2005 Salt Lake City Annual Meeting (October 16–19, 2005)

Session No. 34
Sunday, 16 October 2005: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM

Paleontology II: How Do They Do That? Biomechanics and Development

 

Gregory P. Dietl and Jeffrey G. Agnew, Chairs
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1:30 PM
A NEW APPROACH TO STUDYING PHENOTYPIC EVOLUTION IN THE FOSSIL RECORD
HANNISDAL, Bjarte, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, Univ of Chicago, 5734 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, bhannis@geosci.uchicago.edu, bhannis@geosci.uchicago.edu
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1:45 PM
DEVELOPING A PROXY FOR PREDATION ON FOSSIL CRABS: GROWTH AND REVERSAL OF HANDEDNESS OF THE MUD CRAB EURYPANOPEUS DEPRESSUS UNDER LABORATORY CONDITIONS
AGNEW, Jeffrey G. and ANDERSON, Laurie C., Geology and Geophysics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, agnew@geol.lsu.edu, agnew@geol.lsu.edu
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2:00 PM
MORPHOLOGIC VARIATION WITHIN THE BRACHIOPOD SPECIES LAQUEUS CALIFORNIANUS ALONG THE WEST COAST OF NORTH AMERICA
SEIGLE, Amanda, FITZGERALD, Paul and CARLSON, Sandra, Geology, University of California, Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616, abseigle@ucdavis.edu, abseigle@ucdavis.edu
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2:15 PM
HOW DO THOSE CRINKLES FORM?: SUTURE VARIATIONS IN THE EXTREMELY PLASTIC CRETACEOUS AMMONITE NEOGASTROPLITES AND PROCESSES OF SEPTAL FORMATION
YACOBUCCI, Margaret M., Department of Geology, Bowling Green State University, 190 Overman Hall, Bowling Green, OH 43403-0211, mmyacob@bgsu.edu, mmyacob@bgsu.edu
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2:30 PM
HYBRIDIZATION AND ADAPTIVE EVOLUTION IN PLIO-PLEISTOCENE STROMBID SNAILS FROM FLORIDA
DIETL, Gregory P., Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 and SLAUGHTER, Christin, Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003, gregory.dietl@yale.edu, gregory.dietl@yale.edu
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2:45 PM
A CLOCKWORK MOLLUSK: INVESTIGATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SHELL ACTIVITY AND SUBDAILY GROWTH INCREMENTS IN THE FRESHWATER BIVALVE ANODONTA CYGNEA
RODLAND, David L.1, SCHÖNE, Bernd R.1, HELAMA, Samuli1, NIELSEN, Jan K.1, BAIER, Sven1 and DREYER, Wolfgang2, (1)Institute for Geology and Paleontology, Bio-INCREMENTS Group, J.W.Goethe Universitat-Frankfurt am Main, 32-34 Senckenberganlage, Frankfurt am Main, 60325, Germany, (2)Zoological Museum, University of Kiel, Hegewischstr. 3, Kiel, 24105, Germany, d.rodland@em.uni-frankfurt.de, d.rodland@em.uni-frankfurt.de
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3:00 PM
THE EFFECT OF ONTOGENY ON HYDROSPIRE RESPIRATORY CAPACITY IN BLASTOIDS
DEXTER, Troy A., Earth and Planetary Sciences, Univ of Tennessee, Knoxvulle, TN 37996-1410 and SUMRALL, Colin D., Earth and Planetary Science, The Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, tdexter1@utk.edu, tdexter1@utk.edu
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3:15 PM
BODY SIZE PATTERNS OF VERY LARGE MAMMALS. DOES WATER MATTER?
LYONS, S. Kathleen, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Univ of California, Santa Barbara, 735 State St., Suite 300, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 and SMITH, Felisa A., Department of Biology, Univ of New Mexico, 167 Castetter Hall, Albuquerque, NM 87131, lyons@nceas.ucsb.edu, lyons@nceas.ucsb.edu
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3:30 PM
BODY MASS ESTIMATION OF RODENTS: WAS THERE A RODENT AS BIG AS A BUFFALO?
HOPKINS, Samantha Sara Brittany, Integrative Biology and Museum of Paleontology, Univ of California, Berkeley, 3060 Valley Life Sci. Bldg, Berkeley, CA 94720, shopkins@socrates.berkeley.edu, shopkins@socrates.berkeley.edu
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3:45 PM
CONSTRAINING VARIANCE IN DINOSAUR GROWTH STUDIES
WERNING, Sarah, Zoology, University of Oklahoma, 730 Van Vleet Oval, Room 314, Norman, OK 73019, swerning@ou.edu, swerning@ou.edu
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4:00 PM
THE FEATHERED DINOSAUR MICRORAPTOR: ITS BIPLANE WING PLANFORM AND FLIGHT PERFORMANCE
CHATTERJEE, Sankar, Geosciences, Texas Tech Univ, MS Box 41053, Lubbock, TX 79409-3191 and TEMPLIN, R.J., 2212 Aster Street, Ottawa, ON K1H 6R6, Canada, sankar.chatterjee@ttu.edu, sankar.chatterjee@ttu.edu
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4:15 PM
MULTIVARIATE MORPHOMETRICS AND ALLOMETRY OF THE TRIASSIC REPTILE TANYTRACHELOS AHYNIS
CASEY, Michelle, Geosciences, Virginia Tech, 4044 Derring Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061, FRASER, Nicholas, Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, Virginia Museum of Nat History, 1001 Douglas Avenue, Martinsville, VA 24112 and KOWALEWSKI, Michal, Department of Geosciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ, 4044 Derring Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061, mmcasey@vt.edu, mmcasey@vt.edu
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4:30 PM
ZOOLOGICAL PALEOPATHOLOGY AND THE CASE OF THE TYRANNOSAURUS JAW: INTEGRATING PHYLOGENY AND THE STUDY OF ANCIENT DISEASES
WOLFF, Ewan D.S. and VARRICCHIO, David J., Earth Sciences, Montana State University, Traphagen Hall, Bozeman, MT 59715, wolff@montana.edu, wolff@montana.edu
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4:45 PM
BIOMECHANICS AND ECOMORPHOLOGY OF LATE DEVONIAN ARTHRODIRES FROM THE GOGO FORMATION OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
ANDERSON, Philip S., Geophysical Sciences, Univ of Chicago, 5734 S. Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, andersps@uchicago.edu, andersps@uchicago.edu
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5:00 PM
MODELING FLUID FLOW IN AN EXTINCT SEED PLANT
WILSON, Jonathan P.1, HOLBROOK, N. Michelle2, MARSHALL, Charles R.3 and KNOLL, Andrew H.2, (1)Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech, 1200 E California Blvd, MC 100-23, Pasadena, CA 91125, (2)Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, (3)Department of Invertebrate Paleontology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, jpwilson@caltech.edu, jpwilson@caltech.edu
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5:15 PM
BOTANICAL FIRST-RESPONDERS FROM THE CARBONIFEROUS THROUGH THE MID-TERTIARY: THE EVOLUTION OF PIONEERING POST-DISTURBANCE TERRESTRIAL PLANT ASSEMBLAGES
TAGGART, Ralph E. and CROSS, Aureal T., Geological Sciences, Michigan State Univ, East Lansing, MI 48824, taggart@msu.edu, taggart@msu.edu