PD Dr. Carole Gee
Contact information
Nußallee 8
Paläontologie, Raum 0.003
Telefon: ++49 (0) 228 73 3063
Fax.: ++49 (0) 228 73 3509
E-Mail: cgee[at]uni-bonn.de
Major academic positions
| Privatdozentin of Paleontology, Teaching and Research Faculty of Geosciences and OEP Biology, University of Bonn, Germany | ||||||
2016 | Privatdozentin, University of Bonn | ||||||
2015 | Habilitation in Paleontology, University of Bonn | ||||||
2013–2014 | Visiting Scientist at the Huntington Botanical Gardens and at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California, USA | ||||||
2010–2012 | Interim Head of the Goldfuss Museum and paleontological collections, University of Bonn, Germany | ||||||
| Teaching Faculty, University of Bonn, Germany Paleontology (Steinmann Institute) Organismic Biology, Evolutionary Biology and Palaeobiology (OEP Biology) | ||||||
| Research Faculty, Paleontology, University of Bonn, Germany | ||||||
1987–1990 | Postdoctoral Scientist in Paleopalynology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Zürich) | ||||||
1987 | Ph.D. in Botany, Specialization in Paleobotany | ||||||
1985–1986 | Fulbright Scholar to Sweden | ||||||
| B.A. in Biology, Concentration in Botany, Pomona College, California, USA | ||||||
Research interests
Approach: Fossil plants as living organisms in Deep Time — morphology, anatomy, biological affinity, ecology, fossilization
- Mesozoic paleobotany
- The conifer Araucaria, past and present
- Conifer seed cone architecture
- Jurassic and Tertiary woods
- Eocene Nypa mangroves
- Tertiary fruits and seeds of the Lower Rhine Embayment, Germany
- Fossil water lilies
- Actuopaleobotany of recent carpological deposits
- Fossilization of plants, especially the silicification of wood
Selected publications (since 2008)
Edited books and special issues
- Gee, C. T., and L. Kunzmann (eds.). 2012. Special issue on plant taphonomy commenorating the 20th anniversary of the International Workshop on Plant Taphonomy. Palaios, 27 (11): 753-841.
- Klein, N., K. Remes, C. T. Gee, and P. M. Sander (eds.). 2011. Biology of the Sauropod Dinosaurs: Understanding the Life of Giants. Indiana University Press, Bloomington. 331 pp.
- Wappler, T., and C. T. Gee (eds.). 2010. Plant-Insect Interactions in Deep Time. Special issue in Palaeontographica Abt. B, 283: 99-182.
- C. T. Gee (ed.). 2010. Plants in Mesozoic Time: Morphological Innovations, Phylogeny, Ecosystems (Ted Delevoryas festschrift). Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 373 pp.
Peer-reviewed research papers
- Moody, S., C. T. Gee, and M. Wiegend. Submitted. When water theft pays off: the successful growth and unusual wood anatomy of the hemiparasite Krameria lappacea (Krameriaceae) in the Peruvian desert. Submitted to Journal of Arid Environments in July 2018.
- Gee, C. T., D. A., Sprinkel, M. B., Bennis-Bottomley, and D. A. Gray. In review. Silicified logs from Rainbow Draw, near Vernal, Utah.
- Sprinkel, D. A., M. B. Bennis, D. E. Gray, and C. T. Gee. In review. Stratigraphic setting of Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) permineralized wood sites near Dinosaur National Monument, Uintah County, Utah.
- Gee, C. T., P. M. Sander, S. E. Peters, M. T. El-Hennawy, M. S. M. Antar, I. S. Zalmout, and P. D. Gingerich. 2018. Fossil burrow assemblage, not mangrove roots: Reinterpretation of the main whale-bearing layer in the late Eocene of Wadi Al-Hitan, Egypt. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. Published online in August 2018, available at
- Gee, C. T., and D. W. Taylor. 2016. Aquatic macrophytes from the upper Oligocene fossillagerstätte of Rott (Rhineland, Germany). Part II: A new fossil leaf species of Nymphaea (subgenus Lotos), N. elisabethae GEE et DAVID W. TAYLOR sp. nov. Paläontographica Abt. B, 295: 33-43.
- Hellawell, J., C. Ballhaus, C. T. Gee, G. E. Mustoe, T. J. Nagel, R. Wirth, J. Rethemeyer, F. Tomaschek, T. Geisler, K. Greef, and T. Mansfeldt. 2015. Silicification of recent conifer wood at a Yellowstone hot spring. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 149: 79-87. Published online in Nov. 2014, available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2014.10.018.
- Taylor, D. W., and C. T. Gee. 2014. Phylogenetic analysis of fossil water lilies based on leaf architecture and vegetative characters: Testing phylogenetic hypotheses of molecular studies. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, 55: 89-110.
- Gee, C. T., R. D. Dayvault, R. A. Stockey, and W. D. Tidwell. 2014. Greater paleobiodiversity in conifer seed cones in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Utah, USA. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 94: 363-365. doi: 10.1007/s12549-014-0160-1.
- Gee, C. T. 2013. Applying micro CT and 3D visualization to Jurassic silicified conifer seed cones: a virtual advantage over thin-sectioning. Applications in Plant Sciences, 1: 1300039. doi:10.3732/apps.1300039.
- Läbe, S., C. T. Gee, C. Ballhaus, and T. Nagel. 2012. Experimental silicification of the tree fern Dicksonia antarctica at high temperature with silica-enriched H₂O vapor. Palaios, 27: 835-841. doi: 10.2110/palo.2012.p12-064r.
- Ballhaus, C., C. T. Gee, C. Bockrath, K. Greef, T. Mansfeldt, and D. Rhede. 2012. The silicification of trees in volcanic ash: an experimental study. Geochimica et Cosmoschimica Acta, 84: 62-74. doi: 10.2110/palo.2012.p12-064r.
- Gee, C. T. 2011. Dietary options for the sauropod dinosaurs from an integrated botanical and paleobotanical perspective. In: N. Klein, K. Remes, C. T. Gee, and P. M. Sander (eds.), Biology of the Sauropod Dinosaurs: Understanding the Life of Giants. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, pp. 34-56.
- Sander, P. M., A. Christian, M. Clauss, R. Fechner, C. T. Gee, E.-M. Griebeler, H.-C. Gunga, J. Hummel, H. Mallison, S. F. Perry, H. Preuschoft, O. W. M. Rauhut, K. Remes, T. Tütken, O. Wings, and U. Witzel. 2011. Biology of the Sauropod Dinosaurs: The Evolution of Gigantism. Biological Reviews, 86: 117–155. Published online in April 2010. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2010.00137.x.
- Wappler, T., and C. T. Gee. 2010. Plant-insect interactions in Deep Time: Contributions from the 8th International Organisation of Palaeobotany Conference in Bonn, Germany, August 30-September 5, 2008. Palaeontographica Abt. B, 283: 99-101.
- Sussex, I., N. Kerk, and C. T. Gee. 2010. Architectural innovation and developmental controls in some Mesozoic gymnosperms, Or why do the leaf crowns in Mesozoic forests look tufted? In: C.T. Gee (ed.), Plants in Mesozoic Time: Morphological Innovations, Phylogeny, Ecosystems (Ted Delevoryas festschrift). Indiana University Press, Bloomington, pp. 5-12.
- Gee, C. T., and W. D. Tidwell. 2010. A mosaic of characters in a new whole-plant Araucaria, A. delevoryasii Gee sp. nov., from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation of Wyoming, U.S.A. In: C. T. Gee (ed.), Plants in Mesozoic Time: Morphological Innovations, Phylogeny, Ecosystems (Ted Delevoryas festschrift). Indiana University Press, Bloomington, pp. 67-94.
- Sander, P. M., C. T. Gee, J. Hummel, and M. Clauss. 2010. Mesozoic plants and dinosaur herbivory. In: C. T. Gee (ed.), Plants in Mesozoic Time: Morphological Innovations, Phylogeny, Ecosystems (Ted Delevoryas festschrift). Indiana University Press, Bloomington, pp. 331-359.
- Sander, P. M., A. Christian, and C. T. Gee. 2009. Response to: Sauropods kept their heads down. Science 323: 1671-1672.
- Hummel, J., C. T. Gee, K.-H. Südekum, P. M. Sander, G. Nogge, and M. Clauss. 2008. In vitro digestibility of fern and gymnosperm foliage: implications for sauropod feeding ecology and diet selection. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B, 275: 1015-1021.
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