Experimental Approaches to Understanding Fossil Organisms

<p>Part I Functional Morphology&nbsp;</p><p>1. Crinoids Aweigh: Experimental Biomechanics of Ancyrocrinus Holdfasts&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>Roy E. Plotnick and Jennifer Bauer&nbsp;</p><p>2. Ultra-elongate freshwater pearly mussels (Unionida): Roles for function and constraint in multiple morphologic convergences with marine taxa</p><p>Laurie C. Anderson&nbsp;</p><p>3. Relationships of Internal Shell Features to Chemosymbiosis, Life Position, and Geometric Constraints within the Lucinidae (Bivalvia) </p><p>Laurie C. Anderson&nbsp;</p><p>4. Modern Analogs for the Study of Eurypterid Paleobiology</p><p>Danita S. Brandt and Victoria McCoy&nbsp;</p><p>5. New Applications for Constrained Ordination: Reconstructing Feeding Behaviors in Fossil Remingtonocetinae (Cetacea: Mammalia) </p><p>Lisa Noelle Cooper, Tobin L. Hieronymus, Christopher J. Vinyard, Sunil Bajpai, and J.G.M. Thewissen&nbsp;</p><p>Part II Taphonomy and Environment&nbsp;</p><p>6. Patterns in Microbialites Throughout Geologic Time: Is the Present Really the Key to the Past?</p><p>Kristen L. Myshrall, Christophe Dupraz, Pieter T. Visscher&nbsp;</p><p>7 The Relationship Between Modern Mollusk Assemblages and their Expression in Subsurface Sediment in a Carbonate Lagoon, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands</p><p>Karla Parsons-Hubbard, Dennis Hubbard, Caitlin Tems, and Ashley Burkett&nbsp;</p><p>8. Biotic Segregation In An Upper Mesotidal Dissipative Ridge And Runnel Succession, West Salish Sea, Vancouver Island, British Columbia</p><p>John-Paul Zonneveld, Murray K. Gingras, Cheryl A. Hodgson, Luke P. McHugh,&nbsp; Reed&nbsp;A. Myers, Jesse A. Schoengut, and Bryce Wetthuhn&nbsp;</p><p>9. Using X-ray Radiography to Observe Fe distributions in Bioturbated Sediment</p><p>Murray K. Gingras, John-Paul Zonneveld, and Kurt O. Konhauser&nbsp;</p><p>10. Phytoliths as Tracers of Recent Environmental Change</p><p>Ethan G. Hyland</p><p>Part III Organism-Substrate Interaction&nbsp;</p><p>11. Large Complex Burrows of Terrestrial Invertebrates: Neoichnology of Pandinus imperator (Scorpiones: Scorpionidae)</p><p>Daniel I. Hembree&nbsp;</p><p>12. Biomechanical Analysis of Fish Swimming Trace Fossils (Undichna): Preservation and Mode of Locomotion</p><p>María Cristina Cardonattoand Ricardo Néstor Melchor&nbsp;</p><p>13. The Neoichnology of Two Terrestrial Ambystomatid Salamanders: Quantifying Amphibian Burrows Using Modern Analogues</p><p>Nicole D. Dzenowski and Daniel I. Hembree&nbsp;</p><p>14. Biogenic Structures of Burrowing Skinks: Neoichnology of Mabuya multifaciata (Squamata: Scincidae)</p><p>Angeline Catena and Daniel I. Hembree</p><p>15. Novel Neoichnology of Elephants: Nonlocomotive Interactions with Sediment, Locomotion Traces in Partially Snow-Covered Sediment, and Implications for&nbsp;Proboscidean Paleoichnology</p><p>Brian F. Platt and Stephen T. Hasiotis&nbsp;</p><p>16. Burrows and Related Traces in Snow and Vegetation Produced by the Norwegian Lemming (Lemmuslemmus)</p><p>Dirk Knaust&nbsp;</p><p>17. Near-Surface Imaging (GPR) of Biogenic Structures in Siliciclastic, Carbonate, and Gypsum Dunes</p><p>Ilya V. Buynevich,&nbsp;H. Allen Curran,&nbsp;Logan A. Wiest,&nbsp;Andrew P.K. Bentley, Sergey V. Kadurin, Christopher T. Seminack, Michael Savarese, David Bustos, Bosiljka&nbsp;&nbsp;Glumac, and Igor A.Losev</p>