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| 4-1 | 8:00 AM | EMPIRICAL INSIGHTS INTO MULTILEVEL SELECTION THROUGH TRANSITIONS FROM SOLITARY TO COLONIAL ORGANISMS: SIMPSON, Carl, Biology, Duke University, Box 90338, Durham, NC 27708, cgs7@duke.edu |
| 4-2 | 8:15 AM | MEASUREMENT DEPENDENCY, SCALE DEPENDENCY, AND THE EFFECT OF PHYLOGENETIC AUTOCORRELATION IN GEOMETRIC APPROACHES TO MORPHOLOGICAL DISPARITY ANALYSES: MACLEOD, N. and KRIEGER, J., Department of Palaeontology, The Nat History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, J.Krieger@nhm.ac.uk |
| 4-3 | 8:30 AM | MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGE IN CLOSELY-RELATED CAMBRIAN TRILOBITES DURING AN INTERVAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: HOPKINS, Melanie J., Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, 5734 S. Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, mjh@uchicago.edu and WEBSTER, Mark, Dept. of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, 5734 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637 |
| 4-4 | 8:45 AM | MORPHOLOGICAL PATTERNS WITHIN NARROW RANGES OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS: WEBBER, Andrew J., Department of Geology, Miami University Hamilton, 1601 University Blvd, Hamilton, OH 45011, webberaj@muohio.edu, HUNDA, Brenda R., Collections and Research, Cincinnati Museum Center, 1301 Western Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45203, and THOMPSON, Autumn, Department of Earth Sciences, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521 |
| 4-5 | 9:00 AM | BECOMING YOUNGER WHILE GETTING COLDER: EXPLORING THE EVOLUTIONARY ROLE OF HETEROCHRONY IN LONG-LIVED BIVALVES FROM THE EOCENE OF SEYMOUR ISLAND, ANTARCTICA: BUICK, Devin P., Department of Geology, Univ of Cincinnati, 500 Geology Physics Building, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0013, buickdp@email.uc.edu and IVANY, Linda C., Department of Earth Sciences, Syracuse University, Department of Earth Sciences, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244 |
| 4-6 | 9:15 AM | IDENTITY OF BIOMARKER MOLECULES FROM MISSISSIPPIAN (PALEOZOIC) CRINOIDS: O'MALLEY, Christina E., AUSICH, William I., and CHIN, Yu-Ping, School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, 275 Mendenhall Laboratory, 125 South Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210-1308, omalley.47@osu.edu |
| 4-7 | 9:30 AM | THREE-DIMENSIONAL FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF EXTINCT SHARK TEETH: WHITENACK, Lisa B.1, SIMKINS, Daniel C.2, and MOTTA, Philip J.1, (1) Department of Biology, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Ave, SCA 110, Tampa, FL 33620, whitenac@mail.usf.edu, (2) Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Ave, ENB 118, Tampa, FL 33620 |
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| 4-8 | 10:00 AM | PHYLOGENETIC SIGNAL IN LEAF TRAITS USED FOR PALEOCLIMATE ESTIMATIONS: LITTLE, Stefan A.1, KEMBEL, Steven2, WILF, Peter1, ROYER, Dana3, and CARIGLINO, Barbara4, (1) Dept. of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, slittle@psu.edu, (2) Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, 3060 Valley Life Sciences, Building #314, Berkeley, CA 94720-3140, (3) Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Wesleyan University, Exley Science Center 445 (265 Church St.), Middletown, CT 06459-0139, (4) Dept. of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State Univ, University Park, PA 16802 |
| 4-9 | 10:15 AM | SEEING THE FOREST WITH THE LEAVES—CLUES OF CANOPY PLACEMENT FROM LEAF VENATION CHARACTERISTICS: BOYCE, C. Kevin, Geophysical Sciences, Univ of Chicago, 5734 S. Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, ckboyce@uchicago.edu |
| 4-10 | 10:30 AM | INTERPRETING THE FUNCTION OF SACCATE POLLEN IN ANCIENT SEED PLANTS: LESLIE, Andrew B., Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, 5734 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, aleslie@uchicago.edu |
| 4-11 | 10:45 AM | THE EFFECT OF CLIMATE ON THE PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY OF THE SUBFAMILY EQUINAE DURING THE MIOCENE AND PLIOCENE IN NORTH AMERICA: MAGUIRE, Kaitlin Clare, Department of Geological Sciences, Ohio University, 316 Clippinger Lab, Athens, OH 45701, km197206@ohio.edu and STIGALL, Alycia L., Department of Geological Sciences and OHIO Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Studies, Ohio University, 316 Clippinger Laboratories, Athens, OH 45701 |
| 4-12 | 11:00 AM | EVOLUTION OF CAMELID PODIALS AND CONSEQUENCES FOR ESTIMATION OF MIOCENE MAMMAL DIVERSITY IN THE GREAT BASIN: DAVIS, Edward, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Oregon, 1272 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, daviseb@berkeley.edu |
| 4-13 | 11:15 AM | INFLUENCE OF HABITAT AND SOIL TYPE ON THE EVOLUTION OF BURROWING IN MAMMALS: HOPKINS, Samantha, Clark Honors College and Geological Sciences, Univ of Oregon, 1293 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, shopkins@uoregon.edu |
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