2006 Philadelphia Annual Meeting (22–25 October 2006)
Session No. 212 Wednesday, 25 October 2006
1:30 PM-5:30 PM, Pennsylvania Convention Center: 108 B

Paleontology/Paleobotany X: Marine Ecological Dynamics

Ann Molineux and Seth Finnegan, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
212-11:30 PM LIFE HISTORY EVOLUTION OF TROPICAL AMERICAN CUPULADRIID BRYOZOANS: O'DEA, Aaron1, JACKSON, Jeremy B.C.2, RODRIGUEZ, Felix1, and HERRERA CUBILLA, Amalia1, (1) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Box 2072, Balboa, Panama, odeaa@si.edu, (2) Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0244
212-21:45 PM USING MG/CA RATIOS TO INVESTIGATE GROWTH AND LONGEVITY IN CRANIID BRACHIOPODS: JAECKS, Glenn S., Institute of Paleontology, Slovenian Academy of Sciences, Novi trg 2, Ljubljana, 1000, Slovenia, Glenn@zrc-sazu.si and CARLSON, Sandra J., Department of Geology, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616
212-32:00 PM BODY SIZE TRENDS AND ENERGETIC CONSTRAINTS PREDICT DECLINING ABUNDANCE OF TRILOBITES IN THE ORDOVICIAN OF NORTH AMERICA: FINNEGAN, Seth and DROSER, Mary L., Department of Earth Sciences, Univ of California, Riverside, CA 92521, finnes01@ucr.edu
212-42:15 PM A TEST OF AMBOCOELIID (BRACHIOPODA) SPINOSITY AS AN ADAPTATION FOR SOFT SUBSTRATES USING ABUNDANCE PATTERNS THROUGH TRANSGRESSIVE-REGRESSIVE CYCLES AND WITHIN PYRITIC SHALE BEDS: ZAMBITO, James J. IV, Department of Geology, University of Cincinnati, P.O. Box 0013, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0013, zambitjj@email.uc.edu
212-52:30 PM HALF-BORINGS AND MISSING ENCRUSTERS ON BRACHIOPODS IN THE UPPER ORDOVICIAN: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PALEOECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF SCLEROBIONTS: WILSON, Mark A.1, DENNISON-BUDAK, W. Cordelia1, and BOWEN, Jeffrey C.2, (1) Dept of Geology, College of Wooster, 944 College Mall, Wooster, OH 44691-2363, mwilson@wooster.edu, (2) Department of Geology, The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH 44691
212-62:45 PM IMPLICATIONS OF BORING AND ENCRUSTATION OF LATE CRETACEOUS RUDISTS: MOLINEUX, Ann, Texas Natural Science Center, University of Texas at Austin, 2400 Trinity, Austin, TX 78712, annm@mail.utexas.edu
 3:00 PM Break
212-73:15 PM THE PLEISTOCENE ENCRUSTER SCENE: COMPARISON OF EPIBIONTS ON GASTROPOD AND BIVALVE SHELLS: VON DASSOW, Yasmin, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, yasmin.rahman@email.ucr.edu and DROSER, Mary, Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92521
212-83:30 PM DISCRETE EPIBIOFACIES ON EXPERIMENTALLY-DEPLOYED SKELETAL HARDPARTS, ANALOGS FOR PHOTIC-ZONE DEPTH DETERMINATIONS IN CARBONATE ENVIRONMENTS: WALKER, Sally E., Department of Geology, Univ of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, swalker@gly.uga.edu, PARSONS-HUBBARD, Karla, Geology Dept, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH 44074, BRETT, Carl, Dept. of Geology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, and POWELL, Eric N., Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory, Rutgers Univ, 6959 Miller Ave, Port Norris, NJ 08349
212-93:45 PM ECOLOGICAL DOMINANCE OF THE PRIAPULID WORM CRICOCOSMIA IN A MAOTIANSHAN SHALE BIOTA COMMUNITY: DORNBOS, Stephen Q., Department of Geosciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413, sdornbos@uwm.edu and CHEN, Junyuan, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210008, China
212-104:00 PM MONOSPECIFIC ASSEMBLAGES OF PHYLOGENETICALLY DISPARATE TAXA IN DEVONIAN BLACK SHALES: BOYER, Diana L., Earth Science, Univ of California, Riverside, Dept. Of Earth Sciences-036, Riverside, CA 92521, diana.boyer@email.ucr.edu and DROSER, Mary L., Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521
212-114:15 PM PALEOECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF MESOZOIC HYDROCARBON SEEP FAUNAL COMMUNITIES, GREAT VALLEY GROUP, NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, USA: HEPPER, Kristin and DROSER, Mary, Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92521, kristin.hepper@email.ucr.edu
212-124:30 PM CORAL REEFS AND PATCH REEFS AT DEAD MAN'S BONES: RAPID BURIAL OR SLOW SEDIMENT STRESS: JAMES, Sherene A., STEMANN, Thomas A., and MITCHELL, Simon F., Geography and Geology, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston 7, Kingston, 0007, Jamaica, sherene.james@uwimona.edu.jm

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