Geological Society of America

8:00 AM

A CAMPANIAN PERSPECTIVE ON THE EVOLUTION OF MARINE COMMUNITIES: PALEOECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE COFFEE SAND

Matthew A. Kosnik, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

42647 (Technical Sessions)

8:15 AM

A NEW CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM FOR DESCRIBING MARINE ORGANISMS INHABITING HARD SUBSTRATES (SCLEROBIONTS)

Mark A. Wilson, The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH and Paul D. Taylor, The Nat History Museum, London, N/A

39348 (Technical Sessions)

8:30 AM

HITCHIN' A RIDE: EPIBIONTS ON ARCHAEOCIDARIS ECHINOIDS

Chris L. Schneider, Univ of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

43262 (Technical Sessions)

8:45 AM

COLONISTS OF A "LOST WORLD": QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF BRACHIOPOD ENCRUSTATION ON THE SUBTROPICAL SHELF OF THE SOUTHEAST BRAZILIAN BIGHT

David L. Rodland, Virginia Polytechnic Inst & State Univ, Blacksburg, VA and Michal Kowalewski, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA and Monica Carroll, Univ of Georgia, Athens, GA and Marcello G. Simoes, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu, N/A

40934 (Technical Sessions)

9:00 AM

FOSSIL RECORD OF EMBEDDING ORGANISMS IN BIOGENIC SUBSTRATES: EXAMPLES FROM QUÉBEC AND WYOMING

Leif M. Tapanila, Univ of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT and Robert E. Lamond, Univ of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

43533 (Technical Sessions)

9:15 AM

TEMPORAL AND GEOGRAPHIC BIAS IN THE SAMPLING OF NORTH AMERICAN GLYPTOCYSTITOID RHOMBIFERA (ECHINODERMATA)

Colin D. Sumrall, Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN and James Sprinkle, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX

37048 (Technical Sessions)

9:30 AM

METHODOLOGICAL BIASES IN SAMPLING PALYNOFLORAS: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE CRETACEOUS RADIATION OF FLOWERING PLANTS

Richard Lupia, Univ of Oklahoma, Norman, OK and Andrew Douglas, Unviersity of Mississippi, University, MS

44599 (Technical Sessions)

9:45 AM

SIEVES AND FOSSILS: EFFECTS OF MESH SIZE ON PALEONTOLOGICAL PATTERNS

Alan P. Hoffmeister, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA and Michal Kowalewski, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

39412 (Technical Sessions)

10:00 AM

INFLUENCE OF COLLECTION METHODS ON ASSESSMENTS OF PALEOCOMMUNITY ECOLOGY: A CASE STUDY FROM THE EARLY MIOCENE OF WYOMING

Samantha Sara Brittany Hopkins, Univ of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

41131 (Technical Sessions)

10:15 AM

THE EFFECTS OF FAUNAL PATCHINESS ON THE USE OF GRADIENT ANALYSIS FOR REGIONAL, HIGH-RESOLUTION CORRELATION IN THE TYPE CINCINNATIAN SERIES (UPPER ORDOVICIAN)

Andrew J. Webber, Univ of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

46505 (Technical Sessions)

10:30 AM

THE TAPHONOMY OF DIVERSITY: LIVE-DEAD COMPARISONS OF EVENNESS METRICS

Thomas D. Olszewski, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC and Susan M. Kidwell, Univ of Chicago, Chicago, IL

44768 (Technical Sessions)

10:45 AM

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TAPHONOMIC DAMAGE AND TAXONOMIC IDENTIFIABILITY: IMPLICATIONS FOR PALEOECOLOGIC ANALYSIS

Thomas A. Rothfus, Univ Chicago, Chicago, IL

45714 (Technical Sessions)

11:00 AM

LONG-TERM DECAY RATES IN ORGANISM REMAINS FROM 15 – 600M DEPTH: PROGRESS REPORT FROM 8-YEAR EXPERIMENTS OF THE SHELF & SLOPE EXPERIMENTAL TAPHONOMY INITIATIVE

Karla Parsons-Hubbard, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH and Eric N. Powell, Rutgers Univ, Port Norris, NJ and George M. Staff, Austin Community College, Austin, TX and W. Russell Callender, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Silver Spring, MD and Sally Walker, University of Georgia, Athens, GA and Carlton E. Brett, Univ of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH and Anne Raymond, Texas A&M Univ, College Station, TX

38872 (Technical Sessions)

11:15 AM

BONES ON THE BEACH: MARINE MAMMAL TAPHONOMY OF THE COLORADO RIVER DELTA, MEXICO

Pennie M. Liebig, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and Ta-Shana A. Taylor, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and Karl W. Flessa, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

37003 (Technical Sessions)

11:30 AM

SOFT-TISSUE PRESERVATION IN PROTASTERID OPHIUROIDS (ECHINODERMATA) FROM THE KOPE FORMATION (CINCINNATIAN, UPPER ORDOVICIAN) OF NORTH-WESTERN KENTUCKY AND THE HUNSRUECK SLATE (EMSIAN, LOWER DEVONIAN) OF GERMANY

Alexander Glass, Univ of Illinois, Urbana, IL and Daniel B. Blake, Univ of Illinois, Urbana, IL

43839 (Technical Sessions)

11:45 AM

COMPARATIVE DIAGENESIS OF CEPHALOPOD PHRAGMOCONES FROM THE FAYETTEVILLE AND IMO SHALES (UPPER MISSISSIPPIAN), NORTHERN ARKANSAS

Camille M. Hutchinson, Univ of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

44258 (Technical Sessions)

11 Paleontology/Paleobotany II: Paleoecology and Preservational Bias

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