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In Preparation
- Geissman, J.W., Gastaldo, R.A., Neveling, J., and Makubalu, S., Paleomagnetic and rock magnetic data bearing on the age and thermal history of Upper Permian to Lower Triassic (?) Beaufort Group Strata, Karoo Basin, South Africa; the Bethulie Section (Bethel Farm), Free State Province: Geosphere
- Gastaldo, R.A., Tabor, N.J., Neveling, J., Rochin-Bañaga, H., Davis, D., Looy, C.V., Kamo, S.L., and Geissman, J.W. Latest Permian pCO2 estimates from multi-proxy constrained South African continental records
- Gastaldo, R.A., Palusofolium heterophylla n. gen. and n. sp., a Lower Mississippian (Visean) lyginopterid pteridosperm preserved in a coastal marsh setting, Hartselle Sandstone, Alabama
- Pfefferkorn, H.W., Gastaldo, R.A., Lucas, S.G., and DiMichele, W.A., Are “uplands” and “extrabasinal lowlands” the source of drought-tolerant terrestrial organisms in the late Paleozoic fossil record?
Submitted
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
2024
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- Glasspool, I.J. and Gastaldo, R.A., Don’t mind the ‘Charcoal Gap’: a reassessment of Devonian wildfire: GEOLOGY, v. 52, p. 846-850. (Gold Open Access) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1130/G52648.1
- Gastaldo, R.A., Gensel, P., Glasspool, I., Hinds, S.J., King, O.A., Park, A.F., and Stimson, M.R., To rush into the secret house of death; the fate of a Tournaisian plant: GEOLOGY, v. 52, p. 784-788. (Gold Open Access) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1130/G52348.1
- Glasspool, I.J. and Gastaldo, R.A., Through fire, and through water, an abundance of Mid-Devonian charcoal: PALAIOS, v. 39, p, 301-322. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.2110/palo.2024.009 (Gold Open Access)
- Gastaldo, R.A., Gensel, P., Glasspool, I., Hinds, S.J., King, O.A., McLean, D., Park, A.F., Stimson, M.R., and Stonesifer, T., Enigmatic fossil plants with three-dimensional, arborescent-growth architecture from the earliest Carboniferous of New Brunswick, Canada: Current Biology, v. 34, p. 1-12. (Gold Open Access) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.01.011
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- Highlighted by: Canadian Broadcast Company
- Highlighted by: Globe & Mail (Canada; subscription required)
- Featured in: CBC Quirks and Quarks
- Highlighted by: Science
- Highlighted by: Nature
- Highlighted by: Nature
- Highlighted by: New York Times, Trilobite science section
- Highlighted by: The Wall Street Journal
- Highlighted in: CNN Online
- Highlighted in: Newsweek
- Highlighted by: Live Science
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- Highlighted in: The Independent (UK)
- Highlighted by: Scientia.nl (Netherlands)
- Highlighted by: L’Obs (France)
- Rochín-Bañaga, H., Gastaldo, R.A., Davis, D.W., Neveling, J., Kamo, S.L., Looy, C.V., and Geissman, J.W., U-Pb dating of pedogenic calcite near the Permian—Triassic boundary, Karoo Basin: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 136, p. 1689-1700. (Gold Open Access; online 23 August 2023) https://doi.org/10.1130/B36968.1
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2023
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- Gastaldo, R.A., Wan, M., and Yang, W., The taphonomic character, occurrence, and persistence of upper Permian–Lower Triassic plant assemblages in the mid-paleolatitudes, Bogda Mountains, western China: PALAIOS, v. 38, p. 1-21. (Gold Open Access) DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2110/palo.2022.025
- Gastaldo, R.A., and Bamford, M., The influence of time and taphonomy on the paleobotanical record of the Permian—Triassic transition of the Karoo Basin (and elsewhere): Journal of African Earth Sciences, 204 (2023) 104960 (Gold Open Access) DOI:doi.org/10.1016/f.fafrearsci.2023.104960
- Gibling, M., Jia, R., Gastaldo, R.A., Neveling, J. and Rochín-Bañaga, H., Braided-river architecture of the Triassic Swartberg Member, Katberg Formation, South Africa: Assessing age, fluvial style and paleoclimate after the end-Permian extinction: Journal of Sedimentary Research (Gold Open Access) https://doi-org.colby.idm.oclc.org/10.2110/jsr.018
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2022
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- Glasspool, I.J., and Gastaldo, R.A. A baptism by fire: fossil charcoal from eastern Euramerica reveals the earliest (Homerian) terrestrial biota evolved in a flammable world: Geological Society of London, jgs2022-072. (Gold Open Access) https://doi-org.colby.idm.oclc.org/10.1144/jgs2022-072
- Highlighted by: New York Times
- Glasspool, I.J., and Gastaldo, R.A., Silurian wildfire proxies and atmospheric oxygen: GEOLOGY, v. 50, p. 1048-1052. (Gold Open Access) https://doi.org/10.1130/G50193.1 (supplemental data available)
- Highlighted in: BBC Science & Environment
- Societal Recognition: Ralph Gray Award from The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP) for best 2022 refereed paper in organic petrology
- Glasspool, I.J., and Gastaldo, R.A. A baptism by fire: fossil charcoal from eastern Euramerica reveals the earliest (Homerian) terrestrial biota evolved in a flammable world: Geological Society of London, jgs2022-072. (Gold Open Access) https://doi-org.colby.idm.oclc.org/10.1144/jgs2022-072
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- Greb, S.F., DiMichele, W.A., Gastaldo, R.A., Eble, C.F., and Wing, S.L., 2022, Prehistoric Wetlands: in Mehner, T., and Kockner, K., Eds., Encyclopedia of Inland Waters (Second Edition), Elsevier, v. 3, p. 23-32, ISBN 9780128220412, DOI:10.1016/B978-0-12-819166-8.00066-9.
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2021
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- Gastaldo, R.A., Neveling, J., Geissman, J.W., Kamo, S.L., and Looy, C.V., A Tale of Two Tweefonteins: What Physical Correlation, Geochronology, Magnetic Polarity Stratigraphy, and Palynology say about the end-Permian terrestrial extinction paradigm: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 133, (Gold Open Access) https://doi.org/10.1130/B35830.1/5345349/b35830.pdf
- Yang, W., Wan, M., Crowley, J.L., Wang, J., Luo X. Tabor, N.J. Angeilczyk, K.D., Gastaldo, R.A., Geissman, J.W., Liu, F., Roopnarine, P., and Sidor, C., Paleoenvironmental and Paleoclimatic Evolution and Cyclo- and Chrono-Stratigraphy of Upper Permian-Lower Triassic Fluvial-Lacustrine Deposits in Bogda Mountains, NW China – Implications for Diachronous Plant Evolution Across the Permian-Triassic Boundary: Earth Science Reviews, v. 222, November 2021, 103741 DOI:doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103741
- Gastaldo, R.A., Isozaki, Y., Kustatscher, E., Reisz, R., and Shen, S.-Z., Permian Extinctions and Recovery: Advances and Insights: Frontiers in Earth Science, 23 September 2021 (Open Access) https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.772688
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2020
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- Gastaldo, R.A., Tabor, N., and Neveling, J., Trends in Late Permian (Changhsingian) paleoclimate in the Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa: Frontiers in Earth Science, v. 8, n. 567109 (Gold Open Access) DOI:10.3389/fevo.2020.567109
- Gastaldo, R.A., Kamo, S.L., Neveling, J., Geissman, J., Looy, C.V., and Martini, A.M., The base of the Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone, Karoo Basin, predates the end-Permian marine extinction: Nature Communications, v. 11, no. 1428 (Gold Open Access) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15243-7 or https://rdcu.be/b26a0
- Gastaldo, R.A., Kus, K., Neveling, J., and Tabor, N., Calcic paleoVertisols in the upper Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone, Balfour Formation, Karoo Basin, South Africa: Implications for Late Permian Climate: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 90, p. 609-628. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2020.32
- Gastaldo, R.A., and Neveling, J., Comment on “Permian—Triassic vertebrate footprints from South Africa: Ichnotaxonomy, producers and biostratigraphy through two major faunal crises” by Marchetti, L., Klein, H., Buchwitz, M., Ronchi, A., Smith, R.M.H., DeKlerk, W.J., Sciscio, L., and Groenewald, G.H. (2019): Gondwana Research v. 78, p. 375-378. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2019.08.003
- Martinetto, E. Tschopp, E., and Gastaldo, R.A., editors., Nature Through Time: Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, Switzerland, 474 p. ISBN 978-3-030-35057-4.
- Martinetto, E. Tschopp, E., and Gastaldo, R.A., Preface, in Martinetto, E. Tschopp, E., and Gastaldo, R.A., eds., Nature Through Time: Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, Switzerland, p. ix-xv. ISBN 978-3-030-35057-4.
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- Gastaldo, R.A., Bamford, M., Calder, J., DiMichele, W.A., Ianuzzi, R., Jasper, A., Kerp, H., McLoughlin, S., Opluštil, S., Pfefferkorn, H.W., Roessler, R., and Wang, J., UNIT 12: The non-analog vegetation of the Late Paleozoic icehouse–hothouse and their coal-forming forested environments: in Martinetto, E. Tschopp, E., and Gastaldo, R.A., eds., Nature Through Time: Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, Switzerland, p. 291-316. ISBN 978-3-030-35057-4.
- Gastaldo, R.A., Bamford, M., Calder, J., DiMichele, W.A., Ianuzzi, R., Jasper, A., Kerp, H., McLoughlin, S., Opluštil, S., Pfefferkorn, H.W., Roessler, R., and Wang, J., UNIT 13: The Coal Farms of the Late Paleozoic: in Martinetto, E. Tschopp, E., and Gastaldo, R.A., eds., Nature Through Time: Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, Switzerland, p. 317-343 . ISBN 978-3-030-35057-4.
- Gensel, P., Glasspool, I., Gastaldo, R.A., Libertin, M., and Kvacke, J., UNIT 15: Back to the beginnings: The Silurian-Devonian as a time of major innovation in plants and their communities: in Martinetto, E. Tschopp, E., and Gastaldo, R.A., eds., Nature Through Time: Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, Switzerland, p. 367-398. ISBN 978-3-030-35057-4.
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2019
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- Gastaldo, R.A., Neveling, J., Geissman, J.W., and Looy, C.V., Testing the Daptocephalus and Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zones in a Lithostratographic, Magnetostratigraphic, and Palynological Framework in the Free State, South Africa: PALAIOS, v. 34, p. 542-561. DOI:https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2019.019
- Gastaldo, R.A., News & Views: Plants escaped an ancient mass extinction: Nature Communications v. 567, n 7746, . 38-39. DOI:10.1038/d41586-019-00744-3
- Gastaldo, R.A., Neveling, J., Geissman, J.W., and Li., J.W., A Multidisciplinary Approach to Review the Vertical and Lateral Facies Relationships of the Purported Vertebrate-defined Terrestrial Boundary Interval at Bethulie, Karoo Basin, South Africa: Earth Science Reviews, v. 189. p. 220-243: doi 10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.08.002
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2018
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- Gastaldo, R.A., Neveling, J., Geissman, J.W., and Kamo, S.L., A Lithostratigraphic and Magnetostratigraphic Framework in a Geochronologic Context for a Purported Permian–Triassic Boundary Section at Old (West) Lootsberg Pass, Karoo Basin, South Africa: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 130, p. 1411-1438. (Gold Open Access) https:// doi .org /10 .1130 /B31881 .1 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1130/B31881.1
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2017
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- Pfefferkorn, H.W., Gastaldo, R.A., and DiMichele, W.A., Impact of an icehouse climate interval on tropical vegetation and plant evolution: Stratigraphy, v. 14, p. 365-376. DOI: 10.29041/strat.14.1-4.365-376
- Gastaldo, R.A., Neveling, J., Looy, C.V., Bamford, M.K., Kamo, S.L., and Geissman, J.W., Paleontology of the Blaauwater 67 Farm, South Africa: Testing the Daptocephalus/Lystrosaurus Biozone Boundary in a Stratigraphic Framework: PALAIOS, v. 34, p. 349-366. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2110/palo.2016.106
- Li, J., Gastaldo, R.A., Neveling, J., and Geissman, J.W., Siltstones Across the Daptocephalus (Dicynodon) and Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zones, Karoo Basin, South Africa, Show No Evidence for Aridification: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 87, p. 653-671. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2017.35
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2016
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- Neveling, J., Gastaldo, R.A., Kamo, S.L., Geissman, J.W., Looy, C.V., and Bamford, M.K., A Review of Stratigraphic, Geochemical, and Paleontologic Correlations Data of the Terrestrial end-Permian record in the Karoo Basin, South Africa: in Linol, B., and de Wit, M., eds., Origin and Evolution of the Cape Mountains and Karoo Basin: Regional Geology Reviews, Springer Publishing, Chapter 15, p. 151-157. DOI 10.1007/978-63-319-40859-1_15
- Neveling, J., Gastaldo, R.A., and Geissman, J.W., The Permo–Triassic Boundary in the Karoo Basin: 35th International Geological Congress Pre-Meeting Field Trip Guide P-3, Council for Geoscience, Pretoria, South Africa, 102 p. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.22414.15683; ISBN 978-0-9947087-3-1
- Gastaldo, R.A., New Paleontological Insights into the Emsian–Eifelian Trout Valley Formation, Baxter State Park’s Scientific Forest Management Area, Aroostock County, Maine: PALAIOS, v. 31, p. 339-346. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2110/palo.2016.035
- Gastaldo, R.A., and Neveling, J., Comment on “Anatomy of a mass extinction: Sedimentological and taphonomic evidence for drought-induced die-offs at the Permo-Triassic boundary in the main Karoo Basin, South Africa” by R.M.H. Smith and J. Botha-Brink, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 396:99-118.: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. doi 10.1016 /j.palaeo.2014.06.027
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2015
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- Gastaldo, R.A., Kamo, S.L., Neveling, J., Geissman, J.W., Bamford, M., and Looy, C., Is the vertebrate-defined Permian–Triassic Boundary in the Karoo Basin, South Africa, the terrestrial expression of the End Permian marine event?: GEOLOGY, v. 43, p. 939-942. (Gold Open Access) doi: 10.1130/G37040.1
- Highlighted in The Economist (3 October 2015): Layers of Meaning
- Gastaldo, R.A., Kamo, S.L., Neveling, J., Geissman, J.W., Bamford, M., and Looy, C., Is the vertebrate-defined Permian–Triassic Boundary in the Karoo Basin, South Africa, the terrestrial expression of the End Permian marine event?: GEOLOGY, v. 43, p. 939-942. (Gold Open Access) doi: 10.1130/G37040.1
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2014
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- Gastaldo, R.A., Knight, C., Neveling, J., and Tabor, N., Late Permian Paleosols from Wapadsberg Pass, South Africa: Implications for Changhsingian Climate: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 126, p. 665-679. doi: 10.1130/B30887.1
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2013
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- Gastaldo, R.A., Pludow, B.A., and Neveling, J., Mud Aggregates from the Katberg Formation, South Africa: Additional Evidence for Early Triassic Degradational Landscapes: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 83, p. 531-540. https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2013.45
- Kennedy, K.R., Gibling, M.R., Eble, C.E., Gastaldo, R.A., Gensel, P.G., Werner-Zwanziger, U., and Wilson, R.A., Early Devonian Coaly Shales of Northern New Brunswick, Canada: Plant Accumulations in the Early Stages of Terrestrial Colonization: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 83, p. 1202-1215. doi: 10.2110/jsr.2013.86
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2012
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- Gastaldo, R.A., Taphonomic controls on the distribution of palynomorphs in tidally-influenced coastal deltaic settings: PALAIOS, v. 27, p. 798-810. doi:10.2110/palo.2012.p12-030r
- Gastaldo, R.A., and Neveling, J., The terrestrial Permian—Triassic boundary event is a nonevent: REPLY: GEOLOGY, v. 40, p. e257. doi:10.1130/G32975Y.1
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2011
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- 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: 10.1007/978-481-8643-3_7
- 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. DOI: 10.1666/10022.1
- 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. 25-139. DOI: 10.2307/25835611
- 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., REPLY: No major stratigraphic gap exists near the Desmoinesian-Missourian Stage boundary in North America: PALAIOS, v. 26, p. 671.
2010
- Prevec, R., Gastaldo, R.A., Neveling, J., Reid, S.B., and Looy, C.V., An autochthonous glossoperid flora with Latest Permian palynomorphs 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. doi:10.2110/palo.2009.p09-107r
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2009
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- 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. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2009.04.012
- 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. DOI: 10.2110/palo.2008.p08-084
- 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. DOI: 10 .2110/palo.2007.p07-027r
- 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. DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2009.036
- 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. DOI: 10.1130/G25255A
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2008
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- 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.
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2007
2006
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- 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.
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2005
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- 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 outh 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.
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2004
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- Gastaldo, R.A., The relationship between bedform and log orientation in a Paleogene fluvial channel, Weißelster 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.
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2003
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- 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.
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2002
2001
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- 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.
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2000
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- 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.
- Gastaldo, R.A., and DiMichele, eds., Phanerozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems: Paleontological Society Short Course Notes: The Paleontological Society Papers, v. 6, 308 p.
- 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.
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1999
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- 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.
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1998
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- 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.
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1997
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- 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.
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1996
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- 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.
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1995
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- 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]
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1994
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- 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.
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1993
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- Gastaldo, R.A., Gutherie, G., and Steltenpohl. M.G. Mississippian fossils from southern Appalachian metamorphic rocks and their implications for Late Paleozoic 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. NOTE: 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.
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1992
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- 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 Behrenmeyer, 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.
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1991
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- Gastaldo, R.A., Demko, T.M., and Liu, Y.. 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.
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1990
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- 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., Demko, T.M., and Liu, Y. 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., Demko, T.M., and Liu, Y., 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]
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1989
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- 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, Keefer, W.D., and Abston, S.L., Biostratinomic processes for the development of of mud-cast logs in Carboniferous and Holocene swamps: PALAIOS, v. 4, p. 356-365.
- Gastaldo, R.A., Gibson, M.A., and Gray, T.D., 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.
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1988
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- 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]
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1987
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- 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., 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]
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1986
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- 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.
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1985
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- 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.
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1984
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- 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.
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1983
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- 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.
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1982
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- 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).
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1981
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- 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.
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1978
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- 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.
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1977
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- 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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