2006 Philadelphia Annual Meeting (22–25 October 2006)

Session No. 138
Tuesday, 24 October 2006: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

T117. Life on Late Devonian Continents—Organisms and Ecosystems in Transition: In Honor of James Richard "Dick" Beerbower

Paleontological Society

 

Edward B. Daeschler and Walter L. Cressler, Advocates
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8:00 AM
Introductory Remarks
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8:15 AM
THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF CONTINENTAL ECOSYSTEMS REVISITED
BEERBOWER, Richard, Department of Geological Scienses and Environmental Studies, State Univ of New York at Binghamton, PO Box 6000, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000, dick.beerbower@verizon.net, dick.beerbower@verizon.net
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8:30 AM
PALEOENVIRONMENTS OF EARLY DEVONIAN LAND PLANTS, GASPÉ, QUEBEC: RESEARCH INSPIRED BY J.R. BEERBOWER
GRIFFING, David H., Dept. of Geology and Environmental Sciences, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY 13820, HOTTON, Carol L., National Center for Biotechnology Information, NCBI/NLM/NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892-6510 and BRIDGE, John S., Dept. of Geological Sciences, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000, griffingd@hartwick.edu, griffingd@hartwick.edu
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8:45 AM
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9:05 AM
COMPARATIVE STUDIES ON THE LATE DEVONIAN FLORAS FROM CHINA AND USA
WANG, Qi, State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China, happyking@ibcas.ac.cn, happyking@ibcas.ac.cn
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9:20 AM
MIOSPORE STRATIGRAPHY, THE TOOL TO LINK LATE DEVONIAN CONTINENTAL MACROFAUNA, MACROFLORA AND EVENTS TO THE STANDARD CONODONT ZONATION
STREEL, Maurice J., Paléobotanique, Paléopalynologie et Micropaléontologie, Université de Liège, Bât. B18, Sart Tilman, Liège, B-4000, Belgium and TRAVERSE, Alfred, Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, Deike 403, University Park, PA 16802, Maurice.Streel@ulg.ac.be, Maurice.Streel@ulg.ac.be
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9:35 AM
LANDSCAPE AND CLIMATE RECORDS DERIVED FROM DEVONIAN VERTIC FLOODPLAIN PALEOSOLS, CATSKILL FORMATION, CENTRAL PA
DRIESE, Steven G., Terrestrial Paleoclimatology Research Group, Dept. of Geology, Baylor University, One Bear Place #97354, Waco, TX 76798-7354, MORA, Claudia I., Earth and Planetary Sciences, Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-1410 and ELICK, Jennifer M., Earth and Environmental Sciences, Susquehanna University, 514 University Avenue, Fisher Science, Rm 27, Selinsgrove, PA 17870, Steven_Driese@baylor.edu, Steven_Driese@baylor.edu
 
9:55 AM
Break
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10:10 AM
THE ORIGIN OF WIDESPREAD FIRE SYSTEMS AND THEIR WIDER IMPACT
SCOTT, Andrew C., Deptartment of Geology, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, TW20 0EX, United Kingdom, GLASSPOOL, Ian J., Department of Geology, Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, RIMMER, Susan M., Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0053 and CRESSLER III, Walter L., Francis Harvey Green Library, West Chester University, West Chester, PA 19383, a.scott@gl.rhul.ac.uk, a.scott@gl.rhul.ac.uk
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10:25 AM
TERRESTRIAL-MARINE LINKAGES: RECORDS OF DEVONIAN CHARCOAL, FIRE, AND PALEOATMOSPHERIC OXYGEN LEVEL
RIMMER, Susan M., Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Kentucky, 101 Slone Building, Lexington, KY 40506-0053, SCOTT, Andrew C., Department of Geology, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, TW20 0EX, United Kingdom and CRESSLER III, Walter L., Francis Harvey Green Library, West Chester University, West Chester, PA 19383, srimmer@uky.edu, srimmer@uky.edu
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10:40 AM
THE AGE AND ENVIRONMENT OF THE LATE DEVONIAN EAST GREENLAND TETRAPODS
ASTIN, Timothy R., School of Human and Environmental Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 227, Reading, RG6 6AB, United Kingdom and MARSHALL, John E.A., School of Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, Waterfront Campus, European Way, Southampton, SO14 3ZH, United Kingdom, jeam@noc.soton.ac.uk, jeam@noc.soton.ac.uk
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10:55 AM
FAMENNIAN VERTEBRATE BIOGEOGRAPHY EMPHASIZING EURAMERICA: SOUTH MARGIN (PENNSYLVANIA, BELGIUM) VS INLAND (EAST GREENLAND)
CLEMENT, Gaël1, BLOM, Henning1 and DAESCHLER, Edward B.2, (1)Subdepartment of Evolutionary Organismal Biology, Department of Physiology and Developmental Biology, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18A, Uppsala, 752 36, Sweden, (2)Vertebrate Paleontology, Academy of Nat Sciences, 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA 19103, gael.clement@ebc.uu.se, gael.clement@ebc.uu.se
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11:10 AM
FEEDING SHIFTS ACROSS THE FISH-AMPHIBIAN TRANSITION ARE REVEALED BY CHANGES IN CRANIAL SUTURAL MORPHOLOGY
MARKEY, Molly J., Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Rm. 117, 26 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138 and MARSHALL, Charles R., Department of Invertebrate Paleontology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, markey@fas.harvard.edu, markey@fas.harvard.edu
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11:25 AM
SARCOPTERYGIAN APPENDAGES ON LATE DEVONIAN FLOODPLAINS
SHUBIN, Neil H., Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, 1027 E. 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, nshubin@uchicago.edu, nshubin@uchicago.edu
 
11:45 AM
Concluding Remarks
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