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

Session No. 50
Sunday, 18 October 2009: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Portland Ballroom 256 (Oregon Convention Center)

Paleontology: Extinction & Turnover

 

Stephen R. Westrop and Felisa Smith, Chairs
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Start Time
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1:30 PM
THE GEOZOIC: AN INFORMAL SUPEREON AND A TERMINOLOGICAL CONVENIENCE
KOWALEWSKI, Michal1, ALROY, John2, BOYER, Alison G.3, BROWN, James H.4, FINNEGAN, Seth5, KRAUSE Jr, Richard A.6, LYONS, S. Kathleen7, MCCLAIN, Craig R.8, MCSHEA, Dan9, NOVACK-GOTTSHALL, Philip M.10, PAYNE, Jonathan L.11, SMITH, Felisa4, SPAETH, Paula A.8, STEMPIEN, Jennifer A.12 and WANG, Steve C.13, (1)Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, 1659 Museum Road, PO Box 117800, Gainesville, FL 32611, (2)Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Room E8A 320, Sydney, 2109, Australia, (3)Ecology, Behavior and Evolution Section, Univ. California- San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr, MC 0116, La Jolla, CA 92093, (4)Biology, University of New Mexico, MSC 03-2020, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, (5)Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, 450 Serra Mall, Building 320, Stanford, CA 94305, (6)Department of Geology & Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, (7)Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013, (8)National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, 2024 W. Main Street, Suite A200, Durham, NC 27705, (9)Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, (10)Department of Biological Sciences, Benedictine University, 5700 College Road, Lisle, IL 60532, (11)Department of Geological Sciences, Stanford University, 450 Serra Mall, Building 320, Stanford, CA 94305, (12)Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2200 Colorado Ave, Boulder, CO 80309, (13)Mathematics and Statistics, Swarthmore College, 500 College Ave, Swarthmore, PA 19081, kowalewski@ufl.edu, kowalewski@ufl.edu
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1:45 PM
CONFIDENCE INTERVALS FOR THE DURATION OF A MASS EXTINCTION
WANG, Steve C. and WONG, Heidi, Mathematics and Statistics, Swarthmore College, 500 College Ave, Swarthmore, PA 19081, scwang@swarthmore.edu, scwang@swarthmore.edu
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2:00 PM
THE ONES THAT GOT AWAY: A RELICT, POST-EXTINCTION TRILOBITE FAUNA IN THE CAMBRIAN—ORDOVICIAN BOUNDARY INTERVAL OF NEW YORK
WESTROP, Stephen R., Oklahoma Museum of Natural History and School of Geology & Geophysics, Univ of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73072 and LANDING, Ed, New York State Musuem, Madison Avenue, Albany, NY 12230, swestrop@ou.edu, swestrop@ou.edu
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2:15 PM
REGIONAL PALEOECOLOGY AND GLOBAL PALEOGEOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF TENTACULITOIDS
WITTMER, Jacalyn M., Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, 605 E. Springfield St, Champaign, IL 61820, jwittm2@illinois.edu, jwittm2@illinois.edu
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2:30 PM
COMPARATIVE PALEOECOLOGY OF A DISTAL CARBONATE RAMP TO BASIN: EARLY MISSISSIPPIAN LODGEPOLE FORMATION, MONTANA
GAHN, Forest J., Department of Geology, Brigham Young University Idaho, ROM 150, Rexburg, ID 83460-0510 and PRUETT, Preston A., Department of Geology, Brigham Young University--Idaho, Romney 150, Rexburg, ID 83460-0510, pru05004@byui.edu, pru05004@byui.edu
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2:45 PM
LATE EIFELIAN (MIDDLE DEVONIAN) BIOTIC TURNOVER PATTERNS IN EASTERN NORTH AMERICA -- WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL BIO-EVENTS NEAR THE EIFELIAN-GIVETIAN STAGE BOUNDARY
DESANTIS, Michael K., Department of Geology, University of Cincinnati, 500 Geology/Physics Building, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0013 and BRETT, Carlton E., Geology, University of Cincinnati, 500 Geology/Physics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, desantmk@uc.edu, desantmk@uc.edu
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3:00 PM
EVALUATING LATE TRIASSIC FAUNAL CHANGE AND THE RISE OF DINOSAURS: EXAMPLES FROM THE CHINLE FORMATION OF NORTH-CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
IRMIS, Randall B., Utah Museum of Natural History and Department of Geology & Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0050, irmis@umnh.utah.edu, irmis@umnh.utah.edu
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3:15 PM
SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN LATE TRIASSIC AND MODERN REEFS
MARTINDALE, Rowan, Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0470 and BOTTJER, David, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Zumberge Hall 117, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0740, rmartind@usc.edu, rmartind@usc.edu
 
3:30 PM
Break
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3:45 PM
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CONTEMPORANEOUS SHIVA IMPACT STRUCTURE AND DECCAN VOLCANISM AT THE KT BOUNDARY
CHATTERJEE, Sankar, Geosciences, Texas Tech Univ, MS Box 41053, Lubbock, TX 79409-3191 and MEHROTRA, Naresh M., Paleobotany, Birbal Sahni Institute of Paleobotany, 53 University Road, Lucknow, 226007, India, sankar.chatterjee@ttu.edu, sankar.chatterjee@ttu.edu
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4:00 PM
ADDITIONS TO THE EARLIEST PALEOCENE MULTITUBERCULATE MAMMALS OF GARFIELD COUNTY, MONTANA
WEIL, Anne, Dept. of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, 1111 W. 17th St, Tulsa, OK 74107 and BOLWAHNN-BARFOOT, Alanna, College of Osteopathic Medicine, Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, 1111 W. 17th St, Tulsa, OK 74107, anne.weil@okstate.edu, anne.weil@okstate.edu
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4:15 PM
NUTRIENT DECLINE, RAINFALL PATTERNS, AND THE END-PLIOCENE REGIONAL MASS EXTINCTION IN FLORIDA
SLIKO, Jennifer, School of Science, Engineering, and Technology, Penn State Harrisburg, Middletown, PA 17057 and HERBERT, Gregory S., Department of Geology, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Ave., SCA 528, Tampa, FL 33620, jls1093@psu.edu, jls1093@psu.edu
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4:30 PM
HOW METABOLIC RATE AFFECTS SURVIVORSHIP: THE GRIM STORY OF BIVALVES ACROSS A PLIOCENE EXTINCTION
BURZYNSKI, Greg1, KELLEY, Patricia H.1 and TOBIAS, Craig R.2, (1)Department of Geography and Geology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, 601 South College Road, Wilmington, NC 28403-5944, (2)University of Connecticut, Groton, CT 06340, gmb2125@uncw.edu, gmb2125@uncw.edu
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4:45 PM
ECOLOGICAL AND EVOLUTIONARY ASYNCHRONY IN CARIBBEAN EXTINCTION
O'DEA, Aaron, Center for Tropical Paleoecology and Archeology, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 0843 - 03092, Panama, 03092, Panama and JACSKON, Jeremy B.C., GRD, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA 92093-0244, odeaa@si.edu, odeaa@si.edu
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5:00 PM
A TALE OF TWO CONTINENTS: ECOLOGY, PHYLOGENY, AND THE GREAT AMERICAN BIOTIC INTERCHANGE
WHITEMAN, Shawn B., Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, 167 Castetter Hall, MSC03 2020, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001, BOYER, Alison G., Ecology, Behavior and Evolution Section, Univ. California- San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr, MC 0116, La Jolla, CA 92093 and SMITH, Felisa, Biology, University of New Mexico, MSC 03-2020, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, sbw@unm.edu, sbw@unm.edu
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5:15 PM
MAMMOTH BURPS: DID HUMAN IMPACTS ON THE ENVIRONMENT PREDATE THE HOLOCENE?
SMITH, Felisa, Biology, University of New Mexico, MSC 03-2020, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, ELLIOTT, Scott M., Climate, Ocean, Sea Ice Modeling Team, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545 and LYONS, S. Kathleen, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013, fasmith@unm.edu, fasmith@unm.edu