Joint 120th Annual Cordilleran/74th Annual Rocky Mountain Section Meeting - 2024

Session No. 21
Thursday, 16 May 2024: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Meeting Room 1 (Davenport Grand Hotel)

T10. Paleontology in the West: Fossils, Localities, Research, and Education in the Rocky Mountain and Cordilleran Regions

 

Lindsay MacKenzie and John Orcutt, Advocates
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Start Time
 
8:00 AM
Introductory Remarks
8:05 AM
INVESTIGATING THE EFFECTS OF LOCAL REDOX ON THE PRESERVATION OF ORGANIC MICROFOSSIL FROM THE LATE TONIAN CHUAR AND UINTA MOUNTAIN GROUPS OF WESTERN LAURENTIA
WOLTZ, Christina R.1, WEBB, Samuel M.2 and SPERLING, Erik A.1, (1)Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Stanford University, 450 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305, (2)Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Lab, Menlo Park, CA 94025
8:25 AM
REWORKED PERMIAN TETRAPOD FOSSILS NORTHEAST OF SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO: RESOLVING A DISCREPANCY IN THE WORK OF N. H. DARTON
LUCAS, Spencer G.1, HUNT, Adrian2, HARRIS, Susan K.1 and MAY, Paul T.1, (1)New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Road N.W, Albuquerque, NM 87104, (2)Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum, 3407 109th St. SW, Everett, WA 98204
8:45 AM
9:05 AM
VERTEBRATE BROMALITES FROM EOCENE LACUSTRINE STRATA – COMPARISON OF ICHNOFAUNAS FROM THE GREEN RIVER FORMATION OF THE WESTERN UNITED STATES AND THE MESSEL LAGERSTÄTTEN IN GERMANY
HUNT, Adrian P., Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum, 3407 109th St. SW, Everett, WA 98204 and LUCAS, Spencer G., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Road N.W, Albuquerque, NM 87104
9:25 AM
NEW MATERIAL OF THE HEDGEHOG AMPHECHINUS (ERINACEIDAE, EULIPOTYPHLA) FROM THE OLIGOCENE OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST, USA
FAMOSO, Nicholas, PhD, University of Oregon, Department of Earth Sciences, Eugene, OR 97403; U. S. National Park Services, John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Kimberly, OR 97848, CARROLL, Beth R., Royal Tyrrell Museum, Drumheller, AB T0J 0Y0, Canada; U.S. National Park Service, John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Kimberly, OR 97848, CAVIN, Jennifer L., U. S. National Park Services, John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Kimberly, OR 97848 and LIN, Angela, University of Oregon, Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact, Eugene, OR 97403
 
9:45 AM
Break
10:00 AM
MORPHOMETRIC ASSESSMENT OF THE CENOZOIC ECHINOID GENUS ASTRODAPSIS
MARRONE, Tatiana, Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132; Invertebrate Zoology & Geology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA 94118
10:20 AM
RECONSTRUCTING BURROWING BEHAVIOR IN THE MIO-PLIOCENE SQUIRRELS OF THE COLUMBIA BASIN
ORCUTT, John, Department of Biology, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA 99258
10:40 AM
FOSSIL POINT, COOS BAY OREGON; A NEW INVESTIGATION INTO THE FOSSILS, CHRONOLOGY, AND RELATIONSHIP TO CASCADIA MEGATHRUST EARTHQUAKES
MCLAUGHLIN, Win, WELDON, Nicholas, TONN, Elisabeth, COBLENTZ, Vincent J, STONE, Michael and HOPPER MEYERS, Krystal, Southwestern Oregon Community College, Coos Bay, OR 97420
11:00 AM
BISON PRISCUS, THE STEPPE BISON, FROM SODA SPRINGS IDAHO
ALLEN, Jean, SPENDLOVE, Ian and LOVE, Renee, Earth and Spatial Sciences, University of Idaho, 875 Perimeter Drive MS, Moscow, ID 83844
11:20 AM
LUMINESCENCE SAMPLING OF PALEONTOLOGICAL SITES: WHAT TO KNOW BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER
MAHAN, Shannon, U.S. Geological Survey, Box 25046 Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225
 
11:40 AM
Concluding Remarks
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