CalPaleo 2011 Tentative Program

TIME SPEAKER BRIEF TITLE
8:00 BREAKFAST – Posters
9:00 Richard Hilton Welcome and Introduction of Keynote Speaker
9:10 Dale Russell Possible fossil records on other planets in our Solar System
10:00 Stephen Blakely Fossil assemblage from the Mio-Pliocene Purisima Formation, Santa Cruz , CA
10:20 Joshua Bonde Dinosaurs next door: recent Cretaceous finds from Nevada
10:50 COFFEE BREAK – Posters
11:10 Susan Bowman Possible elasmosaur from the Panoche Hills, CA
11:30 Joseph Collette Evolution and dispersal of late Cambrian trilobites
11:50 Lanny Fisk SVP standard procedures for paleontological resource impact mitigation
12:10 Cheng Ji Preliminary phylogenetic analysis of Triassic ichthyosaurs
12:30 LUNCH – Posters
1:40 Thomas Johnston Ichnofossil occurrences and distribution within the lower Cambrian
2:00 Neil Kelley Isotopic insight on early Mesozoic marine reptile evolution
2:20 Ryan McKenzie Biogeographical and geochemical constraints on Cambrian paleogeography
2:40 Dave Maloney Mammoths from the Riverbank Formation, Fresno , CA
3:00 COFFEE BREAK – Posters
3:20 Levi Pratt Palynology of the Pleistocene Turlock Lake Formation
3:40 Matthew Robles Testing late Cambrian equatorial paleoclimate via growth lines
4:00 Mark Roeder First records of fossil fish from northern exposures of marine Imperial Fm
4:20 Hugh Wagner Fossil fauna from the Late Miocene Orinda Formation, Caldecott Tunnel
4:40 Lanny Fisk Depositional environment of the Solnhofen Limestone – microfossil evidence


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