Abstracts received so far:

1. AXSMITH, BRIAN J.*, MICHAEL KRINGS, AND THOMAS N. TAYLOR. - A filmy fern from the Upper Triassic of North Carolina.
2. BARKSDALE, LISA. - Utilization of amateurs in the development of the Stonerose Museum fossil collection. [Poster]
3. BORGARDT, SANDRA J.*, KEVIN C. NIXON, AND WILLIAM L. CREPET. - A Turonian inflorescence bearing perigynous flowers of a lower rosid affinity.
4. BUECHLER, WALTER K. - Estimating polyploidy levels from cell size in Salix leaves. [Poster]
5. COOPER, ERIN E.* AND JEFFREY A. MYERS. - Paleoclimate of the middle Eocene John Day Gulch Flora, central Oregon.
6. CROSS, AUREAL T.* AND MYUNG SUK YI. - K-T boundary hiatus, Wasatch Plateau environs, Utah, U.S.A.
7. DILCHER, DAVID L.*, ANA FLORA MANDARIM-DE-LACERDA, ALCINA M.F. BARRETO, AND MARY E.C. BERNARDES-DE-OLIVEIRA. - Selected fossils from the Santana Formation, Chapada do Araripe, Brazil.
8. DOYLE, JAMES A. - Congruence of molecular phylogenies and the Early Cretaceous angiosperm record.
9. DUNN, MICHAEL T. - A new species of Pachytesta from the Upper Pennsylvanian Finis Shale of Texas.
10. ERWIN, DIANE M.* AND HOWARD E. SCHORN. - FLORISTIC REVISION OF THE EOCENE THUNDER MOUNTAIN MEGAFLORA OF IDAHO.
11. FIELDS, PATRICK F.* AND RALPH E. TAGGART. - Neogene western North American Nelumbo, Nuphar, and Nymphaea megafossils.
12. FREILE, DEBORAH* AND MELANIE DEVORE. - Utility of petrographic thin section analysis of fossil plant material and associated sediments in taphonomic studies: An example from the Oligocene of Texas. [Poster]
13. HERMSEN, ELIZABETH J.*, WILLIAM L. CREPET, AND KEVIN C. NIXON. - A new fossil saxifragoid from the Upper Cretaceous of New Jersey.
14. HERNANDEZ-CASTILLO, GENARO RODRIGO. - Use of multivariate analysis in reconstructing fossil conifers.
15. KESTER, PAUL R. - Tracking the radiation and regional extinctions of the genus Cunninghamia (Taxodiaceae). [Poster]
16. KLAVINS, SHARON D. - Anatomically preserved gymnosperms from the Late Devonian of Ireland.
17. LEOPOLD, ESTELLA B. - How well do pollen corroborate Eocene leaf taxa?--Florissant Formation, Colorado, a case study.
18. LITTLE, STEFAN A.* AND RUTH A. STOCKEY. - Reconstructing aquatic angiosperms from the Middle Eocene Princeton chert : Decodon allenbyensis .
19. LIU, ZHAO HUA*, GENE MAPES, AND GAR W. ROTHWELL. - Taxonomic diversity among Late Pennsylvanian conifers at Hamilton, Kansas.
20. MANCHESTER, STEVEN R. - Leaves and fruits of Aesculus antiquorum (Newberry) Iljinskaya (Sapindales) from the Paleocene of North America. .
21. MAPES, GENE*, KEQIN SUN, MICHAEL KRINGS, GAR W. ROTHWELL, AND ROYAL H. MAPES. - The earliest occurrence of Medullosa.
22. MCMANUS, H. A.*, E. L. TAYLOR, T. N. TAYLOR, AND L. D. BOUCHER. - An Enigmatic Axis from the Triassic of Antarctica.
23. MITRA, MADHUMI AND JAMES E. MICKLE.* - Resolving the controversy of the Tar Heel Formation of the eastern United States.
24. MYERS, JEFFREY A. - Unique vegetation from the Eocene Cordilleran uplands.
25. NAGALINGUM, NATHALIE S*, ANDREW N DRINNAN, STEPHEN MCLOUGHLIN, AND RICHARD LUPIA. - Patterns of pteridophyte evolution and diversification in the Cretaceous of southern Gondwana.
26. OTTO, ANGELIKA*, WILLIAM C. REMBER, AND BERND R. T. SIMONEIT. - Chemical characteristics of five fossil conifer species from the Miocene Clarkia Flora, Emerald Creek, Idaho, USA.
27. PIGG, KATHLEEN B.* AND MARIA TCHEREPOVA. - Taxonomic, phytogeographic and ecological significance of the Yakima Canyon flora (middle Miocene, Washington state, USA).
28. PIGG, KATHLEEN B.* AND WESLEY C. WEHR. - Trochodendron (Trochodendraceae) from the early middle Eocene Republic Flora, Washington, USA.
29. RATZEL, STEPHEN R.*, GAR W. ROTHWELL, ROYAL H. MAPES, GENE MAPES, AND LARISA A. DOGUZHAEVA. - Pityostrobus in the Lower Cretaceous of southwestern Russia. [Poster]
30. REMBER, WILLIAM C.*, ANGELIKA OTTO, AND BERND R. T. SIMONEIT. - Morphology of Cunninghamia chaneyi from the Middle Miocene Clarkia flora northern Idaho.
31. RETALLACK, GREGORY JOHN. - Peltaspermaceous affinities of "Dicroidium" callipteroides from the earliest Triassic, basal Narrabeen Group, Australia.
32. RILEY, MICHAEL G.* AND RUTH A. STOCKEY. - A new aquatic angiosperm with a floating rosette of leaves from the St. Mary River Formation of southern Alberta.
33. SCHECKLER 1, STEPHEN E.*, DONNA L. LINDSAY POSTNIKOFF 2, AND ERIC J. CHAMEROY 1. - Late Devonian forests with the first large trees (Archaeopteris).
34. SCHERER, JACQUELINE*, GARLAND R. UPCHURCH, JR., GREG H. MACK, AND MARGARET J. KNAUS. - Foliar physiognomic estimates of climate for the latest Cretaceous: comparative sensitivity to transfer function.
35. SCHORN, HOWARD E.* AND DIANE M. ERWIN. - The impression record history and ecological diversification of Pseudotsuga Carriere (Pinaceae) in western North America during the later half of the Cenozoic.
36. SCHWAB, HEIDI C.*, RUTH A. STOCKEY, AND CHARLES E. SCHWEGER. - Ovulate cones of Picea from the Lower Pliocene Ch'ijee's Bluff, Yukon Territory, Canada.
37. SMITH, SELENA Y.* AND RUTH A. STOCKEY. - A permineralized Pityostrobus cone (Pinaceae) from the Cretaceous of British Columbia. [Poster]
38. STROTHER, PAUL K. - The cryptospore record indicates a Cambrian origin for land plants.
39. TAGGART, RALPH E. AND AUREAL T. CROSS.* - Ecological dynamics of Eocene Lake Florissant, Colorado.
40. TAYLOR, THOMAS N.*, EDITH L. TAYLOR, MICHAEL KRINGS, AND HANS KERP. - Reconstruction of the climbing late Paleozoic seed fern Pseudomariopteris busquetii.
41. TAYLOR, WILSON. - Ultrastructural variability of lower Paleozoic trilete spores.
42. TIDWELL, WILLIAM D.*, LEITH S. TIDWELL, DEBRA L. MICKELSON, DAN S. CHANEY, AND AMANDA L. HANSEN. - A new flora from the Lower Permian Cedar Mesa Sandstone near Canyonlands National Park, Utah. [Poster]
43. TIDWELL, WILLIAM D.*, SIDNEY R. ASH, AND LEITH S. TIDWELL. - Two new species of Charliea from Pennsylvanian - Permian strata of New Mexico and Utah. [Poster]
44. TIFFNEY, BRUCE H.* AND NORMAN WANG. - Seeds of Rhododendron from the Eocene of California.
45. TOMESCU, ALEXANDRU MIHAIL FLORIAN. - The seed fern Lyginopteris in the Mississippian of North America.
46. WANG, XIN* AND DAVID DILCHER. - Study of Ternstroemites Leaves and Their Relationships With Living Gordonia. [Poster]
47. WHEELER, ELISABETH A.* AND STEVEN R. MANCHESTER. - Survey of the diverse middle Eocene wood assemblage of the Clarno Formation, northcentral Oregon.
48. WILDE, VOLKER*, HERBERT FRANKENHAEUSER, AND BIRGIT NICKEL. - A chloranthaceous inflorescence with pollen in situ from the Middle Eocene of Germany.