186 New Approaches to Old Fossil Collections (Posters)

Material collected during the early history of paleontology conserves deep time ecosystems and remains available for study. We invite presentations of new analyses and interpretations of well-studied collections in the context of the broader history of the discipline.

Tuesday, 21 October 2025
8:00 AM - 5:30 PM
HBGCC, Hall 1

Participants

• Chair William Matthaeus
• Chair Bryton Smith
• Chair Ingrid Carolina Romero
• Chair Jonathan P. Wilson
• Chair Scott L. Wing

Presentations

• 8:00 AM
  It’s (Auto)Morphin’ Time: Comparing Manual and Digital Morphological Data Collection
  Carmi Milagros Thompson, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH and Chloe Smith, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH and Morgan Leeson, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH and Cole Clatterbuck, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH and Jill Leonard-Pingel, The Ohio State University Newark, Newark, OH
  412141 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:00 AM
  Paleoclimate reconstruction and floral response during and after the Miocene Climatic Optimum 16 million years ago: an analogue to future climate warming
  Kate Morrison, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho and Renee Love, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho
  412199 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:00 AM
  Ecophysiological Traits of Late Mesozoic Cycadeoids
  Wray Jones, Baylor University, Waco, TX and Jonathan Wilson, Haverford College, Haverford, PA and William Matthaeus, Trinity College Dublin, Discipline of Botany, Dublin and Joseph White, Baylor University, Waco, TX and Rebecca Hametz-Berner, Haverford College, Haverford, PA and Wyatt Mattison, Haverford College, Haverford, PA and Daniel Peppe, Baylor University, Waco, TX
  412257 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:00 AM
  An Investigation of Tropical Angiosperm Genome Sizes from the Albian-Cenomanian Une Formation of Colombia
  Bryton Smith, University of Chicago, Chicago and Xiaoqing Zhang, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut and Gongle Shi, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Nanjing and Carlos Jaramillo, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City and Mónica Carvalho, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Fabiany Herrera, Field Museum, Chicago
  412889 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:00 AM
  Comparing historic plant fossil collections from Rush Creek at the Working Men’s Institute to specimens collected from the Bond Formation (Upper Pennsylvanian, Missourian) at the Old Dam Site, New Harmony, Posey County, Indiana
  Taryn Joest, University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, IN and William Elliott, University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, IN
  413724 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:00 AM
  First reported Mio-Pliocene Mammut matthewi from Louisiana
  Connor White, Baylor University, Waco, TX
  413841 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:00 AM
  Examining the Functional Morphology of a Soft-Bodied Hydrozoan, *Plumalina* Hall, 1858, from the Northern Appalachian Basin Using Computational Fluid Dynamics
  Martin Fernandez, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL and Scott Evans, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY
  414388 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:00 AM
  Ninety-Five Years of Research into Pre-Carboniferous Foraminifera of the Western Hemisphere
  Christopher McCauley, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX
  414584 (Technical Sessions)