2015 GSA Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, USA (1-4 November 2015)

Session No. 339
Wednesday, 4 November 2015: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Room 316 (Baltimore Convention Center)

T161. Echinoderm Paleobiology: Diversity, Form, and Phylogeny

Paleontological Society
David F. Wright, Selina R. Cole and Jeffrey R. Thompson, Session Chairs
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Start Time
1:30 PM
THE ROLE OF SUBSTRATES IN THE EARLY DIVERSIFICATION OF ECHINODERMS
ZAMORA, Samuel, Museo Geominero, Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, C/Manuel Lasala, 44, 9ºB, Zaragoza, 50006, Spain and RAHMAN, Imran A., School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Wills Memorial Building, Queens Road, Bristol, BS8 1RJ, United Kingdom, samuel@unizar.es
1:50 PM
BASAL ECHINODERMS: THEIR PLEISIOMORPHIC CHARACTERS AND AND WHAT SETS THEM APART FROM MOST MODERN CROWN GROUPS?
PARSLEY, Ronald L., Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118; Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, parsley@tulane.edu
2:05 PM
A PHYLOGENETIC TEST OF THE SUPRAGENERIC CLASSIFICATION OF DIPLOBATHRID CRINOIDS
COLE, Selina R., School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, 275 Mendenhall Laboratory, 125 South Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210, cole.678@osu.edu
2:20 PM
REVISED PHYLOGENETIC HYPOTHESIS OF BLASTOIDEA (ECHINODERMATA)
BAUER, Jennifer E., Earth and Planetary Sciences, The University of Tennessee, 306 EPS Building, 1412 Circle Drive, Knoxville, TN 37996-1410 and SUMRALL, Colin D., Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, 306 EPS Building, 1412 Circle Drive, Knoxville, TN 37996-1410, jbauer5@vols.utk.edu
2:35 PM
MORPHOLOGIC CHARACTERIZATION OF THE “PRIMITIVE” ECHINOID FIBULARIA TEXANA (CLYPEASTEROIDA:SCUTELLINA)
ZACHOS, Louis G., Geology and Geological Engineering, University of Mississippi, 118G Carrier Hall, Oxford, MS 38677, lgzachos@olemiss.edu
2:50 PM
USING FOSSILS AND PHYLOGENIES TO DATE THE TIMING OF KEY GENE REGULATORY NETWORK INNOVATIONS: AN EXAMPLE USING ECHINOIDS
THOMPSON, Jeffrey R., Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0740, PETSIOS, Elizabeth, Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, 3651 Trousdale Pkwy Zumberge Hall of Science, University Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0740 and BOTTJER, David J., Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, thompsjr@usc.edu
3:05 PM
TESTING THE TAXONOMIC STRUCTURE OF PALEOZOIC PAN-CLADID CRINOIDS: A STATISTICAL APPROACH USING THE FOSSILIZED BIRTH-DEATH PROCESS AND BAYESIAN PHYLOGENETIC INFERENCE
WRIGHT, David F., School of Earth Sciences, Ohio State University, 275 Mendenhall Laboratory, 125 South Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210, wright.1433@osu.edu
3:20 PM
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ECHINODERM BODY PLANS
DELINE, Bradley, Department of Geosciences, University of West Georgia, 1601 Maple St, Carrollton, GA 30118, bdeline@westga.edu
3:40 PM
UNCOVERING THE DIVERSITY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY OF SILURIAN DIPLOPORITANS: NEW DATA FROM MISSOURI, USA
SHEFFIELD, Sarah L., Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-1410 and SUMRALL, Colin D., Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, 306 EPS Building, 1412 Circle Drive, Knoxville, TN 37996-1410, ssheffi2@vols.utk.edu
3:55 PM
CONTRACTILE CONNECTIVE TISSUE (CCT) IN THE STALK OF THE BOURGUETICRINID CRINOID, DEMOCRINUS: FUNCTIONAL, ECOLOGICAL, AND EVOLUTIONARY IMPLICATIONS
VEITCH, Margaret A., Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, MESSING, Charles G., Oceanographic Center, Nova Southeastern University, 8000 N Ocean Drive, Dani Beach, FL 33004 and BAUMILLER, Tomasz K., Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, 1109 Geddes, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079, maveitch@umich.edu
4:10 PM
HYDRODYNAMIC MODELING OF BRACHIOLAR FILTRATION SYSTEMS IN BLASTOIDS (ECHINODERMATA)
NGUYEN, Bonnie K.1, WATERS, Johnny A.1 and SUMRALL, Colin D.2, (1)Department of Geology, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 28608, (2)Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, 306 EPS Building, 1412 Circle Drive, Knoxville, TN 37996-1410, nguyenbk@appstate.edu
4:25 PM
HYDRODYNAMIC MODELING OF RESPIRATORY SYSTEMS IN BLASTOIDS (ECHINODERMATA)
WHITE, Lyndsie Elizabeth1, WATERS, Johnny A.1 and SUMRALL, Colin D.2, (1)Department of Geology, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 28608, (2)Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, 306 EPS Building, 1412 Circle Drive, Knoxville, TN 37996-1410, white.lyndsie@gmail.com
4:40 PM
TAXONOMY, AND PALEOECOLOGY OF THE ORDOVICIAN EDRIOASTEROIDS OF THE BARRANDIAN AREA, CZECH REPUBLIC
SUMRALL, Colin D., Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, 306 EPS Building, 1412 Circle Drive, Knoxville, TN 37996-1410, csumrall@utk.edu
4:55 PM
PHYLOGENY OF DISPARID CRINOIDS
AUSICH, William I., School of Earth Sciences, Ohio State University, 155 S Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210-1398 and DONOVAN, Stephen K., Geology, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Darwinweg 2, Leiden, 2333 CR, Netherlands, ausich.1@osu.edu
5:10 PM
EXPERIMENTAL TAPHONOMY OF CRINOIDS: A POSITIVE FEEDBACK FROM MODERN AND ANCIENT EXAMPLES
OJI, Tatsuo, Nagoya University Museum, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Nagoya, 464-8601, Japan, MATSUMOTO, Mahiro, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Nagoya, 464-8601, Japan and BURNS, Casey, California Academy of Sciences, Kingston, WA 98346, oji@num.nagoya-u.ac.jp
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