T164 Cenozoic Evolution of Tropical Biota and Environments I: A Session Honoring the Contributions of Ann F. Budd

Monday, 2 November 2015
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room 310

Presentations

• 1:45 PM
  CHRONICLES OF SCLERACTINIAN CORAL FAMILIES: PHYLOGENETIC SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SKELETAL THICKENING DEPOSITS
  Jaroslaw Stolarski, Warsaw, N/A
  268495 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:00 PM
  FROM COSTAE TO COI AND SPECIES TO TREES: PROGRESS AND CHALLENGES
  Nancy Knowlton, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC
  268916 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  HISTOLOGICAL DATA IN A COMBINED PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF SCLERACTINIAN REEF CORALS
  David R. Cordie, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI and Ann F. Budd, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
  263889 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:30 PM
  MORPHOLOGICAL DATA PARTITIONS POSSESS DIFFERENT LEVELS OF PHYLOGENETIC SIGNAL FOR THE EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS OF THE REEF CORAL FAMILIES MERULINIDAE, MONTASTRAEIDAE, DIPLOASTRAEIDAE, AND MUSSIDAE (CNIDARIA: ANTHOZOA: SCLERACTINIA)
  Rachel Racicot, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA and Ann F. Budd, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA and Danwei Huang, National University of Singapore, Singapore and Nathan D. Smith, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA
  266658 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:45 PM
  VARIATION AND PLASTICITY IN SCLERACTINIAN MICROMORPHOLOGY
  Matthew Tibbits, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Iowa City, IA
  267675 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:00 PM
  EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF CENOZOIC NEOTROPICAL TURTLES AND NEW FOSSILS FROM THE EARLY TO MIDDLE MIOCENE, CASTILLETES FORMATION OF COLOMBIA
  Edwin Cadena, Yachay Tech, San Miguel de Urcuqui
  262507 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:15 PM
  CENOZOIC INTER-TIDAL, SUPRA-TIDAL, AND FRESHWATER CRABS FROM TROPICAL AMERICA
  Javier Luque, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB and Austin J.W. Hendy, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA and Michael Rosenberg, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ and Roger W. Portell, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL and A. Richard Palmer, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
  270547 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:45 PM
  EXAMINING BEHAVIOR AND LEVELS OF ARBOREALITY IN EXTINCT SLOTHS THROUGH SCAPULA MORPHOLOGY
  Andy Grass, Marshall University J.C.E. School of Medicine, Huntington, WV
  265507 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:00 PM
  HYPERDIVERSITY IN MOLLUSCS AND PALAEOBIOTIC ANALYSES: WHAT ARE ‘SPECIES’ AND ARE THEY USEFUL?
  Jonathan A. Todd, The Natural History Museum, London
  268492 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:15 PM
  MULTIPLE FORMS OF HETEROCHRONY RESULT IN RAPID GROWTH AND VERMIFORM MORPHOLOGY IN VERMICULARIA (TURRITELLIDAE)
  Brendan Matthew Anderson, Paleontological Research Institution, Ithaca, NY and Brendan Matthew Anderson, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY and Warren D. Allmon, Paleontological Research Institution, Ithaca, NY
  264918 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  ANTECEDENTS OF THE MODERN TROPICAL AMERICAN CONE SNAIL FAUNA: PHYLOGENETIC DIVERSITY AND BIOGEOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF LATE MIOCENE TO PLIO-PLEISTOCENE CONIDAE IN THE CONTEXT OF MAJOR REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  Jonathan R. Hendricks, San José State University, San José, CA
  262181 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:45 PM
  IS THE TROPICAL ATLANTIC AN EVOLUTIONARY HOTSPOT FOR CORAL EVOLUTION? TIMING AND DIVERSIFICATION OF THE CORAL SUBFAMILIES MUSSINAE AND FAVIINAE IN THE TROPICAL ATLANTIC
  David B. Carlon, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME and Ann F. Budd, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
  266899 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:00 PM
  REVISITING THE GATUNCILLO FORMATION: EOCENE BRAIN CORALS AND THE ORIGIN OF THE RECENT CARIBBEAN CLADE MUSSIDAE
  Ann F. Budd, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA and Thomas Stemann, The University of the West Indies, Kingston
  266003 (Technical Sessions)