AM

THE DIVERGENT EVOLUTIONARY HISTORIES OF MODERN POLAR FAUNAS: A ROLE FOR PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY?

Andrew Krug, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL and Sarah Berke, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL and Alan G. Beu, GNS Science, Lower Hutt, N/A and David Jablonski, Univ of Chicago, Chicago, IL

176870 (Technical Sessions)

9:45 AM

LATITUDINAL VARIATION IN RANGE SIZE OF MARINE BIVALVES: NESTEDNESS AND RANGE EXPANSION IN THE TROPICS

Adam Tomasovych, Chicago, N/A and Sarah Berke, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL and David Jablonski, Univ of Chicago, Chicago, IL and Andrew Z. Krug, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL and James W. Valentine, Univ of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

181282 (Technical Sessions)

10:00 AM

ELEMENTS OF THE EXTANT EASTERN PACIFIC CONUS (NEOGASTROPODA) FAUNA IN THE NEOGENE OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC AND SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES

Jonathan R. Hendricks, San José State University, San José, CA and Ursula E. Smith, Ithaca, NY

179122 (Technical Sessions)

10:15 AM

THE CONTRIBUTION OF DISPERSAL ABILITY TO THE EXPANSION OF GEOGRAPHIC RANGE

Carl Simpson, Leibniz Institute at the Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, N/A and Wolfgang Kiessling, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, N/A

180759 (Technical Sessions)

10:30 AM

PROPAGULE DISPERSAL IN BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA: BIOGEOGRAPHY AND THE OCCURRENCE OF “EXOTIC” TAXA

Susan T. Goldstein, Athens, GA and Joan Bernhard, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA and Virginia P. Edgcomb, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA

181596 (Technical Sessions)

10:45 AM

RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN DISPERSAL MODE AND GEOGRAPHIC RANGE IN THE ROSALES

Andrew Simpson, Smithsonian InstitutionPaleobiology, Washington, DC and Charles Fenster, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

181281 (Technical Sessions)

11:00 AM

PHYLOGENETIC SIGNAL IN GEOGRAPHIC RANGE SIZE AND INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION BUT NOT IN SPECIES DURATION IN UPPER CAMBRIAN TRILOBITES OF THE GREAT BASIN, USA

Melanie J. Hopkins, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

179560 (Technical Sessions)

11:15 AM

ECOLOGICAL CORRELATES OF RANGE SHIFTS OF LATE PLEISTOCENE MAMMALS

S. Kathleen Lyons, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC and Peter J. Wagner, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC and Katherine M. Dzikiewicz, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

179204 (Technical Sessions)

11:30 AM

IS NICHE CONSERVATISM OR NICHE EVOLUTION MORE COMMON IN GEOLOGIC TIME?

Alycia Stigall, Ohio University, Athens, OH

179361 (Technical Sessions)

11:45 AM

SPATIAL NICHE PARTITIONING IN DINOSAURS FROM THE LATEST CRETACEOUS (MAASTRICHTIAN) OF NORTH AMERICA

Tyler Ranse Lyson, Yale University, New Haven, CT and Nicholas R. Longrich, Yale University, New Haven, CT

179555 (Technical Sessions)

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