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Activity

2025

• LIFE AT THE LIMITS: NEW DATA FROM SOUTHWESTERN MONGOLIA SHED LIGHT ON THE ROLE OF REDOX IN THE EARLY DIVERSIFICATION OF ANIMALS IN THE CAMBRIAN
  21 Co-evolution of Life and its Environment: From Biodiversification Events to Mass Extinction and Everything in Between
  Thursday, 20 March 2025

  1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

  Appalachian B
• TERMINAL EDIACARAN MICROFOSSILS FROM THE UPPER HUQF SUPERGROUP IN OMAN
  7 Undergraduate Research I (Posters)
  Thursday, 20 March 2025

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Shenandoah ABC
• THE FIRST DISASTER TAXA: VENDOTAENIDS AND THE EDIACARAN EXTINCTION
  21 Co-evolution of Life and its Environment: From Biodiversification Events to Mass Extinction and Everything in Between
  Thursday, 20 March 2025

  1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

  Appalachian B

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2024

• PALEOREDOX OF THE MALL BAY FORMATION (EARLY EDIACARAN, CANADA): EVIDENCE FOR OXYGENATION DURING THE PROTRACTED ONSET OF THE GASKIERS GLACIATION?
  T81 Dynamic Environments Across the Ediacaran-Cambrian Boundary and the Rise of Early Animals
  Monday, 23 September 2024

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  208A
• EXTENSIVE COMPLEX, BED-PENETRATIVE TRACE FOSSILS IN THE EDIACARAN OF SOUTHWEST MONGOLIA
  T81 Dynamic Environments Across the Ediacaran-Cambrian Boundary and the Rise of Early Animals
  Monday, 23 September 2024

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  208A
• THE FIRST DISASTER TAXA: VENDOTAENIDS AND THE EDIACARAN EXTINCTION
  T103 Dynamic Environments Across the Ediacaran-Cambrian Boundary and the Rise of Early Animals (Posters)
  Monday, 23 September 2024

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Hall D
• SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS OF EDIACARAN COMPLEX TRACE FOSSILS LAMONTE TREVALLIS
  T81 Dynamic Environments Across the Ediacaran-Cambrian Boundary and the Rise of Early Animals
  Monday, 23 September 2024

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  208A
• SILICON ISOTOPE ANALYSES OF EARLY PALEOZOIC SILICEOUS MICROFOSSILS INDICATE THAT SPONGES TRANSFORMED THE MARINE SILICA CYCLE DURING THE CAMBRIAN
  T81 Dynamic Environments Across the Ediacaran-Cambrian Boundary and the Rise of Early Animals
  Monday, 23 September 2024

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  208A
• MERCURY CONTENT AND STABLE ISOTOPE COMPOSITION FROM EDIACARAN DOUSHANTUO FORMATION BLACK SHALES SUGGEST DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS INCLUDING PHOTIC ZONE EUXINIA AND DYNAMIC MERCURY SOURCES
  T3 Advances in Nontraditional Stable Isotope Measurements and Utility as Proxies in Modern and Paleo-Settings
  Sunday, 22 September 2024

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  207A
• INTENSE CONTINENTAL CHEMICAL WEATHERING DURING THE EDIACARAN SHURAM EXCURSION
  T3 Advances in Nontraditional Stable Isotope Measurements and Utility as Proxies in Modern and Paleo-Settings
  Sunday, 22 September 2024

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  207A
• THE SHURAM EXCURSION: NOVEL ISOTOPIC AND BIOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS ON AN ENDURING EDIACARAN ENIGMA
  T56 New Advances in Geobiology
  Sunday, 22 September 2024

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  208A

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2023

• FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTION (‘FSI’) ANALYSIS OF THE EARLIEST BIOMINERALIZING ANIMALS
  T148 Recent Advancements in Understanding of Ediacaran Multicellular Life and Related Insights into Paleobiology and Phylogeny
  Tuesday, 17 October 2023

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  304 / 305
• SEQUENTIAL SULFUR EXTRACTION AND ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS OF EARLY EDIACARAN PHOSPHORITE FROM THE DOUSHANTUO FORMATION AT WENG'AN, SOUTH CHINA
  T134 New Advances in Geobiology
  Monday, 16 October 2023

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  325
• EDIACARAN ULTRA-WEAK GEOMAGNETIC FIELD, OXYGEN RISE AND MACROSCOPIC ANIMAL DIVERSIFICATION
  T125 Temperature, Oxygen, and Their Synergistic Effects on Animal Ecosystems
  Monday, 16 October 2023

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  303
• MACHINE LEARNING ANALYSIS OF TRACE ELEMENT DATA DISTINGUISHES SEDIMENTARY AND HYDROTHERMAL PYRITE
  T89 Mineral Informatics and the Evolution of Earth, Planets, and Life: In Honor of MSA Awardee, Shaunna M. Morrison
  Monday, 16 October 2023

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  315 / 316
• WAS EARTH’S OLDEST MINERAL COLLECTOR A CNIDARIAN? MORPHOLOGICAL, MINERALOGICAL, AND MICROSTRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF SALTERELLA
  T9 The Early Paleozoic I: Radiations, Extinctions, and Environment
  Sunday, 15 October 2023

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  304 / 305
• EVIDENCE FOR VARIABLE MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS FROM MERCURY CONTENT AND STABLE ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION OF THE EDIACARAN DOUSHANTUO FORMATION BLACK SHALES, SOUTH CHINA
  T36 Advances in Non-Traditional Stable Isotope Measurements and Utility as Proxies in Modern and Paleo-Settings (Posters)
  Sunday, 15 October 2023

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Hall B

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2022

• PRIAPULIDS AND THE CAMBRIAN SUBSTRATE REVOLUTION
  68 D21. Laying the Foundation for the Modern Earth System at the Neoproterozoic-Paleozoic Transition
  Monday, 10 October 2022

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Mile High Ballroom 4C
• TREATISE OF INVERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY: A VOLUME DEDICATED TO PROKARYOTES
  104 D22. Paleontology: Recent Developments in Phylogeny, Morphological Patterns, and Biogeography
  Monday, 10 October 2022

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Mile High Ballroom 4C
• EDIACARAN SHURAM EXCURSION INTERPRETED, REINTERPRETED, AND MISINTERPRETED
  68 D21. Laying the Foundation for the Modern Earth System at the Neoproterozoic-Paleozoic Transition
  Monday, 10 October 2022

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Mile High Ballroom 4C
• USING C AND O ISOTOPES TO CONSTRAIN THE SOURCES OF CARBONATE CLASTS IN A CRYOGENIAN GLACIAL DIAMICTITE
  T26 Comings and Goings of Proterozoic Global Glaciations (Posters)
  Sunday, 9 October 2022

  9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

  Exhibit Hall F
• MEASURING UP: HOW DOES THE EARLY CAMBRIAN SMALL SHELLY FOSSIL SALTERELLA FIT IN PHYLOGENETIC SPACE?
  T49 New Advances in Geobiology
  Sunday, 9 October 2022

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Mile High Ballroom 2C

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2021

• BIO- AND CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE KROL A FORMATION IN LESSER HIMALAYA, INDIA: EARLY EDIACARAN EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
  T214 Life's Innovations from the Early Earth to the Search on Modern Mars II: Honoring the Career of Andrew H. Knoll
  Wednesday, 13 October 2021

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Portland Ballroom 255 (Hybrid Room)
• EXTENSIVE DENITRIFICATION AND NITRATE LIMITATION IN AN EARLY TONIAN MARINE BASIN
  T76 The Neoproterozoic Earth-Life System
  Monday, 11 October 2021

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  E141/E142 (Hybrid Room)
• MERCURY CONTENT AND STABLE ISOTOPE DATA AS A TOOL FOR STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL INTERPRETATION: A CASE STUDY OF EDIACARAN BLACK SHALES OF THE DOUSHANTUO FORMATION, SOUTH CHINA
  T76 The Neoproterozoic Earth-Life System
  Monday, 11 October 2021

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  E141/E142 (Hybrid Room)
• LOST IN TRANSITION: EXAMINING CAUSES OF BIOTIC TURNOVER IN THE EDIACARAN
  T76 The Neoproterozoic Earth-Life System
  Monday, 11 October 2021

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  E141/E142 (Hybrid Room)
• COUPLED CARBON, SULFUR, AND BARIUM CYCLES DURING THE EDIACARAN SHURAM EXCURSION: A SYNTHESIS
  T76 The Neoproterozoic Earth-Life System
  Monday, 11 October 2021

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  E141/E142 (Hybrid Room)
• ONE-BILLION-YEAR-OLD EUKARYOTIC EPIBIONTS IN NORTH CHINA
  T76 The Neoproterozoic Earth-Life System
  Monday, 11 October 2021

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  E141/E142 (Hybrid Room)

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2020

• ROCKS FROM THE EAST: THE TONIAN SYSTEM ON EASTERN MARGIN OF THE NORTH CHINA CRATON
  T110 Evolving Perspectives on the Tonian Biosphere and Environmental Change
  Wednesday, 28 October 2020

  10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Meeting Rooms
• FERRUGINOUS SHALLOW AND MID-DEPTH SEAWATERS IN AN EARLY TONIAN MARINE BASIN
  T110 Evolving Perspectives on the Tonian Biosphere and Environmental Change
  Wednesday, 28 October 2020

  10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Meeting Rooms
• POSSIBLE MULTICELLULAR GREEN ALGAE IN EARLY TONIAN MARINE ENVIRONMENTS
  T110 Evolving Perspectives on the Tonian Biosphere and Environmental Change
  Wednesday, 28 October 2020

  10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Meeting Rooms
• THE SHIBANTAN LAGERSTÄTTE AND TERMINAL EDIACARAN ANIMAL EVOLUTION
  T51 Trends and Patterns in Neoproterozoic–Cambrian Biodiversity and Evolutionary Originations I
  Tuesday, 27 October 2020

  10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Meeting Rooms
• SHALLOW WATER ANOXIA PRECEDING THE RISE OF EUKARYOTES
  T81 Deep-Time Carbon Cycles, Redox Changes, and the Evolution of the Biosphere I
  Tuesday, 27 October 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Meeting Rooms
• PALEO-SPELEOTHEMS AS EVIDENCE FOR WIDESPREAD KARSTIFICATION IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE MARINOAN DEGLACIATION (635 MA) IN SOUTH CHINA
  T23 New Frontiers in Cave and Karst Research I
  Monday, 26 October 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Meeting Rooms

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2019

• USING SIMS DATA TO UNDERSTAND THE ROLE OF AUTHIGENIC CARBONATE IN THE ORIGIN OF CHAOTIC STRATIGRAPHIC VARIATIONS OF CARBON ISOTOPES IN THE EARLY EDIACARAN DOUSHANTUO FORMATION
  236 Understanding the Neoproterozoic Earth-Life System
  Wednesday, 25 September 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  North Ballroom 120D, North Building
• MACROALGAL FOSSILS FROM THE ?PROTEROZOIC SANDSUCK FORMATION OF THE WALDEN CREEK GROUP, SOUTHEASTERN TENNESSEE
  T272 Understanding the Neoproterozoic Earth-Life System (Posters)
  Wednesday, 25 September 2019

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Hall AB, North Building
• USING MERCURY CONTENT TO EVALUATE STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATIONS OF EDIACARAN BLACK SHALES IN THE UPPER DOUSHANTUO FORMATION
  T293 Hello (Ancient) World!: Exploring the Neoproterozoic to Cambrian Interval by Quantitatively Probing the Rock Record
  Wednesday, 25 September 2019

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 226ABC, North Building
• EARLY DIAGENETIC FERROUS-PHOSPHATE IN THE EDIACARAN DOUSHANTUO FORMATION PHOSPHORITE IN SOUTH CHINA AND ITS PALEOENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS
  T293 Hello (Ancient) World!: Exploring the Neoproterozoic to Cambrian Interval by Quantitatively Probing the Rock Record
  Wednesday, 25 September 2019

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 226ABC, North Building
• WIDESPREAD OCCURRENCES OF GLENDONITE IN THE DOUSHANTUO FORMATION, SOUTH CHINA: IMPLICATION FOR EDIACARAN CLIMATE CHANGE AND STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION
  T293 Hello (Ancient) World!: Exploring the Neoproterozoic to Cambrian Interval by Quantitatively Probing the Rock Record
  Wednesday, 25 September 2019

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 226ABC, North Building
• PROBING AN ATYPICAL SHURAM EXCURSION BY SIMS
  T272 Understanding the Neoproterozoic Earth-Life System (Posters)
  Wednesday, 25 September 2019

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Hall AB, North Building
• AEROBIC FE-OXIDIZING BACTERIA IN THE TONIAN PERIOD
  T221 Understanding the Neoproterozoic Earth-Life System
  Tuesday, 24 September 2019

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 102AB, West Building
• LIFE IN OXYGEN OASES DURING THE TERMINAL EDIACARAN EXPANSION OF MARINE ANOXIA
  T221 Understanding the Neoproterozoic Earth-Life System
  Tuesday, 24 September 2019

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 102AB, West Building
• BIOMINERALIZATION BY ATTACHMENT OF NANOPARTICLES FROM THE EDIACARAN THROUGH ALL OF THE PHANEROZOIC
  T138 Effects of Mineral-Water Interface Complexity on Geochemical Processes: A Session in Honor of Mineralogical Society of America Awardee for 2018, Laura Nielsen Lammers
  Monday, 23 September 2019

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 229B, North Building

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2018

• MACROALGAE THROUGH PROTEROZOIC: MORPHOLOGICAL AND PALEOECOLOGICAL ANALYSES
  T214 Phylogenetic Paleoecology; Macroecology within an Evolutionary Framework
  Tuesday, 6 November 2018

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 142
• THE ORIGIN OF BARITE IN THE BASAL EDIACARAN SETE LAGOAS CAP CARBONATE (BAMBUI GROUP, BRAZIL) AND ITS IMPLICATIONS
  T192 Evolving Perspectives of the Precambrian World: Using Combined Theoretical and Applied Approaches to Tackle Problems at the Intersection of Geology, Geobiology, and Geochemistry (Posters)
  Tuesday, 6 November 2018

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Halls J-K
• PHOTOSYNTHETIC GREEN ALGAE FROM THE EARLY TONIAN NANFEN FORMATION IN NORTH CHINA
  T87 Earth and Life Co-Evolution in the Early to Middle Neoproterozoic (1000 to ca. 635 Ma)
  Monday, 5 November 2018

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 143-144
• WHAT MAKES FOR AN EXCEPTIONAL FOSSIL? THE PRESERVATION OF THE THERIZINOSAUR BEIPIAOSAURUS INEXPECTUS FROM THE YIXIAN FORMATION OF CHINA
  38 D22. Paleontology, Paleoecology and Taphonomy (Posters)
  Sunday, 4 November 2018

  9:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Halls J-K

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2017

• LIFE AFTER THE “BORING BILLION”: THE FOSSIL RECORD IN THE TONIAN PERIOD
  T324 The Co-Evolution of Life and Its Environment during the Precambrian: The “Boring Billion” and Mid-Proterozoic Emergence of Complex Life
  Wednesday, 25 October 2017

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Skagit 5
• WHY AND HOW DO PHOSPHATIC MINERALS REPLICATE SOFT TISSUES AT THE HIGHEST RESOLUTION?
  T198 Exceptionally Preserved Proterozoic–Early Paleozoic Fossils
  Tuesday, 24 October 2017

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 607
• EARLY EVOLUTION OF SPONGE ANIMALS: SPICULOGENESIS AND BIOMINERALIZATION
  T198 Exceptionally Preserved Proterozoic–Early Paleozoic Fossils
  Tuesday, 24 October 2017

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 607
• NEW LOCALITIES AND MATERIAL OF THE UPPER EDIACARAN MIAOHE BIOTA IN SOUTH CHINA
  T198 Exceptionally Preserved Proterozoic–Early Paleozoic Fossils
  Tuesday, 24 October 2017

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 607
• BIOSTRATIGRAPHIC CONSTRAINT ON TONIAN SUCCESSIONS IN EASTERN NORTH CHINA BLOCK
  T279 The Co-Evolution of Life and Its Environment during the Precambrian: The “Boring Billion” and Mid-Proterozoic Emergence of Complex Life (Posters)
  Tuesday, 24 October 2017

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Halls 4EF
• NEW OBSERVATIONS OF BRANCHING MACROFOSSILS FROM THE EDIACARAN DENGYING FORMATION IN THE YANGTZE GORGES AREA, SOUTH CHINA
  T198 Exceptionally Preserved Proterozoic–Early Paleozoic Fossils
  Tuesday, 24 October 2017

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 607

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2016

• EXCEPTIONALLY PRESERVED FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGES THROUGH GEOLOGIC TIME AND SPACE
  T184 Geobiology of Earth-Life Systems I
  Tuesday, 27 September 2016

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 503
• PATTERNS AND TRENDS IN NONCALCIFIED MACROALGAL (“SEAWEED”) MORPHOLOGY AND ECOLOGY DURING THE GREAT ANIMAL DIVERSIFICATION EVENTS OF THE EARLY PALEOZOIC
  T224 The Early Paleozoic World: Radiations, Extinctions, and Paleoenvironmental Change I
  Tuesday, 27 September 2016

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Mile High Ballroom 3C
• A TALE OF TWO SEEMINGLY SIMPLE FOSSILS: ELECTRON MICROSCOPY REVEALS EVIDENCE FOR MULTICELLULARITY IN THE PROTEROZOIC FOSSILS CHUARIA AND TAWUIA
  T184 Geobiology of Earth-Life Systems I
  Tuesday, 27 September 2016

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 503
• WHAT IS UNDERNEATH THE GANGA VALLEY? BIOSTRATIGRAPHIC AND DETRITAL ZIRCON AGE CONSTRAINTS ON THE PROTEROZOIC BASEMENT OF THE HIMALAYAN FORELAND BASIN
  T112 Structure and Tectonics of Mesoproterozoic Basins
  Monday, 26 September 2016

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 203
• EDIACARAN MACROALGAE AND THE EARLY EVOLUTION OF ANIMALS
  162 Paleontology, Paleoecology/Taphonomy (Posters)
  Monday, 26 September 2016

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Exhibit Hall E/F
• FOREST OF FOSSIL ALGAE IN THE EDIACARA MEMBER (RAWNSLEY QUARTZITE), SOUTH AUSTRALIA
  22 Recent Advances in Paleontology and Paleoecology
  Wednesday, 6 April 2016

  8:30 AM - 12:30 PM

  Meeting Room 200 AB

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2015

• MODELLING THE LITHIFICATION BIAS: UNDERSTANDING ITS CAUSES AND ITS IMPLICATIONS
  327 Paleontology: Building the Fossil Record: Taphonomic and Paleoecological Controls on Fossilization
  Wednesday, 4 November 2015

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 315
• AN EPISODE OF WIDESPREAD OCEAN ANOXIA DURING THE LATEST EDIACARAN PERIOD REVEALED BY LIGHT U ISOTOPE COMPOSITIONS IN CARBONATES
  T280 Geobiology of Critical Transitions: Integrating Fossils, Proxies, and Models II
  Wednesday, 4 November 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 325/326
• SCALIDOPHORAN ANIMALS AT THE EDIACARAN-CAMBRIAN TRANSITION
  177 Earth-Life Systems at the Dawn of Animals
  Tuesday, 3 November 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 327/328/329
• A MODEL FOR THE PRESERVATION OF SHELLS AS CARBONACEOUS FOSSILS BASED ON TAPHONOMIC OBSERVATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS
  T250 Geobiology of Critical Transitions: Integrating Fossils, Proxies, and Models I
  Tuesday, 3 November 2015

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 325/326
• ENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXT FOR ANIMAL BIOMINERALIZATION AND FOSSIL PYRITIZATION IN THE TERMINAL EDIACARAN PERIOD
  T250 Geobiology of Critical Transitions: Integrating Fossils, Proxies, and Models I
  Tuesday, 3 November 2015

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 325/326
• USING GEOCHEMICAL TOOLS TO STUDY EDIACARAN MACROORGANISMS FROM THE KHATYSPYT FORMATION, OLENEK UPLIFT, SIBERIA
  T250 Geobiology of Critical Transitions: Integrating Fossils, Proxies, and Models I
  Tuesday, 3 November 2015

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 325/326
• SEAWEED THROUGH TIME: THE EARLY PALEOZOIC
  T250 Geobiology of Critical Transitions: Integrating Fossils, Proxies, and Models I
  Tuesday, 3 November 2015

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 325/326
• AN AUTHIGENIC ORIGIN FOR THE MIDDLE EDIACARAN SHURAM EXCURSION: THE VIEW FROM NAMIBIA AND SOUTH CHINA
  177 Earth-Life Systems at the Dawn of Animals
  Tuesday, 3 November 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 327/328/329

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2014

• TAPHONOMY AND PALEOECOLOGY OF SILURIAN ALGAL-LAGERSTÄTTEN
  238 Paleontology: Trace Fossils, Taphonomy, and Exceptional Preservation
  Tuesday, 21 October 2014

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  221/222
• ACRITARCH BIOSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE EDIACARAN DOUSHANTUO FORMATION IN AN UPPER SLOPE FACIES
  T26 The Ediacaran-Cambrian Ecosphere (R)evolution: Emerging Records from Central and East Asia
  Sunday, 19 October 2014

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  207
• PENIS WORMS AND THEIR RELATIVES IN THE EARLIEST CAMBRIAN PERIOD
  25 A Symposium in Honor of the Career of Richard Bambach
  Friday, 11 April 2014

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Assembly Hall
• LAMONTE TREVALLIS, A NEW TRACE FOSSIL FROM THE DENGYING FORMATION OF SOUTH CHINA: INSIGHTS INTO LATE EDIACARAN BENTHIC ECOLOGY
  37 Ichnology in the Southeast USA
  Friday, 11 April 2014

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Duck Pond
• DO AUTHIGENIC CARBONATE CEMENTS EXPLAIN THE NEOPROTEROZOIC (AND PERMIAN) CARBON ISOTOPE RECORDS?
  25 A Symposium in Honor of the Career of Richard Bambach
  Friday, 11 April 2014

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Assembly Hall
• SCANNING ELECTRON IMAGING OF SHELL CONSTRUCTION IN THE PROBLEMATIC TUBULAR FOSSIL SPHENOTHALLUS FROM THE EARLY CAMBRIAN (SERIES 2) OF SOUTH CHINA
  1 Paleontology
  Thursday, 10 April 2014

  10:15 AM - 12:15 PM

  Duck Pond

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2013

• PHOSPHATIZATION OF VERMIFORM FOSSILS FROM THE WINNESHIEK LAGERSTÄTTE, WINNESHIEK SHALE, NORTHEAST IOWA
  300 Early Life and Taphonomy
  Wednesday, 30 October 2013

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Mile High Ballroom 1EF
• FOSSILIZED BUBBLES IN MESOPROTEROZOIC STROMATOLITES: MORPHOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR OXYGENIC PHOTOSYNTHESIS OF CYANOBACTERIA IN ANCIENT MICROBIAL MATS
  300 Early Life and Taphonomy
  Wednesday, 30 October 2013

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Mile High Ballroom 1EF
• WAS THE SHURAM CARBON ISOTOPE ANOMALY DRIVEN BY AN OXIDATIVE PULSE OF ALKALINITY AND SULFATE TO THE EDIACARAN OCEAN?
  303 Recent Advances in Paleoclimatology/Paleooceanography
  Wednesday, 30 October 2013

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 605
• ASPIDELLA IN REPOSE: TAPHONOMY OF A FRONDOSE EDIACARAN FOSSIL PRESERVED IN CARBONATE ROCKS
  T261 Konservat-Lagerstätten: Morphology, Ecology, and Taphonomy of Exceptionally Preserved Fossils (Posters)
  Tuesday, 29 October 2013

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Hall D
• SIGNAL TO NOISE: UNRAVELING BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION FROM PRESERVATIONAL OVERPRINTS IN EXCEPTIONAL FOSSILS
  T298 Unlocking Lilliput: New Approaches to Microscopy in Paleontology
  Tuesday, 29 October 2013

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Mile High Ballroom 1AB
• A THREE-DIMENSIONALLY PHOSPHATIZED SCALIDOPHORAN WORM FROM THE EARLIEST CAMBRIAN PERIOD
  T186 Konservat-Lagerstätten: Morphology, Ecology, and Taphonomy of Exceptionally Preserved Fossils II
  Monday, 28 October 2013

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Room 607
• THE TEMPORAL-SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF SOFT-BODIED LAGERSTÄTTEN AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR LATE NEOPROTEROZOIC-EARLY PALEOZOIC TAPHONOMIC WINDOWS
  T123 Konservat-Lagerstätten: Morphology, Ecology, and Taphonomy of Exceptionally Preserved Fossils I
  Monday, 28 October 2013

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 607
• A REEXAMINATION OF YUKNESSIA WALCOTT, 1919 FROM THE CAMBRIAN OF BRITISH COLUMBIA AND UTAH
  T123 Konservat-Lagerstätten: Morphology, Ecology, and Taphonomy of Exceptionally Preserved Fossils I
  Monday, 28 October 2013

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 607
• THE EFFECT OF SEAWATER REDOX STRATIFICATION ON EARLY METAZOANS FROM THE TERMINAL EDIACARAN KHATYSPYT FORMATION OF ARCTIC SIBERIA
  66 Special Session: A Life in Earth History from Tectonics to Climate II: The Scientific Legacy of Paul F. Hoffman
  Sunday, 27 October 2013

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Mile High Ballroom 4EF

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2012

• FOSSIL MINERALIZATION IN THE EDIACARAN GAOJIASHAN BIOTA: A CASE STUDY OF SOFT-BODY PRESERVATION THROUGH PYRITIZATION
  T84 Fossil Preservation, Biological Evolution, and Environmental Change at the Dawn of Animal Radiation: An Examination of Geobiological Events across the Ediacaran–Cambrian Transition I
  Monday, 5 November 2012

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  217D
• SLIDING-SCALE CONTROL FOR THREE EXCEPTIONAL TAPHONOMIC WINDOWS: CASE STUDIES OF FOSSIL KEROGENIZATION, PYRITIZATION, AND ALUMINOSILICIFICATION ACROSS THE EDIACARAN–CAMBRIAN TRANSITION
  T84 Fossil Preservation, Biological Evolution, and Environmental Change at the Dawn of Animal Radiation: An Examination of Geobiological Events across the Ediacaran–Cambrian Transition I
  Monday, 5 November 2012

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  217D
• POSSIBLE MARKUELIA EMBRYOS FROM THE EARLY CAMBRIAN (TERRENEUVIAN) YANJIAHE FORMATION IN HEBEI PROVINCE OF SOUTH CHINA
  T130 Fossil Preservation, Biological Evolution, and Environmental Change at the Dawn of Animal Radiation: An Examination of Geobiological Events across the Ediacaran–Cambrian Transition II
  Monday, 5 November 2012

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  217D
• OCEAN OXYGENATION AND ORIGIN OF FOSSIL-BEARING CHERT BANDS IN LOWER CAMBRIAN STRATA OF SOUTH CHINA
  T130 Fossil Preservation, Biological Evolution, and Environmental Change at the Dawn of Animal Radiation: An Examination of Geobiological Events across the Ediacaran–Cambrian Transition II
  Monday, 5 November 2012

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  217D
• MICROFOSSIL SIZE TRENDS ACROSS THE LATE ARCHEAN AND PROTEROZOIC: A MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD APPROACH
  89 Paleontology: Morphological Evolution & Morphology and Systematics (Posters)
  Monday, 5 November 2012

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall B
• X-RAY MICRO-CT INVESTIGATION OF THE EDIACARA FOSSIL PTERIDINIUM SIMPLEX FROM NAMIBIA
  T130 Fossil Preservation, Biological Evolution, and Environmental Change at the Dawn of Animal Radiation: An Examination of Geobiological Events across the Ediacaran–Cambrian Transition II
  Monday, 5 November 2012

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  217D
• A SHORTER FUSE FOR THE CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION?
  T130 Fossil Preservation, Biological Evolution, and Environmental Change at the Dawn of Animal Radiation: An Examination of Geobiological Events across the Ediacaran–Cambrian Transition II
  Monday, 5 November 2012

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  217D

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2011

• SHIFTING MICROFOSSIL FOOD WEBS: ARE ACRITARCHS THE CATALYSTS TO MAJOR DIVERSITY AND ECOLOGICAL SHIFTS AT THE CAMBRIAN-PRECAMBRIAN BOUNDARY?
  T151 Whole Organism Paleoecology: Exploring Ecology through Time I
  Tuesday, 11 October 2011

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 205CD
• THE PROTEROZOIC-CAMBRIAN CONFIGURATION OF THE NORTH INDIAN MARGIN: INSIGHTS FROM DETRITAL ZIRCONS AND NEODYMIUM ISOTOPES
  122 Stratigraphy
  Monday, 10 October 2011

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 211CD
• AUTHIGENIC MINERALIZATION AND EXCEPTIONAL PRESERVATION
  T15 New Ideas on Studying Exceptionally Preserved Fossils: What to Do Next?
  Sunday, 9 October 2011

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 205CD
• THE ORIGIN OF INTRACELLULAR STRUCTURES IN EDIACARAN METAZOAN EMBRYOS
  T56 New Horizons in Precambrian Palynology and Paleobiology
  Sunday, 9 October 2011

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 205CD

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2010

• GEOCHEMICAL AND LITHOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS on THE AGE AND CORRELATION OF THE LESSER HIMALAYA AND THE CENTRAL INDIAN CRATON
  T285 Transformative Science in the Himalaya and Tibet: Insight from Geophysical, Geochemical, and Geologic Studies
  Wednesday, 3 November 2010

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Mile High Ballroom 2AB/3AB
• TAPHONOMY OF THE EDIACARAN GAOJIASHAN LAGERSTATTE: IMPORTANCE OF OBRUTION AND EARLY DIAGENETIC PYRITIZATION
  T167 Lagerstätten through Time: An Examination of Exceptional Preservational Pathways from the Terminal Proterozoic through Today I
  Tuesday, 2 November 2010

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 603
• DISSECTING DOUSHANTUO EMBRYOS: MICROCHEMICAL, MICROSTRUCTURAL, AND TAPHONOMIC INVESTIGATION OF PROPOSED SUBCELLULAR STRUCTURES
  T167 Lagerstätten through Time: An Examination of Exceptional Preservational Pathways from the Terminal Proterozoic through Today I
  Tuesday, 2 November 2010

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 603
• UNEXCEPTIONAL FOSSILS, EXCEPTIONAL INSIGHTS: USING PROTEROZOIC CARBONACEOUS FOSSILS TO UNDERSTAND THE BURGESS SHALE TYPE PRESERVATION
  T167 Lagerstätten through Time: An Examination of Exceptional Preservational Pathways from the Terminal Proterozoic through Today I
  Tuesday, 2 November 2010

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 603
• DISTINGUISHING GEOLOGY FROM BIOLOGY IN THE EDIACARAN DOUSHANTUO BIOTA
  T167 Lagerstätten through Time: An Examination of Exceptional Preservational Pathways from the Terminal Proterozoic through Today I
  Tuesday, 2 November 2010

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 603
• TAPHONOMY OF THE ENIGMATIC EDIACARAN FOSSIL SHAANXILITHES: NEW EVIDENCE FOR A BODY FOSSIL AFFINITY
  T167 Lagerstätten through Time: An Examination of Exceptional Preservational Pathways from the Terminal Proterozoic through Today I
  Tuesday, 2 November 2010

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 603
• DECOUPLED CARBONATE AND ORGANIC CARBON ISOTOPE RECORD: AN ENVIRONMENTALLY CONTROLLED PHENOMENON
  T161 Understanding High-Amplitude Stable Isotope Variations in Proterozoic Strata
  Tuesday, 2 November 2010

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 207

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2009

• ONTOGENY AND ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION OF DISCOIDAL EDIACARAN ORGANISMS: WHY SO MANY DISCS BUT SO FEW WITH FRONDS?
  265 Paleontology: Development & Morphology
  Wednesday, 21 October 2009

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Portland Ballroom 255
• THE ULTRASTRUCTURE AND MORPHOLOGY OF CHUARIA AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON THE TAPHONOMY OF CARBONACEOUS COMPRESSIONS
  245 Paleontology: Taphonomy, Diversity & Extinction (Posters)
  Wednesday, 21 October 2009

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall A
• PRELIMINARY CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHIC CONSTRAINTS ON PROTEROZOIC SUCCESSIONS OF THE INNER LESSER HIMALAYAN SEDIMENTARY BELT OF NORTH INDIA
  267 Stratigraphy: A Global Perspective
  Wednesday, 21 October 2009

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  E145
• SIMS SULFUR ISOTOPE ANALYSIS OF PYRITES IN CHERT NODULES OF THE EDIACARAN DOUSHANTUO FORMATION: CONSTRAINTS ON EXEPTIONAL FOSSIL PRESERVATION
  148 Earth et al.—Our Planets from the Hadean to Today
  Tuesday, 20 October 2009

  8:15 AM - 12:00 PM

  Portland Ballroom 254
• A NEW AGE IN PALEOBIOLOGY: APPLICATIONS OF ADVANCED MICROBEAM INSTRUMENTATION IN FOSSIL ANALYSES
  148 Earth et al.—Our Planets from the Hadean to Today
  Tuesday, 20 October 2009

  8:15 AM - 12:00 PM

  Portland Ballroom 254
• A GLACIAL DIVIDE BETWEEN EDIACARAN EXTINCTION AND THE CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION OF LIFE
  148 Earth et al.—Our Planets from the Hadean to Today
  Tuesday, 20 October 2009

  8:15 AM - 12:00 PM

  Portland Ballroom 254

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2008

• Preparation and Analysis of Mesoproterozoic Acritarch Ultrastructure: Novel Techniques In Focused Ion Beam Electron Microscopy
  T340 Integrative Systematic Paleontology for a New Century: Advancing Evolutionary, Phylogenetic, Biogeographic, and Ecologic Theory with Specimen-Based Studies
  Thursday, 9 October 2008

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• Quantitative Analysis of Precambrian Fossils
  T319 Quantifying the Early Evolution of Life: Numerical Approaches to the Evaluation of Precambrian-Cambrian Animals and Ecosystems
  Wednesday, 8 October 2008

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• Changes In Feeding Strategies across the Ediacaran/Cambrian Boundary: Who's New and Who's Missing?
  T319 Quantifying the Early Evolution of Life: Numerical Approaches to the Evaluation of Precambrian-Cambrian Animals and Ecosystems
  Wednesday, 8 October 2008

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• Quantitative Paleontology of Ediacaran (635-550 Ma) Microfossil Assemblages In the Doushantuo Formation: Implications for Biostratigraphic Applications In South China
  T319 Quantifying the Early Evolution of Life: Numerical Approaches to the Evaluation of Precambrian-Cambrian Animals and Ecosystems
  Wednesday, 8 October 2008

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

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2007

• OCEANIC STRATIFICATION AND MIXING IN THE AFTERMATH OF A NEOPROTEROZOIC GLACIATION: CARBON AND SULFUR ISOTOPE EVIDENCE FROM THE ZHAMOKETI CAP DOLOSTONE IN NORTHWEST CHINA
  183 Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography I
  Wednesday, 31 October 2007

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• CARBON ISOTOPE EVIDENCE FOR METHANE SEEPS IN THE 635 MA DOUSHANTUO CAP CARBONATE AT MULTIPLE GEOGRAPHIC LOCALITIES IN SOUTH CHINA
  183 Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography I
  Wednesday, 31 October 2007

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• SPHEROIDAL MICROFOSSILS FROM THE EDIACARAN DOUSHANTUO FORMATION: ANIMAL EMBRYOS OR GIANT SULFIDE OXIDIZING BACTERIA?
  120 Paleontology V: Early Life
  Tuesday, 30 October 2007

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• CHARACTERIZATION OF PRECAMBRIAN ORGANIC-WALLED MICROFOSSIL ULTRASTRUCTURE USING FOCUSED ION BEAM ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
  T166 Emerging New Methods in Early Earth Studies: Unraveling the Co-Evolution of Earth and Life
  Tuesday, 30 October 2007

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• CARBON AND SULFUR ISOTOPES, REDOX CONDITIONS, AND BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION IN THE EDIACARAN DOUSHANTUO FORMATION
  T166 Emerging New Methods in Early Earth Studies: Unraveling the Co-Evolution of Earth and Life
  Tuesday, 30 October 2007

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

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2006

• DOUSHANTUO-PERTATATAKA ACRITARCHS IN EDIACARAN SUCCESSIONS OF SOUTH CHINA: PRESERVATIONAL BIAS OR ECOLOGICAL CONTROL?
  121 Paleontology/Paleobotany IV: Early Life and the Cambrian Explosion
  Tuesday, 24 October 2006

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• SULFUR ISOTOPE EVIDENCE FOR RAPID CEMENTATION OF THE NEOPROTEROZOIC ZHAMOKETI CAP CARBONATE IN THE QURUQTAGH AREA OF TIANSHAN
  156 Precambrian Geology
  Tuesday, 24 October 2006

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• CAN ORGANIC-WALLED MICROFOSSILS SURVIVE HIGH METAMORPHIC HEATING? CHARACTERIZATION OF EXPERIMENTALLY-HEATED ACRITARCHS USING RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY
  122 Paleontology/Paleobotany V: Taphonomy and Exceptional Preservation
  Tuesday, 24 October 2006

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• MORPHOLOGICAL SATURATION AND CONSTRAINTS IN EDIACARA FOSSILS
  156 Precambrian Geology
  Tuesday, 24 October 2006

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• PROTEROZOIC EVOLUTION OF PHOTOSYNTHETIC EUKARYOTES: A PRIMER FOR PROTEROZOIC EVOLUTION OF OCEAN AND ATMOSPHERIC REDOX STATE
  T20 Changes in Ocean and Atmospheric Redox State and the Evolution of Life I
  Sunday, 22 October 2006

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• THE ANTINOMY OF ORGANIC AND INORGANIC CARBON ISOTOPES AT CA. 551 MA: A RECORD OF BIOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO OCEAN REDOX CHANGE?
  T20 Changes in Ocean and Atmospheric Redox State and the Evolution of Life I
  Sunday, 22 October 2006

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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2005

• MORPHOLOGICAL HISTORY OF PROTEROZOIC MACROSCOPIC CARBONACEOUS COMPRESSIONS: POSSIBLE IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ECOLOGY OF PROTEROZOIC MACROALGAE
  T219 The Dawn of Animal Life: Evolutionary and Paleoecological Patterns in the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Animal Fossil Record
  Wednesday, 19 October 2005

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• WORM-LIKE FOSSILS FROM THE NEOPROTEROZOIC SUCCESSIONS: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE EDIACARAN GLACIATION IN NORTH CHINA
  134 Paleontology IV: Macroevolution—Origin, Inheritance, and Selection of Characters
  Tuesday, 18 October 2005

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• RESTUDY OF EARLY NEOPROTEROZOIC CARBONACEOUS COMPRESSIONS PARARENICOLA AND PROTOARENICOLA
  170 Precambrian Geology
  Tuesday, 18 October 2005

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• POSSIBLE FOSSILS PRESERVED IN ARCHEAN AMPHIBOLITE-FACIES METAPELITES?
  T52 Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Environments for Microbial Survival I
  Sunday, 16 October 2005

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

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2004

• ANIMAL EMBRYOS FROM THE TERMINAL NEOPROTEROZOIC DOUSHANTUO FORMATION: HOW DID THEY HATCH?
  225 Paleontology X: Early Life
  Wednesday, 10 November 2004

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• A POSSIBLE FRONDOSE EDIACARAN FOSSIL FROM NEOPROTEROZOIC BITUMINOUS LIMESTONE OF THE DENGYING FORMATION: ITS BODY PLAN, LIFESTYLE, AND TAPHONOMY
  225 Paleontology X: Early Life
  Wednesday, 10 November 2004

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• TRENDS IN BODY-SIZE AND MORPHOLOGICAL DISPARITY OF PROTEROZOIC THROUGH MIDDLE CAMBRIAN ACRITARCHS: A LITERATURE-BASED APPROACH
  225 Paleontology X: Early Life
  Wednesday, 10 November 2004

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• HIGH SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY OF A CAP-CARBONATE’S STABLE ISOTOPE SIGNATURES: A STAGNANT LATE NEOPROTERZOIC OCEAN BASIN
  T205 Ocean Chemistry through the Precambrian and Paleozoic I
  Wednesday, 10 November 2004

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• SECULAR PATTERNS IN MORPHOLOGICAL DISPARITY AND BODY SIZE OF ACRITARCHS THROUGH THE NEOPROTEROZOIC AND EARLY CAMBRIAN
  46 Pre-Cenozoic Paleontology
  Friday, 26 March 2004

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

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2003

• NEOPROTEROZOIC GLACIATIONS AND EVOLUTION: NEW DATA FROM SOUTH CHINA
  205 Neoproterozoic Geobiology: Fossils, Clocks, Isotopes, and Rocks
  Wednesday, 5 November 2003

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• NEOPROTEROZOIC GLACIATIONS: NEW DATA FROM QURUQTAGH, EASTERN CHINESE TIANSHAN
  239 Precambrian Geology
  Wednesday, 5 November 2003

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

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Date Unknown

• THREE-DIMENSIONALLY SILICIFIED HORODYSKIA AND PALAEOPASCICHNUS FROM UPPER EDIACARAN CHERTS IN CENTRAL GUIZHOU OF SOUTH CHINA AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR EVOLUTIONARY STASIS
  208 Paleontology (Posters) III: Diversity, Evolution, and Turnover
• High Resolution Lithostratigraphy and Facies Analysis of the Ediacaran (635-551 Ma) Doushantuo Formation, South China
  T152 The Future of Sedimentary Geology: Student Research (Posters)
• Basal Cambrian Microfossils from the Yangtze and Tarim Blocks
  303 Paleontology (Posters) IV - Stratigraphy and Morphology
• Morphological and Chemical Analyses of Sphenothallus from the Early Cambrian Shuijingtuo Formation, China
  303 Paleontology (Posters) IV - Stratigraphy and Morphology
• SPATIAL ISOTOPE VARIATIONS OF THE EDIACARAN SUCCESSION IN SOUTH CHINA: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE CHEMOCLINE INSTABILITY ACROSS DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS
  T147 Emerging New Methods in Early Earth Studies: Unraveling the Co-Evolution of Earth and Life (Posters)