David M. Jarzen,^1,*,** Sarah L. Corbett,^2,*** Steven R. Manchester<sup>1,****

1</sup>aPaleobotany and Palynology Laboratory, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Ga
²bSoutheast Coast Inventory and Monitoring Network, Cumberland Island National Seashore, P.O. Box 806

^*Corresponding author. Email: dmj@flmnh.ufl.edu
^**DAVID M. JARZEN is a Research Scientist at the Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida. He earned his B.S. degree in 1967 from Kent State University majoring in Biological Sciences, and two years later received his M.A. degree in Botany from the same institution. In 1973 under the direction of Geoff Norris. he was awarded the Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Toronto. His research interests in the nature of extant and fossil plant life have provided extensive fieldwork in all regions of Canada and the United States, as well as Europe, Africa, Central and South America, the Caribbean, the South Pacific, and Australia. The focus of his work incorporates a global view towards understanding the evolution of plant life during the Earth's history, with an emphasis on palynofloras recorded from the Neogene and Paleogene of Florida and the Caribbean. His publications of scientific papers number over 250, including both professional papers and popular articles. David has been a member of 23 learned scientific societies, including the prestigious Explorers Club, as well as the honorary scientific society, Sigma Xi. He has served the scientific community and general public through many lectures, videos, CD ROMs, and popular publications. David is a Fellow National of the Explorers Club, and Fellow of the Ohio Academy of Science. David is listed in American Men and Women of Science, Who's Who in Ontario (Canada), Who's Who in Canadian Science, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, as well as Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World.
^***SARAH CORBETT is currently employed as a Botanist with the Southeast Coast Inventory and Monitoring Network at the Cumberland Island National Seashore in St. Mary's, Georgia. She graduated from the Botany Department of the University of Florida in 2004 working toward her Master of Science degree under the supervision of Steven Manchester. Her thesis on the Middle Miocene Alum Bluff macrofossils and palynomorphs formed the basis of the current paper.
^****STEVEN R. MANCHESTER is Curator of Fossil Plants at the Florida Museum of Natural History and Professor of Botany at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. He received his Doctorate degree in 1981 from Indiana University under the direction of David Dilcher. His research interests center around the evolution of extant angiosperm families in the Northern Hemisphere; multiple-organ paleobotanical investigations providing characters of flowers, fruits, pollen, leaves and wood for inclusion in phylogenetic analyses; Paleocene and Eocene floras of western North America, central Europe and eastern Asia. He has enjoyed collaborative research with paleobotanists in Canada, China, Czech Republic, England, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Panama, Russia, and the United States. He has directed the research of several graduate students including Sarah Corbett, coauthor of this paper.