David L. Dilcher
Paleobotany Laboratory
Florida Museum of Natural History
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-7800
Phone: 352-273-1944
Fax: 352-392-2539 (Office)
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Research Interests
Education
Positions
Grants and Fellowships
Professional and Honorary
Societies
Publications (Books,
Symposium Volumes, and Volume-Length Paper)
Published Papers (most
in reviewed journals)
Served on the Following
Committees at Indiana University
Professional Activities
Editorial Positions
held
Special Recognition
Courses Initiated and taught
Courses Taught
Ph.D. Dissertations Completed Under
My Direction
M.S. Thesis Completed Under
My Direction
Masters Degree Students in Biology
Postdoctoral Fellows Who Have Been
Associated With My Research Laboratory
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Research Interests:
Angiosperm evolution; the origin of flowers to the reproductive
biology of the first flowering plants. The evolution of diversity
in early angiosperms, the recognition of early phylogenic lines of
relationship between major taxa, trends in evolution of the group.
Tertiary age radiations of angiosperms and their phytogeography. Evolutionary
Biology. Plant/animal coevolution. Biostratigraphy, Biodiversity,
Global Vegetational Change.
Education:
University of Minnesota 1954-58 B.S. Natural History
University of Minnesota 1958-60 M.S. Botany, Geology and Zoology
University of Illinois 1960-62 Transferred to Yale
Yale University 1962-64 Ph.D. Biology, Geology
Positions:
1958-63 Teaching Assistant University of Minnesota, University of
Illinois, Yale University
1963-64 Cullman-University Fellow Yale University
1964-65 NSF Postdoctoral Fellow Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main,
Germany
1965-66 Instructor in Biology Yale University, Department of Biology
1966-70 Assistant Professor of Botany Indiana University, Department
of Botany
1970-76 Associate Professor of Botany Indiana University, Department
of Botany
1972-73 Guggenheim Fellow Giessen, Germany, Imperial College in London,
England, and Indiana University.
1975-90 Associate Professor of Geology, Indiana University, Department
of Geology
1977-90 Professor of Paleobotany Indiana University, Department of
Botany and Department of Geology
1981 Distinguished Visiting Research Scholar University of Adelaide,
Adelaide, Australia
1985 Continuing Education, Professor ARAMCO, Dahrain, Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia
1986 Visiting Scholar Beijing, China
1987-88 Guggenheim Fellow British Museum of Natural History, London
and Indiana University
1988 Distinguished Visiting Research Scholar University of Adelaide,
Adelaide, Australia
1990- Graduate Research Professor Florida Museum of Natural History,
University of Florida
1990- Univ. Florida Adjunct Professor, Departments of Botany, Geology,
Zoology
1990- IU Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology
1990- IU Overseas Studies, Prof., Costa Rica
Grants and Fellowships:
1961 Sigma Xi Grant-in-aid. Collecting Eocene age plants in Tennessee,
University of Illinois
1962 Sigma Xi Grant-in-aid. Research on Eocene age plants. University
of Illinois
1963 Eaton-Hooker Fellowship. Graduate student stipend. Yale University
1963-64 Cullman-University Fellowship. Yale University
1964-65 National Science Foundation Postdoctoral. Fellowship - Senckenberg
Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Yale University
1966 Sigma Xi Grant-in-aid. Research on fossil leaves from Eocene
sediments. Indiana University 10-441-68
1966-69 National Science Foundation Research Grant. Cuticular analysis
of Eocene leaves with special reference to their modern affinities.
NSF GB 5166X Indiana University 48-245-78
1966-67 Indiana University Grant-in-aid. Faculty Research, Indiana
University 10-441-68
1967-68 Indiana University Grant-in-aid. Work-study help for paleobotanical
collections. Indiana University 10-241-68
1968 Indiana University Grant-in-aid. Field dendrology course in Costa
Rica. Indiana University 10-441-68
1969-75 National Science Foundation Research Grant. The Eocene floras
of southeastern North America. NSF GB 12803, Indiana University 48-244-09
1971 Indiana University Grant-in-aid. Travel to Afghanistan and Lucknow,
India. Indiana University
1971-73 Organization for Tropical Studies Grant-in-aid. Foliar physiognomy
of vegetation in Costa Rica. Indiana University.
1972 National Science Foundation Equipment Grant. Scanning Electron
Microscope Facility. Indiana University (prepared the documentation
but was not the P.I. on this grant.
1975-77 National Science Foundation Research Grant. Foliar morphology
of fossil and extant leaf forms. NSF BMS 75-02268, Indiana University
48-244-28.
1972-73 Guggenheim Fellowship. Indiana University.
1972-74 National Science Foundation Grant. Doctoral dissertation research
support for Frank Potter. NSF GB 32289, Indiana University 48-244-18.
1976-77 National Science Foundation Grant. Equipment request for light
microscope facility. NSF DEB 75-19849, Indiana University 48-246-18.
1976-77 National Science Foundation Research Grant. Foliar morphology
of fossil and extant leaf forms. NSF DEB 75-02268A1, Indiana University
48-246-51.
1977-79 National Science Foundation Research Grant. Investigation
of angiosperm fossils. NSF DEB 77-04846, Indiana University 48-246-50.
1979-80 National Science Foundation Research Grant. Early Tertiary
Paleosols. NSF EAR 79-00898, Indiana University 48-246-64.
1979-82 National Science Foundation Research Grant. Doctoral dissertation
research support for Steven R. Manchester NSF DEB 79-06837, Indiana
University 48-246-68.
1979-85 National Science Foundation Research Grant. Early angiosperm
evolution and ecology. NSF DEB 79-10720, Indiana University 48-246-70.
1980 Indiana University Overseas Travel Grant-in-aid. Travel to Reading,
England., Indiana University.
1980-81 Amax Coal Foundation Grant. Pennsylvanian plant fossils of
Indiana. Indiana University 54-246-02.
1983 National Science Foundation Research Grant. Major equipment request
(co-P.I. with four other faculty). Indiana University.
1983-84 National Science Foundation Research Grant. An angiosperm
leaf flora from mid-Cretaceous sediments. NSF BSR 83-00476.
1984-86 National Science Foundation Research Grant. Doctoral dissertation
research support for Warren Kovach. NSF BSR 84-01148, Indiana University
48-245-13.
1985 Indiana University Overseas Travel Grant-in -Aid. Travel to ICSEB
Meeting, Brighton, England. Indiana University.
1986-89 National Science Foundation Research Grant. Mid-Cretaceous
angiosperms. NSF BSR 86-16657, Indiana University 48-245-34.
1986 National Academy of Sciences, Visiting Scholar. Exchange Program,
China Lecture tour, plus expense for 4 weeks while in China.
1986 Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt, Germany and Volkswagen, . Travel
funds to participate in the Symposium on The Fossils from Messel,
Germany.
1987-88 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. The Evolution of Flowers.
Indiana University.
1987-88 Office of Research and Graduate Development. College of Arts
and Sciences Research Leave Supplement.
1987-88 Indiana University Sonneborn Award.
1988-89 National Science Foundation Int. Joint Seminar/Workshop .
Organic Geochemical Biomarker Techniques NSF 88 00 341, Indiana University
48-245-50.
1988-89 National Science Foundation Grant. Doctoral dissertation research
support for Patrick Herendeen NSF BSR 88 00 900, Indiana University
48-245-51.
1988-89 Kansas Geological Survey. Collecting and mapping Lower and
mid-Cretaceous plant microfossils, Indiana University 41-246-02
1996-99 National Science Foundation. Curation of the Florida Museum
of Natural History Paleobotanical Collection. NSF 9631371. University
of Florida
1996-99 National Science Foundation. Late Paleocene and early Eocene
nonmarine climates in the Gulf of Mexico Basin, Texas. NSF. University
of Florida.
Professional and Honorary Societies:
National Academy of Sciences; Botanical Society of America; Paleontological
Society; Paleontological Association; American Association for the
Advancement of Science; International Organization of Paleobotanists;
Association for Tropical Biology; Society of the Sigma Xi; American
Institute of Biological Sciences; American Association of Stratigraphic
Palynologists; International Association of Angiosperm Paleobotany;
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology; Geological Society of America;
Indiana Academy of Science; Kentucky Academy of Science
Linnean Society; Explorer's Club; Corresponding Member, Senckenberg
Museum; Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Publications (Books, Symposium
Volumes, and Volume-Length Paper):
1965 Dilcher, D.L. Epiphyllous fungi from Eocene deposits in western
Tennessee, USA. Paleontographica, Bd. B, vol. 116:1-54, pls. 1-26.
1973 Dilcher, D.L., D. Redmon, M. Tansey, and D. Whitehead. Plant
Biology Laboratory Manual. Burgess Publishing Company, Minneapolis,
pp. 1-116.
1974 Dilcher, D.L. Approaches to the identification of angiosperm
leaf remains. Botanical Review 40:1-157.
1975 Dilcher, D.L., D. Redmon, M. Tansey, and D. Whitehead. Plant
Biology Laboratory Manual, second edition. Burgess Publishing Co.,
pp. 1-116.
1979 Taylor, T., D.L. Dilcher, and T. Delevoryas, Editors. The Symposium
volume, Plant Reproduction in the Fossil Record, published in Rev.
Palaeobotany and Palynology 27:211-358.
1980 Dilcher, D.L. and T. Taylor, Editors. Biostratigraphy of Fossil
Plants: Successional and Paleoecological Analysis. Dowden, Hutchinson
and Ross, Publishers, pp. 1-275.
1982 Dilcher, D.L., Editor. Abstracts of the annual meetings of the
Botanical Society of America. Misc. Series Pub. No. 162, Bot. Soc.
Am., pp. 1-117.
1983 Dilcher, D.L., Editor. Abstracts of the joint meeting of the
Botanical Society of America and the Canadian Botanical Association.
American Journal of Botany, vol. 70, no. 5, pt. 2, pp. 1-145.
1984 Dilcher, D.L., Editor. Abstracts of the Annual Meetings of the
Botanical Society of America. American Journal of Botany, vol. 71,
no. 5, pt. 2, pp. 1-212.
1984 Dilcher, D.L. and W.L. Crepet, Editors. Origin and Evolution
of Flowering Plants, Symposium Volume. Annals Mo. Bot. Gd. vol. 71,
no. 2, pp. 347-630.
1986 Dilcher, D.L. and M. Zavada, Editors. Symposium: Phylogeny of
the Hamamelidae. Annals Mo. Bot. Gd., Volume 73, no. 2. pp. 225-441.
1986 Botanical Society Membership Directory and Handbook. 196 pp.
1992 Herendeen, P.S. and D.L. Dilcher, Editors. Advances in Legume
Systematics, Part 4. The Fossil Record.
1992 B.S. Venkatachala, D.L. Dilcher and H. K. Maheshwari, Editors.
Essays in Evolutionary Plant Biology, The Palaeobotanist Volume 41.
Published Papers (most in reviewed journals):
1961. Dilcher, D.L. Cuticular
analysis of Eocene leaves of Lauraceae. American Journal of Botany 48:540.
1962. Dilcher, D.L. Phycopeltis -- An Alga epiphytic on
Eocene leaves. American Journal of Botany 49:669.
1963.
Dilcher, D.L. Eocene epiphyllous fungi. Science 142:667‑669
and the cover photograph for that issue.
1963. Dilcher, D.L. 1963.
Epiphyllous fungi found in association with Eocene fossils. American Journal of
Botany 50:627.
1963. Dilcher,
D.L. Cuticular analysis of Eocene leaves of Ocotea obtusifolia. American Journal of Botany 50:1‑8.
1964. Dilcher, D.L.
Fossil fungi from lower Eocene deposits in Western Tennessee. Tenth International Botanical Congress, pgs. 358-359.
1965. Dilcher, D.L. Sapindaceous
leaflets from Eocene deposits of Tennessee. American Journal of Botany 52:639.
1965. Dilcher, D.L. Epiphyllous Fungi From Eocene Deposits in Western Tennessee, U.S.A.
Paleontographica Bd. B. 116:1‑54.
1967. Dilcher, D.L. and J.F. McQuade. A morphological study of Nyssa endocarps from Eocene
deposits in western Tennessee. Torrey Bot. Club Bull. 94:35‑40.
1967.
Dilcher, D.L. Fossil Plants and Their Use in Teaching High School Biology. School Science and Math, April,
pp. 316‑320.
1967. Dilcher,
D.L. Richard Kräusel, 1890‑1966. Plant Science Bull. 13:8.
1967.
Dilcher, D.L. Chlorophyll in der Braunkohle des Geiseltales. Natur
und Museum 97:124‑130.
1968. Dolph, G.E. and D.L. Dilcher. An
Eocene discovery of Dendropanax. Ind. Acad. Sci., 78:115-116.
1968.
Dilcher, D.L. and C.A. Zeck. A study of the factors controlling variation of cuticular characters.
Ind. Acad. Sci., 78:115.
1968. Dilcher, D.L. Sequoia, an element of the Eocene flora
in southeastern North America. American Journal of Botany 55:727.
1968. Dilcher, D.L. Revision of Eocene
palms from southeastern North America based upon cuticular analysis.
American Journal of Botany 55:725.
1968. Anderson, G. and D.L. Dilcher,
Cuticular analysis of the extinct genus Dryophyllumof the Fagaceae. Indiana Academy of
Science 77:130-13 1.
1969.
Dilcher, D.L. and B. Mehrotra. A re-evaluation of early Tertiary North American
Proteaceae. XI Internat. Bot. Cong. abstracts, p. 47.
1969.
Dilcher, D.L. and B. Mehrotra. A study of leaf compressions of Knightiophyllum from Eocene deposits of
southeastern North America. American Journal of Botany 56:936‑943.
1969.
Dilcher, D.L. Podocarpus from the Eocene of North America. Science 164:299‑301.
1970.
Dilcher, D.L., R. Pavlick, and J. Mitchell. Chlorophyll Derivatives in Middle Eocene
sediments. Science 168:1447‑1449.
1970. Dilcher,
D.L. and G.E. Dolph. Fossil leaves of Dendropanax from Eocene sediments of
southeastern North America. American Journal of Botany 57:153‑160.
1970. Dilcher, D.L.Eocene
Plant Localities of Western Kentucky and Tennessee. Guidebook for AIBS field trip, Indiana
University Meeting, 1970.
1971. Sheffy,
M.V. and D.L. Dilcher. Morphology and taxonomy of fungal spores. Palaeontographica B 133:34‑51.
1971. Dilcher, D.L. Book Review:
The Eocene Green River Flora of Northwestern Colorado and Northwestern
Utah. Journal of Paleontology, 45:739-740.
1971.
Dilcher, D.L. A revision of the Eocene Floras of Southeastern North America.
The Paleobotanist 20:7‑18, (Volume 20 published in 1973.).
1972. Riepe, R.A. and D.L
Dilcher. A comparison of modern and Cretaceous Sassafras leaves. Indiana
Academy of Science Proceedings, 81:91.
1972. Potter, Jr., F.W. and
D.L. Dilcher. Re-evaluations of Engelhardia of the Eocene of southeastern United States. Ind. Acad. Sci., 81:94.
1972. Daghlian, C.P. and D.L.
Dilcher. Middle Eocene Sabaloid palms. Ind. Acad. Sci., 81:94.
1972. Dilcher, D.L. Coal age tree stumps
in Indiana. Indiana Academy of Science Proceedings, 81:190.
1973. Pheifer, R.N. and
D.L Dilcher. 1973. A study of the floras in the Alleghenian and Conemaughian Series in Sullivan County, Indiana.
Indiana Academy of Science Proceedings, 82:268.
1973.
Dilcher, D.L. A Paleoclimatic Interpretation of the Eocene Floras of Southeastern North
America. In: A. Graham, Vegetation and Vegetational History of Northern
Latin America. Elsevier Publ. Co., Amsterdam. Chapter 2, pp. 39‑59.
1973.
Dilcher, D.L. A challenge to
personal attitudes in our population growth. Pollution, a special issue of
American Biology Teachers, pp. 22‑25.
1974.
Van Horn, J. and D.L. Dilcher. 1974.
Foliar morphology of Platanus. Proc. Ind. Acad. Sci. 94:69-70.
1974.
Elsik, W.C. and D.L. Dilcher. Palynology and Age of Clays Exposed in Lawrence Clay Pit, Henry County,
Tennessee. Palaeontographica Abt. B., Bd. 146:66‑87.
1974.
Dilcher, D.L. Approaches to the Identification of Fossil Leaf Remains.
Botanical Review, 40:1‑157.
1974.
Crepet, W., D.L. Dilcher, and F.W. Potter. Eocene angiosperm flowers.
Science 185:781‑782 and the cover photograph for that issue.
1975.
Dilcher, D.L. and R. Pheifer. Stump casts of aborscent Iycopods.
Indiana Academy of Science Proceedings 84:114‑121.
1975.
Crepet, W., D. L. Dilcher, and F.W. Potter. Investigations of angiosperms
from the Eocene of southeastern North America: A Catkin with Junglandaceous
Affinities. American Journal of Botany 62:813‑823.
1976.
Dilcher, D.L., F.W. Potter, and W.L. Crepet. Investigations of angiosperms
from the Eocene of North America: Juglandaceous winged fruits.
American Journal of Botany 63:532‑544.
1976.
Dilcher, D.L., W.L. Crepet, C.D. Beeker, and H.C. Reynolds. Reproductive and
vegetative morphology of a Cretaceous angiosperm. Science 191:854‑856.
1976.
Dilcher, D.L. Paleoecology of terrestrial plants‑‑review of book by V.A. Krassilov.
Science 194:517.
1977.
Pheifer, R.N. and D.L. Dilcher. Collecting fossil and rock specimens with a carbide‑tipped chain
and chain saw. Journal of Paleobotany 51:197‑198.
1977.
Dilcher, D.L. and C.P. Daghlian. Investigations of angiosperms from the Eocene
of southeastern North America: Philodendron leaf remains. American Journal of Botany
64:526‑534.
1977.
Crepet, W.L. and D.L. Dilcher. Investigations of angiosperms from the Eocene of North America: a
mimosoid inflorescence. American Journal of Botany 64:714‑725.
1978.
Roth, J.L. and D.L. Dilcher. Some considerations in leaf size and leaf margin analysis of fossil
leaves. Courier Forschungs‑lnstitut Senckenberg 30:165‑171.
1978.
Dilcher, D.L., F. Potter, and H. Reynolds. Preliminary account of middle
Cretaceous angiosperm remains from interior of North America.
Courier Forschungs‑lnstitut Senckenberg 30:9‑15.
1978. Dilcher,
D.L. Angiosperm paleobotany and the IAA. Courier Forschungs‑lnstitut
Senckenberg 30:7‑8.
1979.
Taylor, T.N., D.L. Dilcher and T. Delevoryas. Introduction: Plant reproduction in the fossil record. Review of Palaeobotany
and Palynology 27:211‑212.
1979.
Roth, J. and D.L. Dilcher. Investigations of angiosperms from the Eocene of North America:
stipulate leaves of the Rubiaceae. American Journal of Botany 66:1194‑1207.
1979. Eoyang, E. The Angiosperms:
Flowering into dominance. Research & Creative Activity at Indiana University, Bloomington 3:10-11.
1979.
Dolph, G. and D.L. Dilcher. Foliar physiognomy as an aid in determining
paleoclimate. Palaeontographica Abst. B, 170:151‑172.
1979.
Dilcher, D.L. Early angiosperm reproduction: An introductory report.
Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 27:291‑328.
1980.
Potter, F. and D.L. Dilcher. Biostratigraphic analysis of Middle Eocene
floras of western Kentucky and Tennessee. In: Dilcher and Taylor,
Biostratigraphy of Fossil Plants: Successional and Paleoecological Analysis.
Dowden, Hutchinson and Ross, Publishers. Chapter 8, pp. 211‑225.
1980.
Jones, J.H. and D.L. Dilcher. Investigations of angiosperms from the Eocene of North America:
Rhamnus marginatus (Rhamnaceae)reexamined. American Journal of Botany
67:959‑967.
1980.
Dolph, G.E. and D.L. Dilcher. Variation in leaf size with respect to climate in the Western
Hemisphere. Bulletin Torrey Bot. Club 107:157‑162.
1980.
Dolph, G.E. and D.L. Dilcher. Variation on leaf size with respect to climate in Costa Rica.
Biotropica 12:91‑99.
1981.
Retallack, G. and D.L. Dilcher. Early angiosperm reproduction: Prisca
reynoldsii gen. et sp. nov. from Mid‑Cretaceous coastal deposits in
Kansas, USA. Palaeontographica, Abst. B, 179:103‑137, 7 plates and 9 figures.
1981.
Retallack, G. and D.L. Dilcher. Arguments for a glossopterid ancestry of
angiosperms. Paleobiology 7:54‑67.
1981.
Retallack, G. and D.L. Dilcher. A Coastal theory of flowering plant
origin. In: Niklas, K.J., Paleobotany, Paleoecology, and Evolution. Praeger
Publishers, N.Y. Chapter 2, pp. 27‑77.
1982.
Manchester, S.R. and D.L. Dilcher. Pterocaryoid fruits (Juglandaceae) in the
Paleocene of North America and their evolutionary and biogeographic
significance. American Journal of Botany 69:275‑286.
1983.
Dilcher, D.L. and L. Eriksen. Sycamores are Ancient Trees. The
Museum of Western Colorado Quarterly, Spring, 1983, pp. 8‑11.
1984.
Reynolds, D.R. and D.L. Dilcher. A foliicolous alga of Eocene Age.
Review of Paleobotany and Palynology 43:397‑403.
1984.
Kovach, W.L. and D.L. Dilcher. Dispersed cuticles from the Eocene of North America.
Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 88:63‑104.
1984.
Dilcher, D.L. and P.R. Crane. Archaeanthus: An Early
Angiosperm from the Cenomanian of the Western Interior of North America.
Annals Mo. Bot. Gd. 71: 351‑383.
1984. Dilcher, D.L. and P.R. Crane.
In pursuit of the first flowers. Natural History Magazine 93:56‑61.
1984. Dilcher, D. L. and W.
Crepet. 1984. Historical perspectives of Angiosperm evolution. Annals of the
Missouri Botanical Garden 71:348-350.
1984.
Dilcher, D.L. In search of Fossil Plants. Terra
Jan./Feb., pp. 10‑15.
1984.
Crane, P.R. and D.L. Dilcher. Lesqueria: an Early Angiosperm
Fruiting Axis from the mid‑Cretaceous. Annals Mo. Bot. Gd. 71:384‑402.
1984.
Basinger, J.F. and D.L. Dilcher. Ancient bisexual flowers.
Science 224:511 ‑513.
1985.
Kovach, W.L. and D.L. Dilcher. A new combination of Paxillitriletes (fossil
megaspores). Taxon 34:297.
1985.
Kovach, W.L. and D.L. Dilcher. Morphology, ultrastructure, and paleoecology
of Paxillitriletes vittatus sp. nov. from the mid‑Cretaceous of Kansas. Palynology 9:85‑94.
1986.
Zavada, M.S. and D.L. Dilcher. Comparative pollen morphology and its
relationship to phylogeny of pollen in The Hamamelidae. Annals Mo. Bot. Gd. 73:348‑381.
1986.
Retallack, G.J. and D.L. Dilcher. Cretaceous angiosperm invasion of North
America. Cretaceous Research 7:227‑252.
1986.
Manchester, S.R., D.L. Dilcher and W.D. Tidwell. Interconnected reproductive and
vegetative remains of Populus (Salicaceae) from the Middle Eocene Green River Formation, Northeastern Utah.
American Journal of Botany 73:156‑160.
1986.
Farley, M.B. and D.L. Dilcher. Correlation between miospore and depositional environments of the Dakota
Formation of north‑central Kansas and adjacent Nebraska. Palynology 10:117‑133.
1986.
Dilcher, D.L. and M. Zavada. Phylogeny of the Hamamelidae: An Introduction. Annals Mo. Bot. Gd. 73:225‑226.
1986.
Dilcher, D.L. and S.R. Manchester. Investigations of Angiosperms from the Eocene of North America: Leaves of the Engelhardieae (Juglandaceae).
Bot. Gaz. 147:189‑199.
1986.
Dilcher, D.L. and D. Macklin. Systematic index of the Hamamelidae. Annals Mo. Bot. Gd. 73:340‑345.
1986.
Dilcher, D.L. and W.L. Kovach. Early Angiosperm Reproduction: Caloda
delevoryana gen. et sp. nov., a new fruitification from the Dakota Formation (Cenomanian) of Kansas. American Journal
of Botany 73:1228‑1235.
1986. Dilcher,
D.L. Origin of Flowering Plants. 1987 McGraw‑Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology 339‑343.
1987.
Dilcher, D.L. Memorial to Herman F. Becker (1907‑1985). Annals Mo. Bot. Gd. 74:689‑691.
1987.
Coe, M.J., D.L. Dilcher, J.D. Farlow, D.M. Jarzen, and D.A. Russell. Of dicots and
dinosaurs. In: The Origin of Angiosperms and Their Biological Consequences.
Friis, E.M., W. Chaloner and P. Crane, Eds., pp. 225‑258.
1988.
Zavada, M.S. and D.L. Dilcher. Pollen wall ultrastructure of selected dispersed monosulcate pollen from
the Cenomanian, Dakota Formation of central USA. American Journal of Botany 75:669‑679.
1988.
Retallack, G.J. and D.L. Dilcher. Reconstructions of selected seed ferns. Annals of the Mo. Bot. Gd. 75:1010‑1057.
1988.
Kovach, W.L. and D.L. Dilcher. Megaspores and other dispersed plant remains from the Dakota Formation
(Cenomanian) of Kansas. Palynology 12:89‑119.
1988.
Jones, J.H., S.R. Manchester, and D.L. Dilcher.
Dryophyllum Debey ex Saporta, Juglandaceous not Fagaceous. Rev. Palaeobot. and Palynology 56:205‑211.
1988.
Jones, J.H. and D.L. Dilcher. A study of the "Dryophyllum" leaf forms from the Paleocene of
southeastern North America. Palaeontographica, Bd. B 208:53‑80.
1988.
Dilcher, D.L. and S.R. Manchester. Investigations of the angiosperms from the
Eocene of North America: A fruit belonging to Euphorbiaceae. Tertiary Research 9:45‑68.
1988. Dilcher, D.L. Book Review, Vll Simposia Argentino
de Paleobotanica y Palinologia Actas, 1987, Ed. by S. Archangelsky, R. Herbst
and W., I.O.P. Newsletter 35:12.
1988.
Dilcher, D.L. Book Review, Fundamentals of Palaeobotany by Sergei V. Meyen.
American Scientists 76:406.
1988.
Crane, P.R., S.R. Manchester, and D.L. Dilcher. Morphology and phylogenic
significance of the angiosperm Platanites herbridicus from the Paleocene of Scotland.
Paleontology 31:503‑517.
1989.
Grote, P.J. and D.L. Dilcher. Investigations of angiosperms from the Eocene of North America: A new
genus of Theaceae based on fruit and seed remains. Botanical Gazette 150:190‑206.
1990.
Upchurch, G.R. and D.L. Dilcher. Cenomanian angiosperm leaf megafossils from
the Rose Creek locality of the Dakota Formation, Southeastern Nebraska.
U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1915, pages 1‑55, plates 1‑31.
1990.
McKnight, C.L., S.A. Graham, A.R. Carroll, Q. Gan, D.L. Dilcher, M. Zhao, Y.H. Liang.
Fluvial sedimentology of an Upper Jurassic petrified forest assemblage, Shishu Formation, Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, China.
Paleogeogr., Paleoclimatol., Paleoecol. 79:1‑9.
1990.
Hill, C.R. and D.L. Dilcher. Scanning electron microscopy of the internal ultrastructure of plant
cuticle. In: D. Claugher, (Ed.), Scanning electron microscopy in taxonomy and
functional morphology, pp. 95‑124, Clarendon Press, Oxford.
1990.
Herendeen, P.S., D.H. Les, and D.L. Dilcher. Fossil Ceratophyllum (Ceratophyllaceae) from the Tertiary of North
America. American Journal of Botany 77:7‑16.
1990.
Herendeen, P.S. and D.L. Dilcher. Reproductive and vegetative evidence for the occurrence of Crudia
(Leguminosae, Caesalpinioideae) in the Eocene of Southeastern North America. Botanical
Gazette 151:402‑413.
1990.
Herendeen, P.S. and D.L. Dilcher.
Diplotropis (Leguminosae, Papilionoideae) from the Middle Eocene of southeastern North
America. Systematic Botany 15: 526‑533.
1990.
Herendeen, P.S. and D.L. Dilcher. Fossil mimisoid legumes from the Eocene and
Oligocene of southeastern North America. Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol. 62:339‑361.
1990.
Dilcher, D.L., D.C. Christophel, H.D., Bhagwandin, and L. Scriven. Evolution of
the Casuarinaceae: Morphological comparisons of some extant species. American Journal of Botany 77:338‑355.
1990.
Dilcher, D.L. and P. Basson. Mid‑Cretaceous angiosperm leaves from a new fossil locality in
Lebanon. Botanical Gazette151:538‑547.
1990. Dilcher,
D.L. Eocene Lake Messel, edited by J.L. Franzen and W. Michaelis. Geochimica et Cosmochimica 54:2901‑2902.
1990.
Crane, P.R., S.R. Manchester, and D.L. Dilcher. A preliminary survey of fossil
leaves and well‑preserved reproductive structures from the Sentinel Butte
Formation (Paleocene) near Almont, North Dakota. Fieldiana Geology New Series No. 20. pp, 1‑63.
1991.
Schwarzwalder, R. and D.L. Dilcher. Systematic Placement of Platanaceae in the
Hamamelidae. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 78:962‑969.
1991.
Manchester, S.R., P.R. Crane and D.L. Dilcher. Nordenskioldia and
Trochodendron (Trochodendraceae) From the Miocene of Northwestern North
America. Bot. Gaz. 152:357‑368.
1991.
Herendeen, P. S. and D.L. Dilcher. Caesalpinia subgenus Mezoneuron (Leguminosae,
Caesalpinioideae) from the Tertiary of North America. American Journal of Botany 78:1‑12.
1991.
Crane, P.R., S.R. Manchester and D.L. Dilcher. Reproductive and Vegetative
Structure of Nordenskioldia (Trochodendraceae), A Vesselless Dicotyledon From
the Early Tertiary of the Northern Hemisphere. American Journal of Botany 78:1311‑1334.
1991. Dilcher, D.L. The importance of
anatomy and whole plant reconstructions in palaeobotany. Current Science 61:627-629.
1992.
Skog, J.E., D.L. Dilcher and F.W. Potter. A new species of Isoetites from the mid‑Cretaceous Dakota Group of Kansas and
Nebraska. American Fern Journal, 82:151‑161.
1992.
Skog, J.E. and D.L. Dilcher. A new species of Marsilea from
the Dakota Formation in central Kansas. American Journal of Botany 79:982‑988.
1992.
Meitang, M., D.L. Dilcher, and Z.H. Wan. A new seed‑bearing leaf from the
Permian of China. In: B.S. Venkatachala, D.L. Dilcher and H.K. Maheshwari (Eds.),
Essays in Evolutionary Plant Biology. The Palaeobotanist 41:98‑109.
1992.
Herendeen, P.S., W.L. Crepet and D.L. Dilcher. The Fossil History of The
Leguminosae: Phylogenetic and Biogeographic Implications. In:
P.S. Herendeen and D.L. Dilchers (Eds.) Advances in Legume Systematics, Part 4. The
Fossil Record, pp. 303‑316.
1992.
Grote, P.J. and D.L. Dilcher. Fruits and Seeds of Tribe Gordonieae (Theaceae) From the Eocene of North
America. American Journal of Botany 79:744‑753.
1992.
Dilcher, D.L., R.K. Kar and M.E. Dettmann. The Functional Biology of
Devonian Spores with Bifurcate Processes‑‑ a Hypothesis.
In: B.S. Venkatachala, D.L. Dilcher and H.K. Maheshwari (Eds.), Essays in
Evolutionary Plant Biology. The Palaeobotanist 41:67‑74.
1992.
Dilcher, D.L., P.S. Herendeen and F. Hueber. Fossil Acacia flowers with attached anther glands from
Dominican Republic amber. In: P.S. Herendeen and D.L.
Dilcher (Eds.), Advances in Legume Systematics, Part 4. The Fossil Record, pp. 33‑42.
1992.
Dilcher, D.L. and F. Schaarschmidt. Richard Krausel: His life and work.
Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 147:7-18.
1992.
Dilcher, D.L. and M.C. Boulter. The Relevance of Paleobotany in the Modern Context.
International Organisation of Palaeobotany Newsletter 46:5-6.
1992.
Dilcher, D.L. Angiosperms, Paleobotany and Evolution. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
1992.
Call, V.B. and D.L. Dilcher. Investigations of Angiosperms from the Eocene of southeastern North
America: Samaras of Fraxinus wilcoxiana Berry. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 74:249‑266.
1992.
Boulter, M.C. and D.L. Dilcher. The Role of Palaeobotany Through the 1990's.
International Organisation of Palaeobotany Newsletter 46:6-7.
1993.
Call, V.B., S.R. Manchester and D.L. Dilcher. Wetherellia Fruits and Associated Fossil Plant Remains From the
Paleocene/Eocene Tuscahoma‑Hachetigbee Interval, Meridian,
Mississippi. Mississippi Geology 14:10‑18.
1993.
Burgh, J. Van Der, H. Visscher, D.L. Dilcher and W.M. Kurschner. Paleoatmospheric
Signatures in Neogene Fossil Leaves. Science 260:1788‑1790.
1994. Skog, J.E. and D.L. Dilcher. Lower Vascular Plants of the Dakota Formation in Kansas and
Nebraska. Rev. Pal. Pal. 80:1‑18.
1994. Huang, Q.C. and D.L. Dilcher.
Evolutionary and Paleoecological Implications of Fossil Plants From the
Lower Cretaceous Cheyenne Sandstone of the Western Interior. Pgs. 129-144, In: G.W. Shurr, G.A. Ludvigson
and R.H. Hammond, Eds., Perspectives on the Eastern Margin of the Cretaceous Western Interior Basin:
Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Special Paper 287.
1994.
Labandeira, C.C., D.L. Dilcher, D.R. Davis, and D.L. Wagner. Ninety-seven million
years of angiosperm-insect association: Paleobiological insights into the
meaning of coevolution. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 91:12278-12282.
1994.
Call, V.B. and D.L. Dilcher. Parvilequminophyllum
coloradensis, a new combination for Mimosites coloradensis Knowlton, Green River Formation of Utah and Colorado.
Rev. Pal. Pal. 80:305‑310.
1995. Graham, A. and D.L. Dilcher.
The Cenozoic Record of the Tropical Dry Forest in Northern Latin America
and the Southern United States. In: S.H. Bullock, H.A. Mooney and E.
Medina, eds., Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests. pgs 124-145.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
1995. Dilcher, D.L. Plant
Reproductive Strategies: Using the Fossil Record to Unravel Current Issues in
Plant Reproduction. In: P.C. Hoch and A.G. Stephenson, eds., Experimental and Molecular
Approaches to Plant Biosystematics, Monographs in Systematic Botany 53:187-198.
1995. Dilcher,
D.L. Book review: Messel: An Insight into the History of life and the Earth, edited by Stephan Schaal and Willi Ziegler.
Oxford University Press, Oxford. 328p. Rev. Pal. Pal. 89:487-489.
1995.
Call, V.B. and D.L. Dilcher. Fossil Ptelea
samaras (Rutaceae) in North America. American Journal of Botany 82:1069-1073.
1996.
Wagner, F., R. Below, P.D. Klerk, D.L. Dilcher, H. Joosten, W.M.
Kurschner, and V. Visscher. A natural experiment on plant acclimation: Lifetime stomatal frequency response of an
individual tree to annual atmospheric CO2 increase. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 93:11705-11708.
1996.
Visscher, H., H. Brinkhuis, D.L. Dilcher, W.C. Elsik, Y. Eshet, C.V. Looy, M.R. Rampino, and A. Traverse.
The terminal Paleozoic fungal event: Evidence of terrestrial ecosystem destabilization and collapse.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 93:2155-2158.
1996. Sun
Ge and D.L. Dilcher. Early angiosperms from Lower Cretaceous of Jixi, China and their significance for study of the
earliest occurrence of angiosperms in the world. Palaeobotanist 45:393-399.
1996.
Poort, R.J., H. Visscher, and D.L. Dilcher. Zoidogamy in fossil
gymnosperms: The centenary of a concept, with special references to prepollen
of late Paleozoic conifers. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 93:11713-11717.
1996.
Mei, M., Q.C. Huang, M. Du and D.L. Dilcher. The Xu‑Huai‑Yu Subprovince of the
Cathaysian Floral Province. Rev. Pal. Pal. 90:63-77.
1996.
Kürschner,W.M., J. Van der Burgh, H. Visscher and D.L. Dilcher. Oak leaves as
biosensors of late Neogene and early Pleistocene paleoatmospheric CO2
concentrations. Marine Micropaleontology 27:299-312.
1996. Dilcher,
D.L. La importancia del origen de las angiospermas y como formaron el mundo alrededor de ellas.
In: Conferencias VI Congreso Latinoamericano De Botanica, Mar Del Plata - Argentina
1994. Pgs. 29-48. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
1997. Sun Ge and D.L. Dilcher.
Discovery of the oldest known Angiosperm inflorescences in the world from Lower Cretaceous of Jixi,
China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 36:135-142.
1997.
Manchester, S.R. And D.L. Dilcher. Reproductive and vegetative morphology of Polyptera (Juglandaceae) from the
Paleocene of Wyoming and Montana. American Journal of Botany 84:649-663.
1997. Call, V. and D.L. Dilcher.
The fossil record of Eucommia (Eucommiaceae) in North America. American Journal of Botany 84:798-814.
1998.
Wiemann, M. C., S. R. Manchester, D. L. Dilcher, L. F. Hinojosa, and E. A. Wheeler. Estimation of temperature and precipitation from morphological
characters of dicotyledonous leaves. Amer. J. Bot. 85:1796-1802.
1998.
Sun Ge, D. L. Dilcher, S. Zheng, and Z. Zhou. In Search of the first flower: a Jurassic
Angiosperm, Archaefructus, from Northeast China. Science 282:1692-1695.
1998.
Mehrotra, R.C., D.L. Dilcher and N. Awasthi. A Palaeocene Mangifera - like leaf fossil from India.
Phytomorphology 48:91-100.
1998.
Manchester, S.R., D.L. Dilcher and S.L. Wing. Attached leaves and fruits of
myrtaceous affinity from the middle Eocene of Colorado, USA. Rev. Pal. Pal. 102:153-163.
1998.
Lott, T.A., S.R. Manchester, and D.L. Dilcher. A unique and completed
Polemoniaceous plant from the middle Eocene of Utah, USA. Rev. Pal. Pal. 104:39-49.
1998.
Krassilov, V.A., D.L. Dilcher, and J.G. Douglas. New ephedroid plant from the
Lower Cretaceous Koonwarra Fossil Bed, Victoria, Australia.
Alcheringa 22:123-133.
1998. Graham, A. and D. L. Dilcher.
Studies in Neotropical Paleobotany. XII. A palynoflora from the
Pliocene Rio Banano Formation of Costa Rica and the Neogene vegetation of
Mesoamerica. American Journal of Botany 85: 1426‑1438.
1998.
Dilcher, D.L., M. Mei and M. Du. A new winged seed from the Permian of
China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 98:247-256.
1999.
Wagner, F., W.M Kürschner, H. Visscher, S.J.P. Bohncke, D.L. Dilcher, and B. van Geel.
Technical Comments: Early Holocene atmospheric CO2
concentrations, response. Science, 286: 1815a (www.sciencemag.org).
1999.
Wagner, F., S.J.P. Bohncke, D.L. Dilcher, W.M. Kurschner, B. van Geel, and H.
Visscher. Century-scale shifts in early Holocene atmospheric CO2 concentration.
Science 284: 1971-1973.
1999.
Looy, C. V., W. A. Brugman, D. L. Dilcher, and H. Visscher. The delayed resurgence of
equatorial forests after the Permian-Triassic ecologic crisis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 96: 13857-13862.
1999.
Dilcher, D.L. Beauty and the Bees. Natural History Magazine 108:6.
1999. Dilcher,
D.L. Review. Fossil Floras of China through the Geological
Ages. Editor, Li Xingxue. Guangdong Science and Technology Press,
Guangzhou, China. Phytomorphology 49: 477-478..
2000
Kvacek, J., and D. L. Dilcher. Comparison of
Cenomanian floras from western interior North America and Central Europe.
Acta Universitatis Carolinae - Geologica 44: 17-38.
2000. Jaramillo, C.A. and Dilcher, D.L.
Microfloral diversity patterns of the late Paleocene-Eocene interval in
Colombia, northern South America. Geology 28: 815-818.
2000.
Dilcher, D.L. Toward a new synthesis: Major evolutionary trends in the Angiosperm
fossil record. In: Variation and Evolution in Plants and Microorganisms: toward a
new synthesis 50 years after Stebbins. Eds. F.J. Ayala, W.M. Fitch, and M.T. Clegg.
National Academy Press, Washington D.C. Pgs. 255-270.
2000.
Dilcher, D.L. Toward a new synthesis: Major evolutionary trends in the angiosperm fossil record. Proc.
Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 97: 7030-7036.
2000. Dilcher, D.L.
Geological history of the vegetation in Southeast United States. In: Lipscomb, B, J. Pipoly, and R.
Sanders (eds.), Floristics in the New Millennium: Proceedings of the Flora of
the Southeast US Symposium Sida, Bot. Misc. 18: 1-21.
2000.
Barreto, A.M.F., Bernardes-de-Oliveira, M.E.C., Dilcher, D., Mandarim-de-Lacerda, A.F, and Viana, M.S.S.
Early Cretaceous Monocarpelar fruit of the Crato Member, Santana Formation, Araripe Basin, Northeastern Brazil.
Geociências V: 121-124.
2001
Wiemann, M. C., D. L. Dilcher and S. R. Manchester.
Estimation of mean annual temperature from leaf and wood physiognomy. Forest Science 47: 141-149.
2001. Sun Ge, Z. Shaolin, D. L.
Dilcher, W. Yongdong and M. Shengu.
Early angiosperms and their associated plants from Western Liaoning,
China. Shanghai Scientific and
Technological Education Publishing House, Shanghai, 227 pgs.
2001.
Looy, C. V., R. J. Twitchett, D. L. Dilcher, J. H. A. Van Konijnenburg-Van Cittert and H. Visscher.
Life in the end-Permian dead zone. Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences 98: 7879-7883.
2001.
Kurschner, W. M., F. Wagner, D. L. Dilcher, and H. Visscher. Using fossil leaves for
the reconstruction of Cenozoic paleoatmospheric CO2 concentrations.
In: L. C. Gerhard, W. E. Harrison, and B. M. Hanson (eds.), Geological Perspectives
of Global Climate Change, p. 169-189. AAPG Studies in Geology #47, American Association of Petroleum
Geologist, Tulsa.
2001.
Jaramillo, C.A. and D.L. Dilcher. Middle Paleogene palynology of Central
Colombia, South America: A study of pollen and spores from tropical
latitudes. Paleontographica Abt. B 258: 87-213.
2001.
Dilcher, D. L. A new sysnthesis for angiosperm
phylogeny. In: The Advanced Study of Prehistory Life and Geology of Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, China.
Proceedings of the Sino-Germany symposium on prehistory life & goelogy of Junggar Basin, Xinjinag, Urujqi, pgs. 65-75.
2001.
Dilcher, D.L. A geology gem. Review: Geology at Indiana University, 1840-2000. N. G. Lane, 2000. Indiana University, Bloomington.
Indiana Alumni Magazine, January/February 2001, pg. 9.
2001.
Dilcher, D. L. Forensic botany: case studies in the use of
plant anatomy. In: N. S. Rangaswamy (ed), Phytomorphology Golden Jubilee Issue
2001: Trends in Plant Sciences, pg. 181-184. University of Delhi, Delhi, India.
2001.
Dilcher, D. L. Ginkgo. In: Richard Robinson (ed.), Plant Sciences, pg. 179-181.
Macmillan Reference, New York, NY.
2001.
Dilcher, D. L. Paleobotany: some
aspects of non-flowering and flowering plant evolution.
Taxon 50: 697-711.
2002. Waveren, I.M.
van, Konijnenburg-van Cittert, J.H.A. van, Burgh, J. van der, and Dilcher,
D. Macrofloral remains of the Lower
Cretaceous of the Leiva region (Colombia). Scripta Geologica 123: 1-39.
2002. Wang, Q., S.-G.
Hao, D.-M. Wang, and D. L. Dilcher. An anatomically preserved aborescent Lycopsid, Sublepidodendron
songziensei (Sublepidodendraceae), from the Late Devonian of Hubei,
China. American Journal of Botany 89:1468-1477.
2002.
Sun, Ge, Z. Shaolin, S. Chunlin, S. Yuewu, D.
L. Dilcher, and M. Yuvan. 2002. Androecium of Archaefructus, the Late Jurassic angiosperms from Western Liaoning,
China. Journal of Geoscientific Research in Northeast Asia 5: 1-6.
2002.
Sun, Ge, Q. Ji, D. L. Dilcher, S. Zheng, K. C. Nixon, and X. Wang. Archaefructaceae, a new basal angiosperm
family. Science 296: 899-904.
2002
Sun, Ge and D.L. Dilcher. Early angiosperms from the Lower Cretaceous of Jixi, eastern Heilongjiang, China.
Rev. Pal. Pal. 121: 91-112.
2002.
Sun, Ge, M. Akhmetiev, Z. M. Dong, A. R. Ashraf, Y. W. Sun, E. Bugdaeva, D. L. Dilcher, L. Golovneva, I. Harding, K.
Johnson, T. Kezina, T. Kodrul, J. S. Lu, V. Markevich, H. Nishida, H. Okada, S.
O. Park, C. L. Sun, X. Z. Xiong, Y. L. Xing, and Z. L. Zhou.
In search of the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in Heilongjiang River area of China. Jour. Geosci. Res. NE Asia 5: 105-113.
2002.
Kar, R.K. and D.L. Dilcher. An argument for the origin of heterospory in
an aquatic environment. The Palaeobotanist 51: 1-11.
2002.
Dilcher, D. L. Fresh approach to the study of fossil plants:
a review of Evolution of Plants. Trends in Plant Science 7: 326.
2002.
Bernardes-De-Oliveira, M. E., D. L. Dilcher, A. M. F. Barreto, F. Ricardi-Branco, B. Mohr, and M. C. de
Castro-Fernandes. Crato Member taphoflora, Santana Formation, Lower Cretaceous of the Araripe Basin,
Northeastern Brazil: State of the art. Boletim do 6° Simpósio sobre o Cretácio do Brasil/ 2do Simposio
sobre el Cretácico de América del Sur 2002: 61-65.
2003.
Sun, B, D. L. Dilcher, D. J. Beerling, C. Zhang, D. Yan, and E. Kowalski.
Variation in Ginkgo biloba L. leaf characters across a climatic gradient in China.
Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 100: 7141-7146.
2003. Moore, B. R., D.
L. Dilcher, and M. A. Gibson. 2003. Paleoenvironment, depositional setting, and
plant fossil diversity found in the Claiborne Formation, (Middle Eocene) clay
deposits of western Tennessee. Field trip guidebook, joint meeting south-central and southeastern sections
Geological Society of America. State of Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, Division of Geology,
Nashville, Tennessee, pp. 187-198.
2003.
Kowalski, E. A., and D. L. Dilcher. Warmer paleotemperatures for terrestrial ecosytems. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 100:
167-170.
2003. Horn, S. P., R. L
Sanford Jr., D. L. Dilcher, T. A. Lott, P. R. Renne, M. C. Wiemann, D. Cozadd,
and O. Vargas. Pleistocene plant fossils in and near La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica.
Biotropica 35(3): 434-441.
2003. Dilcher, D. L., and Y.
Wang. Review. Rise of the Dragon: Readings from Nature of
the Chinese Fossil Record. J. Paleont. 77: 200.
2003. Dilcher, D. L., and C.
R. Hill. 2003. A heterophyllous fern from the Lower Cretaceous of northern Spain. Cour.
Forsch.-Inst. Senckenberg 242: 111-117.
2003.
Barclay, R. S., K. R. Johnson, W. J. Betterton, and D. L. Dilcher. Stratigraphy and
megaflora of a K-T boundary section in the eastern Denver Basin, Colorado.
Rocky Mountain Geology 38: 45-71.
2004.
Dilcher, D. L., T. A. Lott, X. Wang, and Q. Wang. 2004. A history of tree canopies.
In: M. D. Lowman and H. B. Rinker [eds.], Forest Canopies, 2nd ed.
Elsevier Academic Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pgs. 118-137.
2005.
Wang, Y.-D., G. Guignard, F. Thévenard, D. L. Dilcher, G. Barale, V. Mosbrugger, and S. Mei.
Cuticular anatomy of Sphenobaiera huangii (Ginkgoales) from the Lower Jurassic of Hubei, China.
American Journal of Botany 92(4): 709-721.
2005.
Wang, Q., B. Y. Geng, and D. L. Dilcher. New perspective on the architecture of the
Late Devonian arborescent lycopsid Leptophloeum rhombicum (Leptophloeaceae).
American Journal of Botany, 92: 83-91.
2005.
Wagner, F., D. L. Dilcher, and H. Visscher. Stomatal frequency responses
in a hardwood swamp vegetation from Florida during 60 years continuous CO2
increase. American Journal of Botany 92(4): 690-695.
2005.
Yang, Y., B. Y. Geng, D. L. Dilcher, Z. D. Chen, and T. A. Lott. 2005.
Morphology and affinities of an Early Cretaceous Ephedra (Ephedraceae) from
China. American Journal of Botany, 92: 231-241.
2005.
Royer, D. L., P. Wilf, D. A. Janesko, E. A. Kowalski, and D. L. Dilcher.
Correlations of climate and plant ecology to leaf size and shape:
potential proxies for the fossil record. American Journal of Botany 92(7): 1141-1151.
2005.
Mosbrugger, V., T. Utescher, and D. L. Dilcher. Cenozoic continental evolution
of Central Europe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102: 14964-14969.
2005.
Donders, T.H., F. Wagner, D. L. Dilcher, and H. Visscher. 2005.
Mid-to late-Holocene El Niño-Southern Oscillation dynamics reflecte4d in the subtropical terrestrial realm.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102(31): 10904-10908.
2005.
Dilcher, D. L., T. A. Lott, B. J. Axsmith. 2005. Fossil Plants from the Union Chapel Mine, Alabama. In: Buta,
R. J., Rindsberg, A. K., Kopaska-Merkel, D. C. (eds.), Pennsylvanian Footprints in the Black Warrior Basin of Alabama.
APS Monograph 1, pgs. 153-168.
2005.
Dilcher, D. L., and T. A. Lott. Atlas of Union Chapel Mine Fossil Plants. In: R. J. Buta, A. K.
Rindsberg, and D. C. Kopaska-Merkel (eds.), Pennsylvanian Footprints in the Black Warrior Basin of Alabama.
Alabama Paleontological Society Monograph No. 1, pgs. 339-365.
2005.
Dilcher, D. L., and T. A. Lott. A middle Eocene fossil plant assemblage
(Powers Clay Pit) from western Tennessee. Florida Museum of Natural History Bulletin, 45(1): 1-43.
2005.
Dilcher, D. L., M. E. Bernardes-de-Oliveira, D. Pons, and T. A. Lott. 2005.
Erratum. American Journal of Botany 92 (12): 1957.
2005.
Dilcher, D. L., M. E. Bernardes-de-Oliveira, D. Pons, and T. A. Lott. Welwitschiaceae
Aptian records from the Santana Formation, Araripe Basin, Northeastern region
of Brazil. American Journal of Botany 92: 1294-1310.
2006.
Wang, Q., D. L. Dilcher, X. Y. Zhu, Y. L. Zhou, and T. A. Lott. Fruits and
leaflets of Wisteria (Fabaceae, Papilionoideae) from the Miocene of Shandong Province, Eastern China.
International Journal of Plants Sciences, 167(5): 1061-1074.
2006.
Wang, H., and D. L. Dilcher. 2006. Aquatic Angiosperms from the Dakota Formation (Albian, Lower
Cretaceous), Hoisington III Locality, Kansas, USA. International Journal of
Plant Science 167 (2): 385-401.
2006. Wang, H., and D. L.
Dilcher. Early Cretaceous angiosperm leaves from the Dakota Formation, Braun Ranch locality, Kansas, USA.
Palaeontographica Abt. B. 273: 101-137.
2006.
Jarzen, D. M., and D. L. Dilcher. Middle Eocene terrestrial palynomorphs from
the Dolime Minerals and Gulf Hammock Quarries, Florida. Palynology 30: 89-110.
2006.
Hu, S., D. L. Dilcher, H. Schneider, and D.
Jarzen. Eusporangiate ferns from the Dakota
Formation, Minnesota, USA. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 167:
579-589.
2006.
Gerrienne, P., D.L. Dilcher, S. Bergamaschi, I. Milagres, E. Pereira, M. Antonieta, and. C. Rodrigues.
An exceptional specimen of the early plant Cooksonia paranensis, and a hypothesis
on the life cycle of earliest Eutracheophytes. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 142:123-130
2006.
Fanton, J. C. M., F. Ricardi-Branco, D. L. Dilcher, and M. Bernardes-de-Oliveira.
Iara Iguassu, a new taxon of aquatic angiosperm from the Crato palaeoflora (Lower Cretaceous,
Santana Formation, Araripe Basin, northeastern Brazil). Geociencias 25(2):
211-216.
2006.
Fanton, J. C. M., F. Ricardi-Branco, D. L. Dilcher, and M.
Bernardes-de-Oliveira. New gymnosperm related with Gnetales from the
Crato palaeoflora (Lower Cretaceous, Santana Formation, Araripe Basin,
northeastern Brazil): preliminary study. style='mso-ansi-language:
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2006. Dilcher, D. L., V.
Wilder, and Ge Sun. 2006.
Eine frühe Blüten-pflanze aus China bei
Senckenberg. Natur und Museum 136 (9/10): 220-221.
2007.
Wang, Q., D. L. Dilcher, and T. A. Lott.
Podocarpium A. Braun ex Stizenberger 1851 from the middle Miocene of Eastern
China, and its paleoecology and biogeography. Acta Palaeobotanica 47(1):
237-251.
2007.
Wagner, F., H. Visscher, W. M. Kurschner and
D. L. Dilcher. 2007. Influence of ontogeny and atmospheric CO2 on stomata
parameters of Osmunda regalis.
In: Jarzen, D. M., Steven, R.,
Retallack, G. J. and Jarzen, S. A. (eds.), Advances in Angiosperm Paleobotany
and Paleoclimatic Reconstruction, Contributions Honouring David L. Dilcher and
Jack A. Wolfe, Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Stuttgart, pgs. 183-189.
2007.
Uhl, D., S. Klotz, C. Traiser, C. Thiel, T.
Utescher, E. Kowalski, and D. L. Dilcher.
Cenozoic paleotemperatures and leaf physiognomy – A European
perspective. Palaeogeography,
Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 248: 24-31.
2007.
Sun, C., D. L Dilcher, H. Wang, G.
Sun and Y. Ge. 2007. New epidermal material of the two subgenera of Czekanowskia from the Jurassic of Inner
Mongolia, China. In: Sun, G., Mosbrugger, V., Sun, Y. W. and Bruch, A. (eds.),
Proceedings of the International Symposium for Sino-German Cooperation on
Geology and Environmental Changes in Northern China, September 1-7, 2007,
Urumqi, China, pgs. 19-22.
2007.
Sun, G., M. A. Akhmetiev, L. Golovneva, E. Bugdaeva, C. Quan, T. M. Kodrul, H. Nishida, Y.
Sun, C. Sun, K. Johnson and D. Dilcher. 2007. Late Cretaceous plants from
Jiayin along Heilongjiang River, Northeast China. In: Jarzen, D. M., Steven, R.,
Retallack, G. J. and Jarzen, S. A.
(eds.), Advances in Angiosperm Paleobotany and Paleoclimatic Reconstruction,
Contributions Honouring David L. Dilcher and Jack A. Wolfe, Courier
Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Stuttgart, pgs. 75-84.
2007.
Steadman, D. W., R. Franz, G. S. Morgan, N. A. Albury, B. Kakuk, K.
Broad, S. E. Franz, K. Tinker, M. P. Pateman, T. A. Lott, D. M. Jarzen and D.
L. Dilcher. Exceptionally well preserved late Quaternary plant and vertebrate
fossils from a blue hole on Abaco, The Bahamas. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences 104: 19897-19902.
2007.
Schmidt, A. R. and D. L. Dilcher. 2007.
Aquatic organisms as amber inclusions and examples from a modern swamp forest.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104 (42): 16581-16585.
2007.
Manos, P., P. S. Soltis, D. E. Soltis, S. R. Manchester, S. H. Oh, C. Bell, D. L. Dilcher, and D. E. Stone.
Phylogeny of extant and fossil Juglandaceae inferred from the integration of molecular and morphological data sets.
Systematic Biology 56(3): 412-430.
2007.
Fanton, J. C. M., F. S. Ricardi-Branco, D. L. Dilcher, A. C. de Arruda
Campos and S. A. S. Tavares. Macrofossil of Caytoniales from the Crato
Formation, Lower Cretaceous, Araripe Basin, Northeastern Brazil: a preliminary
report. In: Carvalho, I. de S., Cassab, R. de C. T., Schwanke, C., Carvalho, M. de
Araujo, Fernandes, A. C. S., Rodrigues, M. A. da C., Carvalho, M. S. S. de and
Oliveira, M. E. Q. (eds.), Paleontologia: Cenarios de Vida Volume 1, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, pgs. 177-188.
2007.
Dilcher, D. L., G. Sun, Q. Ji, and H. Li. An early inflorescence Hyrcantha decussata
(comb. nov.) from the Yixian Formation of northeastern China. Proceedings of the National Academy
of Sciences 104(22): 9370-9374.
2007. Dilcher, D.
Professor Xingxue Li’s importance in my life. In: Paleobotanical Committee of
Paleontological Society of China (ed.), Deep-rooted and Flourishing, A Devoted
Life to Paleobotany and Geology, Jilin University Press, Jilin, China, pgs.
17-18.
2007
Barclay, R., J. McElwain, D. Dilcher and B. Sageman. 2007. The cuticle database: developing
an interactive tool for taxonomic and paleoenvironmental study of the fossil
cuticle record. In: Jarzen, D. M.,
Steven, R., Retallack, G. J. and Jarzen, S. A. (eds.), Advances in Angiosperm
Paleobotany and Paleoclimatic Reconstruction, Contributions Honouring David L.
Dilcher and Jack A. Wolfe, Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Stuttgart,
pgs. 39-56.
2008.
Zhu, X.-Y., M. W. Chase, Y.-L. Qiu, H.-Z.
Kong, D. L. Dilcher, J.-H. Li and Z.-D. Chen. 2007. Mitochondrial
matR sequences help to resolve deep
phylogenetic relationships in rosids. BMC Evolutionary Biology 7:217.
2008.
Kurschner, W. M., Z. Kvacek and D. L.
Dilcher. The impact of Miocene atmospheric carbon dioxide fluctuations on
climate and the evolution of terrestrial ecosytems. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences 105 (2): 449-453.
2008 Jarzen, D. M., and D. L. Dilcher. Report on a
palynological assessment of the Holocene mangrove vegetation at the American
Memorial Park, Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. In:
Williams, J., Starmer, J., Jarzen, D., and Dilcher, D. (eds.),
Ecological Assessment of the Mangrove Habitat in the American Memorial Park,
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. PMRI Survey Report 2007-2. Pgs. 40-62.
2008. Hu, S., D. L.
Dilcher, D. M. Jarzen and D. W. Taylor. Early steps of angiosperm-pollinator
coevolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (1): 240-245.
In Press. Kowalski, E. and D. L. Dilcher. Paleobotany. In: Garnitz, V. (ed.),
Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments. Springer.
In Press. Sun, C., D. L. Dilcher, H. Wang, G. Sun and Y. Ge. A Study of Ginkgo
leaves from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China. International Journal of Sciences.
In Press. Wang, H. and D. L. Dilcher. Late Cretaceous Angiosperm Leaves from the
Courtland Clay Pit, Minnesota, USA. Palaeontographica.
In Press. Hu, S., D. M. Jarzen and D. L. Dilcher. New species of angiosperm pollen
from the Dakota Formation (Cenomanian, Upper Cretaceous) of Minnesota, U.S.A. Palynology
Submitted. Herrea, F., C. A. Jaramillo, D. L. Dilcher, S. L. Wing, and C. Gomez-N.
Fossil Araceae from a Paleocene Neotropical Rainforest in Colombia. American
Journal of Botany.
Submitted. Dilcher, D. L. Fossil plants from the Coon Creek Formation of Tennessee.
Coon Creek Bulletin.
Submitted. Zhou, Z., S. R. Manchester, D. L. Dilcher, and H. Wang. Fagaceous leaves
from the Upper Cretaceous of Missouri and Tennessee, USA. Rev. Pal. Pal.
Submitted Mehrotra, R.C., D. L. Dilcher and T. A. Lott. Notes on fossils from the Makum
Coalfield, Assam, Inida. The Palaeobotanist.
Submitted Wang, X., and D. L. Dilcher, T. A. Lott, and Y. Li. Parapodocarpus gen.
nov. and its implications for interpreting the ovulate organ in Podocarpaceae. Geophytology
Submitted Utescher, T., V. Mosbrugger, D. Ivanov, and D. L. Dilcher. Present day climatic
equivalents of European Cenozoic climates. Systems for Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
In Prep. Martin-Closas, C. and D. L. Dilcher. Unusual preservation of Charophyte
fructifications as casts in the uppermost Albian of Rose Creek, Nebraska, Unites States.
In Prep. Kuerschner, W. M., Z. Kvacek, and D. L. Dilcher. Major Miocene atmospheric
Carbon Dioxide fluctuations influenced climate and the evolution of terrestrial ecosystems.
Science.
In Prep. Wang, X., and D. L. Dilcher. Hundred Million-Year-Old Cytoplasmic membrane.
In Prep. Wang, Q., and D. L. Dilcher. Fruits and leaflets of Puerarua (kudzu) from
the Miocene of eastern China: condiderations of systematics, paleoecology and biogeography.
American Journal of Botany.
In Prep. Sucerquia, P. A., M. E. Bernardes-de-Oliveira, D. L. Dilcher, M. C. Castro-Fernandes,
A. M. F. Sales, and D. Pons. Detached gymnospermous foliar organs from Crato Member,
Santana Formation, Late Aptian of the Araripe Basin.
In Prep. Sawangchote, P., P. J. Grote, and D. L. Dilcher. Marginal venation pattern (MVP)
in angiosperm leaves; a refinement of current systems of leaf architectural analysis.
Botanical Review.
In Prep. Sawangchote, P., P. J. Grote, and D. L. Dilcher. Tertiary leaf fossils of Mangifera
and Semecarpus from Li Basin, Thailand.
In Prep. Ren, D., C. Labandeira, C. -K. Loudon, C. Hotton, and D. L. Dilcher. Mesozoic
pollination strategies before Angiosperms: long-proboscid scorpionflies nectaring on gymnospermous
host plants.
In Prep. Popa, M. E., and D. L. Dilcher. Conifers of the Dakota Formation.
In Prep. Lott, T. A., D. L. Dilcher, S. P. Horn, O. Vargas, and R. L. Sanford Jr. Pleistocene flora
of Rio Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica. Review of Paleobotany and Palynology.
In Prep. Leme, E. M. C., G. K. Brown, D. L. Dilcher, M. E. C. Bernardes-de-Oliveira, J. A. Siqueira,
and A. M. F. Sales. Protanaceae, a new fossil monocot family from the Lower Cretaceous, Santana
Formation, northeastern Brazil.
In Prep. Labandeira, C., and D. L. Dilcher. Associations of insects on early Angiosperm plants
from the Dakota Formation (Early Cenomanian, western United States).
In Prep. Labandeira, C., J. A. Anderson, and D. L. Dilcher. The early history of leaf mining on
gymnospermous and angiospermous floras.
In Prep. Dilcher, D. L., and H. Wang. A Mississippi Embayment plant community before the
catastrophy - Maastrichtian Angiosperm leaf megafossils from Western Tennessee, USA
In Prep. Dilcher, D. L., E. A. Kowalski, M. C. Wiemann, L. F. Hinojosa, and T. A. Lott. A
climatic and taxonomic comparison between leaf litter and standing vegetation from a Florida
swamp woodland. AJB.
In Prep. Dilcher, D. L., M. A. Gibson, T. A. Lott, and C. Dudley. A caesalpinoid flower from the
Eocene of Tennessee. AJB.
In Prep. DeVore, M. L., K. B. Pigg, D. L. Dicher, and D. Freile. Catahoulea gen. et sp.
nov.: fagaceous involucres from the Oligocene Catahoula Formation, central Texas and middle
Eocene Claiborne Formation of Tennessee.
In Prep Bernardes-de-Oliveira, M. E. C., D. L. Dilcher, P. A. Sucerquia R., and M. C. de Castro-Fernandes.
Spiny fruit from the Santana Formation, Crato Member, Upper Aptian from Brazil.
Numerous Published Abstracts of Papers Presented at Professional
Meetings:
Served on the Following Committees
at Indiana University:
Curriculum Committee-Division of Biological Sciences
Equipment Committee--Division of Biological Sciences
Undergraduate Education Policy Committee--Division of Biological Sciences
Committee on Graduate Education--Department of Plant Sciences
Graduate Admissions Committee-Department of Plant Sciences
Introductory Biology Course Committee--Division of Biological Sciences
Search Committees for new faculty--Department of Plant Sciences and
Division of Biological Sciences
University Experimental Curriculum Committee--College of Arts and
Sciences Science
Advisory Committee--Indiana University
Faculty Fellowships--Indiana University
Degree Requirement Committee--College of Arts and Sciences, 3 years,
responsible for writing the entire Arts and Sciences degree requirements
Search and Screen Committee for chairman of the new Department of
Biology -- Arts and Sciences (1976)
Bloomington Faculty Council, Bloomington Faculty Council Nomination
Committee
Overseas Conference Fund Committee
Bloomington Campus Planning Committee
Research and Graduate Development (and subcommittee Chairman for the
Research Incentive Program)
Graduate School Fellowships Committee
Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of Biology, Ecology and
Evolutionary
Biology Program (also, the Plant Science Program) Search ] for new
chairman, Biology Department (1979)
Capital Priorities Committee (1979-80)
Research ranks review committee, Dean of Faculties office (1981 )
Promotions and Tenure Committee, Biology Department (1981-82)
Campus Remodeling and Space Committee (1979-80)
Arts and Sciences Nominating Committee
Chairman's Advisory Committee (1983-86)
University Arboretum Planning Committee (1982-84; Latin American Exchange
Committee (1987-)
East Asian Exchange Committee (1987-)
Arts and Sciences Nominating Committee
Chairman's Advisory Committee (1983-86)
University Arboretum Planning Committee (1982-84)
Latin American Exchange Committee (1987-)
East Asian Exchange Committee (1987-)
Participated at Indiana University in Various Programs:
Professional Activities:
Chairman, 1974, Paleobotanical Section of the Botanical Society
of America
Secretary-Treasurer, 1975-77, Paleobot. Sect. of the Botanical Society
of America
North American Representative, 1975-81, International Organization
of Paleobotany (IOP)1976
Representative of the Paleobotanical Section of the Botanical Society
of America for planning the North American Paleontological Convention
11 and 111, 1977
National Science Foundation, Panel member for Systematic Biology Program,
1977-79
President, 1977-80, International Association of Angiosperm Paleobotany
Geological Society of America Committee on Collections and Collecting,
1978-79
Representative to A.J.B., Editorial Board, 1978-79, Paleobotanical
Section of the Botanical Society of America
Conservation Committee of the Botanical Society of America, 1978-81
(Chairman of this committee, 1981 and 1982)
Botanical Society of America Committee to study the future of the
Plant Science Bulletin,1979
Member of Special Advisory Committee of Botanical Society of America,
1982
National Science Foundation, panel member for selecting NATO postdoctoral
fellows,1982
Program Director (elected Position) of the Botanical Society of America,
1982-84
Executive Board, Botanical Society of America, 1982-84,1985-
President-Elect, Sigma Xi, Indiana Chapter, 1984-85
Chairman, Membership Committee of Sigma Xi, Indiana Chapter, 1984-85
Secretary of the Botanical Society of America (elected position),
1985-88
President, Sigma Xi, Indiana Chapter, 1985-86
Vice-President, International Organization of Paleobotany, 1987-90
Panelist, NSF Graduate Fellowship Program Competition, 1987-88
President-elect, Botanical Society of America, 1988-89
President, Botanical Society of America, 1989-90
Past President, Botanical Society of America, 1990-1991
Executive Board Member, Marine Continuum Foundation, 1992-
Editorial Positions held:
Member of Editorial Board, Botanical Society of America, 1981
Elected to the Editorial Board of American Journal of Botany, 1981-
Member of Editorial Board, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology,
1985
Member of Editorial Board, Evolutionary Trends in Plants, 1986
Member, Columbia University Press Advisory Committee for Paleontology,
1990
Special Recognition:
Published research photograph selected for special exhibit entitled
"Art in Science" shown at Univ. of California Berkeley (1965)
and Institute of History and Art, Albany, New York (1964). Also used
by Gyorgy Kepes, painter and professor of visual design at MIT.
Science year Book 1976, page 253, our paper published in Science 1974
on ancient flower types was cited as one of the most outstanding advances
of Botany in 1974.
1963-64, Cullman University Fellowship, Yale University
1964-65, National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Senckenberg
Museum, Germany
1972-73, Guggenheim Fellowship
1977, Audubon Award for environmental work
1980, Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow, Adelaide University
1981, Elected Fellow of the Indiana Academy of Science
1982, Elected Fellow of the Linnean Society of London
1986, Selected as a Visiting Scholar by The Committee on Scholarly
Exchange to The People's Republic of China, National Academy of Science
1987-88, Guggenheim Fellow
1987- Listed in various Who's Who
1987-88, Sonneborn Award, Indiana University for combining both Distinguished
Teaching and Research
1989, Elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences
1990, Named Corresponding Member of the Senckenberg Museum of Natural
History, Frankfurt, Germany
Courses Initiated and taught (in addition
to those listed above):
L203 Evolution and Diversity of Life (70-120 students a semester)
L550 Approaches to College Teaching
B535 Special Topics in Evolution and Paleobotany
B424 Paleobotany Laboratory
B415 Phytogeography
B525 Paleobotany and Phytogeography Seminar
J359 Studies of the Human Environment
L433 Tropical Biology
L111 Evolution and Diversity, Introductory Biology (250-300 students
each semester)
B433 Tropical Biology
Courses Taught:
B101 Introductory Botany (200-350 students a semester)
L100 Introductory Biology (300-350 students a semester)
B423 Paleobotany (22-35 students a semester)
Ph.D. Dissertations Completed Under My Direction:
1972 A Study of the Myricaceae from Eocene sediments of southeastern
north America, by Mary Sheffy. The complete manuscript of this dissertation
was published in Palaeontographica Abt. B, 146:88-153, 1974. (Ph.D.
Botany)
1974 Studies in the Apocynaceae, Part 1: an established analysis of
Apocynophylum mississippiensis, by Gary F. Dolph. The complete manuscript
of this dissertation was published in Palaeontographica Abt. B, 1
51 :1 -51 ,1 975. (Ph.D. Botany)
1975 Investigations of angiosperms from the Eocene of southeastern
North America: pollen assemblages from Miller pit, Henry County, Tennessee,
by Frank W. Potter, Jr. The complete manuscript of this dissertation
was published in Palaeontographica Abt. B, 157:44-96, 1976. (Ph.D.
Biology)
1979 The Paleobotany and Paleoecology of the unnamed shale overlying
the Danville Coal member (Vll) in Sullivan County, Indiana, by Raymond
N. Pfeiffer. (Ph.D. Geology)
1981 Epidermal studies in the Annonaceae and related families, by
John L. Roth Jr.(Ph.D. Biology)
1981 Fossil history of the Juglandaceae, by Steven R. Manchester.
(Ph.D. Biology)
1987 Manchester, S.R. Fossil history of the Juglandaceae. Ann. Mo.
Bot. Gd. Monographs.1-137.
1984 Leaf architectural and cuticular analysis of extant Fagaceae
and "Fagaceous" leaves from the Paleocene of southeastern
North America, by Jay Jones, pp. 1-328. (Ph.D. Biology)
1988 Jones, J.H. and D.L. Dilcher. A study of the "Dryophyllum"
leaf forms from the Paleocene of southeastern North America. Palaeontographica,
Bd. B 208:53-80.
1986 Systematics and early evolution of the Platanaceae, by Robert
N. Schwarzwalder, pp. 1-198. (Ph.D. Biology)
1987 Dispersed plant remains from the Cenomanian of Kansas: systematic
and paleoecologic approaches, by Warren L. Kovach (Ph. D. Biology).
1988 Kovach, W.L. and D.L. Dilcher. Megaspores and other dispersed
plant remains from the Dakota Formation (Cenomanian) of Kansas. Palynology
12:89-119.
1989 Selected fruits and seeds from the Middle Eocene Claiborne Formation
of southeastern North America, by Paul J. Grote pp. 1-233. (Ph. D.
Biology)
1990 Fossil History of the Leguminosae from the southeastern North
America, by Patrick S, Herendeen pp. 1- 282. (Ph. D. Biology)
2002 Angiosperm leaf megafossil from the Dakota Formation (Cenomanian,
Cretaceous), Western Interior, USA by Hongshan Wang pp. 1-399. (Ph.
D. in Geology)
Two Ph.D. students are currently working under my direction.
M.S. Thesis Completed Under My Direction:
1980 Fossil mimosoid leaflets from the Middle Eocene (Claiborne
Formation), Graves County, Kentucky, by Paula Weiss. (M.S. Geology)
1982 An assessment of the correlation between miospore and depositional
environments of the Dakota Formation (Cretaceous), north-central Kansas
and adjacent Nebraska, by Martin B. Farley. (M.S. Geology)
1983 Taxonomic considerations in the Nyssaceae with emphasis on Nyssa,
by William D. Macklin. (M.A. Biology)
1989 The Cheyenne Sandstone and Cheyenne Flora of the Upper Lower
Cretaceous (Albian) from southwestern Kansas, by Qiangsheng C. Huang
(M.S. Geology).
1989 General geology and floristic survey of the Warman Clay Pit,
Weakley County, Tennessee by Zhenbo Sun (M.S. Geology).
Masters Degree Students in Biology:
Julie Van Horn; Charles D. Beeker; Paul Irwin; Neil Lambert; William
Macklin
Postdoctoral Fellows Who Have Been Associated
With My Research Laboratory:
William L. Crepet, 1973-75; Gregory Retallack, 1978-81; James Basinger,
1979-80; Peter Crane, 1981-82; Michael Zavada, 1982-84; Garland Upchurch,
1983-84; Steven Manchester 1981- 1990 (Curator of I.U. Fossil Plant
Collection); Karl Longstreth 1978-81 (Curator of I.U. Fossil Plant
Collection); Elizabeth Kowalski 2000-2001; Hongshan Wang 2002-2003.
