Morning Session

8:00 – 9:00

Registration and Speaker Preparation

9:00 – 9:20

McNeil, R. & Sankey, J.

Welcome

9:20 – 10:20

Sampson, S.

Keynote Address: Dinosaurs of West America

10:20 – 10:40

Wedel, M. & Taylor, M.

Did Sauropods Really Decline in the Early Cretaceous of North America?

10:40 – 11:00

Boyd, A.

2D and 3D Retrodeformation Techniques Using Finite Element Analysis with Application to Trilobites and Herrerasaurus

11:00 – 11:20

McKenzie, N. R. & Hughes, N.

Late Cambrian Trilobites from the Tethyan Himilaya of Bhutan, and Their Significance on the Early Paleozoic Himalayan Margin

11:20 – 11:40

Anglen, J et al.

Taphonomy of a Deinosuchus riograndensis Quarry in the Aguja Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Big Bend National Park, Texas

11:40 – 12:00

O’Conner, J et al.

A Review of Enantiornithine Skull Morphology with Information from a New Species

Lunch and Poster Session

12:00 – 1:40

Wilson, R. et al.

Theropods and Bird Teeth from the Hell Creek Formation

Bowman, S. & Sankey, J.

Identification of a Hadrosaur (Dinosaur) Femur from Big Bend National Park, Texas and a New Method to Distinguish Hadrosaur Genera

Rogers, R. et al.

Discovery of Cenomanian Fishes from Taulube, Departamento de Comayagua, Honduras

McDonald, H.G et al.

Discovery of Giant Ground Sloth Eremotherium laurillardi (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Megatheriidae) from Gualaco, Departamentoo de Olanchno, Honduras

Anglen, J. et al.

Taphonomy of Isolated Skeletal Elements from the Fairmead Landfill Locality (Pleistocene, Irvingtonian), Madera County, California

Kottachchi, N et al.

The Fairmead Landfill Fossil Site: Continuing Recovery of a Diverse Middle Pleistocene (Late Irvingtonian) Biota in Madera County, California

Spangler, E. & Shapiro, R.

New Evidence of Bacterial Degradation in Fossil Whale Falls: Not Just a Boring Tale!

Afternoon Session

1:40 – 2:00

Geist, N. R. & Jones, T. D.

The Role of the Evolution of Novel Reproductive Strategies in the Adaptive Radiation of Mesozoic Archosaurs

2:00 – 2:20

Bell, A.

Diving Mechanisms of the Extinct Hesperornithiformes: Comparison to Modern Diving Birds

2:20 – 2:40

Chew, A.

Changes in Body Size and Trophic Structure Across the Wasatchian (Early Eocene) Mammal Fauna of the Willwood Formation, Central Bighorn Basin, Wyoming

2:40- 3:00

Clites, E.

Siltstone Clasts and Erosion Marks in the Cambrian Wood Canyon Formation (Nopah Range, California): Microbial Origins?

3:00 – 3:20

Vendrasco, M. et al.

A Reassessment of the Enigmatic Ocruranus-Eohalobia Group of Small Skeletal Fossils from the Early Cambrian of Eastern Yunnan, China

3:20 – 3:40

Shin, J.

Feeding Mechanics of a New Species of Edaphodon (Chondrichthyes, Holocephali, Chimaeroidea) from the Cretaceous of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

3:40 -4:00

Bell, M. & Travis, M.

How the Stickleback Lost its Pelvis: the View from the Fossil Record

4:00 – 4:20

Garson, D.

Evidence for Fluctuations in Bottom Water Oxygenation in a Cambrian Lagerstatten from Utah

4:20 – 4:40

Sankey, J. et al.

Dinosaur and Paleosol Change Across the Campanian/ Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous), Big Bend National Park, Texas

4:40 – 5:00

Jones, T. D. & Geist, N. R.

Reproductive Biology of Dinosaurs