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

Session No. 196
Wednesday, 10 November 2004: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

Paleontology IX: Perspectives on Diversity

 

J. Bret Bennington and Paul G. Harnik, Chairs
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8:00 AM
MODELING THE EFFECTS OF TIME-AVERAGING ON RELATIVE ABUNDANCE AND EVENNESS
HARNIK, Paul Gwion, Committee on Evolutionary Biology, Univ of Chicago, Culver Hall 402, 1025 E. 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, pharnik@uchicago.edu, pharnik@uchicago.edu
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8:15 AM
MORE THOUGHTS ON HOW TO COUNT FOSSILS
BENNINGTON, J. Bret, Department of Geology, 114 Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11549-1140, geojbb@hofstra.edu, geojbb@hofstra.edu
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8:30 AM
TAPHONOMIC CONTROL OF SHALLOW SUBTIDAL FOSSIL ABUNDANCE
ADRAIN, Jonathan M., Department of Geoscience, The University of Iowa, 121 Trowbridge Hall, Iowa City, IA 52242 and WESTROP, Stephen R., Oklahoma Museum of Natural History and School of Geology & Geophysics, Univ of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73072, jonathan-adrain@uiowa.edu, jonathan-adrain@uiowa.edu
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8:45 AM
QUANTIFYING COLLECTION BIASES IN BULK, MUSEUM AND LITERATURE-BASED MOLLUSCAN SAMPLE DATA
BARBOUR WOOD, Susan, Department of Geosciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ, 4044 Derring Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061, KOWALEWSKI, Michal, Department of Geosciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ, 4044 Derring Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24060 and WARD, Lauck W., Virginia Museum of Nat History, 1001 Douglas Avenue, Martinsville, VA 24112, susanwood@vt.edu, susanwood@vt.edu
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9:00 AM
READING THE FOSSIL RECORD: USING THE LITERATURE TO ANALYZE ECOLOGICAL PATTERNS IN CENOZOIC TAXONOMIC DIVERSITY, NEW ZEALAND
HENDY, Austin J.W., Department of Geology, Univ of Cincinnati, Box 0013, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0013, hendya@email.uc.edu, hendya@email.uc.edu
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9:15 AM
ESTIMATING ABSOLUTE DIVERSITY: HOW MANY DINOSAUR GENERA WERE THERE?
WANG, Steve C., Mathematics and Statistics, Swarthmore College, 500 College Ave, Swarthmore, PA 19081 and DODSON, Peter, School of Veterinary Medicine, Univ of Pennsylvania, Dept of Animal Biology-Anatomy, 3800 Spruce St, Philadelphia, PA 19104, scwang@swarthmore.edu, scwang@swarthmore.edu
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9:30 AM
IMPROVED ESTIMATES OF PHANEROZOIC MARINE DIVERSITY
ALROY, J.1, ABERHAN, M.2, BOTTJER, David3, FOOTE, Michael4, FÜRSICH, F.5, IVANY, Linda C.6, KIESSLING, W.2, MARSHALL, C.R.7, MILLER, A.I.8 and PATZKOWSKY, Mark E.9, (1)National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Univ of California, 735 State Street, Suite 300, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, (2)Institute of Paleontology, Humboldt Univ, Museum of Natural History, Invalidenstr. 43, Berlin, 10115, Germany, (3)Department of Earth Sciences, Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0740, (4)Department of the Geophysical Sciences, The Univ of Chicago, 5734 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, (5)Institute of Paleontology, Univ of Wuerzburg, Pleicherwall 1, Wuerzburg, 97070, Germany, (6)Department of Earth Sciences, Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY 13244, (7)Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard Univ, 20 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138, (8)Department of Geology, Univ of Cincinnati, 500 Geology/Physics Building, Cincinnati, OH 45221, (9)Pennsylvania State Univ, 539 Deike Bldg, University Park, PA 16802-2714, alroy@nceas.ucsb.edu, alroy@nceas.ucsb.edu
 
9:45 AM
Break
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10:00 AM
ESTIMATING LACUSTRINE SPECIES DIVERSITY
PARK, Lisa E., Dept. Geology, Univ. of Akron, 252 Buchtel Commons, Akron, OH 44325-4101 and GIERLOWSKI-KORDESCH, Elizabeth H., Geological Sciences, Ohio Univ, 316 Clippinger Labs, Athens, OH 45701-2979, lepark@uakron.edu, lepark@uakron.edu
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10:15 AM
NEW AND REFINED DATA ON ORDOVICIAN TO EARLY SILURIAN CRINOIDS YIELD A REVISED MACROEVOLUTIONARY HISTORY
AUSICH, William I., Department of Geological Sciences, The Ohio State Univ, 275 Mendenhall Lab, 125 S. Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210 and PETERS, Shanan E., Geological Sciences, Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, ausich.1@osu.edu, ausich.1@osu.edu
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10:30 AM
SUBSTRATE AFFINITY AND DIVERSITY DYNAMICS IN BENTHIC MARINE ANIMALS
FOOTE, Michael, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, The Univ of Chicago, 5734 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, mfoote@uchicago.edu, mfoote@uchicago.edu
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10:45 AM
NEW QUANTITATIVE ANALYSES OF THE STRATIGRAPHIC RECORD: IMPLICATIONS FOR PALEOBIOLOGY
PETERS, Shanan E., Museum of Paleontology and Department of Geological Sciences, Univ of Michigan, 1109 Geddes Rd, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, shananp@umich.edu, shananp@umich.edu
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11:00 AM
GLOBAL MACROEVOLUTIONARY RATES FOR BRACHIOPODS DRIVEN BY FATE OF STENOTOPIC GENERA DURING THE LATE PALEOZOIC ICE AGE
POWELL, Matthew G., Morton K. Blaustein Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD 21218, powell@jhu.edu, powell@jhu.edu
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11:15 AM
ECOLOGICAL DISPARITY OF DEEP-SUBTIDAL, SOFT-SUBSTRATE ASSEMBLAGES DURING THE CAMBRIAN THROUGH DEVONIAN
NOVACK-GOTTSHALL, Philip M., Department of Geosciences, State University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA 30118, pnovackg@westga.edu, pnovackg@westga.edu
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11:30 AM
ARE SECULAR TRENDS IN TIERING, MOTILITY, AND PREDATION REAL? QUANTIFYING AND TESTING CHANGES IN ECOSPACE USE BETWEEN THE PALEOZOIC AND CENOZOIC
BUSH, Andrew M., Department of Invertebrate Paleontology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard Univ, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 and BAMBACH, Richard K., Botanical Museum, Harvard Univ, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, rbambach@oeb.harvard.edu, rbambach@oeb.harvard.edu
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11:45 AM
PHANEROZOIC INCREASES IN ALPHA DIVERSITY AND EVENNESS: LINKED CONSEQUENCES OF INCREASED ECOSPACE USE
BUSH, Andrew M., Department of Invertebrate Paleontology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard Univ, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 and BAMBACH, Richard K., Botanical Museum, Harvard Univ, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, abush@fas.harvard.edu, abush@fas.harvard.edu