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| 8:20 AM | TRILOBITE PALEOECOLOGY AND TAPHONOMY OF THE STEPTOEAN (UPPER CAMBRIAN) DUNDERBERG FORMATION, CHERRY CREEK RANGE, NEVADA: BEAN, Jad R., Department of Geoscience, Univ of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, jad-bean@uiowa.edu, ADRAIN, J. M., Department of Geoscience, Univ of Iowa, 121 Trowbridge Hall, Iowa City, IA 52242, and WESTROP, S. R., Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, and School of Geology & Geophysics, Univ of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73072, |
| 8:40 AM | A THALLOPHYTIC-ALGA-DOMINATED BIOTA FROM THE SILURIAN ERAMOSA FORMATION, ONTARIO, CANADA: LODUCA, Steven T., Eastern Michigan Univ, Dept Geography & Geology, Ypsilanti, MI 48197, geo_loduca@online.emich.edu and TETREAULT, Denis, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Univ of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 5B7, Canada, |
| 9:00 AM | NEW AND OLD LOWER CARBONIFEROUS ASTEROID (ECHINODERMATA) GENERA AND THE SOURCES OF POST-PALEOZOIC CROWN-GROUP ASTEROIDS: BLAKE, Daniel B., Department of Geology, Univ of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, dblake@uiuc.edu and ELLIOTT, Daniel, Biology Department, Central Methodist College, Biology, 1100, Fayette, MO 65248, |
| 9:20 AM | AN EXAMINATION OF THE PHYLOGENETIC POSITION OF THE EMBOLOMERI: GARCIA, William J., Department of Geology, Univ of Cincinnati, 500 Geology/Physics Building, Cincinnati, OH 45221, garciaw@email.uc.edu. |
| 9:40 AM | DESCRIPTION OF EARLIEST ENCRUSTING ORGANISMS(?) FROM THE MESOZOIC OF NORTH AMERICA: KAPLAN, Peter, Department of Geological Sciences and Museum of Paleontology, Univ of Michigan, 1109 Geddes Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, pefty@aya.yale.edu. |
| 10:00 AM | Break |
| 10:20 AM | SHINARUMP INCISED VALLEY CUT-AND-FILL DEPOSITS, PALEOSOLS, AND ICHNOFOSSILS IN THE LOWER PART OF THE UPPER TRIASSIC CHINLE FORMATION, PETRIFIED FOREST NATIONAL PARK, ARIZONA: IT REALLY DOES EXIST, AND IT HAS REGIONAL STRATIGRAPHIC IMPLICATIONS: HASIOTIS, Stephen T., Department of Earth Sciences, Indiana State Univ, 159 Science Building, Terre Haute, IN 47809, gehasiot@scifac.indstate.edu, DEMKO, Timothy M., Department of Geosciences, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, and DUBIEL, Russell F., US Geol Survey, PO Box 25046, Denver, CO 80225-0046, |
| 10:40 AM | A PECULIAR EARLY EOCENE, NEARSHORE, SHALLOW WATER SUSPENSION-FEEDING COMMUNITY FROM SEYMOUR ISLAND, ANTARCTICA: GLASS, Alexander, Department of Geology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801-2919, a-glass@uiuc.edu, BLAKE, Daniel B., Department of Geology, Univ of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, and ARONSON, Richard B., Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, AL 36528, |
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