Session: Paleontology I - Macroevolution, Diversity, and Biogeography

Monday, 6 October 2008: 8:00 AM

George R. Brown Convention Center, 351CF

Presiding:

Sarah Greene and Lee Hsiang Liow

8:00 AM

Remnants of Cruising Trilobites: The Application of Cruziana in North American Stratigraphy
MaryRuth Kotelnicki, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Dana Geary, University of Wisconsin-Madison

8:15 AM

179-2

Integrated Biogeographical, Sedimentological, and Geochemical Constraints on the Late Cambrian Paleogeography of the North China (Sino-Korean) Block: Implications on Reconstructing the Eastern Gondwanan Margin
N. Ryan McKenzie, University of California, Riverside; Nigel C. Hughes, University of California, Riverside; Paul M. Myrow, Colorado College; Duck K. Choi, Seoul National University

8:30 AM

179-3

Hide and Seek: How Sampling Bias May Lead to Our Limited Understanding of the Geographic Distribution of Ordovician Edrioasteroids
René A. Shroat-Lewis, The University of Tennessee; Colin D. Sumrall, Univ of Tennessee

8:45 AM

179-4

Was Planktotrophic Larval Development Original In Metazoa or Not? – Evidence from Gastropods
Alexander Nützel, Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie

9:00 AM

179-5

The evolution and distribution of species body size
Aaron Clauset, Santa Fe Institute; Doug Erwin, Smithsonian Institution

9:15 AM

179-6

The History of Trilobite Size Evolution
Mark A. Bell, University of Bristol; Simon J. Braddy, University of Bristol; Richard A. Fortey, Natural History Museum

9:30 AM

179-7

The Contribution of Morphological Variation to Stratigraphic Longevity in Cambrian Trilobite Species
Melanie J. Hopkins, University of Chicago

9:45 AM

179-8

Modeling the Rise and Fall of Species by Using a Mixed Effects Model. A New Way of Looking at Species Persistence In the Fossil Record
Lee Hsiang Liow, University of Oslo; Hans Julius Skaug, University of Bergen; Torbjørn Ergon, University of Oslo; Tore Schweder, University of Oslo

10:00 AM

Break

10:15 AM

179-9

Stratigraphic Distribution of Fossils In a Tropical Carbonate Succession: Ordovician Bighorn Dolomite, Wyoming, USA
Steven M. Holland, University of Georgia; Mark E. Patzkowsky, Pennsylvania State Univ

10:30 AM

179-10

Confidence Intervals on Stratigraphic Ranges When Recovery Potential Is Unknown
Steve C. Wang, Swarthmore College; Philip J. Everson, Swarthmore College; David J. Chudzicki, University of Chicago; Dasol Park, Swarthmore College

10:45 AM

179-11

The Earliest Occurrence of the Middle Devonian Hamilton Fauna In Eastern North America: Further Refining of the Timing of the Kacak Bioevent
Thomas, J. Schramm, S.U.N.Y. New Paltz; Alex Bartholomew, S.U.N.Y. New Paltz

11:00 AM

179-12

The Ecological Consequences of Mass Extinctions: The Effects of Brachiopod Extinction on Encrusting Organisms across the Frasnian-Famennian Mass Extinction
Chris L. Schneider, Colorado College; Amelinda E. Webb, San Diego State University

11:15 AM

179-13

End of Gigantism In Tropical Seas by Cooling: End-Guadalupian Extinction of the Gigantic Bivalve
Yukio Isozaki, Univ Tokyo; Dunja Aljinovic, The University of Zagreb

11:30 AM

179-14

The Perturbation Resistance of Early Permian Terrestrial Communities Characterized by Low Tetrapod Herbivore Diversity
Kenneth D. Angielczyk, The Field Museum; Christian F. Kammerer, The University of Chicago; Peter D. Roopnarine, California Academy of Sciences; Steve C. Wang, Swarthmore College

11:45 AM

179-15

Mass Extinction Déjà Vu: Seafloor Aragonite Fans near the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary
Sarah E. Greene, Univ of Southern California; David J. Bottjer, Univ of Southern California; Frank A. Corsetti, Univ of Southern California; J.P. Zonneveld, University of Alberta

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