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1 SVP 2013 Poster Session Abstract Selections SubmiFirst Author Last Name Title Session. Event Name 492 ZORIGT Intraskeletal histovariability during <I>Psittacosaurus mongoliensis</i> ontogeny Poster Session I Symposium Poster Session: Ontogeny Changes Everything: Paleobiological Implications of Dinosaur Growth 353 CARR 1088 SADLEIR 878 White 1013 Poole 512 Krumenacker 816 TAKASAKI 60 MARQUART 344 CLAYTON 9 PRIETO-MARQUEZ Using ontogeny and phylogeny to test hypotheses of anagenesis in the vertebrate fossil record: a case study of the sister group relationship between <I>Daspletosaurus</I> and <I>Tyrannosaurus</I> (Dinosauria, Coelurosauria) Comparative mass estimate methods of 3D digital models of Poster Session I Symposium Poster Session: Ontogeny Changes Everything: Paleobiological Implications of Dinosaur Growth ornithischian skeletons and gastroliths Poster Session I Technical Session Posters Phylogenetic versus serial variation in the ornithischian dinosaur axial skeleton: a geometric morphometric study Poster Session I Technical Session Posters Finite Element Analysis of the carpus of<i> Camptosaurus </I>and the evolution of carpal fusion in Ankylopollexia Poster Session I Technical Session Posters Osteological observations on new specimens of <I>Oryctodromeus </I>sp. from the Blackleaf Formation of Montana and the Wayan Formation of Idaho Poster Session I Technical Session Posters REANALYSIS OF <I>NIPPONOSAURUS SACHALINENSIS</I> (ORNITHOPODA: DINOSAURIA) FROM UPPER CRETACEOUS OF SOUTHERN SAKHALIN AND ITS PHYLOGENETIC STATUS WITHIN LAMBEOSAURINAE Poster Session I Technical Session Posters MORPHOMETRIC APPROACHES TO TAXONOMIC QUESTIONS IN IGUANODONTIAN DINOSAURS Poster Session I Technical Session Posters PHYLOGENETIC UTILITY OF HADROSAURID DINOSAUR (ORNITHISCHIA: ORNITHOPODA) INTEGUMENTARY IMPRESSIONS Poster Session I Technical Session Posters JUVENILE SAUROLOPHINE SPECIMENS (DINOSAURIA: HADROSAURIDAE) FROM THE LATE CAMPANIAN (CRETACEOUS) OF NORTHEASTERN MEXICO Poster Session I Technical Session Posters

2 290 Rivera-Sylva Dental microwear analysis of the late Cretaceous (late Campanian) hadrosaurs from the Cerro del Pueblo Formation, northern Mexico Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 545 NOTO PHYLOGENETIC AND BIOSTRATIGRAPHIC IMPLICATIONS OF NEW POSTCRANIAL MATERIAL OF <I>PROTOHADROS</I> (ORNITHOPODA, HADROSAUROIDEA) FROM THE WOODBINE FORMATION OF TEXAS Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 470 KAY Evolution of Ceratopsian Dental Microstructure Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 387 Morschhauser A reevaluation of the ossified hyoid apparatus of <I>Protoceratops andrewsi</i> (Ornithischia: Ceratopsia) and a review of hyoid elements in ornithischian dinosaurs Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 643 VARRIALE The unique premaxillary dentition of <I>Yinlong downsi</i>, and the morphology, function, and evolution of premaxillary teeth in Ceratopsia Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 395 Ryan A new relict basal ceratopsid from the Oldman Formation (Campanian) of Alberta with implications for centrosaurine evolution Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 185 TANOUE Tooth replacement pattern in maxillary dentition of basal Neoceratopsia (Ornithischia, Dinosauria) Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 896 VANBUREN Testing Adaptive Hypotheses for anterior cervical fusion in Ceratopsia Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 971 CAMPBELL 489 KIRKLAND 909 ALICEA A specimen-based phylogenetic analysis of the chasmosaurine ceratopsid Chasmosaurus (Ornithischia) from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Dinosaur Park Formation of Western Canada suggests the validity of only one species Poster Session I Technical Session Posters NEW NODOSAURID ANKYLOSAUR (DINOSAURIA) FROM THE LOWER ALBIAN ESCUCHA FM., TERUEL, SPAIN REVEAL THAT SINCE THEIR APTIAN ORIGIN, NODOSAURID SPECIES IN NORTH AMERICA AND EUROPE DEFINE PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHICALLY SEPARATE CLADES Poster Session I Technical Session Posters New Minotaurasaurus Material from the Djodokta Formation establishes new taxonomic and stratigraphic criteria for the taxon Poster Session I Technical Session Posters

3 712 WIERSMA A new ankylosaurid dinosaur (Ornithischia: Thyreophora) from the upper Campanian Kaiparowits Formation of Grand Staircase- Escalante National Monument, southern Utah Poster Session I Technical Session Posters A NEW ANKYLOSAUR DINOSAUR FROM THE EARLY CRETACEOUS HEKOU GROUP OF LANZHOU-MINHE BASIN, 188 YANG NORTH-CENTRAL CHINA Poster Session I Technical Session Posters A NEW ANKYLOSAURID DINOSAUR (ORNITHISCHIA, ANKYLOSAURIA) FROM THE UPPER CRETACEOUS KIRTLAND FORMATION, SAN JUAN BASIN, NEW MEXICO, 225 SULLIVAN USA Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 452 BRAMBLE Interpreting the Facial Integument of Ankylosaurs Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 389 BURNS Growth, development, and the problem of ankylosaurian ontogeny Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 31 REDELSTORFF 867 O'KEEFE Bone histology of the stegosaur Kentrosaurus aethiopicus (Ornithischia: Thyreophora) from the Upper Jurassic of Tanzania Poster Session I Technical Session Posters ANATOMTY OF A NEONATE SKULL OF DOLICHORHYNCHOPS (PLESIOSAURIA) Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 135 KATO Tooth Implantation and Replacement in polycotylid plesiosaur Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 882 BYRD ONTOGENETIC VARIATION AMONG POLYCOTYLID PLESIOSAURS (SAUROPTERYGIA: PLESIOSAURIA) AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR PLESIOSAUR GROWTH Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 591 SERRATOS 853 Araujo 83 MA 158 JI OSTEOLOGY OF A NEW SPECIMEN OF AN ELASMOSAURID PLESIOSAUR (REPTILIA: SAUROPTERYGIA) FROM THE UPPER CRETACEOUS BEARPAW SHALE, MONTANA Poster Session I Technical Session Posters Phylogeny and Paedomorphism in Angolan Maastrichtian Elasmosaurids Poster Session I Technical Session Posters A NEW PISTOSAUROID (REPTILIA: SAUROPTERYGIA) FROM THE LATEST LADINIAN XINGYI MARINE VERTEBRATE LEVEL, SOUTHWESTERN CHINA Poster Session I Technical Session Posters A new specimen of <I>Nothosaurus youngi</i> from the Middle Triassic of South China blurring the distinction between <I>Nothosaurus </I>and <I>Lariosaurus</I> Poster Session I Technical Session Posters

4 229 Jiang 885 MCCARTNEY 777 D'AMORE 942 Ferrer 252 BUYNEVICH 458 PETERMANN 1032 OLORI 468 SCARPETTA 425 BOLET 137 CERNANSKY 874 CHOVANEC 597 STARCK 581 CROGHAN Effect of new records of Early and Middle Triassic eosauropterygians from south China on reconstruciton of sauropterygian tree topology Poster Session I Technical Session Posters Using vertebral morphology to predict habitat preference in extinct snakes Poster Session I Technical Session Posters Using geometric morphometrics to quantify shape-size heterodonty in non-mammalian taxa: a case study investigating dental ontogeny in the Nile monitor, <I>Varanus niloticus</i>. Poster Session I Technical Session Posters Why higher species diversity does not always equal higher morphological disparity: an example from varanid lizards Poster Session I Technical Session Posters GEOPHYSICAL IMAGING OF SNAKE BURROWS IN AEOLIAN SANDS: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FOSSIL RECORD OF SQUAMATES Poster Session I Technical Session Posters A new CT-based analytical approach for exploring taphonomic biases in terrestrial vertebrate assemblages Poster Session I Technical Session Posters The Pleistocene Herpetofauna from Room 2 of Cathedral Cave, White Pine County, Nevada Poster Session I Technical Session Posters Ancient DNA and the role of island fragmentation in divergence of lizards of the genus Ameiva Poster Session I Technical Session Posters A PARTIAL SKULL OF <I>OPHISAURUS</I> (SQUAMATA, ANGUIDAE) FROM THE MIOCENE OF CATALONIA (NE IBERIAN PENINSULA) Poster Session I Technical Session Posters Wiesbaden - Amoneburg in Germany: the first steps of the modern squamate fauna in Europe during the Earliest Miocene Poster Session I Technical Session Posters Non-anguimorph lizards from the late Oligocene and early Miocene of northern Florida, USA and implications for New World squamate biogeography Poster Session I Technical Session Posters THE FIRST REPORTED RECORD OF OLIGOCENE IGUANIDAE (REPTILIA: SQUAMATA) FROM THE WHITE RIVER GROUP OF BADLANDS NATIONAL PARK, SOUTH DAKOTA Poster Session I Technical Session Posters Systematics of the 32 MY old aggregation of snakes from The White River Formation: Redefining the Erycinae within Booidea Poster Session I Technical Session Posters

5 208 FOLIE NEW LIZARDS FROM THE EARLY EOCENE VASTAN LIGNITE MINE OF INDIA Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 907 ELSHAFIE Diversity and body size evolution of anguid lizards through climatic transitions of the North American Cenozoic Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 544 Nydam Lizards from the Judith River Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Hill County, Montana Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 506 JAPUNDZIC A NEW CENOMANIAN-TURONIAN PONTOSAUR FROM CROATIA Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 505 Campbell A NEW OPHIDIOMORPH TAXON FROM THE TURONIAN OF CROATIA Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 114 SCHULP A new mosasaur from the Type Maastrichtian Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 297 Street <I>Mosasaurus lemonnieri</i> Dollo, 1889: A distinct and diagnosable taxon of mosasaurine mosasaur Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 569 JIMENEZ-HUIDOBRO <I>Tylosaurus kansasensis</i>, <I>T. proriger</i>, and <I>T. nepaeolicus</i>: Can they be differentially diagnosed? Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 933 TREVETHAN Thermoregulatory status of mosasaurs from the Western Interior Seaway of Kansas, USA Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 811 Matthews The paleoecology of the frogs from the Early Pliocene site of Langebaanweg (west coast, South Africa) Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 555 BREDEHOEFT Diversity in Frogs (Ranidae) from the Hagerman local fauna, Pliocene of Idaho Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 501 Jacisin Description, Classification, and Paleoecology of the Oligocene Salamanders of Oregon. Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 827 CANOVILLE Bone microstructure provides new evidence for terrestrial lifestyle adaptations for the Lower Triassic stereospondyl <I>Lydekkerina</I> (Tetrapoda: Temnospondyli) Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 595 HUERTAS Paleohistology and biogeochemistry of Triassic temnospondyls from Tanzania and Zambia: implications for taphonomy of the Karoo System Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 491 DILKES The carpus and tarsus of Temnospondyli Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 11 MCHUGH Incorporating life history as discrete morphological characters in phylogeny reconstruction Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 986 BEIGHTOL V A new basal stereospondyl (Temnospondyli) from the Lower Triassic Fremouw Formation of Antarctica Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 758 ANGIELCZYK New vertebrates from the Permian Pedra de Fogo Formation, Parnaiba Basin, northeastern Brazil Poster Session I Technical Session Posters

6 53 FRASER 471 Hastings 270 CHEN 322 LIU 912 STEVENS 504 DIVAY 384 ARGYRIOU 490 Murray 245 SHIMADA 97 PIMIENTO 396 HASTIE 582 SOTO 944 BIASATTI 748 MAISCH, IV NEW VERTEBRATE FAUNAS FROM THE EARLIEST CARBONIFEROUS OF SCOTLAND Poster Session I Technical Session Posters NEW FOSSIL LUNGFISHES (DIPNOI, LEPIDOSIRENIDAE) FROM THE PALEOGENE OF NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA AND NEW METHODS FOR TOOTHPLATE IDENTIFICATION Poster Session I Technical Session Posters A LATE EOCENE PROCYPRIS-LIKE CYPRINID (TELEOSTEI, PISCES) FROM SOUTH CHINA Poster Session I Technical Session Posters NORTH AMERICAN EOCENE SUCKERS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR THE SYSTEMATICS OF CATOSTOMIDAE (OSTARIOPHYSI, CYPRINIFORMES) Poster Session I Technical Session Posters Alestid fishes from the late Oligocene Nsungwe Formation of Tanzania Poster Session I Technical Session Posters Ichthyofauna of the Cypress Hills Formation (late Eocene early Oligocene), Eastend Area, Saskatchewan, Canada Poster Session I Technical Session Posters Fish diversity and paleoenvironments from the late Miocene of Sahabi, Libya Poster Session I Technical Session Posters Elasmobranchs of the lower Jbel Qatrani Formation, Fayum, Egypt Poster Session I Technical Session Posters A new fossil megamouth shark (Lamniformes: Megachasmidae) from Oligo-Miocene of western United States Poster Session I Technical Session Posters Chronoclinal body size increase of the extinct giant shark Megalodon (<I>Carcharcoles megalodon</i>) Poster Session I Technical Session Posters A new elasmobranch assemblage from the Late Miocene of Australia sheds light on the evolution of shark diversity in the Southern Ocean. Poster Session I Technical Session Posters NEW CHONDRICHTHYAN FAUNA FROM MIDDLE MIOCENE (BARSTOVIAN), GADSEN COUNTY, FLORIDA, USA. Poster Session I Technical Session Posters Paleoecologies and paleoclimates of Miocene shark taxa from Calvert Cliffs, Maryland, USA: Evidence from stable carbon and oxygen isotopes Poster Session I Technical Session Posters Chondrichthyan Remains from the Shark River Formation (Middle Eocene) and Kirkwood Formation (Early Miocene) Lag Deposit, Monmouth County, New Jersey Poster Session I Technical Session Posters

7 539 WOODRUFF 276 HALLIDAY Supertree Perspectives on the Phylogeny of Fossil and Extant Mammals Poster Session I Technical Session Posters A Phylogenetic Analysis of Palaeocene Mammals: Implications for the Origin of Placental Mammal Orders Poster Session I Technical Session Posters New specimens of <I>Wortmania</I> (Mammalia, Taeniodonta) 147 WILLIAMSON from the early Paleocene (Puercan) of New Mexico Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 496 EBERLE A new Puercan fauna from Wyoming's Great Divide Basin Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 987 PENKROT 947 Strait 209 Smith 348 AHRENS 493 CHEW 469 ROSE 1060 Moore 393 SANTOS 381 CAMPISANO 456 Naylor THE DIVERSITY OF SMALL MAMMALIAN TARSALS FROM CASTLE GARDENS, EARLIEST EOCENE OF WYOMING Poster Session I Technical Session Posters Diversity and Abundance of Late Paleocene/Early Eocene Multituberculata from the Southeastern Big Horn Basin, Wyoming Poster Session I Technical Session Posters DIVERSITY OF ARCHAEONYCTERID BATS IN THE EARLY EOCENE OF EUROPE Poster Session I Technical Session Posters Foot posture in Early Eocene Hyaenodontidae and Oxyaenidae from Wyoming Poster Session I Technical Session Posters Mammalian faunal response to the ETM2 and H2 hyperthermal events in the central part of the Bighorn Basin, WY Poster Session I Technical Session Posters NEW EARLY EOCENE PANTOLESTID SKELETON FROM FOSSIL BUTTE MEMBER, WYOMING, AND SKELETAL ONTOGENY IN PANTOLESTIDAE (MAMMALIA, PANTOLESTA) Poster Session I Technical Session Posters Investigating the Influence of Taxon and Ecology on Taphonomic Modification Poster Session I Technical Session Posters New Records of Terrestrial Vertebrates from an Eocene Bonebed in Orange County, California Poster Session I Technical Session Posters Geochronological and taxonomical revision of the Middle Eocene Whistler Squat Quarry (Devil's Graveyard Formation, Texas) and implications for the early Uintan in West Texas Poster Session I Technical Session Posters Phylogenetic and functional cues in micromammal tarsal bones from the late Oligocene Nsungwe Formation of southwestern Tanzania Poster Session I Technical Session Posters

8 951 BOMMERSBACH Predictive Modeling in the Search for Vertebrate Fossils: Geographic Object Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA) in the Eocene of Wyoming Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 817 HABERSETZER Diverse strategies for improving CT scans of vertebrate fossils Poster Session I Technical Session Posters Evolution of dentition in <I>Meroëhyrax</I> from the Late Oligocene of Kenya: Paleontological analysis and 1033 REYNOSO <sup>40</sup>ar/<sup>39</sup>ar dating Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 189 KODA 1048 SANDERS 925 EL ADLI 752 CHIBA 862 UNO 1030 Whalen 908 KALTHOFF 239 FRÖBISCH 813 SULLIVAN 266 LIU 234 VIGLIETTI 606 JANSEN The first nearly complete skull of <I>Stegolophodon</I> (Stegodontidae, Proboscidea) from the Lower Miocene of Japan Poster Session I Technical Session Posters Classification and biochronology of African Miocene Proboscideans Poster Session I Technical Session Posters Last years of life and season of death of a Columbian mammoth from Rancho La Brea Poster Session I Technical Session Posters A Robust Desmostylid from Hokkaido, Japan, and the Feeding Style of Desmostylids Poster Session I Technical Session Posters Intra-tooth variation in multi-elementary isotope analyses along growth-lines of tooth enamel of <I>Desmostylus</I> (Mammalia: Afrotheria) Poster Session I Technical Session Posters Quantitative Approach to Rib Identification at an Alaskan Pleistocene Site Poster Session I Technical Session Posters Extremely coarse use wear features in teeth of aardvarks (<I>Orycteropus afer</i>, Tubulidentata, Mammalia) Poster Session I Technical Session Posters The quality of the fossil record of anomodonts (Synapsida, Therapsida) Poster Session I Technical Session Posters The structure of the pelvis in tritylodontids (Synapsida: Eucynodontia) and its phylogenetic and functional implications Poster Session I Technical Session Posters New tetrapod fossils from the Triassic Tongchuan Formation of Shanxi Province, China, and the age of the <I>Sinokannnemeyeria-Shansisuchus</I> Assemblage Poster Session I Technical Session Posters <I>Lystrosaurus</I> bonebed origins and their palaeoenvironmental implications for the earliest Triassic Karoo Basin, South Africa Poster Session I Technical Session Posters A new basal dinocephalian from the Middle Permian Mezen fauna (Russia) Poster Session I Technical Session Posters

9 674 SIGURDSEN The gorgonopsian braincase and the evolution of therapsid brains Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 898 CHINSAMY-TURAN Evidence of fungal attack on the bones of a Permian therapsid Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 16 WRETMAN THE LOWER JURASSIC ACTINOPTERYGIAN <I>PACHYCORMUS BOLLENSIS</I>: IMPLICATIONS FOR PACHYCORMIFORM PHYLOGENY AND PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 236 SCHRÖDER Redescription of Aspidorhynchus ornatissimus Agassiz, 1834 from Germany Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 899 HOLLOWAY 40 FIELITZ A new specimen of <I>Enchodus </I>(Actinopterygii: Protacanthopterygii) from the Late Cretaceous of Egypt and its contribution to the Western Tethyan distribution of the genus Poster Session I Technical Session Posters Two three dimensionally preserved teleost neurocrania from the Corsicana Formation (Upper Cretaceous, Maastrichtian), Bexar County, Texas, U.S.A. Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 155 SCHWIMMER A Late Cretaceous shark coprolite with baby turtle vertebrae Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 991 FRAMPTON Preliminary investigations of chondrichthyan and actinopterygian fishes from the Fish Scale Sandstone (Albian to Cenomanian), Birch Mountains, Alberta, Canada Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 683 NEWBREY Anacoracid vertebral morphology and comparison to Lamniformes and Carcharhiniformes suggest an ordinal assignment Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 514 BOLES Evidence of Extensive Scavenging/Predation by Late Cretaceous Marine Organisms from the Basal Hornerstown Formation, New Jersey, USA Poster Session I Technical Session Posters 534 BICE 279 Meglei Fossil marine fishes from the Codell Sandstone Member of the Upper Cretaceous Carlile Shale in north-central Kansas, U.S.A. Poster Session I Technical Session Posters Fossil marine vertebrates from the middle Graneros Shale (Upper Cretaceous: middle Cenomanian) in southeastern Nebraska, U.S.A. Poster Session I Technical Session Posters

10 163 MCINTOSH 165 LINDOSO 709 Hunt-Foster 177 ATTERHOLT LATE CRETACEOUS MARINE VERTEBRATE FAUNA FROM THE FAIRPORT CHALK MEMBER OF THE CARLILE SHALE IN SOUTHERN ELLIS COUNTY, KANSAS, U.S.A. Poster Session I Technical Session Posters The paleoichthyofauna from the Codó Formation (Aptian of the Parnaíba Basin) Northeastern Brazil Poster Session I Technical Session Posters PALEOFAUNA OF THE WILLIAMS FORK FORMATION (UPPER CRETACEOUS), NORTHWESTERN COLORADO: COASTAL DELTAIC DEPOSITS DOMINATED BY FRESHWATER TAXA Poster Session I Technical Session Posters DISSECTING DINOSAURS: THE USE OF RESEARCH SPECIMENS IN HIGH SCHOOL BIOLOGY CLASSROOMS TO ENGAGE STUDENTS AS CITIZEN SCIENTISTS AND PROMOTE SCIENTIFIC LITERACY Education & Outreach Poster Session 227 MARRS THE EVO-ECO-BIO CURRICULUM: HELPING SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS DISCOVER, EXPERIENCE, AND CONNECT TO THEIR LIFE HISTORY, TO THEIR BIOSPHERE, AND TO PROCESSES IN NATURE. 250 EARLY Teen Science Cafés: A Novel Way to Engage Future Scientists Conserving and Understanding a Mammalian "Living Fossil" <I>Solenodon paradoxus</i>, through Paleontological Outreach 570 Cussen in the Dominican Republic Education & Outreach Poster Session Education & Outreach Poster Session Education & Outreach Poster Session 632 WILKINS CHEWING THE FAT WITH ARCTODUS: COLLABORATIVE UNDERGRADUATE DEVELOPMENT OF A CALIBRATED APPARATUS FOR USE IN BITE FORCE RESEARCH Education & Outreach Poster Session 682 DANIEL 776 TOTH 911 CHIAPPE PALEOAERIE: Multiple avenues bringing evolution education to formal and informal educators and the public at the same time "What Rock Is That?" (and other common 4th grade questions)-- a free professional development opportunity for teachers with NHMU Proyecto Dinosaurios a mentor-centered approach to engaging under-represented students in paleontological research Education & Outreach Poster Session Education & Outreach Poster Session Education & Outreach Poster Session

11 958 GALLAGHER 1062 DeSantis Redesigning the Dinosaurs Course: An Inquiry-Based Approach to Teaching Paleontology University Students' Acceptance of Climate Change and Evolution: Are Skeptics just Anti-Science? 1077 DeSantis Immersion of evolutionary concepts across science curricula Education & Outreach Poster Session Education & Outreach Poster Session Education & Outreach Poster Session 17 TENNANT Comparative ecomorphology of ornithopod and ruminant snouts - a geometric morphometric approach Edwin H. and Margaret M. Colbert Prize Poster Session 42 BUTTON 45 Vitek Biomechanical evidence for niche partitioning between sympatric sauropod dinosaurs New patterns of spatiotemporal variation in the Eastern Box Turtle (<I>Terrapene carolina</i>) and their influence on evolutionary hypotheses Edwin H. and Margaret M. Colbert Prize Poster Session Edwin H. and Margaret M. Colbert Prize Poster Session 50 TANAKA 56 VIETTI Eggshell porosity reveals nest types and incubation behavior in archosaurs Insights into the Microbial Degradation of Bone in Marine Environments: Genetic Sequencing of Biofilms from Lab- Simulated Whale-Falls Edwin H. and Margaret M. Colbert Prize Poster Session Edwin H. and Margaret M. Colbert Prize Poster Session 71 Miller-Camp When specialists become generalists: Longirostry in <i>alligator</i> Edwin H. and Margaret M. Colbert Prize Poster Session 75 WINKLER Enamel ridge alignment in ungulates: a cut above Edwin H. and Margaret M. Colbert Prize Poster Session 95 YI 99 KAWABE INNER-EAR MORPHOLOGY SUGGESTS BURROWING BEHAVIOUR IN EARLY SNAKES Enigmatic affinity in the brain morphology between plotopterids and penguins with comprehensive comparison among water birds Edwin H. and Margaret M. Colbert Prize Poster Session Edwin H. and Margaret M. Colbert Prize Poster Session 107 METELLO <I>Diogenornis fragilis</i>, the oldest Ratitae: Claws, locomotor behavior and taxonomic implications. Edwin H. and Margaret M. Colbert Prize Poster Session

12 110 JONES Recognizing Bat Tracks and Trackways in the Fossil Record: Proposed Morphological Criteria Based on Trackways of the Neotropical Fruit Bat <I>Carollia perspicillata</i> Edwin H. and Margaret M. Colbert Prize Poster Session 113 Hattori Evolution of the pedal function in non-avian theropods Edwin H. and Margaret M. Colbert Prize Poster Session 679 Gensler Using partnerships and volunteers to manage Miocene-aged (Hemingfordian-Barstovian NALMA) paleontological resources on BLM lands in the Espanola Basin of New Mexico. Preparators' Poster Session 879 SHINYA Use of silicone caulk as a separator for field jackets Preparators' Poster Session 473 SCHUBERT The Significance of Rancho La Brea for Interpreting the Paleobiology of Giant Short-faced Bears Symposium Poster Session: La Brea and Beyond: The Paleontology of Asphalt- Preserved Biotas 203 FULLER Radiocarbon dating and isotopic analysis of Pleistocene fauna from Project 23 at Rancho La Brea: A novel method for tar removal from bone collagen by ultrafiltration Symposium Poster Session: La Brea and Beyond: The Paleontology of Asphalt- Preserved Biotas 1008 BROWN <I>Equus occidentalis</i> Leidy from Asphalto, Kern County, California Symposium Poster Session: La Brea and Beyond: The Paleontology of Asphalt- Preserved Biotas 1047 HARTSTONE-ROSE Broken and healed bacula of La Brea: a whole new definition of tough times! Symposium Poster Session: La Brea and Beyond: The Paleontology of Asphalt- Preserved Biotas

13 480 SHOLTS 543 AKERSTEN Dental histology of dire wolf fossils from tar seep deposits: Taphonomic considerations for life history studies THE ASPHALTO/MCKITTRICK COMPLEX: QUATERNARY FOSSILS ASSOCIATED WITH ASPHALT DEPOSITS FROM THE SOUTHWESTERN MARGIN OF THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY, 23 KM NORTHEAST OF TAFT, KERN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA Symposium Poster Session: La Brea and Beyond: The Paleontology of Asphalt- Preserved Biotas Symposium Poster Session: La Brea and Beyond: The Paleontology of Asphalt- Preserved Biotas 794 CADENILLAS Additional bats from the Late Pleistocene of the Talara Tar Seeps (Northwestern Peru) - Paleoenvironmental implications Symposium Poster Session: La Brea and Beyond: The Paleontology of Asphalt- Preserved Biotas 254 SOLORZANO A NEW MAMMAL ASSEMBLAGE FROM THE LATE PLEISTOCENE EL BREAL DE OROCUAL, NORTHEAST OF VENEZUELA Symposium Poster Session: La Brea and Beyond: The Paleontology of Asphalt- Preserved Biotas Sigmodontine rodents from the Late Pleistocene of the Talara Tar Seeps (Northwestern Peru) - Systematics, paleoenvironmental inferences and preliminary taphonomic study Symposium Poster Session: La Brea and Beyond: The Paleontology of Asphalt- Preserved Biotas 800 ZAPATA Regional and landscape-scale Pleistocene paleoecology using carbon and oxygen isotopes from in situ macro- and micromammal tooth enamel at Elandsfontein, Western Cape, 1046 Lehmann South Africa. Technical Session Posters 368 Kharlamova PRELIMINARY ANALYSES OF BRAIN GROSS MORPHOLOGY Technical Session Posters The Early Pleistocene mammalian fauna of Marsabit Road, 767 FERRARO Chalbi Basin, northern Kenya Technical Session Posters 475 Chritz 895 GEORGE Isotopic indicators of monsoon-induced terrestrial ecosystem change in the Turkana Basin, Kenya: implications for the fossil record Technical Session Posters GIS analysis of the FAUNMAP II database to recognize geographic bias in the identification of fossils Technical Session Posters

14 94 PRIEGO-VARGAS 13 REYNOLDS 851 PALMQVIST 24 Holden 131 STEGNER 554 MACIAS 562 BRANDBORG 861 ELLISON 70 TSUBAMOTO 218 SAMUELS 486 O'Brien Dietary behavior and habitat of a mammal association from the Rancholabrean of Hidalgo, central Mexico Technical Session Posters THE EL CASCO SUBSTATION FAUNA AND FLORA: NEW RECORDS FROM THE PLIOCENE PLEISTOCENE AGE SAN TIMOTEO FORMATION, RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA Technical Session Posters Taphonomy of carnivorous and herbivorous mammals preserved in Rancho La Brea tar pits: Ships that pass in the night? Technical Session Posters Paleoecological and taphonomic implications of insect-damaged vertebrate remains from Rancho La Brea, southern California Technical Session Posters The Mescal Cave Fauna (San Bernardino County, California): Testing Assumptions of Habitat Fidelity in the Quaternary Fossil Record Technical Session Posters New Pleistocene megafauna localities in Santa Barbara County, California: Paleontological reconnaissance of the marine terrace deposits at Vandenberg Air Force Base Technical Session Posters Excavation and Fossil Recovery at Don's Gooseberry Pit, Black Hills, SD Technical Session Posters A New Phylogenetically-Informed Life Reconstruction of the Giant Eocene Carnivorous Artiodactyl <I>Andrewsarchus mongoliensis</i> (Mammalia, Artiodactylamorpha, Cetancodontomorpha) Technical Session Posters A Paleogene mammalian fauna from the Iwaki Formation, Japan: its implication to the age and paleobiogeography Technical Session Posters The first records of leptochoerids (Artiodactyla) from the John Day Formation of Oregon Technical Session Posters The Evolutionary History of Cranial Vasculature in Basal Ruminants Technical Session Posters 363 EMERY Character variation in modern camels and sheep highlights problems in the genus-level taxonomy of Agriochoerid oreodonts Technical Session Posters 1069 Walters Deciduous teeth show close relationships between Oreodont genera (Eucrotaphus, Merycochoerus and Promerycochoerus) Technical Session Posters

15 806 MCLAUGHLIN 319 YAMADA 465 LUDTKE 197 ROWAN 494 SCOTT 657 RÖSSNER 550 Heckeberg 399 NISHIOKA Sexual dimorphism in the postcrania of extant Artiodactyla and implications for falsely elevated diversity in the Paleomerycidae Technical Session Posters Extant hypsodont ungulates provide new insight on mesowear analysis for the Late Miocene ungulates from Maragheh, Iran Technical Session Posters Examining the congruence between different sources of phylogenetic data from Artiodactyla Technical Session Posters Endemism and dispersal in East African Bovidae from the late Miocene through the Recent Technical Session Posters THE RELIABILITY OF MAXILLARY AND MANDIBULAR FIRST AND SECOND MOLARS FOR IDENTIFYING DIETARY CATEGORY IN EXTANT BOVIDS VIA DENTAL MICROWEAR TEXTURE ANALYSIS Technical Session Posters New insight in the early evolution of Pecora: cranial anatomy of <I>Amphimoschus</I> (Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Ruminantia) Technical Session Posters The power of tooth morphology in the interpretation of cervid evolution (Ruminantia, Artiodactyla, Mammalia) Technical Session Posters TAXONOMIC, MORPHOLOGICAL, AND PALEOENVIRONMENTAL REVISIONS ON FOSSIL BOVIDS (ARTIODACTYLA) FROM CONTINENTAL SOUTHEAST ASIA Technical Session Posters 380 KLOESS Tracks and body fossils preserve different camelid populations in the Barstow Formation (Miocene) of southern California Technical Session Posters <I>Hippopotamus</I> at Olduvai Gorge Indicates Persistent Wetland Environments During a Period of Increasing 941 HENSLEY-MARSCHANDAridification in Early Hominin Evolution Technical Session Posters 523 BOISSERIE 441 LEWIS CONTINENTAL DWARFISM OF AN EARLY PLEISTOCENE HIPPOPOTAMID FROM THE SHUNGURA FORMATION, LOWER OMO VALLEY, ETHIOPIA Technical Session Posters Early Holocene Bison antiquus Size Cline on the Southern Plains Technical Session Posters

16 928 Bormet 332 SCHUBERT 175 RAMDARSHAN 1071 Birlenbach Bison do not march in unison: a geometric morphometric approach to differentiating North American bison species based on hoof shape morphology Technical Session Posters Inner ear morphometry of <I>Myotragus balearicus</i> (Bovidae, Cetartiodactyla) supports decrease in locomotor agility Technical Session Posters Niche partitioning among Plesiadapiformes: an example from the late Paleocene of southwestern Wyoming Technical Session Posters Testing Mechanisms of Body Size Trends in North American Plesiadapiformes (Mammalia:?Primates) Technical Session Posters 260 LÓPEZ-TORRES Phylogenetic relationships of the European Paromomyidae (Primates, Mammalia) and their biogeographic implications Technical Session Posters 915 CHESTER NEARLY COMPLETE SKELETON OF EARLY EOCENE <I>TINIMOMYS GRAYBULLIENSIS</I> (PRIMATES, MICROMOMYIDAE) Technical Session Posters 710 MAIOLINO Distal Phalangeal Evolution in Early Euprimates Technical Session Posters 242 ENGELS The Messel Adapids - 3D Reconstruction, Repositioning and Functional Analysis of the Dentitions Technical Session Posters 193 HARRINGTON First virtual endocast of an Eocene North American Adapiform Primate Technical Session Posters 906 Allen Endocast shape evolution in Primates Technical Session Posters 538 PRUFROCK PHALANGERIFORM MODELS FOR THE ESTIMATION OF BODY MASS IN STEM PRIMATES Technical Session Posters Estimating body mass of fossil primates: A comparison of dental 1052 YAPUNCICH and tarsal variables Technical Session Posters 1074 Perry Reconstructions of the chewing muscles in European adapids and subfossil lemurs Technical Session Posters 146 SAMONDS The chronology of lemur extinction in near and deep time Technical Session Posters 249 ST CLAIR Enamel thickness measurements and reconstruction of ancestral morphotypes in primates Technical Session Posters 509 Atwater NEW EVIDENCE THAT OMOMYID DIET, NOT BODY SIZE, WAS AFFECTED BY GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE Technical Session Posters 364 MINWER-BARAKAT The westernmost record of the genus Microchoerus (Omomyidae, Primates) in the Iberian Peninsula and its palaeobiogeographic implications Technical Session Posters

17 36 ALBRIGHT The last fossil primate in North America: new material of the enigmatic Ekgmowechashala from the Arikareean of Oregon Technical Session Posters 751 PATEL New cercopithecoid primate postcranial fossils from Cooper s D, South Africa Technical Session Posters 718 MACLATCHY More of the femur of <I>Morotopithecus</I> Technical Session Posters 996 MOYÀ-SOLÀ A proximal radius of <I>Barberapithecus huerzeleri</i> (Primates, Pliopithecidae) from the Miocene site of Castell de Barberà (NE Iberian Peninsula) Technical Session Posters 212 ALBA 178 SMITH 1027 Heck 843 OSER 388 Watabe 90 MCDONALD 765 STUBBS 358 LOCKLEY 1056 Platt Oldest joint record of <I>Macaca</I> and <I>Mesopithecus</I> (Primates, Cercopithecidae) based on material from the latest Miocene of Moncucco Torinese (Italy) Technical Session Posters Evolution and genetic distances of Neandertal and anatomically modern human (AMH) fossils as indicated by basicranial morphology. Technical Session Posters Evaluating deformation in Spheroolithus dinosaur eggs from Zhejiang, China Technical Session Posters New fossil eggs, eggshell, and perinatal osteological remains from the Egg Mountain locality, Upper Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation, Montana, U.S.A. Technical Session Posters Dinosaur eggshell oofauna from the Nemegt and Barungoyot Formations in the Gobi desert, Mongolia - taxonomy and taphonomy Technical Session Posters NEW DISCOVERIES OF DINOSAURS AND OTHER VERTEBRATES FROM THE UPPER CRETACEOUS (CAMPANIAN) MENEFEE FORMATION OF NEW MEXICO Technical Session Posters QUANTIFYING HISTORICAL PATTERNS IN THE STRATIGRAPHIC COMPLETENESS OF THE DINOSAUR FOSSIL RECORD Technical Session Posters A NEW DINOSAUR FREEWAY IN THE CRETACEOUS OF WESTERN COLORADO: TOWARDS A WORLD CLASS TETRAPOD TRACK SAMPLE AND DATABASE FOR THE CRETACEOUS DAKOTA GROUP Technical Session Posters The first theropod trackways from the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) De Queen Formation, southwest Arkansas Technical Session Posters

18 993 Suarez 325 VIEFHAUS 1080 Stoller 615 GORSCAK Preservation of large theropod and sauropod trackways from the Lower Cretaceous DeQueen Formation, Arkansas using LIDAR: Creating a virtual trackway lab for use in teaching introductory and upper division laboratories Technical Session Posters Analysis of desiccation crack pattern for quantitative interpretation of dinosaur tracks Technical Session Posters Tracks of dinosaurs, synapsids, and arthropods in the Aztec Sandstone of Southern Nevada: a final report Technical Session Posters Integrating temporal data within a phylogenetic analysis: A Bayesian approach for characterizing divergence estimates in an extinct clade Technical Session Posters Early sauropodomorph jaw apparatus anatomy: a comparative 375 FAIRMAN study with iguanian lizards Technical Session Posters Variation in sauropod (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) cervical centrum 836 MOACDIEH length Technical Session Posters 871 D'Emic Bone histology of sauropod dinosaurs from Niger Technical Session Posters 1061 FRONIMOS 613 MACHADO 232 KNOLL 662 RIFF Function and polarity of concavo-convex articulations in the vertebral centra of sauropod dinosaurs with implications for other vertebrates Technical Session Posters A NEW TITANOSAUR (DINOSAURIA, SAUROPODA) FROM THE LATE CRETACEOUS BAURU BASIN, BRAZIL Technical Session Posters A new titanosaur sauropod neurocranium from the Late Cretaceous of Spain Technical Session Posters New information on Titanosauridae remains (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Marilia Formation (Maastrichtian, Bauru Basin) of Campina Verde, Minas Gerais State, Brazil Technical Session Posters 525 POROPAT Palaeobiogeographic implications of Australia s Cretaceous sauropods Technical Session Posters 630 DÍEZ DÍAZ Microwear patterns of the titanosaurian teeth from the Late Cretaceous of Lo Hueco (Cuenca, Spain) Technical Session Posters 818 YOSHIDA NEW SAUROPOD FROM THE CEDAR MOUNTAIN FORMATION IN UTAH, USA Technical Session Posters 621 WINGS Unique taphonomy of the dwarfed sauropods <I>Europasaurus</I> from Late Jurassic marine strata of the Langenberg Quarry (Lower Saxony, Northern Germany) Technical Session Posters 497 WHITLOCK Complex tooth histology in a sauropod dinosaur Technical Session Posters

19 255 FOSTER A SMALL SAUROPOD DINOSAUR (<I>HAPLOCANTHOSAURUS</I>?) FROM THE LOWER MORRISON FORMATION (UPPER JURASSIC) OF CENTRAL COLORADO Technical Session Posters 673 SCHMITT Paleoneuroanatomy and braincase morphology indicates the presence of at least two diplodocine taxa (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) at Howe Ranch (Wyoming, USA) Technical Session Posters 891 MOCHO Macronarian record from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal Technical Session Posters 858 MATEUS Cathetosaurus as a valid sauropod genus and comparisons to Camarasaurus Technical Session Posters Preliminary phylogenetic and histological analysis of a Late Triassic sauropodomorph from the Lower Elliot Formation of 1049 KRUPANDAN Lesotho. Technical Session Posters Evolution patterns and morphological disparity on 910 APALDETTI Sauropodomorpha during Triassic-Jurassic boundary Technical Session Posters 618 LÄBE Gait reconstruction from sauropod trackways using photogrammetry and soil mechanical finite element analysis: A case study from the middle Kimmeridgian Barkhausen tracksite, Germany Technical Session Posters 418 FARLOW A Photogrammetric Recreation of Roland T. Bird's Paluxy River Theropod-Sauropod "Chase Sequence" Tracksite Quarry (Glen Rose Formation, Lower Cretaceous, Dinosaur Valley State Park, Somervell County, Texas) Technical Session Posters 583 IIJIMA Convergences and trends in the evolution of archosaur pelvis Technical Session Posters 54 LUCAS The most complete juvenile phytosaur skull: <I>Redondasaurus</I> from the Upper Triassic Chinle Group at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico Technical Session Posters 103 RUBILAR-ROGERS 924 HECKERT A SILESAURID (ARCHOSAURIA: DINOSAURIFORMES) FROM THE TRIASSIC OF THE ATACAMA DESERT, CHILE Technical Session Posters The aetosaur (Archosauria:Suchia) fauna of the Upper Triassic Pekin Formation (Newark Supergroup), Deep River Basin, North Carolina, U.S.A., and its implications for the phylogeny and biostratigraphy of aetosaurs Technical Session Posters

20 943 NESBITT 281 SOOKIAS 1039 BLACKBURN 132 Hilbert-Wolf 793 JINNAH 488 Devlin 730 Sumida Relationships among the bizarre: the anatomy of <I>Azendohsaurus madagaskarensis</i> and its implications for resolving early archosaurmorph phylogeny Technical Session Posters Redescription and phylogenetic assessment of the basal archosauriform <i>dorosuchus neoetus</i> from the Middle Triassic of Russia Technical Session Posters A Late Oligocene anuran fauna from the Nsungwe Formation, southwestern Tanzania I SEDN Award Winner Deciphering the Links between Landscape Change and Vertebrate Evolution using U/Pb Geochronology and Detrital Thermochronology: A Case Study from the Rukwa Rift Basin Potential of detrital zircons for providing age constraints for Karoo Supergroup vertebrates I I Symposium Poster Session: The Tempo of Vertebrate Evolution: Geochronologic Advances in Dating the Fossil Record Symposium Poster Session: The Tempo of Vertebrate Evolution: Geochronologic Advances in Dating the Fossil Record Digital modeling and 3D visualization of the axial skeleton of the Early Permian captorhinid reptile <I>Labidosaurus</I> I Technical Session Posters New information on the hindlimb structure of the Early Permian bolosaurid reptile <I>Eudibamus cursoris</i>, the earliest known facultative biped I Technical Session Posters 917 IMAI Sedimentological Analyses of Eggshell Transport and Deposition: Implications and Application to Eggshell Taphonomy I Technical Session Posters 949 Engelmann 974 THOMSON MICROVERTEBRATES FROM THE SAINTS AND SINNERS QUARRY (NUGGET SANDSTONE:?LATE TRIASSIC ï ½ EARLY JURASSIC): A REMARKABLE WINDOW ONTO THE DIVERSITY AND PALEOECOLOGY OF SMALL VERTEBRATES IN AN ANCIENT EOLIAN ENVIRONMENT I Technical Session Posters First occurrence of reptile tracks (<I>Procolophonichnium</I>) from the Lower Triassic Moenkopi Formation (Shnabkaib Member) of southwestern Utah with paleoenvironmental implications I Technical Session Posters

21 392 Matsumoto Feeding behavior and the functional anatomy of the neck in the long-snouted Choristodera, <I>Champsosaurus</I> and <I>Simoedosaurus</I> (Reptilia: Diapsida). I Technical Session Posters 267 BAILLEUL Ontogeny of cranial sutures in <I>Alligator mississipiensis</i>: implications for maturity assessment in non-avian dinosaurs I Technical Session Posters 617 GOLD Sizing up the position of <I>Gavialis</I> using geometric morphometrics of Crocodylian Braincases I Technical Session Posters 985 KING Cranial pit development in extant and fossil Alligator I Technical Session Posters 666 SOUZA Phylogenetic analysis of South American gavialoids I Technical Session Posters 789 Cidade Description of nine new specimens of <I>Mourasuchus nativus</i> (Alligatoroidea, Caimaninae), and comments on onthogenetic development and intraspecific variation on the skull table I Technical Session Posters 134 WHITING Late Eocene fossil alligators from Nebraska and their implications for the biogeographic origin of <I>Alligator</I> I Technical Session Posters 914 Ehret An Eocene occurrence of a Dyrosaurid (Crocodylomorpha, Mesoeucrocodylia) from Alabama, U.S.A. I Technical Session Posters 981 ANDRADE Descriptive paleohistology on <I>Guarinisuchus munizi</i> (Dyrosauridae, Crocodylomorpha) long bones and their inferences on its lifestyle I Technical Session Posters 764 BURKEY 953 CARBOT-CHANONA A Phylogenetic Analysis of Woodbinesuchus byersmauricei, Lee 1997 and a potential new clade of Neosuchians I Technical Session Posters New light on the evolutionary relationships between "thoracosaurs" and modern gharials: evidence from a new gavialoid from the Late Cretaceous of Chiapas, México I Technical Session Posters 633 LEARDI The postcranial anatomy of the <I>Yacarerani boliviensis</i> and the evolution of the notosuchian postcranial skeleton I Technical Session Posters 733 GODOY First record of abdominal contents in fossil Crocodyliformes I Technical Session Posters 945 Wayrynen An assessment of Cloverly Formation (Lower Cretaceous) crocodylomorph diversity using tooth morphology I Technical Session Posters 309 BELMONTE On the appendicular anatomy of <I>Mariliasuchus</I> <I>amarali</I> (Crocodyliformes: Notosuchia) from the Upper Cretaceous (Bauru Group) of Brazil I Technical Session Posters

22 326 Bremer REASSESSMENT OF THE 'LAST' GONIOPHOLIDID: <I>DENAZINOSUCHUS KIRTLANDICUS</I> FROM THE LATE CRETACEOUS OF NEW MEXICO I Technical Session Posters 955 BRANDAU Crocodyliform feeding traces on ceratopsid dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous (late Campanian) Kaiparowits Formation, southern Utah I Technical Session Posters 700 DINTER Crocodyliform bite marks on an articulated Gryposaurus (Dinosauria: Hadrosauridae) cranium from the Upper Cretaceous of southern Utah I Technical Session Posters 460 DELCOURT Pelvic girdle and hindlimb musculature of Baurusuchus albertoi: a biomechanical approach I Technical Session Posters 526 ARCUCCI A NEW CROCODYLOMORPH FROM THE MORRISON FORMATION (LATE JURASSIC: KIMMERIDGIAN - EARLY TITHONIAN?) FROM THE FRUITA PALEONTOLOGICAL AREA, WESTERN COLORADO, USA I Technical Session Posters A Large New Crocodylomorph (Suchia, Archosauria) with Bizarre Skull Morphology from the Upper Triassic of North 1028 DRYMALA Carolina I Technical Session Posters The Effect of Proxy Holotypes on Taxonomic Practices for 307 PARKER Vertebrate Fossils I Technical Session Posters 411 Barrett Dinosaur integument: what do we really know? I Technical Session Posters 599 KIM Correlative microscopic investigations of microstructures and phases from dinosaur rib bones and the associated mudstone I Technical Session Posters 1040 HOWELL A New Database of Dinosaurian Paleopathology I Technical Session Posters Synchrotron analysis of pathologic bone: chemistry and 820 ANNE morphology in extinct and extant archosaur bone I Technical Session Posters 64 XU Homeotic transformation in the evolution of the theropod semilunate carpal I Technical Session Posters ONTOGENETIC TRENDS IN THE CRANIOMANDIBULAR SKELETON OF <I>MAJUNGASAURUS CRENATISSIMUS</I> AND DERIVATION OF THE ABELISAURID SKULL 1093 RATSIMBAHOLISON MORPHOTYPE I Technical Session Posters

23 1003 STIEGLER 559 DECECCHI 268 PITTMAN 848 WANG 665 Funston 304 BUTTON 3 SMITH 808 DYKE 116 Parsons 382 ANDUZA CODING INDIVIDUAL SPECIMENS AS TAXA: TEST CASES AID IN RESOLVING THE RELATIONSHIPS OF BASAL NEOTHEROPODA, GAUGE TOPOLOGICAL SENSITIVITY TO TAXON SAMPLING, AND PRODUCE NOVEL TAXONOMIC HYPOTHESES I Technical Session Posters Testing Wing Assisted Incline Running (W.A.I.R): Investigating the terrestrial origin of the avian flight stroke. I Technical Session Posters The evolution of tail joint stiffness in oviraptorosaur dinosaurs and its consequences for tail function I Technical Session Posters New oviraptorid (Theropoda, oviraptorosauria) embryos from the Upper Cretaceous of Southern China I Technical Session Posters Examining the diet of a toothless dinosaur: evidence supporting a herbivorous diet in <I>Caenagnathus</I> (Dinosauria: Oviraptorosauria) I Technical Session Posters <B>TOOTH ENAMEL MICROSTRUCTURE OF THE EARLY CRETACEOUS THERIZINSAURIAN <I>FALCARIUS UTAHENSIS</I> (THEROPODA, MANIRAPTORA)</B> I Technical Session Posters Reconstruction of the braincase and associated soft tissues of the North American therizinosaur <I>Nothronychus mckinleyi</i> I Technical Session Posters Aerodynamic performance of the feathered dinosaur <I>Microraptor</I> and its implications for the evolution of feathered flight I Technical Session Posters ONTOGENY OR PHYLOGENY? CLADISTIC PLACEMENT OF A JUVENILE DROMAEOSAURID FROM THE LOWER CRETACEOUS OF MONTANA I Technical Session Posters NEW ALVAREZSAURID MATERIAL FROM THE HELL CREEK FORMATION, MONTANA I Technical Session Posters 568 McFeeters New data on a partial skeleton referred to Struthiomimus altus (Ornithomimidae) from Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta I Technical Session Posters 809 CUFF FUNCTIONAL MECHANICS OF ORNITHOMIMOSAURS I Technical Session Posters 973 Judd A new large-bodied theropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation (Ruby Ranch Member) in central Utah I Technical Session Posters

24 215 LARSON THE VALIDITY OF NANOTYRANNUS LANCENSIS (THEROPODA, LANCIAN UPPER MAASTRICHTIAN OF NORTH AMERICA) I Technical Session Posters Tooth and postcranial growth rates in a juvenile <I>Gorgosaurus 1064 BRADLEY libratus</i> I Technical Session Posters Traumatic pathologies in the postcranium of an adult Allosaurus specimen from the Morrison Formation of the Howe Quarry, 211 EVERS Wyoming, U.S.A. I Technical Session Posters 354 BYKOWSKI Assessing the Potential for Ontogenetic Ecomorphology in Theropods: A Case Study Using <I>Allosaurus fragillis</i> from the Cleveland-Lloyd Quarry. I Technical Session Posters 821 CUESTA Solving the synonymy issue in <I>Concavenator corcovatus</i> and <I>Becklespinax altispinax</i>, two distinct theropods from the Lower Cretaceous of Europe. I Technical Session Posters 571 SIMON Elongatoolithid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) eggshell from the Lower Cretaceous Cloverly Formation, Montana: a taphonomic investigation of apparent eggshell diversity I Technical Session Posters 202 RIBEIRO Theropod egg sites from Lourinha Fm., Portugal I Technical Session Posters 731 LARSON Disparity dynamics of small theropod (Coelurosauria: Dinosauria) tooth assemblages from the Late Cretaceous of North America I Technical Session Posters 792 MAGANA Identifying isolated shed teeth from the Kirtland Formation of Northwestern New Mexico I Technical Session Posters 677 Serrano-Martínez Isolated theropod teeth from the Argiles de l Irhazer (Middle Jurassic) of Niger. I Technical Session Posters 305 TORICES ONTOGENETIC VARIABILITY IN UPPER CRETACEOUS THEROPOD TEETH I Technical Session Posters 870 CULLEN A vertebrate microfossil site with a terrestrial-dominated faunal assemblage from the upper Foremost Formation (Campanian) of Alberta I Technical Session Posters 401 SCHWERMANN 1065 Urban Morphology and function of the extant <I>Didelphis </I>molar dentition in comparison to Mesozoic Didelphimorpha I Technical Session Posters Evolutionary trends in body size of the synapsid lineage leading to Mesozoic mammals I Technical Session Posters

25 1020 SMITH 26 MONTELLANO Mammalian dental ecomorphology and disparity across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary: A comparison of 3D metrics I Technical Session Posters Species Composition of the Late Cretaceous Eutherian Mammal <I>Paranyctoides</I> Fox I Technical Session Posters 828 KRAUSE First associated upper dentition of a gondwanatherian mammal I Technical Session Posters 575 Rich TWO UPPER TRIBOSPHENIC MOLARS FROM THE MESOZOI I Technical Session Posters 438 ROUGIER 640 RAISANEN 420 SCHULTZ 904 JÄGER 237 BRINKKÖTTER 349 TEMPLEMAN 844 BUSCALIONI 590 SONOBE 167 BONDE 919 MARTÍNEZ NEW SPECIMENS OF THE LATE CRETACEOUS MAMMAL <I>COLONIATHERIUM CILINSKII</I> (MAMMALIA, MERIDIOLESTIDA): DENTAL ANATOMY, RECONSTRUCTION OF THE DENTAL SERIES, AND RELATIONSHIPS OF SOUTH AMERICAN MERIDIOLESTIDS I Technical Session Posters Potential Vertebrate Burrows in the Salt Wash Member, Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation I Technical Session Posters First docodont petrosals from the Middle Jurassic of Western Siberia (Russia) I Technical Session Posters CT scaning and 3D image analysis of the postcranial skeleton of <I>Henkelotherium guimarotae</i> (Cladotheria, Mammalia) from the Late Jurassic of Portugal and its locomotor adaptations I Technical Session Posters Molar morphology and function of <I>Haldanodon exspectatus</i> (Docodonta, Mammaliaformes) I Technical Session Posters A Vertebrate Fauna from the Santonian lower Campanian Menefee Formation, San Juan Basin, New Mexico I Technical Session Posters The vertebrates of Las Hoyas: a preliminary assessment of the role of past and present ecomorphotypes I Technical Session Posters Vertebrate coprolites from the Gurvan Ereen Formation (Lower Cretaceous) in Tatal, western Mongolia I Technical Session Posters Vertebrates of the Newark Canyon Formation (Barremian?- Albian?), east-central Nevada: A preliminary report and implications for mid-cretaceous geography of the intermountain west I Technical Session Posters Triassic-Jurassic limit with vertebrate fossils on Northwestern Argentina (Marayes-El Carrizal Basin) I Technical Session Posters

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