12 Advances in ichnology: walking in Memphis and other records of behavior (Posters)

This session will feature research in all aspects of organism-substrate interactions, including paleoichnology and neoichnology.  We welcome submissions including, but not limited to, ichnotaxonomy, applications to resolving sedimentological and stratigraphic problems, and tracemaking experiments.

Monday, 9 March 2026
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
RCC, Lower Level Hall

Participants

• Chair Brian Platt
• Chair Jon Smith

Presentations

• 9:00 AM
  An Investigation of Enamel Degradation in Teeth of the Homestead Site Microvertebrate Assemblage of the Garita Creek Formation (Late Triassic: Norian) New Mexico
  James Bartlinski, Appalachian State Univ, Belk Library, Fayetteville, NC and Andrew Heckert, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC and Bruce Lauer, Lauer Foundation of Paleontology, Science, & Education, Wheaton, IL and Rene Lauer, Lauer Foundation of Paleontology, Science, & Education, Wheaton, IL
  411637 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:00 AM
  Comparison of Drillhole Frequencies between Small and Large Size Fractions in Mollusks from the Miocene St. Marys Formation, Maryland
  Haley Haulk, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC and Alexis Gay, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC and Emily Stafford, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC and Frank Forcino, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC
  411786 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:00 AM
  Trampled Ground in an Exceptional Tracksite, Lower Cretaceous Glen Rose Formation, Texas: Implications for Dinosaur Behavior and Paleoenvironment
  Joshua Colasante, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Jeffrey Pittman, Ouachita Mountains Biological Station, Mena, AR and Stephen Hasiotis, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
  411901 (Technical Sessions)