Contact
Florida Museum of Natural History
Dickinson Hall
1659 Museum Road
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
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…
Florida Museum honors 2023 Austin and Biodiversity award winners
The Florida Museum of Natural History has announced the winners of the annual Austin and biodiversity graduate student awards. Jeanette…
Explosive fossil fruit found buried beneath ancient Indian lava flows
Just before the closing scenes of the Cretaceous Period, India was a rogue subcontinent on a collision course with Asia.…
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