T236 Evolutionary Paleobiology and Paleoecology of the Bivalvia

Wednesday, 30 October 2002
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  BIVALVE PALEOCOMMUNITY ANALYSIS PROVIDES A CONTEXT AND COMPARATIVE FRAMEWORK FOR STUDIES OF EVOLUTIONARY PATTERNS AND PROCESSES
  Carol M. Tang, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA
  46214 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:45 PM
  THE ROLE OF MOLECULES IN UNDERSTANDING MOLLUSCAN EVOLUTION: EXAMPLES FROM THE BIVALVES
  Mónica Medina, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA
  46162 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:00 PM
  STEM GROUP BIVALVIA: WHERE TO BEGIN?
  Bruce Runnegar, Univ. California, Los Angeles, CA
  37953 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  PALEONTOLOGICAL AND MOLECULAR EVIDENCE ON BIVALVE PHYLOGENY
  David C. Campbell, Univ of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
  40515 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:30 PM
  BIVALVE PHYLOGENY AND THE HIERARCHICAL NESTING OF MORPHOLOGICAL NETWORKS IN BIVALVE CLADES
  Peter D. Roopnarine, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA
  44846 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:45 PM
  COMPARATIVE TAXONOMY: A METHOD TO TEST THE HYPOTHESES OF OPPONENTS OF TAXIC PALEOBIOLOGY
  Jay A. Schneider, The George Washington Univ, Washington, DC and Neil Lane, Univ of Chicago, Chicago, IL and Emmanuel Lazaridis, Univ of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  44285 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:00 PM
  DEVONIAN ARCHANODONT UNIONOIDS FROM THE CATSKILL MOUNTAINS OF NEW YORK: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PALEOECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY OF THE FIRST FRESHWATER BIVALVES
  John A. Chamberlain, Brooklyn College of the City Univ of New York (CUNY), Brooklyn, NY, Troy, NY and Gerald M. Friedman, Brooklyn College of the City Univ of New York (CUNY), Brooklyn, NY, Troy, NY and Rebecca B. Chamberlain, The College of Staten Island, Staten Island, NY
  40372 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:30 PM
  STABLE ISOTOPES, SCLEROCHRONOLOGY AND GROWTH HIATUSES: SOURCES OF PALEOENVIRONMENTAL, PALEOECOLOGICAL AND EVOLUTIONARY DATA
  David H. Goodwin, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
  42901 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:45 PM
  CHEMOSYMBIOTIC LUCINID BIVALVES AS EXPERIMENTAL CONTROLS FOR TESTING THE BODY-SIZE/NUTRIENT-AVAILABILITY HYPOTHESIS FOR TROPICAL AMERICAN NEOGENE MOLLUSCS
  Laurie C. Anderson, Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA and Peter D. Roopnarine, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA
  37965 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:00 PM
  LOWER TRIASSIC SHELL BEDS OF THE WESTERN UNITED STATES
  Diana L. Boyer, Univ of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA and David Bottjer, Univ of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA and Mary L. Droser, Univ of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
  37168 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:15 PM
  MORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE OF BIVALVE TAXA TO PALEOCOMMUNITY COMPOSITION
  Jelena H. Pantel, Univ of Chicago, Chicago, IL and Peter D. Roopnarine, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA and Carol M. Tang, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA
  45723 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  RUDIST BIVALVES AND REEF CORALS IN THE LOWER CRETACEOUS OF SOUTHWESTERN MEXICO: TIERED COEXISTENCE, COMPETITION FOR THE SAME ECOLOGIC NICHE, AND FACIES SUPERPOSITION
  Harry F. Filkorn, Nat History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA
  46079 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:45 PM
  QUANTIFICATION OF COILING IN RUDIST BIVALVES
  L.M. Fall, Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN and E.G. Kauffman, Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN and C.C. Johnson, Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN
  42736 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:00 PM
  TESTS OF THE ESCALATION HYPOTHESIS: THE ROLE OF MULTIPLE PREDATORS
  Gregory S. Herbert, Univ of California at Davis, Davis, CA and Gregory P. Dietl, North Carolina State Univ, Raleigh, NC
  45760 (Technical Sessions)