Paleontology, Phylogenetic/Morphological Patterns Pool

 
UNRAVELING HOMEOMORPHY IN THE GENUS DAGHANIRHYNCHIA USING 3D DIGITIZED SERIAL SECTIONS
FELDMAN, Howard R., Division of Paleontology (Invertebrates), American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024, feldspar4@optonline.net, SCHEMM-GREGORY, Mena, Geosciences Centre and Department of Earth Sciences, University of Coimbra, Largo Marquês do Pombal, Coimbra, P-3000-272, Portugal, WILSON, Mark A., Department of Geology, The College of Wooster, 944 College Mall, Wooster, OH 44691, AHMAD, Fayez, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The Hashemite University, P.O. Box 150459, Zarqa, 13115, Jordan, and FELDMAN, Brian A., PA Program, Touro College, 27-33 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY 10010
 
ORAL REGION HOMOLOGIES IN EARLY PALEOZOIC PELMATOZOANS
KAMMER, Thomas W., Department of Geology and Geography, West Virginia University, P.O. Box 6300, Morgantown, WV 26506-6300, tkammer@wvu.edu, AUSICH, William, School of Earth Sciences, Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences, 155 S Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210-1398, SUMRALL, Colin D., Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-1410, and DELINE, Bradley, Department of Geosciences, University of West Georgia, 1601 Maple Street, Carrollton, GA 30118
 
EVOLUTIONARY PATHWAYS OF THE CRINOID ORAL REGION
AUSICH, William I., School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, 275 Mendenhall Lab, 125 S. Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210, ausich.1@osu.edu, KAMMER, Thomas W., Department of Geology and Geography, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506-6300, DELINE, Bradley, Department of Geosciences, University of West Georgia, 1601 Maple Street, Carrollton, GA 30118, and SUMRALL, Colin D., Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-1410
 
THE MORPHOLOGIC EXPLORATION OF THE PELMATOZOAN ORAL REGION
DELINE, Bradley, Department of Geosciences, University of West Georgia, 1601 Maple Street, Carrollton, GA 30118, bdeline@westga.edu, KAMMER, Thomas W., Department of Geology and Geography, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506-6300, AUSICH, William, School of Earth Sciences, Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences, 155 S Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210-1398, and SUMRALL, C.D., Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, 1412 Circle Drive, Knoxville, TN 37996
 
IRIDESCENT COLOR PATTERNS IN MESOZOIC AMMONOID CEPHALOPODS
LARSON, Neal L., Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, PO Box 643, 117 Main St, Hill City, SD 57745, ammoniteguy@bhigr.com and MAPES, Royal, Dept of Geological Sciences, Ohio University, 316 Clippinger Laboratories, Athens, OH 45701
 
A TALE OF TWO EOCRINOID ASSEMBLAGES: POSSIBLE EXTREME PAEDOMORPHOSIS IN A MIDDLE CAMBRIAN (SERIES 3) GOGIID FROM LAURENTIA
PARSLEY, Ronald L., Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118, parsley@tulane.edu
 
FLIGHT-INITIATING QUADRUPEDAL JUMPS IN THE GIANT PTERODACTYLOID QUETZALCOATLUS: FACT OR FANTASY?
CHATTERJEE, Sankar, Geosciences, Texas Tech University, 3301 4th Street, Lubbock, TX 79409-3191, ALEXANDER, David E., Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, 2041 Haworth Hall, 1200 Sunnyside Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66045, and TEMPLIN, R. Jack, 2212 Aster Street, Ottawa, ON K1H 6R6, Canada, jtemplin@rogers.ca
 
TEGMEN EVOLUTION IN CAMERATE CRINOIDS
BRAGONJE, Eva L., Department of Geology and Geography, West Virginia University, 330 Brooks Hall, Morgantown, WV 26506, ebragonj@mix.wvu.edu and KAMMER, Thomas W., Department of Geology and Geography, West Virginia University, P.O. Box 6300, Morgantown, WV 26506-6300
 
MICROEVOLUTIONARY RESPONSE IN LOWER MISSISSIPPIAN CAMERATE CRINOIDS TO PREDATORY PRESSURES
THOMPSON, Jeffrey R., School of Earth Sciences, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43235, thompson.1983@buckeyemail.osu.edu and AUSICH, William I., School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, 275 Mendenhall Lab, 125 S. Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210
 
BLASTOIDEA: RECONSTRUCTING THE ECHINODERM TREE OF LIFE
ATWOOD, James W., Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, 306 Earth and Planetary Sciences Building, Knoxville, TN 37996, jatwood2@utk.edu, WATERS, Johnny A., Department of Geology, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 28645, and SUMRALL, Colin D., Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-1410
 
PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM MEETS MOSAIC EVOLUTION: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE UNPACK TRAITS AND TRENDS?
LIDGARD, Scott, Department of Geology, Field Museum, 1400 S. Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60605, slidgard@fieldmuseum.org and HOPKINS, Melanie, Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstrasse 43, Berlin, 10115, Germany
 
FINE STRUCTURE, REPRODUCTION AND PHYLOGENETIC PLACEMENT OF A SPECIES OF PSAMMOPHAGA (FORAMINIFERA) FROM COASTAL GEORGIA, USA
BALLERO, Deniz Z., Department of Geology, University of Georgia, 210 Field Street, Athens, GA 30602, deniz.ballero@gpc.edu, HABURA, Andrea, Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Public Health, University at Albany, One University Place, Rensselaer, NY 12144, SCHROEDER, Paul A., Department of Geology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-2501, and GOLDSTEIN, Susan T., Department of Geology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602
 
FOSSIL CAMELS FROM THE LATE OLIGOCENE EASTLAKE LOCAL FAUNA, OTAY FORMATION, SAN DIEGO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
LUBAR, Candace A., Geology, Occidental College, 1600 Campus Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90041, clubar90@gmail.com and PROTHERO, Donald, Vertebrate Paleontology, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90007
 
INTERNAL MORPHOLOGY OF BLASTOIDS (ECHINODERMATA): PEELS ARE STILL BETTER THAN DIGITAL IMAGING
WATERS, Johnny and CREMINS, Devin, Department of Geology, Appalachian State University, 572 Rivers Street, Boone, NC 28608, watersja@appstate.edu
 
INTERTWINING FOSSIL AND MODERN PHYLOGENIES OF THE SQUAT LOBSTERS (DECAPODA: GALATHEOIDEA)
ROBINS, Cristina M.1, FELDMANN, Rodney M.1, and SCHWEITZER, Carrie E.2, (1) Department of Geology, Kent State University, 221 McGilvrey Hall, Kent, OH 44242, crobins@kent.edu, (2) Department of Geology, Kent State University at Stark, 6000 Frank Avenue NW, North Canton, OH 44720
 
 
CAPTURING THE FUNCTIONAL VARIETY OF EARLY GNATHOSTOMES: A CASE STUDY USING CLADISTIC CHARACTERS AND BIOMECHANICAL TRAITS
ANDERSON, Philip S.L., Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts, 221 Morrill Science Center, 611 North Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01003, Panderson@bio.umass.edu and FRIEDMAN, Matt, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3AN, United Kingdom
 
MORPHOMETRIC OBSERVATIONS OF DELTOBLASTUS SP. BLASTOIDS FROM THE PERMIAN OF TIMOR
MORGAN, Ryan, Department of Geology, Baylor University, One Bear Place #97354, Waco, TX 76798, Ryan_Morgan1@Baylor.edu
 
CHARACTER CHOICE AND MORPHOLOGIC EVOLUTION OF EARLY PALEOZOIC INADUATE CRINOIDS
YOUNG, Evan M.1, FANNING, Taylor D.1, and DELINE, Bradley2, (1) Geosciences Department, University of West Georgia, 1601 Maple Street, Carrollton, GA 30116, eyoung2@my.westga.edu, (2) Department of Geosciences, University of West Georgia, 1601 Maple Street, Carrollton, GA 30118
 
THE IMPORTANCE OF CHARACTER CHOICE IN QUANTIFYING MORPHOLOGY IN EARLY PALEOZOIC CAMERATE CRINOIDS
KINISON, George L.1, YOUNG, Evan M.1, and DELINE, Bradley2, (1) Geosciences Department, University of West Georgia, 1601 Maple Street, Carrollton, GA 30116, gkiniso1@my.westga.edu, (2) Department of Geosciences, University of West Georgia, 1601 Maple Street, Carrollton, GA 30118
 
BODY MASS EVOLUTION AND DIVERSIFICATION WITHIN THE EQUIDAE FAMILY
SHOEMAKER, Lauren G., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado at Boulder, 4200 Hanover Ave, Boulder, CO 80305, lauren.shoemaker@colorado.edu and CLAUSET, Aaron, Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Computer Science, 430 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0430
 
TWO STRANGE SHELLY FOSSILS FROM THE LOWER CAMBRIAN OF SOUTHEASTERN SHAANXI PROVINCE, CHINA
MOORE, John L., Department of Earth Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, jlmoore@umail.ucsb.edu, PORTER, Susannah M., Earth Science, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, and LI, Guoxiang, State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing, 210008, China
 
THE SEEDY SIDE OF PLANT ECOLOGY: EVOLUTIONARY RATES, MORPHOLOGICAL DIVERSITY, AND THE EVOLUTION OF SEED SIZE
SIMS, Hallie, Department of Geoscience, University of Iowa, Trowbridge Hall, Iowa City, IA 52242, hallie-sims@uiowa.edu
 
TINY TITANOSAURS: MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY AND PRIMARY GROWTH RATES IN HATCHLING SAUROPODS FROM MADAGASCAR
WHITNEY, Megan1, BERNARD, McKenna1, BAGLEY, Brian2, and CURRY ROGERS, Kristina1, (1) Biology and Geology Departments, Macalester College, 1600 Grand Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105, mwhitney@macalester.edu, (2) Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455
 
EVOLUTION AND THE HISTORY OF LIFE: TEMPO, MODE, AND TIME SCALE
GINGERICH, Philip D., University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology and Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, gingeric@umich.edu
 
MORPHOLOGICAL VARIABILITY OF ASTARTE BOREALIS (MOLLUSCA, BIVALVIA) IN THE CAMDEN BAY, NORTHERN ALASKA
CHRPA, Michelle E., Department of Geosciences, Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Rd, Science and Engineering Building, Boca Raton, FL 33431, mchrpa@fau.edu and OLEINIK, Anton, Geosciences, Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, FL 33431-0991
 
GYRACANTHID MATERIAL FROM THE MISSISSIPPIAN (NAMURIAN) OF KENTUCKY AND THE EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS OF GYRACANTHIDAE
KOFSKY, Jan, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of North Carolina Charlotte, 9201 University City Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28223-0001, jkofsky@uncc.edu and GARCIA, William J., Geography and Earth Sciences, University of North Carolina Charlotte, 9201 University City Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28223
 
SORTING THROUGH A PARAPHYLETIC GARBAGE CAN: A PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF MIDDLE AND UPPER ORDOVICIAN "ENCRINUOIDES" (TRILOBITA) SPECIES FROM LAURENTIAN NORTH AMERICA
MOSS, David K., Department of Earth Sciences, Syracuse University, 204 Heroy Geology Laboratory, Syracuse, NY 13244, dkmoss@syr.edu and WESTROP, Stephen R., Oklahoma Museum of Natural History and School of Geology & Geophysics, Univ of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73072
 
EVOLUTIONARY RESPONSE IN PALEOZOIC CRINOID ARM BRANCHING PATTERNS TO GRAZING PREDATORS
SYVERSON, V.J., Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, 1109 Geddes Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, vsyverson@gmail.com and BAUMILLER, Tomasz K., Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, 1109 Geddes Rd, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079
 
TESTING COPE'S RULE AND THE EXISTENCE OF AN UPPER BOUND FOR BODY SIZE IN NON-AVIAN DINOSAURS
HUNT, Gene, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, NHB MRC 121, P.O. Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013-7012, hunte@si.edu, FTIZJOHN, Richard G., Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada, and CARRANO, Matthew T., Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012, NHB, MRC-121, Washington, DC 20013-7012
 
MICROFOSSIL SIZE TRENDS ACROSS THE LATE ARCHEAN AND PROTEROZOIC: A MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD APPROACH
HAWKINS, Andrew D., Geosciences, Virginia Polytechnical and State University, 4044 Derring Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061, andrewdh@vt.edu and XIAO, Shuhai, Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061
 
A MORPHOMETRIC STUDY OF ERISOCRINUS (CRINOIDEA) USING ARCGIS
SHEFFIELD, Sarah L., Geology and Geography, Auburn University, 210 Petrie, Auburn, AL 36849, sarahsheffield89@gmail.com, ZACHOS, Louis G., Geology and Geological Engineering, University of Mississippi, 102J Carrier Hall, Oxford, MS 38677, and LEWIS, Ronald D., Geology and Geography, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849-5305
 
QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF CORAL COLONY SHAPES USING 3D SHAPE DESCRIPTORS
JUNG, Jikhan, Geoscience, University of Iowa, Trowbridge Hall North Capitol St, Iowa City, IA 52242, jikhan-jung@uiowa.edu
 
UNDERSTANDING SHAPE VARIATION IN THE ORDOVICIAN MITRATE ECHINODERM ENOPLOURA USING OUTLINE MORPHOMETRICS
BLACKWELL, Sean, Earth and Planetary Sciences, The University of Tennessee, 1412 Circle Drive, Knoxville, TN 37996, sblackw4@utk.edu, FADIGA, Troy, Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, 306 EPS Building, 1412 Circle Dr, Knoxville, TN 37996-1410, and SUMRALL, Colin D., Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-1410
 
EVOLUTION ON A TEMPORAL SCALE: A CASE STUDY OF A DEVONIAN BRACHIOPOD SPECIES IN THE TRAVERSE GROUP OF NORTH EASTERN MICHIGAN, USA GIVETIAN, ALPENA, PRESQUE ISLE, ATRYPID, STASIS, MORPHOMETRICS
BOSE, Rituparna, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The City College of New York, The City University of New York, 160 Convent Avenue, New York, NY 10031, rbose@ccny.cuny.edu and POLLY, P. David, Geological Sciences, Indiana University, 1001 E 10th Street, Bloomington, IN 47405-1405
 
SPECTACULAR SUMMIT STRUCTURES IN THE MIDDLE CAMBRIAN EOCRINOID GOGIA FROM NORTHERN UTAH
SPRINKLE, James, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas, 1 University Station C1100, Austin, TX 78712-0254, echino@jsg.utexas.edu and WILBUR, Bryan C., Natural Sciences Division, Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91106
 
BASAL TITANOSAURIAN SAUROPOD MATERIAL FROM THE MIDDLE CRETACEOUS GALULA FORMATION, RUKWA RIFT BASIN, SOUTHWESTERN TANZANIA
GORSCAK, Eric1, O'CONNOR, Patrick M.2, STEVENS, Nancy J.2, and ROBERTS, Eric M.3, (1) Biological Sciences, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701, eric.gorscak@gmail.com, (2) Department of Biomedical Sciences, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701, (3) Earth and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, PO Box 6811, Cairns, Qld, 4870, Australia
 
ARE PHYLOGENETIC NOMENCLATURE AND INVERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY FRIENDS OR FOES?
CARLSON, Sandra J., Department of Geology, University of California, Davis, One Shields Ave, Davis, CA 95616, sjcarlson@ucdavis.edu
 
EVOLUTIONARY SHAPE TRENDS IN LATE KATIAN AND EARLY HIRNANTIAN-AGED CLIMACOGRAPTIDS: AN EXAMPLE OF MORPHOLOGICAL STASIS ACROSS THE END-ORDOVICIAN MASS EXTINCTION INTERVAL
ROBINSON, Daniel E., Geology, SUNY at Buffalo, 358 Buffalo Lane, Saugerties, NY 12477, der6@buffalo.edu, MITCHELL, Charles E., Geology, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY 14260, and SHEETS, H. David, Dept. of Geology, SUNY at Buffalo, 411 Cooke Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260
 
MICROMORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERS PROVIDE FURTHER EVIDENCE OF SPLIT WITHIN EUPHYLLIDAE (ORDER: SCLERACTINIA)
TIBBITS, Matthew, Univesrity of Iowa, Department of Geoscience, 121 Trowbridge Hall, Iowa City, IA 52242, matthew-tibbits@uiowa.edu
 
THE RECORD OF OLDEST NATICID GASTROPOD FROM THE OXFORDIAN (UPPER JURASSIC) OF KUTCH, INDIA: PALAEOECOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS
BARDHAN, Subhendu1, DAS, Shiladri S.2, MALLICK, Sumanta1, MONDAL, Subhronil3, and DUTTA, Rakhi1, (1) Department of Geological Sciences, Jadavpur University, Raja S C Mullik Rd, Kolkata, 700032, India, (2) Indian Statistical Institute, Geological Studies Unit, 203 Barrackpore Trunk Road, Kolkata, 700035, India, shiladri@gmail.com, (3) Department of Geology, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Ave., SCA 528, Tampa, FL 33620
 
MODELLING THE PATTERNS OF CORALLITE ARRANGEMENT AND COLONY SHAPES IN SCLERACTINIAN CORALS
JUNG, Jikhan, Geoscience, University of Iowa, Trowbridge Hall North Capitol St, Iowa City, IA 52242, jikhan-jung@uiowa.edu
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