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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, DEPARTMENT OF EARTH & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY
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10:15 Lauren SALLAN, University of Pennsylvania
The nearshore realm as the cradle of early vertebrate ecomorphological diversification
10:40 Conrad LABANDEIRA, National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), Smithsonian
The Messel food web from the Mid Eocene of central-western Germany
11:05 Jennifer ANNÉ, University of Manchester, UK
Physiology and physics: Synchrotron-based chemohistology of extant and extinct bone
11:30 Irina KORETSKY & S.J. RAHMAT, Howard University, Washington, D.C.
Origin and dispersal of true seals (Phocidae)
___________ COFFEE BREAK at 11:55 am
12:15 Qingqing XU, Sun Yet-Sen University, Guangzhou, CHINA & NMNH
Plant-insect associations from an earliest Permian flora from North-Central Texas
12:40 Gussie McCRACKEN, University of Maryland & NMNH
Plant-insect associations of Late Cretaceous Laramidia, western North America
1:05 John CLARKE, University of Pennsylvania
Elevated rates of phenotypic evolution and greater body shape innovation in fossil teleosts with duplicate genomes
___________ LUNCH at 1:30 pm
2:30 Steve WANG, Swarthmore College
All Creatures Great and Small: The history of animal size over the Phanerozoic
2:55 Rachel A. Merz, Swarthmore College
Organismal perspectives on moving through and over sediment
3:20 Carlos PEREDO, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA & NMNH
A statistical analysis of marine mammal dispersal routes across major ocean regions using beta diversity at the generic level
___________ COFFEE BREAK at 3:45 pm
4:10 Paul ULLMANN, Drexel University
Brief rare earth element uptake by bone at the Standing Rock Edmontosaurus bonebed, Corson County, SD
4:35 Kara LUDWIG, University of Pennsylvania
Unearthing the roots of mammalian diversity: The quality of the cynodont fossil record
Concurrent Poster Session
Steven JASINSKI, University of Pennsylvania
Carnivoran faunal dynamics during the Middle Miocene of southwestern North America
Adam LAING, University of Pennsylvania
New methods for discrimination of vertebrate posture
Liguo LI, University of Pennsylvania
Biomechanical function variation in long-necks of extant animals and its implication for Sauropoda
Hermann W. PFEFFERKORN, University of Pennsylvania
Plant dispersal 330 million years ago, moving continents, and oscillating climate
___________ END at 5:00 pm