T222 Topics in Paleoecology: Predation/Biotic Interactions, Fidelity/Conservation Paleobiology, and Community Ecology/Whole Organism Paleoecology I

Tuesday, 29 October 2013
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room 607

Presentations

• 8:00 AM
  MAMMAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURE OVER TIME AND SPACE
  Felisa Smith, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and S. Kathleen Lyons, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC and S.K. Morgan Ernest, Logan, UT
  232886 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:30 AM
  OUT OF AFRICA: PALEOCLIMATIC AND PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHIC IMPLICATIONS OF A PLEISTOCENE ASSEMBLAGE FROM ANGOLA, TROPICAL WEST AFRICA
  Jocelyn A. Sessa, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY and Pedro M. Callapez, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, N/A and Pedro A. Dinis, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, N/A and Austin J.W. Hendy, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL
  230700 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:45 AM
  THE GATUN FORMATION: A NATURAL LABORATORY FOR ANALYSIS OF NEOTROPICAL PALEOECOLOGIC AND DIVERSITY PATTERNS
  Austin J.W. Hendy, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL
  232512 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:00 AM
  GOOD TIMES AFTER AN IMPACT: BENTHIC COMMUNITIES FOLLOWING THE LATE DEVONIAN ALAMO IMPACT, SE NEVADA
  Leif Tapanila, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID and Benjamin E. Rendall, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID
  234003 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:15 AM
  BIODIVERSITY: STASIS, THE LOG SERIES AND GRADIENTS
  Martin A. Buzas, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC and Lee-Ann C. Hayek, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC and Stephen J. Culver, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC and Bruce W. Hayward, Auckland and Lisa E. Osterman, U.S. Geological Survey, St. Petersburg, FL
  223268 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:35 AM
  HOW TO FIND ORDER IN N-DIMENSIONS: TESTING THE PERFORMANCE OF ORDINATIONS AND DISTANCE MEASURES USING KNOWN ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENTS
  Amelinda E. Webb, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB and Cory M. Redman, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB and Chris L. Schneider, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB and Lindsey R. Leighton, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
  228073 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:05 AM
  FLUME STUDIES USING 1:1 SCALE MODELS TO DETERMINE FEEDING POSTURE AND MODE OF ATACHMENT IN LOWER AND BASAL MIDDLE CAMBRIAN GOGIIDS FROM GUIZHOU PROVINCE, CHINA
  Ronald Parsley, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA and Kyle Straub, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
  223569 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:20 AM
  BRACHING THE MOLD: BIOMECHANIC TESTS OF THE LIFE ORIENTATION OF A DORSIBICONVEX BRACHIOPOD
  Kristina Barclay, Cochrane, AB and Lindsey R. Leighton, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB and Chris L. Schneider, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
  227986 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:35 AM
  FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY OF PASSIVE SUSPENSION FEEDING IN COMPOSITA (BRACHIOPODA, ATHYRIDIDA)
  Ben M.J. Collins, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB and Darrin J. Molinaro, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB and Lindsey R. Leighton, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
  230401 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:50 AM
  REEF CORALS WITH EVIDENCE OF PHOTOSYMBIOSIS AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE UPPER TRIASSIC TENNENGEBIRGE CARBONATE PLATFORM (SALZBURG, AUSTRIA)
  Rowan C. Martindale, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA and Leopold Krystyn, University of Vienna, Vienna and Frank Corsetti, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA and David Bottjer, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  224156 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:05 AM
  TRACING THE SHIFT IN DOMINANCE FROM MICROBIAL TO METAZOAN FRAMEWORK-BUILDERS IN LOWER–MIDDLE ORDOVICIAN REEFS, WESTERN UTAH, USA
  Katherine N. Marenco, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
  232630 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:20 AM
  METHODS USED TO EXAMINE ENCRUSTATION: WHAT WORKS WHEN?
  Trisha A. Smrecak, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
  233261 (Technical Sessions)