Session No. 12
Tuesday, 1 May 2001: 1:10 PM-5:00 PM
Paleontology, Stratigraphy, and Sedimentology
Kate Zeigler and A. B. Heckert, Chairs
1:15 PM
NORTH AMERICA’S OLDEST HERBIVOROUS DINOSAURS
HECKERT, Andrew B., Earth & Plan. Sci, Univ of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 and LUCAS, Spencer G., New Mexico Museum of Nat History & Sci, 1801 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM 87104, heckerta@unm.edu, heckerta@unm.edu
1:30 PM
DINOSAURS FROM MICROVERTEBRATE SITES IN THE UPPER CRETACEOUS FRUITLAND AND KIRTLAND FORMATIONS, SAN JUAN BASIN, NEW MEXICO
WILLIAMSON, Thomas E., New Mexico Museum of Nat History and Sci, 1801 Mountain Road, NW, Albuquerque, NM 87104 and WEIL, Anne, Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy, Duke Univ, 08 Biological Sciences Building, Durham, NC 27708-0383, twilliamson@nmmnh.state.nm.us, twilliamson@nmmnh.state.nm.us
1:45 PM
ANAGENETIC EVOLUTION OF TETRACLAENODON, A PALEOCENE "CONDYLARTH" FROM THE SAN JUAN BASIN, NEW MEXICO
LIBED, Shirley A., Earth & Planetary Sciences, Univ of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 and LUCAS, Spencer G., New Mexico Museum of Nat History, 1801 Mountain Rd NW, Albuq, NM 87104, albinque@unm.edu, albinque@unm.edu
2:00 PM
THE PHYTOSAUR NICROSAURUS BUCEROS IN THE UPPER TRIASSIC OF THE CHAMA BASIN, NORTH-CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
ZEIGLER, Kate E.1, LUCAS, S. G.
2, HECKERT, A. B.
1 and HUNT, A. P.
3, (1)Dept. Earth & Planet Sci, UNM, Albuq, NM 87131, (2)NMMNH, Albuq, NM 87104, (3)Mesalands Dinosaur Museum, Tucumcari, NM 88401, kaerowyn@unm.edu, kaerowyn@unm.edu
2:30 PM
MOBILITY OF RARE-EARTH ELEMENTS (REE) IN MARINE CARBONIFEROUS PHOSPHATES AND HOST SHALES FROM THE MIDCONTINENT AND IMPLICATIONS FOR SHALE PROVENANCE ANALYSIS
KIDDER, David L.1, KRISHNASWAMY, Rama
2 and MAPES, Royal H.
1, (1)Geological Sciences, Ohio Univ, Athens, OH 45701, (2)Geological Sciences, The George Washington Univ, Washington, DC 20052, kidder@ohiou.edu, kidder@ohiou.edu
3:00 PM
J-5 UNOCONFORMITY: A TECTONOSEQUENCE BOUNDARY IN THE JURASSIC WESTERN INTERIOR BASIN
LUCAS, Spencer G., New Mexico Museum of Nat History, 1801 Mountain Rd NW, Albuq, NM 87104 and HECKERT, Andrew B., Earth & Plan. Sci, Univ of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, SLucas@nmmnh.state.nm.us, SLucas@nmmnh.state.nm.us
3:15 PM
STROMATOLITES, MASS FLOWS, AND FLUID ESCAPE STRUCTURES, NAVAJO SANDSTONE, CAPITOL REEF NATIONAL PARK, UTAH
EISENBERG, Leonard, 223 Granite Street, Ashland, OR 97520, erdelei@aol.com, erdelei@aol.com