Paleontological Society Sessions at GSA 2026

Oral Sessions
Number Session Name Session No. Room Day Date Session Begins At: Categories
T137 Microfossil Con Queso – Conodont Questions of Importance –North American Pander Society Meeting 14 CCC, 102 Sunday Oct 11 8:00 AM Paleontology, Biogeography/Biostratigraphy; Paleontology, Paleoecology/Taphonomy
T141 Won't you be my Neighbor? Quantifying Realized Niche Transitions Through Time and Space 16 CCC, 104 Sunday Oct 11 8:00 AM Paleontology, Biogeography/Biostratigraphy; Paleontology, Paleoecology/Taphonomy; Geology and Society
T145 “All creatures great and small”: Macro to micro approaches and perspectives in stratigraphic paleobiology 15 CCC, 103 Sunday Oct 11 8:00 AM Paleontology, Paleoecology/Taphonomy; Stratigraphy; Paleontology, Biogeography/Biostratigraphy
T180 Joint SGD-SEPM-IAS Session: The Sedimentary Record of Climate Change 18 CCC, 106 Sunday Oct 11 8:00 AM Sediments, Clastic; Sediments, Carbonates; Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography
T100 Old Collections, New Tricks 12 CCC, Bluebird Ballroom 3E  Sunday Oct 11 8:00 AM History and Philosophy of Geology; Geoheritage; Geology and Society
T140 Reading between the layers with Stratigraphic Paleobiology: Innovations in applying stratigraphic principles to the fossil record  78 CCC, 102 Sunday Oct 11 1:30 PM Paleontology, Biogeography/Biostratigraphy; Stratigraphy; Geochemistry
T144 New Voices in Paleontology 80 CCC, 104 Sunday Oct 11 1:30 PM Paleontology, Diversity, Extinction, Origination; Paleontology, Paleoecology/Taphonomy; Paleontology, Phylogenetic/Morphological Patterns
T149 New approaches to old fossil collections  79 CCC, 103 Sunday Oct 11 1:30 PM Paleontology, Paleoecology/Taphonomy; Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography; Geobiology and Geomicrobiology
D2 Paleontology, Diversity, Extinction, Origination 108 CCC, 104 Monday Oct 12 8:00 AM Paleontology, Diversity, Extinction, Origination; Paleontology, Paleoecology/Taphonomy; Paleontology, Phylogenetic/Morphological Patterns
T143 Mass extinctions and the current biodiversity crisis: Lessons from the past to inform the future (Part I) 101 CCC, Bluebird Ballroom 3A Monday Oct 12 8:00 AM Paleontology, Diversity, Extinction, Origination; Paleontology, Paleoecology/Taphonomy; Geobiology and Geomicrobiology
T148 Laws of the Grave: Advances in Taphonomy across the Paleontologic Record 107 CCC, 103 Monday Oct 12 8:00 AM Paleontology, Paleoecology/Taphonomy; Geobiology and Geomicrobiology; Stratigraphy
T134 Linking Tectonics, Climate, and Evolution Across the Late Cenozoic 166 CCC, 104 Monday Oct 12 1:30 PM Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography; Tectonics; Paleontology, Biogeography/Biostratigraphy
T135 50th Friends of the Cephalopods: Advances in Evolution, Biogeography, and Ecology 164 CCC, 102 Monday Oct 12 1:30 PM Paleontology, Biogeography/Biostratigraphy; Paleontology, Paleoecology/Taphonomy; Paleontology, Phylogenetic/Morphological Patterns
T143 Mass extinctions and the current biodiversity crisis: Lessons from the past to inform the future (Part II) 160 CCC, Bluebird Ballroom 3A Monday Oct 12 1:30 PM Paleontology, Diversity, Extinction, Origination; Paleontology, Paleoecology/Taphonomy; Geobiology and Geomicrobiology
T151 Phylogenetic and Computational Approaches in Paleobiology and Paleoecology 165 CCC, 103 Monday Oct 12 1:30 PM Paleontology, Phylogenetic/Morphological Patterns; Paleontology, Diversity, Extinction, Origination; Paleontology, Paleoecology/Taphonomy
T30 New Advances in Geobiology 167 CCC, 105 Monday Oct 12 1:30 PM Geobiology and Geomicrobiology; Limnogeology; Paleontology, Phylogenetic/Morphological Patterns
T37 Phantastic Phosphorus and Its Historical Biogeochemistry 169 CCC, 107 Monday Oct 12 1:30 PM Geochemistry; Geobiology and Geomicrobiology; Paleontology, Paleoecology/Taphonomy
T133 Insights from microfossils and their modern analogs: from traditional to emerging approaches 194 CCC, 104 Tuesday Oct 13 8:00 AM Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography; Geochemistry; Paleontology, Biogeography/Biostratigraphy
T139 Paleontology, Bryozoans, Dinosaurs, Reefs, Stratigraphy, And Military Geology: In Honor Of Roger Cuffey And His Ecclectic Career 192 CCC, 102 Tuesday Oct 13 8:00 AM Paleontology, Biogeography/Biostratigraphy; Paleontology, Paleoecology/Taphonomy; Stratigraphy
T146 Biological and Environmental Change during Earth's Middle Age 193 CCC, 103 Tuesday Oct 13 8:00 AM Paleontology, Paleoecology/Taphonomy; Geobiology and Geomicrobiology; Precambrian Geology
D3 Paleontology, Paleoecology/Taphonomy 284 CCC, 103 Tuesday Oct 13 3:30 PM Paleontology, Paleoecology/Taphonomy; Paleontology, Diversity, Extinction, Origination; Paleontology, Phylogenetic/Morphological Patterns
T136 Cushman Foundation Symposium: Timescales, Rates, and Mechanisms of Climate and Ocean Change Over the Last 250 Million Years: Insights from Foraminiferal Evidence  270 CCC, 102 Tuesday Oct 13 1:30 PM Paleontology, Biogeography/Biostratigraphy; Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography; Paleontology, Diversity, Extinction, Origination
T147 Deciphering the Sedimentological Mechanisms Governing Preservation of Vertebrate Tracks Across Diverse Depositional Environments 271 CCC, 103 Tuesday Oct 13 1:30 PM Paleontology, Paleoecology/Taphonomy; Sediments, Clastic; Sediments, Carbonates
T27 Biogeochemical analysis of organic matter preserved in geoarchaeological and paleontological materials  279 CCC, 112 Tuesday Oct 13 1:30 PM Geoarchaeology; Paleontology, Paleoecology/Taphonomy; Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography
T129 Revisiting the archives: New discoveries from existing core collections 278 CCC, 111 Tuesday Oct 13 1:30 PM Marine/Coastal Geoscience; Continental Scientific Drilling; Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography
D4 Paleontology, Phylogenetic/Morphological Patterns 295 CCC, 102 Wednesday Oct 14 8:00 AM Paleontology, Phylogenetic/Morphological Patterns; Paleontology, Diversity, Extinction, Origination; Paleontology, Biogeography/Biostratigraphy
T138 New Advances in Mesozoic Paleontology, Stratigraphy, and Paleogeography of the Western Interior of North America (Part II) 292 CCC, Bluebird Ballroom 3A Wednesday Oct 14 8:00 AM Paleontology, Biogeography/Biostratigraphy; Paleontology, Diversity, Extinction, Origination; Stratigraphy
T142 Cenozoic Celebration: Honoring Roger Portell and His Service to Paleontology (Part II) 297 CCC, 104 Wednesday Oct 14 8:00 AM Paleontology, Diversity, Extinction, Origination; Paleontology, Paleoecology/Taphonomy; Geoinformatics and Data Science
T150 Progress in paleoecology: reconstructing life-history, behavior, physiology, and ecological interactions in the fossil record (Part II) 296 CCC, 103 Wednesday Oct 14 8:00 AM Paleontology, Paleoecology/Taphonomy; Paleontology, Diversity, Extinction, Origination
T32 New Voices in Geobiology  298 CCC, 105 Wednesday Oct 14 8:00 AM Geobiology and Geomicrobiology; Limnogeology; Paleontology, Paleoecology/Taphonomy
T40 What is old is new again: Using traditional and novel geochemical proxies to reconstruct past environments and their links to changes in the Phanerozoic biosphere (Part II) 300 CCC, 107 Wednesday Oct 14 8:00 AM Geochemistry; Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography; Paleontology, Diversity, Extinction, Origination
T96 Happy 323 Millionth Birthday, Pennsylvanian Period: A Celebration of Everything Pennsylvania(n) 294 CCC, Bluebird Ballroom 3D Wednesday Oct 14 8:00 AM Geoscience Information/Communication; Paleontology, Biogeography/Biostratigraphy; Structural Geology
T138 New Advances in Mesozoic Paleontology, Stratigraphy, and Paleogeography of the Western Interior of North America  349 CCC, Bluebird Ballroom 3A Wednesday Oct 14 1:30 PM Paleontology, Biogeography/Biostratigraphy; Paleontology, Diversity, Extinction, Origination; Stratigraphy
T142 Cenozoic Celebration: Honoring Roger Portell and His Service to Paleontology  351 CCC, 104 Wednesday Oct 14 1:30 PM Paleontology, Diversity, Extinction, Origination; Paleontology, Paleoecology/Taphonomy; Geoinformatics and Data Science
T150 Progress in paleoecology: reconstructing life-history, behavior, physiology, and ecological interactions in the fossil record  350 CCC, 103 Wednesday Oct 14 1:30 PM Paleontology, Paleoecology/Taphonomy; Paleontology, Diversity, Extinction, Origination
T40 What is old is new again: Using traditional and novel geochemical proxies to reconstruct past environments and their links to changes in the Phanerozoic biosphere  354 CCC, 107 Wednesday Oct 14 1:30 PM Geochemistry; Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography; Paleontology, Diversity, Extinction, Origination

Poster Sessions
Number Session Name Session No. Room Day Date Authors Available Categories
T132 Climate, Ocean and Environmental Changes Through Earth History: From Marine and Terrestrial Proxies to Model Assessments  46 CCC, Hall F Sunday Oct 11 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography; Geochemistry; Paleontology, Diversity, Extinction, Origination
T140 Reading between the layers with Stratigraphic Paleobiology: Innovations in applying stratigraphic principles to the fossil record 47 CCC, Hall F Sunday Oct 11 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. Paleontology, Biogeography/Biostratigraphy; Stratigraphy; Geochemistry
T149 New approaches to old fossil collections 50 CCC, Hall F Sunday Oct 11 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. Paleontology, Paleoecology/Taphonomy; Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography; Geobiology and Geomicrobiology
D8 Paleontology, Biogeography/Biostratigraphy  49 CCC, Hall F Sunday Oct 11 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Paleontology, Biogeography/Biostratigraphy; Paleontology, Diversity, Extinction, Origination; Sediments, Carbonates
T141 Won't you be my Neighbor? Quantifying Realized Niche Transitions Through Time and Space  48 CCC, Hall F Sunday Oct 11 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Paleontology, Biogeography/Biostratigraphy; Paleontology, Paleoecology/Taphonomy; Geology and Society
T145 “All creatures great and small”: Macro to micro approaches and perspectives in stratigraphic paleobiology  52 CCC, Hall F Sunday Oct 11 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Paleontology, Paleoecology/Taphonomy; Stratigraphy; Paleontology, Biogeography/Biostratigraphy
T180 Joint SGD-SEPM-IAS Session: The Sedimentary Record of Climate Change  57 CCC, Hall F Sunday Oct 11 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Sediments, Clastic; Sediments, Carbonates; Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography
T136 Cushman Foundation Symposium: Timescales, Rates, and Mechanisms of Climate and Ocean Change Over the Last 250 Million Years: Insights from Foraminiferal Evidence 139 CCC, Hall F Monday Oct 12 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Paleontology, Biogeography/Biostratigraphy; Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography; Paleontology, Diversity, Extinction, Origination
T148 Laws of the Grave: Advances in Taphonomy across the Paleontologic Record  140 CCC, Hall F Monday Oct 12 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Paleontology, Paleoecology/Taphonomy; Geobiology and Geomicrobiology; Stratigraphy
T134 Linking Tectonics, Climate, and Evolution Across the Late Cenozoic  234 CCC, Hall F Tuesday Oct 13 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography; Tectonics; Paleontology, Biogeography/Biostratigraphy
T143 Mass extinctions and the current biodiversity crisis: Lessons from the past to inform the future  236 CCC, Hall F Tuesday Oct 13 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. Paleontology, Diversity, Extinction, Origination; Paleontology, Paleoecology/Taphonomy; Geobiology and Geomicrobiology
T150 Progress in paleoecology: reconstructing life-history, behavior, physiology, and ecological interactions in the fossil record (Part I) 238 CCC, Hall F Tuesday Oct 13 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. Paleontology, Paleoecology/Taphonomy; Paleontology, Diversity, Extinction, Origination
T151 Phylogenetic and Computational Approaches in Paleobiology and Paleoecology  240 CCC, Hall F Tuesday Oct 13 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. Paleontology, Phylogenetic/Morphological Patterns; Paleontology, Diversity, Extinction, Origination; Paleontology, Paleoecology/Taphonomy
T216 New Advances in Geobiology and Geomicrobiology  214 CCC, Hall F Tuesday Oct 13 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. Geobiology and Geomicrobiology; Limnogeology; Paleontology, Phylogenetic/Morphological Patterns
T27 Biogeochemical analysis of organic matter preserved in geoarchaeological and paleontological materials 212 CCC, Hall F Tuesday Oct 13 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. Geoarchaeology; Paleontology, Paleoecology/Taphonomy; Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography
T32 New Voices in Geobiology 215 CCC, Hall F Tuesday Oct 13 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. Geobiology and Geomicrobiology; Limnogeology; Paleontology, Paleoecology/Taphonomy
T37 Phantastic Phosphorus and Its Historical Biogeochemistry  217 CCC, Hall F Tuesday Oct 13 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. Geochemistry; Geobiology and Geomicrobiology; Paleontology, Paleoecology/Taphonomy
T129 Revisiting the archives: New discoveries from existing core collections  233 CCC, Hall F Tuesday Oct 13 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. Marine/Coastal Geoscience; Continental Scientific Drilling; Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography
T138 New Advances in Mesozoic Paleontology, Stratigraphy, and Paleogeography of the Western Interior of North America (Part I) 235 CCC, Hall F Tuesday Oct 13 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Paleontology, Biogeography/Biostratigraphy; Paleontology, Diversity, Extinction, Origination; Stratigraphy
T142 Cenozoic Celebration: Honoring Roger Portell and His Service to Paleontology (Part I) 237 CCC, Hall F Tuesday Oct 13 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Paleontology, Diversity, Extinction, Origination; Paleontology, Paleoecology/Taphonomy; Geoinformatics and Data Science
T146 Biological and Environmental Change during Earth's Middle Age  239 CCC, Hall F Tuesday Oct 13 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Paleontology, Paleoecology/Taphonomy; Geobiology and Geomicrobiology; Precambrian Geology
T40 What is old is new again: Using traditional and novel geochemical proxies to reconstruct past environments and their links to changes in the Phanerozoic biosphere (Part I) 218 CCC, Hall F Tuesday Oct 13 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Geochemistry; Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography; Paleontology, Diversity, Extinction, Origination
D2 Paleontology, Diversity, Extinction, Origination  323 CCC, Hall F Wednesday Oct 14 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. Paleontology, Diversity, Extinction, Origination; Paleontology, Paleoecology/Taphonomy; Paleontology, Phylogenetic/Morphological Patterns
D4 Paleontology, Phylogenetic/Morphological Patterns  326 CCC, Hall F Wednesday Oct 14 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. Paleontology, Phylogenetic/Morphological Patterns; Paleontology, Diversity, Extinction, Origination; Paleontology, Biogeography/Biostratigraphy
T133 Insights from microfossils and their modern analogs: from traditional to emerging approaches  322 CCC, Hall F Wednesday Oct 14 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. Paleoclimatology/Paleoceanography; Geochemistry; Paleontology, Biogeography/Biostratigraphy
T147 Deciphering the Sedimentological Mechanisms Governing Preservation of Vertebrate Tracks Across Diverse Depositional Environments  324 CCC, Hall F Wednesday Oct 14 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. Paleontology, Paleoecology/Taphonomy; Sediments, Clastic; Sediments, Carbonates
D3 Paleontology, Paleoecology/Taphonomy  325 CCC, Hall F Wednesday Oct 14 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Paleontology, Paleoecology/Taphonomy; Paleontology, Diversity, Extinction, Origination; Paleontology, Phylogenetic/Morphological Patterns
T96 Happy 323 Millionth Birthday, Pennsylvanian Period: A Celebration of Everything Pennsylvania(n)  315 CCC, Hall F Wednesday Oct 14 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Geoscience Information/Communication; Paleontology, Biogeography/Biostratigraphy; Structural Geology