2006 Philadelphia Annual Meeting (22–25 October 2006)
Session No. 138 Tuesday, 24 October 2006
8:00 AM-12:00 PM, Pennsylvania Convention Center: 204 A

T117. Life on Late Devonian Continents—Organisms and Ecosystems in Transition: In Honor of James Richard "Dick" Beerbower

Edward B. Daeschler and Walter L. Cressler, Presiding
  Paper #Start Time
  8:00 AM Introductory Remarks
 138-18:15 AM THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF CONTINENTAL ECOSYSTEMS REVISITED: BEERBOWER, Richard, Department of Geological Scienses and Environmental Studies, State Univ of New York at Binghamton, PO Box 6000, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000, dick.beerbower@verizon.net
[ Recorded presentation ] 138-28:30 AM PALEOENVIRONMENTS OF EARLY DEVONIAN LAND PLANTS, GASPÉ, QUEBEC: RESEARCH INSPIRED BY J.R. BEERBOWER: GRIFFING, David H., Dept. of Geology and Environmental Science, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY 13820, griffingd@hartwick.edu, HOTTON, Carol L., National Center for Biotechnology Information, NCBI/NLM/NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892-6510, and BRIDGE, John S., Dept. of Geological Sciences, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000
[ Recorded presentation ] 138-38:45 AM DEVONIAN FOREST EXPANSION INCREASED LAND-BASED TROPHIC CAPACITY AND FOOD WEB CONNECTIONS: SCHECKLER, Stephen E., Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0406, stephen@vt.edu
 138-49:05 AM COMPARATIVE STUDIES ON THE LATE DEVONIAN FLORAS FROM CHINA AND USA: WANG, Qi, State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093 China, happyking@ibcas.ac.cn
 138-59:20 AM MIOSPORE STRATIGRAPHY, THE TOOL TO LINK LATE DEVONIAN CONTINENTAL MACROFAUNA, MACROFLORA AND EVENTS TO THE STANDARD CONODONT ZONATION: STREEL, Maurice J., Paléobotanique, Paléopalynologie et Micropaléontologie, Université de Liège, Bât. B18, Sart Tilman, Liège, B-4000, Belgium, Maurice.Streel@ulg.ac.be and TRAVERSE, Alfred, Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, Deike 403, University Park, PA 16802
[ Recorded presentation ] 138-69:35 AM LANDSCAPE AND CLIMATE RECORDS DERIVED FROM DEVONIAN VERTIC FLOODPLAIN PALEOSOLS, CATSKILL FORMATION, CENTRAL PA: DRIESE, Steven G., Department of Geology, Baylor University, One Bear Place #97354, Waco, TX 76798-7354, Steven_Driese@baylor.edu, MORA, Claudia I., Earth and Planetary Sciences, Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-1410, and ELICK, Jennifer M., Earth and Environmental Sciences, Susquehanna University, 514 University Avenue, Fisher Science, Rm 27, Selinsgrove, PA 17870
  9:55 AM Break
 138-710:10 AM THE ORIGIN OF WIDESPREAD FIRE SYSTEMS AND THEIR WIDER IMPACT: SCOTT, Andrew C., Deptartment of Geology, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, TW20 0EX, United Kingdom, a.scott@gl.rhul.ac.uk, GLASSPOOL, Ian J., Department of Geology, Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, RIMMER, Susan M., Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0053, and CRESSLER, Walter L. III, Francis Harvey Green Library, West Chester University, West Chester, PA 19383
 138-810:25 AM TERRESTRIAL-MARINE LINKAGES: RECORDS OF DEVONIAN CHARCOAL, FIRE, AND PALEOATMOSPHERIC OXYGEN LEVEL: RIMMER, Susan M., Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Kentucky, 101 Slone Building, Lexington, KY 40506-0053, srimmer@uky.edu, SCOTT, Andrew C., Department of Geology, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, TW20 0EX, United Kingdom, and CRESSLER, Walter L. III, Francis Harvey Green Library, West Chester University, West Chester, PA 19383
[ Recorded presentation ] 138-910:40 AM THE AGE AND ENVIRONMENT OF THE LATE DEVONIAN EAST GREENLAND TETRAPODS: ASTIN, Timothy R., School of Human and Environmental Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 227, Reading, RG6 6AB, United Kingdom, t.r.astin@reading.ac.uk and MARSHALL, John E.A., School of Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, Waterfront Campus, European Way, Southampton, SO14 3ZH, United Kingdom, jeam@noc.soton.ac.uk
 138-1010:55 AM FAMENNIAN VERTEBRATE BIOGEOGRAPHY EMPHASIZING EURAMERICA: SOUTH MARGIN (PENNSYLVANIA, BELGIUM) VS INLAND (EAST GREENLAND): CLEMENT, Gaël1, BLOM, Henning1, and DAESCHLER, Edward B.2, (1) Subdepartment of Evolutionary Organismal Biology, Department of Physiology and Developmental Biology, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18A, Uppsala, 752 36, Sweden, gael.clement@ebc.uu.se, (2) Vertebrate Paleontology, Academy of Nat Sciences, 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA 19103
[ Recorded presentation ] 138-1111:10 AM FEEDING SHIFTS ACROSS THE FISH-AMPHIBIAN TRANSITION ARE REVEALED BY CHANGES IN CRANIAL SUTURAL MORPHOLOGY: MARKEY, Molly J., Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Rm. 117, 26 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138, markey@fas.harvard.edu and MARSHALL, Charles R., Department of Invertebrate Paleontology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
 138-1211:25 AM SARCOPTERYGIAN APPENDAGES ON LATE DEVONIAN FLOODPLAINS: SHUBIN, Neil H., Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, 1027 E. 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, nshubin@uchicago.edu
  11:45 AM Concluding Remarks
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