| Session | Date/Time | Location | Title | Type | Authors | Keywords |
Monday, August 2nd · 8:10 am to 12:00 am · Maybird (Cliff Lodge)
Session 5: Contributed Papers: Paleobotanical Section - Monday am - Contributed papers
Presider: Steven R. Manchester, University of Florida |
| August 2nd
8:10 am | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | Introduction | | | |
| 5-1 | August 2nd
8:15 am | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | Comparative geochemistry suggests Prototaxites was a gigantic fungus | Paper | Boyce, C. Kevin, Hotton, Carol, Fogel, Marilyn L., Cody, George D., Hazen, Robert M., Knoll, Andrew H.. | paleoecology
Paleozoic
soil crusts
geochemistry
fungi |
| 5-2 | August 2nd
8:30 am | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | Cryptospore Evolution during the Lower Paleozoic | Paper | Strother, Paul K, Taylor, Wilson A.. | cryptospore
Cambrian
paleopalynology |
| 5-3 | August 2nd
8:45 am | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | The case for a land flora in the Cambrian - ultrastructural evidence | Paper | Taylor, Wilson A.. | Cambrian
cryptospore
embryophytes
Paleozoic |
| 5-4 | August 2nd
9:00 am | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | Langoxylon asterochlaenoideum (Stockmans1968): a fern-like plant from the Middle Devonian of Belgium | Paper | Scheckler, Stephen E., Skog, Judith E.. | Langoxylon
Devonian
Euphyllophyte
Fern-like |
| August 2nd
9:15 am | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | Break | | | |
| 5-5 | August 2nd
9:30 am | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | The ovulate cupules of Charbeckia macrophylla: new evidence contributing to a whole-plant concept for this possible representative of the Calamopityales | Paper | Knaus, M. Jane. | Lower Carboniferous,
early seed-plants
seed cupules
leaf architecture
Calamopityales
Carboniferous
seed cupules
leaf architecture |
| 5-6 | August 2nd
9:45 am | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | Four Early Permian Sequential Floras From Inner Mongolia, China | Paper | Pfefferkorn, Hermann, Wang, Jun. | paleoecology
Permian
Peat
Cathaysian Flora |
| 5-7 | August 2nd
10:00 am | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | Paulophyton and Kegelidium, fertile structures from the Poti Formation (Early Carboniferous, northeastern Brazil) | Paper | Iannuzzi, Roberto, Pfefferkorn, Hermann. | Paulophyton
Kegelidium
Visean
Mississippian
Poti Formation
Brazil
Parnaiba Basin |
| 5-8 | August 2nd
10:15 am | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | A new Noeggerathia species from the Early Permian of the Wuda District, Inner Mongolia, China | Paper | Wang, Jun, Pfefferkorn, Hermann. | Noeggerathiales
Permian
Sporangia
Strobilus
China
Bohemia |
| August 2nd
10:30 am | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | Break | | | |
| 5-9 | August 2nd
10:45 am | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | Fagus (Fagaceae) fruits and foilage from the Middle Eocene of Pacific Northwestern North America | Paper | Manchester, Steven R., Dillhoff, Richard M.. | Eocene
Fagus
fossil
foliage
fruits
British Columbia |
| 5-10 | August 2nd
11:00 am | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | The identification of eroded nuts of Pterocarya Kunth (Juglandaceae) in the fossil record | Paper | Tiffney, Bruce, Proft, Sarah. | fossil
endocarp
Juglandaceae
Pterocarya |
| 5-11 | August 2nd
11:15 am | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | Monocots from the Late Paleocene of North Dakota, U. S. A. | Paper | DeVore, Melanie L., Sullivan, Amanda L., Pigg, Kathleen B.. | Paleocene
fossil
Alismatales
Zingiberales
monocot |
| 5-12 | August 2nd
11:30 am | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | Samaras from the Late Paleocene Almont and Beicegel Creek floras of North Dakota, U.S.A., with potential affinities to Securidaca (Polygalaceae) | Paper | Pigg, Kathleen B., Wojciechowski, Martin F., DeVore, Melanie L.. | Securidaca
Polygalaceae
Paleocene
samara
fossil |
| 5-13 | August 2nd
11:45 am | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | Fruits and foliage of Cercis from the Late Eocene of Oregon | Paper | Herendeen, Patrick S., Manchester, Steven R.. | Eocene
foliage
fossil
Fabaceae
fruits
Oregon |
Monday, August 2nd · 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm · Eagle's Nest (Cliff Lodge)
Mixer: Paleobotanical Mixer |
| August 2nd
5:30 pm | Eagle's Nest (Cliff Lodge) | Mixer | | | |
Monday, August 2nd · 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm · Golden Cliff (Cliff Lodge)
Banquet: Paleobotanical Banquet and Auction |
| August 2nd
7:00 pm | Golden Cliff (Cliff Lodge) | Banquet | | | |
Tuesday, August 3rd · 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm · Special Event Center (Cliff Lodge)
Session 32: Contributed Posters: Paleobotanical Posters |
| 32-60 | August 3rd
12:30 pm | Special Event Center (Cliff Lodge) | An Eocene (Uintan) Aged Flora from the Uinta Basin, Utah. | Poster: Paleobotanical Section | Sandau, Stephen. | Eocene
fossil
paleocology
temperature
western North America
Uinta Basin
Utah |
| 32-61 | August 3rd
12:30 pm | Special Event Center (Cliff Lodge) | Permian plant-insect interactions in a Gondwana flora of southern Brazil | Poster: Paleobotanical Section | Iannuzzi, Roberto, Adami-Rodrigues, Karen, Damiani Pinto, Iraja. | Plant-insect interaction
Permian
Gondwana
Brazil |
Tuesday, August 3rd · 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm · Maybird (Cliff Lodge)
Session 36: Contributed Papers: Paleobotanical Section - Tuesday pm - Contributed papers
Presider: Diane M. Erwin, University of California |
| 36-1 | August 3rd
2:00 pm | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | Cretaceous Conifers: Woods from Big Bend National Park, Texas | Paper | Lehman, T.M., Wheeler, E.A.. | Paleocene
wood anatomy
Cretaceous
paleobotany
conifer |
| 36-2 | August 3rd
2:15 pm | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | Nyssaceae among the Dinosaurs: Anatomically preserved fruits from the Upper Cretaceous Horseshoe Canyon Formation, Drumheller, Alberta, Canada | Paper | Serbet, Rudolph, Manchester, Steven R., Aulenback, Kevin, Braman, Dennis. | Davidia
Amersinia
Cretaceous
paleobotany
Nyssaceae
Cornales
dinosaurs |
| 36-3 | August 3rd
2:30 pm | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | Alternative Leaf Clearing and Mounting Procedures | Paper | Buechler, Walter K.. | cleared leaf
Permount
cedar oil
immersion oil
cellulose acetate
Teflon |
| 36-4 | August 3rd
2:45 pm | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | Foliage and fruits of Populus (Salicaceae) from the Middle Eocene of Colorado. | Paper | Manchester, Steven R., Handley, Bruce. | paleobotany
Populus
Salicaceae
Eocene
fruits
leaves
Green River Formation |
| 36-5 | August 3rd
3:00 pm | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | Wisteria Fruits from the Middle Miocene Shanwang Flora of China | Paper | Wang, Qi, Zhu, Xiang-Yun, Dilcher, David. | China
Fabaceae
fossil fruits
Miocene
Wisteria |
| 36-6 | August 3rd
3:15 pm | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | A new closed-cone pine from the Miocene of Nevada | Paper | Erwin, Diane M., Miller, Charles N.. | Attenuatae
Oocarpae
Miocene
Nevada
ovulate cone
Pinus |
Wednesday, August 4th · 8:00 am to 12:00 am · Maybird (Cliff Lodge)
Session 42: Contributed Papers: Paleobotanical Section - Isabel Cookson Student Award Session, Part 1
Presider: Melanie DeVore, |
| 42-1 | August 4th
8:00 am | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | Predicting climate using empirically determined continuous measures of leaf shape. | Paper | Krieger, Jonathan, Guralnick, Robert, Johnson, Kirk, Smith, Dena. | CLAMP
climate
eigenshape analysis
fossil assemblage
geometric morphometrics
leaf area analysis
leaf shape
leaf margin analysis |
| 42-2 | August 4th
8:15 am | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | If a Forest Falls, Do the Trees Hear It? Eco-morphological Dynamics of the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Event | Paper | Green, W. A., Hickey, L. J.. | Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary event
Eco-morphology
Leaf fossils |
| 42-3 | August 4th
8:30 am | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | Sapindalean fruits from the Middle Miocene Yakima Canyon flora of central Washington State, U. S. A. | Paper | DeVore, Melanie L., Pigg, Kathleen B., Taylor, Witt. | Meliaceae
Sapindales
fossil
Miocene
Permineralized |
| 42-4 | August 4th
8:45 am | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | From subtropical forests to savanna: phytolith evidence concerning Tertiary vegetation change and grass evolution in the North American continental interior | Paper | Strömberg, Caroline A.E.. | phytoliths
Poaceae
Tertiary
paleoecology
North America |
| August 4th
9:00 am | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | Break | | | |
| 42-5 | August 4th
9:15 am | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | Were early cycads insect pollinated? | Paper | Kellogg, Derek, Klavins, Sharon D., Taylor, Thomas N., Taylor, Edith L.. | cycad
Triassic
Antarctica
pollinivory
pollen cone |
| 42-6 | August 4th
9:30 am | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | Fungi from the Permian of
Antarctica | Paper | Garcia Massini, Juan Leandro. | Permian
Antarctica
Chytridiomycota
Zygomycota |
| 42-7 | August 4th
9:45 am | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | Pollen cones from the Hamilton Quarry, Kansas | Paper | Hernandez-Castillo, Genaro, Stockey, Ruth A., Rothwell, Gar W., Mapes, Gene. | conifer
pollen cone
Upper Paleozoic
walchian |
| 42-8 | August 4th
10:00 am | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | Cyanobacterial fossils of the Early Silurian Passage Creek biota (Virginia) | Paper | Tomescu, Alexandru Mihail Florian, Rothwell, Gar W., Honegger, Rosmarie. | cyanobacteria
fossil preservation
Silurian
fluvial |
| August 4th
10:15 am | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | Break | | | |
| 42-9 | August 4th
10:30 am | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | Probing the systematic affinities of early terrestrial organisms in the Passage Creek biota (Lower Silurian, Virginia) | Paper | Tomescu, Alexandru Mihail Florian, Rothwell, Gar W.. | fossil
terrestrial
Silurian
thalloid
embryophytes
lichens
soil crusts |
| 42-10 | August 4th
10:45 am | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | Diversity of Cretaceous conifers: a species with pollen cones that bear adaxial pollen sacs
| Paper | Sanders, Heather, Rothwell, Gar W., Stockey, Ruth A.. | Early Cretaceous
conifer
pollen cone
adaxial pollen sacs |
| 42-11 | August 4th
11:00 am | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | Anatomically preserved staminate inflorescences of Platanaceae from the Eocene of Vancouver Island, British Columbia | Paper | Mindell, Randal, Stockey, Ruth A., Beard, Graham. | Platanaceae
inflorescence
Tertiary |
| 42-12 | August 4th
11:15 am | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | A blechnoid fern from the Middle Eocene Princeton chert: rhizomes, rachides and roots. | Paper | Smith, Selena Y., Stockey, Ruth A., Nishida, Harufumi, Rothwell, Gar W.. | Eocene
Blechnaceae
Princeton chert
fern
fossil |
| 42-13 | August 4th
11:30 am | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | Reconstructing a stem-group filicalean fern with reiterative indeterminate growth of the fronds | Paper | Tomescu, Alexandru Mihail Florian, Rothwell, Gar W., Trivett, Mary L.. | fossil
fern
Filicales
latent crosiers
reiterative
modular
indeterminate frond |
Wednesday, August 4th · 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm · Maybird (Cliff Lodge)
Session 57: Contributed Papers: Paleobotanical Section: Isabel Cookson Student Award Session, Part 2
Presider: Ruth A. Stockey, University of Alberta |
| 57-1 | August 4th
1:30 pm | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | Mesarch solenostelic ferns from the early Cretaceous Apple Bay locality, British Columbia, Canada | Paper | Hernandez-Castillo, Genaro, Stockey, Ruth A., Rothwell, Gar W.. | Canada
Cretaceous
fern
Schizaeaceae
solenostelic |
| 57-2 | August 4th
1:45 pm | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | Vegetative gleicheniaceous remains from the Eocene of North America | Paper | Mindell, Randal, Stockey, Ruth A., Rothwell, Gar W., Beard, Graham. | Gleicheniaceae
Eocene
ferns
rhizome
anatomy |
| 57-3 | August 4th
2:00 pm | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | Anatomically preserved exarch solenostelic ferns from the Cretaceous Apple Bay locality, Vancouver Island | Paper | Little, Stefan A., Stockey, Ruth A., Rothwell, Gar W.. | Cretaceous
fern
Loxomopteris
polypod
Solenostelopteris |
| 57-4 | August 4th
2:15 pm | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | Probable pteridaceous fern leaves with attached sori from the Early Cretaceous of Apple Bay, Vancouver Island | Paper | Rothwell, Gar W., Stockey, Ruth A.. | Early Cretaceous
fern radiations
Pteridaceae
Pterozonium
Taenitidoideae |
| August 4th
2:30 pm | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | Break | | | |
| 57-5 | August 4th
2:45 pm | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | A dryopterid fern with Onoclea-type stipe anatomy from the Eocene of North America | Paper | Karafit, Steven J., Rothwell, Gar W., Stockey, Ruth A., Nishida, Harufumi. | Eocene
dryopterid fern
Onoclea
fossil |
| 57-6 | August 4th
3:00 pm | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | Dipteridaceous ferns from the early Cretaceous Apple Bay flora of Vancouver Island | Paper | Stockey, Ruth A., Rothwell, Gar W., Little, Stefan A.. | Cretaceous
Dipteridaceae
Dipteris
fern
Hausmannia |
| 57-7 | August 4th
3:15 pm | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | Permineralized Osmunda pinnae with attached sporangia containing spores from the Lower Cretaceous of British Columbia, Canada | Paper | Vavrek, Matthew J., Stockey, Ruth A., Rothwell, Gar W.. | Cretaceous
fern
Osmundaceae |
| August 4th
3:30 pm | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | Informal Presentations | | | |
| August 4th
3:45 pm | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | Break | | | |
Wednesday, August 4th · 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm · Maybird (Cliff Lodge)
Meeting: Paleobotanical Section Business Meeting
Presider: Lisa Boucher, University of Nebraska at Omaha |
| August 4th
4:00 pm | Maybird (Cliff Lodge) | Meeting | | | |
