Contact
Florida Museum of Natural History
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Gainesville, Florida 32611-7800
352-273-1935
steven@flmnh.ufl.edu
Collection
Other Affiliations
Affiliate Professor, UF Botany & UF Geology
Education
Ph.D. Paleobotany, Indiana University, Bloomington
M.S. Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington
B.S. Geology, Oregon State University
B.S. Botany, Oregon State University, Corvallis
Research Interests
Evolution of extant angiosperm families in the Northern Hemisphere. Multiple-organ paleobotanical investigations providing characters of flowers, fruits, pollen, leaves and wood for inclusion in phylogenetic analyses. Paleocene and Eocene floras of western North America, central Europe and eastern Asia. I have enjoyed collaborative research with paleobotanists in Canada, China, Czech Republic, England, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Russia, and the United States.
Publications
Research News
This mysterious plant fossil belongs to a family that no longer exists
In 1969, fossilized leaves of the species Othniophyton elongatum — which translates to “alien plant” — were identified in eastern…
Three new extinct walnut species discovered in high Arctic mummified forest
In a new study, scientists describe three new, but long-extinct, walnut species on an island above the Arctic Circle. The…
Mysterious fruit shown to be the oldest-known fossils of the Frankincense and Myrrh family
Early in the 1970s, a paleontologist working on the outskirts of an Indian village found small, bead-like fossils embedded in…
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