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South-Central Section - 47th Annual Meeting (4-5 April 2013)

Session No. 22
Friday, 5 April 2013: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Classroom 105 (AT&T Center)

T4. The Paleontology of Texas I: A Session in Honor of Wann Langston, Jr.

GSA Geobiology & Geomicrobiology Division

 

Michelle R. Stocker, William G. Parker, Ernest Lundelius and Christopher Brochu, Advocates
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Start Time
22-1
8:00 AM
A LIFE AMONG BONES: DR. WANN LANGSTON, JR
BROWN, Matthew A.1, BELL, Christopher J.2, LUNDELIUS, Ernest2 and DAWSON, Mary R.3, (1)Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78758, (2)Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, (3)Vertebrate Paleontology, Carnegie Museum, 4400 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, matthewbrown@utexas.edu
22-2
8:20 AM
OPHIACODON LONG BONE HISTOLOGY: SUPPORTING THE BRINKMAN HYPOTHESIS
SHELTON, Christen D. and SANDER, P. Martin, Steinmann Institute for Paleontology, University of Bonn, Nussallee 8, Bonn, 53115, Germany, Cshelton@uni-bonn.de
22-3
8:40 AM
ORIGIN OF MAMMALIAN EFFICIENCY: PRECISE CARCASS DISMEMBERMENT BY THE TEXAS FINBACK, DIMETRODON, AT THE RICHEST EARLY PERMIAN TETRAPOD BONE BED, CRADDOCK RANCH, ARROYO FORMATION, BAYLOR COUNTY, TEXAS
BAKKER, Robert T., TEMPLE, David Porter and ZOEHFELD, K. Weidner., Department of Paleontology, Houston Museum of Natural Science, 5555 Hermann Park Drive, Houston, TX 77030-1799, zorilla47@aol.com
22-4
9:00 AM
A NEW TAXONOMIC ARRANGEMENT FOR PALEORHINUS SCURRIENSIS LANGSTON 1949
STOCKER, Michelle R., Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712-0254, mstocker@utexas.edu
22-5
9:20 AM
REDESCRIPTION AND TAXONOMIC STATUS OF SPECIMENS OF EPISCOPOSAURUS AND TYPOTHORAX: THE EARLIEST KNOWN AETOSAURS (ARCHOSAURIA: SUCHIA) FROM THE UPPER TRIASSIC OF WESTERN NORTH AMERICA AND THE PROBLEM OF PROXY “HOLOTYPES”
PARKER, William G., Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712-0254, Wgparker@utexas.edu
22-6
9:40 AM
A TAXONOMIC AND BIOSTRATIGRAPHIC RE-EVALUATION OF THE POST QUARRY VERTEBRATE ASSEMBLAGE FROM THE COOPER CANYON FORMATION (DOCKUM GROUP, UPPER TRIASSIC) OF SOUTHERN GARZA COUNTY, WESTERN TEXAS
MARTZ, Jeffrey W., Department of Earth Sciences, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, 2001 Colorado Boulevard, Denver, CO 80205, MUELLER, Bill, Paleontology Division, Museum of Texas Tech University, 3301 4th Street, Lubbock, TX 79415, NESBITT, Sterling, Department of Biology, University of Washington, Box 351800, Seattle, WA 98195-1800, STOCKER, Michelle R., Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712-0254, PARKER, William G., Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712-0254, ATANASSOV, Momchil, Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Box 43131, Lubbock, TX 79409, FRASER, Nicholas C., National Museums Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1JF, United Kingdom, WEINBAUM, Jonathan, Biology Department, Southern Connecticut State University, Jennings Hall, 501 Crescent Street, New Haven, CT 06515 and LEHANE, James, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, typothorax@gmail.com
 
10:00 AM
Break
22-7
10:20 AM
NEW SAUROPOD DINOSAUR MATERIAL FROM JONES RANCH, A LARGE COMANCHEAN NONMAMMALIAN TETRAPOD FROM TEXAS
WINKLER, Dale A.1, POLCYN, Michael J.2 and JACOBS, Louis L.2, (1)Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75275, (2)Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75275-0395, dwinkler@smu.edu
22-8
10:40 AM
SMALL CROCODYLIFORMS FROM THE PROCTOR LAKE DINOSAUR LOCALITY OF CENTRAL TEXAS (TWIN MOUNTAINS FORMATION, LATE APTIAN) AND THEIR PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN CROCODYLOMORPHA
ADAMS, Thomas L., Natural Sciences Department, San Antonio College, San Antonio, TX 78212, tladams40@gmail.com
22-9
11:00 AM
COASTAL PLAIN PALEOECOLOGY, AN EXAMPLE OF CROCODYLIFORM FEEDING GROUNDS FROM THE CRETACEOUS WOODBINE FORMATION OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS
MAIN, Derek J., Earth and Environmental Science, University of Texas at Arlington, Box 19049, 500 Yates St, Arlington, TX 76019, NOTO, Christopher, Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin at Parkside, 900 Wood Rd, PO Box 2000, Kenosha, WI 53141, DRUMHELLER, Stephanie K., Department of Geoscience, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 and KING, Lorin, Dept. of Science, Math and Physical Education, Western Nebraska Community College, 1601 E. 27th Street, Scottsbluff, NE 69361, maindinos@msn.com
22-10
11:20 AM
PRELIMINARY XRF ANALYSIS OF LATE CRETACEOUS (CAMPANIAN) TURTLE BONE FROM A POND ON A VOLCANIC MAAR DEPOSIT IN THE AGUJA FORMATION, BREWSTER COUNTY, TEXAS
BUSBEY, Arthur and FINICAL, Rene G., School of Geology, Energy, and the Environment, Texas Christian University, TCU Box 298830, Fort Worth, TX 76129, r.finical@tcu.edu
22-11
11:40 AM
LATE CRETACEOUS MOSASAUROIDS OF THE BIG BEND REGION OF TEXAS
BELL Jr, Gorden L., National Park Service, Baker, NV 89311, BARNES, Ken R., Alpine, TX 79830 and POLCYN, Michael J., Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75275-0395, mpolcyn@smu.edu
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