North-Central Section - 42nd Annual Meeting (24–25 April 2008)
Session No. 33 Friday, 25 April 2008
1:15 PM-5:00 PM, Casino Aztar Conference Center: Walnut D

T23. Organisms and Sedimentation: Biotic Controls and Adaptations to Turbidity, Sedimentation, and Substrate in the Fossil Record

Benjamin F. Dattilo and David L. Meyer, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
 1:15 PM Introductory Remarks
33-11:20 PM CROSS-PHYLUM BEHAVIORAL ADAPTATIONS TO HETEROGENEOUS DISTRIBUTION OF RESOURCES IN THE SUBSTRATE: KOY, Karen A., Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois Chicago, 845 West Taylor Street, Chicago, IL 60607, LovleAnjel@hotmail.com
33-21:40 PM A NEW ICHNOSPECIES OF ARTHROPHYCUS FROM THE LATE CARBONIFEROUS (PENNSYLVANIAN) OF MICHIGAN: BRANDT, Danita, CSONKA, Jayme, MCCOY, Victoria, BARRINGER, Joshua, HOLMQUIST, Emily, KRAIG, Sarah, MORGAN, Ryan, MYERS, John, PAQUETTE, Lance, and SEITZ, Megan, Geological Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, csonkaja@msu.edu
33-32:00 PM EDIACARAN FROND ADAPTATIONS TO FLOW REGIME: SINGER, Amy E., Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, 845 W. Taylor St. (SES m/c 186), Chicago, IL 60607, asinge2@uic.edu and PLOTNICK, Roy, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Univ of Illinois at Chicago, 845 W. Taylor St, Chicago, IL 60607
33-42:20 PM LIVING ON THE EDGE: EPIZOAN ENCRUSTATION AND ALTERNATIVE LIFE ORIENTATIONS OF THE UPPER ORDOVICIAN STROPHOMENID BRACHIOPOD RAFINESQUINA FROM THE CINCINNATI ARCH REGION: MEYER, David L., Dept of Geology, Univ of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, david.meyer@uc.edu, DATTILO, Benjamin, Geosciences, Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne, 2102 Coliseum Blvd, Fort Wayne, IN 46805-1499, and KALLMEYER, Jack, 1158 Thurnridge Drive, Reading, OH 45215
 2:40 PM Break
33-53:00 PM OPEN WIDE! HOW MUCH IS KNOWN ABOUT THE GAPE ANGLE IN STROPHOMENID BRACHIOPODS?: DEWING, Keith, Geol Survey of Canada, 3303-33rd St NW, Calgary, AB T2L 2A7, Canada, kdewing@NRCan.gc.ca, DATTILO, Benjamin F., Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne, dattilob@ipfw.edu, and MEYER, David L., Dept of Geology, Univ of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221
33-63:20 PM THROWING GENICULATION A CURVE. A QUANTITATIVE APPROACH TO SHELL FORM IN RAFINESQUINA ALTERNATA: BLOOM, Heather M.1, LESCINSKY, Halard L.1, and JAMES, Thomas R.2, (1) Department of Life and Earth Sciences, Otterbein College, Westerville, OH 43081, Hlescinsky@otterbein.edu, (2) Department of Math and Computer Sciences, Otterbein College, Westerville, OH 43081
33-73:40 PM PRESERVATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENTS BY BIVALVE DEATH ASSEMBLAGES IN SOFT-BOTTOM HABITATS: TOMAšOVÝCH, Adam, Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, 5734 S. Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, tomasovych@uchicago.edu and KIDWELL, Susan M., Department of Geophyscial Sciences, Univ of Chicago, 5734 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637

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