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Session No. 52
Sunday, 31 October 2010: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Room 605 (Colorado Convention Center)

Paleontology II - Dynamics of Diversity, Extinction, and Origination

 

Shanan E. Peters and Jacalyn M. Wittmer, Chairs
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1:30 PM
THE COMMON-CAUSE HYPOTHESIS: INITIAL PREDICTIONS OF HABITABLE AREA FROM SIMPLE GEOMETRIC MODELS
HOLLAND, Steven M., Department of Geology, Univ of Georgia, Geology Building, Athens, GA 30602, stratum@uga.edu, stratum@uga.edu
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1:45 PM
DEEP-SEA MACROSTRATIGRAPHY AND THE MACROEVOLUTION OF PLANKTIC FORAMINIFERA
PETERS, Shanan E.1, KELLY, D. Clay1 and FRAASS, Andrew2, (1)Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1215 W. Dayton St, Madison, WI 53706, (2)Department of Geoscience, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, Amherst, MA 01375, peters@geology.wisc.edu, peters@geology.wisc.edu
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2:00 PM
TESTING THE COMMON CAUSE HYPOTHESIS BY COMPARING SAMPLING BIAS IN THE DEEP SEA AND LAND BASED ROCK RECORDS
SMITH, Andrew B., LLOYD, Graeme T. and YOUNG, Jeremy R., Department of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW75BD, United Kingdom, a.smith@nhm.ac.uk, a.smith@nhm.ac.uk
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2:15 PM
COMPARING THE DEEP SEA ROCK AND FOSSIL RECORDS OF COCCOLITHOPHORES AND PLANKTIC FORAMINIFERA
LLOYD, Graeme T., Department of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, United Kingdom, PEARSON, Paul N., School of Earth nd Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University, Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3YE, United Kingdom, YOUNG, Jeremy R., Department of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW75BD, United Kingdom and SMITH, Andrew B., Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW75BD, United Kingdom, g.lloyd@nhm.ac.uk, g.lloyd@nhm.ac.uk
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2:30 PM
GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION PREDICTS REGIONAL GEOGRAPHIC RANGE AND LONGEVITY IN MARINE GENERA OF NORTH AMERICA
HEIM, Noel A., Department of Geological Sciences, Stanford University, 450 Serra Mall, Building 320, Stanford, CA 94305 and PETERS, Shanan E., Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1215 W Dayton St, Madison, WI 53706, naheim@sedpaleo.org, naheim@sedpaleo.org
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2:45 PM
ANTAGONISTIC EXTINCTION AND ORIGINATION AMONG THE SEVEN FORMS OF RARITY
HARNIK, Paul G., Department of Earth and Environment, Franklin and Marshall College, 415 Harrisburg Avenue, Lancaster, PA 17603, SIMPSON, Carl, Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute at the Humboldt University Berlin, Invalidenstrasse 43, Berlin, D-10115, Germany and PAYNE, Jonathan L., Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, 450 Serra Mall, Bldg 320, Stanford, CA 94305, paul.harnik@fandm.edu, paul.harnik@fandm.edu
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3:00 PM
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PROPORTIONAL RARITY AND ABUNDANCE DISTRIBUTIONS AT MULTIPLE GEOGRAPHIC SCALES
BULINSKI, Katherine V., School of Environmental Studies, Bellarmine University, 2001 Newburg Road, Louisville, KY 40205, kbulinski@bellarmine.edu, kbulinski@bellarmine.edu
 
3:15 PM
Break
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3:30 PM
CLASSIC METRARABDOTOS TEST FOR PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM: AN EVOLUTIONARY-PROCESS PERSPECTIVE
GINGERICH, Philip D., Department of Geological Sciences and Museum of Paleontology, The Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079, gingeric@umich.edu, gingeric@umich.edu
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3:45 PM
ESTIMATING THE SIZE OF THE SAMPLING DOMAIN FROM THE NUMBER OF UNIQUE BIVALVED INDIVIDUALS IN A PALEONTOLOGICAL SAMPLE
BENNINGTON, J. Bret, Department of Geology, Environment, and Sustainability, 114 Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11549-1140, SILBERGER, Sylvia, Department of Mathematics, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11549 and CHUNG, Anna, General Douglas MacArthur High School, Levittown, NY 11756, geojbb@hofstra.edu, geojbb@hofstra.edu
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4:00 PM
SPATIAL SCALING OF ALPHA, BETA, AND GAMMA: DIVERSITY PATTERNS OF ROCKY INTERTIDAL GASTROPODS ON SAN SALVADOR ISLAND, BAHAMAS
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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4:15 PM
A MORE DETAILED LOOK AT SEPKOSKI'S EVOLUTIONARY FAUNAS: TWELVE FAUNAS
BUSH, Andrew M., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Center for Integrative Geosciences, University of Connecticut, 75 N. Eagleville Road, Unit 3043, Storrs, CT 06269 and BAMBACH, Richard K., Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, MRC-121, P. O. Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013-7012, andrew.bush@uconn.edu, andrew.bush@uconn.edu
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4:30 PM
ON TAXONOMIC MEMBERSHIP
WILKINSON, Bruce H., Department of Earth Sciences, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, eustasy@umich.edu, eustasy@umich.edu
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4:45 PM
EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS OF GENUS SIZE-FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS
FOOTE, Michael, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, The Univ of Chicago, 5734 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, mfoote@uchicago.edu, mfoote@uchicago.edu
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5:00 PM
THE EFFECT OF SPECIES-LEVEL EXTINCTION SELECTIVITY ON SUPRASPECIFIC EXTINCTION INTENSITY
JANEVSKI, G. Alex, Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, Department of Geological Sciences, 2534 C. C. Little Building, 1100 North University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48105, galexski@umich.edu, galexski@umich.edu
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5:15 PM
STATISTICAL EVIDENCE FOR SELECTIVITY IN THE PLANKTIC FORAMINIFERA
FRAASS, Andrew Jeffrey, Geosciences, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, Amherst, MA 01375 and PETERS, Shanan E., Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1215 W. Dayton St, Madison, WI 53706, ajfraass@geo.umass.edu, ajfraass@geo.umass.edu
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