North-Central Section–40th Annual Meeting (20–21 April 2006)
Session No. 29 Friday, 21 April 2006
8:00 AM-12:20 PM, Student Center, University of Akron: Theater

T19. Recent Advances in Systematics, Evolution, and Paleobiology of Fossil Vertebrates

Darin Croft and Michael Ryan, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
29-18:00 AM DIVING DISEASE IN MARINE REPTILES FROM THE CRETACEOUS TO THE PRESENT: ROTHSCHILD, Bruce M., Earth Sciences, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 5500 Market, Youngstown, OH 44512, bmr@neoucom.edu and MARTIN, Larry D., Vertebrate Paleontology, University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 44665
29-28:20 AM THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF INTEGUMENTARY SENSE ORGANS IN CROCODYLOMORPHS: ALLEN, David J., Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115, dallen4@niu.edu
29-38:40 AM TAPHONOMY OF A SAUROPOD QUARRY IN THE UPPER MORRISON FORMATION, BIGHORN BASIN, WYOMING: ERGAS, Emmanuel E., Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6316, ergas@sas.upenn.edu, BODENBENDER, Brian E., Geological and Environmental Sciences, Hope College, 35 E. 12th St, Holland, MI 49423, and DEMKO, Timothy M., Department of Geological Sciences, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN 55812
29-49:00 AM THE TAPHONOMY OF A CHASMOSAURINE DINOSAUR BONE BED FROM THE JAVELINA FORMATION (MAASTRICHTIAN) OF BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, TEXAS: HUNT, ReBecca Kathleen, Department of Geology, Augustana College, 639 38th Street, Rock Island, IL 61201-2296, glhunt@augustana.edu
29-59:20 AM ON THE STRATIGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF TRICERATOPS IN THE LATEST MAASTRICHTIAN DEPOSITS OF THE UPPER HELL CREEK FORMATION IN GARFIELD COUNTY, MONTANA: HATCHER, Joseph, Curator of Paleontology, PaleoWorld Research Foundation, Garfield County Museum, P.O. Box 408, Jordan, MT 59337, paleoworld@paleoworld.org, GARRETSON, Clay C., Paleontological Geologist, PaleoWorld Research Foundation, 1214 Mays Branch Road, Van Buren, AR 72956, and NEWMAN, Kenneth W., Assistant Lab Manager, Dinosaur Hall Fossil Preparation Lab, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA 19103
29-69:40 AM THE STATUS OF THE PROBLEMATIC TAXON MONOCLONIUS (ORNITHISCHIA:CERATOPSIDAE) AND THE RECOGNITION OF ADULT-SIZED DINOSAUR TAXA: RYAN, Michael J., Dept. of Vertebrate Paleontology, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, 1 Wade Oval Drive, University Circle, Cleveland, OH 44106, mryan@cmnh.org and RUSSELL, Anthony P., Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, 2500 University Dr. NW, Calgary, AB T 2N 1N4, Canada
 10:00 AM Break
29-710:20 AM PALEOSOLS AS CLIMATE INDICATORS FOR DINOSAUR SITES, BRUSHY BASIN MEMBER OF THE JURASSIC MORRISON FORMATION, EAST-CENTRAL UTAH: VANDEVELDE, David M., EVANS, James E., and LEWANDOWSKI, Sharon A., Department of Geology, Bowling Green State University, 190 Overman Hall, Bowling Green, OH 43403, dvandev@bgsu.edu
29-810:40 AM A COMPARATIVE INVESTIGATION OF BONE DIAGENESIS FROM MARINE AND TERRESTRIAL FACIES IN THE CAMPANIAN JUDITH RIVER FORMATION OF NORTH-CENTRAL MONTANA: HARWOOD, Cara and ROGERS, Raymond, Geology Department, Macalester College, 1600 Grand Avenue, Saint Paul, MN 55105, charwood@macalester.edu
29-911:00 AM BIOGEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF ARCHAEOCETES IN NORTH AMERICA: UHEN, Mark D., Cranbrook Institute of Science, PO Box 801, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48303-0801, uhen@umich.edu
29-1011:20 AM DIETARY INFERENCE FOR SOUTH AMERICAN NOTOUNGULATES FROM THE SANTA CRUZ FORMATION: TOWNSEND, K.E. Beth, Anatomy, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106, townsend@case.edu and CROFT, Darin A., Anatomy, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106-4930
29-1111:40 AM PALEOHABITAT RECONSTRUCTION FOR SOUTH AMERICAN CENOZOIC PALEOFAUNAS: ARE THERE APPROPRIATE MODERN ANALOGS?: CROFT, Darin A., Anatomy, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106-4930, dcroft@cwru.edu, TOWNSEND, Kathryn E., Anthropology, Washington Univ, Campus Box 1114, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130, FLYNN, John J., Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024, and WYSS, André R., Earth Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9630
29-1212:00 PM TESTING THE VALIDITY OF THE FOSSIL FELID SPECIES: FELIS AMNICOLA: SPEARING, Kurt D., Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115, spearin1@yahoo.com

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