T16 Terrestrial Paleobiology of South America, Cretaceous through Neogene

Sunday, 2 November 2003
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Presentations

• 8:05 AM
  EARLY CRETACEOUS TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS FROM PATAGONIA: THE BAQUERO GROUP, A CASE STUDY
  Nestor Ruben Cuneo, MEF, Trelew, N/A
  61614 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:25 AM
  MAASTRICHTIAN TO EARLY MIOCENE PATTERNS OF PLANT DIVERSIFICATION IN THE NEOTROPICS
  Carlos A. Jaramillo, Colombian Petroleum Institute, Bucaramanga, N/A
  60083 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:45 AM
  CENOZOIC ANDEAN GEOCHRONOLOGY, PALEOENVIRONMENTS AND TECTONIC HISTORY: EVIDENCE FROM SOUTH AMERICAN FOSSIL MAMMALS
  John J. Flynn, Field Museum Nat History, Chicago, IL
  61671 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:05 AM
  MODERNIZATION OF SOUTH AMERICAN FRESHWATER FISHES AND THEIR HABITATS
  John G. Lundberg, The Academy of Nat Sciences, Philadelphia, PA
  60805 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:40 AM
  THE MESOZOIC MAMMALIAN RECORD IN SOUTH AMERICA: A REAPPRAISAL
  Guillermo W. Rougier, Univ of Louisville, Louisville, KY and Agustín G. Martinelli, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Buenos Aires, N/A and Analía M. Forasiepi, Univ of Louisville, Louisville, KY
  65913 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:55 AM
  FLORA OF THE LA COLONIA FORMATION (MAASTRICHTIAN, LATE CRETACEOUS), CHUBUT, PATAGONIA, ARGENTINA
  Maria A. Gandolfo, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY and N. Ruben Cuneo, Museo Egidio Feruglio, Trelew, Chubut, N/A
  65663 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:10 AM
  EXTREMELY DIVERSE FOSSIL FLORAS FROM THE PALEOGENE OF PATAGONIA, ARGENTINA: IMPLICATIONS FOR ORIGINS OF HIGH PLANT AND INSECT DIVERSITY IN SOUTH AMERICA
  Peter Wilf, Pennsylvania State Univ, University Park, PA and Kirk R. Johnson, Denver Museum of Nature & Sci, Denver, CO and N. Ruben Cuneo, MEF, Trelew and Conrad C. Labandeira, National Museum of Nat History, Washington, DC and Maria A. Gandolfo, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
  66541 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:25 AM
  TERTIARY CLIMATE AND VEGETATION OF SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA
  Luis Felipe Hinojosa O, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, N/A and Kathryn Gregory-Wodzicki, Vancouver, BC
  67707 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:40 AM
  INVESTIGATION AND CONSERVATION OF THE EOCENE PIEDRA CHAMANA PETRIFIED FOREST, PERU
  Deborah Woodcock, Clark Univ, Worcester, MA and Herbert W. Meyer, Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Florissant, CO
  57958 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:55 AM
  BLOWING IN THE WIND: ABIOTIC DISPERSAL, ECOLOGY, AND PHYLOGENY IN SOUTH AMERICAN TERTIARY FLORAS
  Robyn J. Burnham, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  62786 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:10 AM
  WHEN INVASION AND RADIATION DO NOT COINCIDE: FRESHWATER CORBULID BIVALVES FROM THE NEOGENE OF WESTERN AMAZONIA AND THE PALEOCENE OF NORTH DAKOTA
  Laurie C. Anderson, Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA and Joseph H. Hartman, Univ of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
  65750 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:25 AM
  PATTERNS OF MAMMALIAN COMMUNITY EVOLUTION IN SOUTH AMERICA AND AFRICA DURING THE LATE NEOGENE IN RELATION TO CLIMATIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  Rene Bobe, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC and Edgardo Ortiz Jaureguizar, Museo Paleontologico "Egidio Feruglio", Trelew, N/A and Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Smithsonian Inst, Washington, DC
  59810 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:40 AM
  QUATERNARY KARST GEOMORPHOLOGY AND MAMMALIAN PALEOBIOLOGY IN SEMIARID NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL
  Augusto S. Auler, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, N/A and Castor Cartelle, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, N/A and Walter Hartwig, Touro Univ College of Osteopathic Medicine, Vallejo, CA and Peter Smart, Univ of Bristol, Bristol, N/A
  61941 (Technical Sessions)