Brian Axsmith, paleobotanist & paleoecologist
Brian J. Axsmith –an American paleobotanist, paleoecologist, and professor of biology at the University of South Alabama, where he taught ecology, evolutionary biology, and the evolution of vascular plants – died of Covid-19 on May 5, 2020.
Axsmith studied the evolutionary history of conifers and vascular plants. He specialized in the Neogene paleobotany of the Gulf Coastal Plain in the present-day United States, especially Alabama and Mississippi, as well as the Mesozoic paleobotany of eastern North America and China.
Axsmith was raised in suburban Philadelphia. He received a bachelor of science from Millersville University of Pennsylvania. Axmsith obtained his doctorate in biology from the University of Kansas in 1998.
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