2009 Portland GSA Annual Meeting (18-21 October 2009)

Session No. 51
Sunday, 18 October 2009: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Portland Ballroom 255 (Oregon Convention Center)

Paleontology: Movement & Distribution

 

Erin H. Leckey and Patrick Ryan Getty, Chairs
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1:30 PM
NEOICHNOLOGY OF THE WHIP SCORPION PHRYNUS MARGINEMACULATA: INTERPRETING THE ROLE OF PREDATORY ARTHROPODS IN EARLY SOIL ECOSYSTEMS
HEMBREE, Daniel I., Department of Geological Sciences, Ohio University, 316 Clippinger Laboratories, Athens, OH 45701, hembree@ohio.edu, hembree@ohio.edu
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1:45 PM
TRACKWAYS OF MODERN BASAL INSECTS (JUMPING BRISTLETAILS AND SILVERFISH) AND THE ORIGIN OF PENNSYLVANIAN ARTHROPOD TRACE FOSSILS FROM EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS
GETTY, Patrick Ryan, Center for Integrative Geosciences, University of Connecticut, 354 Mansfield Road U-2045, Storrs, CT 06269, SPROULE, Robert, 40 Paulette Terrace, Plymouth, MA 02360, WAGNER, David, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, 75 N. Eagleville Road, U-43, Storrs, CT 06269 and BUSH, Andrew M., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Center for Integrative Geosciences, University of Connecticut, 75 N. Eagleville Road, Unit 3043, Storrs, CT 06269, patrick.getty@uconn.edu, patrick.getty@uconn.edu
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2:00 PM
LIFE IN A SAND SEA: BURROWS EXCAVATED BY MAMMALS OR THERAPSIDS IN THE NAVAJO SANDSTONE AND THEIR ASSOCIATION WITH OTHER ORGANISMS REPRESENTED BY TRACE FOSSILS IN A WET DESERT ECOSYSTEM
RIESE, David J., Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana University, 1001 East. 10th St, Bloomington, IN 47405, HASIOTIS, Stephen T., Geology, University of Kansas, 1475 Jayhawk Blvd., Room 120, Lawrence, KS 66045 and ODIER, Georges, 115 W. Kane Creek Blvd. #29, Moab, UT 84532, djriese@indiana.edu, djriese@indiana.edu
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2:15 PM
EXCEPTIONALLY WELL-PRESERVED ANT NEST FOSSILS IN CALCIC PALEOSOLS OF THE OGALLALA FORMATION (MIOCENE), SCOTT COUNTY, KANSAS, USA
SMITH, Jon Jay, Kansas Geological Survey, The University of Kansas, 1930 Constant Ave, Lawrence, KS 66047-3726, PLATT, Brian F., Geology, Univ of Kansas, 1475 Jayhawk Blvd, 120 Lindley Hall, Lawrence, KS 66045-7613, LUDVIGSON, Greg A., Kansas Geological Survey, University of Kansas, 1930 Constant Ave, Lawrence, KS 66047 and THOMASSON, Joseph R., Sternberg Museum of Natural History, 3000 Sternberg Dr, Hays, KS 67601, jjsmith@ku.edu, jjsmith@ku.edu
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2:30 PM
FROM CRAYFISH TO DINOSAURS: EARLY CRETACEOUS TRACE FOSSILS OF VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA AND THEIR USES IN INTERPRETING CIRCUMPOLAR PALEOENVIRONMENTS
MARTIN, Anthony J.1, RICH, Thomas H.2, VICKERS-RICH, Patricia3, KOOL, Lesley3 and TRUSLER, Peter3, (1)Department of Environmental Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, (2)Museum of Victoria, PO Box 666E, Melbourne, 3001, Australia, (3)School of Geosciences, Monash University, Clayton, 3800, Australia, geoam@learnlink.emory.edu, geoam@learnlink.emory.edu
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2:45 PM
PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE MICROBIAL, INVERTEBRATE, AND VERTEBRATE TRACE FOSSILS FROM DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, ALASKA: INSIGHTS INTO THE BIODIVERSITY OF A POLAR ECOSYSTEM
HASIOTIS, Stephen T., Department of Geology, University of Kansas, 1475 Jayhawk Blvd, 120 Lindley Hall, Lawrence, KS 66045, FIORILLO, Anthony, Museum of Nature and Science, P.O. Box 151469, Dallas, TX 75315, KOBAHYASHI, Yoshitsugu, Hokkaido University Museum, Kita 10, Nishi 8, Kita-Ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 060-0810, Japan and BREASE, Phil, Resources, Dept. of Interior - National Park Service - Denali National Park, Alaska, P.O. Box 9, Denali Park, AK 99755, hasiotis@ku.edu, hasiotis@ku.edu
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3:00 PM
IS INSECT DAMAGE DIVERSITY CORRELATED WITH INSECT DIVERSITY? PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM THE PANAMA CANOPY CRANES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PLANT-INSECT ASSOCIATIONAL DIVERSITY IN THE FOSSIL RECORD
RAMIREZ-CARVALHO, Monica, Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, 520 Deike Building, University Park, PA 16802, WILF, Peter, Dept. of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, BARRIOS, Hector, Maestría en Entomología, Universidad de Panamá, Panamá, 0000, Panama, CURRANO, Ellen D., Department of Geology, Miami University, 114 Shideler Hall, Oxford, OH 45056, JARAMILLO, Carlos, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Unit 0948, APO AA 34002, Balboa, Ancon, Panama, 0843-03092, Panama, LABANDEIRA, Conrad C., Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013-7012 and WINDSOR, Donald M., Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, MRC 0580-12, Panama, 0843-03092, Panama, moccada@gmail.com, moccada@gmail.com
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3:15 PM
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS ARE BETTER THAN EXPECTED: MINIMAL EFFECTS OF COLLECTION BIAS IN DETECTING INSECT HERBIVORY ON FOSSILIZED LEAVES
LECKEY, Erin H., Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 and SMITH, Dena, CU Museum of Natural History, Univ of Colorado, Campus Box 265, Boulder, CO 80309, Erin.Leckey@colorado.edu, Erin.Leckey@colorado.edu
 
3:30 PM
Break
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3:45 PM
CAMBRIAN COPROLITES: A RECORD OF NON-ANOMALOCARIDID GNATHOBASIC PREDATION
HAGADORN, James W., Department of Earth Sciences, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd, Denver, CO 80205, jwhagadorn@dmns.org, jwhagadorn@dmns.org
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4:00 PM
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4:15 PM
PALEOECOLOGICAL INFORMATION FROM PALEONTOLOGY AND SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY OF INTERDUNAL SEDIMENTS OF THE EARLY JURASSIC GLEN CANYON GROUP IN AND AROUND DINOSAUR NATIONAL MONUMENT (DNM) IN NORTHEASTERN UTAH
ENGELMANN, George F., Department of Geography & Geology, University of Nebraska - Omaha, 60th And Dodge St, Omaha, NE 68182, CHURE, Daniel J., Dinosaur National Monument, National Park Service, Box 128, Jensen, UT 84035 and BRITT, Brooks, Department of Geological Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, gengelmann@mail.unomaha.edu, gengelmann@mail.unomaha.edu
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4:30 PM
CRYPTIC TRACE FOSSILS AS CLUES TO THE TAPHONOMY OF BACULITID CONCHS (UPPER CRETACEOUS PIERRE SHALE, WESTERN INTERIOR, NORTH AMERICA)
WILSON, Mark A., Department of Geology, The College of Wooster, 1189 Beall Ave, Wooster, OH 44691, SIME, John A., Department of Geography and Geology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, 601 South College Road, Wilmington, NC 28403 and TAYLOR, Paul D., Department of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, United Kingdom, mwilson@wooster.edu, mwilson@wooster.edu
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4:45 PM
SHELL SIZE AND SCLEROBIONT COLONIZATION: AREA EFFECTS ON ENCRUSTATION AND BORING FREQUENCY, ABUNDANCE, DIVERSITY AND RECRUITMENT IN HARD-SUBSTRATE COMMUNITIES
RODLAND, David L., Geology, Muskingum University, Boyd Science Center 223, 163 Stormont Street, New Concord, OH 43762, BULLARD, Elizabeth M., Geology, Muskingum University, Boyd Science Center 223, 123 Stormont Street, New Concord, OH 43762, KOWALEWSKI, Michal, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, 1659 Museum Road, PO Box 117800, Gainesville, FL 32611 and SIMOES, Marcello, Instituto de Biociencias, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Distrito de Rubiao Junior, CP. 510, 18.610-000, Botucatu, Brazil, drodland@sbcglobal.net, drodland@sbcglobal.net
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5:00 PM
CLUMPED OR DISPERSED? USING NEAREST NEIGHBOR ANALYSIS TO ASSESS VARIATIONS IN SETTLEMENT PATTERNS OF FOUR ORDOVICIAN ISOROPHID EDRIOASTEROIDS
SHROAT-LEWIS, René A., Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, The University of Tennessee, 306 Earth and Planetary Sciences Building, 1412 Circle Drive, Knoxville, TN 37996-1410, MCKINNEY, M.L., Department of Earth & Planetary Science, University of Tennessee, 1412 Circle Drive, Knoxville, TN 37996 and SUMRALL, Colin D., Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, rshroatl@utk.edu, rshroatl@utk.edu
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5:15 PM
NEW PUBLIC LAW TO PROTECT AND PRESERVE PALEONTOLOGICAL RESOURCES ON FEDERAL LAND
FOSS, Scott E.1, MARY, Michelle L.1 and KUIZON, Lucia2, (1)Bureau of Land Management, Utah State Office, PO Box 45155, Salt Lake City, UT 84145, (2)Bureau of Land Management, Washington Office, 1620 L Street NW, Room 204, Washington, DC 20036, Scott_Foss@blm.gov, Scott_Foss@blm.gov