2006 Philadelphia Annual Meeting (22–25 October 2006)
Session No. 155 Tuesday, 24 October 2006
1:30 PM-5:30 PM, Pennsylvania Convention Center: 104 B

Paleontology/Paleobotany VII: Phylogeny, Systematics, and Evolution

Forest Gahn and Ursula E. Smith, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
155-11:30 PM HOW TO DECIDE WHICH TO INCLUDE? THE EFFECTS OF TAXONOMIC SAMPLING ON PHYLOGENETIC HYPOTHESES: CARLSON, Sandra J., Department of Geology, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, carlson@geology.ucdavis.edu and FITZGERALD, Paul C., Department of Geology, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616
155-21:45 PM DISMANTLING "LIVING FOSSILS": A FRAMEWORK FOR PERSISTENCE, PROLONGED STASIS AND SLOW RATES OF CHANGE: LIDGARD, Scott, Geology, Field Museum, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, slidgard@fieldmuseum.org and LIOW, Lee Hsiang, Committee on Evolutionary Biology, Univ of Chicago, 5734 S. Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
155-32:00 PM APPLICATION OF PROTOCONCH AND APICAL ONTOGENY IN SYSTEMATICS OF THE NEW ZEALAND TURRITELLID GASTROPODS: SMITH, Ursula E., Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, ursula.smith@cantab.net and ALLMON, Warren D., Paleontological Research Institution, 1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca, NY 14850-1398
155-42:15 PM A TALE OF TWO SNAILS: TESTING LIMITING SIMILARITY IN QUATERNARY THEBA: HUNTLEY, John Warren, Department of Geoological Sciences, Virginia Poltechnic Institute and State Univ, Blacksburg, VA 24061, jhuntley@vt.edu, YANES, Yurena, Geosciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, and KOWALEWSKI, Michal, Department of Geosciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ, 4044 Derring Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061
155-52:30 PM NEW DATA ON UPPER DEVONIAN PELAGIC BIVALVES: NAGEL, Judith, Museum of the Earth, Paleontological Research Institut, 1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca, NY 14850, jn226@cornell.edu
155-62:45 PM THE ESTHETAL CANAL SYSTEM IN POLYPLACOPHORANS (MOLLUSCA) AND A COMPARISON WITH THE SCLERITE CANAL SYSTEM IN SACHITIDS (LOWER TO MIDDLE CAMBRIAN): VINTHER, Jakob, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, P.O. Box 208109, New Haven, CT 06520-8109, Jakob.vinther@yale.edu
155-73:00 PM CROWN-GROUP CNIDARIANS FROM THE CAMBRIAN OF UTAH: HENDRICKS, Jonathan R.1, HALGEDAHL, Susan L.2, LIEBERMAN, Bruce S.1, and JARRARD, Richard D.2, (1) Department of Geology, University of Kansas, Lindley Hall, 1475 Jayhawk Blvd., Room 120, Lawrence, KS 66045, blieber@ku.edu, (2) Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, 135 S. 1460 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84112
 3:15 PM Break
155-83:30 PM DELTOID AND ORAL PLATE HOMOLOGY IN BLASTOIDS: WATERS, Johnny, Geology, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 28608, watersja@appstate.edu and SUMRALL, Colin, Earth and Planetary Science, The Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996
155-93:45 PM HOW MANY TIMES DID TWO AMBULACRA EVOLVE IN GLYPTOCYSTITOID RHOMBIFERANS - NEW INSIGHTS FROM THE PAEDOMORPHIC AMBULACRAL REDUCTION (PAR) MODEL?: SUMRALL, Colin D., Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, csumrall@utk.edu
155-104:00 PM BUILDING A BETTER HELICOPLACOID AND THE MEANING OF “EDRIOASTEROID”: WILBUR, Bryan C., Natural Sciences Division, Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91106, bwilbur@mail.utexas.edu
155-114:15 PM GARDEN CITY OF ECHINODERMS: A NEW EARLY ORDOVICIAN LAGERSTÄTTE FROM IDAHO AND UTAH: GAHN, Forest J., Department of Geology, Brigham Young University - Idaho, Rexburg, ID 83460-0510, gahnf@byui.edu, SPRINKLE, James, Department of Geological Sciences, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, and GUENSBURG, Thomas E., Physical Science Division, Rock Valley College, Rockford, IL 61114
155-124:30 PM GOGIID EOCRINOIDS (ECHINODERMATA) FROM THE LOWER CAMBRIAN BALANG FORMATION, GUIZHOU PROVINCE, CHINA, SOME WITH PRESERVED SOFTPART SUTURAL PORE STRUCTURES: PARSLEY, Ronald L.1, ZHAO, Yuanlong2, and PENG, Jen2, (1) Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Tulane Univ, New Orleans, LA 70118, parsley@tulane.edu, (2) Institute of Resources and Environmental Science, Guizhou University, Guiyang, 550003, China
155-134:45 PM DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIMEN OF PLESIOSAUR AND IMPLICATIONS OF THE BIODIVERSITY OF THE TROPIC SHALE OF SOUTHERN UTAH: SCHMEISSER, Rebecca L., Department of Geology, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, rls92@nau.edu, GILLETTE, David D., Department of Geology, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ 86001, ALBRIGHT, L. Barry, Department of Chemistry and Physics, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL, 32224, and TITUS, Alan L., Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, Bureau of Land Management, Kanab, UT 84741-3244
155-145:00 PM A NEW SPECIES OF MIMOTONID FROM THE MIDDLE EOCENE OF MONGOLIA: EVIDENCE FOR THE EVOLUTION OF LAGOMORPHA: KRAATZ, Brian P., Department of Integrative Biology and Museum of Paleontology, University of California, 3060 Valley Life Sciences Building, Berkeley, CA 94720, bkraatz@berkeley.edu and BADAMGARAV, D., Center of Paleontology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Peace Avenue 63, Ulaanbaatar, 210351, Mongolia

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