Thursday, 9 October 2008: 8:00 AM
George R. Brown Convention Center, 330B
340: Integrative Systematic Paleontology for a New Century: Advancing Evolutionary, Phylogenetic, Biogeographic, and Ecologic Theory with Specimen-Based Studies
Sponsor:Topical Sessions
JTPC Reps:Rowan Lockwood, College of William and Mary
David Sunderlin, Lafayette College
Andrew M. Bush, University of Connecticut
Conveners/Advocates:Alycia L. Stigall, Ohio University
Jonathan Hendricks, University of Kansas
8:00 AM340-1New Insight into Diversity Dynamics from Specimen-Based Studies: Analyzing the Late Devonian Speciation Crisis
Alycia L. Stigall, Ohio University
8:15 AM340-2Specimens to Macroevolution to Specimens Again: Deciphering Macroevolutionary Trends
William I. Ausich, The Ohio State University, Thomas W. Kammer, West Virginia University
8:30 AM340-3Specimen-Based Research Results In Recognition of AN Explosive Radiation of Jurassic Brachyura (CRUSTACEA: DECAPODA)
Carrie E. Schweitzer, Kent State Univ Stark Campus, Rodney M. Feldmann, Kent State University
8:45 AM340-4The Role of Museum Collections in Specimen-Based Research and the Challenges for the Future
Jessica D. Cundiff, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
9:00 AM340-5Comparing Extinction Selectivity among Terebratulide Brachiopod Clades: Using Phylogenetic Methods to Test Macroevolutionary Hypotheses
Sandra J. Carlson, University of California, Davis, Paul C. Fitzgerald, Northern Virginia Community College
9:15 AM340-6Phylogenetic Reconstruction of a Freshwater Radiation: Corbulidae In the Miocene of Western Amazonia
Laurie C. Anderson, Louisiana State University, Frank P. Wesselingh, Naturalis, Joseph Hartman, University of North Dakota
9:30 AM340-7Fossil Specimens, Data Integration, and Phylogeny Reconstruction of Long-Lived, Modern Clades
Jonathan Hendricks, San José State University, Ursula Smith, Cornell University
9:45 AM340-8Eocene Insight into the Origins of Avian Biodiversity
Julia A. Clarke, North Carolina State University
10:00 AM340-9The Flight Performance of the Crested Pterodactyloid Tapejara from the Early Cretaceous of Brazil
Sankar Chatterjee, Texas Tech Univ, R. Jack Templin
10:15 AM340-10Preparation and Analysis of Mesoproterozoic Acritarch Ultrastructure: Novel Techniques In Focused Ion Beam Electron Microscopy
James D. Schiffbauer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Shuhai Xiao, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
10:30 AM340-11The Oldest Horseshoe Crabs (Early Ordovician, Morocco) and the Origins of the Xiphosurid Thoracetron
Peter Van Roy, University College Dublin
10:45 AM340-12Quantitative Paleobiogeographic Analysis of Habitat Tracking Patterns in the Cincinnati Arch Following the Late Ordovician Richmondian Invasion
Robert E. Swisher, Ohio University, Alycia L. Stigall, Ohio University
11:00 AM340-13Biogeographic and Phylogenic Patterns of Trilobites during the End Ordovician Mass Extinction
Curtis R. Congreve, University of Kansas
11:15 AM340-14Studying Tempo and Mode in Evolutionary Radiations: An Integrated, Quantitive Approach
Francine R. Abe, University of Kansas, Bruce Lieberman, University of Kansas
11:30 AM340-15Assessing Intraspecific Variation in the Fossil Record: A Key to Understanding the Pace of Evolution
Kristin Polizzotto, American Museum of Natural History, Moishe Einhorn, American Museum of Natural History
11:45 AM340-16Naticid Predation and Community Structure in the Late Miocene of the Dominican Republic
Rachel Hertog, California Academy of Sciences, Peter D. Roopnarine, California Academy of Sciences

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