Gandolfo Nixon, Maria Alejandra
Senior Research Associate
Paleobotany and Plant anatomy, with emphasis on plant evolution and development, origin of angiosperms, Cretaceous and Tertiary floras and paleoclimate.
research
primary investigator of
co investigator of
research areas
- biodiversity | collaborative research area (CALS)
- climatology | collaborative research area (CALS)
- earth science | collaborative research area (CALS)
- evolution | collaborative research area (CALS)
- plant biology | collaborative research area (CALS)
- plant sciences | collaborative research area (CALS)
international geographic focus
- Antarctica | continent
- South America | continent
submitted impact statement
- Cretaceous and tertiary paleofloras of Patagonia, Argentina. | 2007 Impact statement
- Extremely diverse fossil floras from the Cretaceous and Paleogene of Patagonia, Argentina: Implications for the origins of high plant and insect diversity and for paleoclimates in South America | 2006 Impact statement
- Extremely diverse fossil floras from the Cretaceous and Paleogene of Patagonia, Argentina: Implications for the origins of high plant and insect diversity and for paleoclimates in South America | 2005 Impact statement
affiliations
academic staff in
- Plant Biology (BIOPL) | Cornell department
teaching
teaches
- BIOPL 3470 - Anatomy of Plant Model Organisms (TR 09:05:AM-09:55:AM) | fall 2009 class
service
current professional activities
- BIOPL 345 | Plant Anatomy
publications
selected publications (listing in progress)
- Cúneo, N. R., and M. A. Gandolfo. 2005. Angiosperm leaves from the Kachaike Formation, Lower Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 136 (1-2): 29-47.
- Gandolfo, M. A., and N. R. Cúneo. 2005. Fossil Nelumbonaceae from the La Colonia Formation (Maastrichtian- Campanian, Upper Cretaceous), Chubut, Patagonia, Argentina. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 133 (3-4): 169-178.
- Gandolfo, M.A., K.C. Nixon, and W.L. Crepet. 2004. The oldest complete fossil flowers of Nymphaeaceae and implications for the complex insect entrapment pollination mechanisms in Early Angiosperms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 101 (21): 8056-8060.
- Gandolfo, M. A., Nixon, K. C., and Crepet, W. L. 2002. Triuridaceae fossil flowers from the Upper Cretaceous of New Jersey. American Journal of Botany 89 (12): 271-314.
- Gandolfo, M. A., Nixon , K. C., and Crepet, W. L. Studies on Turonian Pinaceae of the Raritan Formation, New Jersey. Plant Systematics and Evolution 226: 187-203.
- Gandolfo, M. A., K. C. Nixon, and W. L. Crepet. Monocotyledons: A review of their Early Cretaceous record. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Comparative Biology of the Monocotyledons. K. Wilson and D. Morrison (eds.) Pp. 44-52. Sydney, Australia.
- Gandolfo, M. A., K. C. Nixon, W.L. Crepet, D. W. Stevenson, and E. M. Friis. Oldest known fossil flowers of monocotyledons. Nature 394: 532-533.
linked articles
Keywords: cretaceous and tertiary paleofloras, origin of angiosperms, paleobiogeography, paleobotany, paleoclimate, paleoclimatology, plant anatomy, plant evolution, vascular plant evolution