Faculty:Gene K. Mapes





Gene K. Mapes
Adjunct Associate Professor

Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1978
Paleobotany

Phone: 740.593.1117
Fax:    740.593.1130
Email: mapesg@ohio.edu

Research Program Summary

Understanding the paleobiology and paleoecology of ancient conifers and their environmental stresses throughout geologic time, requires integrated geological and botanical investigations, emphasizing plant anatomy, morphology, and systematics, combined with analyses of depositional environments, geochemistry, taxonomy, and plant/animal associations, in several different terrestrial and marine ecosystems. This primary research base has expanded in recent years to include neoenvironmental studies in both physical and life sciences, as well as environmental monitoring and environmental policy decisions.

Selected References

 

  • Rothwell, G.W., G. Mapes, J. Hilton, and N. Hollingsworth. Anatomy of cheirolepidiaceous pollen cones; Classostrobus crossii sp. nov. International Journal of Coal Geology, submitted Oct 3, 2004.

  • Singh, K.J., G.W. Rothwell, G. Mapes and S. Chandra. 2003. Reinvestigation of the coniferophyte morphospecies Buriadia heterophylla Seward and Sahni, with reinterpretation of vegetative diversity and putative seed attachments. Review of Palaeobotany and Palnnology 127: 25-43.

  • Dunn, M. T., G. W. Rothwell, and G. Mapes. 2003. On Paleozoic plants from marine strata: Trivena arkansana gen. et sp. nov., a lyginopterid from the Fayetteville Formation (middle Chesterian/Upper Mississippian) of Arkansas, USA. American Journal of Botany 90: 1239-1252.

  • Rothwell, G.W. and G. Mapes. 2003. Validation of the names Utrechtiaceae, Utrechtia, and Utrechtia floriniformis. Taxon 52: 329-330.

  • Hernandez-Castillo, G.R., G.W. Rothwell, R.A. Stockey and G. Mapes. 2003. Growth architecture of Thucydia mahoningensis, a model for primitive walchian conifer plants. International Journal of Plant Sciences 164: 443-452.

  • Dunn, M. T., M. Krings, G. Mapes, G. W. Rothwell, R. H. Mapes, S. Keqin. 2003. Medullosa steinii sp. nov., a seed fern vine from the Late Mississippian. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 124: 307-324.

  • Dunn, M.T., G.W. Rothwell, and G. Mapes. 2002. Additional observations on Rhynchosperma quinnii (Medullosaceae): a permineralized ovule from the Chesterian (Upper Mississippian) Fayetteville Formation of Arkansas. American Journal of Botany 89: 1799_1808.

  • Tomescu, A.M.F., G.W. Rothwell and G. Mapes. 2001. Lyginopteris royali sp. nov. from the Upper Mississippian of North America. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 116: 159-173.

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  • Rothwell G. W. and G. Mapes. 200l Barthelia furcata gen. et sp. nov., with review of Paleozoic coniferophytes and discussion of coniferophyte systematics. International Journal of Plant Sciences 162: 637-667.
  • Hernandez-Castillo, G., G. W. Rothwell, and G. Mapes. 2001. Thucydiaceae fam. nov., with a review and revaluation of Paleozoic walchian conifers. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 162 (5): 1155-1185.
  • Mapes, G. and G.W. Rothwell. 1998. Pollen cone structure of the Late Pennsylvanian (Stephanian) conifer Emporia. Journal of Paleontology 72:571-576.
  • Mapes , R.H. and G. Mapes. 1997. Biotic destruction of terrestrial plant debris in the Late Paleozoic marine environment. Lethaia 29:157-169.
  • Rothwell, G.W., G. Mapes and R.H. Mapes. 1996. Late Paleozoic conifers of North America: Structure, diversity and occurrences. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 95:95-113.
  • Mapes, G.K., G.W. Rothwell, and R.H. Mapes. 1996. Anatomically preserved Vojnovskyalean seed plants in Upper Pennsylvanian (Stephanian) marine shales of North America. Journal of Paleontology 83:1083-1090.

    Faculty Research Focus Area
         Phylogenetic Systematics

 


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