Divisional StaffShusheng Hu | CuratorPeter Crane |
Division of Paleobotany
Peabody Museum of Natural History
Yale University
P.O. Box 208118
New Haven, CT 06520-8118 USA
Division of Paleobotany
Peabody Museum of Natural History
Yale University
170–210 Whitney Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511 USA
Research interests in the Division of Paleobotany include:
Large-scale patterns and processes of plant evolution, plant paleontology.
- Angiosperm origins and early evolution
- Cretaceous angiosperm flowers
- Early Cretaceous fossil floras from Mongolia
Integrated paleobotanical and neobotanical studies of plant diversity and evolution.
Conservation of plant diversity, including crop diversity.
Strategic planning for collections-based not-for-profit organizations, especially museums and botanical gardens
David Winship Taylor
Peter Allan Siver
1) Researching evolutionary history of flowering plants and ferns based on plant fossils from Cretaceous clay deposits.
2) Researching flowering plant-pollinator coevolution based upon angiosperm fossil pollen clumps.
3) Application of stratigraphic palynology (pollen and spores) on stratigraphic correlations
4) Research on material in the paleobotanical collections at Peabody Museum.