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Polar Crossroads: High Latitude Biogeographic Highways

Derek Main, University of Texas at Arlington; Christopher Scotese, PALEOMAP Project

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Miocene Decapod Crustacean Fauna of Tierra Del Fuego, Argentina, Signals Timing of Establishment of Modern Biogeographic Provinces

Rodney M. Feldmann, Kent State University; Carrie E. Schweitzer, Kent State Univ Stark Campus; Miguel Griffin, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa; Silvio Casadío, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa

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Preliminary Systematic Analysis of An Avifaunal Assemblage from Roland Springs Ranch of Western Texas

Julie Sculley, Sam Houston State University; Eileen Johnson, Texas Tech Univ; Patrick J. Lewis, Sam Houston State University

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The Influence of Taxonomic Level on Biogeographic Patterns

Cory M. Redman, Texas A&M University

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Building a Paleobiogeographic Atlas: A Database Approach

Austin J.W. Hendy, Yale University

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Developing a Synthetic Environmental Curve for the Phanerozoic: A Multiproxy Approach to the Origination Problem

Andrés L. Cárdenas, University of South Florida; Peter J. Harries, University of South Florida

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An Analysis of the Paleozoic Radiation of Marine Animals

Alexei A. Rivera, National Museum of Natural History

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Comparing Methods for Confidence Intervals on Stratigraphic Ranges Under Non-Uniform Recovery Potential

Dasol Park, Swarthmore College; Steve C. Wang, Swarthmore College; David J. Chudzicki, University of Chicago; Philip J. Everson, Swarthmore College

144-9

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Analysis of Problematica Ecdysozoa from the Burgess Shale Using Disparity

Michael Nakagaki, Virginia Tech; Douglas H. Erwin, Smithsonian Institution

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Teenage Mutant Helicoplacoid: Growing up during the “Cambrian Explosion”

Bryan C. Wilbur, Pasadena City College

144-11

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Middle and Late Ordovician Biodiversity Dynamics in Marine Microfossils from Baltoscandia

Daniel Goldman, University of Dayton; H. David Sheets, Canisius College; Stig M. Bergström, The Ohio State University; Jaak Nolvak, Institute of Geology at Tallinn University of Technology

144-12

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Global Size Trends in Ordovician and Silurian Brachiopod Lineages

Jennifer A. Stempien, University of Colorado at Boulder

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Changes In Mississippian Crinoid Diversity during Deposition of the St. Louis Limestone (Meramecian) In the Illinois Basin

Lewis A. Cook, West Virginia University; Thomas W. Kammer, West Virginia University

144-14

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Comparison of Early Mississippian Crinoid Generic Diversity Patterns Between the Lake Valley Formation of New Mexico and the Burlington Limestone of Iowa

Elizabeth C. Rhenberg, West Virginia University; D. Jade Simon, West Virginia University; Lewis A. Cook, West Virginia University; Magdalena K. Gill, West Virginia University; William I. Ausich, The Ohio State University; Thomas W. Kammer, West Virginia University

144-15

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Crinoid Biodiversity in the Lower Mississippian Lake Valley Formation, New Mexico

Magdalena K. Gill, West Virginia University; D. Jade Simon, West Virginia University; Elizabeth C. Rhenberg, West Virginia University; Lewis A. Cook, West Virginia University; William I. Ausich, The Ohio State University; Thomas W. Kammer, West Virginia University

144-16

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Estimating the Magnitude of Primary Production Loss in the End-Permian Mass Extinction

Libin Sun, Swarthmore College; Steve C. Wang, Swarthmore College; Peter Roopnarine, California Academy of Sciences; Kenneth D. Angielczyk, The Field Museum

144-17

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The Late Triassic Crisis and the Lazarus Effect: Evidence from the Bivalve Fossil Record of Northwest Europe

Luke Mander, University College Dublin; Richard J. Twitchett, University of Plymouth

144-18

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Insights from Ammonoid Biodiversity Patterns on the Cenomanian/Turonian Boundary Mass Extinction (Late Cretaceous)

Claude Monnet, University of Zurich

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Under Sampled Continental Mollusks near the Cretaceous–Paleogene Boundary, Selected Sites in North Dakota, Montana, and Alberta

Anna M. Crowell, University of North Dakota; Joseph H. Hartman, University of North Dakota; Arthur R. Sweet, Geol Survey of Canada

144-20

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Climatic Influences on Deep-Sea Ostracode Species Diversity for the Last Three Million Years

Moriaki Yasuhara, Smithsonian Institution; Thomas M. Cronin, U.S. Geological Survey; Gene Hunt, Smithsonian Institution

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Body Size and Climate Change in Deep-Sea Ostracodes: Testing Models of within-Lineage Evolution

Gene Hunt, Smithsonian Institution; Satrio A. Wicaksono, Wesleyan University; Julia E. Brown, Yale University

144-22

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Can Predatory-Prey Arms Races Intensify during a Mass Extinction Event? Strombid Gastropods from Late Neogene of Florida

Rachel L. Guest, Colby College; Gregory S. Herbert, University of South Florida; Robert A. Gastaldo, Colby College; Peter Harries, University of South Florida; Eric Oches, University of South Florida; Roger Portell, University of Florida; Gregory Dietl, Paleontological Research Institution

144-23

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Homoplasy at Work: Convergent Formation of Extreme Parietal Callus In Multiple Lineages of Marine Gastropods

Lauren M. Maistros, Cornell University; Warren D. Allmon, Paleontological Research Institution

144-24

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Sea Level Change and Nearshore Biodiversity: The Role of Transgressive-Regressive Transitions

David R. Lindberg, Univ. of California, Berkeley; Elizabeth A. Perotti, Univ. of California, Berkeley; Nicholas D. Pyenson, Univ. of California, Berkeley

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Evolutionary Stasis In Golden Eagles Over the Last Glacial-Interglacial Cycle (35,000 years ago to present)

Sarah Molina, Occidental College; Donald Prothero, Occidental College

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