NAPC 2001June 26 - July 1 2001 Berkeley, California
Technical Session Schedule—Thursday, June 28
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| 8:00-8:20 | 8:10-ARENS, NAN CRYSTAL: Opening remarks | BARNOSKY, TONY: Opening remarks | |||
| 8:20-8:40 | HASIOTIS, STEPHEN: Integrating ichnology and paleopedology to reconstruct Upper Jurassic Morrison terrestrial and freshwater paleoecosystems | CHIEN, PAUL: SEM Observation Of Precambrian Sponge Embryos, From Southern China, Revealing Ultrastructures Including Yolk Granules, Secretion Granules, Cytoskeleton, And Nuclei | CRAME, A. Evolution Of High-Latitude Marine Invertebrate Faunas: A Review | GRAHAM, RUSSEL: FAUNMAP-The second generation and beyond. | BABCOCK, LOREN E.: Interpretation Of Biological And Environmental Changes Across The Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Boundary: Developing Tools For Predicting The Occurrence Of Burgess Shale-Type Deposits |
| 8:40-9:00 | TRUEMAN, CLIVE: High resolution environmental variability across ancient landscape surfaces | STINCHCOMB, BRUCE: Upper Cambrian/Lower Ordovician Plated Mollusks Of The Ozark Uplift | MARINCOVICH, LOUIE JR: A Brief History Of The Cenozoic Arctic Ocean | BARNOSKY, TONY: MIOMAP: A Relational And Spatial Database For Research On Evolution, Ecology, And Biogeography Of Miocene Mammals | DORNBOS, STEPHEN Q.: Paleoecology Of Benthic Metazoans In The Early Cambrian Chengjiang Fauna: Evidence For The Cambrian Substrate Revolution |
| 9:00-9:20 | ARENS, NAN CRYSTAL: Loss of local angiosperm species richness precedes the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary: Palynological evidence for increased habitat heterogeneity | CONNOLLY, SEAN: Global Ordovician Faunal Transitions In The Marine Benthos: Proximate Causes | WOLFE, JACK: Paleogene Climatic And Floristic Changes At Middle To High Latitudes In North America | BADGELY, C.: Databases For Recent Mammals and Mammalian Faunas | JENSEN, SÖREN: A Scratch Circle Origin for the Medusoid Fossil Kullingia |
| 9:20- 9:40 | Break | Break | Break | Break | Break |
| 9:40-10:00 | SKAFF & TANG: Isotopic analysis of the Chandler and Safford (central Arizona) proboscidean fossils | WATKINS, RODNEY: Distribution Of Trimerellid and Pentamerid Brachiopods In Silurian Reefs Of SE Wisconsin and NE Illinois | LAZARUS, DAVID: The Cenozoic Evolution Of Antarctic Radiolarian Faunas | BEHRENSMEYER, ANNA K.: Test-Driving The ETE Database In The Late Cenozoic Of Africa | LESLIE, STEPHEN A.: Paleobiology and Paleobiogeography Of Corumbella, A Late Neoproterozoic Ediacaran-Grade Organism |
| 10:00-10:20 | WEINREB, DAVID: Paleoecology of Eutrephoceras dekayi: Evidence from light stable isotopes | PEREZ-HUERTA, ALBERTO: Pennsylvanian Brachiopod Assemblage Zones in the Ely Limestone of East Central Nevada | FELDMANN, RODNEY: Fossil Decapod Crustaceans In The High Latitudes: Pioneers and Survivors | ALROY, JOHN: The Paleobiology Database | WAGGONER, BEN: The Rulebook is Rewritten: Ediacaran and Cambrian Global Biodiversity Patterns |
| 10:20-10:40 | IVANY, LINDA: Using stable isotopic data to resolve variation in rate and duration of seasonal growth throughout ontogeny | OLEINIK, ANTON E.: Paleobiogeographic And Paleoclimatic Implications Of The Cenozoic Molluscan Record In The Northwestern Pacific | SIMS, HALLIE: A New Paleobotanical Database Initiative | FEDONKIN, MIKHAIL A.: Faunal Succession In The Vendian (Terminal Proterozoic) Deposits Of The White Sea Region, North Of The Russian Platform | |
| 10:40-11:00 | Break | Break | Break | Break | Break |
| 11:00-11:20 | BUSH, ANDREW: Estimating biodiversity in light of heterogeneous sampling intensities: The relationship between taxon-occurrence subsampling methods and alpha and beta diversity. | VEGA, FRANCISCO: Aporrhaid Gastropods Of Latest Cretaceous Age From The Upper Part Of The Barton Creek Formation, Below Chicxulub Ejecta Blanket In Southern Mexico |
WILSON, GREGORY: The Biogeographic Impact of an Epeiric Seaway On Late Cretaceous And Paleocene South American Palynofloras |
GRIMM, ERIC: The Global Pollen Database | HAGADORN, JAMES W.: X-Radiographic Computed Axial Tomography Of Matrix-Encased Neoproterozoic Fossils |
| 11:20-11:40 | KOSNIK, MATTHEW: "Richness" and "evenness" and abundance distribution effects on sample "diversity": Knowing when the data is leading you astray | LOESER, HANNES: Diversity Patterns Of Cretaceous Corals | CASE, JUDD: Latest Cretaceous Record of Modern Birds from Antarctica: Center of Origin or Fortuitous Occurrence? | SMITH, UNA: Integrated Research On Fossil And Extant Flowering Plants Via A Descriptive Database | IVANTSOV, ANDREI YU.: Locomotion Trails Of The Vendian Invertebrates Preserved With The Producer's Body Fossils, White Sea, Russia |
| 11:40-12:00 | FINNEGAN, SETH: The relationship between diversity and abundance: An example from the Lower-Middle Ordovician boundary of the Great Basin | GUENSBURG, THOMAS: Origin Of Standardized Crinoid Cup Plating | ZINSMEISTER, WILLIAM J.: Role Of The High Latitudes In The Emergence Of Cenozoic Molluscan Faunas Of The Southern Hemisphere | KAESLER, ROGER: Concept-Focused Databases In Paleontology: Paleobank and The Treatise On Invertebrate Paleontology | DROSER, MARY L.: Firm Cambrian Substrates In The Lowermost Cambrian: Evidence From Ichnofabrics In The Chapel Island Formation, Newfoundland |
| 12:00-1:40 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
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| 1:40-2:00 | MARTIN, ANTHONY J.: Evidence for insect nesting and its paleoenvironmental significance in the Two Medicine Formation (Late Cretaceous), Choteau, Montana | BRYANT, LAURIE: Fossil Futures: Preserving Fossils From Public Lands - Panel Discussion With Representatives Of Federal Land Management Agencies | HARWOOD, D. M.: Origin and Early Evolution Of Diatoms: Cretaceous and Paleogene Records From The Southern High Latitudes | MCGWIRE, K.: Virtual Paleontological Specimens: Networking Museum Collections To Promote Science And Education | XIAO, SHUHAI: Articulated Sponges in an Early Cambrian Biota and Epifaunal Tiering at the Precambrian-Cambrian Transition |
| 2:00-2:20 | PETERS, SHANNAN: Large-scale heterogeneity in the stratigraphic record: A significant source of bias in global diversity estimates | Fossil futures | EBERLE, JAELYN: A New Marine Fauna From The Late Cretaceous Of Devon Island, Nunavut Territory, Canadian Arctic Archipelago | WARDLAW, BRUCE: The USGS National Paleontological Database: Paleodata | GAINES, ROBERT R.: Taphonomy Of Soft-Bodied Preservation And Ptychopariid Lagerstätte In The Wheeler Shale (Middle Cambrian), House Range, USA; Controls And Implications |
| 2:20-2:40 | STANLEY, STEVEN M., Weak Competition Throughout The Marine Realm: Consequences For Population Growth, Rate Of Speciation, And Global Diversification | Fossil futures | HUNT, RICHARD: Revising Paleogene West Antarctic Climate And Vegetation History: New Geochronology And Palaeoenvironmental Data | MOLINEUX, ANN: Metadata: A New Word For An Old Problem | BUDD, GRAHAM E.: A New Stem-Arachnate From The Sirius Passet (Lower Cambrian Of North Greenland) And The Basal Euarthropod Problem |
| 2:40-3:00 | DISCUSSION | Fossil futures | DISCUSSION | CARON, JEAN-BERNARD: The Limbless Animal Banffia constricta from the Burgess Shale (Middle Cambrian, Canada): a Stem-group Arthropod? | |
| 3:00-3:20 | Break | Break | Break | Paleodatabase discussion group | Break |
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| 3:20-3:40 | BERRY, WILLIAM: Significance Of Oxygen Minimum Zones Under Upwelling Systems In Late Ordovician - Early Silurian Graptolite Extinctions And Radiations | Fossil futures | PYENSON, NICHOLAS: Ichnofossil-Lagerstätte In Alabama: A World-Class Carboniferous (Westphalian A) Tracksite | Paleodatabase discussion group | TAYLOR, ROD S.: 'Waptiid' Arthropods and the Significance of Bivalved Carapaces in Arthropods From (and Since) the Cambrian |
| 3:40-4:00 | WANG, STEVE: What Are Mass Extinctions? A Statistical Approach Using Density Estimation | Fossil futures | SOUTO, R.F., New Occurrences Of Coprolites From The Ariripe Basin (Upper Jurassic And Lower Cretaceous, Brazil) | Paleodatabase discussion group | ZHURAVLEV, ANDREY YU: Early Cambrian Reefal Paleocommunities: Without Stasis |
| 4:00-4:20 | Fossil futures | GREGORY, MURRAY: The "PHOEBICHNUS look-alike" — a fossilized root system? (and a large composite ichnofossil) | Paleodatabase discussion group | ZHURAVLEV, ANDREY YU: Early Cambrian Sinsk Dysaerobic Biota (Siberian Platform) | |
| 4:20-4:40 | Fossil futures | Paleodatabase discussion group | |||
| 4:40-5:00 | Fossil futures |