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72Nd Annual Meeting Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Raleigh Convention Center Meeting Facilities Map Supplement to the online Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 72nd Annual Meeting Program and Abstracts Paleontology Society of Vertebrate Program and Abstracts October 2012 AUCTION EVENT/ AWARDS CONCURRENT SESSIONS BANQUET 305A SPEAKER READY ROOM 306 A-C CONCURRENT SESSIONS FRIDAY, 1:45 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. ONLY 72nd Annual Meeting Society of Vertebrate Paleontology POSTER SESSION/EXHIBITS Raleigh Convention Center Raleigh, NC, USA October 17 – 20, 2012 • EXHIBIT HALL A Committee Meetings, Student Roundtable Event and • REGISTRATION After-Hours Party will be held at the • MERCHANDISE SALES Marriott Raleigh City Center, the • LOUNGE SVP Headquarters Hotel. • EDUCATION & OUTREACH, COLBERT AND GENERAL POSTER SESSIONS Society of Vertebrate Paleontology ISSN 1937-2809 SOCIETY OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY OCTOBER, 2012 ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS SEVENTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING Raleigh Convention Center Raleigh, NC, USA October 17-20, 2012 HOST COMMITTEE Vincent Schneider, Co-Chair; Mary Schweitzer, Co-Chair; Alton Dooley; Terry Gates; Gregg Gunnell; Andrew Heckert; Kristin Lamm; Adam Smith; Lindsay Zanno EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Philip Currie, President; Catherine Forster, Vice President; Blaire Van Valkenburgh, Past-President; Christopher Bell, Secretary; Ted Vlamis, Treasurer; Kristina Curry Rogers, Member-at-Large; Christian Sidor, Member-at-Large; Lars Werdelin, Member-at-Large SYMPOSIUM CONVENORS Kerin Claeson; Robert Denton, Jr.; Jason Head; Tobin Hieronymus; Patrick O’Connor; Robert O’Neill; Marcelo Sánchez-Villagra; Lars Schmitz; Graham Slater PROGRAM COMMITTEE Jonathan Bloch, Co-Chair; Anjali Goswami, Co-Chair; Jason Anderson; Paul Barrett; Brian Beatty; Kerin Claeson; Kristi Curry-Rogers; Ted Daeschler; David Evans; David Fox; Nadia Fröbisch; Christian Kammerer; Matthew Lamanna; Johannes Müller; William Sanders; Bruce Shockey; Mary Silcox; Michelle Stocker; Rebecca Terry; Paul Upchurch October 2012—PROGRAM AND ABSTRACTS 1 SAVE THE DATE Logo by SVP 73rd Annual Meeting Mark Hallett October 30 – November 2, 2013 Westin Bonaventure Hotel & Suites, Los Angeles, CA, USA LA13 Esteemed Friends and Colleagues of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, The Host Committee of the 72nd Annual Meeting welcomes members and student members of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology to Raleigh, North Carolina, where you can experience first-hand a bit of southern hospitality. Your Host Committee consists of individuals representing a number of institutions and whose research interests encompass many facets of the discipline of vertebrate paleontology. The principal institutions hosting this year’s meeting are the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and North Carolina State University. The theme for this year’s meeting emphasizes the Triassic roots of North Carolina paleontology, and we hope that you take advantage of the chance to learn about some of our spectacular specimens. Our rich Logo by Cenozoic deposits have yielded marine faunas including large cetaceans and sharks, and Mark Hallett our scheduled field trips focus on these fantastic deposits. For those whose interests lie towards more human-oriented questions, another field excursion offers a rare opportunity to visit the Duke Lemur Center, the world’s largest sanctuary for rare and endangered prosimian (strepsirhine) primates, and includes a visit to collections at the Division of Fossil Primates. Raleigh is a small city, by most standards, but is very cosmopolitan, and easily accessible from any airport on the East coast, usually with direct flights. Raleigh is a premier travel destination, and presents visitors with a surprising diversity of ethnic cuisines and cultural opportunities, as well as more traditional southern cooking and hospitality. Our beautiful downtown area, within walking distance from the museum, offers many restaurants with a wide selection of food and drink, and many featuring outdoor seating, a real treat for socializing with colleagues on warm October evenings. We warmly welcome you with a reception at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, where we will highlight our new Nature Research Center. While most traditional museums present a public face to the question “What do we know?,” our new research facility is committed to bringing to the public a deeper awareness of the process of science, by emphasizing in all exhibits ”HOW do we know what we know.” To this end we have developed many ‘citizen science’ activities, and encourage public participation in research through more accessible, continually updated exhibits. We hope that you enjoy all the highlights of our museum, our city and our state as you take part in the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. Welcome to the City of Oaks! 72nd Annual Meeting Host Committee LA13 Presentation POLICIES SVP Abstracts are reviewed by the Program Committee and occasionally by outside reviewers. Authors are responsible for the technical content of their articles. Unless specified otherwise, coverage of abstracts presented orally at theAnnual Meeting is strictly prohibited until the start time of the presentation, and coverage of poster CITING AN ABSTRACT presentations is prohibited until the relevant poster session opens for viewing. As defined IN THE 2012 SVP here, “coverage” includes all types of electronic and print media; this includes blogging, PROGRAM AND tweeting, advanced online publication and other intent to communicate or disseminate ABSTRACTS BOOK results or discussion presented at the SVP Annual Meeting. This Program and Abstract Still photography, video and/or audio taping or any other electronic recording at the Book is an official SVP annual meeting is strictly prohibited, with the exception of the designated SVP supplement to the online press event. (The SVP reserves the right to engage professional photographers or audio/ version of the Journal of videotape professionals to archive sections of the meeting for the Society’s use.) Vertebrate Paleontology. Editorial policies of Science and Nature magazines: If you are planning to submit, or The citation format for an have submitted, your publication to Science or Nature, be sure you are familiar with abstract printed in this book their embargo policies. is: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, 2012, < insert page Please address any questions about program practices to the Program Committee or to number here >. the Executive Committee. October 2012—PROGRAM AND ABSTRACTS 3 4 2012 SVP SCHEDULE OF EVENTS (subject to change) All events are held at the Raleigh Convention Center unless otherwise noted with an ** Event/Function Tuesday, October 16 Wednesday, October 17 Thursday, October 18 Friday, October 19 Saturday, October 20 Registration Desk 1 pm – 6 pm 7 am – 5 pm 7 am – 5 pm 7:30 am – 5 pm 8:00 am – 5 pm Exhibit Hall A, Level 1 Exhibit Hall A, Level 1 Exhibit Hall A, Level 1 Exhibit Hall A, Level 1 Exhibit Hall A, Level 1 Plenary Session/Welcome 7:45 am – 8 am Out on a Limb – Using Research Discoveries to Inspire Science Literacy by Meg Lowman BALLROOM B, LEVEL 4 Symposium 8 am – 12:15 pm 8 am – 12:15 pm 8 am – 12:15 pm Symposium: Vertebrate Paleontology Symposium: Cretaceous Faunas of Symposium: Phylogenetic and in the Northern Neotropics: Cradle Appalachia: Systematics, Paleoecology Comparative Paleobiology: and Museum of Evolution across and Taphonomy: A Symposium New Quantitative Approaches to the Geological Time Dedicated to the Memory of Study of Vertebrate Macroevolution BALLROOM A, LEVEL 4 Dr. Donald Baird BALLROOM A, LEVEL 4 BALLROOM A, LEVEL 4 Technical Session 8 am – 12:15 pm 8 am – 12:15 pm 8 am – 12:15 pm 8 am – 12:15 pm Romer Prize Session Technical Session I Romer Prize Session Technical Session IX Technical Session XIV BALLROOM B, LEVEL 4 BALLROOM B, LEVEL 4 BALLROOM B, LEVEL 4 BALLROOM A, LEVEL 4 Technical Session 8 am – 12:15 pm 8 am – 12:15 pm 8 am – 12:15 pm 8 am – 12:15 pm Preparators’ Session Technical Session II Preparators’ Session Technical Session X Technical Session XV BALLROOM C, LEVEL 4 BALLROOM C, LEVEL 4 BALLROOM C, LEVEL 4 BALLROOM B, LEVEL 4 Technical Session 8 am– 12:15 pm Technical Session XVI BALLROOM C, LEVEL 4 Technical Session 1:45 pm – 4:15 pm 1:45 pm – 4:15 pm 1:45 pm – 4:15 pm 1:45 pm – 4:14 pm Technical Session III Technical Session VI Technical Session XI Technical Session XVII BALLROOM A, LEVEL 4 BALLROOM A, LEVEL 4 BALLROOM A, LEVEL 4 BALLROOM A, LEVEL 4 Technical Session 1:45 pm – 4:15 pm 1:45 pm – 4:15 pm 1:45 pm – 4:15 pm 1:45 pm – 4:15 pm Technical Session IV Technical Session VII Technical Session XII Technical Session XVIII BALLROOM B, LEVEL 4 BALLROOM B, LEVEL 4 BALLROOM C, LEVEL 4 BALLROOM B, LEVEL 4 Technical Session 1:45 pm – 4:15 pm 1:45 pm – 4:15 pm 1:45 pm – 4:15 pm 1:45 am – 4:15 pm Technical Session V Technical Session VIII Technical Session XIII Technical Session XIX BALLROOM C, LEVEL 4 BALLROOM C, LEVEL 4 ROOM 306 A-C, LEVEL 3 BALLROOM C, LEVEL 4 Workshops/Educational Events 9 am – Noon National Fossil Day Lectures © 2012 by the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Vertebrate © 2012 bytheSociety of Archival Materials Workshop **NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM For Pre-Registered Attendees OF NATURAL SCIENCES **NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES – NATURE RESEARCH CENTER 9 am – 4 pm 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Phylogenetic Comparative Methods Paleontology and the Media – Workshop Communicating Your Research to For Pre-Registered Attendees the Popular Press Workshop ROOM 306 A, LEVEL
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