The Field At The 11Th International Organization Of Paleobotany Meeting

In addition, Research Scientist Matthew Nelsen, co-chaired a symposium with Christine Strullu-Derrien (Natural History Museum, London) entitled “Glimpses of the evolution of Fungi.” He spoke about work he has done, together with various FM staff (curators H. Thorsten Lumbsch and Rick Ree, and postdoc Mike D’Antonio) and current or former FM affiliates (C. Kevin Boyce, Stanford University and Robert Lücking, Berlin Botanical Garden), to better understand how the ecological roles of lichens have varied over geological timescales. Paleobotany presentations included: -        “The La Paja Flora from Colombia: An Early Cretaceous heyday of low-latitude gymnosperms” (Blomenkemper, Herrera, et al.)-        “Investigations of late Paleozoic plant fossil concretions, casts, and permineralizations using computed tomography” (D'Antonio, Crane, Herrera et al.)-        “Neotropical Floras from the Early Cretaceous of northwestern Gondwana (Colombia, Ecuador)” (Blomenkemper, Herrera, et al.)-        “The enigmatic ovulate reproductive structures of Dordrechtites are recurved cupules fundamentally comparable to the cupules of Doylea and similar plants” (Crane, Herendeen, Herrera, et al.)-        “New Miocene fruits from Panama and Peru provide insights into the evolutionary history of Cocoseae palms” (Herendeen, Herrera, et al.)-        “A new silicified peat from the Early Cretaceous of northeastern China” (Shi, Herrera, Herendeen, and Crane)-        Dong C., G. Shi, F. Herrera, Y. Wang, P. S. Herendeen, P. Crane. 2024. Diversity of Taxaceae in Northeastern China during Middle-Late Juras  sic” (Herrera, Herendeen, Crane, et al.)-        “The ecological diversification of lichen-forming fungi in terrestrial ecosystems” (Nelsen).

July 26. 2024