267 Paleontology V: Biostratigraphy and Taphonomy

Wednesday, 12 October 2011
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room 205AB

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  LITHO- AND CHEMO-STRATIGRAPHY OF THE LOWERMOST CAMBRIAN AT HONGJIACHONG, YUNNAN, SOUTH CHINA
  Tomohiko Sato, Univ. Tokyo, Tokyo, N/A and Yukio Isozaki, Univ. Tokyo, Tokyo, N/A and Tsuyoshi Komiya, Univ. Tokyo, Tokyo, N/A and Miyuki Tahata, Tokyo Inst. Tech, Tokyo, N/A and Naohiro Yoshida, Tokyo Inst. Tech, Yokohama and Degan Shu, Northwest Univ, Xi'an, N/A
  198186 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:45 PM
  MIDDLE DEVONIAN CONODONT BIOSTRATIGRAPHY AND STABLE OXYGEN ISOTOPE ANALYSIS IN THE MONT PEYROUX AREA (SOUTHERN MONTAGNE NOIRE , FRANCE)
  Sofie A. Gouwy, University of Missouri, Columbia, Columbia, MO and Kenneth G. MacLeod, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO
  197353 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:00 PM
  DIPLOMOCERAS MAXIMUM AND D. CYLINDRACEUM – THE GIANT UPPER CRETACEOUS HETEROMORPH AMMONITES AND THEIR STRATIGRAPHIC SIGNIFICANCE
  Zbyszek Remin, Institute of Geology, Warsaw, N/A
  196158 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  NEW CRITERIA FOR DEFINING THE BASE OF THE ALBIAN STAGE
  Brian T. Huber, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC and Maria Rose Petrizzo, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano and Andrew S. Gale, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth and Alessia Barchetta, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, DC
  196763 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:30 PM
  NEW INTERPRETATIONS OF LATE CRETACEOUS SILICOFLAGELLATE EVOLUTION AND BIOSTRATIGRAPHY: RECENT DISCOVERIES FROM THE CANADIAN ARCTIC
  Kevin McCartney, University of Maine at Presque Isle, Presque Isle, ME and Jakub Witkowski, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, N/A and David Harwood, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE
  196360 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:00 PM
  STRANDED AND STRETCHED IN THE EDIACARA MEMBER (RAWNSLEY QUARTZITE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA): PRESERVATION OF THE TAPHONOMICALLY ELITE BODY FOSSIL, DICKINSONIA
  Matthew P. Dzaugis, University of Texas Marine Science Institute, Port Aransas, TX and James Gehling, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, N/A and Mary L. Droser, Univ of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA and Mary E. Dzaugis, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI and Dennis Rice, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, N/A
  196127 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:15 PM
  OCCURRENCE OF NAMA AND AVALON ASSEMBLAGE FOSSILS IN THE EDIACARA MEMBER OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF FACIES IN THE RECORD OF THE DISTRIBUTION AND EXTINCTION OF THE EDIACARA BIOTA
  Mary L. Droser, Univ of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA and James Gehling, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, N/A and Mary E. Dzaugis, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI and Dennis Rice, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, N/A and Matthew P. Dzaugis, University of Texas Marine Science Institute, Port Aransas, TX
  196175 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:30 PM
  SEAWATER CHEMISTRY AND THE DECLINE OF BURGESS SHALE-TYPE PRESERVATION
  Robert R. Gaines, Pomona College, Claremont, CA and Shanan E. Peters, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
  192361 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:45 PM
  MIDDLE TO LATE DEVONIAN SKELETAL CONCENTRATIONS FROM TROPICAL CARBONATE-DOMINATED SETTINGS OF NORTH AMERICA: EVALUATING THE EFFECTS OF BIOCLAST INPUT AND BURIAL RATES
  Mara E. Brady, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  195684 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:00 PM
  SHELL BED FORMATION, BIOTURBATION, AND SEA LEVEL RISE: DEVELOPMENT OF A REEF-LAGOON SEDIMENT PACKAGE, ST. CROIX, USVI
  Karla Parsons-Hubbard, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
  197840 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  PRESERVATION OF MARINE VERTEBRATES IN THE LATE CRETACEOUS (CENOMANIAN-TURONIAN) TROPIC SHALE OF SOUTHERN UTAH
  Rebecca Schmeisser McKean, St. Norbert College, De Pere, WI
  195641 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:45 PM
  HOW IMPORTANT IS LITHOLOGY IN THE PRESERVATION OF FOSSIL INSECTS? A STUDY OF LATE EOCENE INSECTS FROM THE FLORISSANT FORMATION OF COLORADO
  Jenell Thoene, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO and Dena M. Smith, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO and César R. Nufio, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO and Herb Meyer, National Park Service - Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Florissant, CO
  193280 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:00 PM
  ZIEGLER RESERVOIR AND THE SNOWMASTODON PROJECT: OVERVIEW AND GEOLOGIC SETTING OF A RECENTLY DISCOVERED SERIES OF HIGH-ELEVATION PLEISTOCENE ECOSYSTEMS NEAR SNOWMASS VILLAGE, COLORADO
  Kirk R. Johnson, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Denver, CO and Ian M. Miller, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, CO and Joe Sertich, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, CO and Richard Stucky, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, CO and Daniel C. Fisher, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI and Jeffrey S. Pigati, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO
  193398 (Technical Sessions)