Sunday, June 23 | Morning

• Welcome/Plenary Session | Testament of Time - N. Hughes (UNLH)
  8:00

  Welcome and Opening Remarks M. Droser, N. Hughes

  8:20

  Natural History and the Future R. Ahmed

  8:50

  Ginkgo: An Evolutionary and Cultural Biography P. Crane

  9:20

  Writer versus scientist: compromise and comprehension R. Fortey

  9:50

  The Power of Paleontology and the Arts as Collaborative Forces S. Sumida, E. Rega

  10:20

  Coffee Break
• Symposium 3 | Plankton and Earth System Evolution - P. Hull, S. Kirtland Turner (HUB 355)    
  11:00

  Tropical and polar plankton demonstrate contrasting sensitivities to climate change throughout the Late Neogene S. Trubovitz

  11:15

  Diversity dynamics and climate change in Cenozoic marine siliceous plankton D. Lazarus

  11:30

  Delayed calcareous nannoplankton boom-bust successions in the earliest Paleocene Chicxulub impact crater H. Jones

   

   
• Symposium 7 | Cambrian Konservat-Lagerstätten and the emergence of modern-style marine ecosystems - R. Lerosey-Aubril, R. Gaines, X. Zhang (HUB 302)
  11:00

  The Marble Canyon Burgess Shale fossil deposit – British Columbia, Canada: New field discoveries, geologic setting, prospects and significance J. B. Caron

  11:30

  The Chengjiang-type fossil assemblages from the lower Cambrian Yu’anshan Formation of Qujing, eastern Yunnan and its taphonomic and paleoecological significance F. Zhao

  11:45

  Understanding exceptional preservation through comparative micro-analysis of fossils from the Cambrian Kinzers Formation (~514–509 Mya) of central Pennsylvania, USA M. B. Meyer
• Topical 38 | Macroevolutionary Dynamics - L. Lassiter, T. Smiley (HUB 269)   
  11:00

  How predictable is extinction? Forecasting species survival at million-year timescales P. Smits

  11:15

  The Signor-Lipps Effect in Paleobiology, Paleoecology and Evolution J. Lipps

  11:30

  Synchronous changes of speciation and extinction in mid-Paleozoic zooplankton: “instantaneous” coupling of macroevolutionary dynamics J. Crampton

  11:45

  Revisiting Romer: Eurypterid Influence on Early Vertebrate Evolution L. Lassiter
• Symposium 19 | Paleozoic Extinctions: Environmental Call and Biotic Response - D. Boyer, P. Cohen (UNLH)   
  11:00

  The Rise and Fall of the ‘Age of Fishes’: Vertebrate Responses to Paleozoic Extinctions L. Sallan

  11:30

  A high-resolution marine invertebrate biodiversity trajectory from Cambrian to Early Triassic S. Shen

  11:45

  A simulated selectivity framework for evaluating the relative plausibility of marine extinction scenarios S. Finnegan

   

Sunday, June 23 | afternoon

• Symposium 2 | Tiny fossils, big questions, big data - M. Yasuhara, A. O'Dea, E. Sibert, J. Williams (HUB 355)    
  1:00

  Building big data with AutoMorph: A high-throughput imaging, morphometrics, and machine learning pipeline accelerates macro- and microfossil paleoecological research S. Kahanamoku

  1:15

  Clade-wide population dynamics of modern planktonic Foraminifera show no evidence of competition among species M. Rillo

  1:30

  NSB and Mikrotax: Databases and software tools for fossil and living plankton research D. Lazarus

  1:45

  Path analyses of faunal change: Deconvolving environmental drivers of benthic foraminiferal community change to demonstrate similarities at intermediate and abyssal depths in the Pleistocene Gulf of Alaska C. Belanger

  2:00

  The evolutionary history of fusulinids reconstructed by using GBDB and CONOP Y. Zhao

  2:15

  Deep-sea biodiversity in space and time: What high time resolution microfossil records tell M. Yasuhara

  2:30

  The relationship between tectonics and ostracods: ostracods faunal changes under a subduction initiation system in the Tasman Sea H. Huang

  2:45

  Tea Break

  3:15

  Climate drives stability of vegetation biomes after the last glaciation in North America Y. Wang

  3:30

  Building Big Data and Open Science from the Long Tail: Community-Curated Data Resources, Neotoma Paleoecology Database, and the Earth-Life Consortium J. Williams

  3:45

  Forest Canopy Response to Greenhouse Warming at the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum R. Dunn

  4:00

  Improving the taxonomic accuracy and precision of fossil pollen identifications S. Punyasena

  4:15

  Siliceous VSM tests and the origin of protist biomineralization in Neoproterozoic oceans L. Morais

  4:30

  A mass extinction of open-ocean sharks 20 million years ago E. Sibert
• Symposium 7 contd | Cambrian Konservat-Lagerstätten and the emergence of modern-style marine ecosystems - R. Lerosey-Aubril, R. Gaines, X. Zhang (HUB 302)
  1:00

  Brachiopods with soft parts from the early Cambrian Wulongqing Formation (Series 2, Stage 4) of Yunnan, southern China Z. Zhang

  1:15

  Bright and early – Trends in cognition among Phanerozoic marine ecosystems S. Hsieh

  1:30

  The Xiaoshiba Konservat-Lagerstätte: overview, significance and future directions J. Ortega-Hernández

  1:45

  The Qingjiang biota – An extraordinary new Burgess Shale-type fossil Lagerstätte from the early Cambrian of South China D. Fu

  2:15

  Three-dimensional preservation of nonbiomineralized tissues in Cambrian concretionary Lagerstätten of North America L. E. Babcock

  2:30

  The Hetang biota: A taphonomic window into the Cambrian explosion Q. Tang

  2:45

  Tea Break

  3:15

  Diversity and structure of the Burgess Shale palaeocommunity with new insights from Marble Canyon, British Columbia K. Nanglu

  3:30

  Shell structure and affinity of the problematic early Cambrian brachiopod Heliomedusa orienta Sun and Hou, 1987 Y. Liang

  3:45

  Why is the Chengjiang Biota exceptionally well preserved? X. Ma

  4:00

  Preservation and microstructures of Small Shelly Fossils from the Cambrian Terreneuvian Yanjiahe Formation H. Qiu

  4:15

  The middle Cambrian Spence Shale (Miaolingian: Wuliuan) Lagerstätte: Improving our understanding of a key Cambrian ecosystem J. Kimmig
• Topical 38 contd | Macroevolutionary Dynamics - L. Lassiter, T. Smiley (HUB 269)  
  1:00

  Cenozoic environmental change shapes North American ungulate communities through within- and among lineage evolution E. Doughty

  1:15

  Basin and Range tectonics drive diversification dynamics in North American mammals T. Smilely

  1:30

  Phylogenetic Conservatism of Biotic Crises in North American Mammals G. Smith

  1:45

  How Did Mammoths and Mastodonts Grow and Become Dwarfed? Ontogenetic Long Bone Growth Compared to Island Dwarfing in Pleistocene Proboscidea. T. Htun

  2:00

  The R package divDyn for quantifying diversity dynamics using fossil sampling data A. Kocsis
• Symposium 19 contd | Paleozoic Extinctions: Environmental Call and Biotic Response - D. Boyer, P. Cohen (HUB 260)      
  1:00

  Global marine anoxia as a forcing mechanism for zooplankton colonisation and diversification T. Vandenbroucke

  1:15

  Synchrotron XRF elemental mapping of metals in Paleozoic palynomorphs J. De Weirdt

  1:45

  The Frasnian-Famennian (Late Devonian) extinction event in New York and Pennsylvania: stratigraphic and paleoenvironmental context A. Bush

  2:00

  Intermixed Messages: integrated geochemical and paleontological analysis of end-Devonian marine communities in the Appalachian Basin, USA A. Martinez

  2:15

  Carbon isotopic analyses of single organic-walled microfossils across the Late Devonian Kellwasser Intervals in New York State reveal a strong biological pump P. Cohen

  2:30

  Lilliput in the Late Devonian: a post Hangenberg recovery fauna from the uppermost Cleveland Shale D. Boyer

  2:45

  Tea Break

  3:15

  Biotic interactions between corals and stromatoporoids from the upper-uppermost Famennian (Devonian) Etoucun Formation, Huilong, South China: Implications for the recovery of reefal environments after the F-F crisis K. Liang

  3:30

  A trigger mechanism for the Late Devonian Hangenberg Crisis, as recorded by mercury anomalies in carbonate sediments in Viet Nam and elsewhere: we’re not saying it was volcanoes… but it was volcanoes S. Carmichael

  3:45

  Extinction Selectivity and Paleoecological change along an onshore-offshore Gradient in the Late Devonian Appalachian Basin S. Brisson

  4:00

  Exploring the microfossil record of the late Devonian Hangenberg event in the Cleveland Shale, Ohio K. Pippenger
• Topical 41 | Taphonomy - A. Tomasovych, T. Selly  (HUB 269)  
  2:15

  Establishing a new protocol for decay experimentation using x-ray tomographic microscopy T. Selly

  2:30

  The formation of permanent fossils records: Estimating post-mortem disintegration, burial, and mixing from shell-age frequency distributions in sediment cores A. Tomašových

  2:45

  Tea Break

  3:15

  Mathematic modeling to reconstruct the taphonomic history of the Burgess Shale-type fossils J. Hou

  3:30

  Preservation bias in the Fezouata Shale F. Saleh

  3:45

  Exceptionally Preserved Fossils from the Silica Shale Lagerstätte (Middle Devonian) of Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana: XCT Reveals Detailed Anatomical Information P. Vayda

  4:00

  Preservation potential of rocky intertidal molluscs in temperate and tropical environments D. Friend

  4:15

  Determining the Impacts of the Anthropocene through Time-Calibrated Taphonomic Grading N. Seiden

  4:30

  Testing the influence of human interference on land snail richness and composition from temperate forests in Ohio N. Soto-Contreras
• Symposium 37 | Engaging Diverse Communities in Paleontology: Innovative educational initiatives that connect culture to natural history - G. Santos, S. Mills, I. Magallanes (HUB 268)
  1:00

  More Than Numbers, Beyond Diversity: Re-centering the Conversation on Equity and Inclusion R.M. Dahl

  1:15

  Teaching at the intersections of paleontology and culture: bringing new meaning to the study of the fossil record C.C. Visaggi

  1:30

  Nashville Discovers Paleozoic Fossils: Programs and Field Trips at an Urban Historical Park M.F. Miller

  1:45

  Building collaborations with local community colleges to increase diverse students’ access to paleontology L. Taylor

  2:00

  Treating Science Outreach as Exchange Rather than Bestowal H.T. Chase

  2:15

  Partnering Vertebrate Paleontologists with Local Native American Students: Lessons from The Pueblo of Jemez, northwest New Mexico, USA S.S. Sumida

  2:30

  Increasing American Indians Pursuing STEM Careers Through Paleontology and Culture I.D. Browne

  2:45

  Tea Break

  3:15

  I.C.E. AGE Project: Fostering Global Mindedness B.S. Dooley

  3:30

  The Alf Museum and the Institute for the Study of Mongolian Dinosaurs: An international collaboration for paleontology education G.-P. Santos

  3:45

  Leveraging natural history collections, online media, and field experiences to create a network of engaged geoscientists L.D. White

  4:00

  Reaching a Diverse Audience for Paleontology on YouTube B. de Pastino

  4:15

  Reaching Communities through Cosplay: A Study in Paleontology and Pop Culture M.M. Barboza

  4:30

  Prehistoric Body Theater: bringing paleontology narratives to global contemporary performance audiences A. Rudenko
• Symposium 16 |Climate and Environmental Change in High-Latitude Fossil and Modern Ecosystems - K. Cronin, S. Walker (HUB 367)  
  1:00

  The impacts of climate warming and ocean acidification on the marine ecology of the Antarctic Peninsula J. McClintock

  1:30

  High-latitude benthic bivalve biomass and recent climate change: Testing the power of live-dead discordance in the Pacific Arctic C. Meadows

  1:45

  Warm Arctic temperatures and the structure of Cretaceous marine ecosystems K. Chin

  2:00

  Comparison of paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatological parameters of correlative dinosaur-bearing Late Cretaceous (Campanian - Maastrichtian) rock units across Alaska, USA: a regional perspective A. Fiorillo

  2:15

  Dental caries on a primitive bear, Protarctos abstrusus, from the Pliocene of Canadian Arctic suggest a high sugar diet of berries and possible hibernation X. Wang

  2:30

  Is Climate an overlooked factor in marine ichnology? L. Buatois

  2:45

  Tea Break

  3:15

  Climate, trophic structure, and the evolving demeanor of the Antarctic benthos R. Aronson

  3:45

  Benthic invertebrate community ecology in the Cenozoic of Antarctica R. Whittle

  4:00

  Population dynamics in the Antarctic benthos: inter-annual fluctuation of foraminiferal, tunicate, and scallop abundances in Explorers Cove, Western McMurdo Sound S. Bowser

  4:15

  Biomineralization in extreme environments: the case of Antarctic scallop shells A. Perez-Huerta

  4:30

  Trace elements and interstrial distances as environmental and anthropogenic proxies in the Antarctic scallop, Adamussium colbecki K. Cronin

  4:45

  Evolutionary rates at high latitudes and the equator during the Late Paleozoic Ice Age A. Raymond
• Symposium 27 | New frontiers in paleobotany: tools, techniques, insights - J. Wilson, C. Looy (HUB 379)   
  1:00

  The Pteridological Collections Consortium: An integrative approach to pteridophyte diversity over the last 420 million years C. V. Looy

  1:15

  Coal ball meta-analysis of paleowildfire in Pennsylvanian coal swamps B. Muddiman

  1:30

  Hydraulic conductivity and constraints among Paleozoic plants J. P. Wilson

  1:45

  The physiological landscape of the Carboniferous: Finding the frontier of frost tolerance W. J. Matthaeus,

  2:00

  Late Triassic Flora of the Xiaoping Formation and Palaeoenvironmental Significance in Central Guangdong, China X. Zhang

  2:15

  Zhangoxylon gen. nov., a new coniferous wood genus of Sciadopityaceae from the Juriassic of western Liaoning, NE China Z. Jiang

  2:30

  Reconstruction of Tricalycites, an early winged fruit type from the Cretaceous of the Gulf coastal and eastern coastal plains of North America X. Zhang

  2:45

  Tea Break

  3:15

  Seafood Salad: A Diverse Florule from the Late Cretaceous-age Hell Creek Formation of Montana P. Wilson

Sunday, June 23 | Poster sessions

• Posters

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  Session 3 | Plankton and Earth System Evolution

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  Radiolarians increased test size across the PETM at Mead Stream, New Zealand S. Westacott

   

   

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  Session 41 | Taphonomy

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  2

  Exceptional preservation of shrimp soft tissues by microbial entombment: Cretaceous Crato servat-lagerstatte, Araripe Basin, Brazil F. Varejoa

  3

  Sedimentary dynamics of an internally complex bakevelliid-dominated shell bed: event condensation and taphonomic feedback in muddy bottoms M. Rodrigues

  4

  Encrustation patterns of Clypeaster rosaceous tests from San Salvador, The Bahamas S. Zille

  5

  Comparative taphonomy of deep-sea and shallow-marine echinoids of the genus Echinocyamus T. Grun

  6

  Selective transformation and ontogenetic biases of phosphatised soft tissues in the Sirius Passet Lagerstätte, North Greenland M. Nielsen

  7

  Origin of Large, ‘Orsten’-type Carbonate Concretions in the Huron Shale Member of the Ohio Shale (Devonian) of Ohio W. Zhan

  8

  Age-Mortality Profiles in La Brea Bison: Insights into Population Dynamics and Taphonomy S. Galavez

  9

  Taphonomy of an adolescent male mastodon from a Pleistocene kettle lake deposit in northeastern Ohio B. Burgy

  10

  Pirasocrinid anal sac spines with multiple planes of regeneration in the Upper Pennsylvanian of eastern Ohio J. Thomka

  11

  Sediment rheology explains the Ediacara biota preservation I. Bobrovskiy

   

   

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  Session 44 | Marine Paleobiology

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  12

  Community changes in shallow benthic invertebrate ecology in the Early Danian R. Beltracchi

  13

  Polished slabs or thin-sections? Examining the consistency of alpha diversity estimates across different mediums I. Smith

  14

  Animal-plant interactions in the marine realm: Echinoid-coralline algal dominated ecosystems in the Miocene of Sardinia J. Nebelsick

  15

  Holocrinus – the oldest stem-group isocrinid with stalk shedding and crawling abilities: evidence from taphonomy, microstructure and trace fossils P. Gorzelak

  16

  Breaking down the lithification bias through time: Did vulnerability to lithification state related methodological bias change through the Phanerozoic? A. Hawkins

  17

  Inferences on aquatic adaptation of fossil mammals based on cranial characteristics with an example of the enigmatic fossil clade Desmostylia (?Afrotheria: Mammalia) K. Matsui

  18

  Isotopic analysis of fossil coronulid barnacles as a means of understanding prehistoric whale migration L. Taylor

   

   

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  Session 46 | General Session

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  Algal structure from the upper member of the middle Miocene Barstow Formation, California D. Lofgren

  20

  Irvingtonian and Rancholabrean small mammals from the Harveston locality, southwestern Riverside County, California C. Hohman

  21

  Digitization of three-dimensional surface morphology of millimeter-scale fossil specimens through focus stacking and photogrammetry techniques P. Hong

  22

  Deposition and bioinfestation patterns of Spirula shells T. Grun

  23

  Morphological disparity of Cenozoic cassids (Mollusca: Gastropoda) S. Tennakoon

  24

  Intervertebral variation of Heterodon and Farancia (Serpentes: Dipsadinae) and the reassessment of fossil holotypes using geometric morphometric analysis A. Gause

  25

  A spatially-constrained Paleocene mammal assemblage from the San Juan Basin, New Mexico, USA P. dePolo

  26

  Allow us to reintroduce ourselves: Revitalizing the Invertebrate Paleontology collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences K. Estes-Smargiassi

  27

  Towards a Mexican protection of paleontological resources R. Guerrero-Arenas

  28

  A new large kangaroo rat-like rodent from the early Miocene of Oregon and the phylogeny of early heteromyids J. Samuels

  29

  Variation and ontogenetic change in the humerus of Triceratops (Dinosauria: Ceratopsia) D. Curry

  30

  Searching for outcrops using LiDAR data (when you can’t see the rocks for the trees) A. Bush

  31

  Jaw Translation and Dietary Differences in Marginocephalian Dinosaurs Inferred From Quantitative Dental Microwear F. Varriale

  32

  Earliest Puercan 1 (Pu1) faunas from Montana with high-resolution insights on mammalian faunal recovery after the K-Pg mass extinction event J. Claytor

  33

  New census of radiolarian communities in the eastern equatorial Pacific reveals unprecedented biodiversity throughout the Late Neogene S. Trubovitz

   

   

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  Session 19 | Paleozoic Extinctions: Environmental Call and Biotic Response

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  Tracking the Evolution of the Silurian Marine Biosphere Using Lipid Biomarkers and Stable Isotope Geochemistry N. Marshall

   

   

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  Session 7 | Cambrian Konservat-Lagerstätten and the emergence of modern-style marine ecosystems

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  Hyolith taphonomy: decay patterns M. Valent

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  Comparative trilobite taphonomy of the Pioche Formation lagerstätte and other formations along a nearshore to outer shelf transect, latest early Cambrian (Stage 4; late Dyeran) of the southern Great Basin, USA J. R. Foster

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  New non-trilobite arthropods from the Drumian ‘deep Wheeler’ Lagerstätte of the House Range (Utah, USA) R. Lerosey-Aubril

  39

  Exploration of Cambrian Fossils by Micro X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometer Y. Liang

  40

  Biolamination structures from Guojiaba Formation (Cambrian Stage 3) in Hanzhong area, South China W. Liu

  41

  Review of the Middle Cambrian Trilobites of the Bathyuriscus-Elrathina biozone of Montana: Taphonomy and Taxonomic Information H.C. Olson

  42

  New radiodonts from the Drumian (Miaolingian) Marjum Formation of Utah, USA A. C. Daley

  43

  Early Cambrian phosphatized microbial pseudomorphs preserving non-mineralized animals X. Yang

   

   

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  Session 37 | Engaging Diverse Communities in Paleontology: Innovative educational initiatives that connect culture to natural history

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  44

  A Gender Analysis of the Paleontological Society: Trends, Gaps, and a Way Forward P. A. Cohen

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  Guided Dissection of Primary Paleontology Research as a Tool to Build Science Literacy in High School Students A. N. Michels

Monday, June 24 | Morning

• Symposium 31 | Paleontology on Public Lands: Research, Outreach and Resource Management - K. Springer, V. Santucci (HUB 269)
  8:00

  Fossils and the Future: The Role of Paleontology in the 21st Century K. Johnson

  8:45

  New Upper Cretaceous Vertebrates from the Menefee Formation in New Mexico: Blending Field Work, Research, and Outreach to Promote Paleontology on BLM Land A. McDonald

  9:00

  Building out North America's most compete lower Cretaceous terrestrial fossil records across a mosaic of Utah State, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and National Park Service lands D. DeBlieux

  9:15

  New specimens of Acaenasuchus geoffreyi (Archosauria) from Petrified Forest National Park (Arizona) support evidence for a new Triassic clade of armored pseudosuchians in North America A. Marsh

  9:30

  Examining late Triassic (Norian-Rhaetian) terrestrial faunal assemblage compositions in the Chinle Formation of northeastern Arizona W. Parker

  9:45

  Coffee Break

  10:15

  Oregon has two dinosaurs G. Retallack

  10:30

  Fossil fishes of Death Valley National Park, California: reconstructing the origins and historical biogeography of western North American freshwater fishes T. Nyborg

  10:45

  Linking paleoclimate research and Pleistocene vertebrate faunas in desert wetlands on public lands in the American southwest K. Springer

  11:00

  Preserving fossil prints in an ephemeral landscape D. Bustos

  11:15

  Fossils of late Pleistocene Bison from public lands in the Colorado and Mojave Deserts: Implications for the diversity and biography of Bison in southwestern North America E. Scott

  11:30

  Hagerman's PET dog: Current research by the Hagerman Paleontology, Environments, and Tephrochronology Project K. Prassack
• Symposium 1 | Behavioral Innovations and Environmental Feedbacks: Insights from the Trace Fossil Record and Other Archives - L. Tarhan, D. Hembree, J. Smith (HUB 260)
  8:00

  The Ediacaran trace fossil record from Namibia, and implications for drivers of the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition S. Darroch

  8:15

  Cambrian-type metazoan ecosystem engineering in the terminal Ediacaran Nama Group, Namibia A. Cribb

  8:30

  Trace fossil complexity in the terminal Ediacaran Period Z. Chen

  8:45

  Treptichnid trace fossils as examples of Geon 5 behavioral innovations S. Jensen

  9:15

  The importance of behavioral niches in invertebrate evolution M. Gingras

  9:30

  Coprolites in Cambrian Stage 4 Guanshan biota and their ecological implications Y. Hu

  9:45

  Coffee Break

  10:15

  Missing the big (bedding plane) picture: small samples do not always capture the lateral heterogeneity of bioturbation K. Marenco

  10:30

  Behavioral innovations in space and time: insights from the trace-fossil record M. Mangano

  10:45

  Phanerozoic trends in bioturbation intensity and consequences for benthic organisms M. Clapham

  11:00

  Export efficiency of the biological carbon pump limited burrowing behavior in the early Paleozoic S. van de Velde

  11:15

  Bioturbators, global warming and shrinking seafood: implications for ecosystem functioning in hothouse oceans R. Twitchett

  11:30

  Constraining Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum carbon cycling using the record of bioturbation M. Zill

  11:45

  Epifaunal ecosystem engineers control shallow benthic bioturbation and the sedimentary record under multi-year sea ice, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica K. Broach
• Topical 39 | Advances in understanding of Precambrian and Paleozoic life and environments - Q. Tang, M. Betts (HUB 268)
  8:00

  Do perforations on Proterozoic organic-walled microfossils represent predation traces? Q. Tang

  8:15

  Acritarchs and small carbonaceous fossils from Finland S. Willman

  8:30

  A new terminal Ediacaran vermiform body and trace fossil assemblage from Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, Inyo County, CA G. O'Neil

  8:45

  A multiproxy chronostratigraphy for the early Cambrian of Antarctica M. Betts

  9:00

  The Cambrian Explosion without the hard-parts B. Slater

  9:15

  The first vertebrate skeletal tissues and the ‘biomineralization toolkit’ D. Murdock

  9:30

  Cambrian sea level changes: A Scandinavian perspective A. Nielsen

  9:45

  Coffee Break

  10:15

  Revised Upper Ordovician, Cincinnatian (upper Katian) Sequence Stratigraphy in the Cincinnati Arch: Implications for the Tempo and Patterns of Biotic Change B. Datillo

  10:30

  Community analysis of the Gerster Limestone: reevaluation of the late Permian marine fauna in the western USA Z. Wistort
• Symposium 35 | Broadening horizons of broader impacts - J. Orcutt, S. Jacquet (HUB 367)
  8:00

  Kumtuks Illahie & the role of paleontology in place-based outreach J.D. Orcutt

  8:15

  Reaching new audiences through established and experimental digital formats L. Soul

  8:30

  Podcasting paleontology with the "Common Descent Podcast" D. Moscato

  8:45

  Promoting visibility and participation of diverse scientists through a digital science communication platform J.E. Bauer

  9:00

  Using Instagram to communicate paleobiology and the history of life to the general public G.A. Brock

  9:15

  DIY Go Extinct!: game design inspires student advocacy of biodiversity A.E. Marcy

  9:30

  “Taphonomy: Dead and Fossilized”: A new board game designed to teach players about the process of fossilization R.C. Martindale

  9:45

  Coffee Break

  10:15

  What paleontologists can learn from artists in entertainment S. Elshafie

  10:30

  Legal and political mechanisms for paleontology advocacy: the battle for Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments M.A. Stegner

  10:45

  Discussion

  11:00

  Discussion

  11:15

  Discussion

  11:30

  Discussion

  11:45

  Demonstration Setup
• Symposium 20 | Stratigraphic Paleobiology - S. Holland, E. Jarochowska, M. Patzkowsky (HUB 355)
  8:00

  Resolving the shallow marine Cenozoic fossil record of New Zealand: understanding variations in biodiversity and patterns of community evolution at different spatial scales. T. Womack

  8:15

  Quantifying the Effects of Changing Deposition Rates and Hiatuses on the Stratigraphic Distribution of Fossil Occurrences M. Hohmann

  8:30

  Exploring the impact of stratigraphic architecture on the pattern and timing of Late Ordovician extinction events J.Zimmt

  8:45

  Climate change and species response: an unfulfilled promise of stratigraphic paleobiology M. Patzkowsky

  9:00

  Morphology in time and space: how does shape change with sequence stratigraphic architecture? J. Sclafani

  9:15

  Testing for the effects of depositional rates in multiproxy models of environmental and faunal change: the Silurian Lau δ13C excursion E. Jarochowska

  9:30

  Environmental drivers of faunal change in the Jurassic Sundance Seaway, western United States S. Danise

  9:45

  Coffee Break

  10:15

  Using regional stratigraphic context of the Po-Adriatic system (Italy) to infer biotic response of Chamelea gallina to Holocene environmental change D. Scarponi

  10:30

  Environmental and taphonomic controls of diversity patterns across a depositional sequence: Holocene benthic mollusks of the Po plain, Italy R. Nawrot

  10:45

  Palaeoenvironmental distribution of Terebratula (Brachiopoda) in the early Pliocene of SE Spain M. Zuschin

  11:00

  The Evolution of Bioturbation: Timing and Geobiological Consequences L. Tarhan

  11:15

  Predictions for the stratigraphic paleobiology of continental systems S. Holland

  11:30

  Regional patterns of mammal diversity through Basin and Range extensional history, 36 Ma to present K. Loughney

  11:45

  Does the Earth have a kill switch? Macrostratigraphic predictions for atmospheric oxygen concentration over the past 3 billion years S. Peters
• Symposium 25 | The Evolutionary Transition from Non-avian Dinosaurs to Birds - C. Chuong, L. Chiappe (HUB 302)
  8:00

  Introduction - Evo-Devo of integumentary organs during Dino-avian transition C. Chuong

  8:30

  The Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota of northeast China as a unique window on the dinosaur-bird transition C. Sullivan

  9:00

  Comparative analysis of niche occupation between Mesozoic and extant Avifauna J. DiGildo

  9:15

  Scales, fuzz or both? Remaining difficulties in determining the ancestral integumentary state in Dinosauria T. Holtz

  9:30

  Combination of multiple novel regulatory modules is required for the scale-feather transition P. Wu

  9:45

  Coffee Break

  10:15

  Evolution of powered flight in Mesozoic stem birds F. Serrano

  10:30

  Bird to the bone: trabecular structure in the wing varies across flight modes H. Chase

  10:45

  The origin of avian beak from toothed dinosaur ancestors S. Wang

  11:00

  Spinal nerve, the immune system and evolution of the avian tail D. Rashid

  11:15

  Illuminating the evolution of birds using laser-stimulated fluorescence imaging M. Pittman

  11:30

  Feather Paleogenome Insights from High Fidelity Fossil Preservation N. Carroll

  11:45

  Conclusion- Dinosaur-avian transition: current and future research L. Chiappe
• Symposium 15 | Scales of Ecological Development in the Mesozoic - K. Ritterbush, L. Tackett, Y. Pan, J. Sha (HUB 379)
  8:00

  Mesozoic Acarodomatia Reveal the Antiquity of Plant-Mite Mutualisms S. Maccracken

  8:15

  New age constraints on the Yixian Formation and its implications for the Jehol Biota S. Chang

  8:30

  A recently expanded palaeocommunity of plants and insects from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of Labrador, Canada A. Demers-Potvin

  8:45

  Forest structure during the ecological expansion of flowering plants; evidence from the southern Western Interior D. Contreras.

  9:00

  The end-Triassic mass extinction (ETE) on land and the role of high-latitudes in dinosaur dominance P. Olsen

  9:30

  Constraining the Jurassic–Cretaceous Terrestrial Biotic Crisis in North America: New Data from Utah Helps Close the Gap J. Kirkland

  9:45

  Coffee Break

  10:15

  The role of liberation lagerstätten as windows into past biodiversity V. Roden,

  10:30

  Uppermost Triassic phosphorite deposits from Willison Lake, Canada: an indicator of perturbed conditions preceding the end-Triassic mass extinction. E. Larina

  10:45

  High-latitude predation patterns during the Late Triassic and implications for evolutionary escalation in the early Mesozoic L. Tackett

   

  11:00

  Escalating parasitism of bivalve mollusks in the Mesozoic J. Huntley

  11:15

  Testing the role of environmental conditions on promoting ecological escalation: Middle Jurassic Carmel Formation, central Utah, U.S.A. P. Montarrez

  11:30

  Taphonomy of fish concentrations from the Upper Jurassic Solnhofen Plattenkalk of Southern Germany Z. Tao

Monday, June 24 | Afternoon

• Symposium 31 contd | Paleontology on Public Lands: Research, Outreach and Resource Management - K. Springer, V. Santucci (HUB 269)
  1:00

  The Gnatalie Quarry: ten years of outreach and education at a dinosaur quarry on public lands A. Bell

  1:15

  Celebrating the Paleontological Heritage of Grand Canyon National Park during the Park’s Centennial V. Santucci

  1:30

  Dinosaur Tracking with Citizen Scientists: Discovery, Documentation, and Stewardship B. Breithaupt

  1:45

  High School Paleontologists and Public Lands: From the Outcrop to the Classroom A. Farke

  2:00

  The role of field paleontology high school experiences in shaping science stewardship on public land T. Lepore

  2:15

  Promoting Paleontology: Western Science Center Outreach Using Fossils from Public Lands A. Dooley.

  2:45

  Tea Break

  3:15

  The Ediacara Fossil Site at Nilpena, South Australia: finding new ways to manage a new national park J. Irving

  3:30

  A MAP to Managing Paleontology S. Foss

  3:45

  New Paleontological Permits and Perceptions on Forest Service Lands B. Schumacher

  4:00

  Stewarding over 100 years of USGS paleontological research into the 21st century K. Hollis

  4:15

  Paleontology and US National Monuments: Why downsizing Grand Staircase Escalante and Bears Ears is bad for science P. D. Polly

  Break

  5:00-6:00

  Panel Discussion (led by Smithsonian, NPS, BLM, USFS, USGS) K. Johnson, V. Santucci, S. Foss, B. Schumacher, K. Springer
• Symposium 1 contd | Behavioral Innovations and Environmental Feedbacks: Insights from the Trace Fossil Record and Other Archives - L. Tarhan, D. Hembree, J. Smith, J. Gehling (HUB 379)
  1:00

  Microbial infestation of shell carbonate: the micrite envelope as an environmental indicator K. Parsons Hubbard

  1:15

  The taphonomy of behavior R. Plotnick

  1:30

  Neoichnological evidence of predatory behavior recorded by soil arthropod trace fossils D. Hembree

  1:45

  Life in the Dead Zone: a diverse ichnofossil assemblage preserved in volcanic ash, Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park, Nebraska, USA J. Smith

  2:00

  The evolution underground: how burrows changed the world A. Martin

  2:15

  The evolution of complex coprophagous behavior: ichnofossil evidence of brood provisioning and dung relocation by dung beetles in the Late Cretaceous K. Chin
• Symposium 28 | Growth, development, and evolution in the fossil record - M. Hopkins (HUB 260)
  1:00

  Histological skeletochronology of the early Permian stem lissamphibian Doleserpeton B.M. Gee

  1:15

  Bone histology reveals high individual variation in growth among a population of early dinosaurs D.E. Barta

  1:30

  Osteohistological growth curve reconstruction in Smilodon fatalis A.R. Reynolds

  1:45

  Secular changes in life history traits of female woolly mammoths J.J. El Adli

  2:00

  Paleobiology meets sclerochronology (again): using growth increments in fossil bivalves to answer evolutionary questions D.K. Moss

  2:15

  Ontogeny of the trilobite Estangia bilobate from the Cambrian Series 2 (Stage 4) Emu Bay Shale, South Australia J.D. Holmes

  2:30

  Comparison of growth rates in the trilobites Elrathia kingii (Meek, 1870) and Aulacopleura koninckii (Barrande, 1846) M.J. Hopkins

  2:45

  Tea Break

  3:15

  Growth Rate Dynamics Underlying Planktonic Foraminiferal Morphology J.E. Burke

  3:30

  The Evolution of Phenotypic Plasticity in Stylopoma S.E. Leventhal

  3:45

  The role of ontogenetic transformations of the loop in the classification and phylogeny of Terebratellidina (Brachiopoda) S.J. Carlson

  4:00

  Ontogenies and attachment strategies of early Palaeozoic brachiopods L.E. Holmer

  4:15

  Early ontogeny of the Cambrian hyolith Parkula esmeraldina and its paleobiological implications  J.L. Moore

  4:30

  The evo-devo of the Cambrian explosion: an integrated approach G.E. Budd
• Symposium 14 | Ecosystem recovery in the aftermath of the end-Permian mass extinction in the marine and terrestrial realms - A. Huttenlocker, D. Bottjer (HUB 355)
  1:00

  The Permo-Triassic mass extinction on land: A review of Karoo Basin studies J. Botha

  1:30

  An adult specimen of Scaloposaurus (Therapsida: Theriodontia: Therocephalia) from South Africa and size-age structure in Lilliputian assemblages of the Triassic recovery A. Huttenlocker

  1:45

  Convergent, geographically-regionalized occupation of herbivore niches by eutheriodont therapsids following the Permo-Triassic mass extinction C. Kammerer

  2:00

  Plant mass extinction and recovery? Inferring the nature of ecological upheavals at the base of the terrestrial food web C. Looy

  2:15

  Tetrapod spatial biodiversity patterns across the end-Permian mass extinction and recovery interval B. Allen

  2:30

  The importance of geochronology for interpreting non-marine recovery from the end-Permian mass extinction R. Irmis

  2:45

  Tea Break

  3:15

  Biosedimentology of the Early Triassic D. Bottjer

  3:30

  Stratigraphy and paleontology of the nearshore marine Late Permian and Early Triassic rock units in the Uinta Mountains of Utah and Colorado. B. Burger

  3:45

  "Deadly trio of carbon dioxide" leaves a selective extinction record during the end-Permian mass extinction W. Foster
• Symposium 23 | Evolution of Flight and Other Vertebrate Matters - M. Habib, C. Chuong (HUB 367)
  1:00

  The Evolution of the Flight Feather C. Chuong

  1:15

  Cladistic analyses of some Pleistocene mammalian faunas from China for biochonological interpretation W. Dong

  1:30

  High-resolution multispectral images for fossil detection: applications of spectral properties of fossils to remote field surveys E. Ghezzo.

  1:45

  The Gray Fossil Site of Tennessee: a unique record of mammalian life in the Early Pliocene of eastern North America J. Samuels

  2:00

  Endocranial anatomy of the tube-crested dinosaur Parasaurolophus (Ornithischia, Hadrosauridae) from the Kaiparowits Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Utah, USA A. Guerrero

  2:15

  Energetics drives convergent gigantism in marine Crocodyliformes W. Gearty

  2:30

  New information on the Madagascan Middle Jurassic sauropod Lapparentosaurus madagascariensis: towards to the Cetiosauridae confirmation L.M. Raveloson Tantely
• Symposium 30 | New insights into functional morphology: Microstructures, Modeling, and Experimental approaches - C. Pietsch, B. Anderson, K. Ritterbush, N. Hebdon (HUB 268)
  1:00

  Gaits modelling and computational fluid dynamic simulation suggest multiple functional behaviors in trilobites J. Esteve

  1:15

  The echinoid skeleton. An exemplary source of adaptations and their potential usefulness in technical applications J.H. Nebelsick

  1:30

  The history of motility in comatulid crinoid evolution G. A. Janevski

  1:45

  Spiraling Consequences: Characterizing hydrodynamic impact of single parameter shape change in Ammonoids N. Hebdon

  2:00

  Applications of 3-D printing to testing functional hypotheses of turritellid gastropod shell morphologies and sculpture B.M. Anderson

  2:15

  Computational Fluid Dynamics of archaeocyathan sponges from the Cambrian Forteau Formation of southern Labrador N. Chipman

  2:30

  Testing convergence and function of extreme parietal callus in marine gastropods C. Pietsch

  2:45

  Tea Break

  3:15

  Giant Flying Jaws: Aerodynamic Effects and Constraints on Cranial Hypertrophy in Pterosaurs M. Habib

  3:45

  Using Digitally Constructed Endocasts to Examine the Relationship Between Diet and Neuroanatomy in Phyllostomid Bats A.V. Chochinov

  4:00

  Shedding synchrotron light on the architecture and evolution of conodont feeding apparatuses. B. Shirley

  4:15

  Predicting paleoenvironment from community morphology of artiodactyl limbs to understand change through time R. Short

  4:30

  Progress and Challenges in Deciphering Complex Structure-Function Mapping in the Fossil Record: Examples from the Mammalian Jaw Model System Z. J. Tseng

Monday June 24 | Poster sessions

• Posters

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  Session 1 | Behavioral Innovations and Environmental Feedbacks: Insights from the Trace Fossil Record and Other Archives

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  45

  Leaving a mark: horseshoe crab trace fossils of the Pony Creek Shale Lagerstätte, uppermost Pennsylvanian, Kansas W. Leibach

  46

  Dancing on the dunes: an ichnological examination of the Aztec Sandstone and the Jurassic paleoecology of the southern Nevada region S. Grove

  47

  Stromatolite? First report on biologic trace organisms preserved on an Early Triassic temnospondyl substrate S. Chakravorti

  48

  Shipworm bioerosion of lithic substrates in a freshwater setting, Abatan River, Philippines: ichnologic, paleoenvironmental and biogeomorphical implications C. Savrda

  49

  Diverse and dense trace fossil assemblages from the Ediacaran of Namibia C. Kenchington

   

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  Session 14 | Ecosystem recovery in the aftermath of the end-Permian mass extinction in the marine and terrestrial realms

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  50

  Early marine ecosystem engineering recovery after the end-Permian mass extinction A. Cribb

  51

  Quantitatively assessing reef mound communities within the Upper Triassic carbonates along the eastern Panthalassic Ocean T. Stone

  52

  Characterizing Middle Triassic sponge-microbialite mid-ramp deposits during the recovery from the end-Permian mass extinction L. Mosqueda

  53

  Regional variability of the recovery of shallow marine invertebrates during the Early Triassic R. Meyer

   

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  Session 31 | Paleontology on Public Lands: Research, Outreach and Resource Management

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  54

  New Remains of Middle Miocene Equids from the Cajon Valley Formation, San Bernardino National Forest, San Bernardino County, California B. Stoneberg

  55

  Fossil vertebrate tracks of Death Valley National Park: indication of a large mammal and bird population in Death Valley during the Pliocene T. Nyborg

  56

  Fossil Resources of Shellabarger Pass, Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska M. Hodges

   

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  Session 28 | Growth, development, and evolution in the fossil record

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  57

  The repeated evolution of skull elongation in ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii) J. Stack

  58

  Post-embryonic stages of a Moroccan arthropod suggest direct development in Marrellomorpha L. Laibl

  59

  Exploring variation in late Cambrian trilobite Dikelocephalus pygidia using landmark-based geometric morphometrics E.E. Vargas-Parra

   

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  Session 39 | Advances in understanding of Precambrian and Paleozoic life and environments

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  61

  An Iocrinus 'logjam' from the Upper Ordovician Kope Formation of southwestern Ohio: Paleoecological and taphonomic significance J. Thomka

   

  63

  A comparative study of armoured palaeoscolecids from the Chengjiang Biota X. Shi

   

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  Session 30 | New insights into functional morphology: Microstructures, Modeling, and Experimental approaches

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  64

  Constraints and adaptations in crocodilian skull form and function A. Srinivas

   

  66

  Ungual undressed: comparing the bone and keratin sheath of claws across extant raptors P.M. Peragine

   

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  Session 35 | Broadening horizons of broader impacts

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  67

  Connecting non-museum goers to paleontology using art and rock n’ roll K. Keillor

   

  69

  From the field to the fossils: Eastern Pacific Invertebrate Communities of the Cenozoic (EPICC) L. White, A. Williams, A. Dineen

   

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  Session 15 | Scales of Ecological Development in the Mesozoic

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  Spatial differences in taxonomic composition amongst Upper Triassic patch reef deposits within the Gosaukamm Reef A. Godbold

  71

  Early Jurassic Spiculites: Glass ramp deposits of Peru in the micro and macro scale P. Maxeiner

Wednesday June 26 | Morning

• Symposium 8 | Symposium in honor of Michael A. Murphy - K. Springer, S. Finney, J. Matti (HUB 379)
  8:00

  Opening remarks by co-convenors and Michael A. Murphy K. Springer, J. Matti, S. Finney, M. Murphy

  8:30

  Mike Murphy's impact G. Klapper

  9:00

  Applying Murphy's 1977 time-stratigraphic concepts to subdivide the Lochkovian (Lower Devonian) in the Spanish Pyrenees and test its global value J. Valenzuela-Rios

  9:15

  The Las Vegas formation as the linchpin for understanding the response of desert wetlands to abrupt climate change K. Springer

  9:30

  The Imperial Formation in San Gorgonio Pass, southern California: implications for paleogeography at the northwest head of the late Miocene Gulf of California J. Matti

  9:45

  Coffee Break

  10:15

  Stratigraphic Paleontology: the key to recognizing major tectonic and paleoenvironmental events recorded in Paleozoic stratigraphic successions of north-central Nevada S. Finney

  10:30

  Continental Subduction as a Mechanism for Emplacement of the Roberts Mountains Thrust in Nevada J. Dunham

  10:45

  Range charts as chronostratigraphic hypotheses, four decades later L. Edwards

  11:00

  Updating the Lower and lower Middle Devonian time-rock chart for the Mackenzie Mountains, NWT (Canada) based on conodont biostratigraphy S. Gouwy

  11:15

  The role of Spanish conodonts in the redefinition of the base of the Emsian Stage (Lower Devonian) J. Valenzuela-Rios

  11:30

  Upper Devonian (Upper Frasnian-Lower Famennian) Biostratigraphy and Kellwasser Extinction Signatures in the Iowa Basin-Central North America (Western Subtropical Euramerica) J. Day

  11:45

  THANKS Mike! G. McGavin
• Symposium 5 | Arthropod Evolution Through Deep Time: a tribute to Richard A. Fortey - J. Ortega-Hernandez, J. Esteve, J. Moysiuk, A. Lopez (HUB 355)
  8:00

  From ‘weird wonders’ to molecular methods – resolving the early radiation of arthropods D. Briggs

  8:30

  What defines crustaceans? Insights from the Cambrian fossil record and from phylogenomics J. M. Wolfe

  8:45

  A new horseshoe crab from the early Ordovician Fezouata Biota and its relationship with Herefordshire synziphosurines L. Lustri

  9:00

  Refining arthropod evolutionary history: Investigation of an undescribed crustacean-like fossil from the Waukesha Lagerstätte, Wisconsin M. A. Pulsipher

  9:15

  Soft part preservation clarifies the affinities of the large bivalved arthropods from the Fezouata Biota (Early Ordovician, Morocco) P. Gueriau

  9:30

  The long-proboscid insect pollination mode of the mid-Mesozoi: its discovery, biology, and implications for understanding gymnosperm reproductive biology C. Labandeira

  9:45

  Coffee Break

  10:15

  Phylogenetics of true crabs, and the early origins of crab-like forms J. Luque

  10:30

  Post-embryonic development of Fritzolenellus reveal ancestral morphology of early developmental stages in trilobita L. Laibl

  10:45

  What’s the deal with chasmataspidids? J. C. Lamsdell

  11:00

  Chironomidae – an updated overview of the palaeobiology and geological history of non-biting midges V. Baranov

  11:15

  The evolution of arthropod segmentation and tagmatization – linking embryological data with the fossil record A. D. Chipman

  11:30

  A look into the eyes of trilobites B. Schoenemann

  11:45

  Fossils from South China redefine the ancestral euarthropod body plan C. Aria
• Topical 42 | Paleoenvironments and Paleobiology - B. Kelly, J. Miller-Camp (HUB 269)
  8:00

  The impact of environmental preference and geographic occupation on diversification and survivorship during the Ordovician Mass Extinction C. Congreve

  8:15

  Depositional Environments and Paleoecological Assemblages of a Common Late Triassic Shell Bed-Forming Bivalve (Monotis) in New Zealand A. Clement

  8:30

  Allometric variation in the genus Steinmanella (Trigonioida, Bivalvia) from the Lower Cretaceous of the Neuquén Basin (west-central Argentina) P. Milla Carmona

  8:45

  Deposition, climate, and diversity: Alligatorines as a case study of the common cause hypothesis J. Miller-Camp

  9:00

  Comparing the accumulation of large mammal species in Amboseli National Park, Kenya over increasing temporal and spatial scales, with implications for the composition of time-averaged communities A. Du

  9:15

  Tooth microwear of the extinct Australian Vombatiformes G. Gully

  9:30

  Whales n’ snails: a potential Miocene shallow marine whale fall community M. Macias

  9:45

  Coffee Break

  10:15

  Encrusters on the fossil oyster Hyotissa hyotis: Examining the biodiversity of sclerobionts on a hard substrate community from the California Miocene B. Kelly

  10:30

  Nine morphotypes of biotic traces found on fossil and recent echinoids  L. Farrar

  10:45

  Comparison of early Paleocene ichthyofaunal diversity from Croc Pot and Roche Percee localities, Ravenscrag Formation, southern Saskatchewan, Canada S. Sinha

   

   
• Symposium 34 | Exploring eLearning in the paleosciences: Visualizing the past and inspiring learners through the use of digital technologies - W. Taylor, R. Ross, G. Bruce, J. Hendricks (HUB 367)
  8:00

  Immersive and engaging e-learning experiences: insights from an e-course on dinosaurs M. Pittman

  8:30

  Virtual reality, augmented reality, and real reality: thinking holistically about the spectrum of immersive technologies in museums M. Davis

  8:45

  Augmenting traditional methods of teaching carbonate sedimentology with micro-CT and 3D segmentation S. Jacquet

  9:00

  Fossils3D and PaleoApp: new interactive and user-friendly learning tools in paleontology F. Oboh-Ikuenobe

  9:15

  Engaging family groups in learning about evolution with 3D digitized fossils in hands-on activities and VR L. Soul

  9:30

  Virtual Teaching Collections in Paleontology J. Hendricks

  9:45

  Coffee break

  10:15

  Virtual fieldwork experiences for online exploration of Cenozoic Pacific coast fossil localities for the EPICC project R. Ross

  10:30

  Gamifying virtual environments to explore the past 350 million years G. Bruce
• Symposium 17 | Conservation Paleobiology: natural systems in a human world - S. Kidwell, R. Terry, W. Parker, Y. Yanes, M. Zuschin (HUB 302)
  8:00

  The collapse of native biodiversity on the Israeli Mediterranean shallow shelf: patterns and causes P. Albano

  8:15

  Antlers of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Baselines of biological variability from bones on the tundra J. Miller

  8:30

  Integrating paleoecological, historical, and ecological data to assess the timing and causes of the loss of acroporid corals in the Caribbean K. Cramer

  8:45

  Identifying causes of abrupt change and resilience loss in paleoecological records of grassland-woodland systems M. Stegner

  9:00

  Life history variation in response to anthropogenic eutrophication: using live-dead analysis to understand adaptation in a human world P. Harnik

  9:15

  Perching on a precarious future: a conservation paleobiology perspective on understanding and sustaining lizard diversity in the Anthropocene M. Kemp

  9:30

  The rise and fall of novel ecological communities J. Pandolfi

  9:45

  Coffee Break

  10:15

  The past, present, and future of Hong Kong corals: hope for marine ecosystems found in an unlikely place J. Cybulski

  10:30

  Can turbid-water habitats serve as reef refugia in the Coral Triangle? Insights from the fossil record. K. Johnson

  10:45

  Fossils define natural variation in a Caribbean coral reef ecosystem and reveal an unexpected bright spot A. O'Dea

  11:00

  Dermal denticle assemblages can reflect changes in shark abundance on coral reefs over time E. Dillon

  11:15

  Regional-scale collapse of benthic baseline communities in the northern Adriatic Sea M. Zuschin

  11:30

  Application of dead molluscan assemblages to the assessment of the ecological quality of the Eastern Mediterranean Y. Edelman-Furstenberg

  11:45

  Potential nitrate aerosol fertilization in Red Sea giant clams recorded in δ15N of shell organic material D. Killam
• Symposium 24 | Recent advances in Central American and Mexican mammalian paleontology - E. Jimenez-Hidalgo, B. Lander (HUB 260)
  8:00

  Revised (earliest late Duchesnean) age, lower Rancho Gaitan local fauna, Prietos Formation, northeastern Chihuahua, Mexico  E. B. Lander

  8:15

  The early Oligocene Iniyoo local fauna of northwestern Oaxaca, southern Mexico  E. Jiménez-Hidalgo

  8:30

  Unusual vertebrate fossil burrows in the Oligocene of tropical North America R. Guerrero-Arenas

  8:45

  The late Neogene faunas of central Mexico: new records of Gomphotherium hondurensis  O. Carranza-Castañeda

  9:15

  New Mexican Pleistocene mammal findings  J. Arroyo-Cabrales

  9:30

  Late Quaternary environmental changes in the Valley of Mexico inferred from small mammal assemblages G. Oñate-Angulo

  9:45

  Coffee Break

  10:15

  Underwater Caves of the Yucatán Shed Light on Late Cenozoic Biodiversity and Faunal Interchange in Middle America B. W. Schubert
• Symposium 32 | Two to tango: amateur-professional interactions in advancing paleontological knowledge - J. Kallmeyer, D. Meyer (HUB 268)
  8:00

  Public-Professional Partnerships in Paleontology Research: Serendipity vs. Strategy V. J. Perez

  8:15

  Discoveries in the Silurian of Indiana: Four Decades of Collaboration between Avocational and Professional Paleontologists T. E. Bantel

  8:30

  Amateur and Professional Relationships: Hobby Collecting Meets Scientific Research L. Cone

  8:45

  Unidentified Fossils in the Enigmatic Phosphatic Steinkern Layers of the Cinncinnati Arch Region (Ordovician, Katian) Lead an Amateur Paleontologist Into Multiple Collaborations W. Heimbrock

  9:00

  How a family of amateur paleontologists is finding fossils online and helping scientists discover new species M. K. Pankowski

  9:15

  Collaborations Between Amateurs, Professionals and Yes, Even Fossil Dealers…a Personal Perspective L. J. McCall

  9:30

  Amateur/Professional Collaboration – A Personal Journey J. W. Kallmeyer

  9:45

  Coffee Break

  10:15

  Dallas Paleontological Society: An Example of Amateur – Professional Cooperation in Paleontology R. L Manning

  10:30

  Roadcuts After Dark: Adventures in Avocational Stratigraphy on the Cincinnati Arch K. R. Hartshorn

  10:45

  Scientist-Teacher Partnerships in Paleontology B. J. MacFadden

  11:00

  The Relationship between Amateur Collectors and Professional Paleontologists in Collecting Fossil Lagerstätten R. Meyer

  11:15

  Bridging the gap: Outreach and research contributions of the North America Research Group M. A. Smith

  11:30

  The Dry Dredgers of Cincinnati: A history of outreach and collaboration D. L. Meyer

Wednesday June 26 | Afternoon

• Symposium 29 | Environmental change and the evolution of form and function - S. Huang, S. Edie, K. Collins (HUB 269)
  1:00

  Assessing form-function-environment interactions using ecometric analysis of functional traits P. David Polly

  1:30

  Phylogenetic, ecological, and geographic effects on morphology: Analysis of 3D ornamentation shape in marine bivalves S. M. Edie

  1:45

  The Performance Space: A New Way of Viewing Evolution's Theatre R. V. Dievert

  2:00

  Testing the ecological “rules” that govern trait plasticity using bony fishes (Osteichthyes) J. Sime

  2:15

  Breaking new ground: form, function and the fossil record of the repeated evolution of rock-boring in the marine Bivalvia K. S. Collins

  2:30

  Food web dynamics during the Marine Mesozoic Revolution (MMR) A. Dineen

  2:45

  Tea Break

  3:15

  Schrödinger’s mammoth – ecological assembly in the age of humans S.K. Lyons

  3:45

  Respiratory and circulatory anatomy supersede ecological escalation in driving size increase in marine animals N. A. Heim

  4:00

  The ecomorphology and macroevolution of the Synapsida through the Permo-Triassic. S. A. Singh

  4:15

  Macroevolution of body size and dietary preference in Neogene large mammals S. Huang

  4:30

  Complex multicellularity as an evolutionary response to viscous Snowball Earth Oceans A. Halling

  4:45

  Strong mechanical relationships bias the tempo and mode of morphological evolution. M. Munoz
• Symposium 5 contd | Arthropod Evolution Through Deep Time: a tribute to Richard A. Fortey - J. Ortega-Hernandez, J. Esteve, J. Moysiuk, A. Lopez (HUB 355)
  1:00

  Morphological analysis of enigmatic arthropods of the Silurian Waukesha Lagerstätte, WI S. A. Rosbach

  1:15

  Experimental biomechanics of trinucleid fringe pits (Trilobita) K. K. Pearson

  1:30

  Macroevolution of anomalocarids and its implications for the Cambrian explosion H. Zeng

  1:45

  Hurdiid radiodontans and the exploitation of Cambrian infaunal food sources J. Moysiuk

  2:00

  Morphology and evolution of basal Cheirurina (Trilobita) from the Fezouata Biota (Lower Ordovician, Morocco) F. Perez-Peris

  2:15

  A cladoceran-like arthropod from the Burgess Shale; benthic niches in Cambrian bivalved arthropods A. Izquierdo Lopez

  2:30

  Evolution of eumalacostracan grasping appendages from an extraordinarily preserved crustacean from the Tithonian of Germany P. G. Pazinato

  2:45

  Tea Break

  3:15

  Synchronized molting behavior in early Cambrian trilobites A. Corrales

  3:30

  Morphological variation as consequence of abiotic factors in early trilobites J. Esteve

  3:45

  New hurdiid specimens with paired endites reveal new interrelationships within Radiodonta A. C. Daley

  4:00

  Evolution of the digestive system in Cambrian trilobites R. Lerosey-Aubril

  4:15

  Trilobites in cruise control: clocking their evolutionary rates and the end of the Cambrian explosion J. R. Paterson

  4:30

  Richard Fortey: an unauthorised biography G. E. Budd
• Topical 43 | Systematics and Phylogeny - B. Long, L. Anderson (HUB 367)
  1:00

  A unique articulated fossil sheds light on the taxonomy of two Pleistocene species of giant kangaroo from the genus Protemnodon. I. Kerr

  1:15

  Resolving the taxonomic validity of the giant extinct Australian marsupial Nototherium (Diprotodontidae) and its relationship to Zygomaturus J. van Zoelen

  1:30

  Anatomical Redescription And Phylogenetic Analysis Of The Materials Assigned To The Taxon "Captorhinikos" chozaensis J. Jung

  1:45

  Molecules meet Morphology: Evolution, biogeography, and the fossil record of a speciose predatory snail genus Paciocinebrina Houart, Vermeij & Wiedrick, 2019 S. Wiedrick

  2:00

  New Slender-Snouted Crocodylians From The Neogene Of North And East Africa And Resolution Of The Gharial Debate A. Adams

  2:15

  Gnatalie Quarry, a window to understand the dinosaurian paleodiversity of the Late Jurassic of Southeastern Utah (Morrison Fm., USA) P. Mocho

  2:30

  Black Hole Effect: Pattern of Mistakes in Botany X. Wang

  2:45

  Tea Break

  3:15

  Phylogeny of an enigmatic and distinct clade of Cambro-Ordovician trilobites from Laurentia with new and revised species of Clelandia R. Ng

  3:30

  The best of two worlds - the Late Ordovician trilobites of the Taimyr Peninsula, Arctic Russia R. Fortey

  3:45

  Lotagnostus species from the Cambrian (Furongian) Windfall Formation, Nevada, and their significance regarding  on the GSSP for Cambrian Stage 10 J. Loch

  4:00

  Testing species designations in extant and fossil Laqueus (Brachiopoda, Terebratulida) through the quantitative analysis of shell outlines and machine learning N. Lopez Carranza

  4:15

  Updated Systematics of Plio-Pleistocene Turritella of Florida and the Atlantic Coast E. Altier
• Symposium 17 contd | Conservation Paleobiology: natural systems in a human world - S. Kidwell, R. Terry, W. Parker, Y. Yanes, M. Zuschin (HUB 302)
  1:00

  Quality over Quantity: Bivalves as Taxonomic Surrogates of Entire Benthic Community in Coastal Pollution Assessment B. Kokesh

  1:15

  If we built it, would they come? New insights into natural baselines for southern California shelf macrobenthos and the role of land use in their decline S. Kidwell

  1:30

  Using the archaeological record to assess resource overexploitation in the Canary Islands, Spain W. Parker

  1:45

  Fossil land snails suggest human influence on present-day communities in the eastern islets of the Canary Islands Y. Yanes

  2:00

  Human landscape impacts have shaped North American mammal niches S. Pineda Munoz

  2:15

  The small mammals of Paisley Caves: disentangling climate-driven environmental change from prehistoric human impacts on diversity dynamics R. Terry

  2:30

  A paleontological perspective to conserving for change J. McGuire

  2:45

  Tea Break

  3:15

  The Role of Conservation Paleobiology in Restoration of the Greater Everglades Ecosystem L. Wingard

  3:30

  The Tale of Two Rivers: Fossil Mollusk Assemblages of the Wakulla River Document Ecological Consequences of Climate Change, Invasive Species, and Hurricane Michael K. Kusnerik

  3:45

  Restoring the bivalve community in the Colorado River estuary: Just add water? J. Smith

  4:00

  Bridging the Research-Implementation Gap in Conservation Paleobiology: Lessons Learned from the SEACAR (Statewide Ecosystem Assessment of Coastal and Aquatic Resources) Project G. Dietl

  4:15

  Multi-millennial stability of benthic communities recorded in surficial mollusk shell accumulations M. Kowalewski

  4:30

  Can we use the past to save the future? Testing the projective power of ecological niche models using the paleontological record M. Pruden

  5:00-6:30    Conservation Paleobiology Panel Discussion: Welcome to the Real World led by K. Flessa and S. Jackson
• Symposium 22 | Fossil Marine Tetrapods of the Eastern Pacific - J. Parham, A. Valenzuela-Toro, J. Velez-Juarbe (HUB 260)
  1:00

  Insights from new records of Late Triassic ichthyosaurs, Mineral County, Nevada P. Noble

  1:15

  An overview of marine turtle evolution with an emphasis on new data from Eastern Pacific fossils J. Parham

  1:30

  Juvenile specimen reveals unexpected dental morphology of early desmostylians K. Matsui

  1:45

  Fossil cetaceans of the Eastern Pacific: A comparison of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres M. Uhen

  2:00

  CANCELLED

   

  2:15

  From beach bones to fossils: taphonomic insights from a northern elephant seal breeding colony A. Valenzuela Toro

  2:45

  Tea Break

  3:15

  Overview of the Neogene marine mammal faunas of the North Eastern Pacific J. Velez-Juarbe
• Symposium 32 contd | Two to tango: amateur-professional interactions in advancing paleontological knowledge - J. Kallmeyer, D. Meyer (HUB 268)
  1:00

  Twelve to tango: Avocational and professional partnerships to increase public understanding of paleontology through informational pages, blogs, and social media platforms A. R. Lam

  1:15

  Advances in echinoderm paleobiology: collaborations with avocational paleontologists S. L. Sheffield

  1:30

  The Arlington Archosaur Site: An Amateur Discovery Leads to a Amateur – Professional Collaboration in Paleontology P. G. Scoggins

  1:45

  Montbrook Fossil Site Discoveries: An impossibility without volunteers J. Pirlo

  2:00

  Getting By With a Skeleton Crew in the Volunteer State S. Haugrud

Wednesday June 26 | Poster sessions

• Posters    

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  Session 5 | Arthropod Evolution Through Deep Time: a tribute to Richard A. Fortey

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  Taphonomy of the phacopid trilobites Cerausus pleurexanthemus and Flexicalymene senaria from the Walcott-Rust Quarry (Upper Ordovician) S. Losso

  73

  Patterns of Lethal and Sublethal Predation on Cambrian Stage 3-Drumian Stage Trilobites from the Great Basin, USA K. J. Eaton

  74

  Well-preserved 3-segmented chelicerae in a 478-million-year-old horseshoe crab (Fezouata Biota, Morocco) P. Gueriau

  75

  The End of the Trail; a Lobopodian Mortichnia. R. J. Knecht

   

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  Session 42 | Paleoenvironments and Paleobiology

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  77

  Paleoecology and paleobiogeography of Eublastoidea (Blastozoa: Echinodermata) J. Bauer

  78

  Paleobiogeography of the Neogene planktic foraminiferal genus Globoconella to interpret long-distance dispersal mechanisms A. Lam

  79

  Extinction pattern and paleoenvironmental reconstruction across the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary in the eastern Tethys, northern Alborz: using benthic foraminifera M. Asgharian Rostami

  80

  Microfossil Based Reconstruction of Paleoclimate and Paleo-seismic activity in a Southern California Coastal Marsh B. Balmaki

  81

  Statistical approaches to identifying the origin of undocumented paleontological collections: A Mazon Creek example G. O'Neil

   

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  Session 24 | Recent advances in Central American and Mexican mammalian paleontology

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  The postcranial skeleton of the basal ruminant Nanotragulus (Artiodactyla: Hypertragulidae) from the Iniyoo Local Fauna, early Oligocene (Arikareean) of southern Mexico. P. G. Butron Xancopinca

  83

  Taxonomy, ecology, and biochronological implications of Bison (Artiodactyla, Bovidae) from the late Pleistocene of Hidalgo and Puebla, central Mexico V. M. Bravo-Cuevas

  84

  A skull of Canis lupus from the Pleistocene of the state of Chihuahua, Mexico M. L. de Robles-Muro

  85

  Isotopic evidence for diets and environments of late Miocene mammals in Yepómera, Mexico C. D. Hannold

  86

  The late Pleistocene equids from southern Mexico  E. Jiménez-Hidalgo

  87

  Pleistocene Mammal Fauna Migration at Laguna de las Cruces, San Luis Potosí, México V. A. Pérez-Crespo

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  Session 8 | Symposium in honor of Michael Murphy

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  Belodella versus cavidonts and conodonts, taxonomy and biostratigraphy M. Murphy

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  Session 32 | Two to tango: amateur-professonal interactions in advancing paleontological knowledge

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  Conodont biostratigraphy and δ13Ccarb chemostratigraphy of the golden Brassfield of Indiana: A successful collaborative effort with two members of the Dry Dredgers T. E. Bantel

   

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  Session 43 | Systematics and Phylogeny

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  Molecular vs. Morphologic Phylogenies in Neogene and Quaternary Lucinidae (Bivalvia) of the Western Atlantic B. Long

  91

  Politicurus and related genera of hintzecurine trilobites from the late Skullrockian (Tremadocian: Early Ordovician) of western Utah and southeastern Idaho A. Bradley

  92

  Chasing a More Complete Mammalian Phylogenetic Tree: A Pseudoextinction Analysis P. Brady

  93

  Relaxed Selection on Tooth Genes Suggests a Two-Step Model for Tooth Loss in Baleen Whales J. Randall

  94

  Neither a rodent nor a lagomorph: Gomphos as the most successful basal Glires (Class:Mammalia) in the early Eocene of China A. Saha

  95

  The examination and placement of a new specimen in Alligatorine evolutionary history M. Rubin

   

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  Session 29 | Environmental change and the evolution of form and function

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  Community changes during times of orogeny; examples from the Upper Devonian of Pennsylvania K. Reed

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  Dental Microwear of North American Taeniolabidoid Multituberculates Indicates Niche Expansion after the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction S. V. Robson

Thursday, June 27 | Morning

• Symposium 4 - Avalon to Zaris:  A Global Perspective on the Ediacaran Biosphere - E. Mitchell, C. Kenchington, C. Hall (HUB 355)
  8:00

  Environment, succession and who’s on first: controls on Ediacara bed diversity and abundance structure at the National Heritage Site, Nilpena, South Australia M. Droser

  8:30

  Ediacaran from a protistan point of view: assessing microfossil diversity changes during the rise of macroscopic life H. Agić

  8:45

  A new cnidarian from the Late Ediacaran (562 – 557 Ma) and its implications for the diversity of early animal communities F. Dunn

  9:00

  A Tale of Tube Cities: The role of Funisia dorothea in preserving short-term community succession in Ediacara assemblages R. Surprenant

  9:15

  Analysis of biomarkers from the Ediacara biota fossils: the oldest case of ventriloquism I. Bobrovskiy

  9:30

  A Macrostrat Approach to the Ediacaran of North America D. Segessenman

  9:45

  Coffee Break

  10:15

  Fossils and redox geochemistry in the terminal Ediacaran Shibantan Member S. Xiao

  10:45

  Phased origin of biomineralisation, habitat expansion, and the rise of heterotrophy R. Wood

  11:00

  Paleoenvironment and fossil distribution on an Ediacaran-Cambrian mixed carbonate ramp (Tamengo Formation, Brazil) J. Leme

  11:15

  Dwarfed frondlike metazoans from the Cambrian Kuanchuanpu Formation in South China J. Han

  11:30

  Ancient life in moving fluids - what fluid dynamics can (and can't) tell us about the Ediacara biota S. Darroch

  11:45

  Gregarious suspension feeding in a modular Ediacaran organism B. Gibson
• Topical 40 | Advances in understanding of Mesozoic and Cenozoic life and environments - A. Buczek, A. Hendy (HUB 367)
  8:00

  A rich body and trace fossil record in the Nugget Sandstone (Late Triassic) of NE Utah provides insight into biological diversity and ecological segregation in an ancient eolian ecosystem. D. Chure

  8:15

  Forams of coastal Utah: A record of Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 (~94-93 Ma) along the western edge of the US Western Interior Sea A.Lam

  8:30

  Latest Cretaceous Vertebrate Diversity from Microvertebrate sites prior to the Cretaceous/Paleogene (K/P) Boundary, Hell Creek Formation, North Dakota J. Sankey

  8:45

  Faunal Turnover and Changes in Ecological Complexity across the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction in California L. F. Opazo

  9:00

  Tertiary Caribbean Mollusks and the Ancient Gulf of California J. Smith

  9:15

  Calcareous Algae from the Well Xike-1 in Xisha Islands and their paleoecological implications L. Zhu

  9:30

  Constraining the age of Californian Plio-Pleistocene formations using strontium isotope stratigraphy A. Buczek

  9:45

  Coffee Break

  10:15

  Echinocyamus: a model organism for Cenozoic predation T. Grun

  10:30

  Study on the foraminiferal assemblages and paleoenvironment of reef facies since the Quaternary in the Xisha Islands, South China Sea X. Cui

  10:45

  Winners and Losers: Revisiting the Quality of California’s Fossil Record A. Hendy
• Symposium 10 | Deep Time Paleogenomics - D. Gold, J. Thompson (HUB 268)
  8:00

  The ancient evolution of cyanobacteria and plastids K. Moore

  8:15

  Sterol genomics and the assignment of Dickinsonia as an animal D. Gold

  8:30

  A sunken-wood dwelling chiton (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) is not a direct link to the Paleozoic D. Eernisse

  8:45

  Holocene Marine Lakes as Refugia: Morphometric and Phylogenetic Analyses of Bahamian Lake Ctena (Bivalvia: Lucinidae) and Their Endosymbionts L. Anderson

  9:00

  Speciation by neutral and adaptive forces: evolutionary pseudocongruence within geo-climatically complex regions G. Dolby

  9:15

  Morphological and genomic evolution of the echinoderm skeleton J. Thompson

  9:45

  Coffee Break

  10:15

  The phylogenetic and macroevolutionary history of sea urchins: a combined genomic, phenomic and paleontological approach N. Mongiardino Koch

  10:30

  Brachiopod Phylogenomics: implications for the evolutionary history of biomineralization and the Cambrian Explosion. A. Butler

  10:45

  The timescale of early land plant evolution P. Donoghue

  11:00

  Evolutionary Dynamics of Metazoan Gene Regulation D. Erwin

   
• Topical 45 | Paleobiology and Climate Change in the Fossil Record - W. McLaughlin, R. Twitchett (HUB 302)
  8:00

  The legacy of past climates in climate-related extinction risk M. Steinbauer

  8:15

  Climate and life in Earth history: CO₂ or other factors? E. Landing

  8:30

  Body size change in Chalk Sea animals during the Cenomanian-Turonian warming event R. Twitchett

  8:45

  Hyperthermal hide and seek: patterns of changing ostracode abundance during early Cenozoic warming events C. Hall

  9:00

  Recovery of reefs on the Adriatic Carbonate Platform following the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum A. Weiss

  9:15

  Temporal trends in shell calcification in marine bivalves: paleontological baselines for understanding species-specific responses in a changing ocean E. Bullard

  9:30

  Stable carbon and oxygen isotopes provide new insights on climate and paleoecology during the Miocene of northern New Mexico  I. Magallanes

  9:45

  Coffee Break

  10:15

  Hawk Rim; An Oregon ecosystem on the cusp of the Mid Miocene Climatic Optimum W. McLaughlin

  10:30

  How do birds evolve in response to climate change? Data from the long-term record at La Brea tar pits D. Prothero

  10:45

  Mollusk forensics in Antarctica: Do epibenthic scallops exhibit predatory shell repair? S. Walker

  11:00

  Identification and analysis of small mammal fossils at Rancho La Brea elucidate responses to late Quaternary environmental change in southern California N. Fox

  11:15

  Paleontology and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: a call for action W. Kiessling

  11:30

  A comparison of MIS5e and modern coral reefs in the Red Sea A. Ivkic

  11:45

  Using habitat-level variation in modern small mammal communities to reconstruct past environments M. Viteri
• Symposium 21 | Evolution, communities and ecosystems: systems approach to paleoecology - P. Roopnarine, A. Dineen (HUB 269)
  8:00

  Rise of Oxygen in the Phanerozoic World: from Grey Sediments to White in the Early Mesozoic R. Norris

  8:15

  Understanding biogeography during the Cambrian through eco-evolutionary process L. Na

  8:30

  The spatial diversification of Evolutionary Faunas J. Shaw

  8:45

  The constructive growth of Phanerozoic marine biodiversity B. Kröger

  9:00

  Changes in paleocommunity structure associated with the Mesozoic Marine Revolution in the western Tethys C.L. Tyler

  9:15

  Survival of the sharpest: Community trends in ornamentation as a proxy for predation in Devonian strophomenate brachiopods C.M. Selles

  9:30

  Escalation of echinoid-associated predatory and parasitic drilling during the Mesozoic Marine Revolution E. Petsios

  9:45

  Coffee Break

  10:15

  No patterns of ecological release in brachiopod and bivalve distributions over the Phanerozoic G.S. Antell

   

  10:30

  Capturing convergence and innovation in fish ecomorphology across time and space L. Sallan

  10:45

  It’s about time!  Paleontological contributions to understanding terrestrial community ecology A.K. Behrensmeyer

   

  11:00

  The emergence and ecological stability of geologically persistent paleocommunities P.D. Roopnarine
• Symposium 36 | Past, Present, and Future of the FOSSIL Project - J. Bauer (HUB 379)
  8:00

  Session Introduction

  8:15

  Talk | FOSSIL: Building a Community of Practice via Social Paleontology K. Crippen

  8:30

  Panel |FOSSIL: Building a Community of Practice via Social Paleontology S.M. Mills, L.M. Lundgren, E.Gardner

  8:45

  Discussion |FOSSIL: Building a Community of Practice via Social Paleontology S.M. Mills, L.M. Lundgren, E.Gardner, K. Crippen, B.J.MacFadden

  9:00

  Talk | FOSSIL Community Connections: Strengthening Professional-Avocational Partnerships for the Future of Paleontology B.R. Hunda

  9:15

  Panel |FOSSIL Community Connections: Strengthening Professional-Avocational Partnerships for the Future of Paleontology D.B. Cone, J. Kowinsky, L. McCall, T.J. Lepore

  9:30

  Discussion |FOSSIL Community Connections: Strengthening Professional-Avocational Partnerships for the Future of Paleontology B.R. Hunda, D.B. Cone, J. Kowinsky, L. McCall, T.J. Lepore

  9:45

  Tea Break

  10:15

  Talk | FOSSIL Accomplishments and Outcomes: Harnessing Digital Platforms and In-Person Events to Foster Community Relationships S.M. Mills

  10:30

  Panel | FOSSIL Accomplishments and Outcomes: Harnessing Digital Platforms and In-Person Events to Foster Community Relationships C. Lockner, J.Pirlo, D. Porcello, G.-P. Santos

  10:45

  Discussion |FOSSIL Accomplishments and Outcomes: Harnessing Digital Platforms and In-Person Events to Foster Community Relationships S.M. Mills, C. Lockner, J.Pirlo, D. Porcello, G.-P. Santos

  11:00

  Talk | FOSSIL Future and Sustainability: myFOSSIL eMuseum and Mobile App J.E. Bauer

  11:15

  Panel |FOSSIL Future and Sustainability: myFOSSIL eMuseum and Mobile App G. Carr, W.D. Heim, J. Kallmeyer, M. Speights

  11:30

  Discussion |FOSSIL Future and Sustainability: myFOSSIL eMuseum and Mobile App J.E. Bauer, R.T. Bex II, G. Carr, W.D. Heim, J. Kallmeyer, M. Speights
• Symposium 13 | The end of Cambrian “boom and bust” and the onset of the Great Ordovician Biodiversity Event (GOBE): diversity patterns, paleoecology, and paleobiogeography - IGCP 653-668 symposium - A. Stigall, S. Pruss, R. Freeman, S. Wernette (HUB 260)
  8:00

  Discovery of a new exceptional preserved Cambrian biota from the Longha Formation in southeastern Yunnan S. Peng

  8:15

  The Middle Ordovician shift in the state of the Earth C.M.O. Rasmussen

   

  8:45

  Assessing records of environmental stress and mass extinctions during the early Paleozoic R. McKenzie

  9:00

  Glendonite occurrences in the Tremadocian of Baltica: first Early Palaeozoic evidence of massive ikaite precipitation in temperate latitudes L.E. Holmer

  9:15

  Depositional Dynamics in the Inner Detrital Belt of North America and Implications for Biomere Extinctions P. Myrow

  9:30

  Two Laurentian Tremadocian (Early Ordovician) mass extinctions J.M. Adrain

  9:45

  Coffee Break

  10:15

  The Early Ordovician lithistid sponge-microbial reefs, Tarutao Islands, Thailand: a prelude to the recovery of metazoan reefs Q.-J. Li

  10:30

  Marine oxygenation and the early development of Paleozoic reefs J.-H. Lee

  10:45

  Constructing the high-resolution evolutionary history of Ordovician marine animals in South China Y. Deng

  11:00

  Paleontologic and paleobiogeographic studies of Lituitida (Mollusca: Cephalopoda): based on new materials from South China X. Fang

  11:15

  House by the sea or skyscraper?  – Prime estate during the Great Ordovician Biodiversification F. Franeck

  11:30

  Timing the GOBE: Coordinated biotic and geochemical changes during the Darriwilian in Laurentia A.L. Stigall

Thursday, June 27 | Afternoon

• Symposium 12 | Environmental change and the dawn of animal life: Integrating geochemical and paleontological data - C. Diamond, S. Evans (HUB 355)
  1:00

  Considering all the ingredients of an 'Explosion' E. Sperling

  1:30

  Oxygen, temperature, and the deep-marine stenothermal cradle of animal evolution T. Boag

  1:45

  Cold cradles and warm graves - Towards a synthetic view of temperature, oxygen and diversity D. Jacobs

  2:00

  Developmental novelties, the rise of O2 and the early evolution of animals D. Erwin

  2:15

  Stretched, wrinkled and ripped: Unexpected structural integrity and extensibility in Dickinsonia provides new insight into environmental change and diversity loss in the Ediacara Biota S. Evans

  2:30

  Soft-tissue preservation in cloudinomorphs from the terminal Ediacaran of Nevada may provide clues onto phylogenetic position J. Schiffbauer

  2:45

  Tea Break

  3:15

  Redox state of the marine nitrogen cycle and evolution of eukaryotes during late Neoproterozoic M. Prokopenko

  3:30

  Phosphorus drawdown drove redox stabilisation and metazoan diversification in the terminal Ediacaran Nama Group, Namibia A. Shore

  3:45

  Late Ediacaran marine shelf environments: evidence for nutrient control on local community structure and productivity K. Pehr

  4:00

  The Ediacaran-Cambrian transition of North China X. Zhang

  4:15

  Can Burgess Shale-type Environments Inform Our Understanding of the Cambrian World? R. Gaines
• Symposium 6 | Paleobiology of Cephalopods - L. Chang, B. Linzmeier, M. Yacobucci (HUB 367)
  1:00

  Can we escape our history and update our focus on fossil cephalopod shell function(s) D. Jacobs

  1:30

  Size matters? A new relict megateuthidid belemnite from the Oxfordian of Wyoming (USA) A. Ippolitov

  1:45

  Squid or falcon? Evaluating convergent evolution in beaks of cephalopods and birds K. Ritterbush

  2:00

  Discussion

  2:15

  How distinct is distinct? Aturia (Aturiidae: Cephalopoda) from the early Oligocene of Florida C. Thompson

  2:30

  The paleoecological dimension of Paleozoic ammonoid evolution C. Whalen

  2:45

  Coffee Break

  3:15

  Sexual dimorphism in scaphitid ammonoids: differences in hydrostatic properties revealed by virtual 3D modeling D. Peterman

  3:30

  New Anisian (Middle Triassic) ammonoids from British Columbia (Canada): Biochronological and palaeobiogeographical implications C. Ji

  3:45

  Linking geographic range and background extinction in ammonoids across the Cretaceous L. Chang

  4:00

  Controls on cephalopod survivorship through Ocean Anoxic Event 2 within the Cenomanian-Turonian Western Interior Seaway M. Yacobucci

  4:15

  Discussion

  4:30

  Discussion
• Symposium 9 | Ancient DNA and Fossil Proteins - J. Drake, D. Jacobs (HUB 268)
  1:00

  Evolution and extinction of caballine horses in Ice Age Beringia  A. Vershinina

  1:15

  Nitrogen isotopes of ancient proteins: New analytical capabilities and potential applications in paleobiology  X. T. Wang

  1:30

  Morphological degradation of feathers: results from experimental maturation  T. Zhao

  1:45

  Toward sequencing ancient stony coral skeletogenesis proteins  J. Drake

  2:00

  Broadening the taxonomic scope of coral reef paleoecological studies using ancient DNA J. Pandolfi

  2:15

  How ancient DNA allowed two dead ducks to tell their tale J. Buckner
• Symposium 18 | The Sixth Extinction: Integrating Paleobiological, Ecological, and Physiological Perspectives - N. Heim, J. Payne (HUB 302)
  1:00

  Body size and extinction risk in the fossil record and the modern world J.L. Payne

  1:15

  Phylogenetic perspectives on the selectivity of background extinction S.R. Cole

  1:30

  Resilient Marine Invertebrate Communities along the US Gulf Coastal Plain during the Early Cenozoic Hyperthermals W.J. Foster

  1:45

  Recent Ecomorphological Selectivity of North American Canid Extinction M. Balisi

  2:00

  Bay of the Living Dead: a paleontological perspective on Chesapeake oysters R. Lockwood

  2:30

  Regional Patterns of Late-Quaternary Extinctions in South America: Towards a More Realistic Model of Extinction Dynamics E. Lindsey

  2:45

  Tea Break

  3:15

  Thermal niche tracking over the last 120,000 years: Comparing modern and Late Pleistocene coastal marine environments and molluscan communities in southern California E.A. Orzechowski

  3:30

  Does dispersal mechanism impact the ability to respond to rapid, intense climate change? A case study in trees of the Younger Dryas A.G. Simpson

  3:45

  Holocene arrival and historic loss of the California grizzly bear: bridging timescales of decline in the 6th mass extinction A.M. Mychajliw

  4:00

  Tales from a harbor downunder: how the modern molluscan community differs from the pre-colonial community M.A. Kosnik

  4:15

   

  Modern experiments and fossil perspectives: the effects of ocean acidification on two gastropods K.M. Barclay

  4:30      Terrestrial gastropod diversity decline in the Modern: endemic species and the consequences of habitat loss J. Vendetti

   
• Symposium 26 | Paleontological history of the Indian subcontinent - D. Chattopadhyay, S. Manchester (HUB 269)
  1:00

  Life from Land to Water– A Triassic Rendezvous of Indian Temnospondyls S. Chakravorti 

  1:15

  Jurassic gastropod of Kutch: a study on diversity and palaeoecological interaction. S. Das

  1:30

  Immigrant taxa, speciation events and niche stability: the Jurassic brachiopod diversity of western India D. Mukherjee

  1:45

  Fossil Vertebrates of India; Major Players and Minor Absentees D. P. Sengupta

  2:00

  Mammalian faunas from the Deccan Volcanic Province and the Cretaceous-Paleogene transition in India G. P Wilson

  2:15

  India’s lost flora:  Distinctive fruits and seeds of the Deccan Intertrappean beds lacking close living relatives S. Manchester

  2:30

  Plant response to environmental change: a case study of macrofossils from the Deccan Intertrappean Beds of India S. Y Smith

  2:45

  Tea Break

  3:15

  Continental molluscan conflict resolution? India subcontinent refugia during Deccan volcanism J. H. Hartman

  3:30

  Ants of Cambay amber illuminate biogeographic affinities of early Cenozoic India P. Barden

  3:45

  Oligocene-Early Miocene bivalve fauna of Kutch (Western India) and its paleobiogeographic implication D. Chattopadhyay

  4:00

  Late Quaternary Extinctions in India A. M Jukar

  4:15

  Glyptoactis (Carditidae) flourished as the pioneer and opportunist genus in early Eocene marginal marine basins of western India K. Halder

   

   
• Symposium 13 contd | The end of Cambrian “boom and bust” and the onset of the Great Ordovician Biodiversity Event (GOBE): diversity patterns, paleoecology, and paleobiogeography - IGCP 653-668 - A. Stigall, S. Pruss, R. Freeman, S. Wernette (HUB 260)
  1:00

  Moving from correlation to mechanism: testing the role of oxygen and temperature change in the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event R. G. Stockey

  1:15

  A new somasteroid from the Fezouata Lagerstätte in Morocco and the Early Ordovician origin of Asterozoa A. W. Hunter

  1:30

  Fossil phylogenies reveal the timing, magnitude, and duration of the largest radiation of marine animal life D. F. Wright

  1:45      Improved biostratigraphy for the Tarutao Group, Thailand and its global significance S. Wernette

   

Thursday June 27 | Poster sessions

• Posters

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  Session 4 | Avalon to Zaris:  A Global Perspective on the Ediacaran Biosphere

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  New insights into the Ediacaran taxa Beothukis & Culmofrons – a combined morphometric and statistical analysis approach J Hawco

  99

  Using intra-specific variations to detect sexual reproduction in Ediacaran organisms E Mitchell

  100

  Cloudina-microbial reefs in an unstable Cadomian retro-arc basin of the Iberian Peninsula S Jensen

  101

  The earliest complex trace fossils from the terminal Neoproterozoic of Namibia K Turk

  102

  Constraining Morphological Disparity in Rangeomorphs C Kenchington

  103

  Resolving Ediacaran discoidal fossils A Dhunghana

  104

  A reappraisal of Hapsidophyllas flexibilis, a complex rangeomorph organism from the Ediacaran biota of Mistaken Point, Newfoundland, Canada R Taylor

   

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  Session 26 | Paleontological history of the Indian subcontinent

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  Validation of Psammichnites gigas Ichnozone (Cambrian Series 2/ Stage 4) in Tethyan Himalaya R. Kaur Toor

   

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  Session 13 | The end of Cambrian “boom and bust” and the onset of the Great Ordovician Biodiversity Event (GOBE): diversity patterns, paleoecology, and paleobiogeography - IGCP 653-668 combined symposium

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  Measuring ecosystem engineering in Cambrian and Ordovician reefs A. Penny

  108

  New nektaspid arthropod from Lower Ordovician of Morocco F. Perez-Peris

  109

  Exceptionally preserved Late Ordovician ‘starfish beds’ from the Tafilalt area, Morocco: Implications for the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event A. Hunter

   

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  Session 12 | Environmental change and the dawn of animal life: Integrating geochemical and paleontological data

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  Nitrogen isotope evidence for an oligotrophic shallow ocean during the Cambrian Stage 4 C. Chang

   

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  Session 40 | Advances in understanding of Mesozoic and Cenozoic life and environments

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  Spectacular Aptian stromatolite fields and associated biofacies in the Romauldo Formation, Araripe Basin, northeastern Brazil  F. Varejoa

  112

  First record of Silesunionina (order Unionida) bivalves in South America: Aptian Crato Formation, northeastern Brazil  S. Matos

  113

  Untangling Lower Miocene reef frameworks: a case study from the Xisha Islands, South China Sea Q. Li

  114

  Tracking benthic faunal changes in a monotonous oxygen-deficient lithofacies: a study case in the Early Cretaceous Romualdo shales, Araripe Basin, northeastern Brazil S. Matos

  115

  The “Bakevelliidae Sea” of the Romualdo Formation: a short-lived Aptian marine ingression in the northeastern Brazil M. Rodrigues

  116

  Evolving biodiversity and paleoecology of marine communities across the end-Cretaceous mass extinction in California A. Hendy

  117

  New vertebrate records from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) Ellisdale Site of New Jersey D. DeMar

  118

  How tall were Eocene forests in western North America? S. Allen

  119

  Preliminary study about calcareous nannofossils from Burdigalian/Langhian boundary interval in the Paratethys area, referred to the reworked specimens L. De Bortoli

   

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  Session 45 | Paleobiology and Climate Change in the Fossil Record

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  Evaluation of the ecosystems of the Western Mediterranean through paleoecological studies I. Roman Moreno, I.

  121

  The impact of the end-Permian mass extinction on the global distribution of marine invertebrates B. Allen

  122

  Laying the groundwork for utilizing isotopes to understand reptilian response to climate change A. Ricker

  123

  Paleoecology of the Mid-Miocene Tonopah Local Fauna of Southwestern Nevada A. Jones

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  Exploring the role of ecophysiology and metabolism in governing marine latitudinal biodiversity gradients during past icehouse and greenhouse climates T. Boag

   

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  Session 21 | Evolution, communities and ecosystems: systems approach to paleontology

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  Contrasting community dynamics of terrestrial ecosystems in three mass extinctions through the Paleozoic-Mesozoic transition Y. Huang