2008 Joint Meeting of The Geological Society of America, Soil Science Society of America, American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies with the Gulf Coast Section of SEPM

Session No. 169
Sunday, 5 October 2008: 1:30 PM-4:45 PM

T55. Phylogenetic Perspectives on Assembling the Tree of Life in Deep Time

Paleontological Society; Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies

 

Colin D. Sumrall, Christopher Brochu and Talia Karim, Advocates
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Start Time
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1:30 PM
Stratophenetic Study of Evolution in Turborotalia (Eocene Planktonic Foraminifera)
PEARSON, Paul N., School of Earth nd Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University, Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3YE, United Kingdom and EZARD, Thomas H.G., University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom, pearsonp@cardiff.ac.uk, pearsonp@cardiff.ac.uk
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1:45 PM
Anagenesis or Cladogenesis? New Evidence for Widespread Cladogenesis in Marine Microfossils
HULL, Pincelli M., Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0208, La Jolla, CA 92093-0208, NORRIS, Richard D., Scripps Institution of Oceanography/UCSD, MS-0244, 427 Vaughan Hall, La Jolla, CA 92093-0244 and LEWIS, Joshua, Cognitive Science, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, phull@ucsd.edu, phull@ucsd.edu
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2:00 PM
Ontogenetic Trajectories of the 3-D Morphology of Gastropods and Their Phylogenetic Signal
MONNET, Claude, Paleontological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich, Karl Schmid-Strasse 4, Zurich, 8006, Switzerland, BUCHER, Hugo, Paleontological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich, Karl Schmid-Strasse 4, Zürich, 8006, Switzerland and ZOLLIKOFER, Christoph, Anthropological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, Zurich, 8057, Switzerland, claude.monnet@pim.uzh.ch, claude.monnet@pim.uzh.ch
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2:15 PM
Growth Progression In Trilobites
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, HUNT, Gene, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, NHB MRC 121, P.O. Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013-7012 and GARLAND Jr, Theodore, Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, nigel.hughes@ucr.edu, nigel.hughes@ucr.edu
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2:30 PM
Evaluating Our Understanding of Different Limbs of the Metazoan Tree of Life
WAGNER, Peter J., Dept. of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC 20560 and MARCOT, Jonathan D., Animal Biology, University of Illinois, 515 Morril Hall, 505 S. Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801, wagnerpj@si.edu, wagnerpj@si.edu
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2:45 PM
Towards An Unbiased Phylogenetic Reconstruction of Taxonomic Evolution
MARCOT, Jonathan D., Animal Biology, University of Illinois, 515 Morril Hall, 505 S. Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801, jmarcot@illinois.edu, jmarcot@illinois.edu
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3:00 PM
Phylogeny-Based Diversity Patterns with and without Fossils: The Limits of Historical Inference without Historical Data
BROCHU, Christopher A., Geoscience, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, christopher-brochu@uiowa.edu, christopher-brochu@uiowa.edu
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3:15 PM
A Window into the Cambrian: Exceptionally Preserved Arthropods from Quebec and Wisconsin
COLLETTE, Joseph H., Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 and HAGADORN, James W., Department of Geology, Amherst College, Amherst, MA 01002, collette@geo.umass.edu, collette@geo.umass.edu
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3:30 PM
Evolutionary Development of Pseudomonocycly among Paleozoic Crinoids
GAHN, Forest J., Department of Geology, Brigham Young University - Idaho, Rexburg, ID 83460-0510, gahnf@byui.edu, gahnf@byui.edu
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3:45 PM
A New Homology Model for Edrioasteroid Ambulacra and Its Phylogenetic Implications for the Origin of Asteroid Ambulacra
SUMRALL, Colin D., Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996 and SPRINKLE, James, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas, 1 University Station C1100, Austin, TX 78712-0254, csumrall@utk.edu, csumrall@utk.edu
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4:00 PM
Keys for a Long-Standing Scientific Conundrum: The Phylogenetic Position of Stylophorans within Deuterostomes
LEFEBVRE, Bertrand Y.J., Department of Palaeontology, UMR CNRS 5125 Paléoenvironnements et Paléobiosphère, Université Lyon 1, campus de la Doua, bâtiment Géode, 2 rue Raphaël Dubois, Villeurbanne, 69622, France, bertrand.lefebvre@univ-lyon1.fr, bertrand.lefebvre@univ-lyon1.fr
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4:15 PM
Apparatus Architecture as a Key to Conodont Phylogeny—a Natural Experiment in Cladistics
LAMBERT, Lance L., Dept. of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas at San Antonio, One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, TX 78249, lance.lambert@utsa.edu, lance.lambert@utsa.edu
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4:30 PM
Evolution from Benthos to Plankton: Rare or Common?
DARLING, Kate F.1, THOMAS, Ellen2, KASEMANN, Simone3, SMART, Christopher W.4, SEEARS, Heidi5 and WADE, Christopher5, (1)Grant Institute of Earth Science, The University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, University o, United Kingdom, (2)Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, P O Box 208109, New Haven, CT 06520-8109, (3)Grant Institute of Earth Science, The University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JW, United Kingdom, (4)School of Earth, Ocean and Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth, Fitzroy, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA, United Kingdom, (5)Institute of Genetics, University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, NG7 2UH, United Kingdom, ellen.thomas@yale.edu, ellen.thomas@yale.edu
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