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Kennedy, K.R., Gibling, M.R., Eble, C.E., Gastaldo, R.A., Gensel, P.G., Werner-Zwanziger, U.,
and Wilson, R.A., submitted, Early Devonian carbonaceous shales of northern New Brunswick: Early
plant accumulations:
Gastaldo, R.A., Pludow, B.A., and Neveling, J., submitted, Mud Aggregates from the Katberg Formation, South Africa:
Additional Evidence for Early Triassic Degradational Landscapes: Journal of Sedimentary Research
Gastaldo, R.A., Knight, C., and Neveling, J., Geochemical Profiles of Two Aggradational, Late Permian Paleosols from
Wapadsberg Pass, Karoo Basin, South Africa: Implications for Changhsingian Climate
In Revision
Cantor, B.M., Gastaldo, R.A., and O'Brien, L., Historical Records of
Stomatal Indices in Quercus from the Southeastern U.S. and Their
Implications for Reconstructing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide in Deep Time:
PALAIOS
In Press
2012
Gastaldo, R.A., Taphonomic Controls on the Distribution of Palynomorphs in Tidally-influenced Coastal Deltaic Settings:
PALAIOS, v. 27, p. ***-***.
Gastaldo, R.A., and Neveling, J., 2012, The terrestrial PermianTriassic
boundary event is a nonevent: REPLY: Geology, v. 40, p. e257,
doi:10.1130/G32975Y.1
2011
Kosnik, M.A., Alroy, J., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Fursich, F.T., Gastaldo,
R.A., Kidwell, S.M., Kowalewski, M., Plotnick, R.E., Rogers, R.R., and
Wagner, P.J., Changes in the shell durability of common marine taxa
through the Phanerozoic: Evidence for biological rather than taphonomic
drivers: Paleobiology, v. 37, p. 303-331.
Falcon-Lang, H.J., Heckel, P.H., Dimichele, W.A., Blake Jr., B.M.,
Easterday, C., Eble, C.F., Elrick, S., Gastaldo, R.A., Greb, S.F.,
Martino, R.L., Nelson, W.J., Pfefferkorn, H.W., Phillips, T.L., and
Rosscoe, S.J., No major stratigraphic gap exists near the Desmoinesian-Missourian Stage
boundary in North America: PALAIOS, v. 26, p. 125-139.
2010
Gastaldo, R.A., and Demko, T.M., Long term hydrology
controls the plant fossil record: in Allison, P.A., and Bottjer, D.J.,
eds., Taphonomy, Second Edition: Processes and Bias Through Time: Topics
in Geobiology, v. 32, p. 249-286 (doi 10.1007/978-90-481-8643-3_7)
Prevec, R., Gastaldo, R.A., Neveling, J., Reid,
S.B., and Looy, C.V., An Autochthonous Glossoperid flora with
Latest Permian palynomorphs and its depositional setting from the
Dicynodon Assemblage Zone of the southern Karoo Basin, South
Africa: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 292, p.
381-408. (doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.052)
Gastaldo, R.A., Peat or No Peat: Why do the Rajang
and Mahakam Deltas Differ?: International Journal of Coal Geology, v.
83, p. 162-172. (doi; 10.1016/j.coal.2010.01.005)
Daly, R.G., and Gastaldo, R.A., The Effect of Orientation to
growing-season sunlight on stomatal parameters of Quercus rubra around the Belgrade Lakes,
Central Maine: PALAIOS, v. 25, p. 339-346.
2009
Prevec, R., Labandeira, C.C., Neveling, J., Gastaldo, R.A.,
Looy, C.V., and Bamford, M.K., Portrait of a Gondwanan Ecosystem: A New Late
Permian Locality from Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa: Review of
Palaeobotany and Palynology, v. 156, p. 454-493.
Pashin, J.C., and Gastaldo, R.A., Carboniferous of
the Black Warrior Basin, in Greb, S.F., and Chestnut, D.R., Jr.,
eds., Carboniferous geology and biostratigraphy of the Appalachian and Black
Warrior Basins: Kentucky Geological Survey Special Publication 1,
Series 12, p. 10-21.
Gastaldo, R.A., Purkyňová, E., Šimůnek,
Z., and Schmitz, M.D., Ecological Persistence in the Late
Mississippian (Serpukhovian - Namurian A) Megafloral Record of the Upper
Silesian Basin, Czech Republic: PALAIOS, v. 24 (6), p. 336-350.
Gastaldo, R.A., Purkyňová, E., and Šimůnek, Z.,
Megafloral Perturbation Across the Enna Marine Zone in the Upper Silesian
Basin Attests to Late Mississippian (Serpukhovian) Deglaciation and
Climate Change: PALAIOS, v. 24 (6), p. 351-366.
Pace, D.W., Gastaldo, R.A., and
Neveling, J., Aggradational and Degradational Landscapes in the
Early Triassic of the Karoo Basin and Evidence for Dramatic Climate Shifts
Following the P/Tr Event: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 79, p.
276-291.
Gastaldo, R.A., Neveling, J., Clark,
C.K., and Newbury, S.S.,
The terrestrial Permian-Triassic boundary event bed is a non-event:
GEOLOGY, v. 37, n. 3, p. 199-202.
2008
Pfefferkorn, H.W., Gastaldo, R.A., DiMichele, W.A., and Phillips,
T.L., Pennsylvanian Tropical Floras as a Far-field Record of Changing
Climate: in Fielding, C.R., Frank, T.D., and Isbell, J.L., Eds.,
Resolving the Late Paleozoic Gondwanan Ice Age in Time and Space: GSA
Special Paper 441, p. 305-316.
DiMichele, W.A., and Gastaldo, R.A., Plant Paleoecology in Deep
Time: Annals of the Missouri Botanical Gardens, v. 95, no. 1, p.
144-198.
Gastaldo, R.A., and Rolerson,
M.W., Katbergia gen. nov., A New Trace Fossil from the
Upper Permian and Lower Triassic Rocks of the Karoo Basin: Implications
for Paleoenvironmental Conditions at the P/Tr Extinction Event:
Palaeontology, v. 51, p. 215-229.
2007
Gastaldo, R.A., TAPHONOMY: in Parker, S.P., ed., McGraw Hill
Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. 10th Edition (updated and
revised).
Gastaldo, R.A., and Degges, C.W.,
Sedimentology and Paleontology of a Carboniferous Log Jam: International Journal of Coal
Geology, v. 69, p. 103-118.
2006
Greb, S.F., DiMichele, W.D., and Gastaldo, R.A., Evolution
of Wetland Types and the Importance of Wetlands in Earth History: in
DiMichele, W.A., and Greb, S., eds., Wetlands Through Time: Geological
Society of America, Special Publication, v. 399, p. 1-40.
Allen, J.P., and Gastaldo, R.A.,
Sedimentology and taphonomy of the
Early to Middle Devonian plant-bearing beds of the Trout Valley Formation,
Maine: in DiMichele, W.A., and Greb, S., eds., Wetlands
Through Time: Geological Society of America, Special Publication
399, p. 57-78.
Gastaldo, R.A., Gibson, M.A., and Blanton-Hooks,
A., The
Late Mississippian Back-Barrier Marsh Ecosystem in the Black Warrior and
Appalachian Basins: in DiMichele, W.A., and Greb, S., eds., Wetlands
Through Time: Geological Society of America, Special Publication
399, p. 139-154.
2005
Gastaldo, R.A., Adendorff, R., Bamford, M.K.,
Labandeira, Neveling, J., and Sims, H.J., Taphonomic Trends of
Macrofloral Assemblages Across the Permian-Triassic Boundary, Karoo Basin,
South Africa: PALAIOS, v. 20, p. 478-497. (doi
10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.03.052)
Gee, C.T., and Gastaldo, R.A., Sticks & Mud, Fruits & Nuts, Leaves &
Climate: Plant Taphonomy Comes of Age: PALAIOS, v. 20, p. 415-418.
Paleobiology Database Taphonomy Working Group: Behrensmeyer, A.K.,
Fursich, F.T., Gastaldo, R.A. Kidwell, S.M., Kosnik, M.A. Kowalewski,
M., Plotnick, R.E., Rogers, R.R., and Alroy, J., Durability Bias in the
Phanerozoic Marine Invertebrate Record: Paleobiology, v. 31, p.
607-623.
Selover, R.W., and Gastaldo, R.A.,
A
Reinterpretation of
the Wagendrift Quarry, Estcourt, Kwazulu Natal Province, and its
Implications for Karoo Basin Paleogeography: Journal of South African
Geology, v. 108, p. 17-26.
DiMichele, W.D., Gastaldo, R.A., and Pfefferkorn,
H.W., Biodiversity partitioning in the Late Carboniferous and its
implications for ecosystem assembly:Proceedings of the California Academy
of Sciences, v. 56, suppl. 1, no. 4, p. 24-41.
Selover, R.W., Gastaldo, R.A., and
Nelson, R.E., An Estuarine
Assemblage from the Middle Devonian Trout Valley Formation of Northern
Maine: PALAIOS, v. 20, p. 192-197.
2004
Gastaldo, R.A., The relationship between bedform and log orientation
in a Paleogene fluvial channel, Wei?elster basin, Germany: Implications
for the use of coarse woody debris for paleocurrent analysis:
PALAIOS, v. 19, p. 595-606.
Gastaldo, R.A., Stevanovic-Walls, I., Ware,
W.N., and Greb, S.F.,
Community Heterogeneity of Early Pennsylvanian Peat Mires:
GEOLOGY, v. 32, no. 8, p. 693-696.
Tackaberry, W.J., Rueger, B.F.,
and
Gastaldo, R.A., Spittal
Pond, Bermuda: Implications for Holocene Sea Level Change: in
Lewis, R.D., and Panusak, B., eds., 11th Symposium on the Geology of the Bahamas and
Other Carbonate Regions 2002, Gerace Research Center, San Salvador,
Bahamas, p. 187-204.
Pashin, J.C., and Gastaldo, R.A., eds., Coal-bearing Strata: Sequence
Stratigraphy, Paleoclimate, and Tectonics: American Association of
Petroleum Geologists, Studies in Geology, v. 51, 248 p. [AAPG EMD
Publications]
Gastaldo, R.A., Stevanovic-Walls, I.,
and Ware, W.N.,
In Situ, Erect Forests Are Evidence for Large-Magnitude,
Coseismic Base-Level Changes within Pennsylvanian Cyclothems of the Black
Warrior Basin, USA: in Pashin, J.C., and Gastaldo, R.A., eds.,
Coal-bearing Strata: Sequence Stratigraphy, Paleoclimate, and Tectonics:
AAPG Studies in Geology, v. 51, p. 219-238.
Gastaldo, R.A., Savrda, C.E., and Lewis, R.D., Deciphering Earth
History: Understanding Earths Deep Past: Contemporary Publishing Company
of Raleigh Inc., 3rd Edition. 265 p.
Gastaldo, R.A., A View of Non-Analog Worlds: Review of Knoll, A.H.,
2004, Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution
on Earth: American Journal of Botany, v. 91, p. 294-312.
2003
Staub, J.R., and Gastaldo, R.A., Late Quaternary Incised-valley Fill
and Deltaic Sediments in the Rajang River Delta:
in Sidi, H.F., Nummedal, D., Imbert, P., Darman, H., and
Posamentier, H.W., eds., Tropical Deltas of Southeast Asia -
Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, and Petroleum Geology: SEPM Special
Publication. v. 76, p. 71-87.
2002
Gastaldo, R.A., TAPHONOMY: McGraw Hill Encyclopedia
of Science and Technology. 9th Edition. DOI 10.1036/1097-8542.677950.
Gastaldo, R.A., and Savrda, C.E., MEET THE NEW BOSS;
SAME AS THE OLD BOSS? The Who We Wont Get Fooled Again, 1971: PALAIOS, v.
17, no. 3, p. 223-224.
2001
Gastaldo, R.A. Plant Taphonomy: in Briggs, D.E.G. and
Crowther, P.R., eds. Palaeobiology II: Blackwell Scientific, Oxford, UK.
p. 314-317.
DiMichele, W.A., Pfefferkorn, H.W., and Gastaldo, R.A.,
Response of Late Carboniferous and Early Permian plant communities to
climate change: Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, v. 29, p.
461-487.
2000
Behrensmeyer, A.K., Kidwell, S.M., and Gastaldo, R.A., Taphonomy and
Paleobiology. Paleobiology, v. 26 (No. 4), p. 103-147.
Pfefferkorn, H.W., Gastaldo, R.A, and .DiMichele, W.A.,
Ecosystem Stability during the Late Paleozoic Cold Interval: in
Gastaldo, R.A., and DiMichele, eds., Phanerozoic Terrestrial
Ecosystems: Paleontological Society Short Course Notes: The
Paleontological Society Papers, v. 6, p. 63-78.
in .zip file
Gastaldo, R.A., and DiMichele, eds., Phanerozoic Terrestrial
Ecosystems: Paleontological Society Short Course Notes: The
Paleontological Society Papers, v. 6, 308 p. [Paleo
Society Papers]
Staub, J.R., Among, H.L., and Gastaldo, R.A., Seasonal Sediment
Transport and Deposition in the Rajang River Delta, Sarawak, East
Malaysia. Sedimentary Geology, v. 133, p. 249-264.
Pryor, J.S. and Gastaldo, R.A., Paleoecological Analysis of
Two Early Pennsylvanian Mineral-Substrate Wetlands. PALAIOS, v. 15,
p. 3-13.
1999
Gastaldo, R.A. Debates on Autochthonous and Allochthonous Origin of
Coal: Empirical Science versus the Diluvialists. in Manger, W.L.,
ed., The Evolution-Creation Controversy II: Perspectives on Science,
Religion, and Geological Education, The Paleontological
Society Papers, v. 5, p. 135-167.
Gastaldo, R.A. and Staub, J.R., A Mechanism to Explain the
Preservation of Leaf Litters Lenses in Coals Derived from Raised Mires.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 149, p. 1-14.
Gastaldo, R.A. Collection and Analysis Techniques for
Paleoecological Studies in Coastal-Deltaic Setting: in Jones, T.P.
and Rowe, N.P., eds., Fossil Plants and Spores: Modern Techniques: Geological
Society, London, p. 279-284.
Gastaldo, R.A. Private, State, Federal and
Reservation Laws Governing Collection of Fossils in the United States of
America: in Jones, T.P. and Rowe, N.P., eds., Fossil Plants and
Spores: Modern Techniques: Geological Society, London, p. 330-338.
1998
Gastaldo, R.A. and Ferguson, D.K. Reconstructing Tertiary
plant communities: Introductory remarks. Review of Palaeobotany and
Palynology, v. 101, p. 3-6.
Gastaldo, R.A., Riegel, W., Püttmann, W., Linnemann, U.H., and
Zetter, R. A Multidisciplinary Approach to Reconstruct the Late
Oligocene Vegetation in central Europe. Review of Palaeobotany and
Palynology, v. 101, p. 71-94.
Gastaldo, R.A. Ashley, G., Lane, H.R., Macleod, N., O'Neill,
N.J., and Wang Cheng-Yuan. AFTERTHOUGHT: Paleontology in The 21st
Century: An International Workshop: PALAIOS, v. 13, p. 87-90.
1997
Gastaldo, R.A. COLLECTING the NATURAL WORLD: Legal Requirements & Personal
Liability for Collecting Plants, Animals, Rocks, Minerals & Fossils. Geoscience Press, Inc.,
Tucson, AZ: PALAIOS, v. 12, p. 501. (Book Review).
Gastaldo, R.A. and Staub, J.R. Water Column and Grab Sample Palynofacies Assemblages
from the Rajang River Delta, Sarawak, East Malaysia: PALYNOLOGY, v.
21, p. 145-171.
Gastaldo, R.A. and Sarvda, C.E., ONLINE: Regime, Rumors, Realities,
and Remedies: PALAIOS, v. 12, p. 1.
1996
Gastaldo, R.A. Flöznah and Flözfern Assemblages: Potential Predictors of Late Carboniferous
Biome Replacement? In Leary, R.L., ed. Patterns in Paleobotany: Proceedings of a
Czech-U.S. Carboniferous Paleobotany Workshop. Illinois State Museum Scientific Papers, v.
26, p. 19-28.
Demko, T.M. and Gastaldo, R.A. Eustatic and autocyclic influences on deposition of the
Lower Pennsylvanian Mary Lee Coal zone, Warrior Basin,
Alabama: International Journal of Coal Geology, v. 31, p. 3-19.
Hofmann, C.C., Zetter, R., Ferguson, D.K., and Gastaldo, R.A. Taphonomishe
Untersuchungen im Mobile-Delta, Alabama, USA - Teil 1: Zusammensetzung der Floren in
den vershiedenen Environments: Mitteilung Abteilung Geologie und
Paläontologie Landesmuseum Joanneum, v. 54, p. 93-111.
Gastaldo, R.A., DiMichele, W.A., and Pfefferkorn, H.W. Out of the Icehouse into the
Greenhouse: A Late Paleozoic Analogue for Modern Global Vegetational
Change: GSA Today v. 10, p. 1-7.
Gastaldo, R.A., Palynofacies of the Wetland Soils in the Temperate-Subtropical
Mobile-Tensaw River Delta, in Rich, R., Chmura, G., and Gastaldo, R. A. Palynology of
Wetland Environments of the Southern United States, Ninth International Palynological
Congress Field Trip Guidebook, Houston, TX., A3:1-37.
Gastaldo, R.A., Feng, Weiwei, and Staub, J.R.
Palynofacies Patterns in Channel Deposits of the Rajang River and Delta,
Sarawak, East Malaysia: PALAIOS, v. 11, p. 266-279.
Gastaldo, R.A. and Savrda, C.E. ONLINE: Changing of the Guard:
PALAIOS, v. 11, p. 95-96.
Gastaldo, R.A., Walther, H., Rabold, J. and Ferguson, D. Criteria to distinguish
parautochthonous leaves in Cenophytic alluvial channel-fills: Review of
Palaeobotany and Palynology, v. 91, p. 1-21.
1995
Guthrie, G.M, Steltenpohl, M.G. and Gastaldo, R.A. Alleghanian timing constraints on
Laurentian margin orogensis: New fossils and radiometric data from the Alabama Blue Ridge,
in G.M. Guthrie, ed. The Timing and Tectonic Mechanisms of the Alleghanian Orogeny,
Alabama Piedmont, A Guidebook for the 32nd Annual Field Trip of the Alabama Geological
Society, Tuscaloosa, AL., p. 1-16.
Gastaldo, R.A., Pfefferkorn, H.W. and DiMichele, W.A. Taphonomic and Sedimentologic
Characterization of "Roof-Shale" floras, in Lyons, P., Wagner, R.H. and Morey, E., eds.
Historical Persepctive of Early Twentieth Century Carboniferous Paleobotany in North
America. Geological Society of
America Memoir 185, p. 341-352.
Note: This is a large 38MB .pdf file!
Gastaldo, R.A., Allen, G.P., and Huc, A.Y. The tidal character of fluvial sediments of the
Recent Mahakam River delta, Kalimantan, Indonesia: Special Publications International
Association of Sedimentologists, v. 24, p. 171-181.
Gastaldo, R.A. New Occurrence of Periastron reticulatum Unger emend. Beck, An enigmatic
Mississippian fossil plant: Journal of Paleontology, v. 65,
p. 388-392. [ JSTOR
LINK]
1994
Eble, C.F., Gastaldo, R.A., Demko, T.M., and Liu, Y. Coal compositional changes along a
swamp interior to swamp margin transect in the Mary Lee Coal bed, Warrior Basin, Alabama,
U.S.A.:
International Journal of Coal Geology, v. 26, p. 43-62.
Gastaldo, R.A. and Eble, C.F. Carboniferous Floras of the Central Appalachians: Kentucky &
Tennessee. Guidebook for Field Trip 20, Paleobotanical Section, Botanical Society of
America Meetings, Knoxville, TN. 7 August 94. 25 p.
Gastaldo, R.A. The genesis and sedimentation of phytoclasts with examples from coastal
environments in A. Traverse, ed. Sedimentation of Organic Particles. Cambridge University
Press. Chapter 7, pp. 103-127.
1993
Gastaldo, R.A., Gutherie, G., and Steltenpohl. M.G. Mississippian fossils from southern
Appalachian metamorphic rocks and their implications for Late Palezoic
tectonic evolution: Science, v. 262, p. 732-734.
Gastaldo, R.A., Demko, T.M., and Liu, Y. The application of sequence and genetic
stratigraphic concepts to Carboniferous coal-bearing strata: An example from the Black
Warrior basin, USA: Geologische Rundschau, v. 82, p. 212-226. This is a 25 MB file
download.
Dolph, G.E., Gastaldo, R.A., DiMichele, W.A., and Hunn, D.M. Karinopteris, A fossil
pteridosperm from the "Paper" coal of Indiana: Proceedings of the Indiana
Academy of Science for 1988, v. 98, p. 433-448.
Cunningham, C.R., Feldman, H.R., Franseen, E.K., Gastaldo, R.A., Mapes, G., Maples, C.G.,
and Schultze, H-P. 1993. The Upper Carboniferous (Stephanian) Hamilton Fossil-Lagerstätte
(Kansas, U.S.A.): A valley-fill, tidally influenced depositional model: Lethaia, v.
26, p. 225-236.
Gastaldo, R.A., G.P. Allen, and A.Y. Huc. Detrital peat formation in the tropical Mahakam
River delta, Kalimantan, eastern Borneo: Formation, plant composition, and geochemistry
inJ.C. Cobb and C. B. Cecil, Eds. Modern and Ancient Coal-forming Environments.
Geological Society of America Special
Paper 286, p. 107-118.
1992
Gastaldo, R.A. Taphonomic considerations for plant evolutionary
investigations: The Palaeobotanist, v. 41, p. 211-223.
Liu, Yuejin and Gastaldo, R.A. Characteristics and provenance of log-transported gravels in a
Carboniferous channel deposit: Journal of Sedimentary
Petrology, v. 62(6), p. 1072-1083.
Gastaldo, R.A. and Huc, A.Y. Sediment facies, depositional environments, and distribution of
phytoclasts in the Recent Mahakam River delta, Kalimantan, Indonesia:
PALAIOS, v. 7(6), p. 574-591.
Gastaldo, R.A. Plant taphonomic character of the Late Carboniferous Hamilton Quarry,
Kansas, USA: Preservational modes of walchian conifers and implied relationships for
residency time in aquatic environments. in J. Kovar-Eder, ed. Palaeovegetational Development
in Europe and Regions Relevent to its Palaeofloristic Evolution. Museum of Natural History
Vienna, p. 393-399.
Contributor to: DiMichele, W.A. and Hook R.W., Rapporteurs. Paleozoic Terrestrial
Ecosystems in Behrensmeyer, A., Damuth, J., DiMichele, W.A., Potts, R., Sues, H.-D., and
Wing, S. Terrestrial Ecosystems Through Time: University of Chicago
Press, p. 205-326.
Contributor to: Behrensmeyer, A.K. and Hook, R.W., Rapporteurs. Paleoenvironmental
Contexts and Taphonomic Modes in the Terrestrial Fossil Record in Behrensmeyer, A.,
Damuth, J., DiMichele, W.A., Potts, R., Sues, H.-D., and Wing, S. Terrestrial Ecosystems
Through Time: University of Chicago Press, p. 15-138.
Liu, Yuejin and Gastaldo, R.A.
Characteristics of a Pennsylvanian ravinement surface:
Sedimentary Geology, v. 77 (3/4), p. 197-214.
Blumenstengel, H., Mai, D., Walther, H., Gastaldo, R.A., and Riegel, W. Exkursion in das
Weißelster-Becken. 21. Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises für Paläobotanik und Palynologie in
Göttingen. 56 p.
Gastaldo, R.A. Regenerative growth in fossil horsetails (Calamites) following burial by
Alluvium: Historical Biology, v. 6(3), p. 203-220.
Demko, T.M. and Gastaldo, R.A. Paludal environments of the Lower Mary Lee coal zone,
Pottsville Formation, Alabama: Stacked clastic swamps and peat mires: International Journal
of Coal Geology, v. 20, p. 23-47.
1991
Gastaldo, R.A., T.M. Demko, and Y. Liu. A mechanism to explain persistent alternation of
clastic and peat-accumulating swamps in Carboniferous sequences: Bulletin
Société géologique de France, t. 162(2), p. 299-305.
1990
Gastaldo, R.A., Phytotaphocoenoses in Late Quaternary temperate and
tropical coastal deltaic regimes. Paleofloristic and paleoclimatic changes in
the Cretaceous and Tertiary. in E. Knobloch and Z. Kvaek, eds.
Proceedings of the International Symposium - Paleofloristic and Paleoclimatic
Changes in the Cretaceous and Tertiary. International Geological Correlation
Programme Project No. 216: Global Biological Events in Earth History.
Geological Survey of Czechoslovakia, Prague. p. 285-290.
Gastaldo, R.A., ONLINE - Sticks & Mud: Perspectives for the 90's:
PALAIOS, v. 5, p. 201-202.
Gastaldo, R.A., The paleobotanical character of log assemblages
necessary to differentiate blow-downs resulting from cyclonic winds: PALAIOS,
v. 5(5), p. 472-478.
Gastaldo, R.A., T.M. Demko, and Y. Liu. Carboniferous coastal environments and
paleocommunities of the Mary Lee coal zone, Marion and Walker Counties, Alabama. A
Guidebook for Field Trip VI, 39th Annual Meeting Southeastern Section of the Geological
Society of America, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Geological Survey of Alabama, 139p.
Gastaldo, R.A., Early Pennsylvanian swamp forests in the Mary Lee coal
zone, Warrior Basin, Alabama, in Gastaldo, R.A., T.M. Demko, and Y. Liu,
eds. Carboniferous coastal environments and paleocommunities of the Mary Lee
coal zone, Marion and Walker Counties, Alabama. A Guidebook for Field Trip VI,
39th Annual Meeting Southeastern Section of the Geological Society of America,
Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Geological Survey of Alabama, p. 41-54.
Gastaldo, R.A., Earliest evidence for helical crown configuration in a
Carboniferous tree of uncertain affinity: Journal of Paleontology, v. 64, p.
146-151. [JSTOR
LINK]
1989
Gastaldo, R.A., Processes of incorporation of plant parts in deltaic
coastal sedimentary environments: Implications for paleoecological
restorations. Compte Rendu XIth International Carboniferous Congress of
Stratigraphy & Geology, Beijing, China. V. 3, p. 109-120.
Chestnut, D.R. Jr., Cobb, J.C., and Gastaldo, R.A., Origin of the
Middlesboro Member of the Lower Pennsylvanian-age Lee Formation (Bashkirian)
in the central Appalachian Basin, eastern USA, and its unique fossil
occurrence. Compte Rendu XIth International Carboniferous Congress of
Stratigraphy & Geology, Beijing, China. V. 2, p. 20-30.
Gastaldo, R.A., Demko, T.M., Y. Liu, W.D. Keefer, and S.L. Abston. Biostratinomic
processes for the development of of mud-cast logs in Carboniferous and Holocene swamps:
PALAIOS, v. 4, p. 356-365.
Gastaldo, R.A., M.A. Gibson, and T.D. Gray. An Appalachian-sourced deltaic sequence,
northeastern Alabama: Biofacies-lithofacies relationships and interpreted
community patterns: International Journal of Coal Geology, v. 12, p. 225-257.
Gastaldo, R.A., Editor, PLANT TAPHONOMY - ORGANIC SEDIMENTARY
PROCESSES, Special Issue Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Vol. 58, No. 1,
February 1989.
Gastaldo, R.A., Introduction: Review of Palaeobotany & Palynology,
v. 58(1), p. 1-4.
Gastaldo, R.A., Bearce, S.C., Degges, C., Hunt, R.J., Peebles, M.W., and
Violette, D.L., Biostratinomy of a Holocene oxbow lake: A backswamp to
mid-channel transect: Review of Palaeobotany & Palynology, v. 58(1), p.
47-60.
Gastaldo, R.A., Preliminary observations on phytotaphonomic assemblages
in a subtropical/temperate Holocene bayhead delta: Mobile Delta, Gulf Coastal
Plain, Alabama: Review of Palaeobotany & Palynology, v. 58(1), p.
61-84.
Gibson, M.A., and Gastaldo, R.A.,
Invertebrate body fossils and trace fossils from the Lower Pennsylvanian of
northern Alabama: Alabama Geological Survey Circular, 143, p. 1-53.
1988
Gastaldo, R.A., A Conspectus of Phytotaphonomy: In DiMichele,
W.A., and Wing, S.L., (Eds.), Methods and Applications of Plant Paleoecology:
Notes for a Short Course: Paleontological Society Special Publication 3, p.
14-28.
Gastaldo, R.A., The frond architecture of Sphenopteris pottsvillea
(White) Gastaldo and Boersma: Journal of Paleontology, v. 62, p.
982-991. [JSTOR
LINK]
1987
Gastaldo, R.A., Douglass, D.P.,
and
McCarroll, S.M., Origin,
characteristics
and provenance of plant macrodetritus in a Holocene crevasse splay, Mobile
delta, Alabama: PALAIOS, v. 2, p. 229-240.
Gastaldo, R.A., Confirmation of Carboniferous clastic swamp communities:
Nature, v. 326, p. 869-871.
Gastaldo, R.A., A Conspectus of Phytotaphonomy: In DiMichele,
W.A., and Wing, S.L., (Eds.), Methods and Applications of Plant Paleoecology:
Notes for a Short Course. Paleontology Section, Botanical Society of America,
Columbus, OH, p. 20-40.
Gastaldo, R.A., SEPM session explores new frontiers in plant Taphonomy.
PALAIOS, v.2, p. 107-109.
Gibson, M.A.,
and Gastaldo, R.A., Invertebrate paleoecology of the Upper Cliff Coal Interval
(Pennsylvanian), Plateau Coal Field, northern Alabama: Journal of
Paleontology, v. 61, p. 339-350. [JSTOR
LINK]
1986
Gastaldo, R.A., Implications on the paleoecology of autochthonous
Carboniferous lycopods in
clastic sedimentary environments: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology and
Palaeoecology, v.
53(2/4), p. 191-212.
Gastaldo, R.A., An explanation for lycopod configuration, 'Fossil
Grove` Victoria Park, Glasgow: Scottish Journal of Geology, v. 22(1),
p. :77-83.
Haas, C. and
Gastaldo, R.A., Flood tidal deltas and related back-barrier systems: Bremen
Sandstone, "Pottsville" Formation, Black Warrior Basin, Alabama: Geological
Society of America Centennial Field Guide-Southeastern Section, No.
40, p. 181-183.
Gastaldo, R.A., Selected aspects of plant taphonomic processes in
coastal deltaic regimes, in
Broadhead, T.W. (Ed.), Fossil Land Plants: Notes for a Short Course (sponsored
by The Paleontological Society): University of Tennessee, Department of
Geological Sciences, Studies in Geology 15, p. 27-44.
Mapes, G., and Gastaldo, R.A., Upper Paleozoic non-peat accumulating
floras, in Broadhead, T.W. (Ed.), Fossil Land Plants: Notes for a
Short Course (sponsored by The
Paleontological Society): University of Tennessee, Department of Geological
Sciences, Studies in Geology 15, p. 115-127.
1985
Gastaldo, R.A., Upper Carboniferous paleoecological reconstructions:
observations and reconsiderations: in Escobeda, J.L., L.F. Grana'dos,
B. Mele'ndez, R. Pignatelli, R. Ray and R.H. Wagner (Eds.), Dixiéme
Congrés International de Stratigraphie et de Géologie du
Carbonifére, Madrid, 1983, v. 2, p. 281-296.
Gastaldo, R.A., Morphological plasticity in a Pecopteris leaf
from the Middle Pennsylvanian of southern Illinois: In J.T. Dutro,
Jr., and H.W. Pfefferkorn, (Eds.), Neuviéme Congrés
International de Stratigraphie et de Géologie du Carbonifére,
Washington and Champaign-Urbana, 1979, Compte Rendu, v. 5, p. 115-126.
Churnet, H.G., Bergenback, R.E., and Gastaldo, R.A., Lower Pennsylvanian
Sediments and Associated Coals in the Walden Ridge South: In
Woodward, N.B., (Ed.), Field Trips in the Southern Appalachians, University of
Tennessee Department of Geology Studies in Geology 9, p. 34-69. (Prepared for
field trips sponsored by the Southeastern Section of the Geological Society of
America, Knoxville, TN.)
Gastaldo, R.A., Plant Accumulating Deltaic Depositional Environments.
Field Trip Guide, Paleobotanical Section, Botanical Society of America
Meetings, 8-11 August: Auburn University Continuing Education. Alabama
Geological Survey Reprint Series 66, 35 p.
Gastaldo, R.A., Energy Shale In Matten, L.C., (Ed.), Field
Guidebook 3rd Mid-Continent Paleobotany Colloquium, Carbondale, IL. p.
1D-9D.
1984
Gastaldo, R.A., Studies on North American Pecopterids. III.
Pecopteris buttsii D. White from the Early Pennsylvanian of Alabama:
Journal of Paleontology, v. 58, p. 63-77. [JSTOR
LINK]
DiMichele, W.A., Rischbieter, M.O., Eggert, D.L., and Gastaldo, R.A.,
Stem and Leaf Cuticle of Karinopteris: Source of Cuticles from the
Indiana "Paper" Coal: American Journal of Botany, v. 71, p. 626-637.
Gastaldo, R.A., A Case Against Pelagochthony: The Untenability of
Carboniferous Arborescent Lycopod-Dominated Floating Peat Mats: In
Walker, K.R., (Ed.), The Evolution-Creation Controversy, Perspectives on
Religion, Philosophy, Science and Education: A Handbook. Paleontological
Society Special Publications, Knoxville, TN., v. 1, p. 97-116.
1983
Gastaldo, R.A., and Boersma, M.A., A Reinvestigation of Early
Pennsylvanian Species of Mariopteris from the Appalachian Region. I.
Karinopteris, Mariopteris and the 'Pottsvillea
Complex': Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v. 38(3/4), p. 185-226.
Gastaldo, R.A., and Boersma, M.A., A Reinvestigation of Early
Pennsylvanian Species of Mariopteris from the Appalachian Region. II.
Eusphenopteris and Sphenopteris: Review of
Palaeobotany and Palynology, v. 38(3/4), p. 227-247.
Boersma, M., and Gastaldo, R.A., Proposal to conserve
Eusphenopteris (Foss.): Taxon, v. 32, p. 307-310.
1982
Gastaldo, R.A., and Cook, R.B., A Reinvestigation of the Paleobotanical
Evidence for the Age of the Erin Shale: In Bearce, D.N., Black, W.W.,
Kish, S.A., and Tull, J.F., (Eds.), Tectonic
Studies in the Talladega and Carolina Slate Belts, Southern Appalachian Orogen. Geological
Society of America Special Paper 191, p. 69-78.
Gastaldo, R.A., A Reinvestigation of Potoniea angularis
(Lesquereux) Stidd: Journal of Paleontology, v. 56(5), p. 1296-1302.
[JSTOR
LINK]
Gastaldo, R.A., A Preliminary Assessment of Early Pennsylvanian
Megafloral Palaeoecology in the Plateau Coal Field, Northeastern Alabama:
Third North American Paleontological Convention, Proceedings v. 1, p. 187-192.
Gastaldo, R.A., and Zodrow, E.L., Studies on North American
Pecopterids. IV. Diversity and Stratigraphy Occurrence in the Sydney Coal
Field, Nova Scotia: Third North American Paleontological Convention,
Proceedings, v. 1, p. 193-198.
Gastaldo, R.A., Paleobotanical Studies in Alabama: 1845-1980.
Geological Survey of Alabama, Circular 106, p. 1-21. (dated 1981).
1981
Gastaldo, R.A., An Ultrastructural and Taxonomic Study of
Valvisporites auritus (Zerndt) Bhardwaj, A Lycopsid Megaspore from
the Middle Pennsylvanian of southern Illinois: Micropaleontology, v.
27(1), p. 84-93.
Gastaldo, R.A., Palaeostachya dircei n. sp., An Authigenically
Cemented Equisetalean Strobilus from the Middle Pennsylvanian of southern
Illinois: American Journal of Botany, v. 68, p. 1305-1318.
Gastaldo, R.A., Taxonomic Considerations for Carboniferous Coalified
Compression Equisetalean Fructifications: American Journal of Botany, v. 68,
p. 1319-1324.
1978
Gastaldo, R.A., and Matten, L.C., Studies on North American
Pecopterids. I. Pecopteris vera n. sp. from the Middle
Pennsylvanian of southern Illinois: Palaeontographica Abt. B. 165, p. 43-52.
Gastaldo, R.A., and Matten, L.C., Trigonocarpus leeanus, A New
Species from the Middle Pennsylavanian of southern Illinois: American Journal
of Botany, v. 65, p. 882-890.
1977
Matten, L.C., Gastaldo, R.A., and Lee, M.R., Fossil Robinia
from the western United States: Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, v.
24, p. 195-208.
Gastaldo, R.A., A Middle Pennsylvanian Nodule Flora from Carterville,
Illinois: In Romans, R.C., (Ed.), Geobotany. Plenum Press, N.Y., pp.
133-156.
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