2007 GSA Denver Annual Meeting (28–31 October 2007)
Session No. 184 Wednesday, 31 October 2007
8:00 AM-12:00 PM, Colorado Convention Center: 507

Paleontology VII: Phylogeny and Morphology

Christopher L. Mah and Dana H. Geary, Presiding
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184-18:00 AM RATES OF PHENOTYPIC EVOLUTION: ARTIFACTS, TEMPORAL SCALING AND A RECOMMENDATION: HUNT, Gene, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, NHB MRC 121, P.O. Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013-7012, hunte@si.edu
184-28:15 AM TRUNK SEGMENTATION OF EARLY CAMBRIAN EODISCID TRILOBITE NEOCOBBOLDIA CHINLINICA: HONG, Paul S., Department of Earth Sciences, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, paul.hong@email.ucr.edu, HUGHES, Nigel C., Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, FUSCO, Giuseppe, Dept. of Biology, Univ of Padova, via Ugo Bassi 58/B, Padova, I-35131, Italy, and ZHANG, Xi-guang, Key Laboratory for Paleobiology, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan, 650091, China
184-38:30 AM PHYLOGENETICS OF THE ORDOVICIAN ACIDIPHORUS-GROUP BATHYURID TRILOBITES: MCADAMS, Neo E.B. and ADRAIN, Jonathan M., Department of Geoscience, University of Iowa, 121 Trowbridge Hall, Iowa City, IA 52242, neo-buengermcadams@uiowa.edu
184-48:45 AM A REVISED HISTORY OF TRILOBITA: ADRAIN, Jonathan M., Department of Geoscience, University of Iowa, 121 Trowbridge Hall, Iowa City, IA 52242, jonathan-adrain@uiowa.edu
184-59:00 AM THE PHYLOGENETIC POSITION OF THE BRACHIOPODA: NEW EVIDENCE FROM NUCLEAR HOUSEKEEPING GENES AND MICRORNAS: SPERLING, Erik Anders1, BRIGGS, Derek E.G.1, NEAR, Thomas J.2, and PETERSON, Kevin J.3, (1) Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, 210 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT 06511, erik.sperling@yale.edu, (2) Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, 370 ESC, New Haven, CT 06520, (3) Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755
184-69:15 AM MICRORNAS AND THE EVOLUTION OF VERTEBRATE COMPLEXITY: HEIMBERG, Alysha M.1, DONOGHUE, Philip C.J.2, and PETERSON, Kevin J.1, (1) Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, N. College St, Hanover, NH 03755, alysha.m.heimberg@dartmouth.edu, (2) Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1RJ, United Kingdom
184-79:30 AM PHYLOGENY, CHARACTER EVOLUTION, AND UPDATED TAXONOMY OF EARLY ORDOVICIAN GRAPTOLITES: CARLUCCI, Jesse, Department of Geology, University at Buffalo, 876 Natural Sciences Complex, Buffalo, NY 14260, jrc36@buffalo.edu and MALETZ, Jörg, Department of Geology, University at Buffalo SUNY, 772 Natural Sciences Complex, Buffalo, NY 14260-3050
184-89:45 AM ALLOMETRIC SPACE AND ALLOMETRIC DISPARITY: A NOVEL DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVE IN THE MACROEVOLUTIONARY ANALYSIS OF MORPHOLOGICAL DISPARITY: GERBER, Sylvain, UMR 5561 Biogeosciences, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 6, Boulevard Gabriel, Dijon 21000 France, sylvain.gerber@u-bourgogne.fr
184-910:00 AM GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRIC EXAMINATION OF SHAPE CHANGE THROUGH ONTOGENY AND PHYLOGENY OF CENOZOIC NEW ZEALAND TURRITELLID GASTROPODS FAMILY TURRITELLIDAE: SMITH, Ursula E., Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, Snee Hall, Ithaca, NY 14850, ues4@cornell.edu
184-1010:15 AM PATTERNS OF PHYLETIC EVOLUTION IN TWO LINEAGES OF LYMNOCARDIID BIVALVES (LAKE PANNON, CENTRAL EUROPE): GEARY, Dana H., Dept. of Geology & Geophysics, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison, 1215 W. Dayton St, Madison, WI 53706, dana@geology.wisc.edu, HUNT, Gene, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, NHB MRC 121, P.O. Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013-7012, MAGYAR, Imre, MOL Hungarian Oil and Gas Co, Batthyány u.45, Budapest, 1145, Hungary, and SCHULTZ, Holly, Dept. of Geology, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616
184-1110:30 AM INFERED MORPHOLOGY AND FUNCTION OF SOFTPART SUTURAL PORE STRUCTURES BASED ON LOWER AND MIDDLE CAMBRIAN GOGIID EOCRINOIDS FROM GUIZHOU PROVINCE, CHINA: PARSLEY, Ronald L., Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118, parsley@tulane.edu and TETE, Nicolas, Paleoenvironments et Paleobiosphere batiment Geode, campus de la Doua Universite Claude Bernard - Lyon 12, rue Raphael Dubois, Villeurbanne, F-69622, France
184-1210:45 AM MORPHOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY IMPLICATIONS OF A PRIMITIVE EARLY ORDOVICIAN CRINOID: GUENSBURG, Thomas E., Sciences Division, Rock Valley College, 3301 N. Mulford Road, Rockford, IL 61114, t.guensburg@rockvalleycollege.edu and SPRINKLE, James, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas, 1 University Station C1100, Austin, TX 78712-0254
184-1311:00 AM AN EQUILIBRIUM THEORY OF ECHINOID PLATE GEOMETRY: ZACHOS, Louis G., Geological Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station C-1140, Austin, TX 78712, zachos@mail.utexas.edu and SPRINKLE, James, Department of Geological Sciences, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX 78712
184-1411:15 AM PERAMORPHISM IN THE AMBULACRAL SYSTEM OF EDRIOASTEROID ECHINODERMS: SUMRALL, Colin and MCKINNEY, Michael L., Earth and Planetary Science, The Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, csumrall@utk.edu
184-1511:30 AM MORPHOLOGY OF TUBULAR APPENDAGES AND REVISION OF THE GILBERTSOCRININAE: GAHN, Forest J., Department of Geology, Brigham Young University - Idaho, Rexburg, ID 83460-0510, gahnf@byui.edu
184-1611:45 AM MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS OF FORCIPULATACEAN STARFISH (ECHINODERMATA; ASTEROIDEA): MAH, Christopher L., Invertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, MRC-163, PO Box 163, Washington, DC 20013, mahch@si.edu and FOLTZ, David, Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-1715

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