T131 Studies in Paleobiology and Paleoecology II: In Honor of Professor David J. Bottjer

Monday, 23 October 2017
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room 607

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  FAST RADIATION OF EARLY TRIASSIC MARINE REPTILES IN THE WAKE OF THE END-PERMIAN EXTINCTION
  Da-yong Jiang, Peking University, Beijing and Ryosuke Motani, University of California, Davis, CA and Andrea Tintori, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano and Zuoyu Sun, Peking University, Beijing and Wan-lu Fu, Tianjin University of Commerce, Tianjin and Min Zhou, Peking University, Beijing and Hao LU, Peking University, Beijing
  294667 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:45 PM
  THE INTERACTION OF RECOVERY AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS: AN ANALYSIS OF THE OUTER SHELF EDGE OF WESTERN NORTH AMERICA DURING THE EARLY TRIASSIC
  Adam Woods, California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, CA and Paul D. Alms, California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, CA and Pedro M. Monarrez, University of Georgia, Athens, GA and Scott Mata, California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, CA
  298636 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:00 PM
  I CAN’T QUIT YOU, DAVE: NEW TAPHONOMIC INSIGHTS FROM THE LOWER TRIASSIC VIRGIN LIMESTONE FORMATION, WESTERN UNITED STATES
  Sara Pruss, Smith College, Northampton, MA and Sophie Westacott, New Haven, CT and Courcelle Stark, Smith College, Northampton, MA and Nicholas Tosca, University of Oxford, Oxford
  303012 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  DRILLING AND CRUSHING PREDATION OF BENTHIC INVERTEBRATES DURING THE LATE TRIASSIC IN TETHYS
  Lydia Tackett, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND and Andrea Tintori, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano
  306677 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:30 PM
  AMMONITES WERE SUCCESSFUL SLACKERS AFTER THE TRIASSIC/JURASSIC MASS EXTINCTION
  Kathleen Ritterbush, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT and Nicholas Hebdon, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT and Olivia Jenkins, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
  308438 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:45 PM
  OCCURRENCE AND PALEOENVIRONMENTAL SIGNIFICANCE OF EARLY JURASSIC (PLIENSBACHIAN-TOARCIAN) LITHIOTID-CORAL REEFAL DEPOSITS FROM THE HIGH ATLAS OF MOROCCO
  Hannah-Maria Brame, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX and Nicholas P. Ettinger, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX and Stéphane Bodin, Aarhus University, Aarhus and Jan Danische, Aarhus University, Aarhus and Lahcen Kabiri, University of Moulay Ismail, Boutalamine-Errachidia and Rowan Martindale, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
  301506 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:15 PM
  BIOTURBATORS AND THE MID-MESOZOIC DECLINE OF BRACHIOPODS
  Matthew Clapham, University of California, Santa Cruz and Marko Manojlovic, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
  297970 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:30 PM
  EVIDENCE THAT THE ARMS OF TYRANNOSAURUS REX WERE NOT FUNCTIONLESS BUT ADAPTED FOR VICIOUS SLASHING
  Steven Stanley, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
  297346 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:45 PM
  CRETACEOUS CARBONATE SEQUENCES IN THE CENTRAL IGNEOUS PROVINCE OF PUERTO RICO: FURTHERING AN UNDERSTANDING OF EVOLUTIONARY PALEOECOLOGY IN THE TROPICS
  Claudia Johnson, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN and Erika R. Elswick, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN and Allicia Davis, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
  301748 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:00 PM
  PALEOECOLOGY AND BIOTIC CONTROLS OF MIXED CARBONATE-SILICICLASTIC SEDIMENTS: A CASE STUDY FROM THE ECHINOID DOMINATED MIOCENE BUTTON BEDS OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
  James H. Nebelsick, Department of Geosciences, Tübingen and Jeffrey R. Thompson, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  305172 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:15 PM
  BIOEROSION OF A BEDROCK STREAM BED BY MODERN CHIRONOMID AND TRICHOPTERAN LARVAE (CONECUH RIVER, ALABAMA): ICHNOTAXONOMIC, ICHNOFACIES, AND GEOMORPHOLOGIC IMPLICATIONS
  Charles Savrda, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
  297846 (Technical Sessions)