Wednesday, 8 October 2008: 8:00 AM
George R. Brown Convention Center, 330B
277: Paleontology III - Paleoecology, Geochronology, and Education
Sponsor:General Discipline Sessions
JTPC Reps:Rowan Lockwood, College of William and Mary
David Sunderlin, Lafayette College
Andrew M. Bush, University of Connecticut
Session Chairs:G.L. Wingard, USGS
Trisha A. Smrecak, Paleontological Research Institute
8:00 AM277-1Did Ediacaran fossils live on land?
Gregory J. Retallack, University of Oregon
8:15 AM277-2Evolutionary, Ecological, and Paleoenvironmental Implications of Acritarchs as Metazoan Resting Stages
Phoebe Cohen, Harvard University, Andrew Knoll, Harvard Univ, Robin Kodner, Harvard University
8:30 AM277-3Ecological Aspects of a Late Ordovician (Cincinnatian) Epibiofacies Gradient: Understanding the Roles of Colonial Organisms
Trisha A. Smrecak, Paleontological Research Institute, Carlton E. Brett, University of Cincinnati
8:45 AM277-4Bigger and Deeper: Discordant Size Trends in Epifaunal and Infaunal Jurassic Bivalves
Richard A. Krause Jr, Museum fuer Naturkunde, Martin Aberhan, Museum für Naturkunde, Franz T. Fuersich, Institut fuer Palaeontologie, Wolfgang Kiessling, Museum für Naturkunde
9:00 AM277-5Spatial Prediction of Paleoenvironments Using GIS
Susan L. Barbour Wood, Western Carolina University, Ronald W. Davis, Western Carolina University, Matthew Kerfonta, Western Carolina University, Gwen M. Daley, Winthrop University
9:15 AM277-6Latitudinal Variation in Shell Thickness and Drilling Predation on Recent Hemimactra of the Eastern US
Christy C. Visaggi, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Patricia H. Kelley, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Thor A. Hansen, Western Washington Univ
9:30 AM277-7The Perseverance of Pocket Gophers during Dune Reactivation in the Nebraska Sand Hills: A Study of Late Holocene Gopher Burrows
Rebecca L. Schmeisser, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, David B. Loope, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
9:45 AM Break
10:00 AM277-8Palynological Correlation of Mississippian (Carboniferous) Stage Boundaries In the Midwest USA and Europe
Sarah Heal, Trinity College Dublin, Geoff Clayton, Trinity College Dublin, Cortland Eble, University of Kentucky
10:15 AM277-9High-Precision 40Ar/39Ar Age Constraints on the Basal Lanqi Formation and Its Implications for Floral Evolution and Paleoenvironment
Su-chin Chang, University of California at Berkeley, Haichun Zhang, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Paul R. Renne, and Berkeley Geochronology Center, Yan Fang, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
10:30 AM277-10A Western Interior Origin for the Chaparral Shrub Genus Arctostaphylos (Ericaceae) in California?
Andrew G. Simpson, California State University, Chico, Diane M. Erwin
10:45 AM277-11Plant Successions and Paleoecological Reconstruction: Case Studies from the Neogene of the Northern Intermountain Region
Ralph E. Taggart, Michigan State Univ, Aureal T. Cross, Michigan State Univ
11:00 AM277-12Paleoecology as a Tool for Modeling and Ecosystem Management: An Example from the Everglades
G.L. Wingard, USGS, F.E. Marshall, Environmental Consulting & Technology, Inc, P.A. Pitts, US Fish & Wildlife
11:15 AM277-13Spatial Heterogeneity of Nitrogen Processes in a Modern Savanna Ecosystem: The Relative Influences of Termites, Megaherbivores, and Acacia Trees
Kena Fox-Dobbs, University of Wyoming, Daniel F. Doak, University of Wyoming
11:30 AM277-14Reconstructing Diet and Trophic Position: Baseline Issues in Stable Isotope Studies
Michelle M. Casey, Yale University, David M. Post, Yale University
11:45 AM277-15Teaching Paleontology: From the Idiographic to the Nomothetic
Donald R. Prothero, Occidental College

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