T248 The Middle Paleozoic World

Tuesday, 3 November 2015
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room 337

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  SILURIAN-DEVONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL AND BIOTIC CHANGE RECAST IN A NEW TIME SCALE: EVIDENCE OF CHANGING VOLATILITY FROM THE APPALACHIAN BASIN
  Carlton E. Brett, Univ of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH and Patrick I. McLaughlin, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN and Gordon Baird, SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY and Poul Emsbo, Central Mineral and Environmental Resources Science Center, Denver, CO and James R. Thomka, University of Akron, Akron, OH and James Zambito, University of Wisconsin–Extension, Madison, WI
  270685 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:50 PM
  EVIDENCE FOR GLACIATION ACROSS THE SILURIAN-DEVONIAN BOUNDARY: INSIGHTS FROM OSMIUM AND CLUMPED ISOTOPES
  Adam David Sproson, Durham University, Durham and David Selby, University of Durham, Science Labs, Durham, N/A and Jindrich Hladil, CAS, Prague and Cedric M. John, Imperial College London, London, N/A and Ladislav Slavik, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague and James R. Ebert, SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta, NY and Wenjin Zhao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
  262047 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:05 PM
  RISING, FALLING, HIGHSTAND OR LOWSTAND: EUSTASY AT THE SILURIAN-DEVONIAN BOUNDARY
  James R. Ebert, SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta, NY
  262153 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:20 PM
  PAIRED SULFUR AND CARBON ISOTOPE STRATIGRAPHY FOR THE LATE LUDFORDIAN (SILURIAN) OF GOTLAND, SWEDEN: IMPLICATIONS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL, OCEANOGRAPHIC, AND BIOTIC CHANGE
  Seth Young, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL and Mats E. Eriksson, Lund University, Lund and Jeremy D. Owens, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
  265632 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:35 PM
  THE INFLUENCE OF CALEDONIDE OROGENESIS ON SILURIAN–DEVONIAN EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY IN ALASKA’S ALEXANDER TERRANE
  Constance M. Soja, Colgate Univ, Hamilton, NY and Brian White, Smith College, Northampton, MA and Anna I. Antoshkina, Institute of Geology, Syktyvkar
  260949 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:50 PM
  CRYPTOGAMIC GROUND COVERS AS MODERN ANALOGUES OF EARLY TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS: STRUCTURE, ORGANIC-MINERAL INTERACTIONS, AND BIOTIC WEATHERING AS CLUES TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF EARLY BIOTICALLY-INDUCED SOILS
  Ria L. Mitchell, The Natural History Museum, London and Paul Kenrick, The Natural History Museum, London
  263754 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:05 PM
  THE SILURIAN NEKTON REVOLUTION: PALEOZOIC JAWLESS FISHES EXHIBITED MODERN FORM-DEPENDENT MODES OF HABITAT USE
  Lauren Sallan, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA and Matt Friedman, University of Oxford, Oxford and Robert Sansom, University of Manchester, Manchester and Ivan J. Sansom, University of Birmingham, Birmingham
  266746 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:20 PM
  INTEGRATED AND FINELY-RESOLVED TIMELINES OF MID-PALEOZOIC BIOTIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE IN THE PELAGIC REALM: OPPORTUNITIES AND OBSTACLES
  Peter Sadler, University of California, Riverside, CA
  259784 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:40 PM
  DIVERSIFICATION OF AMMONOIDS AND VERTEBRATES DURING THE DEVONIAN NEKTON REVOLUTION
  Christopher Whalen, Yale University, New Haven, CT and Derek E.G. Briggs, Yale University, New Haven, CT
  262425 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:55 PM
  FROM SIMPLE MOUNDS TO COMPLEX REEFS: REGIONAL TRENDS IN REEF FACIES DEVELOPMENT FROM THE ORDOVICIAN THROUGH DEVONIAN
  Peter W. Tierney, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  265946 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:10 PM
  WATER TRANSPORT AND BIOGEOGRAPHY OF THE LATE DEVONIAN TREE, ARCHAEOPTERIS (CALLIXYLON)
  Jonathan P. Wilson, Haverford College, Haverford, PA and Brigitte Meyer-Berthaud, UMR AMAP, Montpellier
  260209 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:25 PM
  ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS AMIDST THE FRASNIAN-FAMMENIAN BIOTIC CRISIS: CLUES FROM NITROGEN ISOTOPES AND CHLOROPHYLL DERIVATIVES
  Benjamin Thornton Iglar Uveges, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY and Christopher Junium, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY and Phoebe Cohen, Williams College, Williamstown, MA and Diana L. Boyer, SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY
  268510 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:40 PM
  KELLWASSER EXTINCTION RECORDS FROM DEEP CARBONATE RAMP AND SHALLOW PLATFORM SETTINGS IN CENTRAL NORTH AMERICA
  Jed Day, Illinois State University, Normal, IL and Brian Witzke, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA and James Preslicka, Mid America Paleontology Society, Iowa City, IA
  270680 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:55 PM
  187RE - 187OS NUCLEAR GEOCHRONOMETRY: DATING RADIOACTIVE DEVONIAN BLACK GAS SHALES (USGS SDO-1)
  Goetz Roller, Munich
  257483 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:10 PM
  WHAT’S A FEW CM’S BETWEEN FRIENDS? PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHIC DIACHRONEITY AND THE GSSP CONCEPT AT THE DEVONIAN-CARBONIFEROUS BOUNDARY
  Bradley Cramer, University of Iowa Dept of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Iowa City, IA
  268326 (Technical Sessions)