2007 GSA Denver Annual Meeting (28–31 October 2007)

Session No. 184
Wednesday, 31 October 2007: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

Paleontology VII: Phylogeny and Morphology

 

Christopher L. Mah and Dana H. Geary, Chairs
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8:00 AM
RATES OF PHENOTYPIC EVOLUTION: ARTIFACTS, TEMPORAL SCALING AND A RECOMMENDATION
HUNT, Gene, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, NHB MRC 121, P.O. Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013-7012, hunte@si.edu, hunte@si.edu
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8:15 AM
TRUNK SEGMENTATION OF EARLY CAMBRIAN EODISCID TRILOBITE NEOCOBBOLDIA CHINLINICA
HONG, Paul S., Department of Earth Sciences, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, HUGHES, Nigel C., Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, FUSCO, Giuseppe, Dept. of Biology, Univ of Padova, via Ugo Bassi 58/B, Padova, I-35131, Italy and ZHANG, Xi-guang, Key Laboratory for Paleobiology, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan, 650091, China, paul.hong@email.ucr.edu, paul.hong@email.ucr.edu
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8:30 AM
PHYLOGENETICS OF THE ORDOVICIAN ACIDIPHORUS-GROUP BATHYURID TRILOBITES
MCADAMS, Neo E.B. and ADRAIN, Jonathan M., Department of Geoscience, University of Iowa, 121 Trowbridge Hall, Iowa City, IA 52242, neo-buengermcadams@uiowa.edu, neo-buengermcadams@uiowa.edu
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8:45 AM
A REVISED HISTORY OF TRILOBITA
ADRAIN, Jonathan M., Department of Geoscience, University of Iowa, 121 Trowbridge Hall, Iowa City, IA 52242, jonathan-adrain@uiowa.edu, jonathan-adrain@uiowa.edu
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9:00 AM
THE PHYLOGENETIC POSITION OF THE BRACHIOPODA: NEW EVIDENCE FROM NUCLEAR HOUSEKEEPING GENES AND MICRORNAS
SPERLING, Erik Anders1, BRIGGS, Derek E.G.1, NEAR, Thomas J.2 and PETERSON, Kevin J.3, (1)Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, 210 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT 06511, (2)Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, 370 ESC, New Haven, CT 06520, (3)Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, erik.sperling@yale.edu, erik.sperling@yale.edu
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9:15 AM
MICRORNAS AND THE EVOLUTION OF VERTEBRATE COMPLEXITY
HEIMBERG, Alysha M.1, DONOGHUE, Philip C.J.2 and PETERSON, Kevin J.1, (1)Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, N. College St, Hanover, NH 03755, (2)Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1RJ, United Kingdom, alysha.m.heimberg@dartmouth.edu, alysha.m.heimberg@dartmouth.edu
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9:30 AM
PHYLOGENY, CHARACTER EVOLUTION, AND UPDATED TAXONOMY OF EARLY ORDOVICIAN GRAPTOLITES
CARLUCCI, Jesse, Department of Geosciences, Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, TX 76308 and MALETZ, Jörg, Department of Geology, University at Buffalo SUNY, 772 Natural Sciences Complex, Buffalo, NY 14260-3050, jesse.carlucci@mwsu.edu, jesse.carlucci@mwsu.edu
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9:45 AM
ALLOMETRIC SPACE AND ALLOMETRIC DISPARITY: A NOVEL DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVE IN THE MACROEVOLUTIONARY ANALYSIS OF MORPHOLOGICAL DISPARITY
GERBER, Sylvain, UMR 5561 Biogeosciences, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 6, Boulevard Gabriel, Dijon, 21000, France, sylvain.gerber@u-bourgogne.fr, sylvain.gerber@u-bourgogne.fr
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10:00 AM
GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRIC EXAMINATION OF SHAPE CHANGE THROUGH ONTOGENY AND PHYLOGENY OF CENOZOIC NEW ZEALAND TURRITELLID GASTROPODS FAMILY TURRITELLIDAE
SMITH, Ursula E., Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, Snee Hall, Ithaca, NY 14850, ues4@cornell.edu, ues4@cornell.edu
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10:15 AM
PATTERNS OF PHYLETIC EVOLUTION IN TWO LINEAGES OF LYMNOCARDIID BIVALVES (LAKE PANNON, CENTRAL EUROPE)
GEARY, Dana H., Dept. of Geoscience, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison, 1215 W. Dayton St, Madison, WI 53706, HUNT, Gene, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, NHB MRC 121, P.O. Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013-7012, MAGYAR, Imre, MOL Hungarian Oil and Gas Co, Batthyány u.45, Budapest, 1145, Hungary and SCHULTZ, Holly, Dept. of Geology, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, dana@geology.wisc.edu, dana@geology.wisc.edu
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10:30 AM
INFERED MORPHOLOGY AND FUNCTION OF SOFTPART SUTURAL PORE STRUCTURES BASED ON LOWER AND MIDDLE CAMBRIAN GOGIID EOCRINOIDS FROM GUIZHOU PROVINCE, CHINA
PARSLEY, Ronald L., Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118 and TETE, Nicolas, Paleoenvironments et Paleobiosphere batiment Geode, campus de la Doua Universite Claude Bernard - Lyon 12, rue Raphael Dubois, Villeurbanne, F-69622, France, parsley@tulane.edu, parsley@tulane.edu
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10:45 AM
MORPHOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY IMPLICATIONS OF A PRIMITIVE EARLY ORDOVICIAN CRINOID
GUENSBURG, Thomas E., Sciences Division, Rock Valley College, 3301 N. Mulford Road, Rockford, IL 61114 and SPRINKLE, James, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas, 1 University Station C1100, Austin, TX 78712-0254, t.guensburg@rockvalleycollege.edu, t.guensburg@rockvalleycollege.edu
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11:00 AM
AN EQUILIBRIUM THEORY OF ECHINOID PLATE GEOMETRY
ZACHOS, Louis G., Geology and Geological Engineering, University of Mississippi, 118G Carrier Hall, Oxford, MS 38677 and SPRINKLE, James, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas, 1 University Station C1100, Austin, TX 78712-0254, lgzachos@olemiss.edu, lgzachos@olemiss.edu
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11:15 AM
PERAMORPHISM IN THE AMBULACRAL SYSTEM OF EDRIOASTEROID ECHINODERMS
SUMRALL, Colin and MCKINNEY, Michael L., Earth and Planetary Science, The Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, csumrall@utk.edu, csumrall@utk.edu
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11:30 AM
MORPHOLOGY OF TUBULAR APPENDAGES AND REVISION OF THE GILBERTSOCRININAE
GAHN, Forest J., Department of Geology, Brigham Young University - Idaho, Rexburg, ID 83460-0510, gahnf@byui.edu, gahnf@byui.edu
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11:45 AM
MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS OF FORCIPULATACEAN STARFISH (ECHINODERMATA; ASTEROIDEA)
MAH, Christopher L., Invertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, MRC-163, PO Box 163, Washington, DC 20013 and FOLTZ, David, Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-1715, mahch@si.edu, mahch@si.edu