T138 Topics in Paleoecology: Modern Analogues and Ancient Systems II

Monday, 26 September 2016
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Mile High Ballroom 4AB

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  HISTORICAL ECOLOGY OF THE SILVER RIVER, FLORIDA: COMPARATIVE ANALYSES OF LIVING, DEAD, AND FOSSIL MOLLUSKS FROM FRESHWATER HABITATS
  Kristopher M. Kusnerik, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL and Kristopher M. Kusnerik, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL and Harley Means, Tallahassee, FL and Roger W. Portell, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL and Michal Kowalewski, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
  280434 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:45 PM
  IDENTIFYING TERRESTRIAL CONTROLS ON SPATIAL VARIATION IN MOLLUSCAN DEATH ASSEMBLAGES, ST. CROIX, USVI
  Kelsey M. Feser, Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, IA and Arnold I. Miller, Univ of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH and Jeanette C. Arkle, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
  287058 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:00 PM
  AMBI AND BENTIX CAN BE APPLIED TO MOLLUSCAN DEATH ASSEMBLAGES TO GUIDE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT DECISIONS
  Gregory P. Dietl, Paleontological Research Institution, Ithaca, NY and Gregory P. Dietl, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY and Stephen R. Durham, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY and Jansen Smith, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY and Annalee Tweitmann, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
  284937 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  QUANTIFYING THE FIDELITY OF THE FOSSIL RECORD ACROSS MULTIPLE HIGHER TAXA IN NEARSHORE MARINE MACRO-INVERTEBRATE ASSEMBLAGES (NORTH CAROLINA USA)
  Carrie Tyler, Miami University, Oxford, OH and Michal Kowalewski, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
  284620 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:30 PM
  MORPHOLOGIC DIVERGENCE BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH ASSEMBLAGES OF STEWARTIA FLORIDANA (BIVALVIA, LUCINIDAE) FROM PINE ISLAND, FLORIDA
  Brooke L. Long, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD and Laurie Anderson, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD
  282391 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:45 PM
  REVISITING GROWTH INCREMENT COUNTING AS A METHOD FOR BIOLOGICALLY AGING CRASSOSTREA VIRGINICA FROM THE U.S. MID-ATLANTIC
  Joshua B. Zimmt, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA and R. Lockwood, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA and Fred Andrus, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL and Gregory S. Herbert, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
  279934 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:00 PM
  TEMPORAL CHANGES IN BODY SIZE: AN EXAMINATION OF SYNOPTIC AND SPECIMEN DATA, BIOGEOGRAPHIC, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND TAPHONOMIC CONTROLS
  Austin J.W. Hendy, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA
  288026 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:15 PM
  COUPLING ENERGY USE, BODY SIZE, AND DIVERSITY DURING THE PLIO-PLEISTOCENE EXTINCTION EVENT
  L. Felipe Opazo, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL and Michal Kowalewski, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL and Roger W. Portell, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL and Jennifer L. Sliko, Penn State Harrisburg, Middletown, PA and Shirley Baker, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL and Kenneth W. Black, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL and Pablo A. Marquet, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago
  286815 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:40 PM
  CORAL REEFS IN CRISIS: THE RELIABILITY OF DEEP-TIME FOOD WEB RECONSTRUCTIONS AS ANALOGS FOR THE PRESENT
  Ashley A. Dineen, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA and Peter D. Roopnarine, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA
  286353 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:55 PM
  FROM SIMPLE MOUNDS TO COMPLEX REEFS: ASSESSING THE ROLES OF SIZE, RELIEF, AND BUILDER MORPHOLOGY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF HABITAT HETEROGENEITY IN ORDOVICIAN THROUGH DEVONIAN REEFS OF LAURENTIA
  Peter W. Tierney, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  284040 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:10 PM
  PALEOECOLOGY AND STRATIGRAPHY OF AN UPPER ORDOVICIAN (KATIAN) HARDGROUND
  Timothy Paton, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH and Carlton E. Brett, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH and Dylan Ward, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
  284443 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:25 PM
  TIERING AND ENCRUSTATION IN THE MODERN ROCKY INTERTIDAL – EFFECT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PALEO-COMMUNITIES
  Amelinda E. Webb, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
  286243 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:40 PM
  SUBSTRATE PREFERENCE AND MID-MESOZOIC BRACHIOPOD DECLINE
  Marko Manojlovic, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA and Matthew Clapham, University of California, Santa Cruz
  287971 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:55 PM
  QUANTIFYING LONG LOOP VARIABILITY IN RECENT TEREBRATULIDE BRACHIOPODS AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR SPECIES DELIMITATION IN THE FOSSIL RECORD
  Natalia Lopez-Carranza, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA and Holly A. Schreiber, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA and Peter Roopnarine, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA and Sandra Carlson, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA
  284535 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:15 PM
  THE SIGNIFICANCE OF INTERNAL SUPPORTS AND PLATE INTERLOCKS FOR THE TEST INTEGRITY AND THE PRESERVATION POTENTIAL OF CLYPEASTEROID ECHINOIDS
  Tobias B. Grun, Department of Geosciences, Tübingen and James H. Nebelsick, Department of Geosciences, Tübingen
  280102 (Technical Sessions)