CANADIAN PALEONTOLOGY CONFERENCE

PROGRAM

COMPILED BY MICHAEL CALDWELL

CPC – 2003UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA

EDMONTON, ALBERTASEPTEMBER 19-20, 2003

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19THTELUS CENTRE (87TH AVENUE AND 111TH STREET)

6:30 – 9:30 pm – Welcoming Social & On-Site Registration (Main Foyer)- cash bar, catered appetizers, book sales and displays

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20THTELUS CENTRE (87TH AVENUE AND 111TH STREET)

8:00 am – On-Site Registration (Main Foyer)

Session I - Fossil Vertebrates (ROOM 236 – 2ND Flr)MODERATOR: Dr. Raoul Mutter

9:00 am - HOMOLOGIES OF PAIRED FINS ACROSS THE AGNATHAN-GNATHOSTOMETRANSITIONMark V.H. WILSON and Gavin F. HANKE

9:20 am - CRANIODENTAL ANATOMY OF A NEW PALAEORYCTID-LIKE MAMMAL FROM THELATE PALEOCENE GAO MINE LOCALITY, ALBERTARichard C. FOX

9:40 am - GROWTH AND DERMAL BONE DEVELOPMENT IN LEPIDASPIS SERRATAJeffrey W. GREENIAUS (STUDENT TALK, BOLTON PRIZE)

10:00 am – COFFEE BREAK (2ND FLOOR ATRIUM)

10:20 am - FOREBRAIN MORPHOLOGY AND NASAL CAVITY HOMOLOGY INLAMBEOSAURINE HADROSAURIDSDavid C. EVANS (STUDENT TALK, BOLTON PRIZE)

10:40 am - MULTITUBERCULATE MAMMALS FROM WESTERN CANADACraig S. SCOTT (STUDENT TALK, BOLTON PRIZE))

11:00 am - RE-EVALUATION OF SPECIES ASSIGNMENTS TO POEBROTHERIUM (CAMELIDAE),FROM AN ONTOGENETIC POINT OF VIEWTakuya KONISHI (STUDENT TALK, BOLTON PRIZE)

11:20 am - WHITNEYAN (EARLY OLIGOCENE) APLODONTIDS AND SCIURIDS (MAMMALIA;RODENTIA) FROM THE CYPRESS HILLS FORMATION (SOUTHWESTSASKATCHEWAN)Sean BELL (STUDENT TALK, BOLTON PRIZE)

11:40 am - THE EVOLUTION OF CLAW MORPHOLOGY IN PALEOZOIC NON-THERAPSIDSYNAPSIDSHillary C. MADDIN and Robert R. REISZ (STUDENT TALK, BOLTON PRIZE)

12:00 pm – LUNCH BREAK

MODERATOR: Dr. Michael Caldwell1:30 pm - EVOLUTIONARY INNOVATION OF THE AUTOPODIUM: TESTING DEVELOPMENTAL

MECHANISMS OF THE FIN-LIMB TRANSITIONHans C. E. LARSSON

1:50 pm - A LATE-CRETACEOUS TURTLE ASSEMBLAGE FROM THE HIGH CANADIAN ARCTIC– IMPLICATIONS FOR PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY AND PALEOCLIMATOLOGYDonald B. BRINKMAN and John TARDUNO

2:10 pm - A NEW SPECIMEN OF CHAOHUSAURUS (ICHTHYOSAURIA: REPTILIA), FROM THEEARLY TRIASSIC SULPHUR MOUNTAIN FORMATION OF BRITISH COLUMBIA.Elizabeth L. NICHOLLS and Makoto MANABE

2:30 pm – REINVESTIGATION OF THE EARLY TRIASSIC ICHTHYOFAUNA FROM THE SULPHURMOUNTAIN FORMATION (BC, CANADA)Raoul J. MUTTER

2:50 pm – A WORLD OF MOSASAURS: ENDEMISM IN LATE CRETACEOUS SEAGOINGLIZARDS?Michael W. CALDWELL

3:10 pm – COFFEE BREAK (2ND FLOOR ATRIUM)

3:10 pm – POSTER VIEWING (MAIN FLOOR, FOYER)5:00 pm – BUSINESS MEETING- 2ND FLOOR, ROOM 2366:30 pm – COCKTAILS - (BANQUET ROOM, MAIN FLOOR, EAST WING)7:00 pm – BANQUET - (BANQUET ROOM, MAIN FLOOR, EAST WING)

POSTER SESSION (MAIN FOYER, TELUS CENTRE)1- JUVENILE OSTEOSTRACANS FROM THE MACKENZIE MOUNTAINS, N.W.T., CANADA

Lesley C. M. GEORGE, A. Bruce FALKENBERG and Mark V. H. WILSON2- NEW MATERIAL AND GEOGRAPHIC RANGE EXTENSION OF PALAEOPHIS COLOSSAEUS:

A GIANT SNAKE FROM THE (?)EOCENE OF MALISylvie C. TISSANDIER

3-LATE CRETACEOUS SALAMANDERS OF THE FRENCHMAN FORMATION AND THEIRPALAEOENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONSMatthew VAVREK

Session II - Fossil Invertebrates, Ichnology & Taphonomy (ROOM 238– 2ND Flr)MODERATOR: Dr. Brian Chatterton

9:00 am - SILICIFIED TRILOBITES FROM THE UPPER CAMBRIAN (SUNWAPTAN) NOTCH PEAKFORMATION, UTAH: IMPLICATIONS FOR CAMBRIAN TRILOBITE SYSTEMATICSAND BIOSTRATIGRAPHY.Jonathan M. ADRAIN and Stephen R. WESTROP

9:20 am – THE LAST TRILOBITE RADIATION, EXAMPLES FROM THE UPPER EMSIAN, NEARFOUM ZGUID, SOUTHERN MOROCCOBrian D.E. CHATTERTON, Kevin BRETT, Richard FORTEY, Stacey GIBB, and RyanMCKELLAR

9:40 am - ONTOGENY AS MORPHOLOGIC CHARACTER-PROVIDER AND SYSTEMATICS: ACASE OF A TRILOBITE GROUP, PTYCHOPARIIDADong-Chan LEE

10:00 am – COFFEE BREAK (2ND FLOOR ATRIUM)

10:20 am - USING CLADISTICS TO TEST COMPLETENESS IN THE EURYPTERID FOSSILRECORDMichael B. CUGGY

10:40 am - DID THE CLIMACTICHNITES ORGANISM LEAVE THE WATER?PALAEOECOLOGICAL INSIGHTS FROM THE UPPER CAMBRIAN OF CENTRALWISCONSINRobert B. MACNAUGHTON, James W. HAGADORN, and Robert H. DOTT, Jr.

11:00 am - NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE ORDOVICIAN CHITINOZOAN ZONATION OF EASTERNLAURENTIA.

Esther ASSELIN, Aïcha ACHAB, and Azzedine SOUFIANE

11:20 am - STRATIGRAPHIC AND PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL DISTRIBUTION OF EARLYTRIASSIC TRACE FOSSILS IN NORTHWESTERN CANADA: INFAUNAL LIFE IN THESHADOW OF THE END-PERMIAN EXTINCTIONRobert B. MACNAUGHTON and John-Paul ZONNEVELD

11:40 am - THE JURASSIC AMMONITE BADOUXIA FROM THE TASEKO LAKES MAP AREA,BRITISH COLUMBIALouise M. LONGRIDGE

12:00 pm – LUNCH BREAK

MODERATOR: Dr. Keith Dewing1:30 pm - THE HIDDEN COMPLEXITY OF SHELLY TEMPESTITES: EXAMPLES FROM MIDDLE

DEVONIAN AND UPPER CRETACEOUS MUDSTONE SUCCESSIONSCameron J. TSUJITA

1:50 pm - EARLY SILURIAN MICROBIAL MOUNDS OF THE SEVERN RIVER FORMATION,HUDSON BAY LOWLANDS, ONTARIOJisuo JIN and David RUDKIN

2:10 pm - SEEP-RELATED CONTROLS ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF BIOTA PRESERVED IN THEMIDDLE CAMBRIAN BURGESS SHALE AND YOUNGER UNITS, BRITISH COLUMBIAPaul A. JOHNSTON, Christopher J. COLLOM, Kimberely J. MOTZ, and Wayne POWELL

2:30 pm - SANTONIAN-EARLY MAASTRICHTIAN PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA IN THE NEWJERSEY COASTAL PLAIN SUBSURFACE AND THEIR DISTRIBUTION RELATED TO THERELATIVE SEA-LEVEL CHANGESDan M. GEORGESCU

2:50 pm – COFFEE BREAK (2ND FLOOR ATRIUM)

3:00 pm – POSTER VIEWING (MAIN FLOOR, FOYER)

3:30 pm - BARREMIAN RHAPSODY: NEW ROCK FROM VANCOUVER ISLANDSelena Y. SMITH, Gar W. ROTHWELL and Ruth A. STOCKEY (STUDENT TALK, BOLTONPRIZE)

3:50 pm - WALCHIAN THROUGH PALEOZOIC FORESTS OF EURAMERICAGenaro R. HERNANDEZ-CASTILLO, Ruth A. STOCKEY and Gar W. ROTHWELL(STUDENT TALK, BOLTON PRIZE))

4:10 pm - FRUITS AND NUTS FROM VANCOUVER ISLAND: THE FLORA OF APPIAN WAYStefan A. LITTLE and Ruth A. STOCKEY (STUDENT TALK, BOLTON PRIZE)

4:30 pm - FOSSILS IN ACTIONA.R. SWEET

5:00 pm – BUSINESS MEETING – 2ND FLOOR, ROOM 2366:30 PM – COCKTAILS - (BANQUET ROOM, MAIN FLOOR, EAST WING)7:00PM – BANQUET – (BANQUET ROOM, MAIN FLOOR, EAST WING)

POSTER SESSION (MAIN FOYER, TELUS CENTRE)1- EXTENDING THE INFLUENCE OF PALEONTOLOGY AT THE GSC

Peter DAVENPORT, James WHITE, Sandy MCCRACKEN, Jean DOUGHERTY, EstherASSELIN, Keith DEWING, Ping TZENG, David LEPARD, and Andrew OKULITCH

2- IMPORTANCE OF BIOEROSION IN SOME FOSSIL REEFS – EXAMPLES FROM THE MIDMESOZOIC EAST COAST CONTINENTAL MARGIN OFFSHORE, AND THE MID-PALEOZOIC WESTERN CANADIAN SEDIMENTARY BASIN WESTERN OUTCROPCONTRASTED.Leslie S. ELIUK and S. George PEMBERTON