| Start Time |
| 8:00 AM | Introductory Remarks |
| 8:05 AM | APPLICATION OF RARE EARTH ELEMENT(REE) SIGNATURE ANALYSIS AT PLEISTOCENE LOCALITIES IN FOSSIL LAKE, OREGON: PATRICK, Doreena1, MARTIN, James E.2, and GRANDSTAFF, David E.1, (1) Department of Geology, Temple Univ, 12th & Norris St, Philadelphia, PA 19122, dmpc28@aol, (2) Museum of Geology, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 501 E. St. Joseph Street, Rapid City, SD 57701 |
| 8:25 AM | EVIDENCE FOR TECTONIC FACTORS IN THE PRESERVATION OF AUTOCHTHONOUS CARBONIFEROUS FORESTS, BLACK WARRIOR BASIN: GASTALDO, Robert A., Dept. of Geology, Colby College, 5800 Mayflower Hill, Waterville, ME 04901-8858, ragastal@colby.edu, WARE, William N., 1109 Wynterhall Land, Dunwoody, GA 30338, and STEVANOVIC-WALLS, Ivana M., Department of Geology & Geophysics, Texas A&M Univ, College Station, TX 77843 |
| 8:45 AM | AN INVESTIGATION OF THE PROCESSES INVOLVED IN AVIAN THAPHONOMY: PETRUCELLI, Jillian A. and KRAUSS, David A., Biology, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Ave, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, petrucji@bc.edu |
| 9:05 AM | PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF A NEW PARTIAL MASTODON SKELETON FROM WESTERN NEW YORK STATE: ALLMON, Warren D.1, SHERPA, James1, KROHN, Paul E.1, and CHIMENT, John2, (1) Paleontological Rsch Institution, 1259 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca, NY 14850-1398, wda1@cornell.edu, (2) Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sci, Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY 14853 |
| 9:25 AM | UNUSUAL RHOMBIFERAN-BEARING SHELL BED IN UPPER ORDOVICIAN, REEDSVILLE SHALE OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA: LEHMANN, David, Department of Geology, Juniata College, Huntington, PA 16652, lehmann@juniata.edu. |
| 9:45 AM | PALEOECOLOGY OF THE ANTES SHALE, PA: BEARES, Donna K.1, LEHMANN, David1, HOFFER, Matthew R.1, and MITCHELL, Charles E.2, (1) Department of Geology, Juniata College, Huntington, PA 16652, bearedk8@juniata.edu, (2) Department of Geology, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260 |
| 10:05 AM | Break |
| 10:20 AM | TAPHONOMY OF CONODONTS AND MICROVERTEBRATES IN REMAINIÉ HORIZONS: NEW APPROACHES TO UNRAVELING STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS AROUND THE MIDDLE-UPPER (GIVETIAN-FRASNIAN) BOUNDARY IN WESTERN NEW YORK: KIRCHGASSER, William T., SUNY - College at Potsdam, Dept Geology, Potsdam, NY 13676, kirchgwt@potsdam.edu. |
| 10:40 AM | CRYPTOSPORE DYADS: A NEW PROXY FOR EARLY EMBRYOPHYTES: STROTHER, Paul K., Boston College, 381 Concord Rd, Weston, MA 02493-1312, strother@bc.edu. |
| 11:00 AM | PALEOECOLOGICAL AND PALEOGEOGRAPHIC SIGNIFICANCE OF NEW SELACHIAN PALEOFAUNAS FROM LATEST CRETACEOUS AND PALEOCENE MARGINAL MARINE FACIES, HANNA BASIN AREA, WYOMING: WROBLEWSKI, Anton Franz-Josef, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Univ of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071-3006, franz_josef1@hotmail.com. |
| 11:20 AM | A NEW FOSSIL GALLIFORM FROM THE BRIDGER FORMATION (EOCENE: 50-48 MA), SOUTHWESTERN WYOMING: GULAS, Bonnie E., Geology and Geophysics, Yale Univ, New Haven, CT 06520, bonnie.gulas@yale.edu and WROBLEWSKI, Anton F.-J., Geology and Geophysics, Univ of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071-3006 |
| 11:40 AM | TRACE FOSSILS FROM EARLY SILURIAN MUDSTONES OF THE SPRAGUEVILLE FORMATION, NORTHEAST MAINE, USA: LOPEZ, Geraldine A. and ROY, David C., Department of Geology and Geophysics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02167, lopezgc@bc.edu |
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