2004 Denver Annual Meeting (November 7–10, 2004)
Session No. 130 Tuesday, November 9, 2004
8:00 AM-12:00 PM, Colorado Convention Center: 111/113

Paleontology VI: Quantitative and Analytical Morphology

Roger Thomas and Edward Davis, Presiding
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130-18:00 AM RETRODEFORMATION OF FOSSIL INSECT WINGS: A CASE STUDY: BÉTHOUX, Olivier, Geology and Geophysics, Yale Univ, P.O. Box 208109, New Haven, CT 06520-8109, olivier.bethoux@yale.edu.
130-28:15 AM PALEOBIOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF A FUNCTIONAL DESIGN SPACE OF SINGLE VEINED LEAVES: BOYCE, C. Kevin1, ZWIENIECKI, Maciej A.2, and HOLBROOK, N. Michele2, (1) Geophysical Sciences, Univ of Chicago, 5734 S. Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, ckboyce@uchicago.edu, (2) Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard Univ, 16 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138
130-38:30 AM GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF SHARK TEETH OF THE GENUS RHIZOPRIONODON. MODERN TOOTH SHAPE ANALYSIS AND TEST OF ANCESTRAL PREDICTION METHODS BY COMPARISON TO FOSSIL SHAPES: GARRY, Aspen, Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State Univ, 339 Science II, Ames, IA 50011, iasharklady@yahoo.com.
130-48:45 AM DYNAMICS OF MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION IN THE NAUTILOIDEA: A COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRIC APPROACH: LOW, Sofya, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard Univ, 20 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, sofyalow@fas.harvard.edu.
130-59:00 AM IDENTIFICATION OF MAMMALIAN POSTCRANIA USING MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS: CLASSIFYING ASTRAGALI OF CAMELIDAE (MAMMALIA) FROM THE LATE MIOCENE OF NEVADA: DAVIS, Edward, Integrative Biology, Univ of California, Berkeley, 3060 Valley Life Sciences Building, Berkeley, CA 94720, daviseb@socrates.berkeley.edu.
130-69:15 AM PRELIMINARY COMPARISON OF PALEOZOIC AMMONOID SUTURE MORPHOLOGY QUANTIFIED USING A WINDOWED, SHORT-TIME FOURIER TRANSFORM TO EXTERNAL SHELL COILING: ALLEN, Emily G., Committee on Evolutionary Biology, Univ of Chicago, 1025 E 57th Street, Culver 402, Chicago, IL 60637, egallen@uchicago.edu.
130-79:30 AM MORPHOMETRIC AND TAPHONOMIC ANALYSES OF TANYTRACHELOS AHYNIS FROM THE LATE TRIASSIC COW BRANCH FORMATION, SOLITE QUARRY, VIRGINIA: CASEY, Michelle, Geosciences, Virginia Tech, 4044 Derring Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061, mmcasey@vt.edu, FRASER, Nicholas, Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, Virginia Museum of Nat History, 1001 Douglas Avenue, Martinsville, VA 24112, and KOWALEWSKI, Michal, Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech, 4044 Derring Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061
130-89:45 AM HIERARCHICAL INTEGRATION OF MODULAR STRUCTURES IN THE EMERGENCE OF COMPLEXITY AMONG EARLY METAZOAN SKELETONS: THOMAS, Roger D.K., Earth and Environment, Franklin and Marshall College, PO Box 3003, Lancaster, PA 17604-3003, roger.thomas@fandm.edu.
130-910:00 AM DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN CLOSELY RELATED SPECIES WITHIN A LINEAGE: GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICS OF MULINIA OF THE ATLANTIC COASTAL PLAIN, U.S.A: STEMPIEN, Jennifer A., Department of Geosciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ, 4044 Derring Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061, jstempie@vt.edu.
130-1010:15 AM INTRASPECIES VARIATION BETWEEN TWO EXTANT POPULATIONS OF LAQUEUS CALIFORNIANUS AS MODELED BY ELLIPTICAL FOURIER ANALYSIS: SEIGLE, Amanda B., FITZGERALD, Paul C., and CARLSON, Sandra J., Geology, Univ of California, Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616, abseigle@ucdavis.edu
130-1110:30 AM DEVELOPING INTERNAL VOLUME ESTIMATES FOR INEQUIVALVED SPECIES: TESTING CONSTRAINTS ON SHELL SHAPE AND DESIRABILITY AS A PREY ITEM IN CORBULID BIVALVES: ARONOWSKY, Audrey, Geology and Geophysics, Louisiana State Univ, E235 Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, audrey@geol.lsu.edu, ANDERSON, Laurie C., Geology and Geophysics, Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, GOODWIN, David H., Department of Geology & Geography, Denison Univ, Granville, OH 43023, and ROOPNARINE, Peter D., Dept. of Invertebrate Zoology and Geology, California Academy of Sciences, 875 Howard St, San Francisco, CA 94103
130-1210:45 AM MORPHOMETRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS OF INTEGRATION IN MORPHOLOGICALLY CONSERVATIVE MOLLUSCAN CLADES: ANDERSON, Laurie C.1, ROOPNARINE, Peter D.2, ARONOWSKY, Audrey3, and CALLIER, Viviane2, (1) Geology and Geophysics, Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, laurie@geol.lsu.edu, (2) Dept. of Invertebrate Zoology and Geology, California Academy of Sciences, 875 Howard St, San Francisco, CA 94103, (3) Geology and Geophysics, Louisiana State Univ, E235 Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex, Baton Rouge, LA 70803
130-1311:00 AM Paper Withdrawn
130-1411:15 AM APPLYING GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICS TO SIBLING SPECIES OF POLYSTIRA (GASTROPODA:TURRIDAE): SMITH, Ursula1, TODD, Jonathan2, and MCLEOD, Norman2, (1) Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell Univ, Snee Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-1504, ues4@cornell.edu, (2) Dept. of Palaeontology, The Nat History Museum, London, SW7 5BD, United Kingdom
130-1511:30 AM HOW TO GROW A SABER-TOOTH: FELID CANINE GROWTH RATES: FERANEC, Robert S., Department of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley, 3060 Valley Life Sciences Building, Berkeley, CA 94720, feranec@socrates.berkeley.edu.
130-1611:45 AM TRACING THE ANCESTRY OF THE GREAT WHITE SHARK USING MORPHOMETRIC ANALYSES OF FOSSIL TEETH: CIAMPAGLIO, Charles N.1, NYBERG, Kevin2, and WRAY, Gregory A.2, (1) Geology, Wright State Univ, 7600 State Route 703, Celina, OH 45822, chuck.ciampaglio@wright.edu, (2) Biology, Duke Univ, Biological Sciences BLDG, Durham, NC 27708

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