T57 Phylogenetic Approaches to Paleobiology: Diversity, Rates, and Trends

Sunday, 9 October 2011
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room 205AB

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE OF PHOTOSYMBIOSIS IN CORAL MACROEVOLUTION WITH MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND THE FOSSIL RECORD
  Carl Simpson, Leibniz Institute at the Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, N/A and Wolfgang Kiessling, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, N/A
  197146 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:45 PM
  DEEP-WATER CORALS REVEAL MUCH DEEPER EVOLUTIONARY ORIGIN OF SCLERACTINIA
  Jaroslaw Stolarski, Warsaw, N/A and Marcelo V. Kitahara, James Cook University, Townsville, N/A and David J. Miller, James Cook University, Townsville, N/A and Stephen D. Cairns, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C, DC and Maciej Mazur, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, N/A and Anders Meibom, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, N/A
  195087 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:00 PM
  QUANTIFYING CATASTROPHE: ESTIMATING SPECIATION AND EXTINCTION RATES IN TRILOBITES DURING THE END ORDOVICIAN MASS EXTINCTION EVENT
  Curtis Congreve, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC and Bruce Lieberman, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
  194205 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  AN ABC APPROACH TO THE CO-ESTIMATION OF TAPHONOMIC PARAMETERS AND EVOLUTIONARY RATES
  Troy Fadiga, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, TN
  197592 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:30 PM
  INCORPORATING FOSSIL RICHNESS INFORMATION INTO DIVERSIFICATION ESTIMATES FROM MOLECULAR PHYLOGENIES
  Joseph W. Brown, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID and Richard G. FitzJohn, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC and Graham J. Slater, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA and Michael E. Alfaro, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA and Luke J. Harmon, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID
  190799 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:45 PM
  STATISTICAL POWER TO DETECT CHANGES IN RATES OF MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION
  Emily A. King, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  196871 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:00 PM
  PHYLOGENETIC TESTS FOR INTERVAL-SPECIFIC VARIATION IN RATES OF MORPHOLOGIC CHANGE
  Jonathan D. Marcot, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL and Peter J. Wagner, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
  197702 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:30 PM
  CONTRASTING MORPHOLOGICAL RATES OF SEED EVOLUTION
  Hallie Sims, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
  195186 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:45 PM
  ROLE OF VOLCANIC ACTIVITY IN THE EVOLUTION OF EVER-GROWING CHEEK TEETH IN APLODONTID RODENTS
  Samantha Hopkins, Univ of Oregon, Eugene, OR
  197292 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:00 PM
  FOSSILS, MOLECULAR PHYLOGENIES, AND MODELS OF TRAIT EVOLUTION
  Graham J. Slater, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA and Luke J. Harmon, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID and Michael E. Alfaro, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
  197527 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:15 PM
  BUILDING PHYLOGENETIC TREES FOR TRILOBITES USING MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD
  I. Wesley Gapp, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Mark T. Holder, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Bruce Lieberman, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
  195121 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  TESTING PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM IN THE OSTRACODE GENUS POSEIDONAMICUS
  Gene Hunt, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
  196729 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:45 PM
  RATES AND TRENDS IN ECOMORPHOLOGICAL DIVERGENCE DURING EARLY BIRD EVOLUTION
  Jonathan Mitchell, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  197435 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:00 PM
  THE ROLE OF PHYLOGENY IN THE EVOLUTION OF CRANIOMANDIBULAR FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY IN FOSSIL AND EXTANT FELIDS
  Manabu Sakamoto, University of Bristol, Bristol, N/A
  194328 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:15 PM
  COMPARING METHODS FOR TIME-SCALING TREES OF EXTINCT TAXA
  David W. Bapst, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  195351 (Technical Sessions)