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| 4-1 | 8:00 AM | EXPERIMENT DESIGN FOR ACTUALISTIC TAPHONOMIC RESEARCH: IMPROVING DESIGN, DATA ACQUISITION, AND COLLABORATION: EVANS, Thomas, Department of Earth Sciences, Montana State University, PO Box 173480, Bozeman, MT 59717, cavertevans@gmail.com |
| 4-2 | 8:15 AM | EVALUATING THE CONTROLS ON MACROINVERTEBRATE SKELETAL CONCENTRATIONS OF THE MID-LATE DEVONIAN CEDAR VALLEY GROUP OF IOWA: BRADY, Mara E., Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, 5734 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, marabrady@uchicago.edu |
| 4-3 | 8:30 AM | TAPHONOMIC ANALYSIS OF DEVONIAN RHYTHMIC TRILOBITE BEDS: EVENT SEDIMENTATION AND CYCLIC CEMENTATION: BRETT, Carlton E., Department of Geology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0013, carlton.brett@uc.edu, ZAMBITO, James J. IV, Department of Geology, University of Cincinnati, 500 Geology/Physics Building, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0013, HUNDA, Brenda R., Collections and Research, Cincinnati Museum Center, 1301 Western Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45203, KOLBE, Sarah E., Department of Geology, University of Cincinnati, 500 Geo/Phys, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0013, and SCHINDLER, Eberhard, Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum Frankfurt, Senckenberganlage 25, Frankfurt am Main, D-60325, Germany |
| 4-4 | 8:45 AM | MINERALIZED SCALES FROM EUKARYOTIC MICROORGANISMS IN THE CA. 750 MA LOWER TINDIR GROUP, YUKON TERRITORY, CANADA: COHEN, Phoebe, MIT NASA Astrobiology Team, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, E25-631, 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, pcohen@complex-life.org, SCHOPF, J. William, Department of Earth & Space Sciences, Molecular Biology Institute, and Institute of Geophysics & Planetary Physics, Univ of California, CSEOL - Geology Building, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, BUTTERFIELD, Nicholas J., Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridgeshire, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ, United Kingdom, KUDRYAVTSEV, Anatoliy B., Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life, Univ of California, Los Angeles, CSEOL - Geology Building, 595 Charles Young Circle Drive East, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, and MACDONALD, Francis A., Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, 20 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 |
| 4-5 | 9:00 AM | PUCKERS AND PULL-THROUGHS: AN EDIACARAN ACTION SHOT: TARHAN, Lidya G., Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, 900 University Ave, Riverside, CA 92521, lidya.tarhan@email.ucr.edu, DROSER, Mary L., Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92521, and GEHLING, James G., Science Centre, South Australian Museum, Morgan Thomas Lane, South Australia, Adelaide, 5000, Australia |
| 4-6 | 9:15 AM | WHO IS THAT MYSTERIOUS BIOMINERALIZER? THE DIAGENETIC MASKING OF CLOUDINA'S PALEOECOLOGY IN THE WHITE-INYO REGION OF CALIFORNIA AND NEVADA, USA: DOMKE, Kirk L., BOTTJER, David J., and CORSETTI, Frank A., Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, domke@usc.edu |
| 4-7 | 9:30 AM | THE CHENGJIANG SCIENTIFIC DRILLING PROJECT: EVIDENCE FOR THE MECHANISM OF BURGESS SHALE-TYPE PRESERVATION: GAINES, Robert R.1, HAMMARLUND, Emma2, CANFIELD, Donald E.2, HOU, Xianguang3, and GABBOTT, Sarah4, (1) Geology, Pomona College, 185 East 6th Street Claremont, Claremont, CA 91711, robert.gaines@pomona.edu, (2) Nordic Center for Earth Evolution, Univeristy of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, Odense, 5230, Denmark, (3) Key Laboratory For Paleobiology, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650091, China, (4) Department of Geology, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, United Kingdom |
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| 4-8 | 10:00 AM | DECAY EXPERIMENTS ON LIGHTLY SCLEROTIZED ARTHROPODS (BRANCHIOPODA, CRUSTACEA) AND THE DEATH OF THE OLDEST ‘LIVING FOSSIL' SPECIES, TRIOPS CANCRIFORMIS: HEGNA, Thomas, Geology & Geophysics, Yale Univ, New Haven, CT 06520-8109, thomas.hegna@yale.edu |
| 4-9 | 10:15 AM | TAPHONOMY OF FOSSIL COLEOPTERA IN THE FLORISSANT FORMATION (LATE EOCENE), COLORADO: SMITH, Dena M., Geology and CU Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado, 265 UCB, CU Museum, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0265, dena@colorado.edu and THOENE, Jenell, CU Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado, 265 UCB, CU Museum, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0265 |
| 4-10 | 10:30 AM | FROM THE MIRE TO THE FLOODPLAIN AND BACK: THE PALEOECOLOGICAL HISTORY OF FOUR PENNSYLVANIAN ALETHOPTERIS : RAYMOND, Anne1, WEHNER, Matthew1, and SLONE, Elizabeth J.2, (1) Dept. of Geology & Geophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3115, raymond@geo.tamu.edu, (2) Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3115 |
| 4-11 | 10:45 AM | STRUCTURAL COLORATION IN A FEATHER FROM THE EOCENE MESSEL OIL SHALE: VINTHER, Jakob, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, PO Box 208109, New Haven, CT 06520, jakob.vinther@yale.edu, BRIGGS, Derek, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, 210 Whitney Avenue, Po.Box 208109, New Haven, CT 06520, CLARKE, Julia, UT Austin, Austin, TX 78712, MAYR, Gerald, Ornithology, Senckenberg, Frankfurt, 60325, Germany, and PRUM, Richard, O., Dept Of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 |
| 4-12 | 11:00 AM | INSIGHTS INTO THE PRESERVATIONAL PATTERNS OF VERTEBRATE FOSSILS IN A FLUVIAL SYSTEM USING A TWO-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER MODEL: MOORE, Jason R., Department of Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M University, 3115 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-3115, moore@geo.tamu.edu |
| 4-13 | 11:15 AM | RECONSTRUCTING VEGETATION COVER IN DEEP TIME: PLANT MACROFOSSILS, POLLEN AND SPORES, OR BOTH?: MANDER, Luke, School of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland, Luke.Mander@Gmail.com, KUERSCHNER, Wolfram M., Laboratory of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Utrecht University, Budapestlaan 4, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands, and MCELWAIN, Jennifer C., School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland |
| 4-14 | 11:30 AM | BEYOND SIMILARITY: EXAMINING LIVE-DEAD AGREEMENT BY MODELING DEATH ASSEMBLAGE FORMATION USING LIVE-COLLECTED SPECIMENS: KOSNIK, Matthew A., Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, PO Box 37012, MRC 121, Washington, DC 20013-7012, mkosnik@alumni.uchicago.edu |
| 4-15 | 11:45 AM | TESTING THE SENSITIVITY OF A PALEOECOLOGIC METHOD (RANK-ABUNDANCE CURVES) USING MODERN DATA: ZOOPLANKTON RESPONSE TO INCREASING ACIDITY, LITTLE ROCK LAKE, WI: WEBB, Amelinda E., Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, amelinda.webb@gmail.com |
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