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

Session No. 134
Tuesday, 18 October 2005: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

Paleontology IV: Macroevolution—Origin, Inheritance, and Selection of Characters

 

Carl Simpson and P. Wagner, Chairs
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8:00 AM
INVENTION, INNOVATION AND ERGODICITY: AN ALTERNATIVE APPROACH TO MACROEVOLUTION
ERWIN, Doug, Dept of Paleobiology, MRC-121, Smithsonian Institution, PO Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013-7012, erwind@si.edu, erwind@si.edu
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8:15 AM
PALEOPROTEROZOIC EUKARYOTES FROM THE CHANGCHENG GROUP, NORTH CHINA
LAMB, D.M.1, AWRAMIK, Stanley M.1 and ZHU, S.2, (1)Department of Earth Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, (2)Tianjin Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources, No. 4, 8th Road, Dazhigu, Tianjin, 300170, China, dml@umail.ucsb.edu, dml@umail.ucsb.edu
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8:30 AM
WORM-LIKE FOSSILS FROM THE NEOPROTEROZOIC SUCCESSIONS: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE EDIACARAN GLACIATION IN NORTH CHINA
SHEN, Bing1, XIAO, Shuhai1 and DONG, Lin2, (1)Department of Geosciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ, Blacksburg, VA 24061, (2)Department of Geoological Sciences, Virginia Poltechnic Institute and State Univ, Blacksburg, VA 24061, bingshen@vt.edu, bingshen@vt.edu
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8:45 AM
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9:00 AM
TERMINAL ADDITION, THE CAMBRIAN RADIATION AND THE PHANEROZOIC EVOLUTION OF BILATERIAN FORM
JACOBS, David K., Dept. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology/Earth, Planetary & Space Sciences, Univ California - Los Angeles, 610 Charles E. Young Dr. East, Los Angeles, CA 90095-9000 and HUGHES, Nigel C., Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, djacobs@ucla.edu, djacobs@ucla.edu
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9:15 AM
EVALUATING THE COMPATIBILITY BETWEEEN MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERS AND STRATIGRAPHY
WAGNER, Peter J., Department of Geology, Field Museum of Nat History, 1400 S. Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60605 and ESTABROOK, George F., Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, pwagner@fmnh.org, pwagner@fmnh.org
 
9:30 AM
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9:45 AM
PALEONTOLOGICAL TOPIARY: THE NORTH AMERICAN EARLY CAMBRIAN ECHINODERM TREE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR COMPETITIVE EXCLUSION DURING THE "CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION"
WILBUR, Bryan C., Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, 1 University Station, C1140, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712-0254, bwilbur@mail.utexas.edu, bwilbur@mail.utexas.edu
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10:00 AM
A PHYLOGENY OF PALEOZOIC OPHIUROIDEA (ECHINODERMATA)
GLASS, Alexander, Department of Geology, Univ of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801-2919, aglass@uiuc.edu, aglass@uiuc.edu
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10:15 AM
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10:30 AM
OPPOSING LEVELS OF SELECTION IN CAMERATE CRINOIDS
SIMPSON, Carl, Department of Geophysical Sciences, Univ of Chicago, 5734 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, simpson@midway.uchicago.edu, simpson@midway.uchicago.edu
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10:45 AM
AN EQUATION FOR DEVELOPING MULTI-CAUSAL EXPLANATIONS FOR CHANGES IN BIODIVERSITY
MARSHALL, Charles R., Department of Invertebrate Paleontology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, cmarshall@oeb.harvard.edu, cmarshall@oeb.harvard.edu
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11:00 AM
MACROEVOLUTION, ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTS OF TROPICAL AMERICAN SCALLOPS (BIVALVE: PECTINIDAE)
SMITH, J. Travis, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Univ of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0244, j8smith@ucsd.edu, j8smith@ucsd.edu
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11:15 AM
EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF PLIO-PLEISTOCENE CONUS FROM THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES
HENDRICKS, Jonathan R., Geological Sciences, Cornell Univ, 4120 Snee Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853, jrh42@cornell.edu, jrh42@cornell.edu
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11:30 AM
INVASIVE SPECIES PALEOBIOLOGY: CORBULID BIVALVE PHYLOGENY AND THE FACILITATION OF ECOSYSTEM INVASION
ARONOWSKY, Audrey, Geology and Geophysics, Louisiana State Univ, E235 Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 and ANDERSON, Laurie C., Geology and Geophysics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, audrey@geol.lsu.edu, audrey@geol.lsu.edu