2007 GSA Denver Annual Meeting (28–31 October 2007)
Session No. 228 Wednesday, 31 October 2007
1:30 PM-5:30 PM, Colorado Convention Center: 506

T100. Whole-Organism Paleoecology and the Relationship of Form, Function, and Ecological Interactions II: In Memory of Richard Alexander

Lindsey Leighton, Gregory Dietl and Patricia H. Kelley, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
228-11:30 PM IS IT TIME TO QUIT?: AUSICH, William I., School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, 275 Mendenhall Laboratory, 125 South Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210-1308, ausich.1@osu.edu
228-21:45 PM QUANTIFYING ECOLOGICAL RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE: USING RANK-ABUNDANCE CURVES OF MICRO-BENTHIC COMMUNITIES DURING THE PALEOCENE-EOCENE THERMAL MAXIMUM: WEBB, Amelinda E., LANDAU, Elizabeth, LEIGHTON, Lindsey R., and SCHELLENBERG, Stephen S., Geological Sciences, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Dr, San Diego, CA 92182-1020, amelinda@gmail.com
228-32:00 PM WITH MASS EXTINCTIONS, ECOLOGY MATTERS: SHEEHAN, Peter M., Department of Geology, Milwaukee Public Museum, 800 W. Wells St, Milwaukee, WI 53233, sheehan@uwm.edu, BOTTJER, David J., Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, DROSER, Mary L., Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, and MCGHEE, George R. Jr, Department of Geological Sciences, Rutgers Univ, Wright-Rieman Laboratories, New Brunswick, NJ 08903
228-42:15 PM EPIFAUNA-DOMINATED BENTHIC SHELF ASSEMBLAGES AND OXYGEN CRISES: LESSONS FROM THE MODERN ADRIATIC SEA: ZUSCHIN, Martin, Department of Palaeontology, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, Vienna, A-1090, Austria, martin.zuschin@univie.ac.at, STACHOWITSCH, Michael, Department of Marine Biology, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, Vienna, A-1090, Austria, and RIEDEL, Bettina, Department of Marine Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, A-1090, Austria
228-52:30 PM SHELL ENCRUSTING EPIBIONT BIOFACIES ALONG DEPTH/PHOTIC ZONE TRANSECTS: COMPARISON OF RECENT AND LATE ORDOVICIAN GRADIENTS: SMRECAK, Trisha A. and BRETT, Carlton E., Geology, University of Cincinnati, 500 Geology/Physics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, smrecata@email.uc.edu
228-62:45 PM SUBTROPICAL TROPHIC CASCADES: HERMIT CRABS SKEW THE FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY OF GASTROPOD ASSEMBLAGES: WALKER, Sally E., Department of Geology, Univ of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, swalker@gly.uga.edu
228-73:00 PM BURIED ALIVE AND DEAD: USING ICHNOLOGIC, PALEOECOLOGIC AND TAPHONOMIC DATA FROM FOSSIL BIVALVE SHELLS TO RECONSTRUCT PALEOENVIRONMENTS: DALEY, Gwen M.1, GEARY, Dana2, OSTROWSKI, Summer3, and KLEIBER, Emily M.2, (1) Department of Chemistry, Physics, and Geology, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC 29732, daleyg@winthrop.edu, (2) Dept. of Geology & Geophysics, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison, 1215 W. Dayton St, Madison, WI 53706, (3) Geological Sciences, Michigan State University, 206 Natural Science Building, East Lansing, MI 48824
 3:15 PM Break
228-83:30 PM ANTICIPATED VERSUS REAL TAPHONOMIC BIASES ASSOCIATED WITH GASTROPOD BORE HOLE-WEAKENED BIVALVES: KEEPING DR. PANGLOSS AWAY FROM EXPERIMENTAL TAPHONOMY: SAVARESE, Michael, Marine and Ecological Sciences, Florida Gulf Coast University, 10501 FGCU Boulevard South, Ft Myers, FL 33965, msavares@fgcu.edu, KELLEY, Patricia H., Geography and Geology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, 601 South College Road, Wilmington, NC 28403-5944, and HAGSTROM, Kristen, Geological Sciences, Indiana University, 1001 East 10th Street, Bloomington, IN 47405-1405
228-93:45 PM Paper Withdrawn
228-104:00 PM ON THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF OPPORTUNITY IN ESCALATION: THE COMPLEMENTARITY PRINCIPLE: DIETL, Gregory P., Paleontological Research Institution, 1259 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca, NY 14850, gpd3@cornell.edu
228-114:15 PM THE HYPOTHESIS OF COEVOLUTIONARY ALTERNATION WITH ESCALATION: A PRELIMINARY TEST USING NATICID GASTROPODS AND THEIR BIVALVE PREY: DIETL, Gregory P., Paleontological Research Institution, 1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca, NY 14850, gpd3@cornell.edu and KELLEY, Patricia H., Geography and Geology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, 601 South College Road, Wilmington, NC 28403-5944, kelleyp@uncw.edu
228-124:30 PM FUNCTIONAL HYPOTHESES AND FEEDING IN FOSSILS – TOOTH MICROWEAR AND TROPHIC ECOLOGY IN EXTANT AND EXTINCT NON-MAMMALIAN VERTEBRATES: PURNELL, Mark A., Department of Geology, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH United Kingdom, mark.purnell@le.ac.uk
228-134:45 PM A PHYLOGENETIC INVESTIGATION OF THE MECHANISMS REGULATING DIVERSITY AND RATE OF EVOLUTION IN POST-DEVONIAN LUNGFISH (OSTEICHTHYES: DIPNOI): PARDO, Jason D., Boulder, CO 80302, jason.pardo@gmail.com
228-145:00 PM BIOFACIES ANALYSIS ALONG A MIDDLE DEVONIAN PALEOGRADIENT: WATER DEPTH AS A PRIMARY CONTROL ON BIOFACIES FORMATION IN THE STAGHORN POINT CORAL BIOSTROME: BARTHOLOMEW, Alex1, BRETT, Carlton2, BAIRD, Gordon3, and MARTIN, Jaclyn1, (1) Geology, S.U.N.Y. New Paltz, 1 Hawk Dr, Wooster Science Bldg, New Paltz, NY 12561, barthola@newpaltz.edu, (2) Department of Geology, Univ of Cincinnati, 500 Geology/Physics Bldg, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0013, (3) Dept. of Geoscience, SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY 14063
228-155:15 PM ROTATING RHYNCHONELLIDES REVISITED: FUNCTIONAL INSIGHTS INTO THE MORPHOLOGY OF BICONVEX BRACHIOPODS: LEIGHTON, Lindsey R., Geological Sciences, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Dr, San Diego, CA 92182-1020, leighton@geology.sdsu.edu

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