Geological Society of America

8:00 AM

STRATIGRAPHY OF THE EDIACARAN AND BASAL CAMBRIAN OF THE DIGERMULEN PENINSULA, NORTHERN NORWAY

Jan Ove R. Ebbestad, Uppsala University, Uppsala and Anette E.S. Högström, UiT, the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø and Guido Meinhold, Keele University, Keele and Sören Jensen, Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz and Teodoro Palacios, Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz, N/A and Magne Høyberget, Mandal and Wendy L. Taylor, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch and Linn Novis, UiT, the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø and Zhiji Ou, UiT, the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø

269464 (Technical Sessions)

8:15 AM

10 M.Y. EVOLUTIONARY STASIS OF EARLIEST CAMBRIAN (TERRENEUVIAN) MOLLUSK-RICH FAUNAS AND CAMBRIAN EVOLUTIONARY RADIATION CORRELATIONS

Ed Landing, New York State Museum, Albany, NY and Artem Kouchinsky, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, N/A and Stephen R. Westrop, Univ of Oklahoma, Norman, OK and Gerd Geyer, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg and Samuel A. Bowring, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

262706 (Technical Sessions)

8:30 AM

SMALL SHELLY FOSSILS FROM THE DYERAN-DELAMARAN (“LOWER”-“MIDDLE” CAMBRIAN) BOUNDARY INTERVAL OF THE PIOCHE-CALIENTE REGION, NEVADA, USA

John L. Moore, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA and Susannah Porter, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA and Mark Webster, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL and Adam Maloof, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

266371 (Technical Sessions)

8:45 AM

APPLYING BAYESIAN AND MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD METHODS TO CENTURY-OLD HYPOTHESES: THE LATE ORDOVICIAN RICHMONDIAN INVASION

Adriane R. Lam, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA and Alycia Stigall, Ohio University, Athens, OH

262851 (Technical Sessions)

9:00 AM

ORDOVICIAN SMALL SHELLY FAUNA FROM THE ELGIN MEMBER OF THE MAQUOKETA: ECOLOGICALLY DWARFED OR TAPHONOMICALLY BIASED?

Jessie L. Reeder, Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW), Fort Wayne, IN and Benjamin F. Dattilo, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne, IN and Rebecca L. Freeman, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY and Anne Argast, Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, IN and Winifried S. Peters, Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, IN

265431 (Technical Sessions)

9:15 AM

BIOGEOGRAPHY OF THE JURASSIC SUNDANCE SEAWAY OF WESTERN NORTH AMERICA: A TEST OF THE SINGLE NORTHERN ENTRANCE

Kristopher M. Kusnerik, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL and Steven M. Holland, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

260596 (Technical Sessions)

9:30 AM

CRETACEOUS TERRESTRIAL BIOTA AND LAKE ENVIRONMENT IN NE CHINA

Xiaoqiao Wan, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing and Dangpeng Xi, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing and Tian Jiang, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing and Wei Li, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing

262036 (Technical Sessions)

10:00 AM

LATITUDINAL CORRELATION OF TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS ACROSS THE WESTERN INTERIOR BASIN DURING THE ZENITH OF DINOSAUR DIVERSITY: HIGH-PRECISION U-PB ZIRCON GEOCHRONOLOGY FROM THE CAMPANIAN OF NORTH AMERICA

Jahandar Ramezani, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA and Eric M. Roberts, James Cook University, Townsville and David A. Eberth, Drumheller, AB and Raymond Rogers, Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN and Samuel A. Bowring, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

270335 (Technical Sessions)

10:15 AM

UPPER CRETACEOUS DAKOTA FORMATION CONTINENTAL MOLLUSKS – RESURRECTION OF WESTERN INTERIOR SEAWAY EASTERN SEABOARD OCCURRENCES

Joseph H. Hartman, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND

264359 (Technical Sessions)

10:30 AM

DIGITIZING ANCIENT SEAS TO ADVANCE STUDENT RESEARCH AND PUBLIC OUTREACH THROUGH THE SD MINES MUSEUM OF GEOLOGY

Laurie Anderson, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD and Darrin Pagnac, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD and Christina Belanger, South Dakota School Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD and Sally Shelton, South Dakota School of Mines and Techonology, Rapid City, SD and Maribeth Price, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD

266274 (Technical Sessions)

10:45 AM

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHIC DATA FROM PATAGONIA AND ANTARCTICA ADDS PRECISION TO FAUNAL TIME FRAMES, BUT CREATES UNCERTAINTY AS TO THE ORIGIN OF THE EOCENE ANTARCTIC LAND MAMMAL FAUNA

Judd A. Case, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA

263440 (Technical Sessions)

11:00 AM

PRESENTATION: LATE MIOCENE AND PLIOCENE HOMININ BIOGEOGRAPHY: COMPARATIVE ANALYSES OF EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICAN FAUNA

Amy L. Rector, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA and Christopher Campisano, Arizona State UniversityInstitute of Human Origins, Tempe, AZ and Kelsey D. O'Neill, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

267334 (Technical Sessions)

11:15 AM

CYCLE-CALIBRATED MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY OF MIDDLE CARNIAN FROM SOUTH CHINA: IMPLICATIONS FOR LATE TRIASSIC TIME SCALE AND TERMINATION OF THE YANGTZE PLATFORM

Yang Wendy Zhang, Purdue Univ, West Lafayette, IN and Mingsong Li, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD and James Ogg, Purdue Univ, West Lafayette, IN and Paul Montgomery, Chevron Energy Technology Company, Houston, TX and Chunju Huang, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, Hebei and Zhong Qiang Chen, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan and Zhiqiang Shi, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, Sichuan and Paul Enos, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Dan Lehrmann, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX

263398 (Technical Sessions)

11:30 AM

LEAF AREA INDEX, MAMMALIAN SPECIES RICHNESS AND MAMMALIAN COMMUNITY STRUCTURE IN SOUTH AMERICA TODAY AND IN THE MIDDLE CENOZOIC

Regan E. Dunn, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY and Richard Madden, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

270439 (Technical Sessions)

3 Paleontology: Ancient Life in Deep Time: Temporal and Geographic Trends in Fossil Distributions

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