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

Session No. 196
Tuesday, 20 October 2009: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Portland Ballroom 256 (Oregon Convention Center)

Paleontology: Macroevolution & Macroecology

 

Shanan E. Peters and Austin, J.W. Hendy, Chairs
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1:30 PM
NO GENERAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BODY SIZE AND EXTINCTION RISK IN THE FOSSIL RECORD OF MARINE INVERTEBRATES AND PHYTOPLANKTON
FINNEGAN, Seth1, WANG, Steve C.2, BOYER, Alison G.3, CLAPHAM, Matthew E.4, FINKEL, Zoe V.5, KOSNIK, Matthew A.6, KOWALEWSKI, Michal7, KRAUSE Jr, Richard A.8, LYONS, S. Kathleen9, MCCLAIN, Craig R.10, MCSHEA, Dan11, NOVACK-GOTTSHALL, Philip M.12, LOCKWOOD, Rowan13, PAYNE, Jonathan L.14, SMITH, Felisa15, SPAETH, Paula A.10 and STEMPIEN, Jennifer A.16, (1)Division of Geological and Planetry Sciences, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. California Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91125, (2)Mathematics and Statistics, Swarthmore College, 500 College Ave, Swarthmore, PA 19081, (3)Ecology, Behavior and Evolution Section, Univ. California- San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr, MC 0116, La Jolla, CA 92093, (4)Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, (5)Environmental Science Program, Mount Allison University, 314 Avard Dixon, Sackville, NB E4L 1G7, Canada, (6)Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, 2109, Australia, (7)Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, 1659 Museum Road, PO Box 117800, Gainesville, FL 32611, (8)Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, (9)Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013, (10)National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, 2024 W. Main Street, Suite A200, Durham, NC 27705, (11)Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, (12)Department of Biological Sciences, Benedictine University, 5700 College Road, Lisle, IL 60532, (13)Department of Geology, College of William and Mary, P.O. Box 8795, Williamsburg, VA 23187, (14)Department of Geological Sciences, Stanford University, 450 Serra Mall, Building 320, Stanford, CA 94305, (15)Biology, University of New Mexico, MSC 03-2020, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, (16)Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2200 Colorado Ave, Boulder, CO 80309, sethf@caltech.edu, sethf@caltech.edu
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1:45 PM
THE INFLUENCE OF MORPHOLOGICAL VARIATION AND GEOGRAPHIC RANGE SIZE ON SPECIES LONGEVITY
HOPKINS, Melanie J., Department of the Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, 5734 S. Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, mjh@uchicago.edu, mjh@uchicago.edu
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2:00 PM
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GENUS RICHNESS AND GEOGRAPHIC AREA IN THE LATE CRETACEOUS: EPICONTINENTAL SEAS VERSUS OPEN-OCEAN SETTINGS
LAGOMARCINO, Anne J., Dept. of Geology, University of Cincinnati, 500 Geo/Physics Building, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221 and MILLER, Arnold I., Department of Geology, Univ of Cincinnati, 500 Geology Physics Building, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0013, lagomaae@email.uc.edu, lagomaae@email.uc.edu
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2:15 PM
THE PHANEROZOIC DIVERSITY OF AGGLUTINATED FORAMINIFERA: ORIGINATION AND EXTINCTION RATES OF A “CONSERVATIVE” GROUP OF ORGANISMS
KAMINSKI, Michael A.1, SETOYAMA, Eiichi2 and CETEAN, Claudia G.2, (1)Earth Sciences, UCL, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom, (2)Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Senacka 1, Krakow, 31-002, Poland, m.kaminski@ucl.ac.uk, m.kaminski@ucl.ac.uk
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2:30 PM
DO CLADES HAVE A CARRYING CAPACITY: A NEW PERSPECTIVE FROM (MOLECULAR) PHYLOGENIES
MARSHALL, Charles R. and QUENTAL, Tiago B., Department of Invertebrate Paleontology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, cmarshall@oeb.harvard.edu, cmarshall@oeb.harvard.edu
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2:45 PM
ARE CORRELATES OF EXTINCTION RISK BROADLY APPLICABLE OR CLADE-DEPENDENT? A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF EARLY CENOZOIC BIVALVES
HARNIK, Paul G., Committee on Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago, 5734 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, pharnik@uchicago.edu, pharnik@uchicago.edu
 
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3:15 PM
MEASURING THE RATE AT WHICH COMMUNITY COMPOSITION CHANGES
HUNT, Gene, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, NHB MRC 121, P.O. Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013-7012 and WING, S.L., Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013-7012, hunte@si.edu, hunte@si.edu
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3:30 PM
CHANGES IN ECOLOGICAL PROCESSES OF LOCAL BRACHIOPOD PALEOCOMMUNITIES IN THE DELAWARE BASIN (WEST TEXAS)
FALL, Leigh M., Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, SUNY College at Oneonta, Oneonta, NY 13820 and OLSZEWSKI, Thomas D., Department of Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3115, leigh.fall@oneonta.edu, leigh.fall@oneonta.edu
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3:45 PM
A DECONSTRUCTION OF SEPKOSKI'S PHANEROZOIC MARINE EVOLUTIONARY FAUNAS BASED ON NEW DIVERSITY ESTIMATES
ALROY, John, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Room E8A 320, Sydney, 2109, Australia, john.alroy@mq.edu.au, john.alroy@mq.edu.au
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4:00 PM
THE STRATIGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF FOSSILS WITHIN GAP-BOUND SEDIMENTARY ROCK PACKAGES
PETERS, Shanan E., Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1215 W. Dayton St, Madison, WI 53706 and HEIM, Noel A., Department of Geological Sciences, Stanford University, 450 Serra Mall, Building 320, Stanford, CA 94305, peters@geology.wisc.edu, peters@geology.wisc.edu
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4:15 PM
GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN OF SPECIES: THE TEMPERATE-TROPICAL INTERCHANGE
BUZAS, Martin A., Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20024 and CULVER, S.J., Geology, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, buzasm@si.edu, buzasm@si.edu
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4:30 PM
THE NATURE OF EVOLUTIONARY RADIATIONS: ABIOTIC FACTORS AS MECHANISMS
ABE, Francine R., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, 1345 Jayhawk Blvd, Lawrence, KS 66045 and LIEBERMAN, Bruce, Geology, University of Kansas, 1475 Jayhawk Blvd, 120 Lindley Hall, Lawrence, KS 66045, fabe@ku.edu, fabe@ku.edu
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4:45 PM
TESTING THE EVOLUTIONARY EFFECTS OF ABUNDANCE IN THE FOSSIL RECORD
ALLMON, Warren D., Paleontological Research Institution, 1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca, NY 14850-1398, wda1@cornell.edu, wda1@cornell.edu
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5:00 PM
SEAFOOD THROUGH TIME REVISITED: THE PHANEROZOIC INCREASE IN MARINE TROPHIC RESOURCES AND ITS MACROEVOLUTIONARY CONSEQUENCES
MARTIN, Ron, Geological Sciences, College of Marine and Earth Studies, University of Delaware, 101 Penny Hall, Newark, DE 19716 and ALLMON, Warren D., Paleontological Research Institution, 1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca, NY 14850-1398, daddy@udel.edu, daddy@udel.edu
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A 600 MILLION YEAR RECORD OF ECOLOGICAL DIVERSIFICATION
HENDY, Austin J.W.1, ABERHAN, Martin2, ALROY, John3, CLAPHAM, Matthew E.4, KIESSLING, Wolfgang2, LAFLAMME, Marc5 and LIN, Jih-Pai6, (1)Center for Tropical Palaeontology and Archaeology, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, 601 East Street, Balboa, Ancon, 0843-03092, Panama, (2)Institut für Paläontologie, Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstr. 43, Berlin, 10115, Germany, (3)Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Room E8A 320, Sydney, 2109, Australia, (4)Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, (5)Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, PO Box 208109, New Haven, CT 06511, (6)Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, hendyaj@si.edu, hendyaj@si.edu