Session No. 46 Sunday, October 27, 2002

1:00 PM-3:45 PM, Colorado Convention Center: A102/104/106
T77. Advances in the Fossil Record of Insects and Terrestrial Arthropods
Robert E. Nelson and Cary R. Easterday, Presiding
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46-11:00 PM SAMUEL HUBBARD SCUDDER (1837-1911), PIONEERING ENTOMOLOGIST AND AMERICA’S FIRST SPECIALIST IN THE STUDY OF FOSSIL TERRESTRIAL ARTHROPODS (PALEOENTOMOLOGY, PALEOARACHNOLOGY, AND PALEOMYRIAPODOLOGY): EASTERDAY, Cary R., Geological Sciences, The Ohio State Univ, 275 Mendenhall Laboratory, 125 South Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210, xenoblatta@hotmail.com.
46-21:15 PM A NEW SOURCE OF EXCEPTIONALLY-PRESERVED ARTHROPODS: SMITH, Andrew C.1, ORR, Patrick J.1, JERAM, Andrew J.2, BAXTER, Sadhbh1, and SIMMS, Michael J.2, (1) Department of Geology, National Univ of Ireland, Galway, Galway, Ireland, andrewsmith@ausi.com, (2) Department of Geology, Ulster Museum, Botanic Gardens, Belfast, BT9 5AB, United Kingdom
46-31:30 PM ABDOMINAL LEGS OF MIDDLE PENNSYLVANIAN SROKALARVA: EARLY EXPRESSION OF THE DISTAL-LESS GENE IN HOLOMETABOLOUS INSECTS: LABANDEIRA, Conrad C. and SANTIAGO-BLAY, Jorge A., Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Nat History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, labandeira.conrad@nmnh.si.edu
46-41:45 PM LATE CRETACEOUS INSECTS FROM NEW JERSEY: LUBKIN, Sara H., Geological Sciences, Cornell Univ, Snee Hall, Ithaca, NY 14850, shl24@cornell.edu.
46-52:00 PM EOCENE INSECT FAUNA OF THE OKANAGAN HIGHLANDS: SPECIES RICHNESS AND ASSEMBLAGE RESPONSE TO SEASONAL EQUABILITY: ARCHIBALD, S. Bruce and FARRELL, Brain D., Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard Univ, Museum of Comparative Zoology, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, barchibald@oeb.harvard.edu
46-62:15 PM USING FOSSILIZED DIPTERA FROM THE FLORISSANT FORMATION AS PALEOENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS: MOE, Amy P. and SMITH, Dena M., Museum Geology Section, Univ of Colorado, UCB 265, Boulder, CO 80309, moe@colorado.edu
46-72:30 PM A MINUTE FUNGUS BEETLE LARVA (COLEOPTERA: CORYLOPHIDAE) FROM DOMINICAN AMBER: A STRIKING EXAMPLE OF MORPHOLOGICAL CONVERGENCE: ANDERSON, Scott R., GeoTrans, Inc, 46050 Manekin Plaza, Suite #100, Sterling, VA 20166, sanderson@geotransinc.com, CRAIG, Patrick R., P.O. Box 545, Monte Rio, CA 95462, and SANTIAGO-BLAY, Jorge A., Department of Paleobiology, MRC-121, National Museum of Nat History, 10th and Constitution Avenue, Smithsonian Institution, P. O. Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013-7012
46-82:45 PM PLANT-ANIMAL INTERACTIONS FROM THE MIOCENE: EVIDENCE FROM A PERMINERALIZED FLORA: DEVORE, Melanie L.1, PIGG, Kathleen B.2, and BARMAN, Everette1, (1) Georgia College & State Univ, 135 Herty Hall, Milledgeville, GA 31061, mdevore@mail.gcsu.edu, (2) Department of Plant Biology, Arizona State Univ, Box 871601, Tempe, AZ 85287-1601
46-93:00 PM EXCEPTIONAL DIVERSITY AND PRESERVATION: INSECTS AND PLANTS OF THE MIDDLE MIOCENE STEWART VALLEY ASSEMBLAGE: SMITH, Dena, CU Museum of Natural History, Univ of Colorado, Campus Box 265, Boulder, CO 80309, dena@colorado.edu.
46-103:15 PM PALEOENVIRONMENTAL INTERPRETATIONS OF THE KARGINIAN (MID-WISCONSIN) INSECT FAUNAS FROM THE CENTRAL PART OF WESTERN SIBERIA AND ADJACENT AREAS: ZINOVJEV, Evgenij, Institute of Ecology of Plants and Animals, Ural branch of RAS, 8th March St., 202, Ekaterinburg 620219 Russia, zin@etel.ru.
46-113:30 PM HOLOCENE FOREST ENVIRONMENTS IN SOUTHERN SWEDEN AND WOOD LIVING INSECTS: LEMDAHL, Geoffrey, Division of Biology, School of Biosciences and Process Technology, Växjö university, Växjö SE-351 95 Sweden, geoffrey.lemdahl@ibp.vxu.se.

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