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Saturday March 8, 2014 |
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Sunday March 9, 2014 |
Opening Comments |
9:00-9:30 |
Megalodon: How Did the World’s Largest Shark Live? Dana Ehret Ph.D., Curator of Paleontology, Alabama Museum of Natural History |
The Beginning of the Age of Mammals in New Mexico Tomas Williamson Ph.D, Curator of Paleontology, New Mexico Museum of Natural History |
9:30-10:00 |
The Life and Death of Whales: New Discoveries About the Evolution of the World’s Largest Animals Nick Pyenson Ph.D., Curator of Marine Mammals, Smithsonian Institution: National Museum of Natural History |
Survivors: Turtles of the Early Cenozoic Tyler Lyson Ph.D., Smithsonian Institution: National Museum of Natural History |
10:00-10:30 |
The Final Days of Mammoths and Mastodons Chris Widga Ph.D., Curator of Geology, Illinois State Museum |
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10:30-11:00 |
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Tropical Wyoming: Using Early Eocene Leaves from Fossil Lake to Infer Climate Arvid Aase, Curator at Fossil Butte National Monument, Kemmerer, WY |
11:00-11:30 |
Horses and Bison: Icons of the Ice Age Eric Scott Ph.D., Curator of Paleontology, San Bernardino County Museum-Redlands |
Unique Fauna of Fossil Lake Lance Grande Ph.D, Field Museum Distinguished Service Curator, Field Museum of Natural History |
11:30-12:00 |
Deadly Carving Tooth: The Sabercat, Smilodon fatalis Julie Meachen Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Anatomy, Des Moines University |
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12:00-1:30 |
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Terrestrial Biotic Response to the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum Jonathan Bloch Ph.D., Research Foundation Professor, University of Florida |
1:30-2:00 |
Stories Yet Untold: The History of Crocodyliforms After the Age of Dinosaurs Christopher Brochu Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Geology, University of Iowa |
The Age of Mammals Snakes: Cenozoic Diversity and Radiations of Squamate Reptiles Jason Head Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Nebraska |
2:00-2:30 |
A Vanished Ecosystem: Late Tertiary Fossils from Northern Indiana (Pipe Creek Sinkhole, Grant County) James Farlow Ph.D., Professor of Geology, Purdue University-Fort Wayne |
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2:30-3:00 |
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New Vertebrate Fossils from the Cenozoic of Madagascar Karen Samonds Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biology, Northern Illinois University |
3:00-3:30 |
A Lost World Found: Texas in the Mid-Cretaceous Christopher Noto Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin – Parkside |
Murderous Weapon Indeed: Evidence of Fatal Combat within the “False Saber-Toothed Cats” Clint Boyd Ph.D., Haslem Postdoctoral Fellow, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology |
3:30-4:00 |
Discovering New Dinosaurs in Well-Known Places: A How-To Gude David Evans Ph.D., Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, Royal Ontario Museum |
The Emergence of Modern People Fred Smith PhD., Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Illinois State University |
4:00-4:30 |
Wounding Tooth Starts a Family: Reproduction in the Cretaceous Theropod Troodon formosus Dave Varricchio Ph.D., Associate Professor of Paleontology, Montana State University |