Session No. 188 Wednesday, October 30, 2002

8:00 AM-12:00 PM, Colorado Convention Center: A105/107
Paleontology/Paleobotany VI: Terrestrial Paleoenvironments and Biostratigraphy
Bonnie F. Jacobs and Patricia A. Holroyd, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
188-18:00 AM THE USE OF TERNARY DIAGRAMS IN RARE EARTH ELEMENT (REE) ANALYSIS OF FOSSILS AND INTERPRETATION OF THE ORIGINAL PALEOENVIRONMENT: PATRICK, Doreena, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Univ of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, Dmpc28@aol.com and GRANDSTAFF, David E., Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122
188-28:15 AM CHEMICAL ANALYSES OF FOSSIL AND MODERN PLANT RESINS USING C-13 SSNMR: SANTIAGO-BLAY, Jorge A.1, LAMBERT, Joseph B.2, and WU, Yuyang2, (1) Department of Paleobiology, MRC-121, National Museum of Nat History, 10th and Constitution Avenue, Smithsonian Institution, P. O. Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013-7012, blayj@nmnh.si.edu, jsantiag@harper.uchicago.edu, (2) Department of Chemistry, Northwestern Univ, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208-3113
188-38:30 AM PHENETIC CLASSIFICATION OF LEAF FLORAS: A COMPARATIVE EXPERIMENT: GREEN, Walton A. and HICKEY, Leo J., Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale Univ, P. O. Box 208109, Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520, walton.green@yale.edu
188-48:45 AM IMPROVED PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES USING LEAF MORPHOLOGY: KOWALSKI, Elizabeth A., Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, P.O. Box 117800, Gainesville, FL 32611, kowalski@flmnh.ufl.edu and DILCHER, David L., Florida Museum of Natural History, Univ of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-7800
188-59:00 AM EOCENE (46 MA) RAINFALL ESTIMATES FOR TROPICAL EAST AFRICA BASED ON FOSSIL LEAVES FROM MAHENGE, TANZANIA: JACOBS, Bonnie F., Environmental Science Program, Southern Methodist Univ, P.O. Box 750395, Dallas, TX 75275-0395, bjacobs@mail.smu.edu and HERENDEEN, Patrick S., Department of Biological Sciences, The George Washington Univ, 2023 G Street, Washington, DC 20052
188-69:15 AM A 64.1 MILLION YEAR OLD TROPICAL RAINFOREST FROM CASTLE ROCK, COLORADO: ELLIS, Beth, Department of Earth Sciences, Denver Museum of Nature & Sci, 2001 Colorado Blvd, Denver, CO 80205, bethathome1@juno.com and JOHNSON, Kirk R., Department of Earth Sciences, Denver Museum of Nature & Sci, 2001 Colorado Boulevard, Denver, CO 80205
188-79:30 AM PHYTOLITH ASSEMBLAGE ANALYSIS: NEW INTERPRETATIONS OF GRASSLAND EVOLUTION IN THE GREAT PLAINS DURING THE LATE EOCENE TO EARLY MIOCENE: STROMBERG, Caroline A.E., Integrative Biology and Museum of Paleontology, Univ California - Berkeley, 3060 VLSB, Berkeley, CA 94720-4780, cstrom@socrates.berkeley.edu.
188-89:45 AM PALEOBOTANICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE HANNA BASIN, SOUTH-CENTRAL WYOMING: CORRELATING PALEOCENE LEAF MEGAFOSSILS AND PALYNOLOGICAL DATA WITH NORTH AMERICAN LAND MAMMAL AGES: DUNN, Regan E, Botany, University of Wyoming, 114 Aven Nelson, Laramie, WY 82071, rdunn@uwyo.edu.
188-910:00 AM MESOFOSSILS FROM THE DAKOTA FORMATION: WANG, Xin, Paleobotany Lab, Florida Museum of Nat History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-7800, wangxin@flmnh.ufl.edu and DILCHER, David, Department of Natural Sciences, Univ of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainseville, FL 32611-7800
188-1010:15 AM FOX HILLS I, A NEW LATE MAASTRICHTIAN MEGAFLORAL ZONE FROM THE MISSOURI VALLEY REGION, DEMONSTRATING EASTWARD DIACHRONEITY OF THE HELL CREEK FORMATION IN NORTH DAKOTA: PEPPE, Daniel J., Department of Geology, St. Lawrence Univ, Canton, NY 13617, dpeppe08@stlawu.edu and ERICKSON, J. Mark, Geology Department, St. Lawrence Univ, Canton, NY 13617
188-1110:30 AM UPPER JURASSIC DINOSAUR ASSEMBLAGE IN YUNNAN PROVINCE, PRC: HENGST, Richard A., Biological Sciences, Purdue Univ - North Central Campus, 1401 South IN 421, Westville, IN 46391, rhengst@purduenc.edu and BUCK, Brenda J., Geoscience, Univ of Nevada, Las Vegas, Box 4010 Lilly Fong Hall, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV 89154
188-1210:45 AM NEW SPECIMENS OF THE HORNED DINOSAUR TOROSAURUS (DINOSAURIA: CERATOPSIA) FROM THE LATE CRETACEOUS HELL CREEK FORMATION OF MONTANA: FARKE, Andrew A., Museum of Geology, South Dakota School Mines & Technology, 501 East St. Joseph Street, Rapid City, SD 57701, andyfarke@hotmail.com.
188-1311:00 AM LATE CRETACEOUS AND EARLY PALEOCENE TURTLE BIOGEOGRAPHY: NEW DATA FROM THE DENVER BASIN, COLORADO: HOLROYD, Patricia A. and HUTCHISON, J. Howard, Univ California - Berkeley, 1101 VLSB, Berkeley, CA 94720-4780, pholroyd@uclink4.berkeley.edu
188-1411:15 AM SEDIMENTOLOGY AND STRATIGRAPHIC PALEONTOLOGY OF THE PLEISTOCENE DHOK GANGAAL HILLS, UPPER SIWALIKS OF PAKISTAN: A BIOSTRATIGRAPHIC REVISION: JAFFRI, Ali Raza, Geology and Evolutionary Biology, Univeristy of Colorado at Boulder, Campus Box 399, 220 Colorado Ave, Boulder, CO 80309-0399, hangoban@hotmail.com and MURPHEY, Paul Christopher, Museum Geology Section, Univ of Colorado, UCB 265, MCOL W210E, Boulder, CO 80309-0265
188-1511:30 AM STRATIGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF MIDDLE EOCENE (UINTAN LAND MAMMAL AGE) FOSSIL VERTEBRATE LOCALITIES IN THE EASTERN UINTA BASIN, UINTAH COUNTY, UTAH, AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR UINTAN BIOSTRATIGRAPHY: TOWNSEND, Kathryn E.1, FRISCIA, Anthony R.2, and RASMUSSEN, D. Tab1, (1) Anthropology, Washington Univ, Campus Box 1114, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130, ketownse@artsci.wustl.edu, (2) Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology, and Evolution, Univ of California, Los Angeles, 621 Charles E. Young Dr. So, Los Angeles, CA 90095
188-1611:45 AM "THALASSOID" ENDEMIC PLANORBIDS FROM THE MIOCENE LAKE PANNON, CENTRAL EUROPE: GULYÁS, Sándor, Department of Geology and Paleontology, Univ of Szeged, Egyetem u.2-6, Szeged 6722 Hungary, gubanc@yahoo.com.

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