David L. Dilcher
Department of Biology
Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana 47401
USA

David Dilcher is a retired Graduate Research Professor from the University of Florida and currently a Senior Research Scholar in the Department of Biology and an Adjunct Professor in the Geology Department at Indiana University. He received his Ph. D. from Yale University and was also associated with the University of Minnesota and the University of Illinois as a graduate student. He has had research projects involving fossil plants from China, Europe, Africa, Australia, North America, South America and Central America. His interest in the vegetation of Costa Rica and the new world tropics stems from his research on the Eocene vegetation of southeastern North America. His major research interests include plant evolution, angiosperm systematics, historical and modern phytogeography and paleoclimates.