Session No. 12 Tuesday, May 1, 2001

1:10 PM-5:00 PM, Sheraton Old Town Hotel: Alvarado C
Paleontology, Stratigraphy, and Sedimentology
Kate Zeigler and A. B. Heckert, Presiding
Start Time
1:10 PM Introductory Remarks
1:15 PM NORTH AMERICA’S OLDEST HERBIVOROUS DINOSAURS: HECKERT, Andrew B., Earth & Plan. Sci, Univ of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, heckerta@unm.edu and LUCAS, Spencer G., New Mexico Museum of Nat History & Sci, 1801 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM 87104,
1:30 PM DINOSAURS FROM MICROVERTEBRATE SITES IN THE UPPER CRETACEOUS FRUITLAND AND KIRTLAND FORMATIONS, SAN JUAN BASIN, NEW MEXICO: WILLIAMSON, Thomas E., New Mexico Museum of Nat History and Sci, 1801 Mountain Road, NW, Albuquerque, NM 87104, twilliamson@nmmnh.state.nm.us and WEIL, Anne, Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy, Duke University, 08 Biological Sciences Building, Durham, NC 27708-0383,
1:45 PM ANAGENETIC EVOLUTION OF TETRACLAENODON, A PALEOCENE "CONDYLARTH" FROM THE SAN JUAN BASIN, NEW MEXICO: LIBED, Shirley A., Earth & Planetary Sciences, Univ of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, albinque@unm.edu and LUCAS, Spencer G., New Mexico Museum of Nat History, 1801 Mountain Rd NW, Albuq, NM 87104,
2:00 PM THE PHYTOSAUR NICROSAURUS BUCEROS IN THE UPPER TRIASSIC OF THE CHAMA BASIN, NORTH-CENTRAL NEW MEXICO: ZEIGLER, Kate E.1, LUCAS, S. G.2, HECKERT, A. B.1, and HUNT, A. P.3, (1) Dept. Earth & Planet Sci, UNM, Albuq, NM 87131, kaerowyn@unm.edu, (2) NMMNH, Albuq, NM 87104, (3) Mesalands Dinosaur Museum, Tucumcari, NM 88401
2:15 PM CARBONATE PARAGENESIS DETERMINED BY CATHODOLUMINESCENCE IN AMMONOID PHRAGMOCONES FROM THE FAYETTEVILLE AND IMO SHALES (UPPER MISSISSIPPIAN), NORTHERN ARKANSAS: HUTCHINSON, Camille M., Department of Geosciences, Univ of Arkansas, 113 Ozark Hall, Fayetteville, AR 72701, chutchi@mail.uark.edu.
2:30 PM MOBILITY OF RARE-EARTH ELEMENTS (REE) IN MARINE CARBONIFEROUS PHOSPHATES AND HOST SHALES FROM THE MIDCONTINENT AND IMPLICATIONS FOR SHALE PROVENANCE ANALYSIS: KIDDER, David L.1, KRISHNASWAMY, Rama2, and MAPES, Royal H.1, (1) Geological Sciences, Ohio Univ, Athens, OH 45701, kidder@ohiou.edu, (2) Geological Sciences, The George Washington Univ, Washington, DC 20052
2:45 PM Break
3:00 PM J-5 UNOCONFORMITY: A TECTONOSEQUENCE BOUNDARY IN THE JURASSIC WESTERN INTERIOR BASIN: LUCAS, Spencer G., New Mexico Museum of Nat History, 1801 Mountain Rd NW, Albuq, NM 87104, SLucas@nmmnh.state.nm.us and HECKERT, Andrew B., Earth & Plan. Sci, Univ of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131,
3:15 PM STROMATOLITES, MASS FLOWS, AND FLUID ESCAPE STRUCTURES, NAVAJO SANDSTONE, CAPITOL REEF NATIONAL PARK, UTAH: EISENBERG, Leonard, 223 Granite Street, Ashland, OR 97520, erdelei@aol.com.
3:30 PM STRATIGRAPHY AND PETROLEUM PROSPECTS OF ANCIENT GEOSYNCLINES: BILLO, Saleh M., Geology Department, King Saud Univ, Riyadh 11451 Saudi Arabia

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