Wednesday, May 27

5:30 am - 7:30 pm    Welcome reception/presentation

Thursday, May 28

9:00 am - 9:20 am    Opening remarks

9:00 am - 9:20 am    V. L. Santucci

“A ten year project to document paleontological resources throughout the National Park Service”

9:40 am - 10:00 am    S. Fields

“Quantitative character overlap and species discrimination in the ground sloth genus Megalonyx (Xenarthra: Megalonychidae) with a requiem for M. wheatleyi”

10:00 am - 10:20 am    B. W. Schubert

“Paleontological Research in Saltville, Virginia:  Past, Present and Future”

10:20 am - 10:40 am    Break

10:40 am - 11:00 am    L. Yann, J. Schiebout, and T. Atwood

“Neogene vertebrate fossils of the Tunica Hills region of southern Louisiana”

11:00 am - 11:20 am    B. J. MacFadden

“Supposed Bison from the late Pliocene (late Blancan) of Florida: Evidence for rare earth element dating”

11:20 am - 11:40 am    G. S. Boardman and B. W. Schubert

“First Mio-Pliocene Salamander Fauna from the Southern Appalachians”

11:40 am - 12:00 pm    H. A. Sheets and B. W. Schubert

“Diagnostic ilial characters of the bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) and paleoecological implications for the Gray Fossil Site”

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm    Lunch

2:00 pm - 2:20 pm    P. Hawkins and S. C. Wallace

“Functional Adaptation of the Vestigial Metatarsal in Gray Fossil Site Tapirs”

2:20 pm - 2:40 pm    S. C. Wallace and R. C. Hulbert, Jr.

“First Record of Cormohipparion (Notiocradohipparion) outside the Gulf Coastal Plain”

2:40 pm - 3:00 pm    A. C. Dooley, Jr.

“Additional material from the middle Miocene mysticete Eobalaenoptera harrisoni”

3:00 pm - 3:20 pm    A. K. Hastings, J. R. Bourque, and J. I. Bloch

“New Fossil Lungfishes from the Paleogene of Colombia”

3:20 pm - 4:00 pm    Open discussion

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm    Poster setup

Friday, May 29

9:00 am - 10:00 am    Poster Session

2. B.L. Beatty
   

“The fossil vertebrates of Gainesville, Florida”

500. D.J. Ehert and J. R. Bourque
     

“A New Map Turtle (Emydidae: Graptemys) from the Pleistocene of North-Central Florida”

7. G.Gürtler and B. Mueller
   

“Basal Phytosaur Specimens from the Dockum Formation of Garza County, Texas”

18. R.C. Hulbert, Jr. and G. S. Morgan
    

“Two new late Blancan vertebrate sites from Florida, with a reassessment of late Pliocene vertebrate biochronology in Florida”

A. Smith

“Comparative morphometrics of Syllomus carapace bone plates”

E. Standley, C. Burch-Brown, Y. Cao, D. Porter, E. Lowry, B. Collins, M. Gillespie, J. Healy, C. Peng, A. C. Dooley, Jr.

“Selection: Using simulated organisms to teach evolutionary concepts”

10:00 am - 12:00 pm    Tour of VMNH Paleontology lab and collections

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm    Lunch

2:00 pm - 2:20 pm    G. E. Bennett, III

“Population structure and paleoecology of crocodilians from the upper Hell Creek Formation (Maastrichtian), eastern Montana”

2:20 pm - 2:40 pm   B. D. Mueller

“Upper Triassic (Carnian) vertebrate fauna from the Mott VPL 3869, Garza County, Texas, USA”

2:40 pm - 3:00 pm   J. L. Green

“Tusk Microwear as a Potential Proxy for Feeding Behavior in Synapsids”

3:00 pm - 3:20 pm   A. B. Heckert, V. P. Schneider, P. E. Olsen, and J. S. Mitchell

“Vertebrate diversity of the Upper Triassic Chatham Group, Deep River Basin, central North Carolina”

3:20 pm - 4:00 pm    Open discussion and business meeting

5:30 pm - 8:00 pm    Banquet

Saturday, May 30

8:00 am - 2:00 pm    Field trip