2003 Seattle Annual Meeting (November 2–5, 2003)

Session No. 168
Tuesday, 4 November 2003: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM

Paleontology/Paleobotany IV: Paleoecology and Organismal Interactions

 

Peter Harries and David W Goldsmith, Chairs
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1:30 PM
A NEW LOOK AT PALEO-FOOD WEBS AND THE EVOLUTION OF ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE
ERWIN, Douglas H.1, DUNNE, Jennifer A.2, BAMBACH, Richard K.3, LABANDEIRA, Conrad1, JACKSON, Jeremy B.C.4, MARTINEZ, Neo5, MILLER, Arnold I.6, WILLIAMS, Richard J.7 and WOOD, Rachel8, (1)Department of Paleobiology, MRC-121, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, (2)Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501, (3)Botanical Museum, Harvard Univ, 26 Oxford street, Cambridge, MA 02138, (4)Scripps Institute Oceanography, 9500 Gilman Dr Dept 208, La Jolla, CA 92093-0208, (5)Rocky Mountain Biological Lab, PO Box 519, Crested Butte, CO 81224, (6)Department of Geology, Univ of Cincinnati, 500 Geology Physics, Cincinnati, OH 45221, (7)National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, 735 State Street, Suite 300, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, (8)Schlumberger Cambridge Rsch, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0EL, United Kingdom, Arnold.Miller@uc.edu, Arnold.Miller@uc.edu
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2:00 PM
LATITUDINAL GRADIENTS OF EPIFAUNAL BIVALVE SHELL MORPHOLOGY AND THEIR RELATION TO PREDATION INTENSITY
JONES, Donna C., Department of Geology, Univ of Cincinnati, Rm. 500 Geology/Physics Building, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0013, carlsodd@email.uc.edu, carlsodd@email.uc.edu
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2:15 PM
POST-PLIOCENE REDUCTION IN COMPETITION REVEALED BY FOSSIL RECORD OF GASTROPOD DRILLING PREDATION ON BIVALVE PREY WITHIN SEAGRASS ECOSYSTEMS OF FLORIDA
DIETL, Gregory P.1, HERBERT, Gregory S.2 and VERMEIJ, Geerat J.2, (1)Center for Marine Science, Univ of North Carolina, Wilmington, NC 28409, (2)Department of Geology and Center for Population Biology, Univ of California, Davis, CA 95616, dietlg@uncw.edu, dietlg@uncw.edu
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2:30 PM
MULTIPLE COMPETITIVE DISPLACEMENT EVENTS IN TWO SPECIES OF THE NEOGENE GASTROPOD PYRGULOPSIS
GOLDSMITH, David W., Department of Earth Systems Science, Westminster College, 1840 South 1300 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84105 and NEWMAN, Jonathan R., Department of Biology, Westminster College, 1840 South 1300 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84105, dgoldsmith@westminstercollege.edu, dgoldsmith@westminstercollege.edu
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2:45 PM
DRILLING INTENSITY IN THE LATE CRETACEOUS: FOX HILLS OR RIPLEY, BELIEVE IT OR NOT
HARRIES, Peter, Dept. of Geology, Univ of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Ave., SCA 528, Tampa, FL 33620-5201 and SCHOPF, Kenneth M., Center for Science Education, Education Development Ctr, 55 Chapel St, Newton, MA 02458, harries@chuma.cas.usf.edu, harries@chuma.cas.usf.edu
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3:00 PM
SPONGE-?HYDROID PALEOECOLOGIC RELATIONSHIPS IN SILURIAN MICROBIAL REEFS
SOJA, Constance M.1, MITCHELL, Megan1, NEWTON, Alicia1, VENDETTI, Jann1, VISAGGI, Christy1, ANTOSHKINA, Anna2 and WHITE, Brian3, (1)Geology, Colgate Univ, 13 Oak Drive, Hamilton, NY 13346, (2)Komi Science Centre, Institute of Geology, 54 Pervomayskaya Street, Syktyvkar, 167982, Russia, (3)Geology, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063, csoja@mail.colgate.edu, csoja@mail.colgate.edu
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3:15 PM
GIGANTISM IN PERMIAN TREPOSTOMES FROM GREENLAND: STABLE ISOTOPE EVIDENCE OF THE ALGAL SYMBIOSIS HYPOTHESIS
KEY Jr, Marcus M., Jr1, WYSE JACKSON, Patrick N.2, HÅKANSSON, Eckart3, PATTERSON, William P.4 and MOORE, M. Dustin1, (1)Dept. of Geology, Dickinson College, P.O. Box 1773, Carlisle, PA 17013-2896, (2)Dept. of Geology, Trinity College, Dublin 2, (3)Institute of Geology, Øster Voldgade 10, DK-1350, København, (4)Dept. of Geological Sciences, Univ. of Saskatchewan, 114 Science Place, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E2, Canada, key@dickinson.edu, key@dickinson.edu
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3:30 PM
PALEOECOLOGY OF AN UPPER JURASSIC CRYPTIC COMMUNITY INHABITING EMPTY MOLLUSK SHELLS (PORTLAND LIMESTONE OF SOUTHERN ENGLAND)
NICHOLSON, Katherine A. and WILSON, Mark A., Department of Geology, The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH 44691, knicholson@wooster.edu, knicholson@wooster.edu
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3:45 PM
PALEOECOLOGY OF A TROPICAL LATE CRETACEOUS (CENOMANIAN) SKELETOZOAN COMMUNITY IN THE NEGEV DESERT OF SOUTHERN ISRAEL
WILSON, Mark A., Department of Geology, The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH 44691, mwilson@wooster.edu, mwilson@wooster.edu
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4:00 PM
DRAMA IN THE PALEOZOIC: A STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL
MONKS, Joe, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue Univ, West Lafayette, IN 47907, monksj@purdue.edu, monksj@purdue.edu
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4:15 PM
AND THEREBY HANGS A TAIL
HENGST, Richard A., Biological Sciences, Purdue Univ - North Central, 1401 South IN 421, Westville, IN 46391 and BUCK, Brenda J., Geoscience, Univ of Nevada, Las Vegas, Box 4010 Lilly Fong Hall, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV 89154, rhengst@pnc.edu, rhengst@pnc.edu
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4:30 PM
AMOUNT OF OCCLUSAL ENAMEL IN UNGULATES CORRELATES WITH BODY MASS
FERANEC, Robert S., Department of Integrative Biology, Univ of California, Berkeley, 3060 Valley Life Sciences Building, Berkeley, CA 94720, feranec@socrates.berkeley.edu, feranec@socrates.berkeley.edu
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4:45 PM
CARBON AND OXYGEN ISOTOPE VARIATION IN TUSK DENTIN OF A FEMALE AMERICAN MASTODON
DELINE, Bradley and FISHER, Daniel C, Department of Geological Sciences and Museum of Paleontology, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079, bdeline@umich.edu, bdeline@umich.edu
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5:00 PM
TEMPORAL PATTERNS IN THE DIETARY ECOLOGY OF LATE PLEISTOCENE MAMMALIAN CARNIVORES FROM RANCHO LA BREA
FOX-DOBBS, Kena and KOCH, Paul L, Earth Sciences, Univ of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, kena@pmc.ucsc.edu, kena@pmc.ucsc.edu
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PALEOBIOLOGICAL AND PALEOENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS OF ISOTOPIC ANALYSES OF PREHISTORIC BISON FROM WYOMING
HOPPE, Kathryn A., Dept. of Geological and Environmental Sci, Stanford Univ, 450 Serra Mall, Bldg 320, Stanford, CA 94305-2115, Khoppe@stanford.edu, Khoppe@stanford.edu