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On June 29, 2017, we lost an eminent member of our paleobotanical community with the death of Dr. Theodore (Ted) Delevoryas.  Ted was born on July 22, 1929 in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, U.S.A., and received his undergraduate degree at the University of Massachusetts (1950) and his Master\u2019s Degree (1951) and Ph.D. (1954) at the University of Illinois, Urbana\u2013Champaign.  After graduate school, he taught as an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University for one year (1955\u20131956) before moving to Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where he was an instructor from 1956\u20131958 and Assistant Professor from 1958\u20131960.  After a two-year stint (1960\u20131962) as an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois, he returned to Yale as an Associate Professor and later became a full Professor, with a joint appointment as an Associate Curator of Paleobotany at Yale\u2019s Peabody Museum.  In 1972, he accepted a position as Professor of Botany at The University of Texas at Austin.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ted\u2019s research specialty was Mesozoic fossil plants, primarily ferns, conifers, and cycads, on which he published over 100 scholarly articles (see list below).  The ability to recognize and identify ancient plant fossils required an intimate knowledge of their anatomy and morphology, which Ted demonstrated in his beautiful drawings that were incorporated in his influential books on the Morphology and Evolution of Fossil Plants<\/em> (1962), and Plant Diversification<\/em> (1966), as well as in the book he co-authored with Professors Harold Bold and Constantine Alexopolous, the Morphology of Plants and Fungi<\/em> (1980).  During his career, Ted mentored four Masters students, eight Ph.D. students, and four postdocs.  Many have become productive mentors and paleobotanical researchers themselves, and two of them were elected members of the National Academies of Sciences.  His academic family honored him in 2010 with a festschrift entitled Plants in Mesozoic Time:<\/em> Morphological Innovations, Phylogeny, Ecosystems.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The esteem in which he was held by his colleagues resulted in an award of a John Guggenheim Fellowship in 1964 and election as a Fellow of the U.S. National Research Council (1954\u20131955), the Linnaean Society of London (1975), the Paleobotanical Society of Lucknow, India, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1990).  In 1978, he was named Distinguished Fellow of the Botanical Society of America.  Along with other botanists, Ted was awarded the Centennial Award of the Botanical Society of America in 2006 for his outstanding service to the plant sciences and to the Society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ted took his position of university professor seriously at The University of Texas at Austin, and he was happy to take on the responsibility of furthering the success of colleagues, faculty, and students.  Ted exemplified this sense of duty when he served as Department of Botany\u2019s Chairman (1974\u20131980) during which he hired numerous well-known botanists who contributed to the department\u2019s rise and continued the work begun by Gordon Whaley and Billie Lee Turner to make it the premier botany department in the country.  Ted also took on the responsibility of Chairman of the Division of Biological Sciences at U.T. Austin from 1974\u20131980 and for a short period was Acting Director of The University of Texas\u2019 Marine Science Institute at Port Aransas.  He was similarly influential in the plant sciences community as a whole, serving as President of the Botanical Society of America in 1974, President of the International Organisation of Palaeobotany (1978\u20131981), member of the Editorial Board for the American Institute for Biological Sciences\u2019 journal Bioscience<\/em> (1977), and as Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Botany<\/em> (1985\u20131989).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rigorous in teaching, particularly his courses on paleobotany and survey of the plant kingdom, Ted inspired his students and earned their love and respect.  The students showed their appreciation of Ted by serving his favorite dessert, strawberry shortcake with ripe strawberries and whipped cream, at the last paleobotany lab session of the semester, despite it being late December.  A highlight of the paleobotany class was the annual field trip to the Marshall clay pit in east Texas, where the students experienced first-hand the joy of field paleontology and the thrill of discovering Eocene angiosperm leaves.  Ted retired as a full time faculty member from U.T. Austin in 1995 and became Professor Emeritus in 1998.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ted settled down to retirement life in Encinitas, California, where he made sure he always had a view of the ocean.  He continued to challenge his mind and sought learning throughout his life.  He taught himself Spanish, French, and German, believing that textbooks would provide insufficient insight into the development and culture of each language.  Ted could often be found working a New York Times<\/em> crossword puzzle, playing Scrabble, reading a book, or enjoying classical music.  He particularly liked the quartet compositions of Mozart, Bach, and Beethoven, and at age 72, took up the cello which he was able to enjoy playing throughout his retirement.  He also loved sailing, collecting Mexican art, and had an amazing collection of live cycads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ted was known for his gentle nature and wit, and he had a way of making people laugh and putting a smile on their faces.  He was a man of good humor and modesty, as well as a botanist par excellence, an avid field scientist, and a dedicated and scholarly paleobotanist.  Ted passed away peacefully in his sleep in Austin, Texas, at age 87.  As he would have put it, he lived a long, great life.  Ted is survived by his siblings Lillian (now deceased) and Mark Delevoryas, his sons, Matt and Chris Delevoryas, his stepchildren Marlena, Michael, and Melanie, his grandchildren, several nieces and nephews, and his ex-spouses Nancy Delevoryas and Cecilia Dean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Compiled by Beryl Simpson and Cecilia Dean, with contributions from\nNorma Fowler, Robert Jansen, Melanie Rierson, and Carole Gee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more about Ted, see:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gee,\nC.T. (ed.).  2010.  Plants\nin Mesozoic Time: Morphological Innovations, Phylogeny, Ecosystems.  <\/em>Indiana University Press, Bloomington,\nIndiana, 424 pp. (Ted Delevoryas festschrift)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Statesman.com\nobituary.  Ted Delevoryas 1929\u20132017. . https:\/\/www.legacy.com\/obituaries\/name\/ted-delevoryas-obituary?pid=186026881.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taylor,\nT.N., E.L. Taylor, and C.P. Daghlian. \n2010.  The career of Ted\nDelevoryas: Appreciation and publications, pp. xix\u2013xxvi.  In:<\/em>\nC.T. Gee (ed.), Plants in Mesozoic Time:\nMorphological Innovations, Phylogeny, Ecosystems.<\/em>  Indiana University Press, Bloomington,\nIndiana. (Ted Delevoryas festschrift)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publications\nof Ted Delevoryas<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stewart, W., and T. Delevoryas<\/strong>.  1952. \nBases for determining relationships among the Medullosaceae.  American\nJournal of Botany<\/em> 39(7): 505\u2013516.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Morgan, J., and T. Delevoryas<\/strong>.  1952.  Stewartiopteris singularis<\/em>: a new\npsaroniaceous fern rachis.  American Journal of Botany<\/em> 39(7):\n479\u2013497.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Morgan, J., and T.\nDelevoryas<\/strong>.  1952. \nAn anatomical study of Stipitopteris<\/em>.  American\nJournal of Botany 39<\/em>(7): 474\u2013478.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas,<\/strong> T., and J.\nMorgan.  1952.  Tubicaulis multiscalariformis<\/em>:\nA new American coenopterid.  American Journal of Botany<\/em> 39(3):\n160\u2013166.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>  1953. \nA new male cordaitean fructification from the Kansas Carboniferous.  American\nJournal of Botany<\/em> 40: 144\u2013150.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>  1954. \nThe Medullosae\u2014structure and relationships.  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Illinois,\nUrbana\u2013Champaign, Illinois, 171 pp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Morgan, J., and T.\nDelevoryas<\/strong>.  1954. \nAn anatomical study of a new coenopterid and its bearing on the\nmorphology of certain coenopterid petioles. \nAmerican Journal of Botany <\/em>41(3):\n198\u2013203.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas,<\/strong> T., and J.\nMorgan.  1954.  A new pteridosperm from Upper Pennsylvanian\ndeposits of North America.  Palaeontographica<\/em> 96, Abt. B: 12\u201323.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas,<\/strong> T., and J.\nMorgan.  1954.  A further investigation of the morphology of Anachoropteris clavata<\/em>.  American\nJournal of Botany<\/em> 41(3): 192\u2013203.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas,<\/strong> T., and J.\nMorgan.  1954.  Observations on petiolar branching and\nfoliage of an American Botryopteris<\/em>.  American\nMidland Naturalist<\/em> 52(2): 374\u2013387.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>  1955. \nA Palaeostachya<\/em> from the\nPennsylvanian of Kansas.  American Journal of Botany<\/em> 42(6):\n481\u2013488.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>  1955. \nThe Medullosae\u2014structure and relationships.  Palaeontographica<\/em>\n97, Abt. B: 115\u2013167.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stewart, W.N., and\nT. Delevoryas<\/strong>.  1956. \nThe Medullosan pteridosperms.  Botanical Review<\/em> 22(1): 45\u201380.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>  1956. \nThe shoot apex of Callistophyton\nporoxyloides<\/em>.  Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology<\/em>, University of Michigan<\/em> 12(15): 285\u2013299.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>  1957. \nAnatomy of Sigillaria approximata<\/em>.  American\nJournal of Botany<\/em> 44(8): 654\u2013660.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>   1958. \nA fossil stem apex from the Pennsylvanian of Illinois.  American\nJournal of Botany<\/em> 45: 84\u201389.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.  <\/strong> 1959.  Investigations of North American cycadeoids: Monanthesia<\/em>.  American\nJournal of Botany<\/em> 46(9): 657\u2013666.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cohen, L.M., and T.<\/strong> Delevoryas<\/strong>.  1959.  An occurrence of Cordaites<\/em> in the Upper Pennsylvanian of Illinois.  American\nJournal of Botany<\/em> 46(7): 545\u2013549.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>   1960. \nCycadeoidales. In<\/em>: McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and\nTechnology<\/em>, p. 689.  McGraw-Hill Book\nCompany, Inc., New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>   1960. \nBook review: The Morphology and Anatomy of American Species of the Genus\nPsaronius<\/em>, by J. Morgan, University\nof Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois, 1959. \nBulletin of the Torrey Botanical\nClub <\/em>87(3): 225\u2013226.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>   1960. \nBook review: Anatomy of Seed Plants, by Katherine Esau, John Wiley &\nSons, New York, 1960.   AIBS Bulletin<\/em> 10(3): 40.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eggert, D.A., and T. Delevoryas<\/strong>.   1960. \nCallospermarion<\/em>\u2014a new seed\ngenus from the Upper Pennsylvanian of Illinois. \nPhytomorphology<\/em> 10(2):\n131\u2013138.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>  1960. \nInvestigations of North American cycadeoids: Trunks from Wyoming.  American\nJournal of Botany<\/em> 47(9): 778\u2013786.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T<\/strong>.  1961. \nBook review: Studies in Paleobotany, by Henry H. Andrews, John Wiley\n& Sons, New York and London, 1961.  The Quarterly Review of Biology<\/em> 36(3):\n212.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>   1961. \nNotes on the cone of Cycadeoidea<\/em>.  American\nJournal of Botany<\/em> 48(6): 540.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T<\/strong>.  1961. \nBook review: Principles of Paleobotany, by William C. Darrah, The Ronald\nPress Company, New York, 1960.  The Quarterly Review of Biology<\/em> 36(3):\n212.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T<\/strong>.  1962. \nBook review: The Yorkshire Jurassic Flora. I. Thallophyta-Pteridophyta,\nThomas Maxwell Harris, British Museum (Natural History), London, 1961.  The\nQuarterly Review of Biology<\/em> 37(2): 181\u2013182.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T<\/strong>.  1962. \nBook review: Fossile Wandstrukturen. Handbuch der Pflanzenanatomie. Abteilung\nCytologie, Band III, Teil 5, by Erich Hennes, Gebr\u00fcder Borntraeger, Berlin,\n1959.  The Quarterly Review of Biology<\/em> 37(2): 182.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>  1962.  Morphology and Evolution of Fossil Plants.<\/em>  Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 189 pp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>  1963. \nInvestigations of North American cycadeoids: Cones of Cycadeoidea<\/em>.  American\nJournal of Botany 50<\/em>(1): 45\u201352.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>   1964. \nThe role of palaeobotany in vascular plant classification, pp.\n26\u201336.  In<\/em>: V.H. Heywood and J. McNeill (eds.), Phenetic and Phylogenetic Classification<\/em>.  Systematics Association, London, U.K., <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>  1964. \nOrigin and evolution of ferns.  Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club<\/em>\n21(5): 1\u20132.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>  1964. \nOntogenetic studies of fossil plants. \nPhytomorphology<\/em> 14(2):\n299\u2013314.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taylor, T.N., and T. Delevoryas<\/strong>.  1964. \nPaleozoic seed studies: A new Pennsylvanian Pachytesta <\/em>from southern Illinois. \nAmerican Journal of Botany<\/em>\n51(2): 189\u2013195.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>  1964. \nTwo petrified angiosperms from the Upper Cretaceous of South\nDakota.  Journal of Paleontology<\/em> 38(3): 584\u2013586.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>  1964. \nA probable pteridosperm microsporangiate fructification from the\nPennsylvanian of Illinois.  Palaeontology <\/em>7(1): 60\u201363.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>  1965. \nInvestigations of North American cycadeoids: Microsporangiate structures\nand phylogenetic implications.  The Palaeobotanist<\/em> 14(1\u20133): 89\u201393.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T<\/strong>.  1966. \nBook review: Spores. Ferns, Microscopic Illusions Analyzed, by Clara S.\nHires, Mistaires Laboratories, Millburn, New Jersey, 1965.  Bulletin\nof the Torrey Botanical Club<\/em> 93(6): 460.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>  1966. \nBook review: The Morphology of Gymnosperms. The Structure and Evolution\nof Primitive Seed-Plants, by K.R. Sporne, Hillary House Publishers, Ltd., New\nYork, 1965.  The Quarterly Review of Biology<\/em> 41(4): 422.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>  1966.  Plant Diversification<\/em>.  Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 145 pp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ostrom, J.H., and T. Delevoryas.<\/strong>  1966.  The Age of Reptiles: A Guide to the Rudolph\nZallinger Mural in the Peabody Museum, Yale University.<\/em>  Yale University Press, New Haven,\nConnecticut, 37 pp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>  1966.  Hunting fossil plants in Mexico.<\/em>  Discovery 2(1): 7\u201313.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>  1966. \nInvestigations of North American cycadeoids: Microsporangiate structures\nand phylogenetic implications.  The Palaeobotanist<\/em> 14(1-3): 89\u201393.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eggert,\nD.A., and T. Delevoryas.<\/strong>  1967. \nStudies of Paleozoic ferns: Sermaya<\/em>,\ngen. nov. and its bearing on Filicalean evolution in the Paleozoic.  Palaeontographica<\/em>\n120, Abt. B: 169\u2013180.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jain, R.K., and T. Delevoryas<\/strong>.  1967. \nA Middle Triassic flora from the Cacheuta Formation, Minas de Petroleo,\nArgentina.  Palaeontology<\/em> 10(4): 564\u2013589.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>  1967. \nFurther remarks on the ontogeny of certain Carboniferous plants.  Phytomorphology<\/em>\n17(1-4): 330\u2013336.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>  1968. \nBook review: Trait\u00e9 de Pal\u00e9obotanique. Tome II. Bryophyta, Psilophyta,\nLycophyta, by E. Boureau, Masson et Cie, 1964. \nBryologist<\/em> 71(2): 157\u2013158.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>  1968. \nSome aspects of cycadeoid evolution. \nBotanical Journal of the Linnean\nSociety<\/em> 61: 137\u2013146.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>  1968. \nPaleobotanical investigations.  Yale Scientific Monthly<\/em> 42(8): 4\u20139, 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>  1968. \nInvestigations of North American cycadeoids: Structure, ontogeny and\nphylogenetic considerations of cones of Cycadeoidea<\/em>.  Palaeontographica<\/em>\n121, Abt. B: 122\u2013133.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>  1969. \nPaleobotany, phylogeny, and a natural system of classification.  Taxon<\/em>\n18(2): 204\u2013212.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>, and T.N.\nTaylor.  1969.  A probable pteridosperm with eremopterid\nfoliage from the Allegheny Group of northern Pennsylvania.  Postilla<\/em>\n133: 1\u201314.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>  1969. \nGlossopterid leaves from the Middle Jurassic of Oaxaca, Mexico.  Science<\/em>\n165(3896): 895\u2013896.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>  1970. \nBook Review: Xylotomy of the Living Cycads with a Description of Their\nLeaves and Epidermis, by Pal Greguss, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest. 1968. Economic Botany<\/em> 24(1): 108.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T. <\/strong> 1970. \nBook review: The Yorkshire Jurassic Flora. III: Bennettitales, by Thomas\nMaxwell Harris, British Museum (Natural History), London, 1969.  The\nQuarterly Review of Biology<\/em> 45(4): 383.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T. <\/strong> 1970 . Book review: A Short History of Botany\nin the United States, by Joseph Ewan, Ed. Hafner, New York, 1969.  Science\n<\/em>169: 1194.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>  1970. \nBook review: The Fossil Flora of the Drywood Formation of Southwestern\nMissouri, by P.W. Basson, University of Missouri Press, Columbia, 1969.  BioScience<\/em>\n20(4): 251.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T<\/strong>.  1970. \nBook review: Anatomy of the Monocotyledons IV. Juncales, by D.F. Cutler,\nC.R. Metcalf (ed.), Oxford University Press, New York, 1969.  BioScience<\/em>\n20(14): 831.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>  1970. \nBiotic provinces and the Jurassic-Cretaceous floral transition, pp.\n1660\u20131674.  In<\/em>: E.L. Yochelson (ed.), Proceedings\nof the North American Paleontological Convention<\/em>, vol. 2, Allen Press,\nInc., Lawrence, Kansas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>  1970. \nPlant life in the Triassic of North Carolina.  Discovery<\/em>\n6(1): 15\u201322.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>, and R.E.\nGould.  1971.  An unusual fossil fructification from the\nJurassic of Oaxaca, Mexico.  American Journal of Botany<\/em> 58(7):\n616\u2013620.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>  1971. \nCycadeoidales, p. 689.  In<\/em>: McGraw-Hill\nEncyclopedia of Science and Technology<\/em>, Third Edition, McGraw-Hill Book\nCompany, Inc., New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>, and R.C.\nHope.  1971.  A new Triassic cycad and its phyletic\nimplications.  Postilla<\/em> 150: 1\u201321.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T. <\/strong> 1971. \nBiotic provinces and the Jurassic\u2013Cretaceous floral transition, pp.\n1660\u20131674.  In<\/em>: K.M. Waage (ed.), North\nAmerican Paleontological Convention, Proceedings, Part L<\/em>, Allen Press,\nLawrence, Kansas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crepet, W.L., and T. Delevoryas<\/strong>.  1972. \nInvestigations of North American cycadeoids: Early ovule ontogeny.  American\nJournal of Botany<\/em> 59(2): 209\u2013215.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>  1973. \nPostdrifting Mesozoic floral evolution, pp. 9\u201319.  In<\/em>:\nB.J. Meggers, E.S. Ayensu, and W.D. Duckworth (eds.), Tropical Forest Ecosystems in Africa and South America: A comparative\nreview<\/em>.  Smithsonian Institution\nPress, Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>, and R.C.\nHope.  1973.  Fertile coniferophyte remains from the Late\nTriassic Deep River Basin, North Carolina. \nAmerican Journal of Botany<\/em>\n60(8): 810\u2013818.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>, and R.E.\nGould. 1973.  Investigations of North\nAmerican cycadeoids: Williamsonian cones from the Jurassic of Oaxaca,\nMexico.  Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology<\/em> 15: 27\u201342.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T<\/strong>.  1973. \nBook review: Fossilium Catalogus; II, Plantae; Pars 79, Gymnospermae\n(Ginkgophyta et Coniferae) I, by W.J. Jongmans and S.J. Dijkstra, 1971;\nGymnospermae (Ginkgophyta et Coniferae) II, by W.J. Jongmans and S.J. Dijkstra,\n1971, Dr. W. Junk\u2019s-Gravenhage, The Hague, 1971.  Journal\nof Paleontology<\/em> 47(3): 595.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T. <\/strong> 1973. \nBiological nomenclature.  Systematics Association Publication<\/em>, No.\n6: 29\u201336.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>  1975. \nBook review: Bryophytes of the Pleistocene: The British Record and its\nChorological and Ecological Implications, by J. H. Dickson, University\nCambridge Press, Cambridge, 1973.  The Quarterly Review of Biology<\/em> 50(1):\n75.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>  1975. \nMesozoic cycadophytes, pp. 173\u2013191. \nIn<\/em>: K.S.W. Campbell, (ed.), Gondwana Geology.<\/em>  Australian National University Press, Canberra,\nAustralia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>, and C.P.\nPerson.  1975.  Mexiglossa\nvaria<\/em> gen. et sp. nov., a new genus of glossopteroid leaves from the\nJurassic of Oaxaca, Mexico.  Palaeontographica<\/em> 154, Abt. B: 114\u2013120.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>, and R.C.\nHope.  1975.  Voltzia\nandrewsii<\/em>, n. sp., an Upper Triassic seed cone from North Carolina,\nUSA.  Review\nof Palaeobotany and Palynology<\/em> 20(1-2): 67\u201374.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Skog, J.E., P.G.\nGensel, T.L. Phillips, T. Delevoryas<\/strong>,\nS.H. Mamay, A.T. Cross , A.E. Kasper, and H.T. Andrews.  1975. \nPreface to special issue on Henry N. Andrews, Jr.  Review\nof Palaeobotany and Palynology<\/em> 20(1\u20132): 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Skog, J.E., P.G.\nGensel, T.L. Phillips, T. Delevoryas<\/strong>,\nS.H. Mamay, A.T. Cross , A.E. Kasper, and H.T. Andrews (eds.).  1975. \nSpecial issue dedicated to Henry N. Andrews Jr. on his retirement.  Review\nof Palaeobotany and Palynology<\/em> 20(1\u20132): 2\u2013131.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Skog, J.E., P.G.\nGensel, T.L. Phillips, T. Delevoryas<\/strong>,\nS.H. Mamay, A.T. Cross , A.E. Kasper, and H.T. Andrews.  1975. \nHenry N. Andrews Jr.: A biographical sketch.  Review\nof Palaeobotany and Palynology<\/em> 20(1\u20132): 3\u201311.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>, and R.C.\nHope.  1976.  More evidence for a slender growth habit in\nMesozoic cycadophytes.  Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology<\/em>\n21(1): 93\u2013100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>  1977.  Plant Diversification<\/em>, Second\nEdition.  Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New\nYork, 144 pp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ostrom, J.H., and T. Delevoryas<\/strong>.  1977. \nThe Age of Reptiles.  Yale\nUniversity Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 39 pp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gould,\nR.E., and T. Delevoryas<\/strong>.  1977. \nThe biology of Glossopteris<\/em>: Evidence\nfrom petrified seed-bearing and pollen-bearing organs.  Alcheringa<\/em>\n1: 387\u2013399.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>, and\nR.C. Hope.  1978.  Habit of the Upper Triassic Pekinopteris auriculata<\/em>.  Canadian\nJournal of Botany<\/em> 56(24): 3129\u20133135.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T<\/strong>.  1978. \nDiversifica\u00e7\u00e3o nas Plantas.  Pioneira<\/em>, Sao Paulo, SP (Brazil), 184\npp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taylor, T.N., D.L.\nDilcher, and T. Delevoryas<\/strong>.  1979. \nPlant reproduction in the fossil record\u2014Introduction.  Review\nof Palaeobotany and Palynology<\/em> 27(3\u20134): 211\u2013212.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taylor, T.N., D.L. Dilcher, and T. Delevoryas<\/strong> (eds.).  1979. \nPlant reproduction in the fossil record. \nReview of Palaeobotany and\nPalynology<\/em> 27(3\u20134): 211\u2013358.  [Papers\npresented at a symposium of Paleobotanical Section, Botanical Society of\nAmerica, Michigan State University,\nAugust 1977]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ball, H.W., H.W.\nBorns, Jr., B.A. Hall, H.K. Brooks, F.M. Carpenter, and T.<\/strong> Delevoryas<\/strong>.  1979. \nBiota, age, and significance of lake deposits, Carapace Nunatak,\nVictoria Land, Antarctica, pp. 166\u2013175.  In<\/em>: B. Laskar and C.S.R. Rao (eds.), Fourth International Gondwana Symposium:\nPapers.<\/em>  Hindustan Publishing\nCorporation, New Delhi, India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>  1980. \nPolyploidy in gymnosperms, pp. 215\u2013218. \nIn:<\/em> W.H. Lewis (ed.), Polyploidy: Biological Relevance<\/em>.  Plenum Press, New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daghlian, C.P.,\nW.L. Crepet, and T. Delevoryas<\/strong>.  1980. \nInvestigations of Tertiary angiosperms: A new flora including Eomimosoidea plumosa<\/em> from the Oligocene\nof eastern Texas.  American Journal of Botany<\/em> 67(3): 309\u2013320.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>, and R.C.\nHope.  1981 . Conifer diversity in the\nUpper Triassic.  BioScience <\/em>31(4): 326\u2013328.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Serlin,\nB.S., T. Delevoryas<\/strong>, and\nR. Weber.  1981.  A new conifer pollen cone from the Upper\nCretaceous of Coahuila, Mexico.  Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology<\/em>\n31: 241\u2013248.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>, and S.C.\nSrivastava.  1981.  Jurassic plants from the department of\nFrancisco Morazan, central Honduras.  Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology<\/em>\n34: 345\u2013357.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T<\/strong>.  1981. \nDiversificaci\u00f3n Vegetal.  CECSA,\nMexico City, 204 pp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>, and R.C.\nHope.  1981.  More evidence for conifer diversity in the\nUpper Triassic of North Carolina.  American Journal of Botany<\/em> 68(7):\n1003\u20131007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Person, C.P., and T. Delevoryas<\/strong>.  1982. \nThe Middle Jurassic flora of Oaxaca, Mexico.  Palaeontographica<\/em>\n180, Abt. B: 82\u2013119.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>  1982. \nA new Coniopteris<\/em> from the\nMiddle Jurassic of Tecomatlan Puebla, Mexico, pp. 71\u201376.  In:<\/em>\nD.D. Nautiyal (ed.), Studies on Living\nand Fossil Plants<\/em>.  The Society of\nPlant Taxonomists, Allahabad, India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>  1982. \nPerspectives on the origin of cycads and cycadeoids.  Review\nof Palaeobotany and Palynology <\/em>37(1\u20132): 115\u2013132.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taylor, T.N., and T. Delevoryas<\/strong> (eds.).  1982. \nGymnosperms: Paleozoic and Mesozoic. \nReview of Palaeobotany and\nPalynology<\/em> 37(1\u20132): 1\u2013154.  [Papers\npresented at a symposium held at the 13th International Botanical Congress,\nSydney, Australia, 21\u201328 August 1981]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taylor, T.N., and T. Delevoryas<\/strong>.  1982. \nIntroduction to Gymnosperms: Paleozoic and Mesozoic.  Review\nof Palaeobotany and Palynology<\/em> 37(1\u20132): 1\u20135.  In<\/em>:\nT.N. Taylor, and T. Delevoryas<\/strong> (eds.<\/strong>),Papers presented at a symposium held at the 13th International Botanical\nCongress, Sydney, Australia, 21\u201328 August 1981.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smoot, E.L., T.N.\nTaylor, and T. Delevoryas<\/strong>.  1985. \nStructurally preserved fossil plants from Antarctica. I. Antarcticycas<\/em>, gen. nov., a Triassic\ncycad stem from the Beardmore Glacier area. \nAmerican Journal of Botany<\/em> 72:\n1410\u20131423.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bold, H.C., C.J.\nAlexopoulos, and T. Delevoryas.  <\/strong>1986. \nMorfolog\u00eda de las Plantas y los\nHongos<\/em>.  Ediciones Omega S.A., New\nYork, U.S.A., Barcelona, Spain. 911 pp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ostrom, J.H., L.J.\nHickey, and T. Delevoryas<\/strong>.  1987. \nThe Age of Reptiles, Second Edition. \nPeabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven,\nConnecticut, 38 pp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taylor, T.N., T. Delevoryas<\/strong>, and R.C. Hope.  1987. \nPollen cones from the Late Triassic of North America and implications on\nconifer evolution.  Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology<\/em> 53: 141\u2013149.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bold, H.C., C.J.\nAlexopoulos, and T. Delevoryas<\/strong>.  1987.  Morphology of Plants and Fungi<\/em>, Fifth\nEdition.  Harper and Row, Publishers, New\nYork, 912 pp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laudon, T.S., D.J.\nLidke, T. Delevoryas<\/strong>, and C.T.\nGee.  1987.  Sedimentary rocks of the English coast,\neastern Ellsworth Land, Antarctica, pp. 183\u2013189.  In<\/em>:\nG.D. McKenzie (ed.), Gondwana Six:\nStructure, Tectonics, and Geophysics.  <\/em>American\nGeophysical Union, Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>, and R.C.\nHope.  1987.  Further observations on the Late Triassic\nconifers Compsostrobus neotericus<\/em> and\nVoltzia andrewsii<\/em>.  Review\nof Palaeobotany and Palynology<\/em> 51: 59\u201364.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>  1990. \nComments on the role of cycadophytes in Antarctic fossil floras, pp.\n173\u2013178.  In<\/em>: T.N. Taylor and E.L. Taylor (eds.), Antarctic Paleobiology\u2014Its Role in the Reconstruction of Gondwana.<\/em>  Springer-Verlag, New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>  1991. \nInvestigations of North American cycadeoids: Weltrichia<\/em> and Williamsonia<\/em>\nfrom the Jurassic of Oaxaca, Mexico.  American Journal of Botany<\/em> 78(2):\n177\u2013182.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gustavson, T.C.,\nand T. Delevoryas<\/strong>.  1992.  Caulerpa<\/em>-like marine alga from Permian\nstrata, Palo Duro Basin, west Texas.  Journal of Paleontology<\/em> 66(1): 160\u2013161.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>, T.N.\nTaylor, and E.L. Taylor.  1992.  A marattialean fern from the Triassic of\nAntarctica.  Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology<\/em> 74: 101\u2013107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>  1993. \nBook review: Jurassic and Cretaceous Floras and Climates of the Earth,\nby V.A. Vakhrameev, N.F. Hughes (ed.), J.V. Litvinov (transl.), Cambridge\nUniversity Press, Cambridge and New York, 1991. \nThe Quarterly Review of Biology<\/em>\n68(1): 96\u201397.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>  1993. \nOrigin, evolution, and growth patterns of cycads, pp. 236\u2013245.  In<\/em>:\nD.W. Stevenson and K.J. Norstog (eds.), The\nBiology, Structure, and Systematics of the Cycadales.<\/em>  Palm and Cycad Societies of Australia, Ltd.,\nMilton, Queensland, Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Axsmith, B.J.,\nT.N. Taylor, T.<\/strong> Delevoryas<\/strong>, and R.C. Hope. \n1995.  A new species of Eoginkgoites<\/em> from the Upper Triassic of\nNorth Carolina, USA.  Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology<\/em>\n85: 189\u2013198.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delevoryas, T.<\/strong>, and J.E.\nMickle.  1995.  Upper Cretaceous magnoliaceous fruit from\nBritish Columbia.  American Journal of Botany <\/em>82(6): 763\u2013768.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Compiled by Thomas N. Taylor, Edith L. Taylor and Charles P.\nDaghlian in 2010, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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