1998 Annual Meeting of the
Botanical Society of America
2-6 August, 1998   Baltimore, MD

Paleobotany Section
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  1. AXSMITH, BRIAN J.*, THOMAS N. TAYLOR, AND EDITH L. TAYLOR. - A new cheirolepidiaceous conifer from the Lower Jurassic of North America.
  2. BUECHLER, WALTER K.*, MICHAEL T. DUNN, AND WILLIAM C. REMBER. - The Late Miocene Pickett Creek flora. [Poster]
  3. COOK, MARTHA E.* AND WILLIAM E. FRIEDMAN. - Development of tracheids in the basal extant vascular plant Huperzia lucidula (Lycopodiaceae): implications for the early evolution of plant water-conducting cells.
  4. CORDI, JENNIFER. - Devonian vascular plant groups and the inference of macroevolutionary pattern and process: a phylogenetic comparative approach to the analysis of trends in early vascular plant evolution.
  5. CRESSLER, WALTER. - A diverse Late Devonian flora preserved in a fluvial setting, north-central Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
  6. CROSS, AUREAL T. - Fossil floras of the Michigan Basin. Part 1. Jurassic palynofloras.
  7. DERETSKY, ZINA. - A fifty million year record of insect damage in the leaves of Platanaceae.
  8. DOWER, BEATRICE L.* AND RICHARD M. BATEMAN. - Morphological and anatomical investigations of exceptionally preserved cycadophyte leaves from the Jurassic of Skye, NW Scotland.
  9. FALDER, AMY B.*, RUTH A. STOCKEY, AND GAR W. ROTHWELL. - Germinating seeds and seedlings of a Metasequoia-like taxodiaceous conifer from the Paleocene of Alberta.
  10. FIELDS, PATRICK F. (1)*, DIANE M. ERWIN (2), AND HOWARD E. SCHORN (2). - COLUMBIA PLATEAU AND INTERMOUNTAIN BASIN NEOGENE FLORAS: HONESTY POLICY. [Poster]
  11. GANDOLFO, MARIA A.*, KEVIN C. NIXON, DENNIS W. STEVENSON, AND WILLIAM L. CREPET. - Species diversity of Triuridaceae fossil flowers from the Late Cretaceous of New Jersey.
  12. GASTALDO, ROBERT A.* AND WILLIAM A. DIMICHELE. - Nightmare on Fern Street: An analysis of marattialean foliage from the Pennsylvanian and Permian of north-central Texas.
  13. GENSEL, P.G.* AND S-G HAO. - Some new plant discoveries from the Lower Devonian Posongchong Formation, S.E. Yunnan Province, P.R. China.
  14. HICKEY, LEO J.* AND TIMOTHY B. ARMSTRONG. - A mid-Cretaceous (Cenomanian) flora from the interior of the Canadian Shield in western Labrador.
  15. HOPKINS, DENNIS J., JR.*, KIRK R. JOHNSON, AND CARLOS A. JARAMILLO. - Diversity and evolution of Cenozoic cycads in western North America.
  16. JOHNSON, KIRK R. - Floristics and taphonomy of anomalous, small-leaved floras from the middle Hell Creek Formation (Late Cretaceous; late Maastrichtian), southwestern North Dakota.
  17. KLAVINS, SHARON D.* AND LAWRENCE C. MATTEN. - Elaboration of the anatomy and morphology of Wexfordia hookense, Matten.
  18. KVACEK, ZLATKO. - Novelties in the Miocene aquatic flora of Europe.
  19. LANTZ, TREVOR C.*, GAR W. ROTHWELL, AND RUTH A. STOCKEY. - A permineralized tree fern from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian) of northern California.
  20. LUPIA, RICHARD*, PATRICK S. HERENDEEN, SUSANA MAGALLON-PUEBLA, PETER R. CRANE, AND JOLANTA KOBYLINSKA. - The Allon flora (Late Cretaceous, Georgia): diversity, abundance, and evolutionary implications.
  21. LUPIA, RICHARD. - Discerning patchy vegetation using replicate samples: a Cretaceous example.
  22. MAMAY, SERGIUS H.*, DAN S. CHANEY, AND WILLIAM A. DIMICHELE. - A Mesozoic-type flora from the Lower Permian of Texas.
  23. MANCHESTER, STEVEN R. - Cornaceae in Paleocene floras of the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains.
  24. MANCHESTER, STEVEN R.* AND YUFEI WANG. - Systematic reevaluation of so-called Astronium (Anacardiaceae) fruits from the Eocene of western North America and Miocene of eastern Asia. Steven R. Manchester and Yufei Wang.
  25. MAPES, GENE* AND GAR W. ROTHWELL. - A new conifer-like coniferophyte in the Upper Pennsylvanian of Kansas.
  26. MEDLYN, DAVID A.*, WILLIAM D. TIDWELL, AND SUE A. BILBEY. - Fossil Ginkgo-like wood from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation, Utah.
  27. MITRA, M.*, J.E. MICKLE, P.G GENSEL, AND E.A WHEELER. - Aquilapollenites occurs in the southeastern United States.
  28. PIGG, KATHLEEN B.1* AND STEVEN R. MANCHESTER2. - Silicified heptalocular fruits from the middle Miocene Yakima Canyon flora, central Washington state.
  29. RILEY, MICHAEL G.* AND RUTH A. STOCKEY. - An aquatic broad-leaved monocot from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) St. Mary River Formation of southern Alberta.
  30. ROTHWELL, GAR W.*, HEATHER D. ADDY, RUTH A. STOCKEY, AND RANDOLPH S. CURRAH. - Mycorrhizal associations of the middle Eocene taxodiaceous conifer Metasequoia milleri.
  31. SCHORN, HOWARD E., DIANE M. ERWIN, AND PATRICK F. FIELDS.* - Columbia Plateau and Intermountain Basin Neogene floras: Introduction to the Project. [Poster]
  32. SIMS, HALLIE J. - Contrasting evolutionary trends in seed (ovule) size and megaspore volume during the late Paleozoic.
  33. STOCKEY, RUTH A.* AND SELENA SMITH. - A new Millerocaulis (Osmundaceae) from the Lower Cretaceous of northern California.
  34. TAYLOR, D.W.*, G. B. RENNER, L. J. HICKEY, S. H. BASHA, H. LI, F. J. FAGO, AND J. M. MOLDOWAN. - Preliminary molecular fossil data on angiosperm evolution and radiation.
  35. TAYLOR, D.W.*, H. LI, J. DAHL, F. J. FAGO, G. W. ROTHWELL, AND L. J. HICKEY. - The molecular fossil oleanane and preliminary data on its occurrence in gigantopterids, anthophytes and other seed plants.
  36. TAYLOR, EDITH L.*, CARLY M. HARTER, AND THOMAS N. TAYLOR. - Plant-animal interactions in the Triassic of Antarctica.
  37. TAYLOR, EDITH L., THOMAS N. TAYLOR*, RUBÉN CÚNEO, ANA ARCHANGELSKY, AND HANS KERP. - Cupulate reproductive organs from the Triassic of the Shackleton Glacier area, Antarctica.
  38. VAN SLUYTERS, AMY M. - Trapper Creek Palynoflora.
  39. WHEELER, E.A.* AND T.M. LEHMAN. - Woody dicots of the Cretaceous-Paleocene of Big Bend National Park, Texas.
  40. WILLARD, DEBRA A.*, CHARLES W. HOLMES, JAMES B. MURRAY, AND LISA M. WEIMER. - Vegetational Response to Environmental Changes in Southern Florida over the Last Few Millennia.
  41. ZINNIKER, D., J. M. MOLDOWAN*, J. DAHL, F. J. FAGO, H. LI, L. J. HICKEY, G. W. ROTHWELL, AND D. W. TAYLOR. - Techniques and advances in molecular paleobotany: Methods for evaluating hypotheses of plant evolution and phylogeny by molecular fossils.