这篇讣闻的第一作者为Ivan Gabrielyan博士,供职于亚美尼亚科学院植物研究所(Ivan Gabrielyan, Armenian National Academy of Sciences , Institute of Botany / Dept.of Systematics of higher Plants, Avan-63, 375063 Yerevan, Armenia, gabrielyanivan"at"yahoo.com)。
第二作者为德国古植物学家Johanna Eder(Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde,Stuttgart,Rosenstein 1,70191 Stuttgart ,Germany ,johanna.eder"at"smns-bw.de),现任国际古植物学协会秘书长(2008--2012)。
从古植物学研究的学术思想发展历史看,这篇讣闻指出:A. L. Takhtajan逐步形成了古植物学研究的“分类学派”(taxonomical school)。参见:
“A. L. Takhtajan gradually developed the direction in palaeobotany in Soviet Union and especially the taxonomical school essential of taxonomical investigations of the fossil floras as well as for the study of selected systematic groups and the understanding of phylogeny (Zhilin S., 1998, Academic scientific school of St. Petersburg).”