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231 After the Last Ammonite and before the First Horse: Patterns of Ecological and Climatic Change during the Paleocene

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Tuesday, 7 October 2008: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
George R. Brown Convention Center, 351CF

Presiding:
Kirk R. Johnson and Ian Miller
8:00 AM
231-1
Dynamics of Ecological Recovery from the Cretaceous-Paleogene Event
Richard D. Norris, Scripps Institution of Oceanography/UCSD; Pincelli M. Hull, Scripps Institution of Oceanography/UCSD; Peter Bloxsom, Scripps Institution of Oceanography/UCSD
8:15 AM
231-2
Anomalous, Temporary Terrestrial Sedimentary Environments Following Cretaceous-Tertiary Ecosystem Disruptions: North America, Asia, and Europe
David E. Fastovsky, Univ of Rhode Island; Peter M. Sheehan, Milwaukee Public Museum; John Isbell, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Rachel Grandpre, Univ of Rhode Island
8:30 AM
231-3
North American Paleocene Continental Mollusks: From Slow Recovery to High Diversity, but Not a Simple Story
Joseph H. Hartman, University of North Dakota
8:45 AM
231-4
A Paleocene Timescale for the Rocky Mountains: Status and Potential
Samuel A. Bowring, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Kirk R. Johnson, Denver Museum of Nature & Science; William Clyde, University of New Hampshire; Jahandar Ramezani, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ian Miller, Denver Museum of Nature & Science; Daniel Peppe, Yale University
9:00 AM
231-6
Paleocene Palynostratigraphy in the Hanna Basin: Friend or Foe?
Regan Dunn, University of Washington
9:15 AM
231-7
Timing and Correlation of Early Paleocene Asian Land Mammal Ages: New Results from the Nanxiong Basin, Gaungdong Province, China
William C. Clyde, University of New Hampshire; Suyin Ting, Lousiana State University; Kathryn E. Snell, University of California Santa Cruz; Paul L. Koch, University of California Santa Cruz; Gabriel J. Bowen, Purdue University; Li Qian, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Yuanqing Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Yongsheng Tong, Chinese Academy of Sciences
9:30 AM
231-8
The Paleocene Megaflora of the Western Interior of North America: Tapping the Potential of One of the Most Extensive Terrestrial Fossil Records
Kirk R. Johnson, Denver Museum of Nature & Science; Beth Ellis, Denver Museum of Nature & Science; Ian Miller, Denver Museum of Nature & Sci
9:45 AM
231-9
Paleobotanical Estimates of Laramide Relief in the Western Interior of North America
Ian Miller, Denver Museum of Nature & Sci; Mark Brandon, Yale Univ; Kirk Johnson, Denver Museum of Nature & Science; Daniel Peppe, Yale University; Regan Dunn, National Park Service; Beth Ellis, Denver Museum of Nature & Science
10:00 AM
231-10
Unexpected Patterns of Floral Diversity and Heterogeneity in the Earliest Paleocene of the Northern Rocky Mountains and Great Plains
Daniel J. Peppe, Yale University; Leo J. Hickey, Yale University
10:15 AM
231-11
Late Paleocene Lagerstätten: What Can They Tell Us about Systematics?
Kathleen B. Pigg, Arizona State University; Melanie L. Devore, Georgia College & State University
10:30 AM
231-12
Paleocene Mammals and Changing Climate In the Northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming
Philip D. Gingerich, The Univ of Michigan
10:45 AM
231-13
Early Paleocene Mammal Succession In the Nacimiento Formation, San Juan Basin, New Mexico
Thomas E. Williamson, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
11:00 AM
231-14
Reconstruction of Latitudinal Mammalian Diversity Gradients In the Mid-Paleocene of Western North America
Peter Rose, University of Minnesota; David L. Fox, University of Minnesota
11:15 AM
231-15
Late Paleocene Warming and Floral Change in the Bighorn Basin
Scott L. Wing, Smithsonian Institution; Ellen Currano, Pennsylvania State University
11:30 AM
231-16
Coupled Climate and Carbon Cycle Oscillations during the Late Paleocene: Inferences from High-Resolution Geochemical Records
James C. Zachos, University of California Santa Cruz; Heather McCarren, University of California Santa Cruz; Nadine Periat, University of California Santa Cruz; Ursula Röhl, Universität Bremen; Thomas Westerhold, Bremen University
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