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

Session No. 78
Monday, 2 November 2015: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Room 315 (Baltimore Convention Center)

Paleontology: Limits to Life: Trends in Origination and Extinction

Simon A.F. Darroch and Daniel Killam, Chairs
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8:00 AM
RECONSTRUCTING THE GREAT ORDOVICIAN BIODIVERSIFICATION EVENT THROUGH BRACHIOPODS OF OKLAHOMA
TRUBOVITZ, Sarah1, STIGALL, Alycia L.2 and ANDERSON, James A.1, (1)Department of Geological Sciences, Ohio University, 316 Clippinger Lab, Athens, OH 45701, (2)Department of Geological Sciences and Ohio Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Studies, Ohio University, 316 Clippinger Lab, Athens, OH 45701, sarbovitz@gmail.com
8:15 AM
BIOTIC IMMIGRATION EVENTS, SPECIATION, AND BIODIVERSITY IN ORDOVICIAN SEAS OF LAURENTIA
STIGALL, Alycia L., Department of Geological Sciences and Ohio Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Studies, Ohio University, 316 Clippinger Lab, Athens, OH 45701, WRIGHT, David F., School of Earth Sciences, Ohio State University, 275 Mendenhall Laboratory, 125 South Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210, LAM, Adriane R., Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 233 Morrill Science Center, Amherst, MA 01003 and BAUER, Jennifer E., Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1412 Circle Drive, Knoxville, TN 37996-1410, stigall@ohio.edu
8:30 AM
HOW DO BIOLOGICAL TRAITS AFFECT BRACHIOPOD TAXONOMIC SURVIVAL? A HIERARCHICAL BAYESIAN APPROACH
SMITS, Peter D., Committee on Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60615, psmits@uchicago.edu
8:45 AM
BRACHIOPODS, BIOMERES, AND BIOFACIES: INTERPRETING THE CAUSE OF LATE CAMBRIAN-EARLIEST ORDOVICIAN EXTINCTION IN A SHALLOW CRATONIC SEA, CENTRAL TEXAS
FREEMAN, Rebecca L., Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, MILLER, James F., Geography, Geology, & Planning Department, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO 65897 and DATTILO, Benjamin F., Department of Geosciences, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne, IN 46805, rebecca.freeman@uky.edu
9:00 AM
DYNAMICS OF EXTINCTION AND RECOVERY: A STUDY OF MORPHOSPACE SHIFTS DURING AND AFTER THE LATE ORDOVICIAN MASS EXTINCTION
SCLAFANI, Judith A., CONGREVE, Curtis R., KRUG, Andrew Z. and PATZKOWSKY, Mark E., Department of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, jas1169@psu.edu
9:15 AM
DIFFERENTIAL RECOVERY FROM CLUSTERED ORIGINATIONS IN THE RECOVERY FROM THE LATE ORDOVICIAN MASS EXTINCTION
KRUG, Andrew Z.1, CONGREVE, Curtis R.1 and PATZKOWSKY, Mark E.2, (1)Department of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, (2)Pennsylvania State University, 503 Deike Bldg, University Park, PA 16802-2714, azk102@psu.edu
9:30 AM
COMPARATIVE INTENSITY AND SELECTIVITY OF THE EMERGING SIXTH EXTINCTION IN THE OCEAN
PAYNE, Jonathan L.1, HEIM, Noel A.1, KNOPE, Matthew L.2, BUSH, Andrew M.3 and MCCAULEY, Douglas J.4, (1)Department of Geological Sciences, Stanford University, 450 Serra Mall, Building 320, Stanford, CA 94305, (2)Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, (3)Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Center for Integrative Geosciences, University of Connecticut, 75 N. Eagleville Road, Unit 3043, Storrs, CT 06269, (4)Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, jlpayne@stanford.edu
9:45 AM
HIERARCHICAL DECOMPOSITION OF GEOGRAPHIC RANGE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR UNDERSTANDING EXTINCTION RESISTANCE IN MARINE ANIMAL GENERA
FOOTE, Michael, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, The Univ of Chicago, 5734 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, RITTERBUSH, Kathleen A., Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 and MILLER, Arnold I., Department of Geology, Univ of Cincinnati, 500 Geology Physics, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0013, mfoote@uchicago.edu
10:00 AM
TESTING THE LAW OF CONSTANT EXTINCTION WITHIN MARINE ADAPTIVE ZONES
ORZECHOWSKI, Emily A.1, HEIM, Noel A.2, KNOPE, Matthew L.3, PAYNE, Jonathan L.2 and FINNEGAN, Seth4, (1)Department of Integrative Biology and Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Valley Life Sciences Building, Berkeley, CA 94720-3140, (2)Department of Geological Sciences, Stanford University, 450 Serra Mall, Building 320, Stanford, CA 94305, (3)Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, (4)Department of Integrative Biology and Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, Valley Life Sciences Building, Berkeley, CA 94720-4780, eaorzechowski@berkeley.edu
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10:15 AM
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