2004 Denver Annual Meeting (November 7–10, 2004)

Session No. 71
Monday, 8 November 2004: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

P5. Adversity, Advantages, Opportunities: Phanerozoic Stromatolites as "Survivor" vs. "Disaster" Taxa

Paleontological Society; GSA Geobiology and Geomicrobiology Division

 

Constance M. Soja and Robert Riding, Conveners
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Start Time
 
8:00 AM
Introductory Remarks
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8:05 AM
REEFAL MICROBIAL CARBONATE ABUNDANCE: COMPARISONS WITH PHANEROZOIC METAZOAN DIVERSITY, MASS EXTINCTION EVENTS, AND SEAWATER SATURATION STATE
RIDING, Robert, School of Earth, Ocean and Planetary Sciences, Cardiff Univ, Cardiff, CF10 3YE, United Kingdom, riding@cardiff.ac.uk, riding@cardiff.ac.uk
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8:30 AM
PHANEROZOIC MICROBIALITES: PROTEROZOIC BAGGAGE OR A NEW BEGINNING?
AWRAMIK, Stanley M., Department of Geological Sciences, Univ of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, awramik@geol.ucsb.edu, awramik@geol.ucsb.edu
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8:45 AM
DOES THE CAMBRIAN-ORDOVICIAN “MICROBIALITE RESURGENCE” REFLECT DISASTER TAXA OR SUCCESSFUL LOCALIZED MICROBIAL ECOSYSTEMS?
SHAPIRO, Russell S., Department of Geology, Gustavus Adolphus College, 800 W. College Avenue, St Peter, MN 56082, rshapiro@gac.edu, rshapiro@gac.edu
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9:00 AM
PROLIFERATION OF SILURIAN STROMATOLITE REEFS IN THE URALIAN SEAWAY
SOJA, Constance M., Geology, Colgate Univ, 13 Oak Drive, Hamilton, NY 13346, WHITE, Brian, Geology, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063 and ANTOSHKINA, Anna I., Inst. of Geology, Komi Sci Centre, 54 Pervomayskaya St, Syktyvkar, 167610, Russia, csoja@mail.colgate.edu, csoja@mail.colgate.edu
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9:15 AM
LOWER TRIASSIC MICROBIALITES AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO LONG-TERM ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS FOLLOWING THE END-PERMIAN MASS EXTINCTION
PRUSS, Sara Brady, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard Univ, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 and BOTTJER, David, Earth Sciences, Univ of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0740, spruss@usc.edu, spruss@usc.edu
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9:30 AM
LOWER TRIASSIC CALCIMICROBIAL FACIES OF EASTERN TETHYS
LEHRMANN, Dan J., Dept. of Geology, Univ. of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI 54901, ENOS, Paul, Dept. of Geology, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, PAYNE, Jonathan, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard Univ, Botanical Museum, 26 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138, KRULL, Evelyn S., CSIRO Land & Water, Glen Osmond, SA 5064, Australia and WEI, Jiayong, Guizhou Bureau of Geol. and Min. Rscs, Guiyang, Guizhou Province, China, enos@ku.edu, enos@ku.edu
 
9:45 AM
Break
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10:00 AM
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10:15 AM
MICROBIALLY INDUCED SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURES (MISS) AND THE SURVIVOR SPECIES CONCEPT
NOFFKE, Nora, Ocean, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Old Dominion Univ, 4600, Elkhorn Ave, Norfolk, VA 23529, nnoffke@odu.edu, nnoffke@odu.edu
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10:30 AM
DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN MARINE STROMATOLITES IN ECOLOGIC REFUGIA ON THE MARGINS OF EXUMA SOUND, BAHAMAS
REID, R. Pamela, Univ Miami, 4600 Rickenbacker Cswy, Miami, FL 33149-1098, preid@rsmas.miami.edu, preid@rsmas.miami.edu
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10:45 AM
BAHAMIAN HOLOCENE STROMATOLITES AND THROMBOLITES MIMIC MORPHOLOGY AND STRUCTURE OF PRECAMBRIAN AND CAMBRIAN EXAMPLES
GINSBURG, Robert N., Division of Marine Geology and Geophysics, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sci, Univ of Miami, 4600 Rickenbacker, Miami, FL 33149, rginsburg@rsmas.miami.edu, rginsburg@rsmas.miami.edu
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11:00 AM
PHANEROZOIC MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES: “COLLABORATORS” AND “PROMOTERS’ OF METAZOAN RECOVERY FROM MASS EXTINCTION
HICKMAN, Carole S., Museum of Paleontology, University of California, 1101 Valley Life Sciences Bldg, Berkeley, CA 94720-4780, caroleh@socrates.berkeley.edu, caroleh@socrates.berkeley.edu
 
11:15 AM
Discussion