Abstracts received so far:

1. Acer section Palmata in the leaf fossil record. - MCCLAIN, AMY M.
2. Anatomy of the ovulate cupules of Umkomasia (Corystospermales) from the Triassic of Antarctica. - KLAVINS, SHARON D.*, EDITH L. TAYLOR, AND THOMAS N. TAYLOR.
3. Angiosperm fruits and seeds from the Eocene of Vancouver Island. - LITTLE, STEFAN A.*, RUTH A. STOCKEY, AND GRAHAM BEARD.
4. Ascomycetes in the Rhynie chert. - TAYLOR, THOMAS*, HAGEN HASS, HANS KERP, AND MICHAEL KRINGS.
5. Assessing the earliest putative land plant remains - Cambrian cryptospores. - TAYLOR, WILSON A.
6. Coastal Vegetation from the Middle Eocene of San Diego, California. - MYERS, JEFFREY.
7. Cretaceous Atlantic Coastal Plain "ericoid" complex, A. - CREPET, WILLIAM L.*, KEVIN C. NIXON, AND MARIA A. GANDOLFO.
8. Cuticular features in Late Cretaceous floras from northwestern New Mexico. - BOUCHER, LISA D.
9. Development and architecture of a gondwanan representative of the late Devonian genus Pietzschia (Cladoxylopsida). - SORIA, AUDE*, BRIGITTE MEYER-BERTHAUD, AND STEPHEN E. SCHECKLER.
10. Evidence for compound pollen cones in Paleozoic conifers. - HERNANDEZ-CASTILLO, GENARO*, GAR ROTHWELL, AND GENE MAPES.
11. Evidence for dry climate at the Eocene Mahenge site, north-central Tanzania. - JACOBS, BONNIE F.* AND PATRICK S. HERENDEEN.
12. Evolution of leaves and leaf development in the Paleozoic, The. - BOYCE, C. KEVIN.
13. Evolution of tracheids and lignification in early land plants, The. - BOYCE, C. KEVIN*, ANDREW H. KNOLL, GEORGE D. CODY, MARILYN L. FOGEL, AND ROBERT M. HAZEN.
14. Exploring the cladistic relationships of sphenopsids. - TOMESCU, ALEXANDRU MIHAIL FLORIAN* AND GAR W. ROTHWELL.
15. Fagaceous infructescences from the Oligocene Catahoula Formation of Texas. - PIGG, K. B.*, M. L. DEVORE, D. L. DILCHER, AND D. FREILE.
16. Fossil Corylopsis and other Hamamelidaceae-like leaves from the middle Eocene flora of Republic, Washington, USA. - RADTKE, MEGHAN G.*, KATHLEEN B. PIGG, AND WESLEY WEHR.
17. Fossil flowers with possible nymphaealean affinities. - GANDOLFO, MARIA A.*, KEVIN C. NIXON, AND WILLIAM L. CREPET.
18. Fossil fungi from the Miocene of Idaho. - PHIPPS, CARLIE J.*, THOMAS N. TAYLOR, EDITH L. TAYLOR, AND WILLIAM C. REMBER.
19. Fossil legumes from the Eocene of Tanzania. - HERENDEEN, PATRICK S.* AND BONNIE FINE JACOBS.
20. Further investigations of Keratosperma allenbyensis (Araceae) from the Middle Eocene Princeton chert (Allenby Formation) of British Columbia. - SMITH, SELENA Y.* AND RUTH A. STOCKEY.
21. Hamamelidaceous infructescences from the Late Paleocene Almont, North Dakota flora. - HENRY, APRIL M.* AND KATHLEEN B. PIGG.
22. Integrating fossil and molecular data on the age of angiosperms: effects of fossil age constraints and rate smoothing methods. - DOYLE, JAMES A.*, MICHAEL J. SANDERSON, AND SUSANA MAGALLON.
23. Is this a willow leaf? - A review of diagnostic traits in modern Salix (Salicaceae) for use in fossil identification. - BUECHLER, WALTER K.* AND GEORGE W. ARGUS.
24. Leaves and fruits of Davidia (Cornales) from the Paleocene of North America. - MANCHESTER, STEVEN R.
25. McAbee Flora and its Relation to the Proposed Middle Eocene “Okanogan Highlands” flora of the Pacific Northwest, The. - DILLHOFF, RICHARD M.*, ESTELLA B. LEOPOLD, AND STEVEN R. MANCHESTER.
26. Megaspore and fern mesofossil floras from the Aptian-Santonian (Cretaceous) of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains. - LUPIA, RICHARD.
27. Morphometric method for parataxa delimitation in Quercus of the Neogene, A. - ARENS, N.C.*, A. THOMPSON, L. CHENG, A. FRUMES, J. HSU, J. LEE, AND S. NOSRATINIA.
28. New intepretations of the enigmatic Paleozoic plants Spermopteris and Phasmatocycas. - AXSMITH, BRIAN J*, RUDOLPH SERBET, MICHAEL KRINGS, THOMAS N TAYLOR, AND EDITH L TAYLOR.
29. New species of Pinus, Subgenus Pinus, Subsection Contortae based on fossil cones from Ch'ijee's Bluff, Yukon Territory, Canada, A. - MCKOWN, ATHENA D.*, RUTH A. STOCKEY, AND CHARLES E. SCHWEGER.
30. Novel climate-independent method for estimating paleo-elevation from fossil plants, A. - MCELWAIN, JENNIFER C.
31. Origins of Fagaceae: a review of relevant Turonian fossil material from New Jersey. - NIXON, KEVIN C.*, MARIA A. GANDOLFO, AND WILLIAM L. CREPET.
32. Ovulate Williamsonia cone from the Upper Cretaceous of western North America, An. - STOCKEY, RUTH* AND GAR W. ROTHWELL.
33. Papilionoid legume fruits and leaves from the Paleocene of northwestern Wyoming. - HERENDEEN, PATRICK S.* AND SCOTT WING.
34. Permineralized cycad seeds from the Jurassic of British Columbia, Canada. - STOCKEY, RUTH* AND GAR W. ROTHWELL.
35. Permineralized fruit with malvalean affinities from the Late Paleocene Almont Flora, North Dakota. - DEVORE, MELANIE L.*, KATHLEEN B. PIGG, AND STEPHEN J. MOUTON.
36. Permineralized Nyssa (Cornaceae) and additional endocarps of uncertain affinity from the middle Miocene Yakima Canyon flora, Washington State, USA. - TCHEREPOVA, MARIA* AND KATHLEEN B. PIGG.
37. Review of the middle Miocene Mahonias of western North America and a key to their species, A. - FIELDS, PATRICK F.
38. Secondary phloem of the Late Devonian progymnosperm tree Archaeopteris. - SCHECKLER, STEPHEN E.*, BRIGITTE MEYER-BERTHAUD, AND JEAN GALTIER.
39. Spores from within the late Devonian Lycopsid cones of Ohio, U.S.A. and from the matrix around the cones. - CHITALEY, SHYA* AND WILMER STOWE.
40. Systematic analysis of fossil fruits placed in the eurosid II clade. - SMITH, UNA R.
41. Systematic characters of ovulate Cycadeoidea/Bennettites cones from the Cretaceous of Vancouver and Hornby Islands, British Columbia, Canada. - ROTHWELL, GAR W.* AND RUTH STOCKEY.
42. Taxodiaceous conifers from the middle Miocene Yakima Canyon flora, Washington State, USA. - HANSEN, AMANDA, L.* AND KATHLEEN, B. PIGG.
43. Taxodiaceous pollen cones from the Eocene of British, Columbia, Canada. - HERNANDEZ-CASTILLO, GENARO* AND RUTH A. STOCKEY.
44. Tempskya sp. from Neuquén, Argentina, the first Tempskya species reported from the Southern Hemisphere. - TIDWELL, WILLIAM D.*, LEITH S. TIDWELL, WALT WRIGHT, AND ULRICH DERNBACH.
45. Tertiary floras of Northern Thailand: charcoalified conifer wood. - GROTE, PAUL J.*, CHONGPAN CHONGLAKMANI, AND PRAMOOK BENYASUTA.
46. Upper Mississippian ovules with characteristics of two unique morphogenera: Stephanospermum and Rhynchosperma. - DUNN, MICHAEL T.*, GAR W. ROTHWELL, AND GENE MAPES.
47. Upper Paleozoic Floras of New Mexico. - KNAUS, M. JANE* AND SPENCER G. LUCAS.
48. Upper Triassic megafossil plant biostratigraphy, Chinle Group, western United States. - LUCAS, SPENCER G.