Stephen McLoughlin is a lecturer in paleontology and sedimentology in the School of Natural Resource Sciences@Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. He studies plant fossils in Australia and Antarctica, focusing primarily on the systematics, biogeography and paleoenvironments of Permian to Cretaceous flora. Address for McLoughlin: School of Natural Resource Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, P.O. Box 2434, Brisbane, Q. 4001, Australia. Internet: s.mcloughlin@qut.edu.au