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10th North American Paleontological Convention 1

NAPC Organizing Committee.................................................................................................. page 2

General Information.................................................................................................................... page 3

Map................................................................................................................................................. page 4

Program Schedule........................................................................................................................ page 5-28

Special Events Calendar.................................................................................................................. page 29

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15-18 , February 2014 Gainesville, Florida, USA2

Organizing Committee

NAPC Organizing Committee NAPC Student Organizing Committee

Michal Kowalewski, Chair | Florida Museum of Natural History Sarah Allen

Troy Dexter, Associate Chair | Florida Museum of Natural History D.J. Douglas

Barry Albright | University of Northern Florida Sahale Casebolt

Richard Aronson | Florida Institute of Technology Paul Morse

Jonathan Bloch | Florida Museum of Natural History

Jon Bryan | Northwest Florida State College

Laurel Collins | Florida International University

Peter Harries | University of South Florida

Austin Hendy | Florida Museum of Natural History

Greg Herbert | University of South Florida

Richard Hulbert | Florida Museum of Natural History

Douglas Jones | Florida Museum of Natural History

Bruce MacFadden | Florida Museum of Natural History

Steve Manchester | Florida Museum of Natural History

Jim Mead | East Tennessee State University

G. Harley Means | Florida Geological Survey

Arnie Miller | University of Cincinnati

Roger Portell | Florida Museum of Natural History

Mike Savarese | Florida Gulf Coast University

David Steadman | Florida Museum of Natural History

Peter Swart | University of Miami

Hongshan Wang | Florida Museum of Natural History

Aaron Wood | Florida Museum of Natural History

Peg Yacobucci | Bowling Green State University


General InformationDates and Location: Saturday, February 15 - Tuesday, February 18, 2014 Hilton University of Florida Conference Center Gainesville, Florida, USA Host Hotels: Hilton University of Florida Conference Center 1714 SW 34th Street, Gainesville, Florida 32607 1-352-371-3600

The Lodge at Gainesville 3726 SW 40th Blvd., Gainesville, Florida 326081-352-375-2400

Registration: Conference registration includes admission to all sessions, conference materials, AM & PM coffee breaks, Ice Breaker and Banquet.

Breakfast and Lunch will be on your own. Lunch options include the following: - Hilton lunch buffet inside Albert’s Restaurant - Local Food Trucks located just outside the Hilton - Off-site Dining options at your discretion Registration/Information Hours: Friday, February 14th: 3:00pm-7:00pm (Please check in with Registration at the UF Hilton for your nametag prior to attending the Ice Breaker) Saturday, February 15th - 18th: 7:30am-6:00pm

Ice Breaker: Friday, February 14th from 6pm-8pm The Ice Breaker will be held at the Florida Museum of Natural History. Heavy hors d’oeuvres will be served and each attendee will receive two drink tickets upon check-in at the UF Hilton on Friday from 3-7pm. Complimentary bus transportation will run between the UF Hilton and the Florida Museum beginning at 5:45pm. Attire is casual and non-registered guests will be charged $50 on-site.

Florida Museum of Natural HistoryUniversity of Florida Cultural Plaza3215 Hull Road, Gainesville, Florida1-352-846-2000

Banquet: Tuesday, February 18th from 5:30pm-8:00pm The Banquet will be held at the University of Florida Touchdown Terrace. Complimentary bus transportation will run between the UF Hilton and Touchdown Terrace beginning at 4:45pm . Attire is casual. If you plan to bring a non-registered guest, please go to the Registration Desk at the Hilton before Tuesday to pay the $50 banquet guest fee. Touchdown Terrace at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium

Poster Set-up and Breakdown: Poster Presenters will be present from 4:45pm-6pm on the day of their poster session.

Set-up and Breakdown: Boards will be set up at the Hilton by 6:30pm on Friday, February 14th. Saturday Posters -Please hang poster by 11:00am on Saturday/Remove poster immediately following the poster session Sunday Posters - Please hang poster by 11:00am on Sunday/Remove poster immediately following the poster session Monday Posters - Please hang poster by 11:00am on Monday/Remove poster immediately following the poster session

Exhibitor Set-up and Breakdown: Set-up: Tables will be set up by 6:30pm on Friday February, 14th. Please set up your exhibit booth no later than 2:00pm on Saturday, February 15th.Breakdown: Please break down your exhibit booth no later than 11:00am on Tuesday, February 18th.

Transportation*: Bus transportation to and from the convention and offsite events (Icebreaker and Banquet) will be provided from The Lodge at Gainesville and UF Hilton.

Friday: 4:30pm-7pm (Lodge to UF Hilton for Registration Check-in before Icebreaker at Florida Museum) 5:45pm-7:00pm (UF Hilton to Icebreaker) 7:30pm-8:30pm (Return to UF Hilton and Lodge) Saturday: 7:30am-9:00am (Lodge to UF Hilton) 5:00pm-6:30pm (UF Hilton to Lodge) Sunday: 7:00am-8:30am (Lodge to UF Hilton) 5:00pm-6:30pm (UF Hilton to Lodge) Monday: 7:00am-8:30am (Lodge to UF Hilton) 5:00pm-6:30pm (UF Hilton to Lodge) Tuesday: 7:00am-8:30am (Lodge to UF Hilton) 4:45pm-5:30pm (UF Hilton to Banquet) 7:30pm-8:30pm (Return to UF Hilton and Lodge) *Separate Florida Museum vans will be running continuously throughout the day between the Lodge and UF Hilton.

Gainesville Airport Shuttles - The Hilton provides a shuttle between 7:00am and 10:00pm. Please email Diana Benintend at [email protected] with your name, date, arrival time, flight number and contact phone number so they can schedule the shuttle for you. The Lodge also provides an airport shuttle. Please contact them for reservations.

Contacts: For questions about Registration & Logistics: Jenn Jasinski; [email protected]

For questions about Meeting Content and Field Trips: Troy Dexter; [email protected]


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Friday, February 14, 2014

Registration Check-in and Ice Breaker Registration Check-in: UF Hilton Lobby3:00pm-7:00pm Registration Check-in at Hilton Lobby

Please check in at the Registration Desk prior to attending the Ice Breaker

4:30pm-7:00pm Bus Transportation From The Lodge at Gainesville to the UF Hilton (Continuous)

5:45pm-7:00pm Bus Transportation to the Ice Breaker from the UF Hilton (Continuous)

6:00pm-8:00pm Ice Breaker at the Florida Museum of Natural History

7:30pm-8:30pm Bus Transportation Available to return to the UF Hilton and the Lodge at Gainesville


Saturday (AM), February 15, 2014

Opening Ceremony & Plenary Session Room: Ballroom A&B

9:00am-9:10amWelcoming Statement from the Organizing Committee Michal Kowalewski, Chair, NAPC Organizing Committee

9:10am-9:20am Welcoming Statement from the University of Florida Bernie Machen, 11th President of the University of Florida

9:20am-9:30am Welcoming Statement from the Florida Museum of Natural History Douglas Jones, Director of the Florida Museum of Natural History

9:30am-9:40am Welcoming Statement from the Paleontological Society Steven Holland, President-Elect, the Paleontological Society

9:40am-10:00am - COFFEE BREAK

10:00am-10:30am Where Do We Go From Here? Sandy Carlson, Keynote Speaker

10:30am-11:00am Into the Great Wide OpenCatherine Forster, Keynote Speaker

11:00am-11:30am Bringing Paleontology into the Era of Big Data Shanan Peters, Keynote Speaker

11:30am-1:30pm - LUNCH BREAK

Lunch options:

Hilton lunch buffet inside Albert’s Restaurant

Local Food Trucks located just outside the Hilton Conference Center

Off-site dining options at your discretion


Session 1 Ecological fidelity and resolution of the fossil record across broad spatial and temporal scales

Room: Ballroom A Chairs: Adam Tomašových, Joshua Miller, James Nebelsick, & Martin Zuschin

1:30pm-2:00pm Matthew A. Kosnik Temporal resolution of normal marine sedimentary records: Is it good enough for conservation palaeobiology?

2:00pm-2:15pm Aniko B. Toth Species richness, community dynamics, and time-averaging in recent Kenyan ecosystems

2:15pm-2:30pm Joshua H. MillerEcological fidelity of functional traits based on species presence-absence in the mammalian bone assemblage of Amboseli National Park, Kenya

2:30pm-2:45pm John D. Orcutt Pleistocene preservation potential, paleoenvironment, and paleoecology in Western North America

2:45pm-3:15pm - COFFEE BREAK

3:15pm-3:30pm Andrew Du Degrees of bias in the collection of vertebrate paleoecological data: Comparing and reconciling different scales from multiple collection methods

3:30pm-3:45pm Carrie L. Tyler Assessing the fidelity of beta diversity: Marine benthic assemblages on the inner shelf of North Carolina, USA

3:45pm-4:00pm Troy A. Dexter Intense predation on Meoma ventricosa by Cassis tuberosa, San Salvador Island, the Bahamas

4:00pm-4:15pm Adam Tomašových Death assemblages as proxies of local and regional diversity: Evaluating the effect of different preservation scenarios

4:15pm-4:30pm James Nebelsick Quantification of microfacies analyses: Assessing component diversity among Paleogene and Neogene carbonates

4:30pm-4:45pm Andrzej Kaim Fidelity of the fossil record of the chemosynthesis-based communities—are we assessing a full image of their evolution after 30 years since discovery?

4:45-6:00pm - POSTER SESSIONS 6-9 (Please see page 10)

Session 2The microfossil record: The past is the key to the future (or present) in conservation paleobiology Sponsored by The Cushman Foundation

Room: Ballroom B Chairs: Pamela Hallock & Laurel S. Collins1:30pm-1:45pm Pamela Hallock Why has optimum habitat for stony corals diverged from that for foraminifers with

algal symbionts on the Florida reef tract?

1:45pm-2:00pm Heidi Toomey Chlorophyll fluorescence as an indicator of thermal stress in Archaias angulatus (Class Foraminifera)

2:00pm-2:15pm Benjamin Ross Dormancy as a survival response to environmental stressors in the benthic symbiotic foraminifer Amphistegina gibbosa

2:15pm-2:30pm Melissa K. Lobegeier Using thecamoebians as indicators of environmental impacts in Tennessee and Virginia

2:30pm-2:45pm Laurel S. Collins Environmental impact of the deepwater horizon oil spill on deep-sea benthic Fora-minifera


Saturday (PM), February 15, 2014



Session 2 Continued

The microfossil record: The past is the key to the future (or present) in conservation paleobiology Sponsored by The Cushman Foundation

Room: Ballroom B Chairs: Pamela Hallock & Laurel S. Collins3:15pm-3:30pm Yuanyuan Hong Shallow marine ecological degradation in Hong Kong: A paleoecological approach

using ostracods

3:30pm-3:45pm Rachael Kalin Use of microfossils to detect geologically recent environmental changes: St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands

3:45pm-4:00pm Chiu Wing TungInfluences of Holocene environmental changes on submarine cave ostracode community and species diversity

4:00pm-4:15pm Heather Bender Paleoenvironmental reconstruction using benthic foraminiferal assemblages from the pliocene shell beds in Southwest Florida

4:15pm-4:30pm Briony Mamo Sea level fluctuations and associated palaeoclimates revealed by benthic foraminifera from the New Caledonia Basin

4:30pm-4:45pm Shari Hilding-Kronforst Lifestyles of the Hantkeninids


Session 3 Phylogenetics, systematics, paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, paleobiogeography

Room: Ballroom C Chairs: Javier Luque & Sarah Allen1:30pm-1:45pm Sarah Allen A comparison between the Eocene Bridger and Kisinger Lakes floras in western

Wyoming

1:45pm-2:00pm Gregory W. Stull Fossils of Iodes (Icacinaceae) from the early Eocene Blue Rim flora (SW Wyoming) and the late Miocene Wenshan flora (SW Yunnan, China)

2:00pm-2:15pm Boglárka ErdeiThe first fossil record of the genus Zamia L. (Zamiaceae, Cycadales) evidenced by epidermal structure from the Eocene of Panama and its comparison with modern species of Zamia

2:15pm-2:30pm Kurt Neubig Systematics of Ulmaceae and placement of the extinct Cedrelopsermum

2:30pm-2:45pm Jonathan R. Hendricks

Glowing seashells: Ultraviolet light reveals large diversity of preserved coloration patterns in Neogene Conus fossils from the Dominican Republic


3:15pm-3:30pm Javier LuqueThe early evolution of frog crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura) and new findings from the cretaceous of tropical America

3:30pm-3:45pm Niels BondeBony tongue (Teleostei, Osteoglossomorpha) paleobiogeography - Paleontology refuting neontology

3:45pm-4:00pm Jorge Velez-JuarbeFossil pygmy sperm whales (Odontoceti; Physeteroidea; Kogiidae) from the late Miocene of Panama and early Pliocene of Florida

4:00pm-4:15pm Miky Lova Tantely Ravelson

Two allopatric bothremydidae taxa of turtle in the India-Madagascar faunal prov-inces during the Late Cretaceous: Evidence of biotic dispersal across the micro-continent.

4:15pm-4:30pm Andy Connolly The paleobiogeographical effects of the parietal foramen on mosasaurs

4:30pm-4:45pm Joseph G. Carter Paracladistics: an integration of phylogenetic and evolutionary systematics, with examples from the Bivalvia (Mollusca)




Session 4 Pantropical Cenozoic reefs

Room: Dogwood Chairs: James Klaus, Kenneth Johnson, & Willem Renema 1:30pm-1:45pm Ann Budd Diversification of Cenozoic reef corals and its relationship to closure of the Tethys

1:45pm-2:00pm Viviana Díaz Evolution of Plio-Pleistocene reef margins in the Caribbean: Results of the Dominican Republic Drilling Project (DRDP)

2:00pm-2:15pm Kenneth G. Johnson Oligocene and Miocene history of reef corals and coral reefs in eastern Borneo (East Kalimantan, Indonesia and Sabah, Malaysia).

2:15pm-2:30pm James S. Klaus Deep reefs from the Dominican Republic

2:30pm-2:45pm Thomas A. Stemann The early Paleogene reef gap in the Caribbean


3:15pm-3:30pm Ethan L. GrossmanLate Neogene environmental change and faunal overturn in the Caribbean: Revelations using gastropod stable-isotope profiles to quantify seasonal upwelling and freshening in coastal waters

3:30pm-3:45pm Jon BryanNormal marine, shallow subtidal stromatolites in the lower Miocene Chipola Formation, Alum Bluff, Liberty County, Florida

3:45pm-4:00pm Warren D. Allmon Toward a phylogeny of Western Atlantic Turritelline gastropods

4:00pm-4:15pm Fabiany HerreraNeotropical floras reveal the biogeographic evolution of Paleocene to Miocene (60 to 19 Ma) forests


Session 5 New advances and applications in sclerochronology Room: Azalea Chairs: Donna Surge & David Goodwin 1:30pm-1:45pm Michael R. Johnson Stable isotope profiles from mollusks (Lymnocardium) of the late Miocene Lake

Pannon, central Europe

1:45pm-2:00pm David Moss Environmental controls on extreme longevity in modern and fossil bivalves

2:00pm-2:15pm Ethan L. GrossmanQuantifying upwelling and freshening in nearshore Tropical American environments using modern gastropod shells – stable isotopic successes and trace element complexities

2:15pm-2:30pm David H. Goodwin New sclerochronological insights into heterochronic evolution of tropical American corbulids

2:30pm-2:45pm Tristan Betzner The smallest lines: What might the composition of lingulid growth bands tell us about paleoenvironment?


3:15pm-3:30pm Bernd R. Schöne Using the element and isotopic content of bivalve shells as paleoenvironmental proxies: Possibilities and limitations

3:30pm-3:45pm Michal Kowalewski Jackknife-corrected parametric bootstrap estimates of growth rates in bivalve mollusks using nearest living relatives

3:45pm-4:00pm Linda C. Ivany Seasonality, climate change, and the late Eocene initiation of the modern antarctic biota

4:00pm-4:15pm Yurena Yanes Calibrating Patella shells from the Canary Islands as seasonal paleothermometers

4:15pm-4:30pm Kathryn D. Nold Isotopic evidence of recent, coastal paleoclimate from archaeological gastropod shells

4:30pm-4:45pm Nicole Cannarozzi Seasonal oyster harvesting recorded by shells of the parasitic snail Boonea impressa in archeological middens of Florida and Georgia



Saturday Poster Sessions: 6-9

Session 6 Pantropical Cenozoic reefs 1. Timothy Fallon Reconstructing the paleoenvironment and paleoecology of a Turritella-rich horizon in the Plio-Pleistocene

Jackson Bluff Formation of the Florida Panhandle

Session 7 Phylogenetics, systematics, paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, paleobiogeography

2. Ian Cannon New fossil turtle material from the Hemphillian Pascagoula Formation of southeast Louisiana

3. B. Alex Kittle Extinct giant mud creepers (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Oligocene of the southeastern United States

4. Maria E.C. Leal Osteoglossomorph phylogeny revisited: Assessing the relationships of the fossil forms Laeliichthys and Heterosteoglossum (Teleostei: Osteoglossomorpha)

5. Carly L Manz Phylogenetic placement of a new, diminutive nyctitheriid (Mammalia, Eulipotyphla) with arboreal characteristics

6. Sarah Sheffield A revision of the systematics of the genus Sinocrinus (Crinoidea)

7. Weimin Si Early Paleocene origin, phylogeny and geographic distribution of muricate planktonic foraminifera

8. James Westgate Primate diversity and associated mammals in a micro-mammal fauna from the Uinta C Member of the Uinta Formation: Evidence of late middle Eocene local climate stability

9. Emily D. Woodruff Supertree perspectives on the phylogeny of fossil and extant mammals

Session 8 Biostratigraphy, paleoecology, taphonomy, and extinction 10. William Brightly Olfactory ratio as a potential proxy for behavior in theropoda

11. David Campbell Database potential and pitfalls

12. Tobias Grun Drilling predation on Upper Oligocene echinoids (Echinocyamus) from northern Germany

13. Claudia C. Johnson Bivalve mollusc assemblage of Bed III, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

14. Steven Porson Paraphyletic versus non-paraphyletic families: Implications for phylogenetic systematics of the Bivalvia (Mollusca)

15. Elizabeth A. Reinthal Pathology, taphonomy, encrustation and bioerosion of an abundant crinoid in the Middle Jurassic of southern Israel

16. Erika H. Simons Osteichthyes and Chondrichthyes from the early Pliocene Palmetto Fauna, Central Florida phosphate mining region

17. Joshua S. Slattery The role of very abundant taxa in overprinting ecological signals in fossil assemblages

18. V. J. Syverson Reconstructing cyrtocrinid ecology and biology based on living populations of Holopus and Cyathidium

19. Theodorou Georgios The development of allometric equations for estimating the dimensions of the Elephas tiliensis skeletal elements

20. Louis G. Zachos Upper Mississipian (Chesterian) echinoids from Alabama and Mississippi

21. Kathryn Estes-Smargiassi A string of small knobs from the Upper Triassic shales of Western Europe

Session 9 New advances and applications in sclerochronology22. Justin McNabb Establishing the lifespan of the Pliocene bivalve, Astarte concentrica, using sclerochronologic analysis

23. Donna Surge Marine climate archives across the Medieval Climate Anomaly-Little Ice Age Transition from Viking and medi-eval age shells, Orkney, Scotland

24. Lauren E. Graniero Using nitrogen isotopes to characterize nitrate cycling in coastal environments in Bocas del Toro Archipelago, Panama

25. Aaron M. Martinez Time-averaging in Chesapeake Bay mollusks: Estimates based on amino acid racemization of Holocene Mulinia

26. Janet E. Burke Assessing the impact of time-averaging on a Miocene vertebrate fauna from northern Pakistan


Sunday (AM), February 16, 2014

Session 10 Reconstructing past continental environments from the biogeochemistry of fossils

Room: Ballroom A Chairs: Yurena Yanes & Brooke Crowley8:30am-9:00am Matthew J. Kohn No correction of terrestrial C3-plant carbon isotope compositions for pCO2

9:00am-9:15am David L. Fox Carbon isotopes in rodent ecology and paleoecology

9:15am-9:30am Sean Moran Paleoecological interpretations of the early Miocene equid, Parahippus leonensis, from the Thomas Farm locality, Gilchrist County, FL

9:30am-9:45am Julia Tejada Ecology of Miocene Amazonian mammals based on evidence from stable isotopes

9:45am-10:00am William J. Pestle Multi-proxy elemental and isotopic analysis of Toxodon sp. dental enamel: Climate, diet, growth, and mobility


10:30am-10:45am Brooke E. Crowley How well do modeled strontium isotope ratios predict bioavailable strontium for migratory and non-migratory mammals in North America?

10:45am-11:00am Alberto Perez-Huerta Paleoseasonality records in brachiopod shells?

11:00am-11:15am Jorge L. GarciaHolocene paleoclimate reconstruction from d18O isotopes of Neocyclotus Opercula and a morphometric analysis of their variation at the Archaic Site of San Jacinto1 Colombia

11:15am-11:30am Yurena Yanes Carbon stable isotope composition of land snail shells as a paleovegetation proxy

11:45pm-1:30pm - LUNCH BREAK

Session 11Form and function: Tracing the foundations of animal diversity, ecology, and functional morphology Sponsored by, Taylor and Francis (CRC Press)

Room: Ballroom B Chairs: Mike Meyer & James Schiffbauer8:00am-8:15am Mike Meyer Visco-bionts? Biomechanics and early life

8:15am-8:30am Christine M. Solon Paleoecology of Rugoconites and Tribrachidium: New data from the Ediacaran of South Australia

8:30am-8:45am Erica Clites A Constructional Link across the Cambrian Boundary: the Ediacara taxa Coronacollina acula

8:45am-9:00am Steven T. LoDuca Yuknessia from the Cambrian of China

9:00am-9:15am Michael Cuggy A new Ordovician eurypterid from the William Lake Lagerstätte, Manitoba, Canada – phylogenetic and paleobiological implications

9:15am-9:30am David W. Bapst An inclusive generic phylogeny reveals constraint and convergence in the graptoloidea

9:30am-10:00am Timothy W. Lyons The long road to animal life: Two billion years of evolving oxygen in the atmosphere and ocean and escaping the ‘Boring Billion’


10:30am-10:45am Kristina M. Barclay Of maps and models: A new method for determining the biological significance of sclerobiont positions on brachiopod hosts

10:45am-11:00am Diedrich Sievers The petalodium of clypeasteroid sand dollars: A geometric morphometric description of shape and comparison of fossil and living species

11:00am-11:15am Darrin Molinaro Going the distance: the influence of morphological variation on taxon duration.

11:15am-11:45am Stefan Bengtson Embryos, embryoids, cysts, and pseudo-embryos in the fossil record




Session 12 From macroecology to macroevolution: The ecological context of extinction and origination

Room: Ballroom C Chairs: Seth Finnegan & Carl Simpson8:00am-8:15am Sankar Chatterjee Macroevolution and macrogenesis: Evolution in the fast lane

8:15am-8:30am Noel Heim The macroevolutionary transition in ostracods from macrofauna to microfauna

8:30am-8:45am Catalina Pimiento Reconstructing the extinction of the giant Megalodon shark (Carcharcoles megalodon)

8:45am-9:00am Carl Simpson Species selection and evolving traits can and do interact

9:00am-9:15am Lauren Cole Sallan Ecologically-driven persistent increases in early vertebrate body size reversed by abiotically-driven mass extinction

9:15am-9:30am Matthew Powell Inverse relationship between macroevolutionary rates and geographic range shifts over the Phanerozoic Era

9:30am-9:45am S. Kathleen Lyons Patterns of co-occurrence of plant and mammal species across critical intervals

9:45am-10:00am Seth Finnegan Using background selectivity patterns to identify the "unexpected victims" of mass extinction events: An example using late Ordovician-early Silurian brachiopods


10:30am-10:45am Felisa A. Smith Using a macroscope to look at patterns of mammal body size in the fossil record

10:45am-11:00am Simon A.F. Darroch Response of beta diversity to pulses of Ordovician-Silurian extinction at nested spatial scales

11:00am-11:15am Lucy Chang Patterns of diversification in novel environments: Examining the fossil record of the early Western Interior Seaway

11:15am-11:30am Jonathan Marcot Phylogenetic tests of climatic influence on ungulate body mass evolution

11:30am-11:45am Philip M. Novack-Gottshall

Regression and classification trees are powerful and intuitive analytical methods for complex datasets in paleontology


Session 13 Conservation paleobiology: Ecosystem, community, and species response to environmental change

Room: Dogwood Chairs: Carrie L. Tyler, Sahale N. Casebolt, & Rebecca Terry8:00am-8:15am Allison L. Beck Morphologic indicators of fossoriality and the evolution of burrowing in

dicynodonts (Amniota: Synapsida)

8:15am-8:30am Nathaniel Fox Partitioning of Mustela nigripes and Neovison vison dentaries from Snake Creek Burial Cave, NV

8:30am-8:45am Ben AtkinsonConservation osteology: Applying paleontological and zooarchaeological techniques to explore the impacts of ghost traps on diamond-backed terrapins, Malaclemys terrapin (Testudines: Emydidae)

8:45am-9:00am Nicholas A. Famoso Are hypsodonty and enamel complexity evolutionary trade-offs or complements for ungulates?

9:00am-9:15am Jason Head The Neogene fossil record of rubber boas (Serpentes: Boidae: Charina) tests hypotheses of ecological niche conservation and relationship to climate

9:15am-9:30am Jeff M. Martin Re-evaluation of Bison remains from the greater Grand Canyon region and Colorado Plateau: native or non-native

9:30am-9:45am Dena M. Smith Insect response to Eocene-Oligocene climate change in Colorado, USA

9:45am-10:00am Rebecca C. Terry Holocene baselines indicate ecosystem-level restructuring of modern Great Basin small mammal communities due to anthropogenic habitat transformation



Session 13 Continued

Conservation paleobiology: Ecosystem, community, and species response to environmental change

Room: Dogwood Chairs: Carrie L. Tyler, Sahale N. Casebolt, & Rebecca Terry

10:30am-10:45am Brian Lee BeattyOntogeny meets paleoecology: Taking advantage of the unique dental eruption of manatees (Trichechidae) to estimate exposure to abrasives during feeding in the Pleistocene of Florida to present

10:45am-11:00am Richard B. Aronson Climate, biological invasion, and modernization of benthic communities in Antarctica

11:00am-11:15am Sahale Casebolt Shape change in a Caribbean Miocene bivalve and implications for conservation and modern ecosystem management

11:15am-11:30am Max Christie Taxonomic and ecological changes across the plio-pleistocene extinction and recovery: Different mechanisms in the Caribbean and North America?

11:30am-11:45am Gregory Dietl On conservation paleobiology


Session 14 The Cretaceous-Paleogene Gondawanan expressway

Room: Azalea Chairs: Maria A. Gandolfo & Elizabeth J. Hermsen

8:30am-9:00am Maria A.Gandolfo Why are Cenozoic paleofloras fundamental for understanding modern plant distributions?

9:00am-9:15am Anthony J. Martin The great cretaceous walk: An ichnological survey of lower cretaceous strata in Victoria, Australia and implications for gondwanan paleontology

9:15am-9:30am Alexis Rojas Cretaceous Lingulidae brachiopods of the Tropical America

9:30am-9:45am Tammo Reichgelt The endemic floras of Zealandia: Key components of the Cretaceous-Paleogene Gondwana Expressway

9:45am-10:00am Elizabeth J. Hermsen

Beyond the Gondwanan Expressway: Patagonian-Northern Hemisphere connections


10:30am-10:45am Michael Donovan First comparison of latest Cretaceous and early Paleocene insect damage in the Southern Hemisphere supports a Patagonian biodiversity refugium

10:45am-11:00am Camila Martínez Neotropical Cretaceous-Paleogene fossil macrofloras and its affinities with temperate America

11:00am-11:15am Peter Wilf Plants and their dates tell the animals' west side story (early Paleogene of Patagonia, Argentina, West Gondwana)

11:15am-11:30am Carlos Jaramillo Dynamics of the Neotropical rainforest during global warming events

11:30am-11:45am Lisa Merkhofer Sizing up the leaves of an Eocene Patagonian Paleorainforest and its Australian Analogs




Sunday (PM), February 16, 2014

Session 11 Form and function: Tracing the foundations of animal diversity, ecology, and functional morphology

Room: Ballroom B Chairs: Mike Meyer & James Schiffbauer 1:30pm-1:45pm Andrew K. Rindsberg J-, U-, and W-shaped burrows: how growth affects form and function in ichnology

1:45pm-2:00pm Andrew Hawkins Phosphatization of vermiform fossils from the Winneshiek Lagerstätte, Winneshiek Shale, Northeast Iowa

2:00pm-2:15pm Emily Greenfest-Allen Ecomorphology and recurrence: A comparative approach to understanding fish community dynamics in the Bear Gulch Bay

2:15pm-2:45pm Shuhai Xiao Preliminary report of new Ediacara fossils from bituminous limestone of the Dengying Formation in South China


3:15pm-3:30pm Leanne G Hancock Sulfide and methane drivers of ecosystem dynamics in cold seep settings: A novel geochemical proxy approach to constraining their cycling and availability

3:30pm-3:45pm Sandra J. Carlson Phylogeny and ontogeny: How do terebratulidine short loops compare with rhynchonellide crura?

3:45pm-4:00pm Roy E. Plotnick A radicle solution: Morphology and biomechanics of the Eucalyptocrinites root system

4:00pm-4:30pm Jean-Bernard Caron Primitive fishes from the middle Cambrian of Laurentia


Session 12 From macroecology to macroevolution: the ecological context of extinction and origination

Room: Ballroom C Chairs: Seth Finnegan & Carl Simpson 1:30pm-1:45pm Jessica A. Oswald Biogeography and extinction of New World passerines: Evidence from Pleistocene

fossils

1:45pm-2:00pm William J. Foster Functional diversity of marine ecosystems following the Late Permian mass extinction event

2:00pm-2:15pm Hannes Loeser Persistence of Early Cretaceous coral to Extant

2:15pm-2:30pm Jonathan Todd Estimating species durations and turnover in a hyperdiverse Neogene gastropod radiation - an insight into patterns of Cenozoic biodiversity

2:30pm-2:45pm Yuri Kimura Differential dental adaptations to dietary change in mice and rat lineages in the late Miocene of Pakistan




Room: Dogwood Chairs: Carrie L. Tyler, Sahale N. Casebolt, & Rebecca Terry 1:30pm-1:45pm Michael Savarese Strategies for connecting conservation paleobiological research to management:

Examples from Greater Everglades’ restoration of southwest Florida

1:45pm-2:00pm Patricia H. Kelley Five year study using live-dead analysis of mollusc assemblages to assess anthropogenic impact on a North Carolina tidal flat

2:00pm-2:15pm Leshno Yael Fidelity of live-dead molluscan assemblages in the Israeli Mediterranean shelf as a proxy for ecosystem modification

2:15pm-2:30pm Kelsey M. Feser Enhanced resolution in live/dead molluscan fidelity studies through comparisons among multiple stratigraphic intervals

2:30pm-2:45pm Rowan Lockwood Reconstructing population demographics and paleoenvironment of Pleistocene oyster assemblages: Establishing a baseline for Chesapeake Bay restoration?


3:15pm-3:30pm Aaron O'Dea Size-selective evolution in the Fighting Conch Strombus pugilis in response to prehistoric and modern subsistence harvesting

3:30pm-3:45pm Amelinda E. Webb Shifting baselines in Ordovician brachiopod communities - Response to minor and major environmental changes

3:45pm-4:00pm Laura L. Pullum Abrasion from dam release does not affect mortality in a freshwater mussel

4:00pm-4:15pm Peter D. Roopnarine Assessing trophic impact of invasive lionfish on modern coral reefs with limited data: A role for paleoecological analysis in the study of modern systems

4:15pm-4:30pm Jansen Smith Building a pre-dam baseline for molluscan predator-prey interactions in the northern Gulf of California

4:30pm-4:45pm Sonja Reich Identifying seagrass habitats in the past: a cornerstone for the study of ecological response to environmental change


Session 14 The Cretaceous-Paleogene Gondawanan expressway Room: Azalea Chairs: Maria A. Gandolfo and Elizabeth J. Hermsen 1:30pm-1:45pm Steven Manchester Revisiting the Oligocene Belén fruit and seed flora of northwestern Peru

1:45pm-2:00pm Luis Felipe Hinojosa Ligorio Marquez Formation and climatic niche evolution of Nothofagus

2:00pm-2:15pm Gregg F. Gunnell New Myzopodidae (Mammalia, Chiroptera) from the Late Paleogene of Egypt and their biogeographic implications for the origin of Noctilionoid bats

2:15pm-2:30pm Donald Prothero New late Miocene dromomerycine artiodactyl from the Amazon Basin: The Panama Land Bridge was open at 10 ma




Session 15 Modern approaches to educational outreach in paleontology

Room: Ballroom A Chairs: Peg Yacobucci & Christy Visaggi 1:30pm-1:45pm Margaret M. Yacobucci Fossils for the masses: Paleontology in social media and the web

1:45pm-2:00pm John Werner Science cafés: Ideal venues for the promotion of paleontology

2:00pm-2:15pm Montana Hodges “Fossil Stories” radio show: Stimulating public interest in paleontology via the radio medium

2:15pm-2:30pm Nigel HughesThe "Monisha and the Stone Forest" children's book project: Paleontological educational outreach in Bengali language in India and Bangladesh

2:30pm-2:45pm Stephen R. Durham Virtual fieldwork experiences (VFEs) to bridge the gap between classroom and field-based paleontology education


3:15pm-3:30pm David L. Meyer Trammel fossil park, Sharonville, Ohio: A unique resource for field-based education in paleontology

3:30pm-3:45pm Katherine Lewandowski Trial and error: Developing curriculum for public outreach

3:45pm-4:00pm Katherine V. Bulinski The Museums and fossils institute: Using museums, classroom, and field experiences for a K-12 professional development workshop

4:00pm-4:15pm Lauren B. DeBey Teachers, dinosaurs, and dirt: Immersive professional development and the DIG Field School

4:15pm-4:30pm Danita Brandt From principles to practice: Optimizing the lab/field experience for Earth Science teachers; an example from the Michigan Basin

4:30pm-4:45pm Danita Brandt Fate of paleontology teaching/research collections: A “Big 10” perspective


Session 16 Diversity, origination, and extinction Room: Ballroom C Chairs: Kristopher Rhodes & Blaine Schubert 3:15pm-3:30pm Kristopher Rhodes Whats the worth of a taxon? Modern and fossil comatulid crinoids

3:30pm-3:45pm Matthew Campbell Molluscan faunas of the Ashley Formation and Chandler Bridge Formation (Oligocene), Charleston, South Carolina

3:45pm-4:00pm Joshua Doby Fossil Insects of the Gray Fossil SIte (Hemphillian) Washington County, Tennessee

4:00pm-4:15pm Jim I. Mead Leptobos (Artiodactyla, Bovidae) from Renzidong Cave, Early Pleistocene (Nihewanian) of Anhui, China, and an overview of the genus

4:15pm-4:30pm Blaine Schubert New fossil records of early Alligator bridge the temporal gap between the American Midwest and Southeast

4:30pm-4:45pm Rashmi Srivastava Gondwanan origin of some angiosperms and their out of India dispersal


Session 17 Morphological Patterns Room: Azalea Chairs: Kristin Polizzotto & Troy Dexter 3:15pm-3:30pm Carol V. Ward Diet and morphology in the evolution of early Australopithecus

3:30pm-3:45pm Gregory M. Erickson Complex dental structure and wear biomechanics in hadrosaurid dinosaurs

3:45pm-4:00pm Casey M. Holliday Trigeminal nerve morphology in Alligator mississippiensis and its significance for crocodyliform facial sensation

4:00pm-4:15pm Kristin Polizzotto Organic origin of pseudosutures in Late Cretaceous ammonites

4:15pm-4:30pm Caroline E Rinaldi Growth rates in giant beaver incisors inferred from periradicular banding reveals atypical feeding biomechanics

4:30pm-4:45pm Meghan A. Balk Body size change of C. megalodon through time in comparison with contemporaneous marine mega-fauna




Sunday Poster Sessions: 18-24

Session 18 Diversity, origination, and extinction27. Roger Portell First evidence of coral-inhabiting gall crabs (Cryptochiridae) from the fossil record

28. Alexei A. Rivera Sluggish rates of evolution for land animals during the late Paleozoic ice age: A geobiological interpretation

29. John Starmer Fossil gorgonian (Octocorallia) holdfasts and axes from the upper Eocene Ocala Limestone of Florida30. Kurt Auffenberg A revision of the Florida Oligocene to Miocene land snails assigned to Hyperaulax (Gastropoda: Odontostomidae)

Session 19 Morphological patterns31. Stephen K. Donovan A Paleozoic-like assemblage in the Oligocene of Antigua, West Indies

Session 20 Reconstructing past continental environments from the biogeochemistry of fossils

32. Nicole Little Stable isotope differences among three modern, sympatric land snail species and the paleoenvironmental significance

33. Nasser M. Al-Qattan Interpretation of oxygen isotopic values of North American land snails

34. Nuria Garcia Creating a modern isotopic framework for understanding paleoecology in C3-dominated paleoecosystems in the Pleistocene of Europe

Session 21 Modern approaches to educational outreach in paleontology35. Tiffany S. Adrain Discovering Iowa’s Fossil Treasure: Enhancing outreach education resources at Iowa’s Devonian Fossil Gorge

36. Andy Connolly A new Ichnology Website at the University of Kansas (http://ichnology.ku.edu): A guide to identify trace fossils, interpret organism behaviors, and reconstruct

37. Edward Byrd Davis A story of dogs and horses: Implementing a tree-first approach to evolution exhibit design

38. Dana J. Ehret Digitizing paleontological collections and exhibits to teach evolution in Alabama, USA

39. Andrew B. Heckert Promoting paleontology on precambrian basement: Finding fossils on Fridays and other programs in the Department of Geology at Appalachian State University

40. Pennilyn Higgins Social media and the process of paleontology

41. Elysia Howe Utilizing the paleobiology database for undergraduate education

42. Christy C. Visaggi Infusing place-based learning as a model for the study of fossils, life history, and deep time

43. Natasha S. Vitek Bringing museum collections to the public through a smartphone application

Session 22 From macroecology to macroevolution: the ecological context of extinction and origination

44. Kevin Chovanec Non-anguimorph lizard diversity from the late Oligocene and early Miocene of Florida, USA and the reorganization of the North American herpetofauna

45. Matt Jarrett The prevalence of the liliput effect in the end-cretaceous mass extinction

46. Toljagic Olja Evolutionary rates in ungulates: A two-pronged approach

Session 23 Tracing the foundations of animal diversity, ecology, and functional morphology

47. John C. Handley Escalation within bivalve prey of Chesapeake Group naticid gastropods: A critical reappraisal

48. Ashwini Kumar Srivastava Insect plant coaltion

49. Jeffrey Thompson A new basal Cidaroid (Echinoidea) from the Middle Permian of North America


50. Katherine Cummings Seagrass-associated molluskan death assemblages in the Big Bend region of Florida, Gulf of Mexico

51. Luis Patricio Soto Paleoecology of new chondrichthyan fauna from middle Miocene (Barstovian), Gadsen County, Florida, USA


Monday (AM), February 17, 2014

Session 25 Celebrating public participation in paleontology,Sponsored by The Florida Paleontological Society

Room: Ballroom A Chairs: Austin J.W. Hendy & Bruce J. MacFadden 8:15am-8:45am Jack Horner Egg Mountain paleontological field station: Integrating science and educational

outreach

8:45am-9:00am Glenn W. Storrs Partnering for posterity: Community collaboration in the furtherance of collections-based paleontology at Cincinnati Museum Center

9:00am-9:15am JP Cavigelli Using a volunteer army to help a small museum collect large vertebrate specimens

9:15am-9:30am Stephen J. Godfrey Engagement with the public and avocational paleontologists at the Calvert Marine Museum

9:30am-9:45am Tiffany S. AdrainPartners in Paleontology: Successful synergies and collaborations between amateurs and professionals, illustrated by the University of Iowa Paleontology Repository, the Mid America Paleontology Society, and the Black Hawk Gem and Mineral Society

9:45am-10:00am Ann Molineux Avocational paleontologists and volunteers: Critical partners with the Non-vertebrate Paleontology collections at UT Austin.


10:30am-10:45am Patricia Noell The Dallas Paleontological Society's contributions to public participation in paleontology

10:45am-11:00am Linda J. McCall The purpose and function of fossil clubs: A personal perspective

11:00am-11:15am M. Gail Jones Where are the women and minority fossil collectors? A study of the development and characteristics of science hobbyists

11:15am-11:30am Dena M. Smith Public participation and collaboration in Colorado paleontology

11:30am-11:45am Questions Open floor to questions for the session chairs


Session 26 Critical paleobiological transitions in Earth history: The value of multidisciplinary approaches, Sponsored by STEPPE

Room: Ballroom B Chairs: Sandra J. Carlson and Philip D. Gingerich 8:30am-8:45am STEPPE Executive

DirectorSTEPPE: A voice for research on Earth’s deep-time sedimentary crust

8:45am-9:00am Johnny A. Waters Anoxia, extinction, and faunal rebound in the late devonian in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: A multi-proxy approach

9:00am-9:15am Emily HaddadA multidisciplinary approach for understanding upper Kellwasser black shale deposition, New York State: Combining ichnological, organic, and inorganic geochemical proxies

9:15am-9:30am Matthew E. Clapham Organism, species, and community-level responses to an icehouse-greenhouse transition after the late Paleozoic ice age

9:30am-10:00am Silvia Danise The response of marine benthic communities to increased pCO2 and temperature in the early Toarcian

10:00am-10:30am Shari Hilding-Kronforst

New and revised planktonic foraminiferal bioevents of the (middle) Eocene


10:30am-10:45am Christina L. Belanger Disentangling the drivers of biotic responses to climate change using a multivariate environmental proxy record

10:45am-11:00am Kenneth Johnson Thirty years of field-based “Big Paleontology” on Cenozoic shallow marine ecosystems

11:00am-11:30am David J. Bottjer Deep time conservation paleobiology



Session 27 The Cenozoic assembly of the grassland biome: Pattern and process in ecosystem evolution

Room: Ballroom C Chairs: Caroline Strömberg & Bonnie Jacobs 8:30am-9:00am Catherine Badgley Neogene grasslands of the Indian subcontinent: Dynamics of the transition from C3

to C4 ecosystems

9:00am-9:15am Lawrence Flynn How did Late Miocene rodents respond to changes in the grassland biome of southern Asia?

9:15am-9:30am Caroline A. E. Strömberg

Evolution of grazer morphologies in the absence of grasslands in southern South America

9:30am-9:45am Robert Feranec Isotopic evidence for patchy C4 abundance in southern California during the medial Miocene

9:45am-10:00am Nathan Sheldon Preliminary multi-proxy 40 ma record of the rise and spread of grasses in Montana


10:30am-10:45am Selena Smith The role of Paleogene grasses in southwestern Montana paleoecosystems inferred from combined phytolith and paleosol analysis

10:45am-11:00am Elisha B. Harris Impacts of the mid-miocene climatic optimum on vegetation in the Northern Rocky Mountains

11:00am-11:15am Ethan G. Hyland Dynamics of the rise of C4 grasslands in southwestern Montana

11:15am-11:30am Samantha Hopkins Rodents respond differently than large herbivores during the Cenozoic spread of open habitats


Session 28 Exceptional Records: Evolution and ecology of microfossils Room: Dogwood Chairs: Gene Hunt & Pincelli Hull 8:30am-9:00am Willem Renema The exceptional fossil record of larger benthic foraminifera and its relevance to

understanding macroevolutionary patterns

9:00am-9:15am Laura Cotton Global evolution of reticulate Nummulites

9:15am-9:30am Thomas Ezard Mechanistic models to (try to) identify the limiting factors of diversification

9:30am-10:00am Brian T. Huber New evolutionary and paleoclimatic insights gained from study of Cretaceous foraminiferal lagerstätte

10:00am-10:30am Susan L. Richardson Forams and phylogeny: Where do the fossils fit in?


10:30am-10:45am Pincelli Hull Resolving communities through time: New approaches for rapidly analyzing the >99.9%

10:45am-11:00am Timothy Astrop Macroevolutionary dynamics of sexual systems in spinicaudatan "Clam Shrimp": palaeobiological assessment of evolutionary cannon

11:00am-11:15am Gene Hunt Evolutionary modes within fossil lineages: An expanded survey11:15am-11:30am David Bord Forcing on morphologic instability during speciation




Session 29 What comes after death: Current topics in actualistic taphonomy and integrative paleobiology

Room: Azalea Chairs: Emma R. Locatelli, Madeline S. Marshall, Marc Laflamme, James D. Schiffbauer, & Simon Darroch

8:30am-9:00am Anna K. Behrensmeyer Nutrient recycling and the fossil record: A unifying concept for taphonomy

9:00am-9:15am Laura Vietti Insights into the microbial degradation of bone in marine environments from rRNA gene sequencing of biofilms on lab simulated carcass-falls

9:15am-9:30am Caitlin SymePatterns of aquatic decay and disarticulation in juvenile Indo-Pacific crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus), and implications for the taphonomic interpretation of fossil crocodyliform material

9:30am-9:45am Thomas Evans A new understanding of fluvial bone transport processes

9:45am-10:00am Laura Clarke Drivers of exceptional preservation in leaves and insects: An experimental analysis


10:30am-10:45am Victoria E. McCoy Effects of microbial activity on soft tissue phosphatization

10:45am-11:00am Emma Locatelli Experimental taphonomy of foraminifera

11:00am-11:15am Julie K. Bartley Experimental taphonomy as a tool for deciphering biological affinities of microfossils

11:15am-11:30am Ehud Gilad Anthropogenic modification of the Gulf of Eilat (Israel) characterized by live-dead bivalve assemblages




Monday (PM), February 17, 2014

Session 25 Celebrating public participation in paleontologySponsored by The Florida Paleontological Society

Room: Ballroom A Chairs: Austin J.W. Hendy & Bruce J. MacFadden 1:30pm-1:45pm Jason E. Osborne Paleo Quest: Accelerating science literacy, paleontological discoveries and museum

collections through citizen science, outreach and novel field recovery methods

1:45pm-2:00pm Michael E. Sternberg Stonerose Interpretive Center and Eocene Fossil Site: an integrative model at the crossroads of research, public outreach and community involvement.

2:00pm-2:15pm Lee Taylor Higginbotham

Mineral Wells Fossil Park, Texas www.mineralwellsfossilpark.com and on facebook

2:15pm-2:30pm Gary Morgan The New Mexico friends of paleontology: A volunteer group committed to the advancement of paleontology in New Mexico

2:30pm-2:45pm David Clark Engaging professionals and the public: Outreach efforts of the friends of the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology


3:15pm-3:30pm Aaron A. AlfordSharkFinder: Advancing the understanding of evolution and diversity of prehistoric elasmobranches (sharks, skates and rays) through an innovative citizen science program

3:30pm-3:45pm Robert M. Ross Participation of K-12 teachers and students in paleontology: Factors impacting effectiveness and sustainability

3:45pm-4:00pm Austin Hendy Digitizing paleontological collections for new audiences: Past practices and the potential for public participation

4:00pm-4:15pm Bruce MacFadden FOSSIL—A national network of fossil clubs and professional paleontologists in the U.S.

4:15pm-4:30pm Questions Questions

4:45pm-6:00pm - Poster Sessions 30-35 (Please see page 24)

Session 26Critical paleobiological transitions in Earth history: The value of multidisciplinary approaches Sponsored by STEPPE

Room: Ballroom B Chairs: Sandra J. Carlson and Philip D. Gingerich 1:30pm-1:45pm Lisa Park Boush STEPPE---Earth life transitions: the ‘estuary effect’ and the origin of lake faunas: the

synergy between global tectonics, climate change and biodiversity through time

1:45pm-2:00pm William A. DiMichele Tropical biome dynamics during the Pennsylvanian ice ages

2:00pm-2:15pm Christian A. Sidor Restructuring of terrestrial environments in southern Pangea following the Permian-Triassic mass extinction

2:15pm-2:30pm Gregory P. Wilson Diversity, extinction, and recovery in terrestrial ecosystems across the K/Pg boundary in North America and India

2:30pm-2:45pm Philip D. Gingerich Paleocene-Eocene coring project in the Bighorn Basin: Multidisciplinary approach to a critical earth-life transition


3:15pm-3:30pm Scott L. Wing Effects of the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum on terrestrial plants and carbon storage

3:30pm-3:45pm Caroline A. E. Strömberg

The Cenozoic emergence of grassland ecosystems: The fossil record reveals a com-plex pattern

3:45pm-4:00pm Carlos Jaramillo Expansion of the Panama Canal and the rise of the Isthmus4:00pm-4:15pm Federico Moreno Late Pliocene-Pleistocene climate change from La Guajira Peninsula (Colombia)



Session 27 The Cenozoic assembly of the grassland biome: pattern and process in ecosystem evolution

Room: Ballroom C Chairs: Caroline Strömberg & Bonnie Jacobs 1:30pm-1:45pm Christine Janis Paleogene surface uplift and its impact on terrestrial paleoenvironments and

mammalian communities in western North America

1:45pm-2:00pm Deborah L. Rook The nitty gritty of US Western Plains: Paleontological and geological implications for the evolution of grazers and grasslands

2:00pm-2:15pm Jay O'Sullivan A new parahippine equid from the early Miocene of Florida and the origin of cementum-covered cheekteeth in horses

2:15pm-2:30pm Novello Alice New insights on the expansion of grasses in Central Africa during the Mio-Pliocene: Evidences from the phytoliths preserved at paleontological sites in northern Chad

2:30pm-2:45pm Bonnie F. Jacobs A Miocene pharoid grass (Poaceae: Pharoideae) from Kenya and Implications for Mid-Miocene Paleoecology


3:15pm-3:30pm Stephanie Pau Origins of C4 grasslands: Integrating modeling and paleo data to shed light on Neogene vegetation change

3:30pm-3:45pm Gregory J. Retallack Cenozoic paleoclimatic cooling by grass-grazer coevolution

3:45pm-4:00pm Richard Madden The role of earth surface processes in the evolution of mammalian tooth shape

4:00pm-4:15pm Matthew C. Mihlbachler

Its not easy bein’ green: grasslands and the dental ecology of North American ungulates of the North American Cenozoic

4:15pm-4:30pm Lars Werdelin The role of carnivores in grassland ecosystem evolution and community regulation


Session 28 Exceptional Records: Evolution and ecology of microfossils

Room: Dogwood Chairs: Gene Hunt & Pincelli Hull 1:30pm-1:45pm Richard D. Norris Fish like anoxia: Ichthyolith production repeatedly increases during Mediterranean

sapropel events

1:45pm-2:00pm Lana G. Graves Fishy increase of icthyoliths throughout the Oligocene suggests marine cooling facilitated bony fish population expansion

2:00pm-2:15pm Elizabeth C. Sibert An increase in complexity of pelagic fish community structure following the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction

2:15pm-2:30pm Regan Dunn Seeing the light through cell morphology. A new proxy for estimating Leaf Area Index (LAI) from anticlinal epidermal phytoliths

2:30pm-2:45pm Lauren B. DeBey Getting a leg up: Mammalian postcrania across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary in northeastern Montana


3:15pm-3:30pm Moriaki Yasuhara Deep-sea biodiversity response to abrupt climate changes for the last 20,000 years

3:30pm-3:45pm Caitlin Keating-Bitonti

Modern North American benthic foraminifera feel the heat

3:45pm-4:00pm Kirsty Edgar ‘Bleaching’ of photosymbionts in planktic foraminifera during the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum

4:00pm-4:15pm Sarah O’Dea Exquisitely preserved fossil coccolithophores: A day in the life of ancient plankton




Session 29 What comes after death: current topics in actualistic taphonomy and integrative paleobiology

Room: Azalea Chairs: Emma R. Locatelli, Madeline S. Marshall, Marc Laflamme, James D. Schiffbauer, & Simon Darroch

1:30pm-1:45pm Evan P. Anderson Quantifying the taphonomic biases between different soft-bodied preservational pathways

1:45pm-2:00pm Sarina Cotroneo Isotopic and mineralogical insights on the formation of Mazon Creek Lagerstätten Siderite Concretions

2:00pm-2:15pm Drew Muscente Taphonomy and allometry of the problematic tubular fossil Sphenothallus from the early Cambrian (Series 2) of South China

2:15pm-2:30pm Jesse BroceComparative Burgess Shale-Type taphonomy across variable tissue biochemistries: Analysis of mineral associations in Lower-Middle Cambrian fossils of western North America

2:30pm-2:45pm James D. Schiffbauer The nature and origin of nucleus-like intracellular inclusions in Paleoproterozoic eukaryote microfossils


3:15pm-3:30pm James R. ThomkaTaphonomic implications of geopetal structures and plate disruption patterns in diploporite 'cystoids' (Echinodermata) from the Silurian Massie Formation of southeastern Indiana

3:30pm-3:45pm Dhurjati Prasad Sengupta

Taphonomy of Middle Triassic vertebrate accumulation of Sahavan, Central India

3:45pm-4:00pm Christine A.M. France Raman spectroscopy as a non-destructive method for screening collagen diagenesis in bone

4:00pm-4:15pm Kelsey T. Stilson A new resampling method for normalizing size-based taphonomic bias across fossil assemblages

4:15pm-4:30pm Lars Werdelin The role of carnivores in grassland ecosystem evolution and community regulation




Monday Poster Sessions: 30-35

Session 30 Ediacaran environments and ecosystems52.Patricia G Weaver Early bulldozers and imposters: A re-examination of trace fossils from the Albemarle Group, Carolina terrane of

North Carolina

Session 31 What comes after death: current topics in actualistic taphonomy and integrative paleobiology

53. Lorenzo De Bortoli Badenian oysters in Moravian part of the Carpathian foredeep: Samples from Olomouc area (Czech Republic)

54. Eleanor E. Gardner Preservation bias in the avian fossil record: A review and update55. Victoria E. McCoy Distribution of fossiliferous concretions at the Mazon Creek fossil site56. Robert Salazar Preparation of subfossil ivory: Case study of Mammut americanum57. Tara L. Selly Taphonomy of Anomalocaris from Middle Cambrian shales of the southwestern United States58. Matthew B. Vrazo Can stable isotopes in fossil marine arthropods serve as paleoecological indicators?59. Lane A. Wallett Chronic laminitis: Paleopathology of the ungual phalanx of Equus as a taphonomic consideration

Session 32 Stratigraphic paleobiology: Integrating sedimentary and fossil records

60. Garett M. Brown Understanding the marine biodiversity and paleoecology of the early Miocene Chipola Formation of northern Florida

61. Katherine V. Bulinski Evaluating the use of ecospace utilization analysis in fine-scale paleoecological studies

62. Chelsea Jenkins Initiation of provinciality across Laurentia during the Ordovician

63. Sharon K. McMullen Controls on the stratigraphic distribution of non-marine fossils: A case study in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation, western USA

64. Mostafa Hamad Planktonic foraminiferal biostratigraphy and paleoecology of the Miocene sequence in the area between Wadi Gharandal and Bir Haleifiya, Gulf of Suez region, Egypt

Session 33 Digitization in vertebrate paleobiology65. Johanset Orihuela Endocranial morphology of the extinct Antillean shrew Nesophontes (Lipotyphla: Nesophontidae) from natural

and digital endocasts of Cuban taxa

66. Daniel Snyder “Horse collars” are for balancing? The function of an enigmatic Devonian fossil re-examined with 3D visualization

Session 34 Celebrating public participation in paleontology67. Michael Guberek The Anza Borrego Desert State Park Paleontology Society: Fourty years of volunteer support in field, preparation

and curation activities.

68. Jack Kallmeyer Heirs to the "Cincinnati School of Paleontology": Over 70 years of scientific contributions from the Cincinnati Dry Dredgers

69. Daniel Krisher Rochester Academy of Science Fossil Section - An example of citizen scientists and their role in paleontology

70. Paul R. Roth III Educational outreach by avocational paleontologists and citizen scientist for National Fossil Day - junior paleontologist educational kits

Session 35 Critical paleobiological transitions in Earth history: The value of multidisciplinary approaches

71. Sarah Carmichael Island arcs in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Implications for late Devonian Ocean anoxia

72. Roger W. Cooper A multidisciplinary analysis of the unique iron-rich Turonian-Coniacian boundary interval (~3.16m thick) within the Boquillas Formation, Big Bend region, TX that includes the Allocrioceras hazzardi Zone

73. Katherine Cummings Evidence for a diverse terrestrial ecosystem in the 1.1 Ga Midcontinent Rift

74. Dennis R. Ruez, Jr. Ecological stress in the evolution of fossil hominids in South Africa


Tuesday (AM), February 18, 2014

Session 36 Ediacaran environments and ecosystems Room: Ballroom A Chairs: Lidya Tarhan & Marc Laflamme 8:00am-8:30am Paul Myrow Role of paleoenvironmental interpretation for analysis of Ediacaran faunas

8:30am-8:45am Gregory J. Retallack Paleosols and paleoenvironments of the Edicaran (565 Ma) Mistaken Point Formation, Newfoundland

8:45am-9:00am Jack J. Matthews The lateral continuity of Ediacaran fossil surfaces: Implications for taphonomy and palaeoecology

9:00am-9:15am Sara J. Mason Deep-marine Ediacaran fossil-bearing formations of the Bonavista Peninsula, Newfoundland

9:15am-9:30am Mary Droser Upside down ripples and other anactualistic sedimentary structures of the Ediacaran

9:30am-9:45am Alexander Liu Giant sulfur bacteria as a significant component of late Ediacaran benthic ecosystems

9:45am-10:00am Lidya Tarhan Taphonomy and morphology of the Ediacaran form genus Aspidella (ediacara member, rawnsley quartzite, South Australia)


10:30am-10:45am Charlotte Kenchington

Tuffs, turbidites and tiering: the control of sedimentology on biotic assemblage in the Ediacaran successions of Charnwood Forest (UK) and Newfoundland (Canada).

10:45am-11:00am Greg Burzynski The discs of Avalon: Relating discoid fossils to frondose organisms in the Ediacaran of Newfoundland, Canada

11:00am-11:15am Scott Evans Dickinsonia lifts off: evidence of current derived morphologies

11:15am-11:30am Renee Hoekzema Modelling the growth and morphology of Ediacaran organisms

11:30am-11:45am Natalia Bykova Two types of preservation in the Khatyspyt Lagerstätte, the Olenek Uplift, the Siberian Platform

11:45am-12:00pm Joseph Meert Rapid changes in magnetic field polarity during the late Ediacaran: Trigger for the agronomic revolution and the demise of the Ediacaran fauna?

Noon-3:00pm - LUNCH BREAK

Session 37 Stratigraphic paleobiology: Integrating sedimentary and fossil records

Room: Ballroom B Chairs: Jackie Wittmer & Daniele Scarponi 8:00am-8:15am Mark Patzkowsky Stratigraphic paleobiology and the origin of regional biotas

8:15am-8:30am Aldo F. Rincon The early Miocene protoceratids (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from the Panama Canal basin

8:30am-8:45am Andrew Zaffos The persistence of ecological gradients: what do we really know?8:45am-9:00am Amy Singer The invertebrate paleoecology of the Bear Gulch Limestone

9:00am-9:15am Steven M. Holland The stratigraphic paleobiology of marine vertebrates

9:15am-9:30am Kathlyn M. SmithTemporal and paleoenvironmental distribution of Basilosaurus (Mammalia: Cetacea) in the southeastern United States: new evidence from the Eocene of southwest Georgia

9:30am-9:45am Alessandro Amorosi Millennial-scale sequence stratigraphy of late Quaternary deposits as revealed by high-resolution sedimentological and micropaleontological data

9:45am-10:00am Jacalyn Wittmer Quantitative bathymetric models and their applications for late Quaternary transgressive-regressive cycles of the Po Plain, Italy



Session 37 Continued

Stratigraphic paleobiology: Integrating sedimentary and fossil records

Room: Ballroom B Chairs: Jackie Wittmer & Daniele Scarponi 10:30am-10:45am Austin Hendy Stratigraphic paleobiology through time and across space: Case studies and

challenges

10:45am-11:00am Daniele Scarponi Stratigraphic paleoecology of the Valle di Manche Section (Crotone Basin, Italy): A candidate GSSP of the Middle Pleistocene

11:00am-11:15am John Warren Huntley Stratigraphic paleobiology of trematode parasites and bivalve hosts

11:15am-11:30am Paulo Souto Discovery of vertebrate coprolite of the Crato Member from Araripe Basin in the northeast of Brazil

11:30am-11:45am Thomas R. Holtz Jr. Laramidia: Engine of dinosaur diversity or perfect storm for collecting? (or both?)

11:45am-12:00pm Rebecca Koll Spatial and temporal distribution patterns of early and middle Permian gigantopterid seed plants in Western Pangea

Noon-3:00pm - LUNCH BREAK

Session 38 Digitization in vertebrate paleobiology Room: Ballroom C Chairs: Aaron R. Wood and P. David Polly 8:00am-8:15am Martin Rücklin Vision impossible? Tomographic techniques in paleobiology

8:15am-8:30am Corey Toler-Franklin Practical optical imaging techniques for analyzing natural history collections

8:30am-8:45am Mark Sutton SPIERS - a free package for tomographic reconstruction

8:45am-9:00am Julia M. FahlkeGeneration of three-dimensional (3D) surface models of baleen whale skulls (Cetacea: Mysticeti) for morphometric analyses: possibilities and limits of photogrammetry

9:00am-9:15am John F. Graf Mobile scanning of large and rare specimens

9:15am-9:30am Theodorou Georgios A case study for a 3D skeletal reconstruction of Elephas tiliensis based on CT and Laser scans; morphology, population data and taphonomy.

9:30am-9:45am Gregory P. Wilson On the cusp: GIS approaches to inferring diet in fossil mammals

9:45am-10:00am Stephanie M. Smith Mammalian dental ecomorphology and disparity across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary: A comparison of 3D metrics




Session 38 Continued Digitization in vertebrate paleobiology

Room: Ballroom C Chairs: Aaron R. Wood and P. David Polly 10:30am-10:45am Jussi T. Eronen Mammal proxy methods for estimating precipitation

10:45am-11:00am Aaron R. Wood 3d ecomorphology of Miocene-Pliocene horse astragali: Testing the Gulf Coast Refugium hypothesis via shape analysis of digital morphologies

11:00am-11:15am P. David Polly Transforming morphology with mathematics: Can morphometric methods model evolution of complex morphologies?

11:15am-11:30am Mary T. Silcox Getting back to basics: a virtual dissection of the cranium of Microsyops annectens (Mammalia, Euarchonta) using microCT

11:30am-11:45am Arianna R. Harrington

Reconstructing the virtual endocasts of two Eocene primates from high-resolution x-ray computed tomography data

11:45am-12:00pm Ornella Bertrand Ischyromys typus: First virtual endocast of a fossil rodent12:00pm-12:15pm Stephanie Baumgart Air versus bone in the wing skeleton of a pterosaur


Session 39 Paleoecological patterns Room: Dogwood Chairs: Richard Hulbert & Adiël Klompmaker 8:15am-8:30am Douglas S. Jones Annual shell increments reveal shifting baselines and anthropogenic influences on

ancient and modern hard clam populations

8:30am-8:45am Simon Schneider Biotic control of (low) biodiversity in rudist bivalve reefs - an example from the Tithonian of Austria

8:45am-9:00am Adiël A. Klompmaker Are ribs on bivalves effective against gastropod drilling predation?9:00am-9:15am Robyn Dahl Bellerophontid gastropods of the Middle Ordovician Kanosh Shale

9:15am-9:30am Cristina Robins An overview of fossil squat lobsters (Decapoda: Anomura: Galatheoidea)

9:30am-9:45am Alexander Nützel Paleobiodiversity of the Cassian Formation (N Italy) – the most diverse Triassic fossil invertebrate lagerstätte

9:45am-10:00am George D. Stanley Jr Coral and reef evolution during biotic reorganizations of the Late Triassic 10:00am-10:30am - COFFEE BREAK

10:30am-10:45am Lee E. MonnensA preliminary report on a dinosaur track site at the Greenbelt NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Elk Neck beds (informal), basal Upper Cretaceous (lower Cenomanian), Atlantic Coastal Plain of Maryland

10:45am-11:00am Dhurjati Prasad Sengupta

Diversity and extinction of the triassic temnospondyls of India

11:00am-11:15am F. J. Rich Mastodon, hemlock and freshwater wetlands – new evidence of terrestrial environments along the coastal zone of the southeastern US

11:15am-11:30am Richard C. Hulbert Jr. No middle ground: Vertebrate paleoecology and habitat reconstruction of two very different late Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) localities in peninsular Florida

11:30am-11:45am Paul E. Morse Changes in body size and dental development in mammals during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum of the Bighorn Basin, WY




Tuesday (PM), February 18, 2014

Closing Ceremony and BanquetClosing Ceremony: Ballroom A/B/C at Hilton Banquet: Touchdown Terrace, University of Florida

3:00pm-3:15pmOpening Remarks Steven R. Manchester, NAPC Organizing Committee

3:15pm-4:30pmPlenary TalkThe Million Kid March and other aspirations for paleontologyKirk Johnson

4:30pm-4:45pm Award Ceremony

4:45pm-5:30pm Bus Transportation to University of Florida Touchdown Terrace for Banquet

5:30pm-8:00pm NAPC Banquet at Touchdown Terrace

7:30pm-8:30pm Bus Transportation back to The Hilton and The Lodge


Special Events Calendar

Time Event Organization Location Point of ContactFriday, February 14, 2014

6:00pm-8:00pm Ice Breaker/Welcoming Ceremony NAPC

Florida Museum of Natural History (Powell Hall)

Troy [email protected]

Jenn Jasinski [email protected]

Saturday, February 15, 2014

7:00pm-8:00pm

Paleontology Town Hall Meeting: Where are we now, and where are we going?

Hilton Conference Center Ballroom B

Sandy Carlson [email protected]

Sunday, February 16, 2014

12:00pm-1:00pm

Paleobiology Database Town Hall (Open) Paleobiology Database Hilton Conference Center Shanan Peters

[email protected]:00pm-6:00pm

Paleobiology Database Orientation and Workshop (Open) Paleobiology Database Hilton Conference Center

Azalea Room Shanan Peters [email protected]

6:30pm-8:30pm Paleobotonist Reception (Invite) FLMNH Paleobotony Bivens North Condo

ClubhouseSteven Manchester [email protected]

Monday, February 17, 2014

6:30pm-7:30pm

Friends of Florida Paleontology Gathering (Open)

Friends of Florida Paleontology

Hilton Conference Center Dogwood Room

Bruce MacFadden [email protected]

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Noon-3:00pm

Florida Museum Tours(Sign up required) NAPC

Florida Museum of Natural History (Powell Hall)

Troy [email protected]

12:30pm-1:45pm FOSSIL Lunch (Invite) FOSSIL Museum (Powell Hall)

ClassroomBruce MacFadden [email protected]

2:00pm-3:00pm NSF Townhall meeting (Open) NSF Hilton Conference Center

Dogwood Room Christopher Yusheng Liu [email protected]

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

8:30am-5:00pm

FOSSIL Project Kick-off Meeting (Invite) FOSSIL

Museum (Powell Hall) Classroom

Bruce MacFadden [email protected]


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