T56 New Horizons in Precambrian Palynology and Paleobiology

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

Presentations

• 1:35 PM
  PALYNOLOGY AND AGE OF POST-ERUPTIVE LAKE SEDIMENTS FROM THE WOMBAT KIMBERLITE LOCALITY, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES, CANADA
  Shusheng Hu, Yale University, New Haven, CT and Peter A. Siver, Connecticut College, New London, CT and Alexander P. Wolfe, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
  191240 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:55 PM
  THE ULTRASTRUCTURE AND BOTANICAL AFFINITY OF THE PROBLEMATIC MID-MESOZOIC PALYNOMORPH RICCIISPORITES TUBERCULATUS LUNDBLAD
  Luke Mander, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL and Margaret E. Collinson, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, N/A and William G. Chaloner, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, N/A and Anthony P.R. Brain, King's College London, London, N/A and David G. Long, Edinburgh, N/A
  195787 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:10 PM
  PROBLEMS SOLVED AND MYSTERIES REMAINING: DINOCYSTS FROM COASTAL PLAIN CORES
  Lucy E. Edwards, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA
  194704 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:30 PM
  THE EARLY BODY FOSSIL RECORD OF EUKARYOTES
  Susannah M. Porter, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
  196804 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:50 PM
  SURPRISINGLY HIGH BIOTIC DIVERSITY IN A NEOPROTEROZOIC SHALE
  Paul Klee Strother, Boston College, Weston, MA and Charles H. Wellman, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, N/A
  192096 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:05 PM
  EVIDENCE FOR EXTENSIVE LIFE ON LAND 1100 MA AGO
  Nathan Sheldon, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  195536 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:25 PM
  EVIDENCE FOR MESOPROTEROZOIC LIFE ON LAND AND ITS MODERN COUNTERPART IN ARID SOILS
  Hugo Beraldi, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ and J.D. Farmer, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ and Ferran Garcia-Pichel, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
  194226 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:55 PM
  THE ORIGIN OF INTRACELLULAR STRUCTURES IN EDIACARAN METAZOAN EMBRYOS
  James D. Schiffbauer, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA and Shuhai Xiao, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA and Kriti Sen Sharma, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA and Ge Wang, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
  191562 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:15 PM
  THE PALEOPROTEROZOIC RISE OF ATMOSPHERIC OXYGEN CAUSED BY ALGAL BLOOMS STIMULATED BY HIGH PHOSPHATE IN THE LOWER ARAVALLI GROUP, INDIA
  Dominic Papineau, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA and Ritesh Purohit, Government College Sirohi, Sirohi, N/A and Marilyn Fogel, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC
  192111 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  ARCHEAN PLUMOSE MICROBIALITES: THREE DISTINCT GROWTH MORPHOLOGIES & ECOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS
  Eric Stevens, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN and Dawn Y. Sumner, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA
  195789 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:45 PM
  A (CYANO-)BACTERIAL ECOSYSTEM IN THE ARCHEAN 3.49 GA DRESSER FORMATION, PILBARA, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
  Nora Noffke, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA and Daniel R. Christian, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA and Robert M. Hazen, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC
  192644 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:00 PM
  BIOGENICITY OF WORLD'S OLDEST FOSSILS: HOW THE PROBLEM WAS SOLVED
  J. William Schopf, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
  192303 (Technical Sessions)