Honorary Professor Daphne E Lee

2024

Journal - Research Article

Uhl, D., Wuttke, M., Aiglstorfer, M., Gee, C. T., Grandi, F., Höltke, O., … Kaulfuss, U., Lee, D., … Wedmann, S. (2024). Deep-time maar lakes and other volcanogenic lakes as Fossil-Lagerstätten: An overview [Review]. Palaeobiodiversity & Palaeoenvironments, 104(4), 763-848. doi: 10.1007/s12549-024-00635-0

Conran, J. G., Bannister, J. M., & Lee, D. E. (2024). Fossil celastraceae leaves from the Early Miocene Foulden Maar Lagerstätte, New Zealand: Expanding the fossil record and biogeographic history of the family. Acta Palaeobotanica, 64(2), 335-350. doi: 10.35535/acpa-2024-0011

Wu, Y., & Lee, D. E. (2024). A late Oligocene chiton fauna (Polyplacophora) from a rocky shore ecosystem, Cosy Dell, Southland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2024.2426644

Drohojowska, J., Evans, G. A., Kaulfuss, U., Lee, D. E., & Szwedo, J. (2024). First Miocene whiteflies and psyllids (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Aleyrodoidea and Psylloidea) from Aotearoa New Zealand. Palaeobiodiversity & Palaeoenvironments. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s12549-024-00628-z

Kaulfuss, U., Szawaryn, K., Lee, D., & Ruta, R. (2024). The first beetle species described from Oligocene New Zealand amber (Coleoptera: Scirtidae). Palaeoentomology, 7(4), 529-538. doi: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.7.4.12

Robinson, J. H., Lee, D. E., Richards, M. D., White, S. E. M., & Fordyce, R. E. (2024). The fossil vertebrate primary type specimens in the collection of the University of Otago Department of Geology. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 54(5), 566-583. doi: 10.1080/03036758.2024.2363436

Vanner, M. R., Conran, J. G., Larcombe, M. J., & Lee, D. E. (2024). Mid-Cretaceous wood of Waihere Bay, Pitt Island, Chatham Islands, New Zealand. IAWA Journal. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1163/22941932-bja10149

2023

Journal - Research Article

Smith, A. M., Freeman, D. F., Dixon-Anderson, I. S., & Lee, D. E. (2023). Review of skeletal carbonate mineralogy of brachiopods with new material from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine & Freshwater Research. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/00288330.2023.2267486

Kaulfuss, U., Bannister, J. M., Conran, J. G., Kennedy, E. M., Mildenhall, D. C., & Lee, D. E. (2023). Flowers, inflorescences and pollen from the Foulden and Hindon Konservat-Lagerstätten: Miocene biodiversity, ecology and pollination in New Zealand. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 310, 104830. doi: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2022.104830

2022

Authored Book - Research

Lee, D., Kaulfuss, U., & Conran, J. (2022). Fossil treasures of Foulden Maar: A window into Miocene Zealandia. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press, 216p.

Edited Book - Other

Thomas, D. B., & Lee, D. E. (Eds.). (2022). R. Ewan Fordyce: Tributes from a global community. Wellington, New Zealand: Geoscience Society of New Zealand, 92p.

Chapter in Book - Other

Lee, D. E. (2022). A great legacy of fossil treasures. In D. B. Thomas & D. E. Lee (Eds.), R. Ewan Fordyce: Tributes from a global community. (pp. 3-4). Wellington, New Zealand: Geoscience Society of New Zealand.

Journal - Research Article

Reichgelt, T., Lee, W. G., & Lee, D. E. (2022). The extinction of Miocene broad-leaved deciduous Nothofagaceae and loss of seasonal forest biomes in New Zealand. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 307, 104779. doi: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2022.104779

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Wu, Y., Robinson, J., Lee, D., & Brenna, M. (2022). Geological setting and early oligocene invertebrate fauna at McDonald's Quarry, Kakanui, New Zealand. In A. V. Zernack & J. Palmer (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 161A, (pp. 313). Wellington, New Zealand: Geoscience Society of New Zealand. [Abstract]

2021

Journal - Research Other

Lee, D., Henderson, Z., & Dwyer, V. (2021). Cosy dell: Rocky shore: Inland sea. Scope: Art & Design, (22), 86-88. doi: 10.34074/SCOP.1022027

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Wilsher, C., Ohneiser, C., Beltran, C., Lee, D., Salzmann, U., & Amoo, M. (2021). A magnetostratigraphy of the eocene to oligocene Orepuki core. In A. V. Zernack & J. Palmer (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 158, (pp. 318). Wellington, New Zealand: Geoscience Society of New Zealand. [Abstract]

2020

Journal - Research Article

Reichgelt, T., D'Andrea, W. J., Valdivia-McCarthy, A. C., Fox, B. R. S., Bannister, J. M., Conran, J. G., … Lee, D. E. (2020). Elevated CO₂, increased leaf-level productivity, and water-use efficiency during the early Miocene. Climate of the Past, 16(4), 1509-1521. doi: 10.5194/cp-16-1509-2020

Conran, J. G., Bannister, J. M., Kaulfuss, U., & Lee, D. E. (2020). Pterostoma neehoffii (cf. Zamiaceae): A new species of extinct cycad from the middle Miocene of New Zealand and an overview of fossil New Zealand cycads. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 58(1), 30-47. doi: 10.1080/0028825X.2019.1653939

Journal - Research Other

Kaulfuss, U., Lee, D. E., Robinson, J. H., Wallis, G. P., & Schwarzhans, W. W. (2020). A review of Galaxias (Galaxiidae) fossils from the Southern Hemisphere. Diversity, 12(5), 208. doi: 10.3390/d12050208

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Wilsher, C., Ohneiser, C., Beltran, C., Riesselman, C., & Lee, D. (2020). Paleoclimate reconstruction of Orepuki-1 sedimentary drill core: Initial results. In K. N. Bassett, A. R. L. Nichols & C. H. Fenton (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 157A, (pp. 318). Wellington, New Zealand: Geoscience Society of New Zealand. [Abstract]

Lee, D., Reichgelt, T., Fox, B. R. S., D'Andrea, W. J., Conran, J. G., Kennedy, E. M., & Mildenhall, D. C. (2020). Climate signals from Foulden Maar: Temperature, rainfall, elevated atmospheric CO2 and global greening in earliest Miocene Zealandia. In K. N. Bassett, A. R. L. Nichols & C. H. Fenton (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 157A, (pp. 164). Wellington, New Zealand: Geoscience Society of New Zealand. [Abstract]

2019

Journal - Research Article

Harper, E. M., Lamare, M. D., & Lee, D. E. (2019). Patterns of unrepaired shell damage in recent brachiopods from Fiordland (New Zealand). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 125(3), 669-677. doi: 10.13130/2039-4942/12170

Harper, M. A., van de Vijver, B., Kaulfuss, U., & Lee, D. E. (2019). Resolving the confusion between two fossil freshwater diatoms from Otago, New Zealand: Encyonema jordanii and Encyonema jordaniforme (Cymbellaceae, Bacillariophyta). Phytotaxa, 394(4), 231-243. doi: 10.11646/phytotaxa.394.4.1

Conran, J. G., Kaulfuss, U., Bannister, J. M., Mildenhall, D. C., & Lee, D. E. (2019). An Akania (Akaniaceae) inflorescence with associated pollen from the early Miocene of New Zealand. American Journal of Botany, 106(2), 1-11. doi: 10.1002/ajb2.1236

Kaulfuss, U., Conran, J. G., Bannister, J. M., Mildenhall, D. C., & Lee, D. E. (2019). A new Miocene fern (Palaeosorum: Polypodiaceae) from New Zealand bearing in situ spores of Polypodiisporites. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 57(1), 2-17. doi: 10.1080/0028825X.2018.1560336

Reichgelt, T., Kennedy, E. M., Conran, J. G., Lee, W. G., & Lee, D. E. (2019). The presence of moisture deficits in Miocene New Zealand. Global & Planetary Change, 172, 268-277. doi: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2018.10.013

Kaulfuss, U., Brown, S. D. J., Henderson, I. M., Szwedo, J., & Lee, D. E. (2019). First insects from the Manuherikia Group, early Miocene, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 49(4), 494-507. doi: 10.1080/03036758.2018.1477054

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Vanner, M., Larcombe, M., Conran, J., & Lee, D. (2019). Cenozoic fossil wood: New evidence for diversification and extinction of forest trees in the New Zealand region. Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the Australasian Systematic Botany Society (ASBS) and the New Zealand Plant Conservation Network (NZPCN): Taxonomy for Plant Conservation: Ruia mai i Rangiātea. (pp. 84). Retrieved from https://systematics.ourplants.org

Conran, J., Lee, D., Bannister, J., Fordyce, E., Geary, I., Kaulfuss, U., … Mildenhall, D. (2019). ‘Zealandia fructus’: Angiosperm diaspores in the New Zealand fossil record and their implications for paleoecology. Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the Australasian Systematic Botany Society (ASBS) and the New Zealand Plant Conservation Network (NZPCN): Taxonomy for Plant Conservation: Ruia mai i Rangiātea. (pp. 83-84). Retrieved from https://systematics.ourplants.org

Lee, D., Bannister, J., Kaulfuss, U., Conran, J., Kennedy, E., & Mildenhall, D. (2019). Fossil flowers from the Foulden and Hindon Konservat-Lagerstätte deposits: Insights into Miocene biodiversity, ecology and pollination in Zealandia. Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the Australasian Systematic Botany Society (ASBS) and the New Zealand Plant Conservation Network (NZPCN): Taxonomy for Plant Conservation: Ruia mai i Rangiātea. (pp. 83). Retrieved from https://systematics.ourplants.org

Schlenker, N., Ohlemüller, R., Lee, W., & Lee, D. (2019). Climatic niches of New Zealand's extinct and extant plant genera. Proceedings of the New Zealand Ecological Society (NZES) Conference. Retrieved from https://confer.eventsair.com/nzes2019

Lee, D., Kaulfuss, U., Bannister, J., Lindqvist, J., Conran, J., Kennedy, E., & Mildenhall, D. (2019). Saving the terrestrial biodiversity of the distant past: Foulden and Hindon Maar ecosystems highlight life in Miocene Zealandia. Proceedings of the New Zealand Ecological Society (NZES) Conference. Retrieved from https://confer.eventsair.com/nzes2019

Gard, H., & Lee, D. (2019). A new species of fossil Scutus Montfort, 1810 (Gastropoda) from New Zealand. In P. J. J. Kamp & A. Pittari (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 154A, (pp. 68). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Schlenker, N., Ohlemüller, R., Lee, W., & Lee, D. (2019, August). Climatic drivers of plant extinctions. Verbal presentation at the School of Geography Postgraduate Symposium, Dunedin, New Zealand.

2018

Journal - Research Article

Mildenhall, D. C., Conran, J. G., Kennedy, E. M., Lee, D. E., Bannister, J. M., Lindqvist, J. K., & Ferguson, D. K. (2018). Palynology of the late Oligocene–early Miocene Newvale Mine, Gore Lignite Measures, Southland, New Zealand. Palaeontographica, Abt. B: Palaeobotany – Palaeophytology, 298(1-3), 23-91. doi: 10.1127/palb/2018/0060

Vanner, M. R., Conran, J. G., Bannister, J. M., & Lee, D. E. (2018). Cenozoic conifer wood from the Gore Lignite Measures, Southland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 56(3), 291-310. doi: 10.1080/0028825X.2018.1480049

Kaulfuss, U., Lee, D. E., Wartho, J.-A., Bowie, E., Lindqvist, J. K., Conran, J. G., Bannister, J. M., … Gorman, A. R. (2018). Geology and palaeontology of the Hindon Maar Complex: A Miocene terrestrial fossil Lagerstätte in southern New Zealand. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 500, 52-68. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.03.022

Schmidt, A. R., Kaulfuss, U., Bannister, J. M., Baranov, V., Beimforde, C., Bleile, N., … Lindqvist, J. K., … Lee, D. E. (2018). Amber inclusions from New Zealand. Gondwana Research, 56, 135-146. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2017.12.003

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Lee, D., Kaulfuss, U., Conran, J., Bannister, J., Lindqvist, J., Vanner, M., … Mildenhall, D. (2018). Diverse Oligocene-Miocene paleoenvironments and complex forest ecosystems in southern Zealandia. In M. Sagar & J. Prebble (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 151A, (pp. 164). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Kennedy, E., Lee, D., Kaulfuss, U., Mildenhall, D., Prebble, J., Schmidt, A., … Vanner, M. (2018). Captured in amber: Ecological complexity in Zealandia's ancient Araucarian forests. In M. Sagar & J. Prebble (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 151A, (pp. 151). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Geary, I., Beever, J., Hayward, B., Lee, D., Conran, J., & Lord, J. (2018). Late Pliocene macro- and microfossil plants and fungi from the Auckland region. In M. Sagar & J. Prebble (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 151A, (pp. 88). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Geary, I., Beever, J., Lee, D., Conran, J., & Lord, J. (2018). A diverse assemblage of Pliocene moss macrofossils from the Auckland region. In M. Sagar & J. Prebble (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 151A, (pp. 87). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Gard, H., Beu, A., Lee, D., & Marshall, B. (2018). Molluscan fauna of the Oligocene Pomahaka Formation: Tropical estuarine and brackish-water taxa in Otago. In M. Sagar & J. Prebble (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 151A, (pp. 85). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

2017

Journal - Research Article

Schwarzhans, W., Lee, D. E., & Gard, H. J. L. (2017). Otoliths reveal diverse fish communities in Late Oligocene estuarine to deep-water paleoenvironments in southern Zealandia. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 60(4), 433-464. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2017.1365734

Jones, D. A., Wilson, G. S., Gorman, A. R., Fox, B. R. S., Lee, D. E., & Kaulfuss, U. (2017). A drill-hole calibrated geophysical characterisation of the 23 Ma Foulden Maar stratigraphic sequence, Otago, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 60(4), 465-477. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2017.1369130

Fox, B. R. S., D'Andrea, W. J., Wilson, G. S., Lee, D. E., & Wartho, J.-A. (2017). Interaction of polar and tropical influences in the mid-latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere during the Mi-1 deglaciation. Global & Planetary Change, 155, 109-120. doi: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2017.06.008

Conran, J. G., Jackson, J. A., Lee, D. E., & Kennedy, E. M. (2017). Gleichenia-like Korallipteris alineae sp. nov. macrofossils (Polypodiophyta) from the Miocene Landslip Hill silcrete, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 55(3), 258-275. doi: 10.1080/0028825X.2017.1317278

Ayress, M., Robinson, J., & Lee, D. (2017). Mid-Cenozoic ostracod biostratigraphic range extensions and taxonomic notes on selected species from a new Oligocene (Duntroonian–Waitakian) fauna from southern New Zealand. Alcheringa, 41(4), 487-498. doi: 10.1080/03115518.2017.1297483

Möller, A. L., Kaulfuss, U., Lee, D. E., & Wappler, T. (2017). High richness of insect herbivory from the early Miocene Hindon Maar crater, Otago, New Zealand. PeerJ, 5, e2985. doi: 10.7717/peerj.2985

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Vanner, M. R., Conran, J. G., Bannister, J. M., & Lee, D. E. (2017). Cenozoic fossil wood from southern Zealandia. In J. Baker & M. Rowe (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 134A, (pp. 121). Takaka, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Richards, M. D., Lee, D. E., Gard, H. J. L., & Fordyce, R. E. (2017). A jumble of hobbits and giants: Penguins and other vertebrates from the Late Oligocene rocky shoreline at Cosy Dell, Southland, New Zealand. In J. Baker & M. Rowe (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 134A, (pp. 94-95). Takaka, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Lee, D. E., Kaulfuss, U., Schmidt, A., Conran, J. G., Bannister, J. M., Lindqvist, J. K., Vanner, M. R., … Mildenhall, D. C. (2017). A 70 M.Y. long record of Araucarian forests in Zealandia: Wood, leaves, pollen, and inclusions. In J. Baker & M. Rowe (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 134A, (pp. 59-60). Takaka, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Geary, I. J., Beever, J. E., Hayward, B. W., Lee, D. E., Conran, J. G., Lord, J. M., … Mildenhall, D. C. (2017). Pliocene macro- and microfossil plants and fungi of Auckland. In J. Baker & M. Rowe (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 134A, (pp. 38-39). Takaka, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Gard, H. J. L., Schwarzhans, W., & Lee, D. E. (2017). Otoliths, teeth and scales reveal diverse fish communities in Late Oligocene estuarine to deep-water paleoenvironments in Southern Zealandia. In J. Baker & M. Rowe (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 134A, (pp. 36). Takaka, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Kaulfuss, U., Lee, D. E., & Lindqvist, J. K. (2017, July). Sedimentology and paleoecology of two Miocene maar-Lagerstätten in New Zealand. Verbal presentation at the International Workshop on Konservat-Lagerstätten, Cork, Ireland.

2016

Journal - Research Article

Bannister, J. M., Conran, J. G., & Lee, D. E. (2016). Life on the phylloplane: Eocene epiphyllous fungi from Pikopiko Fossil Forest, Southland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 1. doi: 10.1080/0028825X.2016.1208252

Lee, D. E., Kaulfuss, U., Conran, J. G., Bannister, J. M., & Lindqvist, J. K. (2016). Biodiversity and palaeoecology of Foulden Maar: An early Miocene Konservat-Lagerstätte deposit in southern New Zealand. Alcheringa, 40(4), 525-541. doi: 10.1080/03115518.2016.1206321

Robinson, J. H., Donald, K. M., Brandt, A. J., & Lee, D. E. (2016). Magasella sanguinea (Leach, 1814) and Magasella haurakiensis (Allen, 1931): Resolving the taxonomic placement of these endemic New Zealand brachiopods using morphological and molecular traits. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 46(2), 139-163. doi: 10.1080/03036758.2016.1182930

Lee, D. E., Lee, W. G., Jordan, G. J., & Barreda, V. D. (2016). The Cenozoic history of New Zealand temperate rainforests: Comparisons with southern Australia and South America. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 54(2), 100-127. doi: 10.1080/0028825X.2016.1144623

Conran, J. G., Bannister, J. M., Mildenhall, D. C., & Lee, D. E. (2016). Hedycarya macrofossils and associated Planarpollenites pollen from the early Miocene of New Zealand. American Journal of Botany, 103(5), 938-956. doi: 10.3732/ajb.1600047

Conran, J. G., Bannister, J. M., Reichgelt, T., & Lee, D. E. (2016). Epiphyllous fungi and leaf physiognomy indicate an ever-wet humid mesothermal (subtropical) climate in the late Eocene of southern New Zealand. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 452, 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.03.032

Lindqvist, J. K., Gard, H. J. L., & Lee, D. E. (2016). Geological setting, sedimentology and biota of the estuarine late Oligocene Pomahaka Formation, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 59(2), 352-365. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2016.1150862

Xing, Y., Gandolfo, M. A., Onstein, R. E., Cantrill, D. J., Jacobs, B. F., Jordan, G. J., Lee, D. E., … Linder, H. P. (2016). Testing the biases in the rich Cenozoic angiosperm macrofossil record. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 177(4), 371-388. doi: 10.1086/685388

Fox, B. R. S., Wilson, G. S., & Lee, D. E. (2016). A unique annually laminated maar lake sediment record shows orbital control of Southern Hemisphere midlatitude climate across the Oligocene-Miocene boundary. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 128(3/4), 609-626. doi: 10.1130/B31349.1

Conran, J. G., Lee, D. E., & Reichgelt, T. (2016). Malloranga dentata (Euphorbiaceae: Acalyphoideae): A new fossil species from the Miocene of New Zealand. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 226, 58-64. doi: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2015.12.007

Reichgelt, T., Kennedy, E. M., Jones, W. A., Jones, D. T., & Lee, D. E. (2016). Contrasting palaeoenvironments of the mid/late Miocene Dunedin Volcano, southern New Zealand: Climate or topography? Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 441, 696-703. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.10.029

Reichgelt, T., Jones, W. A., Jones, D. T., Conran, J. G., & Lee, D. E. (2016). Diverse and abundant insect herbivory on Miocene Nothofagaceae of the Dunedin Volcano, Otago, New Zealand. Palaeobiodiversity & Palaeoenvironments, 96(2), 265-279. doi: 10.1007/s12549-015-0212-1

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Lee, D., Kaulfuss, U., Conran, J., Kennedy, L., Gard, H., & Lindqvist, J. (2016). Paleobotany and sedimentology of Central Otago and Southland [Field Trip Guide: Annual Conference of the Geoscience Society of New Zealand]. Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. (pp. 1-258). GSNZ. [Full Paper]

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Kaulfuss, U., Lee, D., & Schmidt, A. (2016). New discoveries of Miocene arthropods from amber and diatomite deposits in New Zealand. In D. Penney & A. J. Ross (Eds.), Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Fossil Insects, Arthropods and Amber. (pp. 26). Rochdale, UK: Siri Scientific Press. Retrieved from https://siriscientificpress.co.uk

Fox, B., Wilson, G., & Lee, D. (2016). ENSO in a warming world: Interannual climate variability in the early Miocene Southern Hemisphere. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 18, EGU2016-5336. [Abstract]

2015

Chapter in Book - Research

Lee, W. G., & Lee, D. E. (2015). New Zealand: A land apart. In A. Stow, N. McLean & G. I. Holwell (Eds.), Austral ark: The state of wildlife in Australia and New Zealand. (pp. 24-44). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Journal - Research Article

Reichgelt, T., Kennedy, E. M., Conran, J. G., Mildenhall, D. C., & Lee, D. E. (2015). The early Miocene paleolake Manuherikia: Vegetation heterogeneity and warm-temperate to subtropical climate in southern New Zealand. Journal of Paleolimnology, 53(4), 349-365. doi: 10.1007/s10933-015-9827-5

Novis, P. M., Bannister, J. M., Rindi, F., & Lee, D. E. (2015). A new Eocene fossil of the genus Phycopeltis (Ulvophyceae, Chlorophyta). Journal of Phycology, 51(5), 1017-1021. doi: 10.1111/jpy.12335

Hand, S. J., Lee, D. E., Worthy, T. H., Archer, M., Worthy, J. P., Tennyson, A. J. D., … Lindqvist, J. K. (2015). Miocene fossils reveal ancient roots for New Zealand's endemic Mystacina (Chiroptera) and its rainforest habitat. PLoS ONE, 10(6), e0128871. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0128871

Conran, J. G., Mildenhall, D. C., Raine, J. I., Kennedy, E. M., & Lee, D. E. (2015). The monocot fossil pollen record of New Zealand and its implications for palaeoclimates and environments. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 178(3), 421-440. doi: 10.1111/boj.12283

Conran, J. G., Bannister, J. M., Lee, D. E., Carpenter, R. J., Kennedy, E. M., Reichgelt, T., & Fordyce, R. E. (2015). An update of monocot macrofossil data from New Zealand and Australia. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 178(3), 394-420. doi: 10.1111/boj.12284

Homes, A. M., Cieraad, E., Lee, D. E., Lindqvist, J. K., Raine, J. I., Kennedy, E. M., & Conran, J. G. (2015). A diverse fern flora including macrofossils with in situ spores from the late Eocene of southern New Zealand. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 220, 16-28. doi: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2015.04.007

Fox, B. R. S., Wartho, J., Wilson, G. S., Lee, D. E., Nelson, F. E., & Kaulfuss, U. (2015). Long-term evolution of an Oligocene/Miocene maar lake from Otago, New Zealand. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 16(1), 59-76. doi: 10.1002/2014GC005534

Kaulfuss, U., Lee, D. E., Barratt, B. I. P., Leschen, R. A. B., Larivière, M.-C., Dlussky (The Late), G. M., … Harris, A. C. (2015). A diverse fossil terrestrial arthropod fauna from New Zealand: Evidence from the early Miocene Foulden Maar fossil lagerstätte. Lethaia, 48(3), 299-308. doi: 10.1111/let.12106

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Fox, B. R. S., Reichgelt, T., D'Andrea, W. J., Wilson, G. S., & Lee, D. E. (2015). Early Miocene deglaciation preceded by short-lived increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide. In R. Mackay, M. Savage & C. Wilson (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 143a, (pp. 43). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Bowie, E. K., Gorman, A., Kaulfuss, U., & Lee, D. E. (2015). Geophysical characterisation of the Hindon Maar complex. In R. Mackay, M. Savage & C. Wilson (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 143a, (pp. 12). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Beu, A. G., Marshall, B. A., Gard, H. J. L., & Lee, D. E. (2015). Estuarine molluscan fauna of the Oligocene Pomahaka Formation, South Otgao. In R. Mackay, M. Savage & C. Wilson (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 143a, (pp. 9). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

2014

Journal - Research Article

Kaulfuss, U., Harris, A. C., Conran, J. G., & Lee, D. E. (2014). An early Miocene ant (subfam. Amblyoponinae) from Foulden Maar: The first fossil Hymenoptera from New Zealand. Alcheringa, 38(4), 568-574. doi: 10.1080/03115518.2014.928181

Conran, J. G., Lee, W. G., Lee, D. E., Bannister, J. M., & Kaulfuss, U. (2014). Reproductive niche conservatism in the isolated New Zealand flora over 23 million years. Biology Letters, 10(10), 20140647. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2014.0647

Lee, D. E., Lindqvist, J. K., Beu, A. G., Robinson, J. H., Ayress, M. A., Morgans, H. E. G., & Stein, J. K. (2014). Geological setting and diverse fauna of a Late Oligocene rocky shore ecosystem, Cosy Dell, Southland. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 57(2), 195-208. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2014.898666

Conran, J. G., Mildenhall, D. C., Lee, D. E., Lindqvist, J. K., Shepherd, C., Beu, A. G., Bannister, J. M., & Stein, J. K. (2014). Subtropical rainforest vegetation from Cosy Dell, Southland: Plant fossil evidence for Late Oligocene terrestrial ecosystems. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 57(2), 236-252. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2014.888357

Carpenter, R. J., Bannister, J. M., Lee, D. E., & Jordan, G. J. (2014). Nothofagus subgenus Brassospora (Nothofagaceae) leaf fossils from New Zealand: A link to Australia and New Guinea? Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 174(4), 503-515. doi: 10.1111/boj.12143

Mildenhall, D. C., Kennedy, E. M., Lee, D. E., Kaulfuss, U., Bannister, J. M., Fox, B., & Conran, J. G. (2014). Palynology of the early Miocene Foulden Maar, Otago, New Zealand: Diversity following destruction. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 204, 27-42. doi: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2014.02.003

Buckeridge, J. S., Lee, D. E., & Robinson, J. H. (2014). A diverse shallow-water barnacle assemblage (Cirripedia: Sessilia) from the Oligocene of Southland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 57(2), 253-263. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2013.873472

Scott, J. M., Lee, D. E., Fordyce, R. E., & Palin, J. M. (2014). A possible Late Oligocene–Early Miocene rocky shoreline on Otago Schist. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 57(2), 185-194. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2013.814575

Conran, J. G., Bannister, J. M., Mildenhall, D. C., Lee, D. E., Chacón, J., & Renner, S. S. (2014). Leaf fossils of Luzuriaga and a monocot flower with in situ pollen of Liliacidites contortus Mildenh. & Bannister sp. nov. (Alstroemeriaceae) from the Early Miocene. American Journal of Botany, 101(1), 141-155. doi: 10.3732/ajb.1300351

Barth, N. C., Kulhanek, D. K., Beu, A. G., Murray-Wallace, C. V., Hayward, B. W., Mildenhall, D. C., & Lee, D. E. (2014). New c. 270 kyr strike-slip and uplift rates for the southern Alpine Fault and implications for the New Zealand plate boundary. Journal of Structural Geology, 64, 39-52. doi: 10.1016/j.jsg.2013.08.009

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Reichgelt, T., Kennedy, E. M., Spicer, R. A., Lee, W. G., & Lee, D. E. (2014). The evolution of forest leaf traits in New Zealand in response to climate. Proceedings of the New Zealand Ecological Society (NZES) Annual Conference. (pp. 72). Retrieved from http://newzealandecology.org/node/40

Lee, D. E., Kaulfuss, U., Bannister, J. M., Conran, J. G., Mildenhall, D. C., & Reichgelt, T. (2014). Forest ecosystem evolution in New Zealand over the past 20 million years: New fossils reveal complex patterns and processes. Proceedings of the New Zealand Ecological Society (NZES) Annual Conference. (pp. 62). Retrieved from http://newzealandecology.org/node/40

Conran, J. G., Lee, D. E., Bannister, J. M., & Mildenhall, D. C. (2014). Reproductive niche conservatism during environmental change in New Zealand: Apparent persistence of pollination and dispersal syndromes of 20 Myr. Proceedings of the New Zealand Ecological Society (NZES) Annual Conference. (pp. 45). Retrieved from http://newzealandecology.org/node/40

Reichgelt, T., Kennedy, E. M., Spicer, R. A., & Lee, D. E. (2014). Temperature-driven foliar physiognomic divergence of the New Zealand flora since the early Miocene. In J. S. Crampton & S. F. K. Hills (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publications. 138, (pp. 23). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Conran, J. G., Kaulfuss, U., Lee, D. E., Bannister, J. M., & Schmidt, A. (2014). Exceptional terrestrial biotas from Miocene New Zealand. In J. S. Crampton & S. F. K. Hills (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publications. 138, (pp. 10). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Richards, M., Fordyce, R. E., & Lee, D. E. (2014). Cenzoic marine sequence of Swinburn region, Maniototo, Central Otago. In K. A. Holt (Ed.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 139A, (pp. 88). Takaka, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Reichgelt, T., Kennedy, E. M., Bannister, J. M., Fox, B. R. S., D'Andrea, W. J., & Lee, D. E. (2014). Seasonal climatic gradients in the early Miocene of New Zealand. In K. A. Holt (Ed.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 139A, (pp. 87). Takaka, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Reichgelt, T., Jones, W. A., Jones, D. A., Bannister, J. M., Hillman, J. I. T., Mildenhall, D. C., Conran, J. G., & Lee, D. E. (2014). A preliminary account of the floral diversity and climate of the Muddy Creek leafbed, Grey Lake, Central Otago. In K. A. Holt (Ed.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 139A, (pp. 86-87). Takaka, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Lindqvist, J. K., Lee, D. E., & Conran, J. G. (2014). Depositional settings of Eocene deltaic successions, Waiau and Balleny Basins, Western Southland. In K. A. Holt (Ed.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 139A, (pp. 65). Takaka, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Lee, D. E., Kaulfuss, U., Bannister, J. M., Conran, J. G., Mildenhall, D. C., Reichgelt, T., & Lindqvist, J. K. (2014). Foulden and Hindon Maars: Contrasting Miocene Konservat-Lagerstätten deposits in southern New Zealand. In K. A. Holt (Ed.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 139A, (pp. 64). Takaka, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Jackson, J. A., Reichgelt, T., Conran, J. G., Dickinson, K. J. M., & Lee, D. E. (2014). Plant diversity and paleoclimate of the Miocene Landslip Hill silcrete, Gore lignite measures, Southland. In K. A. Holt (Ed.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 139A, (pp. 55-56). Takaka, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Geary, I. J., Hayward, B. W., Conran, J. G., Mildenhall, D. C., Bannister, J. M., & Lee, D. E. (2014). The Miocene flora of Beachlands: Fruits, seeds, leaves, wood and fungi. In K. A. Holt (Ed.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 139A, (pp. 41). Takaka, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Gard, H. J. L., Lee, D. E., Fordyce, R. E., & Beu, A. G. (2014). The paleoecology of the estuarine upper Oligocene Pomahaka Formation, Otago, New Zealand. In K. A. Holt (Ed.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 139A, (pp. 40). Takaka, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Fox, B. R. S., D'Andrea, W. J., Wilson, G. S., & Lee, D. E. (2014). Tropical influence on Miocene New Zealand. In K. A. Holt (Ed.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 139A, (pp. 38). Takaka, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Conran, J. G., Lindqvist, J. K., Lee, D. E., Reichgelt, T., & Mildenhall, D. C. (2014). New Zealand late Eocene floras: Waiau and Balleny Basins, Western Southland. In K. A. Holt (Ed.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 139A, (pp. 25-26). Takaka, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Fox, B., D'Andrea, W., Lee, D., & Wilson, G. (2014). Equatorial precession drove mid-latitude changes in ENSO-scale variation the earliest Miocene. Proceedings of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) 47th Annual Fall Meeting. Retrieved from http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2014/

2013

Journal - Research Article

Baird, M. J., Lee, D. E., & Lamare, M. D. (2013). Reproduction and growth of the Terebratulid brachiopod Liothyrella neozelanica Thomson, 1918 from Doubtful Sound, New Zealand. Biological Bulletin, 225(3), 125-136.

Conran, J. G., Bannister, J. M., & Lee, D. E. (2013). Fruits and leaves with cuticle of Laurelia otagoensis sp. nov. (Atherospermataceae) from the early Miocene of Otago (New Zealand). Alcheringa, 37(4), 496-509. doi: 10.1080/03115518.2013.798765

Lee, D. E., Conran, J. G., Bannister, J. M., Kaulfuss, U., & Mildenhall, D. C. (2013). A fossil Fuchsia (Onagraceae) flower and an anther mass with in situ pollen from the early Miocene of New Zealand. American Journal of Botany, 100(10), 2052-2065. doi: 10.3732/ajb.1200643

Reichgelt, T., Kennedy, E. M., Mildenhall, D. C., Conran, J. G., Greenwood, D. R., & Lee, D. E. (2013). Quantitative palaeoclimate estimates for early Miocene southern New Zealand: Evidence from Foulden Maar. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 378, 36-44. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.03.019

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Reichgelt, T., Kennedy, E. M., Conran, J. G., & Lee, D. E. (2013). Using floral proxies to reconstruct Late Eocene to Late Miocene terrestrial paleoclimates in southern New Zealand. In C. M. Reid & A. Wandres (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 136A, (pp. 76-77). Takaka, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Lee, D., Lindqvist, J., Beu, A., Mildenhall, D., & Kennedy, E. (2013). Late Oligocene paleogeography of southern Zealandia: Sedimentological and paleontological evidence for forested land, estuaries, rocky and sandy shores. In C. M. Reid & A. Wandres (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 136A, (pp. 59-60). Takaka, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Lee, D., Beu, A., Conran, J., Mildenhall, D., Lindqvist, J., Shepherd, C., Robinson, J., Stein, J., & Sheppard, S. (2013). A remarkable diverse late Oligocene subtropical fauna and flora from Cosy Dell, Southland. In C. M. Reid & A. Wandres (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 136A, (pp. 59). Takaka, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Kaulfuss, U., Lee, D. E., & Schmidt, A. R. (2013). Trapped in amber: Reconstructing forest ecosystem biodiversity in Cenozoic New Zealand. In C. M. Reid & A. Wandres (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 136A, (pp. 53). Takaka, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Jackson, J., Lee, D., & Conran, J. (2013). Silcrete plant fossils from Landslip Hill, southern New Zealand. In C. M. Reid & A. Wandres (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 136A, (pp. 50). Takaka, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Conran, J., Bannister, J., & Lee, D. (2013). Fossil fruits and seeds from the early Miocene Foulden Maar, New Zealand. In C. M. Reid & A. Wandres (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 136A, (pp. 20). Takaka, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Bannister, J., Lee, D., Conran, J., Fordyce, E., Lindqvist, J., Kaulfuss, U., … Raine, I. (2013). Cretaceous to Miocene records of Araucarian fossils from South Island, New Zealand: Foliage, leaves, wood, bark, pollen, cones and resin. In C. M. Reid & A. Wandres (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 136A, (pp. 5). Takaka, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

D'Andrea, W. J., Fox, B., & Lee, D. (2013). Interannual and orbital-scale climate variability in the early Miocene: Compound-specific D/H records from the Foulden Maar Diatomite, New Zealand. Proceedings of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) 46th Annual Fall Meeting. Retrieved from http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2013/

Reichgelt, T., Kennedy, E., Conran, J. G., & Lee, D. (2013). Miocene terrestrial climate of southern New Zealand from floral proxies. Proceedings of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) 46th Annual Fall Meeting. Retrieved from http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2013/

Kaulfuss, U., Lee, D. E., Bannister, J. M., Lindqvist, J. K., Conran, J. G., Mildenhall, D. C., … Schmidt, A. R. (2013). Foulden Maar and South Island amber (New Zealand): Two exceptional windows into Southern Hemisphere Cenozoic terrestrial ecosystems. In J. Reiner, Q. Yang, Y. Wang & M. Reich (Eds.), Palaeobiology and Geobiology of Fossil Lagerstätten through Earth History. (pp. 84-85). University of Göttingen. [Abstract]

Conference Contribution - Poster Presentation (not in published proceedings)

Mildenhall, D. C., Kennedy, E. M., Lee, D. E., Kaulfuss, U., & Fox, B. (2013, January). Diversity following volcanic destruction: Palynology of the early Miocene Foulden Maar, Otago, New Zealand. Poster session presented at the VII Southern Connection Congress: Southern Lands and Southern Oceans: Life on the Edge?, Dunedin, New Zealand.

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Scott, J., Fordyce, E., & Lee, D. (2013, January). Land ahoy! An Oligocene shoreline on Otago schist and implications for the total submergence of Zealandia. Verbal presentation at the VII Southern Connection Congress: Southern Lands and Southern Oceans: Life on the Edge? Dunedin, New Zealand.

Reichgelt, T., Bannister, J. M., Conran, J. G., Kennedy, E. M., Mildenhall, D. C., & Lee, D. E. (2013, January). Paleoclimate and paleoecology of the early Miocene Foulden Maar, Central Otago. Verbal presentation at the VII Southern Connection Congress: Southern Lands and Southern Oceans: Life on the Edge? Dunedin, New Zealand.

Reichgelt, T., Jones, W. A., Jones, D. T., Kennedy, E. M., Mildenhall, D. C., & Lee, D. E. (2013, January). Miocene terrestrial climate from floral proxies of Otago, New Zealand. Verbal presentation at the VII Southern Connection Congress: Southern Lands and Southern Oceans: Life on the Edge? Dunedin, New Zealand.

Powell, N. G., Lee, D. E., & Kaulfuss, U. (2013, January). Paleochemotaxonomic investigation of Tertiary fossil resins from southern New Zealand by gas chromatography–mass spectrometry: Preliminary results. Verbal presentation at the VII Southern Connection Congress: Southern Lands and Southern Oceans: Life on the Edge? Dunedin, New Zealand.

Mildenhall, D. C., Isaac, M. J., Kennedy, E. M., Lee, D. E., & Allan, T. (2013, January). Does palynology give us any clues to the possible inundation of Zealandia in the late Oligocene? Verbal presentation at the VII Southern Connection Congress: Southern Lands and Southern Oceans: Life on the Edge? Dunedin, New Zealand.

Lindqvist, J. K., & Lee, D. E. (2013, January). Microbial carbonates and shelly fauna of Miocene Lake Manuherikia, Central Otago, New Zealand: Implications for variations in lake chemistry, and synsedimentary tectonics. Verbal presentation at the VII Southern Connection Congress: Southern Lands and Southern Oceans: Life on the Edge? Dunedin, New Zealand.

Lee, D., Lindqvist, J., Beu, A., Mildenhall, D., Kennedy, E., Mortimer, N., & Forsyth, J. (2013, January). Oligocene paleogeography of southern New Zealand: Sedimentological and paleontological evidence for forested land, estuaries, rocky and sandy shores. Verbal presentation at the VII Southern Connection Congress: Southern Lands and Southern Oceans: Life on the Edge? Dunedin, New Zealand.

Kaulfuss, U., Lee, D. E., Bannister, J. M., Perrichot, V., & Schmidt, A. R. (2013, January). Discovering the New Zealand amber forest biota. Verbal presentation at the VII Southern Connection Congress: Southern Lands and Southern Oceans: Life on the Edge? Dunedin, New Zealand.

Fox, B., Wilson, G., & Lee, D. (2013, January). Mi-1 deglaciation chatacterised by abrupt short-term cooling events. Verbal presentation at the VII Southern Connection Congress: Southern Lands and Southern Oceans: Life on the Edge? Dunedin, New Zealand.

D'Andrea, W. J., Donatich, S., Fox, B., & Lee, D. E. (2013, January). Orbital pacing of New Zealand hydroclimate during the early Miocene: Biomarker and compound-specific isotope records from the Foulden Maar diatomite. Verbal presentation at the VII Southern Connection Congress: Southern Lands and Southern Oceans: Life on the Edge? Dunedin, New Zealand.

Conran, J. G., Lee, D. E., & Bannister, J. M. (2013, January). Kiwi curare: Miocene Menispermaceae in New Zealand. Verbal presentation at the VII Southern Connection Congress: Southern Lands and Southern Oceans: Life on the Edge? Dunedin, New Zealand.

Bannister, J. M., Conran, J. G., & Lee, D. E. (2013, January). Solving problems in the identification of living and fossil leaves: How cuticles can help. Verbal presentation at the VII Southern Connection Congress: Southern Lands and Southern Oceans: Life on the Edge? Dunedin, New Zealand.

2012

Journal - Research Article

Carpenter, R. J., Bannister, J. M., Lee, D. E., & Jordan, G. J. (2012). Proteaceae leaf fossils from the Oligo-Miocene of New Zealand: New species and evidence of biome and trait conservatism. Australian Systematic Botany, 25(6), 375-389. doi: 10.1071/SB12018

Lee, D. E., Conran, J. G., Lindqvist, J. K., Bannister, J. M., & Mildenhall, D. C. (2012). New Zealand Eocene, Oligocene and Miocene macrofossil and pollen records and modern plant distributions in the Southern Hemisphere. Botanical Review, 78(3), 235-260. doi: 10.1007/s12229-012-9102-7

Sauquet, H., Ho, S. Y. W., Gandolfo, M. A., Jordan, G. J., Wilf, P., Cantrill, D. J., … Lee, D. E., … Udovicic, F. (2012). Testing the impact of calibration on molecular divergence times using a fossil-rich group: The case of Nothofagus (Fagales). Systematic Biology, 61(2), 289-313. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syr116

Bannister, J. M., Conran, J. G., & Lee, D. E. (2012). Lauraceae from rainforest surrounding an early Miocene maar lake, Otago, southern New Zealand. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 178, 13-34. doi: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2012.03.015

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Kaulfuss, U., Lee, D., Bannister, J., Conran, J., Lindqvist, J., Mildenhall, D., & Kennedy, E. (2012). Fossil microorganisms, plants and animals from the Early Miocene Foulden Maar, Otago, New Zealand. In K. Arentsen, K. Németh & E. Smid (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 131A, (pp. 113-114). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Kaulfuss, U., Lindqvist, J., Jones, D., Fox, B., Wilson, G., & Lee, D. (2012). Post-eruptive maar crater sedimentation inferred from outcrop, drill cores and geophysics: Foulden Maar, Early Miocene, Waipiata Volcanic Field, New Zealand. In K. Arentsen, K. Németh & E. Smid (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 131A, (pp. 43-44). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Fox, B., Haworth, M., Wilson, G., Lee, D., Wartho, J.-A., Bannister, J., Jones, D., Kaulfuss, U., & Lindqvist, J. (2012). Greenhouse gases and deglaciation at the Oligocene/Micene boundary: Palaeoclimate evidence from a New Zealand maar lake. In K. Arentsen, K. Németh & E. Smid (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 131A, (pp. 29-30). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Powell, N. G., Lee, D. E., & Kaulfuss, U. (2012). Paleochemotaxonomic investigation of tertiary fossil resins from Southern New Zealand by gas chromatography–mass spectrometry: Preliminary results. In A. Pittari & R. J. Hansen (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 134A, (pp. 74-75). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Fox, B., Wilson, G. S., & Lee, D. E. (2012). Early Miocene climate of New Zealand closely linked to Antarctic climate. In A. Pittari & R. J. Hansen (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 134A, (pp. 34). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Donatich, S., D'Andrea, W. J., Fox, B., & Lee, D. E. (2012). Orbital pacing of New Zealand hydroclimate during the Early Miocene: Biomarker and compound-specific isotope records from the Foulden Maar diatomite. Proceedings of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) 45th Annual Fall Meeting. Retrieved from http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2012/

2011

Journal - Research Article

Robinson, J. H., & Lee, D. E. (2011). A shallow, warm-water calcitic molluscan fauna from an Early Oligocene seamount, North Otago, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 54(1), 135-147. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2011.537612

Grebneff, A., Janssen, A. W., & Lee, D. E. (2011). A new euthecosomatous gastropod Gamopleura maxwelli sp. n. (Gastropoda: Cavolinioidea, Cavoliniidae) from the Late Oligocene of southern New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 54(1), 69-74. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2011.537607

Jordan, G. J., Carpenter, R. J., Bannister, J. M., Lee, D. E., Mildenhall, D. C., & Hill, R. S. (2011). High conifer diversity in Oligo-Miocene New Zealand. Australian Systematic Botany, 24(2), 121-136. doi: 10.1071/sb11004

Carpenter, R. J., Jordan, G. J., Mildenhall, D. C., & Lee, D. E. (2011). Leaf fossils of the ancient Tasmanian relict Microcachrys (Podocarpaceae) from New Zealand. American Journal of Botany, 98(7), 1164-1172. doi: 10.3732/ajb.1000506

Cohen, B. L., Bitner, M. A., Harper, E. M., Lee, D. E., Mutschke, E., & Sellanes, J. (2011). Vicariance and convergence in Magellanic and New Zealand long-looped brachiopod clades (Pan-Brachiopoda: Terebratelloidea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 162(3), 631-645. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00682.x

Maciunas, E., Conran, J. G., Bannister, J. M., Paull, R., & Lee, D. E. (2011). Miocene Astelia (Asparagales: Asteliaceae) macrofossils from southern New Zealand. Australian Systematic Botany, 24(1), 19-31. doi: 10.1071/SB10035

Harper, E. M., Robinson, J. H., & Lee, D. E. (2011). Drill hole analysis reveals evidence of targeted predation on modern brachiopods. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 305(1-4), 162-171. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.02.029

Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles

Kaulfuss, U., Lee, D., Bannister, J., Lindqvist, J., Mildenhall, D., Perrichot, V., … Schmidt, A. (2011). Discovering the New Zealand amber forest biota. Geoscience Society of New Zealand Newsletter, 5, 20-25.

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Lee, D. E., Kaulfuss, U., & Lindqvist, J. K. (2011). An overview of the fauna of Foulden Maar: Terrestrial life in New Zealand at the Oligocene-Miocene boundary. In N. J. Litchfield & K. Clark (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 130A, (pp. 66). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Bannister, J. M., Jordan, G. J., Carpenter, R. J., Conran, J. G., & Lee, D. E. (2011). Fossil leaves provide evidence of a diverse swamp forest flora from a Late Oligocene / Early Miocene site in the Gore Lignite Measures. In N. J. Litchfield & K. Clark (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 130A, (pp. 8). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Lee, D. E., Conran, J. G., Kaulfuss, U., Lutz, H., Jordan, G. J., Bannister, J. M., … Carpenter, R. J. (2011). Eocene vegetation of New Zealand and Australia: High latitude "tropics" in the Southern Hemisphere [Extended abstract]. In T. Lehmann & S. F. K. Schaal (Eds.), The World at the Time of Messel: Puzzles in Palaeobiology, Palaeoenvironment, and the History of Early Primates: Conference Volume. (pp. 100-101). Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung. [Abstract]

Fox, B., Wilson, G. S., Lee, D. E., Haworth, M., Wartho, J., Bannister, J., & Kaulfuss, U. (2011). Causes and consequences of climate change during the Mi-1 event: Palaeoclimate data from the Foulden Maar core. In N. J. Litchfield & K. Clark (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 130A, (pp. 39). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Fox, B., Wilson, G., Lee, D., Gorman, A., Jones, D., & Kaulfuss, U. (2011). Climate and environment in early Miocene New Zealand: New evidence from an Otago maar lake. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 13, 5035. [Abstract]

Baird, M., Lamare, M., & Lee, D. (2011). Physiological comparisons between the temperate brachiopod Liothyrella neozelanica and the Antarctic brachiopod Liothyrella uva. Proceedings of the New Zealand Marine Sciences Society (NZMSS) Conference: Understanding, Managing, and Conserving our Marine Environment. (pp. 34). Retrieved from http://nzmss.org/assets/Conference/NZMSS2011AbstractsPosterPresentations.pdf

Fox, B., Wilson, G. S., Lee, D., Haworth, M., Wartho, J.-A., Kaulfuss, U., Bannister, J., Gorman, A. R., Jones, D. A., & Lindqvist, J. (2011). Atmospheric carbon dioxide as a driver for deglaciation during the Mi-1 event: New evidence from terrestrial Southern Hemisphere proxies. Proceedings of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting. Retrieved from http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2011/

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Bannister, J. M., Conran, J. G., Lee, D. E., Kaulfuss, U., & Mildenhall, D. M. (2011, July). Fossil flowers, fruits and seeds from the early Miocene Foulden Maar, New Zealand. Verbal presentation at the XVIII International Botanical Congress (IBC), Melbourne, Australia.

2010

Journal - Research Article

Lee, D. E., Robinson, J. H., Witman, J. D., Copeland, S. E., Harper, E. M., Smith, F., & Lamare, M. D. (2010). Observations on recruitment, growth and ecology in a diverse living brachiopod community, Doubtful Sound, Fiordland, New Zealand. Special Papers in Palaeontology, 84, 177-191. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.00996.x

Kaulfuss, U., Harris, A. C., & Lee, D. E. (2010). A new fossil termite (Isoptera, Stolotermitidae, Stolotermes) from the Early Miocene of Otago, New Zealand. Acta Geologica Sinica: English Edition, 84(4), 705-709. doi: 10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00275.x

Lee, D. E., Bannister, J. M., Raine, J. I., & Conran, J. G. (2010). Euphorbiaceae: Acalyphoideae fossils from early Miocene New Zealand: Mallotus-macaranga leaves, fruits, and inflorescence with in situ Nyssapollenites endobalteus pollen. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 163(1-2), 127-138. doi: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2010.10.002

Ferguson, D. K., Lee, D. E., Bannister, J. M., Zetter, R., Jordan, G. J., Vavra, N., & Mildenhall, D. C. (2010). The taphonomy of a remarkable leaf bed assemblage from the Late Oligocene-Early Miocene Gore Lignite Measures, southern New Zealand. International Journal of Coal Geology, 83(2/3), 173-181. doi: 10.1016/j.coal.2009.07.009

Conran, J. G., Kaulfuss, U., Bannister, J. M., Mildenhall, D. C., & Lee, D. E. (2010). Davallia (Polypodiales: Davalliaceae) macrofossils from Early Miocene Otago (New Zealand) with in situ spores. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 162, 84-94. doi: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2010.06.001

Hartwich, S. J., Conran, J. G., Bannister, J. M., Lindqvist, J. K., & Lee, D. E. (2010). Calamoid fossil palm leaves and fruits (Arecaceae: Calamoideae) from Late Eocene Southland, New Zealand. Australian Systematic Botany, 23(2), 131-140. doi: 10.1071/SB09027

Carpenter, R. J., Jordan, G. J., Lee, D. E., & Hill, R. S. (2010). Leaf fossils of Banksia (Proteaceae) from New Zealand: An Australian abroad. American Journal of Botany, 97(2), 288-297. doi: 10.3732/ajb.0900199

Carpenter, R. J., Bannister, J. M., Jordan, G. J., & Lee, D. E. (2010). Leaf fossils of Proteaceae tribe Persoonieae from the Late Oligocene-Early Miocene of New Zealand. Australian Systematic Botany, 23(1), 1-15. doi: 10.1071/sb09015

Jordan, G. J., Bannister, J. M., Mildenhall, D. C., Zetter, R., & Lee, D. E. (2010). Fossil Ericaceae from New Zealand: Deconstructing the use of fossil evidence in historical biogeography. American Journal of Botany, 97(1), 59-70. doi: 10.3732/ajb.0900109

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Kaulfuss, U., Lee, D. E., Lindqvist, J. K., Bannister, J. M., & Conran, J. G. (2010). Geological setting, lithofacies and biota of the Early Miocene Foulden Maar, southern New Zealand. In K. Németh (Ed.), Proceedings of the International Maar Workshop: New Advances in Maar-Diatreme Research in Hungary, Germany and New Zealand: Results and Perspectives. (pp. 35-48). Balatonlelelle, Hungary. [Full Paper]

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Harper, E. M., Robinson, J. H., & Lee, D. E. (2010). Analysis of drill holes in recent New Zealand brachiopods. In G. R. Shi, I. G. Percival, R. R. Pierson & E. A. Weldon (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th International Brachiopod Congress (Vol. 95). (pp. 51). Sydney, Australia: Geological Society of Australia. [Abstract]

Carlson, S. J., & Lee, D. E. (2010). In the loop: 400 million years of terebratulide evolution: A tribute to G. Arthur Cooper. In G. R. Shi, I. G. Percival, R. R. Pierson & E. A. Weldon (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th International Brachiopod Congress (Vol. 95). (pp. 26). Sydney, Australia: Geological Society of Australia. [Abstract]

Lee, D. E., Lamare, M., Robinson, J. H., & Harper, E. M. (2010). A diverse brachiopod-dominated community on settlement plates from Doubtful Sound, New Zealand: A 'retrograde' lophophorate community emulates a palaeozoic seafloor. In G. R. Shi, I. G. Percival, R. R. Pierson & E. A. Weldon (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th International Brachiopod Congress. 95, (pp. 64). Sydney, Australia: Geological Society of Australia. [Abstract]

Conran, J. G., Bannister, J. M., & Lee, D. E. (2010). Lauraceae at Foulden Maar: Diversity and identity. Proceedings of the Australian Systematic Botany Society Conference: Systematic botany across the ditch: Links between Australia and New Zealand. (pp. 28). Retrieved from http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/news/conferences/asbs2010/abstracts.asp

Lee, D., Bannister, J., Conran, J., Mildenhall, D., & Jordan, G. (2010). New Zealand's plants: How long have they been here? Proceedings of the Australian Systematic Botany Society Conference: Systematic botany across the ditch: Links between Australia and New Zealand. (pp. 44). Retrieved from http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/news/conferences/asbs2010/abstracts.asp

Bannister, J., Lee, D., Raine, I., Mildenhall, D., & Conran, J. (2010). Fossil flowers from the Early Miocene Foulden Maar, New Zealand. Proceedings of the Australian Systematic Botany Society Conference: Systematic botany across the ditch: Links between Australia and New Zealand. (pp. 21). Retrieved from http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/news/conferences/asbs2010/abstracts.asp

Mildenhall, D., Kennedy, E., Isaac, M., & Lee, D. (2010). Late Oligocene spores and pollen from Cosy Dell, Southland, New Zealand: A preliminary account. Proceedings of the Australian Systematic Botany Society Conference: Systematic botany across the ditch: Links between Australia and New Zealand. (pp. 49). Retrieved from http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/news/conferences/asbs2010/abstracts.asp

Fox, B., Wilson, G. S., Lee, D. E., Gorman, A. R., Kaulfuss, U., & Jones, D. (2010). Climate and environment in Early Miocene New Zealand: New evidence from an Otago Maar lake. Proceedings of the Active Earth Processes Workshop: Joint Workshop of the Department of Geology, National School of Surveying and Department of Marine Science. (pp. 16). Retrieved from http://www.surveying.otago.ac.nz/program.pdf

Fox, B., Wilson, G. S., Lee, D. E., Gorman, A. R., Kaulfuss, U., & Jones, D. (2010). Climate and environment in Early Miocene New Zealand: New evidence from an Otago Maar lake. In J. D. Eccles, M. R. Grigor, P. W. O. Hoskin & D. C. H. Hikuroa (Eds.), Geoscience Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 129A, (pp. 98). [Abstract]

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Kaulfuss, U., & Lee, D. E. (2010, August). Foulden Maar: A new locality for fossil insects and spiders from the early Miocene of New Zealand. Verbal presentation at the 5th International Conference on Fossil Insects, Arthropods and Amber, Beijing, China.

Bannister, J., Lee, D., Conran, J., & Kaulfuss, U. (2010, February). Leaves and insects from an early Miocene maar diatomite at Foulden Hills, Otago, New Zealand. Verbal presentation at the VI Southern Connection Congress, Bariloche, Argentina.

Lee, D., Bannister, J., Conran, J., & Mildenhall, D. (2010, February). How New Zealand Eocene, Oligocene and Miocene macrofossil and pollen records help explain modern plant distribution. Verbal presentation at the VI Southern Connection Congress, Bariloche, Argentina.

Cosgrove, S., Lee, D., & Schallenberg, M. (2010, November). A paleolimnological analysis of anthropogenic impacts of Waituna Lagoon, Southland. Verbal presentation at the New Zealand Freshwater Sciences Society (NZFSS) Annual Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand.

2009

Journal - Research Article

Lindqvist, J. K., & Lee, D. E. (2009). High-frequency paleoclimate signals from Foulden Maar, Waipiata Volcanic Field, southern New Zealand: An Early miocene varved lacustrine diatomite deposit. Sedimentary Geology, 222(1-2), 98-110. doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2009.07.009

Conran, J. G., Bannister, J. M., & Lee, D. E. (2009). Earliest orchid macrofossils: Early Miocene Dendrobium and Earina (Orchidaceae: Epidendroideae) from New Zealand. American Journal of Botany, 96(2), 466-474. doi: 10.3732/ajb.0800269

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Lee, D. (2009). Coastal Otago: Weston to Kakanui and Oamaru [Field Trip Guide]. In I. M. Turnbull (Ed.), Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 128B, (pp. 1-13). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Full Paper]

Lee, D., Lindqvist, J., Mildenhall, D., Bannister, J., & Kaulfuss, U. (2009). Paleobotany, palynology and sedimentology of Late Cretaceous-Miocene sequences in Otago and Southland [Field Trip Guide]. In I. M. Turnbull (Ed.), Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 128B, (pp. 1-39). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Full Paper]

Stein, J. K., Craw, D., Lee, D. E., & Pope, J. (2009). Stratigraphy and lithology of basal sediments of the Eastern Southland lignite basin. Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy New Zealand Branch Annual Conference. (pp. 331-341). Carlton, Australia: AusIMM. [Full Paper]

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Lee, D., Lindqvist, J., Conran, J., Bannister, J., Kaulfuss, U., & White, J. (2009). Exceptional preservation of fossil plants, fish and insects from a laminated, diatomite filled, Early Miocene maar lake in New Zealand [Extended abstract]. In M. J. Haller & G. I. Massaferro (Eds.), Proceedings of the Third International Maar Conference. (pp. 59-60). Buenos Aires, Argentina: Asociación Geológica Argentina. [Abstract]

Stein, J., Lee, D., Grebneff, A., & Lindqvist, J. (2009). A subtropical biota from a Late Oligocene rocky shore, Waimumu, Southland. In D. Barrell & A. Tulloch (Eds.), Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 128A, (pp. 202). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Lee, D., Wilson, G., Lindqvist, J., & Gorman, A. (2009). A window into Early Miocene New Zealand: A progress report on research on the Foulden Maar. In D. Barrell & A. Tulloch (Eds.), Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 128A, (pp. 118). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Maciunas, E., Conran, J., Paull, R., Lee, D., & Bannister, J. (2009). Phormium and Asteliaceae macrofossils from New Zealand: Using leaf cuticular details to determine phylogenetic affinities. In D. Barrell & A. Tulloch (Eds.), Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 128A, (pp. 129). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Fox, B., Kaulfuss, U., Jones, D., Wilson, G., Lee, D., & Gorman, A. (2009). A Miocene terrestrial sediment core from Foulden Maar, Otago. In D. Barrell & A. Tulloch (Eds.), Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 128A, (pp. 73). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Carpenter, R. J., Bannister, J. M., Jordan, G. J., & Lee, D. E. (2009). New and remarkable Proteaceae leaf fossils from Southern New Zealand. In D. Barrell & A. Tulloch (Eds.), Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 128A, (pp. 38). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Kaulfuss, U., Lee, D., Bannister, J., & Harris, A. (2009). A preliminary account of the fossil arthropod fauna and insect-plant relationships in the Foulden Maar (Early Miocene, Otago). In D. Barrell & A. Tulloch (Eds.), Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 128A, (pp. 106). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Homes, A., Lee, D., & Cieraad, E. (2009). Preliminary review of Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic fern macrofossils from South Island, New Zealand. In D. Barrell & A. Tulloch (Eds.), Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 128A, (pp. 92). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Bannister, J., Lee, D., Conran, J., & Mildenhall, D. (2009). A review of the flora of the Foulden Diatomite. In D. Barrell & A. Tulloch (Eds.), Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 128A, (pp. 9). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Hicks, S., White, J. D. L., Fordyce, R. E., & Lee, D. E. (2009). Ecological and sedimentological evolution of the volcanically active Eocene-Oligocene continental shelf, Northeast Otago, New Zealand. In D. Barrell & A. Tulloch (Eds.), Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 128A, (pp. 87). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Conran, J., Bannister, J., & Lee, D. (2009). A review of the New Zealand macrofossil monocot flora. In D. Barrell & A. Tulloch (Eds.), Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 128A, (pp. 44). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Kennedy, E. M., Mildenhall, D. C., Mortimer, N., Lee, D. E., Palmer, J., & Isaac, M. J. (2009). New Zealand's floral origins and the Oligocene land crisis: A work in progress. In D. Barrell & A. Tulloch (Eds.), Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 128A, (pp. 109). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Lee, D. E., Bannister, J. M., Kaulfuss, U., Conran, J. G., & Lindqvist, J. K. (2009). Late Eocene palms, ferns and fungi, Late Oligocene podocarps, proteaceans and epacrids, Early Miocene orchids, fish and insects: How exceptional fossil deposits in Otago and Southland are expanding what we know about the history of the New Zealand terrestrial biota [Extended abstract]. Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 126, (pp. 28-30). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Lee, D. E., Lindqvist, J. K., Bannister, J. M., Cieraad, E., Raine, J. I., Kennedy, E. M., & Conran, J. G. (2009). Late Eocene climate of southern New Zealand: Insights from the in situ Pikopiko Fossil Forest. GNS Science Miscellaneous Series. 16, (pp. 112). [Abstract]

Other Research Output

Lee, D. (2009, September). Palms, podocarps, orchids, and proteads: The contribution of new fossil plants from Otago and Southland to our understanding of New Zealand's vegetation history. 8th Annual Geoff Baylis Lecture. Dunedin, New Zealand. [Public Seminar].

2008

Journal - Research Article

Robinson, J. H., & Lee, D. E. (2008). Brachiopod pedicle traces: Recognition of three separate types of trace and redefinition of Podichnus centrifugalis Bromley & Surlyk, 1973. Fossils & Strata, 54, 219-225.

Lee, D. E. (2008). The terebratulides: The supreme brachiopod survivors. Fossils & Strata, 54, 241-249.

Hiller, N., Robinson, J. H., & Lee, D. E. (2008). The micromorphic brachiopod Agyrotheca (Terebratulida: Megathyridoidea) in Australia and New Zealand. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 120, 167-183.

Lee, D. E., Gregory, M. R., Lüter, C., Zezina, O. N., Robinson, J. H., & Christie, D. M. (2008). Melvicalathis, a new brachiopod genus (Terebratulida: Chlidonophoridae) from deep sea volcanic substrates, and the biogeographic significance of the mid-ocean ridge system. Zootaxa, 1866, 136-150.

Lee, D. E., & Motchurova-Dekova, N. (2008). Chathamirhynchia kahuitara, a new genus and species of Late Cretaceous rhynchonellide brachiopod from the Chatham Islands, New Zealand: Shell structure, palaeoecology and biogeography. Earth & Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 98, 357-367. doi: 10.1017/S1755691007078425

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Kaulfuss, U., Lee, D. E., Lindqvist, J. K., Lutz, H., & Koziol, M. (2008). Comparison between two volcanic craters: Foulden Maar (South Island, New Zealand) and the Eckfeld Maar (Vulkaneifel, Germany). Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 124A, (pp. 221). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

2007

Chapter in Book - Research

Lee, D. E., MacKinnon, D. I., & Smirnova, T. N. (2007). Terebratulidina. In P. A. Selden (Ed.), Treatise on invertebrate paleontology: Part H: Brachiopoda: Revised (Vol. 6, Suppl). (pp. 2801-2816). Boulder, CO & Lawrence, KS: Geological Society of America and the University of Kansas.

Journal - Research Article

Lee, D. E., McDowall, R. M., & Lindqvist, J. K. (2007). Galaxias fossils from Miocene lake deposits, Otago New Zealand: The earliest records of the Southern Hemisphere family Galaxiidae (Teleostei). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 37(3), 109-130. doi: 10.1080/03014220709510540

Robinson, J. H., & Lee, D. E. (2007). The Recent and Paleogene craniid brachiopod, Valdiviathyris quenstedti Helmcke, 1940. Systematics & Biodiversity, 5(1), 123-131.

Garland, M. J., Bannister, J. M., Lee, D. E., & White, J. D. L. (2007). A coniferous tree stump of late Early Jurassic age from the Ferrar Basalt, Coombs Hills, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 50(3), 263-269. doi: 10.1080/00288300709509836

Harris, A. C., Bannister, J. M., & Lee, D. E. (2007). Fossil scale insects (Hemiptera, Coccoidea, Diaspididae) in life position on an angiosperm leaf from an Early Miocene lake deposit, Otago, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 37(1), 1-13. doi: 10.1080/03014220709510531

Lee, D. E., Bannister, J. M., & Lindqvist, J. K. (2007). Late Oligocene-Early Miocene leaf macrofossils confirm a long history of Agathis in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 45(4), 565-578. doi: 10.1080/00288250709509739

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Conran, J. G., Bannister, J. M., & Lee, D. E. (2007, January). Fossil monocotyledonous leaves from the Lower Miocene Foulden Hills Diatomite, Otago, New Zealand. Verbal presentation at the 5th International Southern Connection Conference, Adelaide, Australia.

2006

Chapter in Book - Research

Lee, D. E., Dagys, A. S., Smirnova, T. N., Dong-Li, S., & Yu-gan, J. (2006). Terebratulidina. In R. L. Kaesler (Ed.), Treatise on invertebrate paleontology: Part H, Brachiopoda, Revised: Volume 5: Rhynchonelliformea (part). (pp. 1994). Boulder, CO & Lawrence, KS: Geological Society of America and the University of Kansas.

MacKinnon, D. I., Smirnova, T. N., & Lee, D. E. (2006). Kingenoidea. In R. L. Kaesler (Ed.), Treatise on invertebrate paleontology: Part H, Brachiopoda, Revised: Volume 5: Rhynchonelliformea (part). (pp. 2189-2200). Boulder, CO & Lawrence, KS: Geological Society of America and the University of Kansas.

Yu-gan, J., & Lee, D. E. (2006). Uncertain. In R. L. Kaesler (Ed.), Treatise on invertebrate paleontology: Part H, Brachiopoda, Revised: Volume 5: Rhynchonelliformea (part). (pp. 2248). Boulder, CO & Lawrence, KS: Geological Society of America and the University of Kansas.

MacKinnon, D. I., & Lee, D. E. (2006). Platidioidea. In R. L. Kaesler (Ed.), Treatise on invertebrate paleontology: Part H, Brachiopoda, Revised: Volume 5: Rhynchonelliformea (part). (pp. 2225-2228). Boulder, CO & Lawrence, KS: Geological Society of America and the University of Kansas.

MacKinnon, D. I., & Lee, D. E. (2006). Terebratelloidea. In R. L. Kaesler (Ed.), Treatise on invertebrate paleontology: Part H, Brachiopoda, Revised: Volume 5: Rhynchonelliformea (part). (pp. 2229-2244). Boulder, CO & Lawrence, KS: Geological Society of America and the University of Kansas.

MacKinnon, D. I., & Lee, D. E. (2006). Bouchardioidea. In R. L. Kaesler (Ed.), Treatise on invertebrate paleontology: Part H, Brachiopoda, Revised: Volume 5: Rhynchonelliformea (part). (pp. 2223-2224). Boulder, CO & Lawrence, KS: Geological Society of America and the University of Kansas.

MacKinnon, D. I., & Lee, D. E. (2006). Laqueoidea. In R. L. Kaesler (Ed.), Treatise on invertebrate paleontology: Part H, Brachiopoda, Revised: Volume 5: Rhynchonelliformea (part). (pp. 2201-2216). Boulder, CO & Lawrence, KS: Geological Society of America and the University of Kansas.

Lee, D. E., & Tchorszhevsky, E. S. (2006). Nomenclatorial Note. In R. L. Kaesler (Ed.), Treatise on invertebrate paleontology: Part H, Brachiopoda, Revised: Volume 5: Rhynchonelliformea (part). (pp. 2255). Boulder, CO & Lawrence, KS: Geological Society of America and the University of Kansas.

MacKinnon, D. I., & Lee, D. E. (2006). Loop morphology and terminology in Terebratulida. In R. L. Kaesler (Ed.), Treatise on invertebrate paleontology: Part H, Brachiopoda, Revised: Volume 5: Rhynchonelliformea (part). (pp. 1974-1993). Boulder, CO & Lawrence, KS: Geological Society of America and the University of Kansas.

Lee, D. E., & Yu-gan, J. (2006). Nomenclatorial Note. In R. L. Kaesler (Ed.), Treatise on invertebrate paleontology: Part H, Brachiopoda, Revised: Volume 5: Rhynchonelliformea (part). (pp. 2254). Boulder, CO & Lawrence, KS: Geological Society of America and the University of Kansas.

Yu-gan, J., & Lee, D. E. (2006). Uncertain. In R. L. Kaesler (Ed.), Treatise on invertebrate paleontology: Part H, Brachiopoda, Revised: Volume 5: Rhynchonelliformea (part). (pp. 2252). Boulder, CO & Lawrence, KS: Geological Society of America and the University of Kansas.

MacKinnon, D. I., Lee, D. E., Baker, P. G., Smirnova, T. N., Dagys, A. S., & Dong-Li, S. (2006). Terebratellidina. In R. L. Kaesler (Ed.), Treatise on invertebrate paleontology: Part H, Brachiopoda, Revised: Volume 5: Rhynchonelliformea (part). (pp. 2163). Boulder, CO & Lawrence, KS: Geological Society of America and the University of Kansas.

Yu-gan, J., & Lee, D. E. (2006). Cryptonelloidea. In R. L. Kaesler (Ed.), Treatise on invertebrate paleontology: Part H, Brachiopoda, Revised: Volume 5: Rhynchonelliformea (part). (pp. 2019-2028). Boulder, CO & Lawrence, KS: Geological Society of America and the University of Kansas.

Lee, D. E., Smirnova, T. N., & Dong-Li, S. (2006). Cancellothyridoidea. In R. L. Kaesler (Ed.), Treatise on invertebrate paleontology: Part H, Brachiopoda, Revised: Volume 5: Rhynchonelliformea (part). (pp. 2145-2162). Boulder, CO & Lawrence, KS: Geological Society of America and the University of Kansas.

Lee, D. E. (2006). Dyscolioidea. In R. L. Kaesler (Ed.), Treatise on invertebrate paleontology: Part H, Brachiopoda, Revised: Volume 5: Rhynchonelliformea (part). (pp. 2136-2144). Boulder, CO & Lawrence, KS: Geological Society of America and the University of Kansas.

Lee, D. E., MacKinnon, D. I., & Smirnova, T. N. (2006). Megothyridoidea. In R. L. Kaesler (Ed.), Treatise on invertebrate paleontology: Part H, Brachiopoda, Revised: Volume 5: Rhynchonelliformea (part). (pp. 2217-2222). Boulder, CO & Lawrence, KS: Geological Society of America and the University of Kansas.

Lee, D. E., Smirnova, T. N., & Dagys, A. S. (2006). Loboidothyridoidea. In R. L. Kaesler (Ed.), Treatise on invertebrate paleontology: Part H, Brachiopoda, Revised: Volume 5: Rhynchonelliformea (part). (pp. 2082-2135). Boulder, CO & Lawrence, KS: Geological Society of America and the University of Kansas.

Lee, D. E., & MacKinnon, D. I. (2006). Introduction. In R. L. Kaesler (Ed.), Treatise on invertebrate paleontology: Part H, Brachiopoda, Revised: Volume 5: Rhynchonelliformea (part). (pp. 1965-1973). Boulder, CO & Lawrence, KS: Geological Society of America and the University of Kansas.

Lee, D. E., & Smirnova, T. N. (2006). Terebratuloidea. In R. L. Kaesler (Ed.), Treatise on invertebrate paleontology: Part H, Brachiopoda, Revised: Volume 5: Rhynchonelliformea (part). (pp. 2054-2081). Boulder, CO & Lawrence, KS: Geological Society of America and the University of Kansas.

Lee, D. E. (2006). Stringocephaloidea. In R. L. Kaesler (Ed.), Treatise on invertebrate paleontology: Part H, Brachiopoda, Revised: Volume 5: Rhynchonelliformea (part). (pp. 1994-2018). Boulder, CO & Lawrence, KS: Geological Society of America and the University of Kansas.

Yu-gan, J., Lee, D. E., Dong-Li, S., Smirnova, T. N., Dagys, A. S., & Sandy, M. R. (2006). Dielasmatoidea. In R. L. Kaesler (Ed.), Treatise on invertebrate paleontology: Part H, Brachiopoda, Revised: Volume 5: Rhynchonelliformea (part). (pp. 2029-2053). Boulder, CO & Lawrence, KS: Geological Society of America and the University of Kansas.

Lee, D. E., MacKinnon, D. I., Smirnova, T. N., Baker, P. G., Yu-gan, J., & Dong-Li, S. (2006). Terebratulida. In R. L. Kaesler (Ed.), Treatise on invertebrate paleontology: Part H, Brachiopoda, Revised: Volume 5: Rhynchonelliformea (part). (pp. 1965). Boulder, CO & Lawrence, KS: Geological Society of America and the University of Kansas.

Lee, D. E., & MacKinnon, D. I. (2006). Kraussinoidea. In R. L. Kaesler (Ed.), Treatise on invertebrate paleontology: Part H, Brachiopoda, Revised: Volume 5: Rhynchonelliformea (part). (pp. 2245-2246). Boulder, CO & Lawrence, KS: Geological Society of America and the University of Kansas.

Journal - Research Article

Cieraad, E., & Lee, D. E. (2006). The New Zealand fossil record of ferns for the past 85 million years. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 44, 143-170. doi: 10.1080/0028825X.2006.9513015

McDowall, R. M., Kennedy, E. M., Lindqvist, J. K., Lee, D. E., Alloway, B. V., & Gregory, M. R. (2006). Probable Gobiomorphus fossils from the Miocene and Pleistocene of New Zealand (Teleostei: Eleotridae). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 36(3), 97-109. doi: 10.1080/03014223.2006.9517803

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Lee, D., Bannister, J., Lindqvist, J., & Harris, A. (2006). Fossil flowers, fruit, fungi, leaves, diatoms, sponges, fish and insects from a Central Otago lake deposit: A diverse 20 million year old forest-lake ecosystem [Extended abstract]. In S. A. Trewick & M. J. Phillips (Eds.), Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 121, (pp. 22-23). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Gorman, A. R., Lee, D. E., Wilson, G. S., Kilner, J. W., Blakemore, H., Crutchley, G. J., Fohrmann, M., Hill, M. G., Pooley, B. J., & Tinto, K. (2006). Geophysical characterisation of the Foulden Hills Maar, near Middlemarch, Otago. In B. Stewart, C. Wallace, J. Lecointre & M. Reyners (Eds.), Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 122A, (pp. 43). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

Pollock, J., Lee, D., & Munro, A. (2006). Future directions in New Zealand geoscience education: The place of earth science in the science curriculum. In B. Stewart, C. Wallace, J. Lecointre & M. Reyners (Eds.), Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication. 122A, (pp. 83). Wellington, New Zealand: GSNZ. [Abstract]

2005

Journal - Research Article

McDowall, R. M., & Lee, D. E. (2005). Probable perciform fish scales from a Miocene freshwater lake deposit, Central Otago, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 35(3), 339-344.

Bannister, J. M., Lee, D. E., & Raine, J. I. (2005). Morphology and palaeoenvironmental context of Fouldenia staminosa, a fossil flower with associated pollen from the Early Miocene of Otago, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 43, 515-525.

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Bannister, J. M., & Lee, D. E. (2005). Fish, frustules, fruits, a flower and lots of leaves: An investigation into the biota of an Early Miocene Maar lake. In J. R. Pettinga & A. M. Wandres (Eds.), Proceedings of the Geological Society of New Zealand 50th Annual Conference. 119A, (pp. 2-3). Kaikoura, New Zealand: Geological Society of New Zealand Misc. Publ.. [Abstract]

2004

Journal - Research Article

Marx, R., Lee, D. E., Lloyd, K. M., & Lee, W. G. (2004). Phytolith morphology and biogenic silica concentrations and abundance in leaves of Chionochloa (Danthonieae) and Festuca (Poeae) in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 42, 677-691.

Nelson, C. S., Lee, D., Maxwell, P., Maas, R., Kamp, P. J. J., & Cooke, S. (2004). Strontium isotope dating of the New Zealand Oligocene. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 47, 719-730.

2003

Journal - Research Article

Lee, D. E., & Robinson, J. H. (2003). Kakanuiella (gen. nov.) and Thecidellina: Cenozoic and recent thecideide brachiopods from New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 33(1), 341-361.

Kelly, M., Lee, D. E., Kelly, S., & Buckeridge, J. S. (2003). A recent sponge, Pleroma aotea Kelly ('Order' Lithistida: Family Pleromidae), in the late Eocene Ototara Limestone of Otago, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine & Freshwater Research, 37, 129-148.

Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles

Coombs, D. S., Lee, D. E., & Grant-Mackie, J. A. (2003). John Douglas Campbell 14.4.1927 - 27.7.2001. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 33(1), 1-5.

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Lindqvist, J. K., & Lee, D. E. (2003, December). Pikopiko fossil forest and associated leaf remains, Beaumont Formation (late Eocene), Waiau Basin, Southland, New Zealand. Verbal presentation at the Geological Society of New Zealand Inc 2003 Annual Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand.

Cieraad, E., & Lee, D. E. (2003, December). Fern macrofossils and spores from the Late Eocene Pikopiko fossil forest, Southland, New Zealand. Verbal presentation at the Geological Society of New Zealand Inc 2003 Annual Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand.

Bannister, J. M., Lee, D. E., & Orlovich, D. A. (2003, December). Late Eocene epiphyllous fungi from Pikopiko, Southland, New Zealand. Verbal presentation at the Geological Society of New Zealand Inc 2003 Annual Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand.

2002

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Lee, D. E., Rosener, B. R., & Graham, A. (2002). Global sea surface temperatures from the early Eocene to late Pliocene: Biotic evidence for the distribution/extent of tropical and subtropical regions. International Palaeontological Congress Programme. (pp. 98-99). [Abstract]

2001

Chapter in Book - Research

Lee, D. E., Carlson, S. J., Buening, N., & Samson, C. R. (2001). Variation in the loops of two recent species of Liothyrella (Brachiopoda; Terebratuloidea) from New Zealand and South Orkney Islands. In C. H. C. Brunton, L. R. M. Cocks & S. L. Long (Eds.), Brachiopods past and present. (pp. 56-70). London: Taylor & Francis.

Journal - Research Article

Lee, D. E., Lee, W. G., & Morton, N. E. (2001). Where and why have all the flowers gone? Depletion and turnover in the New Zealand Cenozoic angiosperm flora in relation to palaeogeography and climate. Australian Journal of Botany, 49(3), 341-356.

Lee, D. E., & Brunton, C. H. C. (2001). Novocrania, a new name for the genus Neocrania Lee & Brunton, 1986 (Brachiopoda, Craniida), preoccupied by Neocrania Davis, 1978 (Insecta, Lepidoptera). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, London, Geology Series, 57(1), 5.

Lee, D. E., Brunton, C. H. C., Ruggiero, E. T., Caldara, M., & Simone, O. (2001). The Cenozoic brachiopod Terebratula: Its type species, neotype, and other included species. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, London, Geology Series, 57(2), 83-93.

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Lee, D. E., & Lee, W. G. (2001). Does paleontology have a future in New Zealand? Rediscovering the relevance of the past. Geological Society of New Zealand Conference. (pp. 89). [Abstract]

Nelson, C. S., Lee, D. E., Maxwell, P. A., Maas, R., Kamp, P., & Cooke, S. (2001). Strontium isotope dating of the New Zealand oligocene: Some preliminary results. Geological Society of New Zealand Conference. (pp. 111). [Abstract]

Lee, D. E., & Lee, W. G. (2001). Strontium isotope dating of the New Zealand oligocene: Some preliminary results. Geological Society of New Zealand Conference. (pp. 89). [Abstract]

2000

Journal - Research Article

Lee, D. E., & Stilwell, J. D. (2000). Rhynchonellide Brachiopods from Eocene to Earliest Oligocene erratics in the McMurdo Sound region, Antarctica. Antarctic Research Series, 76, 325-327.

Campbell, J. D., Lee, D. E., & Lee, W. G. (2000). A woody shrub from the Miocene Nevis Oil Shale, Otago, New Zealand - a possible fossil divaricate? Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 30(2), 147-153.

Spencer, H. G., & Lee, D. E. (2000). Comments on the proposed conservation usage of the names Mystacina Gray, 1843, Chalinolobus Peters, 1866, M. tuberculata (Gray, 1843) and C. tuberculatus (J.R. Forster, 1844) (Mammalia, Chiroptera). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 57, 172-176.

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Lee, D. E., & Gregory, M. (2000). A new deep-sea Cancellothyrid brachiopod from volcanic substrates of the mid-ocean ridge system. Proceedings of the Millenium Brachiopod Congress. (pp. 50). [Abstract]

Lee, D. E., & Brunton, C. H. C. (2000). The Brachiopod genus Terebratula: Solutions to some historical, geological and biological puzzles. Proceedings of the Millenium Brachiopod Congress. (pp. 49). [Abstract]

Lee, D. E., Carlson, S. J., & Buening, N. (2000). Variation in the loop and cardinalia of two recent species of Liothyrella (Brachiopoda: Terebratulidina) from New Zealand and the South Atlantic. Proceedings of the Millenium Brachiopod Congress. (pp. 49). [Abstract]

Lee, W. G., & Lee, D. E. (2000). Where and why have all the flowers gone? Depletion of the New Zealand flora during the late Cenozoic. Proceedings of the Southern Connections Conference. [Abstract]

1999

Journal - Research Article

Ford, P. B., Lee, D. E., & Fischer, P. J. (1999). Early Permian conodonts from the Torlesse and Caples Terranes, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 42(1), 79-90.

Spencer, H. G., & Lee, D. E. (1999). Case 3095. Mystacina Gray, 1843, Chalinolobus Peters, 1866, M. tuberculata Gray, 1843 and Vespertilio tuberculatus J.R. Forster, 1844 (currently C. tuberculatus) (Mammalia, Chiroptera): proposed conservation of usage of the names. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 56, 250-254.

1998

Journal - Research Article

Buening, N., Carlson, S. J., Spero, H. J., & Lee, D. E. (1998). Evidence for the early Oligocene formation of a proto-subtropical convergence from oxygen isotope records of New Zealand Paleogene brachiopods. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 138, 43-68.

Lee, D. E., & Brunton, C. H. (1998). Terebratula Muller, 1776 (Brachiopoda): proposed designation of Anomia terebratula Linnaeus, 1758 as the type species. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 55(4), 220-223.

1997

Journal - Research Article

Lee, D. E., Scholz, J., & Gordon, D. P. (1997). Paleoecology of a late Eocene mobile rockground biota from North Otago, New Zealand. Palaios, 12, 568-581. doi: 10.2307/3515412

Ford, P. B., & Lee, D. E. (1997). Note on a new method of using hydrofluoric acid for the study of conodonts in cherts in the Torlesse terrane, New Zealand. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 16(2), 158.

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Lee, D. E. (1997). From Terebratula (Linnaeus, 1758) to Order Terebratulida. Geological Society of New Zealand Conference. (pp. 97). [Abstract]

1993

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Youngson, J. H., & Lee, D. E. (1993). Freshwater sponges, algae and diatoms from Early Miocene Maar crater sediments at Hindon, East Otago. Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication 71A. (pp. 156). Geological Society of New Zealand. [Abstract]