Evolution of the Marine Phytoplankton

30th Annual Meeting
of the
American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists

Program and Abstracts

edited by

Reed Wicander
Sarah Damassa
Paul K. Strother

September 14 - 19, 1997
Swope Center, Marine Biological Laboratories
Woods Hole, Massachusetts

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14

2:00 - 9:00 Registration and check-in at Swope Center

4:00 - 6:00 Palynodata Committee Meeting, Marine Resources Center, Room 210.

6:00 - 8:00 Reception and Buffet Dinner at Swope Center

7:00 - 9:00 AASP Board of Directors Meeting, Marine Resources Center, Room 210.
All AASP members are welcome to attend!

POSTERS--SET UP IN SWOPE

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

7:00 - 8:30 Breakfast at Swope Center

7:15 - 8:45 Registration and check-in at Swope Center

Technical Session: Evolution of the Marine Phytoplankton I in the Lillie Auditorium
Reed Wicander, Session Chair

8:45 - 9:00 Paul K. Strother: WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS

9:00 - 9:45 Andrew H. Knoll: LIFE IN PRECAMBRIAN OCEANS: EVIDENCE AND QUESTIONS

9:45 - 10:05 Vibhuti Rai: MEGA-CARBONACEOUS PHYTOPLANKTON REMAINS FROM
PROTEROZOIC BASINS OF INDIA: A STUDY IN THEIR MORPHOTAXONOMY,
TAPHONOMY AND EVOLUTION

10:05 - 10:15 General discussion: Precambrian phytoplankton

10:15 - 10:45 Coffee break at Swope Center
Registration, first floor Swope

10:45 - 11:05 Nina Talyzina, J. Michael Moldowan & Gonazalo Vidal: AFFINITIES OF LOWER
CAMBRIAN ACRITARCHS STUDIED BY USING MICROSCOPY AND BIOMARKERS

11:05 - 11:25 Paul K. Strother: "LEIOSPHERES" AND PALEOECOLOGY

11:25 - 11:45 Thomas Servais* & Stewart G. Molyneaux: ACRITARCH EVOLUTIONARY
LINEAGES DURING THE ORDOVICIAN

11:45 - 12:05 Rajita Gautam* & Vibhuti Rai: LARGE ACANTHOMORPHIC ACRITARCHS: THEIR
EVOLUTION, DIVERSIFICATION AND EXTINCTION ACROSS THE NEOPROTEROZOIC
- A CASE HISTORY FROM THE KROL FORMATION, LESSER HIMALAYA, INDIA

12:05 - 12:15 General Discussion: Lower Paleozoic phytoplankton

12:15 - 1:30 Lunch at Swope Center

Technical Session: Evolution of the Marine Phytoplankton II in the Lillie Auditorium
Thomas Servais, Session Chair

1:30 - 2:15 R. A. Fensome*, R. A. MacRae, G. W. Saunders, F. J. R. Taylor & G. L. Williams:
DINOFLAGELLATES: NOW AND THEN

2:15 - 2:35 Rex Harland*, Carol J. Pudsey, John A. Howe & Meriel E. J. FitzPatrick:
MODERN DINOFLAGELLATE CYSTS IN A TRANSECT FROM THE FALKLAND
TROUGH TO THE WEDDELL SEA, ANTARCTICA

2:35 - 3:15 Coffee break at Swope Center

3:15 - 3:35 Lucy E. Edwards* & Kathleen R. Simmons: EVOLUTION, MIGRATION, AND
TAXONOMIC UNCERTAINTY: DINOCYSTS FROM THE MIOCENE IN SOUTHERN
FLORIDA

3:35 - 3:55 Barrie Dale & Amy Dale: ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS ON THE EVOLUTION OF
CYST-FORMING DINOFLAGELLATES

3:55 - 4:15 Yin Leiming: MESO- AND NEOPROTEROZOIC ACRITARCHS IN CHINA

4:15 - 4:30 General discussion: Acritarchs & dinoflagellates

6:00 - 7:00 Icebreaker at Swope Center

7:00 - 8:30 Dinner at Swope Center

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16

7:00 - 8:15 Breakfast at Swope Center

Technical Session: Palynology and the Internet in the Lillie Auditorium
Owen K. Davis, Session Chair

8:30 - 9:00 Owen K. Davis: INTERNET RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO PALYNOLOGISTS

9:00 - 9:30 Louis J. Maher, Jr.: INTERNATIONAL QUATERNARY ASSOCIATION (INQUA) DATA-
ANDLING METHODS AVAILABLE FREE ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB

9:30 - 10:00 Michael C. Boulter: ANALYSIS OF PALAEONTOLOGICAL DATA ON THE INTERNET

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break at Swope Center

10:30 - 11:00 Eric C. Grimm & John Keltner: THE GLOBAL POLLEN DATABASE

11:00 - 11:30 Phillip L. Leduc*, John W. Williams & Thompson Webb III: ANALYTICAL TOOLS
FOR USE WITH PARADOX-BASED POLLEN DATABASES

11:30 - 12:00 General discussion: Palynology and the Internet

12:15 - 1:30 Lunch in the Swope Center

Technical Session: Evolution of the Marine Phytoplankton III in the Lillie Auditorium
Javier Helenes, Session Chair

1:45 - 2:30 Sherwood W. Wise, Jr.: THE RISE (AND FALL?) OF A ROCK BUILDER: THE
CALCAREOUS NANNOPLANKTON

2:30- 2:45 General discussion: calcareous nannoplankton

2:45 - 3:15 Coffee break at Swope Center

General Technical Session, Lillie Auditorium. Javier Helenes, Session Chair

3:15 - 3:35 John Beck: PALEOPALYNOLOGY OF THE SILURIAN ARISAIG GROUP

3:35 - 3:55 J. H. Wrenn, J. B. Pracht, C. M. Fraticelli & B. M. Samuel: DATING THE
RADIOMETRIC DEAD-ZONE: AGE CONTROL IN MODERN MARSHES FOR THE
MISSISSIPPI BASIN CARBON PROJECT

3:55 - 4:15 Valente Rull: MIDDLE EOCENE MANGROVES AND VEGETATION CHANGES IN THE
MARACAIBO BASIN

4:15 - 4:30 General discussion: Paleobotany

5:00 - 6:00 Social Hour at Swope Center

6:00 - 7:15 Dinner at Swope Center

7:30 - 8:30 Special evening lecture in the Lille Auditorium
Richard Bambach: EVOLUTION OF THE MARINE ECOSYSTEM

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

7:00 - 8:15 Breakfast at Swope Center

Technical Session: Evolution of the Marine Phytoplankton IV in the Lillie Auditorium
Gordon Wood, Session Chair

8:30 - 9:15 John Barron: EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF MARINE DIATOMS: RESPONSE TO
ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE

9:15 - 9:35 Melissa R. McQuoid* & Louis A. Hobson: DIATOMS AND SILICOFLAGELLATES
AS INDICATORS OF HOLOCENE CLIMATE TRENDS IN SAANICH INLET, BRITISH
COLUMBIA, CANADA

9:35 - 9:45 General discussion: Permineralized phytoplankton

9:45- 10:15 Coffee break at Swope Center

Technical Session: Quaternary & Recent Palynology in the Lillie Auditorium
Fred Rich, Session Chair

10:15 - 10:35 Stephen Douglas*, Francine McCarthy & Steve Blasco: SEICHES IN LAKE ERIE -
PALYNOLOGICAL EVIDENCE

10:35 - 10:55 Gretchen D. Jones* & James R. Coppedge: MEXICAN CORN ROOTWORMS,
COCKROACHES OF THE CORNFIELDS

10:55 - 11:15 Francine McCarthy*, Steve Blasco, David Dubas & Kevin Gostlin: WHERE HAVE
ALL THE SEDIMENTS GONE?

11:15 - 11:35 Robert K. Booth: PALYNOLOGY AND DEPOSITIONAL HISTORY OF LATE
PLEISTOCENE AND HOLOCENE COASTAL SEDIMENTS FROM ST. CATHERINES
ISLAND, GEORGIA, U.S.A.

11:35 - 11:50 General discussion: Quaternary palynology

12:15 - 1:30 Lunch at Swope Center

Technical Session: Quaternary & Recent Palynology in the Lillie Auditorium
Fred Rich, Session Chair

1:30 - 1:50 Rolf W. Mathewes: POLLEN ANALYSIS AND PALEOCLIMATE OF THE "PORT MOODY INTERSTADE" AROUND 18,000 YR BP IN COASTAL BRITISH COLUMBIA

1:50 - 2:10 Gretchen D. Jones*, James R. Coppedge, Ester F. Wilson & Larry D.
Chandler: WE'RE TIRED OF CORN, BRING ON THE SOYBEANS

2:10 - 2:30 Kjell-Owe Häger* & Morten Smelror: REWORKED DINOCYSTS AS A MEANS OF
OBTAINING USEFUL GEOLOGICAL INFORMATION. A CASE STUDY OF THE UPPER
JURASSIC DRAUPNE FM IN THE TAMPEN AREA, NORWEWGIAN NORTH SEA

2:30 - 3:00 General discussion: Quaternary & Recent palynology

3:00 - 3:30 Coffee break at Swope Center

3:00 - 4:00 Poster Session: Poster authors are asked to be available at this time

5:00 - 6:00 Social Hour at Swope Center

6:00 - 8:00 Lobster Dinner at Swope Center

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18

7:00 - 8:15 Breakfast, Swope Center

General Technical Sessions, Lillie Auditorium
Lucy Edwards, Session Chair

8:30 - 8:50 F. E. Oboh-Ikuenobe & Alan Hoffmeister*: MID- TERTIARY PALYNOMORPHS
FROM DSDP HOLES 94 AND 98 (GULF OF MEXICO AND BAHAMA PLATFORM)

8:50 - 9:10 Raffaella Bucefalo Palliani* & James B. Riding: EARLY JURASSIC
(PLIENSBACHIAN-TOARCIAN) DINOFLAGELLATE MIGRATIONS AND CYST
PALAEOECOLOGY IN THE BOREAL AND TETHYAN REALMS

9:10 - 9:30 Robert W. Williams & Eric Monteil: EVENT MAXIMIZATION THROUGH
MORPHOSTRATIGRAPHICAL ANALYSES AND DINIUM ALPHA APPLICATIONS:
EXAMPLE FROM THE SOUTHERN NORTH SEA

9:30 - 9:45 General discussion

9:45 - 10:15 Coffee break at Swope Center

10:15 - 10:35 James B. Riding*, Valentina A. Fedorova & Vera I. Ilyina: JURASSIC
DINOFLAGELLATE CYST BIOZONATION OF THE RUSSIAN PLATFORM AND
NORTHERN SIBERIA

10:35 - 10:55 Robert W. Williams & Eric Monteil: NEW DESCRIPTIVE TERMINOLOGY FOR
DINOFLAGELLATE HORN MORPHOLOGY AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION IN
DINIUM-ALPHA

10:55 - 11:15 Gordon D. Wood*, Susan Palmer-Koleman & Brenda L. Claxton:
PALYNOFACIES AND MOLECULAR ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE JATTA
GYPSUM FORMATION (EOCENE), KARAK REGION, PAKISTAN

11:15 - 11:45 Group photo

12:15 - 2:15 AASP Business Lunch, Swope Center

General Technical Sessions, Lillie Auditorium
Gretchen Jones, Session Chair

2:30 - 2:50 Javier Helenes: CRETACEOUS - TERTIARY STRATIGRAPHY AND
DINOFLAGELLATES FROM BAJA CALIFORNIA

2:50 - 3:10 Sarah Pierce Damassa: A HOLE-Y ALLIANCE: CALCIODINELLOIDEAN
ARCHEOPYLES IN DINOSPORIN CYSTS

3:10- 3:30 General discussion

4:00 - 5:00 CAP Meeting, Marine Resources Center, Room 210

5:00 - 6:00 Social Hour, Swope Center

6:00 - 7:30 Dinner, Swope Center

7:00 - 9:00 AASP Board of Directors Meeting, Marine Resources Center, Room 210

REMINDER: PLEASE REMEMBER TO TAKE DOWN POSTERS

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19

7:00 - 8:15 Breakfast at Swope Center

DEPARTURE BY 10am

Posters

Donald W. Engelhardt, Raymond A. Christopher & Robert S.Van Pelt: HYDROSTRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION USING PALYNOLOGY AND PALEOENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSES: AN ONGOING STUDY AT THE SAVANNAH RIVER SITE, SOUTH CAROLINA

Gavin K. Gillmore, Tomas Kjennerud & Eric Monteil: AN APPLIED INTEGRATED APPROACH (PALYNOLOGY, MICROPALAEONTOLOGY, AND STRUCTURAL RESTORATION) TO OCEANIC/SHALLOW MARINE ECOSYSTEMS OF OFFSHORE NORWAY

Martin J. Head: NEW GONIODOMACEAN DINOFLAGELLATES WITH A HYPOCYSTAL ARCHEOPYLE FROM THE PLIOCENE OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC

Francine McCarthy, Peta Mudie, Kevin Gostlin & David Scott: PALYNOLOGICAL SIGNATURE OF CONTINENTAL MARGIN SEQUENCES

Merrell A. Miller: PALYNOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF A SILURIAN TRANSGRESSIVE EVENT

Merrell A. Miller, Nihat Bozdogan, Kaya Ertug, Gordon D. Wood, Levent Akca & Wally Pierce: EARLY SILURIAN ACRITARCHS AND PRASINOPHYTES FROM THE SUBSURFACE OF SOUTHEASTERN TURKEY

Eric Monteil & Robert W. Williams: AN UNCONVENTIONAL BIOSTRATIGRAPHIC APPROACH: THE CONCEPT OF MORPHOSTRATIGRAPHY

Eric Monteil & Robert W. Williams: A NEW DESCRIPTIVE TERMINOLOGY FOR DINOFLAGELLATE HORN MORPHOLOGY

Raffaella Bucefalo Palliani & Emanuela Mattioli: HIGH RESOLUTION POTENTIAL OF INTEGRATED BIOSTRATIGRAPHY BASED ON CALCAREOUS NANNOFOSSILS AND DINOFLAGELLATE CYSTS IN THE LOWER JURASSIC (UPPER PLIENSBACHIAN - LOWER TOARCIAN) OF CENTRAL ITALY

Raffaella Bucefalo Palliani, James B. Riding & Stefano Torricelli: THE LINK BETWEEN THE DINOGFLAGELLATE CYST RECORD AND ORGANIC CARBON CONTENT IN SEDIMENTARY ROCKS: A PALAEOECOLOGICAL MODEL FOR THE LOWER TOARCIAN OF CENTRAL ITALY

Adam P. Sarvis, James W. Pengelly, Francine M. McCarthy, Anne R. Yagi & Keith J. Tinkler: THE EVOLUTION OF WILLOUGHBY BOG, ONTARIO, CANADA

Robert W. Williams: DINIUM-ALPHA: A CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHIC RANGE, MORPHOLOGY AND PHOTOMICROGRAPHY DATABASE BUILDER FOR DINOFLAGELLATE CYST TAXA

Gordon D. Wood, Greg P. Wahlman, John R. Groves & Paul L. Brenckle: PALYNOLOGY, PALYNOFACIES AND PALEONTOLOGY OF THE PENNSYLVANIAN-PERMIAN COPACABAN FORMATION, PERU

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