education and training
- Ph.D., University of Illinois 1979
- M.S., University of Illinois 1976
- B.A., Drexel University 1974
- Websites
DiMichele, William
Research Geologist and Curator of Paleobotany
Positions
Paleoecology, morphology, and systematics of late Paleozoic plants (240-350 million years old), particularly the structure of late Paleozoic ecosystems and the relationship between long-term ecological and evolutionary patterns
Geographic Focus
- Central Appalachian Basin Geographic Region
- Illinois Basin Geographic Region
- New Mexico State or Province
- North-Central Texas Geographic Region
Background And Education
awards and honors
- Gilbert H. Cady Award , conferred by The Geological Society of America, 2011
Research And Grants
Publications
selected publications
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article
- DiMichele, William A., Kerp, Hans, Lucas, Spencer G., and Chaney, Dan S. 2022. "A taxonomic revision of the late Paleozoic lyginopterid Sphenopteridium germanicum and description of its globose-stem growth habit." Review of palaeobotany and palynology, 298, Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2021.104591. 2022
- Marchetti, Lorenzo, Forte, Giuseppa, Kustatscher, Evelyn, DiMichele, William A., Lucas, Spencer G., Roghi, Guido, Juncal, Manuel A., Hartkopf-Fröder, Christoph, Krainer, Karl, Morelli, Corrado, and Ronchi, Ausonio. 2022. "The Artinskian Warming Event: an Euramerican change in climate and the terrestrial biota during the early Permian." Earth-Science Reviews, 226. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.103922. 2022
- Lucas, Spencer G., DiMichele, William A., and Schneider, Joerg W. 2022. "The Kinney Brick Quarry Lagerstätte, Late Pennsylvanian of New Mexico, USA." Newsletter on Carboniferous Stratigraphy, 17–21. 36, 2022
- Donovan, Michael P., DiMichele, William A., Lucas, Spencer G., and Schneider, Joerg W. 2021. "Atlas of Selected Kinney Quarry Plant Fossils, Late Pennsylvanian, Central New Mexico." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 84:153-183. 2021
- Koll, Rebecca A. and DiMichele, William A. 2021. "Dominance-diversity architecture of a mixed hygromorphic-to-xeromorphic flora from a botanically rich locality in western equatorial Pangea (lower Permian Emily Irish site, Texas, USA." Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 563:110132-110132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.110132 2021
- Bateman, Richard M. and DiMichele, William A. 2021. "Escaping the voluntary constraints of "tyre-track" taxonomy." Taxon https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12540 2021
- Matthaeus, William J., Macarewich, Sophia, I., Richey, Jon D., Wilson, Jonathan P., McElwain, Jennifer C., Montanez, Isabel P., DiMichele, William A., Hren, Michael T., Poulsen, Christopher J., and White, Joseph D. 2021. "Freeze tolerance influenced forest cover and hydrology During the Pennsylvanian." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118, (42), Washington; DC: National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2025227118. 2021
- Richey, Jon D., Montanez, Isabel P., White, Joseph D., DiMichele, William A., Matthaeus, William J., Poulsen, Christopher J., Macarewich, Sophia, I., and Looy, Cindy, V. 2021. "Modeled physiological mechanisms for observed changes in the late Paleozoic plant fossil record." Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 562:110056-110056. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.110056 2021
- DiMichele, William A., Donovan, Michael P., Schachat, Sandra R., Schneider, Joerg W., and Lucas, Spencer G. 2021. "Plant-Fossil Taphonomy, Late Pennsylvanian Kinney Quarry, New Mexico, USA." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 84:125-151. 2021
- Lucas, Spencer G. and DiMichele, William A. 2021. "The Kinney Brick Quarry Lagerstätte, Late Pennsylvanian of New Mexico, USA: Introduction and Overview." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 1–16. 84, 2021
- Bashforth, Arden R., DiMichele, William A., Eble, Cortland F., Falcon-Lang, Howard J., Looy, Cindy, V., and Lucas, Spencer G. 2021. "The environmental implications of upper Paleozoic plant-fossil assemblages with mixtures of wetland and drought-tolerant taxa in tropical Pangea." Geobios, 1–45. 68, Issy-Les-Moulineaux; France: Elsevier France-Editions Scientifiques Medicales Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2021.04.002. 2021
- White, Joseph D., Montanez, Isabel P., Wilson, Jonathan P., Poulsen, Christopher J., McElwain, Jennifer C., DiMichele, William A., Hren, Michael T., Macarewich, Sophia, Richey, Jon D., and Matthaeus, William J. 2020. "A Process-Based Ecosystem Model (Paleo-Bgc) to Simulate the Dynamic Response of Late Carboniferous Plants to Elevated O-2 and Aridification." American Journal of Science 320 (7):547-598. https://doi.org/10.2475/09.2020.01 2020
- DiMichele, William A. and Bateman, Richard M. 2020. "Better together: Joint consideration of anatomy and morphology illuminates the architecture and life history of the Carboniferous arborescent lycopsid Paralycopodites." Journal of Systematics and Evolution https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.12662 2020
- Wilson, Jonathan P., White, Joseph D., Montañez, Isabel P., DiMichele, William A., McElwain, Jennifer C., Poulsen, Christopher J., and Hren, Michael T. 2020. "Carboniferous plant physiology breaks the mold." New Phytologist 227 (3):667-679. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16460 2020
- Nelson, W. John, Elrick, Scott D., DiMichele, William A., and Ames, Philip R. 2020. "Evolution of a PeatContemporaneous Channel: The Galatia Channel, Middle Pennsylvanian, of the Illinois Basin." Illinois State Geological Survey Circular 605:1-85. 2020
- Kvale, Erik P., Bowie, Christopher M., Flenthrope, Chris, Mace, Christopher, Parrish, Jessica M., Price, Buddy, Anderson, Sloan, and DiMichele, William A. 2020. "Facies variability within a mixed carbonate–siliciclastic sea-floor fan (upper Wolfcamp Formation, Permian, Delaware Basin, New Mexico)." AAPG Bulletin 104 (3):525-563. https://doi.org/10.1306/06121917225 2020
- Richey, Jon D., Montanez, Isabel P., Godderis, Yves, Looy, Cindy, V., Griffis, Neil P., and DiMichele, William A. 2020. "Influence of temporally varying weatherability on CO2-climate coupling and ecosystem change in the late Paleozoic." Climate of the Past 16 (5):1759-1775. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-1759-2020 2020
- Gastaldo, R. A., Bamford, M., Calder, J., DiMichele, William A., Ianuzzi, R., Jasper, A., Kerp, H., McLoughlin, S., Opluštil, S., Pfefferkorn, H. W., Roessler, R., and Wang, J. 2020. "The non-analog vegetation of the Late Paleozoic icehouse–hothouse and their coal-forming forested environments." in Nature Through Time, edited by Martinetto, E., Tschopp, E., and Gastaldo, R. A., 291-316. Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35058-1_12 2020
- DiMichele, William A., Bashforth, Arden R., Falcon-Lang, Howard J., and Lucas, Spencer G. 2020. "Uplands, lowlands, and climate: Taphonomic megabiases and the apparent rise of a xeromorphic, drought-tolerant flora during the Pennsylvanian-Permian transition." Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 559:109965-109965. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109965 2020
- DiMichele, William A., Hotton, Carol L., Looy, Cindy V., and Hook, Robert W. 2019. "Paleoecological and paleoenvironmental interpretation of three successive macrofloras and palynofloras from the Kola Switch locality, lower Permian (Archer City Formation, Bowie Group) of Clay County, Texas, USA." Paläontologische Zeitschrift 93 (3):423-451. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-019-00485-8 2019
- Hetherington, Alexander J., DiMichele, William A., Lucas, Spencer G., and Voigt, Sebastian. 2019. "Tiny Rhizomorphic Rooting Systems from the Early Permian Abo Formation of New Mexico, USA." International journal of plant sciences 180 (6):504-512. https://doi.org/10.1086/702759 2019
- Blomenkemper, Patrick, Kerp, Hans, Abu Hamad, Abdalla, DiMichele, William A., and Bomfleur, Benjamin. 2018. "A hidden cradle of plant evolution in Permian tropical lowlands." Science 362 (6421):1414-1416. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aau4061 2018
- Simon, Sharane S. T., Gibling, Martin R., DiMichele, William A., Chaney, Dan S., and Koll, Rebecca. 2018. "An exhumed fine‐grained meandering channel in the lower Permian Clear Fork Formation, north‐central Texas: Processes of mud accumulation and the role of vegetation in channel dynamics." International Association of Sedimentologists, Special Publication 48:149-172. 2018
- DiMichele, William A., Lucas, Spencer G., Chaney, Dan S., Donovan, Michael P., Kerp, Hans, Koll, Rebecca A., and Looy, Cindy V. 2018. "Early Permian Flora, Doña Ana Mountains, Southern New Mexico, with Special Consideration of Taxonomic Issues and Arthropod Damage." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 79:165-205. 2018
- Boyce, C. Kevin and DiMichele, William A. 2018. "Fast or slow for the arborescent lycopsids? Response to Thomas & Cleal (2017) 'Arborescent lycophyte growth in the late Carboniferous coal swamps'." New Phytologist 218 (3 (Special Issue)):891-893. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15059 2018
- Falcon-Lang, Howard, John Nelson, W., Heckel, Philip H., DiMichele, William A., and Elrick, Scott D. 2018. "New insights on the stepwise collapse of the Carboniferous Coal Forests: Evidence from cyclothems and coniferopsid tree-stumps near the Desmoinesian-Missourian boundary in Peoria County, Illinois, USA." Palaeogeography palaeoclimatology palaeoecology 490:375-392. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.11.015 2018
- Lucas, Spencer G., Krainer, Karl, Allen, Bruce D., and DiMichele, William A. 2017. "Carboniferous-Permian Transition in Socorro County, New Mexico, USA: An Overview." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 77:1-16. 2017
- Wilson, Jonathan P., Montañez, Isabel P., White, Joseph D., DiMichele, William A., McElwain, Jennifer C., Poulsen, Christopher J., and Hren, Michael T. 2017. "Dynamic Carboniferous tropical forests: new views of plant function and potential for physiological forcing of climate." New Phytologist 215 (4):1333-1353. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14700 2017
- Elrick, Scott D., Nelson, W. J., Ames, Philip R., and DiMichele, William A. 2017. "Floras characteristic of Late Pennsylvanian peat swamps arose in the late Middle Pennsylvanian." Stratigraphy 14 (1-4):123-141. https://doi.org/10.29041/strat.14.1-4.123-141 2017
- Pfefferkorn, Hermann W., Gastaldo, Robert A., and DiMichele, William A. 2017. "Impact of an icehouse climate interval on tropical vegetation and plant evolution." Stratigraphy 14 (1-4):365-376. https://doi.org/10.29041/strat.14.1-4.365-376 2017
- DiMichele, William A., Chaney, Dan S., Lucas, Spencer G., Nelson, W. J., Elrick, Scott D., Falcon-Lang, Howard, and Kerp, Hans. 2017. "Middle and Late Pennsylvanian Fossil Floras from Socorro County, New Mexico, U.S.A." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 77:25-99. 2017
- Koll, Rebecca A., DiMichele, William A., and Manchester, Steven R. 2017. "Reevaluation and taxonomic clarification of Gigantopteridium and Cathaysiopteris of western equatorial Pangea and their biogeographical significance." Journal of Paleontology 91 (5):859-870. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2017.25 2017
- DiMichele, William A. and Lucas, Spencer G. 2017. "The First Specimen of Annularia spinulosa Sternberg from the Lower Permian Abo Formation, New Mexico, and Implications for Rarity in the Plant Fossil Record." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 77:17-23. 2017
- DiMichele, William A., Elrick, Scott D., and Nelson, W. John. 2017. "Vegetational zonation in a swamp forest, Middle Pennsylvanian, Illinois Basin, U.S.A., indicates niche differentiation in a wetland plant community." Palaeogeography palaeoclimatology palaeoecology 487:71-92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.08.020 2017
- DiMichele, William A., Bashforth, Arden R., Eble, Cortland F., and Nelson, W. J. 2016. "A Middle Pennsylvanian (early Asturian) tropical dry forest, Atokan-Desmoinesian boundary, Illinois Basin, USA." Spanish Journal of Palaeontology 31 (1):41-84. 2016
- Bashforth, Arden R., DiMichele, William A., Eble, Cortland F., and Nelson, W. J. 2016. "A Middle Pennsylvanian macrofloral assemblage from wetland deposits in Indiana (Illinois Basin): a taxonomic contribution with biostratigraphic, paleobiogeographic, and paleoecologic implications." Journal of Paleontology 90 (04):589-631. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2015.69 2016
- Simon, Sharane S. T., Gibling, Martin R., DiMichele, William A., Chaney, Dan S., Looy, Cindy V., and Tabor, Neil J. 2016. "An Abandoned-Channel Fill With Exquisitely Preserved Plants In Redbeds of the clear Fork Formation, Texas, USA: An Early Permian Water-Dependent Habitat On the Arid Plains of Pangea." Journal of Sedimentary Research 86 (8):944-964. https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2016.60 2016
- Baumgardner, Robert W., DiMichele, William A., and de, Siqueira Vieira. 2016. "An early Permian coastal flora dominated by Germaropteris martinsii from basinal sediments in the Midland Basin, West Texas." Palaeogeography palaeoclimatology palaeoecology 459:409-422. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.07.024 2016
- Boyce, C. K. and DiMichele, William A. 2016. "Arborescent lycopsid productivity and lifespan: Constraining the possibilities." Review of palaeobotany and palynology 227:97-110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2015.10.007 2016
- Archer, Allen W., Elrick, Scott, Nelson, W. J., and DiMichele, William A. 2016. "Cataclysmic burial of Pennsylvanian Period coal swamps in the Illinois Basin." in Contributions to Modern and Ancient Tidal Sedimentology, edited by Tessier, Bernadette and Reynaud, Jean-Yves., 217-231. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119218395.ch12 2016
- Montañez, Isabel P., McElwain, Jennifer C., Poulsen, Christopher J., White, Joseph D., DiMichele, William A., Wilson, Jonathan P., Griggs, Galen, and Hren, Michael T. 2016. "Climate, pCO2 and terrestrial carbon cycle linkages during late Palaeozoic glacial-interglacial cycles." Nature Geoscience 9 (11):824-828. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2822 2016
- Nelsen, Matthew P., DiMichele, William A., Peters, Shanan E., and Boyce, C. K. 2016. "Delayed fungal evolution did not cause the Paleozoic peak in coal production." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113 (9):2442-2447. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1517943113 2016
- Bashforth, Arden R., DiMichele, William A., Eble, Cortland F., and Nelson, W. J. 2016. "Dryland vegetation from the Middle Pennsylvanian of Indiana (Illinois Basin): the dryland biome in glacioeustatic, paleobiogeographic, and paleoecologic context." Journal of Paleontology 90 (05):785-814. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2016.25 2016
- Lyons, S. Kathleen, Amatangelo, Kathryn L., Behrensmeyer, Anna K., Bercovici, Antoine, Blois, Jessica L., Davis, Matt, DiMichele, William A., Du, Andrew, Eronen, Jussi T., Faith, J. Tyler, Graves, Gary R., Jud, Nathan, Labandeira, Conrad C., Looy, Cindy V., McGill, Brian, Miller, Joshua H., Patterson, David, Pineda-Munoz, Silvia, Potts, Richard, Riddle, Brett, Terry, Rebecca, Tóth, Anikó, Ulrich, Werner, Villaseñor, Amelia, Wing, Scott L. et al. 2016. "Holocene shifts in the assembly of plant and animal communities implicate human impacts." Nature (529): 80-83. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature16447 2016
- Lyons, S. Kathleen, Miller, Joshua H., Amatange, Kathryn L., Behrensmeyer, Anna K., Bercovici, Antoine, Blois, Jessica L., Davis, Matt, DiMichele, William A., Du, Andrew, Eronen, Jussi T., Faith, J. T., Graves, Gary R., Jud, Nathan, Labandeira, Conrad C., Looy, Cindy V., McGill, Brian, Patterson, David, Pineda-Munoz, Silvia, Potts, Richard, Riddle, Brett, Terry, Rebecca, Tóth, Anikó, Ulrich, Werner, Villaseñor, Amelia, Wing, Scott L. et al. 2016. "Lyons et al. reply." Nature 538 (7626):E3-E4. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature20097 2016
- DiMichele, William A., Schneider, Joerg W., Lucas, Spencer G., Eble, Cortland F., Falcon-Lang, Howard, Looy, Cindy V., Nelson, W. J., Elrick, Scott D., and Chaney, Dan S. 2016. "Megaflora and palynoflora associated with a Late Pennsylvanian coal bed (Bursum Formation, Carrizo Arroyo, New Mexico, U.S.A.) and paleoenvironmental significance." New Mexico Geological Society Field Conference Guidebook 67:351-368. 2016
- Lyons, S. Kathleen, Miller, Joshua H., Tóth, Anikó, Amatangelo, Kathryn L., Behrensmeyer, Anna K., Bercovici, Antoine, Blois, Jessica L., Davis, Matt, DiMichele, William A., Du, Andrew, Eronen, Jussi T., Faith, J. T., Graves, Gary R., Jud, Nathan, Labandeira, Conrad C., Looy, Cindy V., McGill, Brian, Patterson, David, Pineda-Munoz, Silvia, Potts, Richard, Riddle, Brett, Terry, Rebecca, Ulrich, Werner, Villaseñor, Amelia, Wing, Scott L. et al. 2016. "Questioning Holocene community shifts Reply." Nature 537 (7618):E5-E6. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature19111 2016
- DiMichele, William A. 2015. "A compositionally unique voltzian conifer-callipterid flora from a carbonate-filled channel, Lower Permian, Robledo Mountains, New Mexico, and its broader significance." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 65:123-128. 2015
- Lucas, Spencer G. and DiMichele, William A. 2015. "Carboniferous-Permian Transition in the Robledo Mountains, Southern New Mexico: An Overview." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 65:1-8. 2015
- Falcon-Lang, Howard, Lucas, Spencer G., Kerp, Hans, Krainer, Karl, Montañez, Isabel P., Vachard, Daniel, Chaney, Dan S., Elrick, Scott D., Contreras, Dori L., Kurzawe, Francine, DiMichele, William A., and Looy, Cindy V. 2015. "Early Permian (Asselian) vegetation from a seasonally dry coast in western equatorial Pangea: Paleoecology and evolutionary significance." Palaeogeography palaeoclimatology palaeoecology 433:158-173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.05.010 2015
- DiMichele, William A., Lucas, Spencer G., Looy, Cindy V., Chaney, Dan S., and Voigt, Sebastian. 2015. "Early Permian Fossil Floras from the Red Beds of Prehistoric Trackways National Monument, Southern New Mexico." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 65:129-140. 2015
- Rinehart, Larry F., Lucas, Spencer G., Tanner, Lawrence, John Nelson, W., Elrick, Scott D., Chaney, Dan S., and DiMichele, William A. 2015. "Plant architecture and spatial structure of an early Permian woodland buried by flood waters, Sangre de Cristo Formation, New Mexico." Palaeogeography palaeoclimatology palaeoecology 424:91-110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.02.018 2015
- Lucas, Spencer G., Krainer, Karl, Vachard, Daniel, Voigt, Sebastian, DiMichele, William A., Berman, David S., Henrici, Amy C., Schneider, Joerg W., and Barrick, James E. 2015. "Progress Report on Correlation of Nonmarine and Marine Lower Permian Strata, New Mexico, USA." Permophiles (61): 10-17. 2015
- Wilson, Jonathan P., White, Joseph D., DiMichele, William A., Hren, Michael T., Poulsen, Christopher J., McElwain, Jennifer C., and Montañez, Isabel P. 2015. "Reconstructing extinct plant water use for understanding vegetation-climate feedbacks: methods, synthesis and a case study using the Paleozoic era medullosan seed ferns." Paleontological Society Papers 21:167-195. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1089332600003004 2015
- Lucas, Spencer G., Krainer, Karl, DiMichele, William A., Voigt, Sebastian, Berman, David, Henrici, Amy C., Tanner, Lawrence H., Chaney, Dan S., Elrick, Scott D., Nelson, W. J., and Rinehart, Larry F. 2015. "The Upper Paleozoic Sangre de Cristo Formation, Southwestern San Miguel County, New Mexico: Stratigraphy, Age and Sedimentology." New Mexico Geological Society Annual Spring Meeting 37. 2015
- DiMichele, William A., Cecil, C. B., Chaney, Dan S., Elrick, S. D., and Nelson, W. J. 2014. "Fossil floras from the Pennsylvanian-Permian Cutler Group of southeastern Utah." in Geology of Utah's Far South, 491-504. 2014
- Cecil, C. Blaine, DiMichele, William A., and Elrick, Scott D. 2014. "Middle and Late Pennsylvanian cyclothems, American Midcontinent: Ice-age environmental changes and terrestrial biotic dynamics." Comptes Rendus Geoscience 346 (7-8):159-168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crte.2014.03.008 2014
- Gibling, M. R., Davies, N. S., Falcon-Lang, H., Bashforth, Arden R., DiMichele, William A., Rygel, M. C., and Ielpi, A. 2014. "Palaeozoic co-evolution of rivers and vegetation: a synthesis of current knowledge." Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 125 (5-6):524-533. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2013.12.003 2014
- Moore, Lillien C., Wittry, Jack, and DiMichele, William A. 2014. "The Okmulgee, Oklahoma fossil flora, a Mazon Creek equivalent: Spatial conservatism in the composition of Middle Pennsylvanian wetland vegetation over 1100 km." Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 200:24-52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.08.002 2014
- Looy, Cindy V., Kerp, Hans, Duijnstee, Ivo A. P., and DiMichele, William A. 2014. "The late Paleozoic ecological-evolutionary laboratory, a land-plant fossil record perspective." The Sedimentary Record 12 (4):4-10. 2014
- DiMichele, William A. 2014. "Wetland-Dryland Vegetational Dynamics in the Pennsylvanian Ice Age Tropics." International Journal of Plant Sciences 175 (2):123-164. https://doi.org/10.1086/675235 2014
- Lucas, Spencer G., Lerner, Allan J., DiMichele, William A., Cantrell, Amanda K., Suazo, Thomas L., and Chaney, Dan S. 2014. "Xiphosurid fossils from the Pennsylvanian Beeman formation, Otero County, New Mexico." in New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 65th Field Conference, Geology of the Sacramento Mountains Region, 311-314. New Mexico Geological Society, Inc.. 2014
- DiMichele, William A., Wagner, Robert H., Bashforth, Arden R., and Álvarez-Vázquez, Carmen. 2013. "An update on the flora of the Kinney Quarry of Central New Mexico (Upper Pennsylvanian), its preservational and environmental significance." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 59:289-325. 2013
- DiMichele, William A., Kerp, Hans, Sirmons, Roberta, Fedorko, Nick, Skema, Viktoras, Blake, Bascombe M., Jr., and Cecil, C. B. 2013. "Callipterid peltasperms of the Dunkard Group, Central Appalachian Basin." International Journal of Coal Geology 119:56-78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coal.2013.07.025 2013
- Tabor, Neil J., Romanchock, Charles M., Looy, Cynthia V., Hotton, Carol L., DiMichele, William A., and Chaney, Dan S. 2013. "Conservatism of Late Pennsylvanian vegetational patterns during short-term cyclic and long-term directional environmental change, western equatorial Pangea." Geological Society, London, Special Publications 376:201-234. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP376.14 2013
- Lucas, Spencer G., Nelson, W. J., DiMichele, William A., Krainer, Karl, Barrick, James E., Voigt, Sebastian, Chaney, Dan S., Elrick, Scott, and Spielmann, Justin A. 2013. "Field guide to the Carboniferous-Permian transition in the Cerros de Amado and vicinity, Socorro County, Central New Mexico." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 59:39-76. 2013
- DiMichele, William A., Chaney, Dan S., Lucas, Spencer G., Kerp, Hans, and Voigt, Sebastian. 2013. "Flora of the Lower Permian Abo Formation redbeds, western equatorial Pangea, New Mexico." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 59:265-288. 2013
- DiMichele, William A., Elrick, Scott D., and Bateman, Richard M. 2013. "Growth habit of the late Paleozoic rhizomorphic tree-lycopsid family Diaphorodendraceae: Phylogenetic, evolutionary, and paleoecological significance." American Journal of Botany 100 (8):1604-1625. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.1200623 2013
- Tabor, Neil J., DiMichele, William A., Montañez, Isabel P., and Chaney, Dan S. 2013. "Late Paleozoic continental warming of a cold tropical basin and floristic change in western Pangea." International Journal of Coal Geology 119:177-186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coal.2013.07.009 2013
- O'Keefe, Jennifer M. K., Bechtel, Achim, Christanis, Kimon, Dai, Shifeng, DiMichele, William A., Eble, Cortland F., Esterle, Joan S., Mastalerz, Maria, Raymond, Anne L., Valentim, Bruno V., Wagner, Nicola J., Ward, Colin R., and Hower, James C. 2013. "On the fundamental difference between coal rank and coal type." International Journal of Coal Geology 118:58-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coal.2013.08.007 2013
- Lucas, Spencer G., Krainer, Karl, Chaney, Dan S., DiMichele, William A., Voigt, Sebastian, Berman, David S., and Henrici, Amy C. 2013. "The Lower Permian Abo Formation in Central New Mexico." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 59:161-180. 2013
- Stull, Gregory W., Labandeira, Conrad C., DiMichele, William A., and Chaney, Dan S. 2013. "The “Seeds” on Padgettia readi are Insect Galls: Reassignment of the Plant to Odontopteris, the Gall to Ovofoligallites N. Gen., and the Evolutionary Implications Thereof." Journal of Paleontology 87 (2):217-231. https://doi.org/10.1666/12-063R.1 2013
- DiMichele, William A. and Falcon-Lang, Howard. 2012. "Calamitalean "pith casts" reconsidered." Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 173:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2012.01.011 2012
- Horton, Daniel E., Poulsen, Christopher J., Montañez, Isabel P., and DiMichele, William A. 2012. "Eccentricity-paced late Paleozoic climate change." Palaeogeography palaeoclimatology palaeoecology 331-332:150-161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.03.014 2012
- Lucas, Spencer G., Harris, Susan K., Spielmann, Justin A., Berman, David S., Henrici, Amy C., Krainer, Karl, Rinehart, Larry F., DiMichele, William A., Chaney, Dan S., and Kerp, Hans. 2012. "Lithostratigraphy, Paleontology, Biostratigraphy, and Age of the Upper Paleozoic Abo Formation Near Jemez Springs, Northern New Mexico, Usa." Annals of Carnegie Museum 80 (4):323-350. https://doi.org/10.2992/007.080.0403 2012
- Stull, Gregory W., DiMichele, William A., Falcon-Lang, Howard, Nelson, W. John, and Elrick, Scott. 2012. "Palaeoecology of Macroneuropteris scheuchzeri, and its implications for resolving the paradox of 'xeromorphic' plants in Pennsylvanian wetlands." Palaeogeography palaeoclimatology palaeoecology 331-332:162-176. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.03.019 2012
- Bashforth, Arden R. and DiMichele, William A. 2012. "Permian Coal Forest Offers a Glimpse of Late Paleozoic Ecology." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109 (13):4717-4718. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1203261109 2012
- DiMichele, William A., Lucas, Spencer G., and Krainer, Karl. 2012. "Vertebrate Trackways Among a Stand of Supaia White Plants on An Early Permian Floodplain, New Mexico." Journal of Paleontology 86 (4):584-594. https://doi.org/10.1666/11-137R.1 2012
- DiMichele, William A., Looy, Cindy V., and Chaney, Dan S. 2011. "A New Genus of Gigantopterid from the Middle Permian of the United States and China and its Relevance to the Gigantopterid Concept." International Journal of Plant Sciences 172 (1):107-119. https://doi.org/10.1086/657276 2011
- Green, Walton A., Hunt, Gene, Wing, Scott L., and DiMichele, William A. 2011. "Does extinction wield an axe or pruning shears? How interactions between phylogeny and ecology affect patterns of extinction." Paleobiology 37 (1):72-91. https://doi.org/10.1666/09078.1 2011
- Falcon-Lang, Howard J., Heckel, Philip H., DiMichele, William A., Blake, Bascombe M., Easterday, Cary R., Eble, Cortland F., Elrick, Scott, Gastaldo, Robert A., Greb, Stephen F., Martino, Ronald L., Nelson, W. John, Pfefferkorn, Hermann W., Phillips, Tom L., and Rosscoe, Steven J. 2011. "No Major Stratigraphic Gap Exists Near the Middle-Upper Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian-Missourian) Boundary in North America." Palaios 26 (3):125-139. https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2010.p10-049r 2011
- DiMichele, William A. and Falcon-Lang, Howard J. 2011. "Pennsylvanian 'fossil forests' in growth position (T0 assemblages): origin, taphonomic bias and palaeoecological insights." Journal of the Geological Society 168 (2):585-605. https://doi.org/10.1144/0016-76492010-103 2011
- Falcon-Lang, Howard J., Jud, Nathan A., Nelson, W. John, DiMichele, William A., Chaney, Dan S., and Lucas, Spencer G. 2011. "Pennsylvanian coniferopsid forests in sabkha facies reveal the nature of seasonal tropical biome." Geology 39 (4):371-374. https://doi.org/10.1130/G31764.1 2011
- DiMichele, William A., Cecil, C. B., Chaney, Dan S., Elrick, Scott D., Lucas, Spencer G., Lupia, Richard, Nelson, W. J., and Tabor, Neil J. 2011. "Pennsylvanian-Permian vegetational changes in tropical Euramerica." in Geology of the Pennsylvanian-Permian in the Dunkard Basin. Guidebook for the 76th Annual Field Conference of Pennsylvania Geologists, edited by Harper, John A., 60-102. Field Conference of Pennsylvania Geologists, Inc.. 2011
- Lucas, Spencer G., Allen, Bruce D., Krainer, Karl, Barrick, James, Vachard, Daniel, Schneider, Joerg W., DiMichele, William A., and Bashforth, Arden R. 2011. "Precise age and biostratigraphic significance of the Kinney Brick Quarry Lagerstatte, Pennsylvanian of New Mexico, USA." Stratigraphy 8 (1):7-27. 2011
- Falcon-Lang, Howard J., Heckel, Philip H., DiMichele, William A., Blake, Bascombe M., Easterday, Cary R., Eble, Cortland F., Elrick, Scott, Gastaldo, Robert A., Greb, Stephen F., Martino, Ronald L., Nelson, W. John, Pfefferkorn, Hermann W., Phillips, Tom L., and Rosscoe, Steven J. 2011. "Reply: no major stratigraphic gap exists near the middle–upper Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian-Missourian) boundary in North America: Palaios, v. 26, no. 3, p. 125–139, 2011." Palaios 26 (10):671-671. https://doi.org/10.2110/Palo.2011.P11-055r 2011
- DiMichele, William A., Cecil, C. Blaine, Montañez, Isabel P., and Falcon-Lang, Howard J. 2010. "Cyclic changes in Pennsylvanian paleoclimate and effects on floristic dynamics in tropical Pangaea." International Journal of Coal Geology 83 (2-3):329-344. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coal.2010.01.007 2010
- DiMichele, William A., Chaney, Dan S., Kerp, Hans, and Lucas, Spencer G. 2010. "Late Pennsylvanian floras in Western Equatorial Pangea, Cañon del Cobre, New Mexico." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 49:75-113. 2010
- Falcon-Lang, Howard J. and DiMichele, William A. 2010. "What happened to the coal forests during pennsylvanian glacial phases?." Palaios 25 (9):611-617. https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2009.p09-162r 2010
- Chaney, Dan S., Mamay, Serguis H., DiMichele, William A., and Kerp, Hans. 2009. "Auritifolia gen. nov., Probable Seed Plant Foliage with Comioid Affinities from the Early Permian of Texas, U.S.A." International Journal of Plant Sciences 170 (2):247-266. https://doi.org/10.1086/595293 2009
- Mamay, Serguis H., Chaney, Dan S., and DiMichele, William A. 2009. "Comia, a seed plant possibly of peltaspermous affinity: a brief review of the genus and description of two new species from the Early Permian (Artinskian) of Texas, C. greggii sp. nov. and C. craddockii sp. nov." International Journal of Plant Sciences 170 (2):267-282. https://doi.org/10.1086/595294 2009
- DiMichele, William A., Nelson, W. John, Elrick, Scott, and Ames, Philip R. 2009. "Catastrophically Buried Middle Pennsylvanian Sigillaria and Calamitean Sphenopsids from Indiana, Usa: what Kind of Vegetation was This?." Palaios 24 (3):159-166. https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2008.p08-051r 2009
- DiMichele, William A., Montañez, I. P., Poulsen, C. J., and Tabor, Neil J. 2009. "Climate and vegetational regime shifts in the late Paleozoic ice age earth." Geobiology 7 (2):200-226. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1472-4669.2009.00192.x 2009
- Bennington, J. Bret, DiMichele, William A., Badgley, Catherine, Bambach, Richard K., Barrett, Paul M., Behrensmeyer, Anna K., Bobe, Rene, Burnham, Robyn J., Daeschler, Edward B., Van Dam, Jan, Eronen, Jussi T., Erwin, Douglas H., Finnegan, Seth, Holland, Steven M., Hunt, Gene, Jablonski, David, Jackson, Stephen T., Jacobs, Bonnie E., Kidwell, Susan M., Koch, Paul L., Kowalewski, Michal J., Labandeira, Conrad C., Looy, Cindy V., Lyons, Sara K., Novack-Gottshall, Philip M. et al. 2009. "Critical Issues of Scale in Paleoecology." Palaios 24 (1-2):1-4. https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2009.S01 2009
- Falcon-Lang, H., DiMichele, William A., Elrick, S., and Nelson, W. J. 2009. "Going underground: in search of Carboniferous coal forests." Geology Today 25:181-184. 2009
- Falcon-Lang, Howard J., Nelson, W. John, Elrick, Scott, Looy, Cindy V., Ames, Philip R., and DiMichele, William A. 2009. "Incised channel fills containing conifers indicate that seasonally dry vegetation dominated Pennsylvanian tropical lowlands." Geology 37 (10):923-926. https://doi.org/10.1130/G30117A.1 2009
- Pfefferkorn, H. W., Gastaldo, Robert A., DiMichele, William A., and Philips, T. L. 2008. "Pennsylvanian tropical floras of the United States as a record of changing climate." Special Papers / Geological Society of America 441:305-316. 2008
- DiMichele, William A. and Gastaldo, Robert A. 2008. "Plant paleoecology in deep time." Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 95:144-198. 2008
- DiMichele, William A. 2008. "Plants as a force of nature." Trends in Ecology & Evolution 23 (2):60-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2007.09.015 2008
- DiMichele, William A., Kerp, Hans, Tabor, Neil J., and Looy, Cynthia V. 2008. "The so-called "Paleophytic-Mesophytic" transition in equatorial Pangea: Multiple Biomes and Vegetational Tracking of Climate Change through Geological Time." Palaeogeography palaeoclimatology palaeoecology 268 (3-4):152-163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.06.006 2008
- DiMichele, William A., Chaney, Dan S., Nelson, W. J., Lucas, Spencer G., Looy, C. V., Quick, K., and Jun, Wang. 2007. "A low diversity, seasonal tropical landscape dominated by conifers and peltasperms: Early Permian Abo Formation, New Mexico." Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 145:249-273. 2007
- Montañez, I. P., Tabor, N. J., Niemeier, D., DiMichele, William A., Frank, T. D., Fielding, C. R., and Isbell, J. L. 2007. "CO2-forced climate and vegetation instability during Late Paleozoic deglaciation." Science 315:87-91. 2007
- DiMichele, William A., Falcon-Lang, H. J., Nelson, W. J., Elrick, S. D., and Ames, P. R. 2007. "Ecological gradients within a Pennsylvanian mire forest." Geology 35 (5):415-418. https://doi.org/10.1130/G23472A.1 2007
- Chaney, Dan S. and DiMichele, William A. 2007. "Paleobotany of the classic redbeds (Clear Fork Group - Early Permian) of north central Texas." Proceedings of the XVth International Congress on Carboniferous and Permian Stratigraphy 1:357-366. 2007
- Willard, D. A., Philips, T. L., Lesnikowska, W. A., and DiMichele, William A. 2007. "Paleoecology of the Late Pennsylvanian-Age Calhoun coal bed and implications for long-term dynamics of wetland ecosystems." International Journal of Coal Geology 69:21-54. 2007
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book
- DiMichele, William A., Lucas, Spencer G., Looy, Cindy V., Kerp, Hans, and Chaney, Dan S. 2017. Plant Fossils from the Pennsylvanian–Permian Transition in Western Pangea, Abo Pass, New Mexico. Smithsonian Institution. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.1943-6688.99 2017
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chapter
- Gastaldo, R. A., Bamford, M., Calder, J., DiMichele, William A., Ianuzzi, R., Jasper, A., Kerp, H., McLoughlin, S., Opluštil, S., Pfefferkorn, H. W., Roessler, R., and Wang, J. 2020. "The Coal Farms of the Late Paleozoic." in Nature Through Time, edited by Martinetto, E., Tschopp, E., and Gastaldo, R. A., 317-343. Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35058-1_13 2020
- DiMichele, William A., Hook, Robert W., Kerp, Hans, Hotton, Carol L., Looy, Cindy V., and Chaney, Dan S. 2018. "Lower Permian flora of the Sanzenbacher Ranch, Clay County, Texas.." in Transformative Paleobotany: Papers to Commemorate the Life and Legacy of Thomas N. Taylor, 95-126. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-813012-4.00006-1 2018
- Lucas, Spencer G., Krainer, Karl, DiMichele, William A., Voigt, Sebastian, Berman, David S., Henrici, Amy C., Tanner, Lawrence H., Chaney, Dan S., Elrick, Scott D., Nelson, W. John, and Rinehart, Larry F. 2015. "Lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy and sedimentology of the Upper Paleozoic Sangre De Cristo Formation, southwestern San Miguel County, New Mexico." in New Mexico Geological Society, 66th Annual Field Conference, 2015, edited by Lindline, Jennifer, Petronis, Michael, and Zebrowski, Joseph P., 211-228. New Mexico Geological Society. 2015
- Lucas, S. G., Krainer, K., Chaney, Dan S., DiMichele, William A., Voigt, S., Berman, D. S., and Henrici, A. C. 2012. "The Lower Permian Abo Formation in the Fra Cristobal and Caballo Mountains, Sierra County, New Mexico." in Geology of the Warm Springs Region: New Mexico Geological Society 63rd Annual Field Conference Guidebook, edited by Lucas, S. G., McLemore, V. T., Lueth, V. W., Spielmann, J. A., and Krainer, K., 345-376. New Mexico Geological Society. 2012
- Cecil, C. B., DiMichele, William A., Fedorko, Nick, and Skema, Viktoras. 2011. "Autocyclic and allocyclic controls on the origin of the Dunkard Group." in Geology of the Pennsylvanian-Permian in the Dunkard Basin. Guidebook for the 76th Annual Field Conference of Pennsylvania Geologists, edited by Harper, John A., 26-45. Field Conference of Pennsylvania Geologists, Inc. 2011
- DiMichele, William A., Blake, Bascomb M., Cecil, C. B., Fedorko, Nick, Kerp, Hans, and Skema, Viktoras. 2011. "Callipterids of the Dunkard Group of the Appalachian Basin: Their identity and paleoenvironmental significance." in Geology of the Pennsylvanian-Permian in the Dunkard Basin. Guidebook for the 76th Annual Field Conference of Pennsylvania Geologists, edited by Harper, John A., 144-167. Field Conference of Pennsylvania Geologists, Inc.. 2011
- DiMichele, William A., Skema, Vik, and Harper, John A. 2011. "Pleasant Hill Gap." in Geology of the Pennsylvanian-Permian in the Dunkard basin. Guidebook, 76th Annual Field Conference of Pennsylvania Geologists, edited by Harper, John A., 168-173. Field Conference of Pennsylvania Geologists, Inc. 2011
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conference paper
- Sirmons, Roberta L., Dodge, Clifford H., Henderson, Geoffrey, and DiMichele, William A. 2021. "A Geologist's Journey: David White's Field Trip to Ohiopyle, Summer 1900." In , , 121-152. 2021
- Lucas, Spencer G., DiMichele, William A., Krainer, K., Chaney, Dan S., and Spielmann, J. A. 2009. "A coal-measure forest near Socorro, New Mexico." In , , 235-242. 2009
- Lerner, A. J., Lucas, Spencer G., Spielmann, J. A., Krainer, K., DiMichele, William A., Chaney, Dan S., Schneider, J. W., Nelson, W. John, and Ivanov, Anton B. 2009. "The biota and paleoecology of the Upper Pennsylvanian (Missourian) Tinajas Locality, Socorro County, New Mexico." In , , 267-280. 2009
Activities
Responsible Collections Areas
- Pennsylvanian and Permian plant fossils
professional service activities
- Journal of Paleontology Associate Editor
- New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin Member, Editorial Board
- Palaeogeography, Palaeclimatology, Palaeoecology Editorial Board Member
- Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology Member, Editorial Board
Affiliation
member of
- Botanical Society of America, Paleobotanical Section Member
- International Organization of Paleobotany Member
- NMNH - Dept. of Paleobiology Curator and Research Paleontologist
- Paleontological Society Member and President
- Society for Sedimentary Geology Member
Contact
Location
- National Museum of Natural History Academic Department
