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Transformative Paleobotany

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Transformative Paleobotany

Edition 1

Welcome to the website for Transformative Paleobotany: Papers to Commemorate the Life and Legacy of Thomas N. Taylor

The site includes additional content, organized by chapter. You can access the files by linking onto the chapter in the Quick Links box. The following material is included in this site

  • Chapter 3, Dambreville et al.: Modeled Pseudosporochnus visualized at different growth stages calculated as a percentage of development (video)

  • Chapter 16, Tomescu et al.: Extended Bryophyte Fossil Database (Excel sheet)

  • Chapter 20, Walker et al.: Acquisition numbers and repository information for all figured fossils and images of extant fungi (Excel sheet)

  • Chapter 23, Lücking et al.: 

    • Supplemental 1: Anaylsis with Guidance HoT scores and only columns aligned with 95% confidence or higher were retained. (Excel sheet)

    • Supplemental 2: Anaylsis realigned with MAFFT and subjected to maximum likelihood analysis in RAxML. (FAS file)

    • Supplemental 3: Analysis with the SSU of Lasallia pennsylvanica sequences removed. (FAS file)

About the Editors

Michael Krings

Michael Krings is curator for fossil plants at the Bavarian State Collection for Palaeontology and Geology (SNSB-BSPG) in Munich, Germany, and professor of plant paleobiology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich. He also holds an affiliate faculty position in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Kansas. He received his PhD in botany from the University of Münster, Germany, and was an Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the University of Kansas. His research interests include Carboniferous, Permian, and Triassic seed plants and the biology and ecology of microorganisms in late Paleozoic terrestrial ecosystems.

Affiliations and Expertise Bavarian State Collection for Palaeontology and Geology (SNSB-BSPG) , Munich, Germany and Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany

Carla J. Harper

Carla J. Harper is an Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation postdoctoral research fellow at the Bavarian State Collection for Palaeontology and Geology (SNSB-BSPG) and Ludwig- Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany. She also holds a research associate position at the Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum at the University of Kansas. She received her Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology from the University of Kansas. Her research interests include the biology and ecology of microorganisms and biotas in Permian–Jurassic ecosystems of Antarctica and late Paleozoic of Europe, symbiotic systems through time, as well as the biology, geochemistry, and evolution of fossil microbes.

Affiliations and Expertise Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Bavarian State Collection for Palaeontology and Geology (SNSB-BSPG) and Ludwig- Maximilians-Universitat Munich, Germany

N. Ruben Cuneo

N. Ruben Cuneo is a Prinicipal Researcher at the National Research Council of Argentina, and Director of the Museo Paleontológico E. Feruglio in Trelew. He received his Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Buenos Aires. His research interests include fossil floras from Patagonia and Antarctica ranging from the Permian through the Eocene in aspects related with their systematics, paleoecology, bio-chronostratigraphy and paleoclimatology.

Affiliations and Expertise Prinicipal Researcher, National Research Council of Argentina and Director, Museo Paleontologico E. Feruglio, Trelew

Gar W. Rothwell

Gar Rothwell is the Edwin and Ruth Kennedy Distinguished Professor of Environmental and Plant Biology, Emeritus, Ohio University, and Courtesy Professor of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University. He is past-president of the International Organisation of Palaeobotany, author of the paleobotany textbook, Paleobotany and the Evolution of Plants (Stewart and Rothwell, 1993), and editor of six previous volumes of studies in plant paleontology. His research focuses on the role of development in evolution, and on the patterns of organismal evolution and phylogeny among land plants, particularly lycophytes, equisetophytes, ferns, and seed plants.

Affiliations and Expertise

Professor of Environmental and Plant Biology, Ohio University and Courtesy Professor of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, USA

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