8:00 AM

Dynamics of Ecological Recovery from the Cretaceous-Paleogene Event

Richard D. Norris, Scripps Institution of Oceanography/UCSD; Pincelli M. Hull, Scripps Institution of Oceanography/UCSD; Peter Bloxsom, Scripps Institution of Oceanography/UCSD

8:15 AM

231-2

Anomalous, Temporary Terrestrial Sedimentary Environments Following Cretaceous-Tertiary Ecosystem Disruptions: North America, Asia, and Europe

David E. Fastovsky, Univ of Rhode Island; Peter M. Sheehan, Milwaukee Public Museum; John L. Isbell, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Rachel Grandpre, Univ of Rhode Island

8:30 AM

231-3

North American Paleocene Continental Mollusks: From Slow Recovery to High Diversity, but Not a Simple Story

Joseph H. Hartman, University of North Dakota

8:45 AM

231-4

A Paleocene Timescale for the Rocky Mountains: Status and Potential

Samuel A. Bowring, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Kirk R. Johnson, Denver Museum of Nature & Science; William Clyde, University of New Hampshire; Jahandar Ramezani, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ian Miller, Denver Museum of Nature & Science; Daniel Peppe, Yale University

9:00 AM

231-5

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9:15 AM

231-6

Paleocene Palynostratigraphy in the Hanna Basin: Friend or Foe?

Regan Dunn, University of Washington

9:30 AM

231-7

Timing and Correlation of Early Paleocene Asian Land Mammal Ages: New Results from the Nanxiong Basin, Gaungdong Province, China

William C. Clyde, University of New Hampshire; Suyin Ting, Lousiana State University; Kathryn E. Snell, University of California Santa Cruz; Paul L. Koch, University of California Santa Cruz; Gabriel J. Bowen, Purdue University; Li Qian, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Yuanqing Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Yongsheng Tong, Chinese Academy of Sciences

9:45 AM

231-8

The Paleocene Megaflora of the Western Interior of North America: Tapping the Potential of One of the Most Extensive Terrestrial Fossil Records

Kirk R. Johnson, Denver Museum of Nature & Science; Beth Ellis, Denver Museum of Nature & Science; Ian Miller, Denver Museum of Nature & Sci

10:00 AM

231-9

Paleobotanical Estimates of Laramide Relief in the Western Interior of North America

Ian Miller, Denver Museum of Nature & Sci; Mark Brandon, Yale Univ; Kirk Johnson, Denver Museum of Nature & Science; Daniel Peppe, Yale University; Regan Dunn, National Park Service; Beth Ellis, Denver Museum of Nature & Science

10:15 AM

231-10

Unexpected Patterns of Floral Diversity and Heterogeneity in the Earliest Paleocene of the Northern Rocky Mountains and Great Plains

Daniel J. Peppe, Yale University; Leo J. Hickey, Yale University

10:30 AM

231-11

Late Paleocene Lagerstätten: What Can They Tell Us about Systematics?

Kathleen B. Pigg, Arizona State University; Melanie L. Devore, Georgia College & State University

10:45 AM

231-12

Paleocene Mammals and Changing Climate In the Northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming

Philip D. Gingerich, The Univ of Michigan

11:00 AM

231-13

Early Paleocene Mammal Succession In the Nacimiento Formation, San Juan Basin, New Mexico

Thomas E. Williamson, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science

11:15 AM

231-14

Reconstruction of Latitudinal Mammalian Diversity Gradients In the Mid-Paleocene of Western North America

Peter J. Rose, University of Minnesota; David L. Fox, University of Minnesota

11:30 AM

231-15

Late Paleocene Warming and Floral Change in the Bighorn Basin

Scott L. Wing, Smithsonian Institution; Ellen Currano, Pennsylvania State University

11:45 AM

231-16

Coupled Climate and Carbon Cycle Oscillations during the Late Paleocene: Inferences from High-Resolution Geochemical Records

James C. Zachos, University of California Santa Cruz; Heather McCarren, University of California Santa Cruz; Nadine Periat, University of California Santa Cruz; Ursula Röhl, Universität Bremen; Thomas Westerhold, Bremen University

2008 Joint Annual Meeting (5-9 Oct. 2008): After the Last Ammonite and before the First Horse: Patterns of Ecological and Climatic Change during the Paleocene

231 After the Last Ammonite and before the First Horse: Patterns of Ecological and Climatic Change during the Paleocene