2002 Denver Annual Meeting (October 27-30, 2002)

Session No. 10
Sunday, 27 October 2002: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

Paleontology/Paleobotany I: Quantifying Morphology and Morphological Trends

 

Glenn S. Jaecks and Gene Hunt, Chairs
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8:00 AM
CONSTRAINTS ON MORPHOLOGY: DEVELOPMENTAL OR ECOLOGICAL? LESSONS FROM THE FOSSIL RECORD
CIAMPAGLIO, Charles N., Zoology, Duke Univ, 139 Biological Sciences Building, Box 90338, Durham, NC 27705, cnc2@duke.edu, cnc2@duke.edu
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8:15 AM
MORPHOLOGICAL MODULARITY AND MACROEVOLUTION
EBLE, Gunther J., Konrad Lorenz Institute, Vienna, Austria and CNRS, Dijon, France, eble@santafe.edu, eble@santafe.edu
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8:30 AM
SCALING AND EVOLUTION OF THE LOPHOPHORE IN THECIDEIDE BRACHIOPODS
JAECKS, Glenn S., Department of Geology, Univ of California, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, jaecks@geology.ucdavis.edu, jaecks@geology.ucdavis.edu
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8:45 AM
MINIATURIZATION OF THE TRILOBITE FLEXICALYMENE: IS THERE HETEROCHRONY IN THE CINCINNATIAN SERIES?
HUNDA, Brenda R., Earth Sciences, Univ of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521 and HUGHES, Nigel C., Earth Sciences, Univ of California, Riverside, 1432 Geology Building, Riverside, CA 92521, brendahu@citrus.ucr.edu, brendahu@citrus.ucr.edu
 
9:00 AM
Break
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9:15 AM
DIFFERENCES IN SIZE OF EARLY PALEOZOIC BIVALVES AND BRACHIOPODS: THE INFLUENCE OF INTRINSIC AND EXTRINSIC FACTORS ON BODY SIZE EVOLUTION
KRAUSE Jr, Richard A.1, STEMPIEN, Jennifer1, KOWALEWSKI, Michal1 and MILLER, Arnold I.2, (1)Department of Geological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ, 4044 Derring Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061, (2)Department of Geology, Univ of Cincinnati, 500 Geology Physics, Cincinnati, OH 45220, ronk001@hotmail.com, ronk001@hotmail.com
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9:30 AM
THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY AND PALEOBIOLOGY OF THE SINISTRAL CONES
HENDRICKS, Jonathan R., Geological Sciences, Cornell Univ, 2122 Snee Hall, Ithaca, NY 14850 and ALLMON, Warren D., Director, Paleontological Rsch Institution, 1259 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca, NY 14850-1398, jrh42@cornell.edu, jrh42@cornell.edu
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9:45 AM
SHELL GEOMETRY IN PALEOZOIC AMMONOIDS: A CONFLUENCE OF FUNCTION, PHYLOGENY, EXTERNAL FACTORS AND LUCK
SAUNDERS, W.B., Department of Geology, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010, WORK, D.M., Cincinnati Museum Ctr, Cincinnati, OH 45203 and NIKOLAEVA, S.V., Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, wsaunder@brynmawr.edu, wsaunder@brynmawr.edu
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10:00 AM
PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF THE APPLICATION OF FOURIER ANALYSIS TO SUTURE PATTERNS
GILDNER, Raymond F., Paleontological Rsch Institution, 1259 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca, NY 14853, macops@spacestar.net, macops@spacestar.net
 
10:15 AM
Break
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10:30 AM
SONIFICATION OF PALEONTOLOGIC DATA: HEARING FOSSIL SHAPES
EKDALE, A.A., Geology and Geophysics, Univ of Utah, Room 719 WBB, 135 South 1460 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0111, ekdale@mines.utah.edu, ekdale@mines.utah.edu
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10:45 AM
MACROEVOLUTIONARY CONSEQUENCES OF PHENOTYPIC VARIATION: A TEST USING THE DEEP-SEA OSTRACODE GENUS POSEIDONAMICUS
HUNT, Gene, Committee on Evolutionary Biology, Univ of Chicago, 5734 S. Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, eg-hunt@uchicago.edu, eg-hunt@uchicago.edu
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11:00 AM
DENTAL MORPHOLOGY AND VARIATION IN THEROPODS: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF SHED TEETH
SMITH, Joshua B., Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington Univ, Campus Box 1169, 1 Brookings Dr, St. Louis, MO 63130-4899, smithjb@levee.wustl.edu, smithjb@levee.wustl.edu
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11:15 AM
PREDICTING LOCOMOTOR MODE AND PHYLOGENETIC POSITION OF AN EXTINCT PLIO-PLEISTOCENE MUSTELID WITH MORPHOMETRICS
SCHUTZ, Heidi and GURALNICK, Robert, Environmental, Population and Organismic Biology, Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CB 265, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, schutzh@colorado.edu, schutzh@colorado.edu