2005 Salt Lake City Annual Meeting (October 16–19, 2005)
Session No. 49 Sunday, 16 October 2005
1:30 PM-5:30 PM, Salt Palace Convention Center: Ballroom F

T82. Taphonomy: Process and Bias through Time

Peter A. Allison and David J. Bottjer, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
49-11:30 PM ENVIRONMENTAL SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY AS A TOOL FOR ASSESSING TAPHONOMIC BIAS IN PROTEROZOIC ACRITARCHS: BARTLEY, Julie K. and COLE, Phillip M., Department of Geosciences, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA 30118, jbartley@westga.edu
49-21:45 PM A NEW SOFT-BODIED MIDDLE ORDOVICIAN FAUNA FROM THE ST. PETER SANDSTONE IN NORTHEAST IOWA: LIU, Huaibao P.1, MCKAY, Robert M.1, YOUNG, Jean N.2, WITZKE, Brian J.1, MCVEY, Kathlyn J.2, and LIU, Xiuying3, (1) Iowa DNR, Iowa Geological Survey, 109 Trowbridge Hall, Iowa City, IA 52242, pliu@igsb.uiowa.edu, (2) Physics, Luther College, 700 College Drive, Decorah, IA 52101, (3) 3216C MERF, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 52242
49-32:00 PM TAPHONOMY, CONTINUED ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS OR PROLONGED MASS EXTINCTION RECOVERY PROCESSES: MYSTERY OF THE EARLY TRIASSIC MARINE FOSSIL RECORD RESOLVED: BOTTJER, David J., Department of Earth Sciences, Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0740, dbottjer@earth.usc.edu
49-42:15 PM TAPHONOMY OF CONCHOSTRACAN-DOMINATED LACUSTRINE DEPOSITS IN THE KIRKPATRICK BASALT (JURASSIC, ANTARCTICA): STIGALL RODE, Alycia L., Department of Geological Sciences, Ohio University, 316 Clippinger Laboratories, Athens, OH 45701, stigall@ohio.edu, BRIGGS, Derek E., Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, Kline Geological Laboratory, 210 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT 06511, LESLIE, Stephen A., Department of Earth Sciences, Univ of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR 72204, and BABCOCK, Loren E., Department of Geological Sciences, The Ohio State Univ, 275 Mendenhall Laboratory, 125 South Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210
49-52:30 PM MICROTAPHOFACIES OF PALEOGENE LIMESTONES: THE ROLE OF TAPHONOMY IN SHAPING AND INTERPRETING CARBONATE FACIES ACROSS GEOGRAPHIC AND TEMPORAL BOUNDARIES: NEBELSICK, James H., Insitute for Geosciences, University of Tuebingen, Sigwartstrasse 10, Tuebingen, 72076, Germany, nebelsick@uni-tuebingen.de, RASSER, Michael, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Rosenstein 1, Stuttgart, 70191, Germany, and BASSI, Davide, Dipartimento delle Risorse Naturali e Culturali, University of Ferrara, Corso Ercole I d'Este 32, Ferrera, 44100, Italy
49-62:45 PM BONE DISTRIBUTION AND DIAGENETIC MODIFICATIONS AT THE MAMMOTH SITE OF HOT SPRINGS, SOUTH DAKOTA, USA: THOMPSON, Kristine M. and AGENBROAD, Larry D., Geology, Mammoth Site of Hot Springs, S.D, PO Box 698, Hot Springs, SD 57747, kmt1@mammothsite.com
49-73:00 PM THE DEATH ASSEMBLAGE OF YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK: A LIVE-DEAD ANALYSIS OF A TEMPERATE MAMMALIAN COMMUNITY: MILLER, Joshua H., Committee on Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago, 5734 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, millerjh@uchicago.edu
 3:15 PM Break
49-83:30 PM WERE FOSSILS EXCEPTIONALLY PRESERVED IN UNUSUAL TIMES?: RETALLACK, Gregory J., Department of Geological Sciences, Univ of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, gregr@darkwing.uoregon.edu
49-93:45 PM DID ALPHA DIVERSITY TRIPLE BETWEEN THE PALEOZOIC AND CENOZOIC?: ALROY, John, Paleobiology Database, The, NCEAS, University of California, 735 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, alroy@nceas.ucsb.edu and HENDY, Austin J.W., Department of Geology, Univ of Cincinnati, Box 0013, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0013
49-104:00 PM MESO-CENOZOIC INCREASE IN SAMPLE-LEVEL DIVERSITY IN THE MARINE BENTHIC FOSSIL RECORD: SHIFT IN SAMPLING TECHNIQUES, LOSS OF ARAGONITE, OR GAIN IN GASTROPODS?: KOWALEWSKI, Michal1, KIESSLING, Wolfgang2, ABERHAN, Martin2, FÜRSICH, Franz3, and SCARPONI, Daniele4, (1) Department of Geosciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ, 4044 Derring Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24060, michalk@vt.edu, (2) Institut für Paläontologie, Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstr. 43, Berlin, 10115, Germany, (3) Institut für Paläontologie, Universität Würzburg, Pleicherwall 1, Würzburg, 97070, Germany, (4) Earth Sciences, Univ of Bologna, via Zamboni 67, Bologna, 40126, Italy
49-114:15 PM THE ROLE OF CLIMATE IN DETERMINING VERTEBRATE FOSSIL PRESERVATION AND DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS: NOTO, Christopher R., Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, 650 Life Sciences, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5245, crnoto@life.bio.sunysb.edu
49-124:30 PM LITHIFICATION AND THE MEASUREMENT OF BIODIVERSITY – IS MISSING ALPHA STUCK BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE?: HENDY, Austin J.W., Department of Geology, Univ of Cincinnati, Box 0013, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0013, hendya@email.uc.edu
49-134:45 PM BRACHIOPOD VERSUS BIVALVE RADIOCARBON AGES: IMPLICATIONS FOR PHANEROZOIC TRENDS IN TIME-AVERAGING AND PRODUCTIVITY: KIDWELL, Susan M., Geophysical Sciences, Univ of Chicago, 5734 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, skidwell@uchicago.edu
49-145:00 PM TAPHONOMIC DAMAGE AND TAXONOMIC IDENTIFIABILITY: IMPLICATIONS FOR SECULAR BIAS IN THE FOSSIL RECORD: ROTHFUS, Thomas A., Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, 5734 South Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, tarothfu@uchicago.edu
49-155:15 PM LONG-TERM HYDROLOGY CONTROLS THE CONTINENTAL PLANT-FOSSIL RECORD: GASTALDO, Robert A., Department of Geology, Colby College, Waterville, ME 04901, ragastal@colby.edu and DEMKO, Timothy M., Department of Geological Sciences, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN 55812

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