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| 225-1 | 1:30 PM | ANIMAL EMBRYOS FROM THE TERMINAL NEOPROTEROZOIC DOUSHANTUO FORMATION: HOW DID THEY HATCH?: XIAO, Shuhai1, ZHOU, Chuanming2, and YUAN, Xunlai2, (1) Department of Geosciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ, Blacksburg, VA 24061, xiao@vt.edu, (2) Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210008, China |
| 225-2 | 1:45 PM | DATING THE ORIGINS OF MARINE INVERTEBRATE LARVAE WITH A MOLECULAR CLOCK: PETERSON, Kevin J., Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, North College St, Hanover, NH 03755, kevin.peterson@dartmouth.edu. |
| 225-3 | 2:00 PM | A POSSIBLE FRONDOSE EDIACARAN FOSSIL FROM NEOPROTEROZOIC BITUMINOUS LIMESTONE OF THE DENGYING FORMATION: ITS BODY PLAN, LIFESTYLE, AND TAPHONOMY: SHEN, Bing1, XIAO, Shuhai1, ZHOU, Chuanming2, YUAN, Xunlai2, and XIE, Guwei2, (1) Department of Geosciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ, Blacksburg, VA 24061, bingshen@vt.edu, (2) Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210008, China |
| 225-4 | 2:15 PM | THE TIE THAT BINDS: ATTACHMENT STRUCTURE HOMOLOGIES IN EARLY CAMBRIAN ECHINODERMS: WILBUR, Bryan C., Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, 1 University Station, C1140, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712-0254, bwilbur@mail.utexas.edu. |
| 225-5 | 2:30 PM | DEATH, DECAY AND DESTRUCTION OF DICKINSONIA: RETALLACK, Gregory J., Department of Geological Sciences, Univ of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, gregr@darkwing.uoregon.edu. |
| 225-6 | 2:45 PM | ECOLOGY OF THE EDIACARAN EXPLOSION: DROSER, Mary L.1, GEHLING, Jim G.2, RICE, D.3, MROFKA, David D.4, and KENNEDY, Martin J.4, (1) Department of Earth Sciences, Univ of California, Riverside, 1432 Geology Building, U.C. Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, Mary.Droser@ucr.edu, (2) Palaeontology, South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, 5000, Australia, (3) South Australia Museum, Adelaide, (4) Department of Earth Sciences, Univ of California Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521-0423 |
| 225-7 | 3:00 PM | FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGES IN LOWER CAMBRIAN MICROBIAL MATGROUND SEDIMENTS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR EARLY BENTHIC AND INFAUNAL ECOLOGIES: BAILEY, Jake, CORSETTI, Frank A., BOTTJER, David, and NICHOLSON, Katherine, Department of Earth Sciences, Univ of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, jvbailey@usc.edu |
| 225-8 | 3:15 PM | ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERS DURING THE CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION: TRACE FOSSIL RECORD FROM THE LOWER CAMBRIAN OF EASTERN CALIFORNIA: NICHOLSON, Katherine A., Department of Earth Sciences, Univ of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0740, kanichol@usc.edu and BOTTJER, David J., Department of Earth Sciences, Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0740 |
| 225-9 | 3:30 PM | TRENDS IN BODY-SIZE AND MORPHOLOGICAL DISPARITY OF PROTEROZOIC THROUGH MIDDLE CAMBRIAN ACRITARCHS: A LITERATURE-BASED APPROACH: HUNTLEY, John Warren, Department of Geosciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ, 4044 Derring Hall (0420), Blacksburg, VA 24061, jhuntley@vt.edu, XIAO, Shuhai, Department of Geosciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ, Blacksburg, VA 24061, and KOWALEWSKI, Michal, Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech, 4044 Derring Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061 |
| 225-10 | 3:45 PM | FOSSIL ANEMONES FROM THE LOWER CAMBRIAN CHENGJIANG BIOTA: STANLEY, G.D. Jr1, HOU, X.-G.2, ZHAO, J.2, and MA, X.-Y.2, (1) Geology, The Univ of Montana, Missoula, 59812, fossil@selway.umt.edu, (2) Yunnan Key Laboratory for Palaeontology, Yunnan Univ, Kunming, 650091, China |
| 225-11 | 4:00 PM | THE “CLOVER ANIMAL” – SPEARHEAD OF THE CAMBRIAN REVOLUTION: BENGTSON, Stefan, Department of Palaeozoology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Box 50007, Stockholm, SE-104 05, stefan.bengtson@nrm.se and KOUCHINSKY, Artem, Department of Biology (OBEE) and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP), Univ of California Los Angeles, 3845 Slichter Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095 |
| 225-12 | 4:15 PM | A METAMERIC BRACHIOPOD FROM THE LOWER CAMBRIAN: BALTHASAR, Uwe, Earth Sciences, Univ of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ United Kingdom, ubal01@esc.cam.ac.uk. |
| 225-13 | 4:30 PM | A FOSSIL RADULA FROM THE LOWER CAMBRIAN MAHTO FORMATION, JASPER NATIONAL PARK, CANADA: BUTTERFIELD, Nicholas J., Department of Earth Sciences, Univ of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ United Kingdom, njb1005@esc.cam.ac.uk. |
| 225-14 | 4:45 PM | EVOLUTIONARY PALEOECOLOGY OF EARLY BENTHIC ECHINODERMS: CONVERGENCE OF CAMBRIAN AND LATE DEVONIAN FORMS: DORNBOS, Stephen Q., Department of Geosciences, Univ of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, P.O.Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201, sdornbos@usc.edu. |
| 225-15 | 5:00 PM | FOSSILIZATION OF NARAOIIDS FROM THE KAILI BIOTA (GUIZHOU PROVINCE, CHAINA) BASED ON ARTHROPOD TAPHONOMY INDEX (ATI) – A NEW MODEL FOR EXCEPTIONALLY PRESERVED ARTHROPODS: LIN, Jih-Pai, Geological Sciences, Ohio State Univ, 125 South Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210, lin.542@osu.edu. |
| 225-16 | 5:15 PM | BURGESS SHALE FAUNAS WERE NOT COMPLETELY BURROWED AWAY: THE PALEOENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXT OF SOFT-BODIED PRESERVATION IN THE THREE UTAH LAGERSTÄTTEN: GAINES, Robert R., Geology Department, Pomona College, 609 N. College Ave, Claremont, CA 91711, robert.gaines@pomona.edu and DROSER, Mary L., Department of Earth Sciences, Univ of California, Riverside, 1432 Geology Building, U.C. Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521 |
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