GSA Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA - 2018

Session No. 13
Sunday, 4 November 2018: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Room 142 (Indiana Convention Center)

T130. Phylogenetic Paleobiology: Exploring Macroevolutionary Trends with Evolutionary Trees I

Paleontological Society; Paleontological Research Institution; GSA Geobiology & Geomicrobiology Division

 

Selina R. Cole, David F. Wright, Laura C. Soul and William Gearty, Advocates
Paper #
Start Time
8:00 AM
THE NEARSHORE CRADLE OF EARLY VERTEBRATE DIVERSIFICATION
SALLAN, Lauren1, FRIEDMAN, Matt2, SANSOM, Robert3, BIRD, Charlotte4 and SANSOM, Ivan J.4, (1)Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania, 154B Hayden Hall, 240 S. 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, (2)Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, 1105 North University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, (3)University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PT, United Kingdom, (4)School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom
8:15 AM
ON THE ORIGIN OF MORPHOSPECIES – USING BAYESIAN PHYLOGENETICS TO QUANTIFY THE MODE OF ANCESTOR DESCENDANT RELATIONSHIPS IN PALEOZOIC INVERTEBRATES
BAPST, David W., Geology & Geophysics, Texas A & M University, 3115 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-3115, WRIGHT, David F., Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013-7012, COLE, Selina R., Division of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th St., New York, NY 10024; Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC 20013, HOPKINS, Melanie J., Division of Paleontology (Invertebrates), American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024-5192, MELCHIN, Michael, Dept. of Earth Sciences, St. Francis Xavier Univ, Antigonish, NS B2G 2V5, Canada, CONGREVE, Curtis R., Department of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, LAMSDELL, James C., Department of Geology and Geography, West Virginia University, 98 Beechurst Avenue, Brooks Hall, Morgantown, WV 26506, MITCHELL, Charles E., Department of Geology, University at Buffalo, SUNY, 126 Cooke Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260-1350 and CARLSON, Sandra J., Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616
Handouts
  • ancDesc_GSA2018_BapstEtAl_slides_11-21-18cleaned_flat.pdf (6.4 MB)
  • 8:30 AM
    A PHYLOGENETIC PERSPECTIVE TO ESTIMATING SPECIATION AND EXTINCTION RATES FROM STRATIGRAPHIC RANGES (Invited Presentation)
    WARNOCK, Rachel C.M., Department of Biosystems Sciences & Engineering, ETH Zurich, Basel, 4058, Switzerland
     
    8:50 AM
    Break
    9:05 AM
    FOSSIL PHYLOGENIES REVEAL SPECIES-LEVEL DIVERSIFICATION DYNAMICS DURING THE ORDOVICIAN RADIATION OF MARINE LIFE
    WRIGHT, David F., Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013-7012, COLE, Selina R., Division of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th St., New York, NY 10024 and AUSICH, William I., School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, 275 Mendenhall Laboratory, 125 South Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210
    9:20 AM
    JAW CORRELATES OF DIET PROVIDE NOVEL INSIGHT ON THE ADAPTIVE RADIATION OF EARLY THERIAN MAMMALS
    GROSSNICKLE, David M., Department of Biology, University of Washington, 24 Kincaid Hall, Box 351800, Seattle, WA 98195
    9:35 AM
    ON THE PHYLOGENETICS OF THE TRILOBITE FAMILY PHACOPIDAE WITH SYSTEMATIC IMPLICATIONS FOR ELDREDGEOPS (GREEN, 1832)
    WITTE, Matthew K., Department of the Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, 5734 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637
    9:50 AM
    DYNAMICS OF THE BODY SIZE EVOLUTION OF CROCODYLIFORMES
    GEARTY, William and PAYNE, Jonathan L., Geological Sciences, Stanford University, 450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
    Handouts
  • GSA 2018 Talk.pdf (2.4 MB)
  • 10:05 AM
    VARIABLE EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS UNDERLIE THE TREND OF INCREASING BODY MASS OF NORTH AMERICAN UNGULATES
    DOUGHTY, Evan M. and MARCOT, Jonathan D., Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, 103 Hershey Hall, 612 Charles E. Young Drive East, Box 957246, Los Angeles, CA 90095
     
    10:20 AM
    Break
    10:35 AM
    COMBINING COMPATIBILITY AND MK MODELS TO TEST FOR CORRELATED CHARACTER CHANGE, AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR DIVERGENCE TIME ESTIMATION AND DISPARITY
    WAGNER, Peter, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences and School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588-0340
    10:50 AM
    DIVERSIFICATION OF MOSASAURINAE: INSIGHTS FROM ANATOMICAL DISPARITY, PHYLOGENETICS, AND A NEW MOSASAUR FROM THE WESTERN INTERIOR SEAWAY
    LIVELY, Joshua R., Department of Environmental Studies, University of Illinois Springfield, One University Plaza, PAC 309, Springfield, IL 62703; Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station C1100, Austin, TX 78712
    11:05 AM
    PHYLOGENY, DISPARITY AND MORPHOSPACE OF ANOMALOCARIDS: FOSSIL EVIDENCE FROM CHINA
    ZENG, Han1, ZHAO, Fangchen2 and ZHU, Maoyan2, (1)State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing, 210008, China; Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, PO Box 37012, MRC 121, Washington, DC 20013-7012, (2)State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing, 210008, China
    11:20 AM
    PERFORMANCE OF MACROEVOLUTIONARY RATE ESTIMATION APPROACHES: A SIMULATION REVIEW
    SOUL, Laura C., Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC 20013-7012 and HUNT, Gene, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, NHB MRC 121, P.O. Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013-7012
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