2 15-18 , February 2014 Gainesville, Florida, USA General Information Dates and Location: Poster Set-up and Breakdown: Saturday, February 15 - Tuesday, February 18, 2014 Poster Presenters will be present from 4:45pm-6pm on the Hilton University of Florida Conference Center day of their poster session. Gainesville, Florida, USA Set-up and Breakdown: Boards will be set up at the Hilton Host Hotels: by 6:30pm on Friday, February 14th. Hilton University of Florida Conference Center Saturday Posters -Please hang poster by 11:00am on Saturday/ 1714 SW 34th Street, Gainesville, Florida 32607 Remove poster immediately following the poster session 1-352-371-3600 Sunday Posters - Please hang poster by 11:00am on Sunday/ The Lodge at Gainesville Remove poster immediately following the poster session 3726 SW 40th Blvd., Gainesville, Florida 32608 Monday Posters - Please hang poster by 11:00am on Monday/ 1-352-375-2400 Remove poster immediately following the poster session

Registration: Exhibitor Set-up and Breakdown: Conference registration includes admission to all sessions, Set-up: Tables will be set up by 6:30pm on Friday February, 14th. Please set up your exhibit booth no later than 2:00pm on conference materials, AM & PM coffee breaks, Ice Breaker and th Banquet. Saturday, February 15 . Breakdown: Please break down your exhibit booth no later than 11:00am on Tuesday, February 18th. Breakfast and Lunch will be on your own. Lunch options include the following: Transportation*: - Hilton lunch buffet inside Albert’s Restaurant Bus transportation to and from the convention and offsite - Local Food Trucks located just outside the Hilton events (Icebreaker and Banquet) will be provided from The - Off-site Dining options at your discretion Lodge at Gainesville and UF Hilton.

Registration/Information Hours: Friday: 4:30pm-7pm (Lodge to UF Hilton for Registration Friday, February 14th: 3:00pm-7:00pm Check-in before Icebreaker at Florida Museum) (Please check in with Registration at the UF Hilton for your 5:45pm-7:00pm (UF Hilton to Icebreaker) nametag prior to attending the Ice Breaker) 7:30pm-8:30pm (Return to UF Hilton and Lodge) Saturday, February 15th - 18th: 7:30am-6:00pm Saturday: 7:30am-9:00am (Lodge to UF Hilton) 5:00pm-6:30pm (UF Hilton to Lodge) Sunday: 7:00am-8:30am (Lodge to UF Hilton) th Ice Breaker: Friday, February 14 from 6pm-8pm 5:00pm-6:30pm (UF Hilton to Lodge) The Ice Breaker will be held at the Florida Museum of Natural Monday: 7:00am-8:30am (Lodge to UF Hilton) History. Heavy hors d’oeuvres will be served and each attendee 5:00pm-6:30pm (UF Hilton to Lodge) will receive two drink tickets upon check-in at the UF Hilton Tuesday: 7:00am-8:30am (Lodge to UF Hilton) on Friday from 3-7pm. Complimentary bus transportation 4:45pm-5:30pm (UF Hilton to Banquet) will run between the UF Hilton and the Florida Museum 7:30pm-8:30pm (Return to UF Hilton and Lodge) beginning at 5:45pm. Attire is casual and non-registered guests *Separate Florida Museum vans will be running continuously will be charged $50 on-site. throughout the day between the Lodge and UF Hilton. Florida Museum of Natural History University of Florida Cultural Plaza Gainesville Airport Shuttles - The Hiltonprovides a shuttle 3215 Hull Road, Gainesville, Florida between 7:00am and 10:00pm. Please email Diana Benintend 1-352-846-2000 at [email protected] with your name, date, arrival time, flight number and contact phone number so th Banquet: Tuesday, February 18 from 5:30pm-8:00pm they can schedule the shuttle for you. The Lodge also provides The Banquet will be held at the University of Florida an airport shuttle. Please contact them for reservations. Touchdown Terrace. Complimentary bus transportation will run between the UF Hilton and Touchdown Terrace Contacts: beginning at 4:45pm . Attire is casual. If you plan to bring a For questions about Registration & Logistics: non-registered guest, please go to the Registration Desk at the Jenn Jasinski; [email protected] Hilton before Tuesday to pay the $50 banquet guest fee. For questions about Meeting Content and Field Trips: Touchdown Terrace at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium Troy Dexter; [email protected]

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4 15-18 , February 2014 Gainesville, Florida, USA Friday, February 14, 2014

Registration Check-in and Ice Breaker Registration Check-in: UF Hilton Lobby Registration Check-in at Hilton Lobby 3:00pm-7:00pm Please check in at the Registration Desk prior to attending the Ice Breaker 4:30pm-7:00pm Bus Transportation From The Lodge at Gainesville to the UF Hilton (Continuous)

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

6:00pm-8:00pm Ice Breaker at the Florida Museum of Natural History 7:30pm-8:30pm Bus Transportation Available to return to the UF Hilton and the Lodge at Gainesville

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Opening Ceremony & Plenary Session Room: Ballroom A&B Welcoming Statement from the Organizing Committee 9:00am-9:10am Michal Kowalewski, Chair, NAPC Organizing Committee Welcoming Statement from the University of Florida 9:10am-9:20am Bernie Machen, 11th President of the University of Florida Welcoming Statement from the Florida Museum of Natural History 9:20am-9:30am Douglas Jones, Director of the Florida Museum of Natural History Welcoming Statement from the Paleontological Society 9:30am-9:40am Steven Holland, President-Elect, the Paleontological Society

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

Where Do We Go From Here? 10:00am-10:30am Sandy Carlson, Keynote Speaker Into the Great Wide Open 10:30am-11:00am Catherine Forster, Keynote Speaker Bringing Paleontology into the Era of Big Data 11:00am-11:30am Shanan Peters, Keynote Speaker 11:30am-1:30pm - LUNCH BREAK

Lunch options:

Hilton lunch buffet insideAlbert’s Restaurant

Local Food Trucks located just outside the Hilton Conference Center

Off-site dining options at your discretion

6 15-18 , February 2014 Gainesville, Florida, USA Saturday (PM), February 15, 2014

Ecological fidelity and resolution of the fossil record across broad Session 1 spatial and temporal scales Chairs: Adam Tomašových, Joshua Miller, James Nebelsick, & Room: Ballroom A Martin Zuschin Temporal resolution of normal marine sedimentary records: Is it good enough for 1:30pm-2:00pm Matthew A. Kosnik conservation palaeobiology? Species richness, community dynamics, and time-averaging in recent Kenyan 2:00pm-2:15pm Aniko B. Toth ecosystems Ecological fidelity of functional traits based on species presence-absence in the 2:15pm-2:30pm Joshua H. Miller mammalian bone assemblage of Amboseli National Park, Kenya Pleistocene preservation potential, paleoenvironment, and paleoecology in Western 2:30pm-2:45pm John D. Orcutt North America

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

Degrees of bias in the collection of vertebrate paleoecological data: Comparing and 3:15pm-3:30pm Andrew Du reconciling different scales from multiple collection methods Assessing the fidelity of beta diversity: Marine benthic assemblages on the inner 3:30pm-3:45pm Carrie L. Tyler shelf of North Carolina, USA Intense predation on Meoma ventricosa by Cassis tuberosa, San Salvador Island, the 3:45pm-4:00pm Troy A. Dexter Bahamas Death assemblages as proxies of local and regional diversity: Evaluating the effect of 4:00pm-4:15pm Adam Tomašových different preservation scenarios Quantification of microfacies analyses: Assessing component diversity among 4:15pm-4:30pm James Nebelsick Paleogene and Neogene carbonates Fidelity of the fossil record of the chemosynthesis-based communities—are we 4:30pm-4:45pm Andrzej Kaim assessing a full image of their evolution after 30 years since discovery? 4:45-6:00pm - POSTER SESSIONS 6-9 (Please see page 10) The microfossil record: The past is the key to the future (or present) Session 2 in conservation paleobiology Sponsored by The Cushman Foundation Room: Ballroom B Chairs: Pamela Hallock & Laurel S. Collins Why has optimum habitat for stony corals diverged from that for foraminifers with 1:30pm-1:45pm Pamela Hallock algal symbionts on the Florida reef tract? Chlorophyll fluorescence as an indicator of thermal stress inArchaias angulatus 1:45pm-2:00pm Heidi Toomey (Class Foraminifera) Dormancy as a survival response to environmental stressors in the benthic 2:00pm-2:15pm Benjamin Ross symbiotic foraminifer Amphistegina gibbosa Using thecamoebians as indicators of environmental impacts in Tennessee and 2:15pm-2:30pm Melissa K. Lobegeier Virginia Environmental impact of the deepwater horizon oil spill on deep-sea benthic Fora- 2:30pm-2:45pm Laurel S. Collins minifera

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

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The microfossil record: The past is the key to the future Session 2 (or present) in conservation paleobiology Continued Sponsored by The Cushman Foundation Room: Ballroom B Chairs: Pamela Hallock & Laurel S. Collins Shallow marine ecological degradation in Hong Kong: A paleoecological approach 3:15pm-3:30pm Yuanyuan Hong using ostracods Use of microfossils to detect geologically recent environmental changes: St. John, 3:30pm-3:45pm Rachael Kalin U.S. Virgin Islands Influences of Holocene environmental changes on submarine cave ostracode 3:45pm-4:00pm Chiu Wing Tung community and species diversity Paleoenvironmental reconstruction using benthic foraminiferal assemblages from 4:00pm-4:15pm Heather Bender the pliocene shell beds in Southwest Florida Sea level fluctuations and associated palaeoclimates revealed by benthic 4:15pm-4:30pm Briony Mamo foraminifera from the New Caledonia Basin Shari 4:30pm-4:45pm Lifestyles of the Hantkeninids Hilding-Kronforst 4:45-6:00pm - POSTER SESSIONS 6-9 (Please see page 10) Phylogenetics, systematics, paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, Session 3 paleobiogeography Room: Ballroom C Chairs: Javier Luque & Sarah Allen A comparison between the Eocene Bridger and Kisinger Lakes floras in western 1:30pm-1:45pm Sarah Allen Wyoming Fossils of Iodes (Icacinaceae) from the early Eocene Blue Rim flora (SW Wyoming) 1:45pm-2:00pm Gregory W. Stull and the late Miocene Wenshan flora (SW Yunnan, China) The first fossil record of the genusZamia L. (Zamiaceae, Cycadales) evidenced by 2:00pm-2:15pm Boglárka Erdei epidermal structure from the Eocene of Panama and its comparison with modern species of Zamia 2:15pm-2:30pm Kurt Neubig Systematics of Ulmaceae and placement of the extinct Cedrelopsermum Jonathan R. Glowing seashells: Ultraviolet light reveals large diversity of preserved coloration 2:30pm-2:45pm Hendricks patterns in Neogene Conus fossils from the Dominican Republic

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

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

Bony tongue (Teleostei, Osteoglossomorpha) paleobiogeography - Paleontology 3:30pm-3:45pm Niels Bonde refuting neontology Fossil pygmy sperm whales (Odontoceti; Physeteroidea; Kogiidae) from the late 3:45pm-4:00pm Jorge Velez-Juarbe Miocene of Panama and early Pliocene of Florida

Two allopatric bothremydidae taxa of turtle in the India-Madagascar faunal prov- Miky Lova Tantely 4:00pm-4:15pm inces during the Late Cretaceous: Evidence of biotic dispersal across the micro- Ravelson continent.

4:15pm-4:30pm Andy Connolly The paleobiogeographical effects of the parietal foramen on mosasaurs Paracladistics: an integration of phylogenetic and evolutionary systematics, with 4:30pm-4:45pm Joseph G. Carter examples from the Bivalvia (Mollusca) 4:45-6:00pm - POSTER SESSIONS 6-9 (Please see page 10)

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Session 4 Pantropical Cenozoic reefs Room: Dogwood Chairs: James Klaus, Kenneth Johnson, & Willem Renema 1:30pm-1:45pm Ann Budd Diversification of Cenozoic reef corals and its relationship to closure of the Tethys Evolution of Plio-Pleistocene reef margins in the Caribbean: Results of the 1:45pm-2:00pm Viviana Díaz Dominican Republic Drilling Project (DRDP) Oligocene and Miocene history of reef corals and coral reefs in eastern Borneo 2:00pm-2:15pm Kenneth G. Johnson (East Kalimantan, Indonesia and Sabah, Malaysia). 2:15pm-2:30pm James S. Klaus Deep reefs from the Dominican Republic 2:30pm-2:45pm Thomas A. Stemann The early Paleogene reef gap in the Caribbean 2:45pm-3:15pm - COFFEE BREAK Late Neogene environmental change and faunal overturn in the Caribbean: 3:15pm-3:30pm Ethan L. Grossman Revelations using gastropod stable-isotope profiles to quantify seasonal upwelling and freshening in coastal waters Normal marine, shallow subtidal stromatolites in the lower Miocene Chipola 3:30pm-3:45pm Jon Bryan Formation, Alum Bluff, Liberty County, Florida

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

Neotropical floras reveal the biogeographic evolution of Paleocene to Miocene 4:00pm-4:15pm Fabiany Herrera (60 to 19 Ma) forests 4:45-6:00pm - POSTER SESSIONS 6-9 (Please see page 10) Session 5 New advances and applications in sclerochronology Room: Azalea Chairs: Donna Surge & David Goodwin Stable isotope profiles from mollusks Lymnocardium( ) of the late Miocene Lake 1:30pm-1:45pm Michael R. Johnson Pannon, central Europe

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

Quantifying upwelling and freshening in nearshore Tropical American environments 2:00pm-2:15pm Ethan L. Grossman using modern gastropod shells – stable isotopic successes and trace element complexities New sclerochronological insights into heterochronic evolution of tropical American 2:15pm-2:30pm David H. Goodwin corbulids The smallest lines: What might the composition of lingulid growth bands tell us about 2:30pm-2:45pm Tristan Betzner paleoenvironment? 2:45pm-3:15pm - COFFEE BREAK Using the element and isotopic content of bivalve shells as paleoenvironmental 3:15pm-3:30pm Bernd R. Schöne proxies: Possibilities and limitations Jackknife-corrected parametric bootstrap estimates of growth rates in bivalve 3:30pm-3:45pm Michal Kowalewski mollusks using nearest living relatives Seasonality, climate change, and the late Eocene initiation of the modern antarctic 3:45pm-4:00pm Linda C. Ivany biota 4:00pm-4:15pm Yurena Yanes Calibrating Patella shells from the Canary Islands as seasonal paleothermometers Kathryn D. Nold Isotopic evidence of recent, coastal paleoclimate from archaeological 4:15pm-4:30pm gastropod shells Nicole Cannarozzi Seasonal oyster harvesting recorded by shells of the parasitic snail Boonea impressa 4:30pm-4:45pm in archeological middens of Florida and Georgia 4:45-6:00pm - POSTER SESSIONS 6-9 (Please see page 10)

10th North American Paleontological Convention 9 Saturday Poster Sessions: 6-9

Session 6 Pantropical Cenozoic reefs Reconstructing the paleoenvironment and paleoecology of a Turritella-rich horizon in the Plio-Pleistocene 1. Timothy Fallon Jackson Bluff Formation of the Florida Panhandle Phylogenetics, systematics, paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, Session 7 paleobiogeography

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

Extinct giant mud creepers (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Oligocene of the 3. B. Alex Kittle southeastern United States Osteoglossomorph phylogeny revisited: Assessing the relationships of the fossil forms Laeliichthys and 4. Maria E.C. Leal Heterosteoglossum (Teleostei: Osteoglossomorpha) Phylogenetic placement of a new, diminutive nyctitheriid (Mammalia, Eulipotyphla) with arboreal 5. Carly L Manz characteristics 6. Sarah Sheffield A revision of the systematics of the genus Sinocrinus (Crinoidea) Early Paleocene origin, phylogeny and geographic distribution of muricate 7. Weimin Si planktonic foraminifera Primate diversity and associated mammals in a micro-mammal fauna from the 8. James Westgate Uinta C Member of the Uinta Formation: Evidence of late middle Eocene local climate stability 9. Emily D. Woodruff Supertree perspectives on the phylogeny of fossil and extant mammals Session 8 Biostratigraphy, paleoecology, taphonomy, and extinction 10. William Brightly Olfactory ratio as a potential proxy for behavior in theropoda 11. David Campbell Database potential and pitfalls 12. Tobias Grun Drilling predation on Upper Oligocene echinoids (Echinocyamus) from northern Germany 13. Claudia C. Johnson Bivalve mollusc assemblage of Bed III, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania Paraphyletic versus non-paraphyletic families: Implications for phylogenetic systematics of the Bivalvia 14. Steven Porson (Mollusca) Pathology, taphonomy, encrustation and bioerosion of an abundant crinoid in the Middle Jurassic of southern 15. Elizabeth A. Reinthal Israel Osteichthyes and Chondrichthyes from the early Pliocene Palmetto Fauna, Central Florida phosphate mining 16. Erika H. Simons region 17. Joshua S. Slattery The role of very abundant taxa in overprinting ecological signals in fossil assemblages 18. V. J. Syverson Reconstructing cyrtocrinid ecology and biology based on living populations of Holopus and Cyathidium The development of allometric equations for estimating the dimensions of theElephas tiliensis skeletal 19. Theodorou Georgios elements 20. Louis G. Zachos Upper Mississipian (Chesterian) echinoids from Alabama and Mississippi 21. Kathryn A string of small knobs from the Upper Triassic shales of Western Europe Estes-Smargiassi Session 9 New advances and applications in sclerochronology 22. Justin McNabb Establishing the lifespan of the Pliocene bivalve, Astarte concentrica, using sclerochronologic analysis Marine climate archives across the Medieval Climate Anomaly-Little Ice Age Transition from Viking and medi- 23. Donna Surge eval age shells, Orkney, Scotland Using nitrogen isotopes to characterize nitrate cycling in coastal environments in Bocas del Toro Archipelago, 24. Lauren E. Graniero Panama Time-averaging in Chesapeake Bay mollusks: Estimates based on amino acid racemization of Holocene 25. Aaron M. Martinez Mulinia 26. Janet E. Burke Assessing the impact of time-averaging on a Miocene vertebrate fauna from northern Pakistan

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Reconstructing past continental environments from the Session 10 biogeochemistry of fossils Room: Ballroom A Chairs: Yurena Yanes & Brooke Crowley 3 2 8:30am-9:00am Matthew J. Kohn No correction of terrestrial C -plant carbon isotope compositions for pCO

9:00am-9:15am David L. Fox Carbon isotopes in rodent ecology and paleoecology Paleoecological interpretations of the early Miocene equid, Parahippus leonensis, 9:15am-9:30am Sean Moran from the Thomas Farm locality, Gilchrist County, FL 9:30am-9:45am Julia Tejada Ecology of Miocene Amazonian mammals based on evidence from stable isotopes Multi-proxy elemental and isotopic analysis of Toxodon sp. dental enamel: Climate, 9:45am-10:00am William J. Pestle diet, growth, and mobility 10:00am-10:30am - COFFEE BREAK How well do modeled strontium isotope ratios predict bioavailable strontium for 10:30am-10:45am Brooke E. Crowley migratory and non-migratory mammals in North America? 10:45am-11:00am Alberto Perez-Huerta Paleoseasonality records in brachiopod shells? Holocene paleoclimate reconstruction from d18O isotopes of Neocyclotus Opercula 11:00am-11:15am Jorge L. Garcia and a morphometric analysis of their variation at the Archaic Site of San Jacinto1 Colombia 11:15am-11:30am Yurena Yanes Carbon stable isotope composition of land snail shells as a paleovegetation proxy

11:45pm-1:30pm - LUNCH BREAK Form and function: Tracing the foundations of animal diversity, Session 11 ecology, and functional morphology Sponsored by, Taylor and Francis (CRC Press) Room: Ballroom B Chairs: Mike Meyer & James Schiffbauer 8:00am-8:15am Mike Meyer Visco-bionts? Biomechanics and early life Paleoecology of Rugoconites and Tribrachidium: New data from the Ediacaran of 8:15am-8:30am Christine M. Solon South Australia A Constructional Link across the Cambrian Boundary: the Ediacara taxa 8:30am-8:45am Erica Clites Coronacollina acula 8:45am-9:00am Steven T. LoDuca Yuknessia from the Cambrian of China A new Ordovician eurypterid from the William Lake Lagerstätte, Manitoba, Canada 9:00am-9:15am Michael Cuggy – phylogenetic and paleobiological implications An inclusive generic phylogeny reveals constraint and convergence in the 9:15am-9:30am David W. Bapst graptoloidea The long road to animal life: Two billion years of evolving oxygen in the 9:30am-10:00am Timothy W. Lyons atmosphere and ocean and escaping the ‘Boring Billion’ 10:00am-10:30am - COFFEE BREAK Of maps and models: A new method for determining the biological significance of 10:30am-10:45am Kristina M. Barclay sclerobiont positions on brachiopod hosts The petalodium of clypeasteroid sand dollars: A geometric morphometric 10:45am-11:00am Diedrich Sievers description of shape and comparison of fossil and living species 11:00am-11:15am Darrin Molinaro Going the distance: the influence of morphological variation on taxon duration. 11:15am-11:45am Stefan Bengtson Embryos, embryoids, cysts, and pseudo-embryos in the fossil record 11:45pm-1:30pm - LUNCH BREAK

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From macroecology to macroevolution: The ecological context of Session 12 extinction and origination Room: Ballroom C Chairs: Seth Finnegan & Carl Simpson

8:00am-8:15am Sankar Chatterjee Macroevolution and macrogenesis: Evolution in the fast lane

8:15am-8:30am Noel Heim The macroevolutionary transition in ostracods from macrofauna to microfauna Reconstructing the extinction of the giant Megalodon shark 8:30am-8:45am Catalina Pimiento (Carcharcoles megalodon) 8:45am-9:00am Carl Simpson Species selection and evolving traits can and do interact Ecologically-driven persistent increases in early vertebrate body size reversed by 9:00am-9:15am Lauren Cole Sallan abiotically-driven mass extinction Inverse relationship between macroevolutionary rates and geographic range shifts 9:15am-9:30am Matthew Powell over the Phanerozoic Era 9:30am-9:45am S. Kathleen Lyons Patterns of co-occurrence of plant and mammal species across critical intervals Using background selectivity patterns to identify the "unexpected victims" of mass 9:45am-10:00am Seth Finnegan extinction events: An example using late Ordovician-early Silurian brachiopods 10:00am-10:30am - COFFEE BREAK 10:30am-10:45am Felisa A. Smith Using a macroscope to look at patterns of mammal body size in the fossil record Response of beta diversity to pulses of Ordovician-Silurian extinction at nested 10:45am-11:00am Simon A.F. Darroch spatial scales Patterns of diversification in novel environments: Examining the fossil record of the 11:00am-11:15am Lucy Chang early Western Interior Seaway 11:15am-11:30am Jonathan Marcot Phylogenetic tests of climatic influence on ungulate body mass evolution Philip M. Regression and classification trees are powerful and intuitive analytical methods for 11:30am-11:45am Novack-Gottshall complex datasets in paleontology 11:45pm-1:30pm - LUNCH BREAK Conservation paleobiology: Ecosystem, community, and species Session 13 response to environmental change Room: Dogwood Chairs: Carrie L. Tyler, Sahale N. Casebolt, & Rebecca Terry Morphologic indicators of fossoriality and the evolution of burrowing in 8:00am-8:15am Allison L. Beck dicynodonts (Amniota: Synapsida) Partitioning of Mustela nigripes and Neovison vison dentaries from Snake Creek 8:15am-8:30am Nathaniel Fox Burial Cave, NV Conservation osteology: Applying paleontological and zooarchaeological 8:30am-8:45am Ben Atkinson techniques to explore the impacts of ghost traps on diamond-backed terrapins, Malaclemys terrapin (Testudines: Emydidae) Are hypsodonty and enamel complexity evolutionary trade-offs or complements for 8:45am-9:00am Nicholas A. Famoso ungulates? The Neogene fossil record of rubber boas (Serpentes: Boidae:Charina ) tests 9:00am-9:15am Jason Head hypotheses of ecological niche conservation and relationship to climate Re-evaluation of Bison remains from the greater Grand Canyon region and 9:15am-9:30am Jeff M. Martin Colorado Plateau: native or non-native 9:30am-9:45am Dena M. Smith Insect response to Eocene-Oligocene climate change in Colorado, USA Holocene baselines indicate ecosystem-level restructuring of modern Great Basin 9:45am-10:00am Rebecca C. Terry small mammal communities due to anthropogenic habitat transformation 10:00am-10:30am - COFFEE BREAK

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Session 13 Conservation paleobiology: Ecosystem, community, and species Continued response to environmental change Room: Dogwood Chairs: Carrie L. Tyler, Sahale N. Casebolt, & Rebecca Terry Ontogeny meets paleoecology: Taking advantage of the unique dental eruption of 10:30am-10:45am Brian Lee Beatty manatees (Trichechidae) to estimate exposure to abrasives during feeding in the Pleistocene of Florida to present Climate, biological invasion, and modernization of benthic communities in 10:45am-11:00am Richard B. Aronson Antarctica Shape change in a Caribbean Miocene bivalve and implications for conservation and 11:00am-11:15am Sahale Casebolt modern ecosystem management Taxonomic and ecological changes across the plio-pleistocene extinction and 11:15am-11:30am Max Christie recovery: Different mechanisms in the Caribbean and North America? 11:30am-11:45am Gregory Dietl On conservation paleobiology

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

Session 14 The Cretaceous-Paleogene Gondawanan expressway Room: Azalea Chairs: Maria A. Gandolfo & Elizabeth J. Hermsen Why are Cenozoic paleofloras fundamental for understanding modern plant 8:30am-9:00am Maria A.Gandolfo distributions? The great cretaceous walk: An ichnological survey of lower cretaceous strata in 9:00am-9:15am Anthony J. Martin Victoria, Australia and implications for gondwanan paleontology 9:15am-9:30am Alexis Rojas Cretaceous Lingulidae brachiopods of the Tropical America The endemic floras of Zealandia: Key components of the Cretaceous-Paleogene 9:30am-9:45am Tammo Reichgelt Gondwana Expressway Elizabeth J. Beyond the Gondwanan Expressway: Patagonian-Northern Hemisphere 9:45am-10:00am Hermsen connections 10:00am-10:30am - COFFEE BREAK First comparison of latest Cretaceous and early Paleocene insect damage in the 10:30am-10:45am Michael Donovan Southern Hemisphere supports a Patagonian biodiversity refugium Neotropical Cretaceous-Paleogene fossil macrofloras and its affinities with temperate 10:45am-11:00am Camila Martínez America Plants and their dates tell the animals' west side story (early Paleogene of 11:00am-11:15am Peter Wilf Patagonia, Argentina, West Gondwana) 11:15am-11:30am Carlos Jaramillo Dynamics of the Neotropical rainforest during global warming events Sizing up the leaves of an Eocene Patagonian Paleorainforest and its Australian 11:30am-11:45am Lisa Merkhofer Analogs 11:45pm-1:30pm - LUNCH BREAK

10th North American Paleontological Convention 13 Sunday (PM), February 16, 2014

Form and function: Tracing the foundations of animal diversity, Session 11 ecology, and functional morphology Room: Ballroom B Chairs: Mike Meyer & James Schiffbauer 1:30pm-1:45pm Andrew K. Rindsberg J-, U-, and W-shaped burrows: how growth affects form and function in ichnology Phosphatization of vermiform fossils from the Winneshiek Lagerstätte, Winneshiek 1:45pm-2:00pm Andrew Hawkins Shale, Northeast Iowa Ecomorphology and recurrence: A comparative approach to understanding fish 2:00pm-2:15pm Emily Greenfest-Allen community dynamics in the Bear Gulch Bay Preliminary report of new Ediacara fossils from bituminous limestone of the 2:15pm-2:45pm Shuhai Xiao Dengying Formation in South China 2:45pm-3:15pm - COFFEE BREAK Sulfide and methane drivers of ecosystem dynamics in cold seep settings: A novel 3:15pm-3:30pm Leanne G Hancock geochemical proxy approach to constraining their cycling and availability Phylogeny and ontogeny: How do terebratulidine short loops compare with 3:30pm-3:45pm Sandra J. Carlson rhynchonellide crura? A radicle solution: Morphology and biomechanics of the Eucalyptocrinites root 3:45pm-4:00pm Roy E. Plotnick system 4:00pm-4:30pm Jean-Bernard Caron Primitive fishes from the middle Cambrian of Laurentia 4:45-6:00pm - POSTER SESSIONS 18-24 (Please see page 17) From macroecology to macroevolution: the ecological context of Session 12 extinction and origination Room: Ballroom C Chairs: Seth Finnegan & Carl Simpson Biogeography and extinction of New World passerines: Evidence from Pleistocene 1:30pm-1:45pm Jessica A. Oswald fossils Functional diversity of marine ecosystems following the Late Permian mass 1:45pm-2:00pm William J. Foster extinction event 2:00pm-2:15pm Hannes Loeser Persistence of Early Cretaceous coral to Extant Estimating species durations and turnover in a hyperdiverse Neogene gastropod 2:15pm-2:30pm Jonathan Todd radiation - an insight into patterns of Cenozoic biodiversity Differential dental adaptations to dietary change in mice and rat lineages in the late 2:30pm-2:45pm Yuri Kimura Miocene of Pakistan 2:45pm-3:15pm - COFFEE BREAK

14 15-18 , February 2014 Gainesville, Florida, USA Sunday (PM), February 16, 2014

Conservation paleobiology: Ecosystem, community, and species Session 13 response to environmental change Room: Dogwood Chairs: Carrie L. Tyler, Sahale N. Casebolt, & Rebecca Terry Strategies for connecting conservation paleobiological research to management: 1:30pm-1:45pm Michael Savarese Examples from Greater Everglades’ restoration of southwest Florida Five year study using live-dead analysis of mollusc assemblages to assess 1:45pm-2:00pm Patricia H. Kelley anthropogenic impact on a North Carolina tidal flat Fidelity of live-dead molluscan assemblages in the Israeli Mediterranean shelf as a 2:00pm-2:15pm Leshno Yael proxy for ecosystem modification Enhanced resolution in live/dead molluscan fidelity studies through comparisons 2:15pm-2:30pm Kelsey M. Feser among multiple stratigraphic intervals Reconstructing population demographics and paleoenvironment of Pleistocene 2:30pm-2:45pm Rowan Lockwood oyster assemblages: Establishing a baseline for Chesapeake Bay restoration? 2:45pm-3:15pm - COFFEE BREAK Size-selective evolution in the Fighting Conch Strombus pugilis in response to 3:15pm-3:30pm Aaron O'Dea prehistoric and modern subsistence harvesting Shifting baselines in Ordovician brachiopod communities - Response to minor and 3:30pm-3:45pm Amelinda E. Webb major environmental changes 3:45pm-4:00pm Laura L. Pullum Abrasion from dam release does not affect mortality in a freshwater mussel Assessing trophic impact of invasive lionfish on modern coral reefs with limited data: 4:00pm-4:15pm Peter D. Roopnarine A role for paleoecological analysis in the study of modern systems Building a pre-dam baseline for molluscan predator-prey interactions in the northern 4:15pm-4:30pm Jansen Smith Gulf of California Identifying seagrass habitats in the past: a cornerstone for the study of ecological 4:30pm-4:45pm Sonja Reich response to environmental change 4:45-6:00pm - POSTER SESSIONS 18-24 (Please see page 17) Session 14 T h e C r e t a c e o u s - P a l e o g e n e G o n d a w a n a n e x p r e s s w a y Room: Azalea Chairs: Maria A. Gandolfo and Elizabeth J. Hermsen 1:30pm-1:45pm Steven Manchester Revisiting the Oligocene Belén fruit and seed flora of northwestern Peru 1:45pm-2:00pm Luis Felipe Hinojosa Ligorio Marquez Formation and climatic niche evolution of Nothofagus New Myzopodidae (Mammalia, Chiroptera) from the Late Paleogene of Egypt and 2:00pm-2:15pm Gregg F. Gunnell their biogeographic implications for the origin of Noctilionoid bats New late Miocene dromomerycine artiodactyl from the Amazon Basin: The Panama 2:15pm-2:30pm Donald Prothero Land Bridge was open at 10 ma 2:45pm-3:15pm - COFFEE BREAK

10th North American Paleontological Convention 15 Sunday (PM), February 16, 2014

Modern approaches to educational outreach in Session 15 paleontology Room: Ballroom A Chairs: Peg Yacobucci & Christy Visaggi 1:30pm-1:45pm Margaret M. Yacobucci Fossils for the masses: Paleontology in social media and the web 1:45pm-2:00pm John Werner Science cafés: Ideal venues for the promotion of paleontology “Fossil Stories” radio show: Stimulating public interest in paleontology via the radio 2:00pm-2:15pm Montana Hodges medium The "Monisha and the Stone Forest" children's book project: Paleontological 2:15pm-2:30pm Nigel Hughes educational outreach in Bengali language in India and Bangladesh Virtual fieldwork experiences (VFEs) to bridge the gap between classroom and 2:30pm-2:45pm Stephen R. Durham field-based paleontology education 2:45pm-3:15pm - COFFEE BREAK Trammel fossil park, Sharonville, Ohio: A unique resource for field-based education 3:15pm-3:30pm David L. Meyer in paleontology 3:30pm-3:45pm Katherine Lewandowski Trial and error: Developing curriculum for public outreach The Museums and fossils institute: Using museums, classroom, and field 3:45pm-4:00pm Katherine V. Bulinski experiences for a K-12 professional development workshop Teachers, dinosaurs, and dirt: Immersive professional development and the DIG Field 4:00pm-4:15pm Lauren B. DeBey School From principles to practice: Optimizing the lab/field experience for Earth Science 4:15pm-4:30pm Danita Brandt teachers; an example from the Michigan Basin 4:30pm-4:45pm Danita Brandt Fate of paleontology teaching/research collections: A “Big 10” perspective 4:45-6:00pm - POSTER SESSIONS 18-24 (Please see page 17) Session 16 Diversity, origination, and extinction Room: Ballroom C Chairs: Kristopher Rhodes & Blaine Schubert 3:15pm-3:30pm Kristopher Rhodes Whats the worth of a taxon? Modern and fossil comatulid crinoids Molluscan faunas of the Ashley Formation and Chandler Bridge Formation 3:30pm-3:45pm Matthew Campbell (Oligocene), Charleston, South Carolina 3:45pm-4:00pm Joshua Doby Fossil Insects of the Gray Fossil SIte (Hemphillian) Washington County, Tennessee Leptobos (Artiodactyla, Bovidae) from Renzidong Cave, Early Pleistocene 4:00pm-4:15pm Jim I. Mead (Nihewanian) of Anhui, China, and an overview of the genus New fossil records of early Alligator bridge the temporal gap between the American 4:15pm-4:30pm Blaine Schubert Midwest and Southeast 4:30pm-4:45pm Rashmi Srivastava Gondwanan origin of some angiosperms and their out of India dispersal 4:45-6:00pm - POSTER SESSIONS 18-24 (Please see page 17) Session 17 Morphological Patterns Room: Azalea Chairs: Kristin Polizzotto & Troy Dexter 3:15pm-3:30pm Carol V. Ward Diet and morphology in the evolution of early Australopithecus 3:30pm-3:45pm Gregory M. Erickson Complex dental structure and wear biomechanics in hadrosaurid dinosaurs Trigeminal nerve morphology in Alligator mississippiensis and its significance for 3:45pm-4:00pm Casey M. Holliday crocodyliform facial sensation 4:00pm-4:15pm Kristin Polizzotto Organic origin of pseudosutures in Late Cretaceous ammonites Growth rates in giant beaver incisors inferred from periradicular banding reveals 4:15pm-4:30pm Caroline E Rinaldi atypical feeding biomechanics Body size change of C. megalodon through time in comparison with 4:30pm-4:45pm Meghan A. Balk contemporaneous marine mega-fauna 4:45-6:00pm - POSTER SESSIONS 18-24 (Please see page 17)

16 15-18 , February 2014 Gainesville, Florida, USA Sunday Poster Sessions: 18-24

Session 18 Diversity, origination, and extinction 27. Roger Portell First evidence of coral-inhabiting gall crabs (Cryptochiridae) from the fossil record 28. Alexei A. Rivera Sluggish rates of evolution for land animals during the late Paleozoic ice age: A geobiological interpretation 29. John Starmer Fossil gorgonian (Octocorallia) holdfasts and axes from the upper Eocene Ocala Limestone of Florida 30. Kurt Auffenberg A revision of the Florida Oligocene to Miocene land snails assigned to Hyperaulax (Gastropoda: Odontostomidae) Session 19 Morphological patterns 31. Stephen K. Donovan A Paleozoic-like assemblage in the Oligocene of Antigua, West Indies Reconstructing past continental environments from the Session 20 biogeochemistry of fossils Stable isotope differences among three modern, sympatric land snail species and the paleoenvironmental 32. Nicole Little significance 33. Nasser M. Al-Qattan Interpretation of oxygen isotopic values of North American land snails Creating a modern isotopic framework for understanding paleoecology in C -dominated paleoecosystems in the 34. Nuria Garcia 3 Pleistocene of Europe Session 21 Modern approaches to educational outreach in paleontology 35. Tiffany S. Adrain Discovering Iowa’s Fossil Treasure: Enhancing outreach education resources at Iowa’s Devonian Fossil Gorge A new Ichnology Website at the University of Kansas (http://ichnology.ku.edu): A guide to identify trace fossils, 36. Andy Connolly interpret organism behaviors, and reconstruct 37. Edward Byrd Davis A story of dogs and horses: Implementing a tree-first approach to evolution exhibit design 38. Dana J. Ehret Digitizing paleontological collections and exhibits to teach evolution in Alabama, USA Promoting paleontology on precambrian basement: Finding fossils on Fridays and other programs in the 39. Andrew B. Heckert Department of Geology at Appalachian State University 40. Pennilyn Higgins Social media and the process of paleontology 41. Elysia Howe Utilizing the paleobiology database for undergraduate education 42. Christy C. Visaggi Infusing place-based learning as a model for the study of fossils, life history, and deep time 43. Natasha S. Vitek Bringing museum collections to the public through a smartphone application From macroecology to macroevolution: the ecological context of Session 22 extinction and origination Non-anguimorph lizard diversity from the late Oligocene and early Miocene of Florida, USA and the 44. Kevin Chovanec reorganization of the North American herpetofauna 45. Matt Jarrett The prevalence of the liliput effect in the end-cretaceous mass extinction 46. Toljagic Olja Evolutionary rates in ungulates: A two-pronged approach Tracing the foundations of animal diversity, ecology, and functional Session 23 morphology 47. John C. Handley Escalation within bivalve prey of Chesapeake Group naticid gastropods: A critical reappraisal 48. Ashwini Kumar Insect plant coaltion Srivastava 49. Jeffrey Thompson A new basal Cidaroid (Echinoidea) from the Middle Permian of North America Conservation paleobiology: Ecosystem, community, and species Session 24 response to environmental change 50. Katherine Cummings Seagrass-associated molluskan death assemblages in the Big Bend region of Florida, Gulf of Mexico 51. Luis Patricio Soto Paleoecology of new chondrichthyan fauna from middle Miocene (Barstovian), Gadsen County, Florida, USA

10th North American Paleontological Convention 17 Monday (AM), February 17, 2014

Celebrating public participation in paleontology, Session 25 Sponsored by The Florida Paleontological Society Room: Ballroom A Chairs: Austin J.W. Hendy & Bruce J. MacFadden Egg Mountain paleontological field station: Integrating science and educational 8:15am-8:45am Jack Horner outreach Partnering for posterity: Community collaboration in the furtherance of 8:45am-9:00am Glenn W. Storrs collections-based paleontology at Cincinnati Museum Center 9:00am-9:15am JP Cavigelli Using a volunteer army to help a small museum collect large vertebrate specimens Engagement with the public and avocational paleontologists at the Calvert Marine 9:15am-9:30am Stephen J. Godfrey Museum Partners in Paleontology: Successful synergies and collaborations between amateurs 9:30am-9:45am Tiffany S. Adrain and professionals, illustrated by the University of Iowa Paleontology Repository, the Mid America Paleontology Society, and the Black Hawk Gem and Mineral Society Avocational paleontologists and volunteers: Critical partners with the Non-vertebrate 9:45am-10:00am Ann Molineux Paleontology collections at UT Austin. 10:00am-10:30am - COFFEE BREAK The Dallas Paleontological Society's contributions to public participation in 10:30am-10:45am Patricia Noell paleontology 10:45am-11:00am Linda J. McCall The purpose and function of fossil clubs: A personal perspective Where are the women and minority fossil collectors? A study of the development and 11:00am-11:15am M. Gail Jones characteristics of science hobbyists 11:15am-11:30am Dena M. Smith Public participation and collaboration in Colorado paleontology 11:30am-11:45am Questions Open floor to questions for the session chairs 11:45am-1:30pm - LUNCH BREAK Critical paleobiological transitions in Earth history: Session 26 The value of multidisciplinary approaches,Sponsored by STEPPE Room: Ballroom B Chairs: Sandra J. Carlson and Philip D. Gingerich STEPPE Executive STEPPE: A voice for research on Earth’s deep-time sedimentary crust 8:30am-8:45am Director Anoxia, extinction, and faunal rebound in the late devonian in the Central Asian 8:45am-9:00am Johnny A. Waters Orogenic Belt: A multi-proxy approach A multidisciplinary approach for understanding upper Kellwasser black shale 9:00am-9:15am Emily Haddad deposition, New York State: Combining ichnological, organic, and inorganic geochemical proxies Organism, species, and community-level responses to an icehouse-greenhouse 9:15am-9:30am Matthew E. Clapham transition after the late Paleozoic ice age The response of marine benthic communities to increased pCO and temperature in 9:30am-10:00am Silvia Danise 2 the early Toarcian Shari New and revised planktonic foraminiferal bioevents of the (middle) Eocene 10:00am-10:30am Hilding-Kronforst 10:00am-10:30am - COFFEE BREAK Disentangling the drivers of biotic responses to climate change using a multivariate 10:30am-10:45am Christina L. Belanger environmental proxy record Thirty years of field-based “Big Paleontology” on Cenozoic shallow marine 10:45am-11:00am Kenneth Johnson ecosystems 11:00am-11:30am David J. Bottjer Deep time conservation paleobiology 11:45pm-1:30pm - LUNCH BREAK

18 15-18 , February 2014 Gainesville, Florida, USA Monday (AM), February 17, 2014

The Cenozoic assembly of the grassland biome: Pattern and process Session 27 in ecosystem evolution Room: Ballroom C Chairs: Caroline Strömberg & Bonnie Jacobs Neogene grasslands of the Indian subcontinent: Dynamics of the transition from C 8:30am-9:00am Catherine Badgley 3 to C4 ecosystems How did Late Miocene rodents respond to changes in the grassland biome of 9:00am-9:15am Lawrence Flynn southern Asia? Caroline A. E. Evolution of grazer morphologies in the absence of grasslands in southern South 9:15am-9:30am Strömberg America Isotopic evidence for patchy C abundance in southern California during the medial 9:30am-9:45am Robert Feranec 4 Miocene 9:45am-10:00am Nathan Sheldon Preliminary multi-proxy 40 ma record of the rise and spread of grasses in Montana 10:00am-10:30am - COFFEE BREAK The role of Paleogene grasses in southwestern Montana paleoecosystems inferred 10:30am-10:45am Selena Smith from combined phytolith and paleosol analysis Impacts of the mid-miocene climatic optimum on vegetation in the Northern Rocky 10:45am-11:00am Elisha B. Harris Mountains

11:00am-11:15am Ethan G. Hyland Dynamics of the rise of C4 grasslands in southwestern Montana Rodents respond differently than large herbivores during the Cenozoic spread of 11:15am-11:30am Samantha Hopkins open habitats 11:45am-1:30pm - LUNCH BREAK Session 28 E x c e p ti o n a l R e c o r d s : E v o l u ti o n a n d e c o l o g y o f m i c r o f o s s i ls Room: Dogwood Chairs: Gene Hunt & Pincelli Hull The exceptional fossil record of larger benthic foraminifera and its relevance to 8:30am-9:00am Willem Renema understanding macroevolutionary patterns 9:00am-9:15am Laura Cotton Global evolution of reticulate Nummulites 9:15am-9:30am Thomas Ezard Mechanistic models to (try to) identify the limiting factors of diversification New evolutionary and paleoclimatic insights gained from study of Cretaceous 9:30am-10:00am Brian T. Huber foraminiferal lagerstätte 10:00am-10:30am Susan L. Richardson Forams and phylogeny: Where do the fossils fit in? 10:00am-10:30am - COFFEE BREAK Resolving communities through time: New approaches for rapidly analyzing the 10:30am-10:45am Pincelli Hull >99.9% Macroevolutionary dynamics of sexual systems in spinicaudatan "Clam Shrimp": 10:45am-11:00am Timothy Astrop palaeobiological assessment of evolutionary cannon 11:00am-11:15am Gene Hunt Evolutionary modes within fossil lineages: An expanded survey 11:15am-11:30am David Bord Forcing on morphologic instability during speciation 11:45pm-1:30pm - LUNCH BREAK

10th North American Paleontological Convention 19 Monday (AM), February 17, 2014

What comes after death: Current topics in actualistic taphonomy Session 29 and integrative paleobiology Chairs: Emma R. Locatelli, Madeline S. Marshall, Marc Laflamme, Room: Azalea James D. Schiffbauer, & Simon Darroch Anna K. 8:30am-9:00am Nutrient recycling and the fossil record: A unifying concept for taphonomy Behrensmeyer Insights into the microbial degradation of bone in marine environments from rRNA 9:00am-9:15am Laura Vietti gene sequencing of biofilms on lab simulated carcass-falls Patterns of aquatic decay and disarticulation in juvenile Indo-Pacific crocodiles 9:15am-9:30am Caitlin Syme (Crocodylus porosus), and implications for the taphonomic interpretation of fossil crocodyliform material 9:30am-9:45am Thomas Evans A new understanding of fluvial bone transport processes 9:45am-10:00am Laura Clarke Drivers of exceptional preservation in leaves and insects: An experimental analysis 10:00am-10:30am - COFFEE BREAK 10:30am-10:45am Victoria E. McCoy Effects of microbial activity on soft tissue phosphatization 10:45am-11:00am Emma Locatelli Experimental taphonomy of foraminifera Experimental taphonomy as a tool for deciphering biological affinities of 11:00am-11:15am Julie K. Bartley microfossils Anthropogenic modification of the Gulf of Eilat (Israel) characterized by live-dead 11:15am-11:30am Ehud Gilad bivalve assemblages 11:45am-1:30pm - LUNCH BREAK

20 15-18 , February 2014 Gainesville, Florida, USA Monday (PM), February 17, 2014

Celebrating public participation in paleontology Session 25 Sponsored by The Florida Paleontological Society Room: Ballroom A Chairs: Austin J.W. Hendy & Bruce J. MacFadden Paleo Quest: Accelerating science literacy, paleontological discoveries and museum 1:30pm-1:45pm Jason E. Osborne collections through citizen science, outreach and novel field recovery methods Stonerose Interpretive Center and Eocene Fossil Site: an integrative model at the 1:45pm-2:00pm Michael E. Sternberg crossroads of research, public outreach and community involvement. Lee Taylor Mineral Wells Fossil Park, Texas 2:00pm-2:15pm Higginbotham www.mineralwellsfossilpark.com and on facebook The New Mexico friends of paleontology: A volunteer group committed to the 2:15pm-2:30pm Gary Morgan advancement of paleontology in New Mexico Engaging professionals and the public: Outreach efforts of the friends of the 2:30pm-2:45pm David Clark University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology 2:45pm-3:15pm - COFFEE BREAK SharkFinder: Advancing the understanding of evolution and diversity of 3:15pm-3:30pm Aaron A. Alford prehistoric elasmobranches (sharks, skates and rays) through an innovative citizen science program Participation of K-12 teachers and students in paleontology: Factors impacting 3:30pm-3:45pm Robert M. Ross effectiveness and sustainability Digitizing paleontological collections for new audiences: Past practices and the 3:45pm-4:00pm Austin Hendy potential for public participation FOSSIL—A national network of fossil clubs and professional paleontologists in the 4:00pm-4:15pm Bruce MacFadden U.S. 4:15pm-4:30pm Questions Questions 4:45pm-6:00pm - Poster Sessions 30-35 (Please see page 24) Critical paleobiological transitions in Earth history: Session 26 The value of multidisciplinary approaches Sponsored by STEPPE Room: Ballroom B Chairs: Sandra J. Carlson and Philip D. Gingerich STEPPE---Earth life transitions: the ‘estuary effect’ and the origin of lake faunas: the 1:30pm-1:45pm Lisa Park Boush synergy between global tectonics, climate change and biodiversity through time Tropical biome dynamics during the Pennsylvanian ice ages 1:45pm-2:00pm William A. DiMichele

Restructuring of terrestrial environments in southern Pangea following the 2:00pm-2:15pm Christian A. Sidor Permian-Triassic mass extinction Diversity, extinction, and recovery in terrestrial ecosystems across the K/Pg 2:15pm-2:30pm Gregory P. Wilson boundary in North America and India Paleocene-Eocene coring project in the Bighorn Basin: Multidisciplinary approach 2:30pm-2:45pm Philip D. Gingerich to a critical earth-life transition 2:45pm-3:15pm - COFFEE BREAK Effects of the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum on terrestrial plants and 3:15pm-3:30pm Scott L. Wing carbon storage Caroline A. E. The Cenozoic emergence of grassland ecosystems: The fossil record reveals a com- 3:30pm-3:45pm Strömberg plex pattern 3:45pm-4:00pm Carlos Jaramillo Expansion of the Panama Canal and the rise of the Isthmus 4:00pm-4:15pm Federico Moreno Late Pliocene-Pleistocene climate change from La Guajira Peninsula (Colombia) 4:45pm-6:00pm - Poster Sessions 30-35 (Please see page 24)

10th North American Paleontological Convention 21 Monday (PM), February 17, 2014

The Cenozoic assembly of the grassland biome: pattern and process Session 27 in ecosystem evolution Room: Ballroom C Chairs: Caroline Strömberg & Bonnie Jacobs Paleogene surface uplift and its impact on terrestrial paleoenvironments and 1:30pm-1:45pm Christine Janis mammalian communities in western North America The nitty gritty of US Western Plains: Paleontological and geological implications for 1:45pm-2:00pm Deborah L. Rook the evolution of grazers and grasslands A new parahippine equid from the early Miocene of Florida and the origin of 2:00pm-2:15pm Jay O'Sullivan cementum-covered cheekteeth in horses New insights on the expansion of grasses in Central Africa during the Mio-Pliocene: 2:15pm-2:30pm Novello Alice Evidences from the phytoliths preserved at paleontological sites in northern Chad A Miocene pharoid grass (Poaceae: Pharoideae) from Kenya and Implications for 2:30pm-2:45pm Bonnie F. Jacobs Mid-Miocene Paleoecology 2:45pm-3:15pm - COFFEE BREAK Origins of C grasslands: Integrating modeling and paleo data to shed light on 3:15pm-3:30pm Stephanie Pau 4 Neogene vegetation change 3:30pm-3:45pm Gregory J. Retallack Cenozoic paleoclimatic cooling by grass-grazer coevolution 3:45pm-4:00pm Richard Madden The role of earth surface processes in the evolution of mammalian tooth shape Matthew C. Its not easy bein’ green: grasslands and the dental ecology of North American 4:00pm-4:15pm Mihlbachler ungulates of the North American Cenozoic 4:15pm-4:30pm Lars Werdelin The role of carnivores in grassland ecosystem evolution and community regulation 4:45pm-6:00pm - Poster Sessions 30-35 (Please see page 24) Session 28 E x c e p ti o n a l R e c o r d s : E v o l u ti o n a n d e c o l o g y o f m i c r o f o s s i ls Room: Dogwood Chairs: Gene Hunt & Pincelli Hull Fish like anoxia: Ichthyolith production repeatedly increases during Mediterranean 1:30pm-1:45pm Richard D. Norris sapropel events Fishy increase of icthyoliths throughout the Oligocene suggests marine cooling 1:45pm-2:00pm Lana G. Graves facilitated bony fish population expansion An increase in complexity of pelagic fish community structure following the 2:00pm-2:15pm Elizabeth C. Sibert Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction Seeing the light through cell morphology. A new proxy for estimating Leaf Area 2:15pm-2:30pm Regan Dunn Index (LAI) from anticlinal epidermal phytoliths Getting a leg up: Mammalian postcrania across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary 2:30pm-2:45pm Lauren B. DeBey in northeastern Montana 2:45pm-3:15pm - COFFEE BREAK Deep-sea biodiversity response to abrupt climate changes for the last 20,000 years 3:15pm-3:30pm Moriaki Yasuhara

Caitlin Modern North American benthic foraminifera feel the heat 3:30pm-3:45pm Keating-Bitonti ‘Bleaching’ of photosymbionts in planktic foraminifera during the Middle Eocene 3:45pm-4:00pm Kirsty Edgar Climatic Optimum 4:00pm-4:15pm Sarah O’Dea Exquisitely preserved fossil coccolithophores: A day in the life of ancient plankton 4:45pm-6:00pm - Poster Sessions 30-35 (Please see page 24)

22 15-18 , February 2014 Gainesville, Florida, USA Monday (PM), February 17, 2014

What comes after death: current topics in actualistic taphonomy Session 29 and integrative paleobiology Chairs: Emma R. Locatelli, Madeline S. Marshall, Marc Laflamme, Room: Azalea James D. Schiffbauer, & Simon Darroch Quantifying the taphonomic biases between different soft-bodied preservational 1:30pm-1:45pm Evan P. Anderson pathways Isotopic and mineralogical insights on the formation of Mazon Creek Lagerstätten 1:45pm-2:00pm Sarina Cotroneo Siderite Concretions Taphonomy and allometry of the problematic tubular fossil Sphenothallus from the 2:00pm-2:15pm Drew Muscente early Cambrian (Series 2) of South China Comparative Burgess Shale-Type taphonomy across variable tissue biochemistries: 2:15pm-2:30pm Jesse Broce Analysis of mineral associations in Lower-Middle Cambrian fossils of western North America The nature and origin of nucleus-like intracellular inclusions in Paleoproterozoic 2:30pm-2:45pm James D. Schiffbauer eukaryote microfossils 2:45pm-3:15pm - COFFEE BREAK Taphonomic implications of geopetal structures and plate disruption patterns in 3:15pm-3:30pm James R. Thomka diploporite 'cystoids' (Echinodermata) from the Silurian Massie Formation of southeastern Indiana Dhurjati Prasad Taphonomy of Middle Triassic vertebrate accumulation of Sahavan, Central India 3:30pm-3:45pm Sengupta Raman spectroscopy as a non-destructive method for screening collagen diagenesis 3:45pm-4:00pm Christine A.M. France in bone A new resampling method for normalizing size-based taphonomic bias across fossil 4:00pm-4:15pm Kelsey T. Stilson assemblages 4:15pm-4:30pm Lars Werdelin The role of carnivores in grassland ecosystem evolution and community regulation 4:45pm-6:00pm - Poster Sessions 30-35 (Please see page 24)

10th North American Paleontological Convention 23 Monday Poster Sessions: 30-35

Session 30 Ediacaran environments and ecosystems Early bulldozers and imposters: A re-examination of trace fossils from the Albemarle Group, Carolina terrane of 52.Patricia G Weaver North Carolina What comes after death: current topics in actualistic taphonomy and Session 31 integrative paleobiology 53. Lorenzo De Bortoli Badenian oysters in Moravian part of the Carpathian foredeep: Samples from Olomouc area (Czech Republic) 54. Eleanor E. Gardner Preservation bias in the avian fossil record: A review and update 55. Victoria E. McCoy Distribution of fossiliferous concretions at the Mazon Creek fossil site 56. Robert Salazar Preparation of subfossil ivory: Case study of Mammut americanum 57. Tara L. Selly Taphonomy of Anomalocaris from Middle Cambrian shales of the southwestern United States 58. Matthew B. Vrazo Can stable isotopes in fossil marine arthropods serve as paleoecological indicators? 59. Lane A. Wallett Chronic laminitis: Paleopathology of the ungual phalanx of Equus as a taphonomic consideration Session 32 Stratigraphic paleobiology: Integrating sedimentary and fossil records Understanding the marine biodiversity and paleoecology of the early Miocene Chipola Formation of northern 60. Garett M. Brown Florida 61. Katherine V. Bulinski Evaluating the use of ecospace utilization analysis in fine-scale paleoecological studies 62. Chelsea Jenkins Initiation of provinciality across Laurentia during the Ordovician Controls on the stratigraphic distribution of non-marine fossils: A case study in the Upper Jurassic Morrison 63. Sharon K. McMullen Formation, western USA Planktonic foraminiferal biostratigraphy and paleoecology of the Miocene sequence in the area between Wadi 64. Mostafa Hamad Gharandal and Bir Haleifiya, Gulf of Suez region, Egypt Session 33 Digitization in vertebrate paleobiology Endocranial morphology of the extinct Antillean shrew Nesophontes (Lipotyphla: Nesophontidae) from natural 65. Johanset Orihuela and digital endocasts of Cuban taxa 66. Daniel Snyder “Horse collars” are for balancing? The function of an enigmatic Devonian fossil re-examined with 3D visualization Session 34 Celebrating public participation in paleontology The Anza Borrego Desert State Park Paleontology Society: Fourty years of volunteer support in field, preparation 67. Michael Guberek and curation activities. Heirs to the "Cincinnati School of Paleontology": Over 70 years of scientific contributions from the Cincinnati Dry 68. Jack Kallmeyer Dredgers 69. Daniel Krisher Rochester Academy of Science Fossil Section - An example of citizen scientists and their role in paleontology Educational outreach by avocational paleontologists and citizen scientist for National Fossil Day - junior 70. Paul R. Roth III paleontologist educational kits Critical paleobiological transitions in Earth history: The value of Session 35 multidisciplinary approaches

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

A multidisciplinary analysis of the unique iron-rich Turonian-Coniacian boundary interval (~3.16m thick) within 72. Roger W. Cooper the Boquillas Formation, Big Bend region, TX that includes the Allocrioceras hazzardi Zone 73. Katherine Cummings Evidence for a diverse terrestrial ecosystem in the 1.1 Ga Midcontinent Rift 74. Dennis R. Ruez, Jr. Ecological stress in the evolution of fossil hominids in South Africa

24 15-18 , February 2014 Gainesville, Florida, USA Tuesday (AM), February 18, 2014

Session 36 Ediacaran environments and ecosystems Room: Ballroom A Chairs: Lidya Tarhan & Marc Laflamme 8:00am-8:30am Paul Myrow Role of paleoenvironmental interpretation for analysis of Ediacaran faunas Paleosols and paleoenvironments of the Edicaran (565 Ma) Mistaken Point 8:30am-8:45am Gregory J. Retallack Formation, Newfoundland The lateral continuity of Ediacaran fossil surfaces: Implications for taphonomy and 8:45am-9:00am Jack J. Matthews palaeoecology Deep-marine Ediacaran fossil-bearing formations of the Bonavista Peninsula, 9:00am-9:15am Sara J. Mason Newfoundland Upside down ripples and other anactualistic sedimentary structures of the 9:15am-9:30am Mary Droser Ediacaran 9:30am-9:45am Alexander Liu Giant sulfur bacteria as a significant component of late Ediacaran benthic ecosystems Taphonomy and morphology of the Ediacaran form genus Aspidella 9:45am-10:00am Lidya Tarhan (ediacara member, rawnsley quartzite, South Australia) 10:00am-10:30am - COFFEE BREAK Charlotte Tuffs, turbidites and tiering: the control of sedimentology on biotic assemblage in the 10:30am-10:45am Kenchington Ediacaran successions of Charnwood Forest (UK) and Newfoundland (Canada). The discs of Avalon: Relating discoid fossils to frondose organisms in the Ediacaran 10:45am-11:00am Greg Burzynski of Newfoundland, Canada 11:00am-11:15am Scott Evans Dickinsonia lifts off: evidence of current derived morphologies 11:15am-11:30am Renee Hoekzema Modelling the growth and morphology of Ediacaran organisms Two types of preservation in the Khatyspyt Lagerstätte, the Olenek Uplift, the 11:30am-11:45am Natalia Bykova Siberian Platform Rapid changes in magnetic field polarity during the late Ediacaran: Trigger for the 11:45am-12:00pm Joseph Meert agronomic revolution and the demise of the Ediacaran fauna? Noon-3:00pm - LUNCH BREAK Stratigraphic paleobiology: Integrating sedimentary and fossil Session 37 records Room: Ballroom B Chairs: Jackie Wittmer & Daniele Scarponi 8:00am-8:15am Mark Patzkowsky Stratigraphic paleobiology and the origin of regional biotas The early Miocene protoceratids (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from the Panama Canal 8:15am-8:30am Aldo F. Rincon basin 8:30am-8:45am Andrew Zaffos The persistence of ecological gradients: what do we really know? 8:45am-9:00am Amy Singer The invertebrate paleoecology of the Bear Gulch Limestone 9:00am-9:15am Steven M. Holland The stratigraphic paleobiology of marine vertebrates Temporal and paleoenvironmental distribution of Basilosaurus 9:15am-9:30am Kathlyn M. Smith (Mammalia: Cetacea) in the southeastern United States: new evidence from the Eocene of southwest Georgia Millennial-scale sequence stratigraphy of late Quaternary deposits as revealed by 9:30am-9:45am Alessandro Amorosi high-resolution sedimentological and micropaleontological data Quantitative bathymetric models and their applications for late Quaternary 9:45am-10:00am Jacalyn Wittmer transgressive-regressive cycles of the Po Plain, Italy 10:00am-10:30am - COFFEE BREAK

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Session 37 Stratigraphic paleobiology: Integrating sedimentary and fossil Continued records Room: Ballroom B Chairs: Jackie Wittmer & Daniele Scarponi Stratigraphic paleobiology through time and across space: Case studies and 10:30am-10:45am Austin Hendy challenges Stratigraphic paleoecology of the Valle di Manche Section (Crotone Basin, Italy): A 10:45am-11:00am Daniele Scarponi candidate GSSP of the Middle Pleistocene 11:00am-11:15am John Warren Huntley Stratigraphic paleobiology of trematode parasites and bivalve hosts Discovery of vertebrate coprolite of the Crato Member from Araripe Basin in the 11:15am-11:30am Paulo Souto northeast of Brazil 11:30am-11:45am Thomas R. Holtz Jr. Laramidia: Engine of dinosaur diversity or perfect storm for collecting? (or both?) Spatial and temporal distribution patterns of early and middle Permian 11:45am-12:00pm Rebecca Koll gigantopterid seed plants in Western Pangea Noon-3:00pm - LUNCH BREAK Session 38 D i g i ti zati o n i n ve r te b rate p a l e o b i o l o g y Room: Ballroom C Chairs: Aaron R. Wood and P. David Polly 8:00am-8:15am Martin Rücklin Vision impossible? Tomographic techniques in paleobiology 8:15am-8:30am Corey Toler-Franklin Practical optical imaging techniques for analyzing natural history collections 8:30am-8:45am Mark Sutton SPIERS - a free package for tomographic reconstruction Generation of three-dimensional (3D) surface models of baleen whale skulls 8:45am-9:00am Julia M. Fahlke (Cetacea: Mysticeti) for morphometric analyses: possibilities and limits of photogrammetry 9:00am-9:15am John F. Graf Mobile scanning of large and rare specimens A case study for a 3D skeletal reconstruction of Elephas tiliensis based on CT and 9:15am-9:30am Theodorou Georgios Laser scans; morphology, population data and taphonomy. 9:30am-9:45am Gregory P. Wilson On the cusp: GIS approaches to inferring diet in fossil mammals Mammalian dental ecomorphology and disparity across the Cretaceous-Paleogene 9:45am-10:00am Stephanie M. Smith boundary: A comparison of 3D metrics 10:00am-10:30am - COFFEE BREAK

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Session 38 Digitization in vertebrate paleobiology Continued

Room: Ballroom C Chairs: Aaron R. Wood and P. David Polly 10:30am-10:45am Jussi T. Eronen Mammal proxy methods for estimating precipitation 3d ecomorphology of Miocene-Pliocene horse astragali: Testing the Gulf Coast 10:45am-11:00am Aaron R. Wood Refugium hypothesis via shape analysis of digital morphologies Transforming morphology with mathematics: Can morphometric methods model 11:00am-11:15am P. David Polly evolution of complex morphologies? Getting back to basics: a virtual dissection of the cranium of Microsyops annectens 11:15am-11:30am Mary T. Silcox (Mammalia, Euarchonta) using microCT Arianna R. Reconstructing the virtual endocasts of two Eocene primates from high-resolution 11:30am-11:45am Harrington x-ray computed tomography data 11:45am-12:00pm Ornella Bertrand Ischyromys typus: First virtual endocast of a fossil rodent 12:00pm-12:15pm Stephanie Baumgart Air versus bone in the wing skeleton of a pterosaur 12:15pm-3:00pm - LUNCH BREAK Session 39 Paleoecological patterns Room: Dogwood Chairs: Richard Hulbert & Adiël Klompmaker Annual shell increments reveal shifting baselines and anthropogenic influences on 8:15am-8:30am Douglas S. Jones ancient and modern hard clam populations Biotic control of (low) biodiversity in rudist bivalve reefs - an example from the 8:30am-8:45am Simon Schneider Tithonian of Austria 8:45am-9:00am Adiël A. Klompmaker Are ribs on bivalves effective against gastropod drilling predation? 9:00am-9:15am Robyn Dahl Bellerophontid gastropods of the Middle Ordovician Kanosh Shale 9:15am-9:30am Cristina Robins An overview of fossil squat lobsters (Decapoda: Anomura: Galatheoidea) Paleobiodiversity of the Cassian Formation (N Italy) – the most diverse Triassic 9:30am-9:45am Alexander Nützel fossil invertebrate lagerstätte 9:45am-10:00am George D. Stanley Jr Coral and reef evolution during biotic reorganizations of the Late Triassic 10:00am-10:30am - COFFEE BREAK A preliminary report on a dinosaur track site at the Greenbelt NASA Goddard Space 10:30am-10:45am Lee E. Monnens Flight Center, Elk Neck beds (informal), basal Upper Cretaceous (lower Cenomanian), Atlantic Coastal Plain of Maryland Dhurjati Prasad Diversity and extinction of the triassic temnospondyls of India 10:45am-11:00am Sengupta Mastodon, hemlock and freshwater wetlands – new evidence of terrestrial 11:00am-11:15am F. J. Rich environments along the coastal zone of the southeastern US No middle ground: Vertebrate paleoecology and habitat reconstruction of two very 11:15am-11:30am Richard C. Hulbert Jr. different late Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) localities in peninsular Florida Changes in body size and dental development in mammals during the 11:30am-11:45am Paul E. Morse Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum of the Bighorn Basin, WY 11:45am-3:00pm - LUNCH BREAK

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Closing Ceremony and Banquet Closing Ceremony: Ballroom A/B/C at Hilton Banquet: Touchdown Terrace, University of Florida Opening Remarks 3:00pm-3:15pm Steven R. Manchester, NAPC Organizing Committee Plenary Talk 3:15pm-4:30pm The Million Kid March and other aspirations for paleontology Kirk Johnson

4:30pm-4:45pm Award Ceremony

4:45pm-5:30pm Bus Transportation to University of Florida Touchdown Terrace for Banquet 5:30pm-8:00pm NAPC Banquet at Touchdown Terrace 7:30pm-8:30pm Bus Transportation back to The Hilton and The Lodge

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Time Event Organization Location Point of Contact Friday, February 14, 2014 Troy Dexter Florida Museum of [email protected] 6:00pm- Ice Breaker/Welcoming Ceremony NAPC Natural History 8:00pm (Powell Hall) Jenn Jasinski [email protected] Saturday, February 15, 2014 Paleontology Town Hall Meeting: 7:00pm- Hilton Conference Center Sandy Carlson Where are we now, and where are 8:00pm Ballroom B [email protected] we going? Sunday, February 16, 2014 12:00pm- Paleobiology Database Town Hall Shanan Peters Paleobiology Database Hilton Conference Center 1:00pm (Open) [email protected] 5:00pm- Paleobiology Database Orientation Hilton Conference Center Shanan Peters Paleobiology Database 6:00pm and Workshop (Open) Azalea Room [email protected] 6:30pm- Bivens North Condo Steven Manchester Paleobotonist Reception (Invite) FLMNH Paleobotony 8:30pm Clubhouse [email protected] Monday, February 17, 2014 6:30pm- Friends of Florida Paleontology Friends of Florida Hilton Conference Center Bruce MacFadden 7:30pm Gathering (Open) Paleontology Dogwood Room [email protected] Tuesday, February 18, 2014 Florida Museum of Noon- Florida Museum Tours Troy Dexter NAPC Natural History 3:00pm (Sign up required) [email protected] (Powell Hall) 12:30pm- Museum (Powell Hall) Bruce MacFadden FOSSIL Lunch (Invite) FOSSIL 1:45pm Classroom [email protected] 2:00pm- Hilton Conference Center Christopher Yusheng Liu NSF Townhall meeting (Open) NSF 3:00pm Dogwood Room [email protected] Wednesday, February 19, 2014 Museum (Powell Hall) Bruce MacFadden 8:30am- FOSSIL Project Kick-off Meeting FOSSIL Classroom [email protected] 5:00pm (Invite)

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