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| | 8:00 AM | Introductory Remarks |
| 14-1 | 8:05 AM | THIRTEEN DECADES OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY AT THE FLORISSANT FOSSIL BEDS, COLORADO: VEATCH, Steven W., Department of Earth Science, Emporia State Univ, Emporia, KS 66801, sgeoveatch@att.net and MEYER, Herbert W., National Park Service, Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, PO Box 185, Florissant, CO 80816 |
| 14-2 | 8:25 AM | STRATIGRAPHY OF THE UPPER EOCENE FLORISSANT FORMATION, COLORADO: EVANOFF, Emmett, University of Colorado Museum, Univ Colorado - Boulder, Campus Box 265, Boulder, CO 80309-0265, emmettevanoff@earthlink.net. |
| 14-3 | 8:45 AM | MAGNETIC STRATIGRAPHY OF THE UPPER EOCENE FLORISSANT FORMATION, COLORADO: PROTHERO, Donald R. and SANCHEZ, Francisco, Geology, Occidental College, 1600 Campus Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90041, prothero@oxy.edu |
| 14-4 | 9:00 AM | THE ROLE OF BIOFILM IN FOSSIL PRESERVATION IN THE LATE EOCENE FLORISSANT FORMATION, COLORADO: O'BRIEN, Neal R., Department of Geology, State University of New York at Potsdam, Potsdam, NY 13676, obriennr@potsdam.edu and MEYER, Herbert W., Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, P.O. Box 185, Florissant, CO 80816 |
| 14-5 | 9:15 AM | FLORISSANT FOSSIL INSECTS: PATTERNS OF TAXONOMIC DIVERSITY: DRUMMOND, Boyce A. III, Gillette Museum of Arthropod Biodiversity, Colorado State Univ, Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management, 1177 Campus Delivery, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1177, boyce@lamar.colostate.edu. |
| 14-6 | 9:30 AM | FLORISSANT IS BETTER THAN AMBER: A COMPARISON OF BEETLE PRESERVATION, DIVERSITY AND ECOLOGICAL REPRESENTATION: SMITH, Dena, CU Museum of Natural History, Univ of Colorado, Campus Box 265, Boulder, CO 80309, dena@colorado.edu. |
| 14-7 | 9:45 AM | A MORPHOMETRIC STUDY OF THE EOCENE SPIDERS OF FLORISSANT, COLORADO: KINCHLOE, April E1, SMITH, Dena M.1, CUSHING, Paula E.2, and GURALNICK, Robert3, (1) Geological Sciences, Univ of Colorado at Boulder, Campus Box 399, Boulder, CO 80309-0399, Kinchloe@colorado.edu, (2) Curator of Entomology and Arachnology, Denver Museum of Nature and Sci, Denver, CO 80205, (3) Museum/Administration, Univ of Colorado at Boulder, 265 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309 |
| | 10:00 AM | Discussion Break |
| 14-8 | 10:15 AM | A NEW MAMMALIAN FAUNA FROM FLORISSANT FOSSIL BEDS NATIONAL MONUMENT, COLORADO: WORLEY, Marie P., Museum and Field Studies, Univ of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, Marie.Worley@Colorado.edu. |
| 14-9 | 10:30 AM | CENSUS STUDY OF FOSSIL PLANTS, INSECTS AND INVERTEBRATES IN THE LOWER SHALE UNIT OF THE FLORISSANT FORMATION OF COLORADO: WAGNER, Steve B.1, MEYER, Herbert W.2, and JOHNSON, Kirk1, (1) Department of Earth Sciences, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd, Denver, CO 80205, paleo@paleocurrents.com, (2) National Park Service, Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, PO Box 185, Florissant, CO 80816 |
| 14-10 | 10:45 AM | ESTIMATING PALEOCLIMATE BASED ON CONTEMPORARY FOREST INVENTORIES: A SEARCH FOR THE MODERN ANALOG OF THE FLORISSANT FOSSIL FLORA: BOYLE, Brad, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85719, bboyle@email.arizona.edu, ENQUIST, Brian, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, 85719, and MEYER, Herbert W., Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, P.O. Box 185, Florissant, CO 80816 |
| 14-11 | 11:00 AM | SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FLORISSANT FLORA TO PLANT COMMUNITY DYNAMICS OF THE EOCENE-OLIGOCENE TRANSITION: MEYER, Herbert W., Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, P.O. Box 185, Florissant, CO 80816, Herb_Meyer@nps.gov. |
| 14-12 | 11:15 AM | A WEB-BASED DATABASE OF THE PALEONTOLOGICAL SPECIMENS FROM THE FLORISSANT FOSSIL BEDS: WASSON, Matthew S., Geological Sciences, Univ of Michigan, 2534 CC Little Building, 425 East University, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, mswasson@umich.edu and MEYER, Herbert W., Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, P.O. Box 185, Florissant, CO 80816 |
| 14-13 | 11:30 AM | INTRODUCTION TO PALEONTOLOGY AND THE FOSSILS OF FLORISSANT 101: AN INTERNET- BASED COLLEGE PALEONTOLOGY COURSE: WOLIN, Jeff1, SPARKS, Kelly2, MEYER, Herbert W.1, and LUTZ-RYAN, Linda3, (1) Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, P.O. Box 185, Florissant, CO 80816, jeff_wolin@nps.gov, (2) Southern Colorado Geodata Lab, Univ of Colorado at Colorado Springs, 1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway, Dept. GES Mailbox COB2, Colorado Springs, CO 80918, (3) National Park Service Intermountain Region, P.O. Box 25287, Denver, CO 80225 |
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