GSA Abstracts Posted

["Andrew A. Farke" <andyfarke@hotmail.com>]

The hot-off-the-press abstract listing for the 2004 Geological Society of
America meeting has some entries that may be of interest to the list. Full
listings (and additional abstracts--I've only included a small subset here)
are posted at http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2004AM/finalprogram/

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THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONTEXT IN DINOSAUR PALEONTOLOGY 
FASTOVSKY, David E.

ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF DIAGENESIS ON CARBON ISOTOPE RATIOS OF DINOSAUR
TOOTH ENAMEL: A CASE STUDY FROM THE HELL CREEK FORMATION IN NORTH DAKOTA 
ECHT, Susan and FRICKE, Henry 

USING BURIAL EXPERIMENTS TO UNSCRAMBLE DINOSAUR EGG TAPHONOMY 
SOJA, Constance M.1, SUNDERLIN, David2, and CLOSE, Stephen J.1,

PALEOENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS OF A MORRISON FORMATION DINOSAUR SITE, BIGHORN
BASIN, WY: CONDUCTING AN INTERDISCIPLINARY FIELD STUDY THROUGH DISCIPLINARY
TASKS 
DEMKO, Timothy M.1, BODENBENDER, Brian E.2, BAAR, Eric E.3, HOLBROOK, Cody
W.4, KUBAREK, Sara J.1, MURPHY, Jennifer5, RAMIREZ, Elisa M.6, SCOTT, Justin
E.7, SWOR, Emily1, and YONOVITZ, Maureen2, 

ESTIMATING ABSOLUTE DIVERSITY: HOW MANY DINOSAUR GENERA WERE THERE? 
WANG, Steve C., DODSON, Peter

A PALYNOLOGIC PALEOENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS OF A DINOSAUR BONE-BEARING BED
FROM THE CRETACEOUS HELL CREEK FORMATION, MONTANA 
PRESSLER, Rebecca E,

PALEOPATHOLOGY IN ARCHOSAURS FROM THE UPPER CRETACEOUS MAEVARANO FORMATION
OF MADAGASCAR 
FARKE, Andrew A.,  

THE XOCHIXTLAPILCO ICHNOFAUNA, A MIDDLE JURASSIC DINOSAUR TRACK ASSEMBLAGE
FROM THE MIXTECA TERRANE, SOUTHEASTERN MEXICO: ITS GEOLOGIC AND
PALEONTOLOGIC SIGNIFICANCE 
FERRUSQUIA-VILLAFRANCA, Ismael

REAPPRAISAL OF SEISMOSAURUS, A LATE JURASSIC SAUROPOD DINOSAUR FROM NEW
MEXICO 
LUCAS, Spencer G.1, HERNE, Matthew C.2, HECKERT, Andrew B.3, HUNT, Adrian
P.1, and SULLIVAN, Robert M.4,  

DID DINOSAURS EAT C4 PLANTS DURING THE CRETACEOUS? CARBON ISOTOPE EVIDENCE
AND POSSIBLE ECOLOGIC SETTINGS 
FRICKE, Henry C.,  

ABELISAUROID THEROPOD DINOSAURS FROM THE LATE CRETACEOUS OF EGYPT: EVIDENCE
FOR GONDWANAN COSMOPOLITANISM 
SMITH, Joshua B.,

ALASKAN DINOSAURS AND THE ASSEMBLING OF BERINGIA 
FIORILLO, Anthony R.,

A DINOSAUR-RICH SPLAY FILL, SAN RAFAEL SWELL, UTAH 
JEFFERY, David L., BISHOP, John R., VONER, Frederick R., and FREEMAN, V.
Rocky,

LARGE ENIGMATIC TRACE FOSSILS FROM THE GLEN ROSE FORMATION (LOWER
CRETACEOUS), TEXAS 
WRIGHT, Joanna L., and FARLOW, James  

TAPHONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF THE MICROSTRATIGRAPHY AND FAUNA OF A SINGLE BLOCK
FROM THE LATE TRIASSIC WHITAKER (COELOPHYSIS) QUARRY (ROCK POINT FORMATION:
CHINLE GROUP), NORTH-CENTRAL NEW MEXICO 
RINEHART, Larry F.1, HECKERT, Andrew B.2, LUCAS, Spencer G.2, and HUNT,
Adrian P.
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In another nice twist, the GSA meetings start the day after SVP is
finished--in the same city! For those of you students who haven't been to
one, I *strongly* recommend checking it out. You get a nice cross-section of
stratigraphers, taphonomists, invert workers, paleobotanists, etc., that you
just don't get at SVP (yes, you *can* do real paleontology without compiling
a character list!).

Andy

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Andrew A. Farke, Graduate Student
Department of Anatomical Sciences
Stony Brook University
T8 040 Health Sciences Center
Stony Brook, NY  11794-8081
 
Phone: 631-444-7364
Email: afarke@ic.sunysb.edu