8:00 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:15 AM

339-1

A Treatise for the 21st Century

Paul A. Selden, University of Kansas

8:30 AM

339-2

Quantitative Calcareous Microfossil Diversity Fluctuations across the Eocene/Oligocene Boundary in Tanzania: A Comparison Between the Phytoplankton and Zooplankton Response

Bridget Wade, Texas A&M University; Tom Dunkley Jones, University College London; Paul Pearson, Cardiff University; Paul Bown, University College London

8:45 AM

339-3

Verification on the Evolutionary Pattern of Permo-Carboniferous Fusulinid Fauna In South China

Yukun Shi, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering

9:00 AM

339-4

Biodiversity of Modern Temperate to Subtropical Monothalamid Foraminifera

Susan T. Goldstein; Andrea Habura, NY State Department of Health; Samuel S. Bowser, Wadsworth Ctr

9:15 AM

Break

9:30 AM

339-5

Effects of Different Data Types on Paleocommunity Analyses: A Case-Study from the Finis Shale (Pennsylvanian) of Texas

Frank L. Forcino, San Diego State University; Emily S. Stafford, San Diego State University; Jared J. Warner, San Diego State University; Tova S. Michlin, San Diego State University; Lauren M. Palazzolo, San Diego State University; Amelinda E. Webb, San Diego State University; Lindsey R. Leighton, San Diego State University; Chris L. Schneider, Colorado College; Jared R. Morrow, San Diego State University; Stephen A. Schellenberg, San Diego State University

9:45 AM

339-6

Use of Elliptical Fourier Analysis to Determined Morphospace Occupation in Modern Edentulous Mussels to Help Identify �Natural� Limits of Fossil Groups

Mathew Burton-Kelly, University of North Dakota; Joseph H. Hartman, University of North Dakota

10:00 AM

339-7

From Salina to the Salinas---the Influence of Roger Kaesler on An Ostracodologist

Lisa E. Park, The University of Akron

10:15 AM

339-8

Western Interior Early Cretaceous Hiatus Likely to Be Much Shorter Than Previously Reported—New Biostratigraphic Results Derived from Nonmarine Ostracod Correlations

Benjamin Sames, Universit�t Wien; Michael E. Schudack, Freie Universit�t Berlin, Institut f�r Geologische Wissenschaften; Richard L. Cifelli, Oklahoma Museum of Natural History

10:30 AM

339-9

Diversification of the Ostracod Genus Cyprideis in Lake Pannon Triggered by Environmental Changes (Late Miocene, Austria)

Martin Gross, Landesmuseum Joanneum; Klaus Minati, University of Graz; Dan L. Danielopol, University of Graz; Werner E. Piller, University of Graz

10:45 AM

339-10

Ostracod Paleoecology and Reconstruction of Environmental Changes in the Laptev and Kara Seas during the Postglacial Transgression

Anna Stepanova, Paleontological Institute RAS; Ekaterina Taldenkova, Moscow State University; Carlos A. Alvarez Zarikian, Texas A&M University; Henning Bauch, University of Kiel

11:00 AM

339-11

Environmental and Biotic Changes around the Cenomanian/Turonian Boundary (Late Cretaceous): Scenario of a Mass Extinction

Claude Monnet, University of Zurich; Hugo Bucher, University of Zurich

11:15 AM

339-12

Backfilled Meniscate Burrows in Lower Permian (Wolfcampian) Paleosols, Council Grove Group, Western Kansas

John W. Counts, University of Kansas; Stephen T. Hasiotis, University of Kansas

11:30 AM

339-13

Foraminifera Used In the Construction of Miocene Polychaete Tubes, Monterey Formation, California, USA

Kenneth L. Finger, University of California; Megan M. Flenniken, Mount Holyoke College; Jere H. Lipps, University of California

11:45 AM

339-14

The Importance of Neoichnology to the Field of Micropaleontology � Roger Kaesler's Final Research Experiment

Julie B. Retrum, University of Kansas; Stephen T. Hasiotis, University of Kansas; Roger L. Kaesler, University of Kansas

2008 Joint Annual Meeting (5-9 Oct. 2008): Field and Quantitative Paleontology, Micropaleontology, and Taxonomy: A Memorial to Roger L. Kaesler

339 Field and Quantitative Paleontology, Micropaleontology, and Taxonomy: A Memorial to Roger L. Kaesler