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The 9th Annual Kansas Academy of Science Paleontology Symposium

 

To be held during the 140th Annual Meeting of 

The Kansas Academy of Science

at the

Emporia State University,

Emporia, Kansas

 

March 28-29, 2008

 

 

LEFT: Professor Benjamin F. Mudge - one of the founders of the Kansas Academy of Science. Photograph from frontispiece of  the The University Geological Survey of Kansas, Vol. 2 with the following notation by S. W. Williston: "To the memory of Prof. Benjamin F. Mudge, the first State Geologist of Kansas, An excellent teacher, a faithful friend, an honest man."

For more information regarding the KAS meeting, please contact Mike Everhart

Paleontology in the Midwest

Join Cope, Marsh, Williston, the Sternbergs, H. T. Martin and the many others who have reported on fossils from the Midwest.

 

SCHEDULE OF PRESENTATIONS

Paleontology Symposium (Room SH 72) - Michael Everhart, Chair

8:00 Williams, D.W. (3), Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas. USING LANDMARK DATA FROM THE FIRST LOWER MOLAR TO DISCRIMINATE NORTHERN GREAT PLAINS MICROTUS SPECIES.

8:20 *Nabavizadeh, A. (1), L.D. Martin, and D.A. Burnham, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and University of Kansas Museum of Natural History (BRC), University of Kansas. DO DEFENSIVE STRUCTURES IN TRICERATOPS PROVE PREDATORY BEHAVIOR IN TYRANNOSAURUS?

8:40 Falk, A.R. (2), Department of Geology, University of Kansas. CREDIBILITY OF “UNKNOWN THEROPOD TRACKS” WITH AVIAN CHARACTERISTICS FROM THE LATE TRIASSIC.

9:00 Schumacher, B.A., Sternberg Museum of Natural History, Fort Hays State University. ON A PLIOSAUR SKULL (PLESIOSAURIA) FROM THE UPPER CRETACEOUS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN WESTERN INTERIOR.

9:20 *Morales, M. and K. Moore, Earth Science Department, Emporia State University. FOSSIL MARINE INVERTEBRATES FROM THE UPPER PENNSYLVANIAN (VIRGILIAN) SEVERY SHALE FORMATION NEAR MELVERN LAKE, KANSAS.

9:40 *Hageman, S.A., T.J. Northcutt and B.L. Hoffman. Department of Natural and Physical Sciences, Park University, Paleontologist, Mission, KS. PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF THE BIODIVERSITY OF THE BONNER SPRINGS SHALE (LAGERSTÄTTEN?), PARKVILLE, MO.

1:40 Everhart, M.J., Sternberg Museum of Natural History, Fort Hays State University. PROBABLE CAUSE OF DEATH OF THE HOLOTYPE SPECIMEN OF TYLOSAURUS KANSASENSIS (SQUAMATA; MOSASAURIDAE) FROM THE SMOKY HILL CHALK, WESTERN KANSAS.

2:00 *Elder, R. and L.D. Martin, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas LONGISQUAMA INSIGNIS AND THE ORIGIN OF AVIAN PLUMAGE.

2:20 Martin, L.D. and *D.A. Burnham, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Natural History (BRC), University of Kansas. PREDATORY BEHAVIOR IN A FOUR WINGED DINOSAUR-LIKE BIRD.

2:40 Beckemeyer, R.J., Museum Associate, Natural History Museum (Entomology Division), University of Kansas, Lawrence. MORPHOLOGICAL PARAMETERS OF WELLINGTON FORMATION INSECT WINGS.

Abstracts were due February 29, 2008 - Deadline for early registration: March 24, 2008


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For more information about the 9th Annual KAS Paleontology Symposium, contact:

Mike Everhart:    316-788-1354

The 2007 KAS Paleontology Symposium was cancelled due to weather.

Click here for abstracts of the papers presented at the 2006 KAS Paleontology Symposium

Click here for abstracts of the papers presented at the 2005 KAS Paleontology Symposium

Click here for abstracts of the papers presented at the 2004 KAS Paleontology Symposium

Click here for abstracts of the papers presented at the 2003 KAS Paleontology Symposium

NEW Click here for a list of paleontology papers published in the Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science since 1872 NEW

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