Sea Level Change, Past Climates and the Restructuring of Shallow Marine Communities (SEPM)
Room C146
Co-Chairs: M. Zuschin and S. Dominici
9:55 -- Introductory Remarks
10:00 -- E. Mutti: Stratigraphic Architecture and Facies Characteristics of Ancient Delta Systems of Tectonically Active Basins
10:20 -- C. E. Brett, P. I. McLaughlin: Response of Shallow Marine Biotas to Sea Level Fluctuations: Environmental Tracking and the Persistence of Biofacies
10:40 -- W. D. Allmon: Sealevel, Climate, and the Causes of Marine Biological Diversity
11:00 -- T. D. Olszewski, D. H. Erwin: Response of Brachiopod Communities (Permian, Glass Mountains, Texas) to Third-Order Sea Level Changes
11:20 -- A. J. Webber: The Effects of Patchiness and Time-Averaging on the Stratigraphic Signal of Biotic Composition in the Type Cincinnatian Series (Upper Ordovician)
11:40 -- M. Kowalewski, S. M. Kidwell, A. K. Behrensmeyer, J. Alroy, F. T. Fursich, R. A. Gastaldo, M. A. Kosnik, R. E. Plotnick, R. Rogers: Phanerozoic Taphonmy of the Marine Benthos and the Secular Patterns in the Metazoan Fossil Record