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Spagnuolo EJ, P Wilf, J-P Zonneveld, D Shaw,
Aswan, Y Rizal, Y Zaim, JI Bloch, RL Ciochon. 2024. Giant seeds of an extant
Australasian legume lineage discovered in Eocene Borneo (South Kalimantan,
Indonesia). International Journal of Plant Sciences, doi:10.1086/730538.
Siegert C, MA Gandolfo, P Wilf. 2024. Early
Eocene infructescences from Patagonia, Argentina expand the biogeography of
Malvoideae (Malvaceae, the mallow family). 2024. American Journal of Botany
111, e16384.
Wilf P, CC González, MA Gandolfo, MC Zamaloa. 2024. Putative Celtis
leaves from Eocene Patagonia are allied with Asian Anacardiaceae. Ameghiniana
61, 73–92.
Zonneveld, J-P, Y. Zaim, Y. Rizal, Aswan, DM
Boyer, RL Ciochon, T Smith, J Head, P Wilf, JI Bloch. 2024. Avian foraging on
an intertidal mudflat succession in the Eocene Tanjung Formation, Asem Asem
Basin, South Kalimantan, Indonesia. Palaios 39, 67–96.
Zonneveld, J-P, N Adani, Aswan, JI Bloch, A
Briguglio, RL Ciochon, LJ Cotton, A Hascaryo, J Head, J Luque, N Santodomingo,
T Smith, J Todd, P Wilf, Y Rizal, Y Zaim. 2024. Stratigraphy, paleontology and
depositional setting of the Upper Eocene (Priabonian) Lower Pagat Member,
Tanjung Formation, in the Asem Asem Basin, South Kalimantan, Indonesia. Journal
of Paleontology, in press.
Wilf P. 2023. Presentation of the 2022 Paleontological Society
Medal to Conrad C. Labandeira. Journal of Paleontology 97: 1155-1156.
Andruchow-Colombo A, G
Rossetto-Harris, TJ Brodribb, MA Gandolfo, P Wilf. 2023. A new fossil Acmopyle
with accessory transfusion tissue and potential reproductive buds: direct
evidence for ever-wet rainforests in Eocene Patagonia. American Journal of
Botany 110, e16221.
Wilf P, RM Kooyman.
2023. Do Southeast Asia's paleo-Antarctic trees cool the planet? New
Phytologist 239, 1556–1566.
Wilf P, MR Carvalho, E
Stiles. 2023. The end-Cretaceous plant extinction: heterogeneity, ecosystem
transformation, and insights for the future. Cambridge Prisms: Extinction
1, e14.
Donovan MP, P Wilf, A
Iglesias, NR Cúneo, CC Labandeira. 2023. Insect herbivore and fungal
communities on Agathis (Araucariaceae) from the latest Cretaceous to
Recent. PhytoKeys 226, 109–158.
Wilf P, A Iglesias, MA
Gandolfo. 2023. The first Gondwanan Euphorbiaceae fossils reset the
biogeographic history of the Macaranga-Mallotus clade. American
Journal of Botany, e16169.
[image dataset]
Deanna R, C Martínez, S
Manchester, P Wilf, A Campos, S Knapp, FE Chiarini, GE Barboza, G Bernardello,
H Sauquet, E Dean, A Orejuela, SD Smith. 2023. Fossil berries reveal global
radiation of the nightshade family by the early Cenozoic. New Phytologist
238: 2685-2697.
Rossetto-Harris G, E
Stiles, P Wilf, MP Donovan, X Zou. 2022. Rapid character scoring and tabulation
of large leaf-image libraries using Adobe Bridge. Applications in Plant
Sciences 10, e11500.
Kooyman RM, SJ Ivory, AJ
Benfield, P Wilf. 2022. Gondwanan survivor lineages and the high-risk
biogeography of Anthropocene Southeast Asia. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 60, 715-727. (cover article)
Matel TP, MA Gandolfo,
EJ Hermsen, P Wilf. 2022. Cunoniaceae infructescences from the early Eocene
Laguna del Hunco flora, Patagonia, Argentina. American Journal of Botany 109, 986-1003.
Spagnuolo EJ, P Wilf, T
Serre. 2022. Decoding family-level features for modern and fossil leaves from
computer-vision heat maps. American
Journal of Botany 109, 768-788.
Wilf P, X Zou, MP
Donovan, L Kocsis, A Briguglio, D Shaw, JWF Slik, JJ Lambiase. 2022. First
fossil-leaf floras from Brunei Darussalam show dipterocarp dominance in Borneo
by the Pliocene. PeerJ 10, e12949. [dataset]
Benton MJ, P Wilf, H.
Sauquet. 2022. The Angiosperm Terrestrial Revolution and the origins of modern
biodiversity. New Phytologist 233, 2017–2035. (Tansley Review)
Wilf P, SL Wing, HW
Meyer, J Rose, R Saha, T Serre, NR Cúneo, MP Donovan, DM Erwin, MA Gandolfo, E
González-Akre, F Herrera, S Hu, A Iglesias, KR Johnson, TS Karim, X Zou. 2021.
An image dataset of cleared, x-rayed, and fossil leaves vetted to plant family
for human and machine learning. PhytoKeys
187, 93–128. [dataset v.2]
Andruchow-Colombo A, P
Wilf, IH Escapa. 2021. Reaffirming the phyllocladoid affinities of Huncocladus laubenfelsii (Podocarpaceae)
from the early Eocene of Patagonia – a comment on Dörken et al. (2021). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society
197, 554-557.
Brea M, A Iglesias, P Wilf, E Moya, MA Gandolfo. 2021 First South
American record of Winteroxylon,
Eocene of Laguna del Hunco (Chubut, Patagonia, Argentina): new link to
Australasia and Malesia. International
Journal of Plant Sciences 182, 185-197.
Iglesias A, P Wilf, E Stiles, R Wilf. 2021. Patagonia’s diverse
but homogeneous early Paleocene forests: angiosperm leaves from the Danian
Salamanca and Peñas Coloradas formations, San Jorge Basin, Chubut, Argentina. Palaeontologia Electronica 24, art. a02.
DeGrange FJ, D Pol, P Puerta, P Wilf. 2021. Unexpected larger
distribution of Paleogene stem-rollers (Aves, Coracii): new evidence from the
Eocene of Patagonia, Argentina. Scientific
Reports 11, art. 1363.
Gosses J, A Carroll, B Bruck, B Singer, B Jicha, E Aragón, A
Walters, P Wilf. 2021. Facies interpretation and geochronology of diverse
Eocene floras and faunas, northwest Chubut Province, Patagonia, Argentina. Geological Society of America Bulletin
133, 740-752.
Deanna R, P Wilf, MA Gandolfo. 2020. New physaloid fruit-fossil
species from early Eocene South America. American
Journal of Botany 107, 1749-1762.
Donovan MP, P Wilf, A Iglesias, NR Cúneo, CC Labandeira. 2020.
Persistent biotic interactions of a Gondwanan conifer from Cretaceous Patagonia
to modern Malesia. Communications Biology
3, art. 708.
Stiles E, P Wilf, A Iglesias, MA Gandolfo, NR Cúneo. 2020.
Cretaceous-Paleogene plant extinction and recovery in Patagonia. Paleobiology 46, 445-469 (Featured Article).
Pujana RR, P Wilf, MA Gandolfo. 2020. Conifer wood assemblage
dominated by Podocarpaceae, early Eocene of Laguna del Hunco, central
Argentinean Patagonia. Phytokeys 156,
81-102.
Rossetto-Harris G, P Wilf, IH Escapa, A Andruchow-Colombo. 2020.
Eocene Araucaria Sect. Eutacta from Patagonia and floristic
turnover during the initial isolation of South America. American Journal of Botany 107: 806-832.
Barreda VD, MC Zamaloa, MA Gandolfo, C Jaramillo, P Wilf. 2020.
Early Eocene spore and pollen assemblages from the Laguna del Hunco fossil-lake
beds, Patagonia, Argentina. International Journal of Plant Sciences 181: 594-615.
Kooyman RM, J Watson, P Wilf. 2020. Protect Australia’s Gondwana
rainforests. Science 367: 1083
(Letter).
Wilf P. 2020. Eocene “Chusquea”
fossil from Patagonia is a conifer, not a bamboo. Phytokeys 139: 77-89.
Bippus AC, IH Escapa, P Wilf, AMF Tomescu. 2019. Fossil fern
rhizomes as a model system for biotic interactions across geologic time:
Evidence from Patagonia. PeerJ 7, e8244.
Wilf P, KC Nixon, MA Gandolfo, NR Cúneo. 2019. Eocene Fagaceae
from Patagonia and Gondwanan legacy in Asian rainforests. Science 364, eaaw5139.
[Figshare image
library] [Technical
Response]
Kooyman RM, RJ Morley, DM Crayn, EM Joyce, M Rossetto, JWF Slik,
JS Strijk, T Su, J-YS Yap, P Wilf. 2019. Origins and assembly of Malesian
rainforests. Annual Review of Ecology,
Evolution and Systematics, v. 50, p. 119-143.
Andruchow-Colombo A, P Wilf, IH Escapa. 2019. A South American
fossil relative of Phyllocladus: Huncocladus laubenfelsii gen. et sp. nov.
(Podocarpaceae), from the early Eocene of Laguna del Hunco, Patagonia,
Argentina. Australian Systematic Botany,
v. 32, p. 290-309.
Andruchow-Colombo A, IH Escapa, RJ Carpenter, RS Hill, A Iglesias,
A Abarzua, P Wilf. 2019. Oldest record of scale-leaved Podocarpaceae, early
Paleocene of Patagonia, Argentina. Alcheringa,
v. 43, p. 127-145.
Jud NA, A Iglesias, P Wilf, MA Gandolfo. 2018. Fossil moonseeds
from the Paleogene of West Gondwana (Patagonia, Argentina). American Journal of Botany, v. 105, p. 927-942.
Escapa IH, A Iglesias, P Wilf, SA Catalano, MA Caraballo-Ortiz, NR
Cúneo. 2018. Agathis trees of
Patagonia’s Cretaceous-Paleogene death landscapes and their evolutionary
significance. American Journal of Botany,
v.108, p. 1345-1368.
Donovan MP, A Iglesias, P Wilf, CC Labandeira, NR Cúneo. 2018.
Diverse plant-insect associations from the latest Cretaceous and early
Paleocene of Patagonia, Argentina. Ameghiniana,
v. 55, p. 303-338.
Carpenter RJ, A Iglesias, P Wilf. 2018. Early Cenozoic vegetation
in Patagonia: new insights from organically preserved plant fossils (Ligorio
Márquez Formation, Argentina).
International Journal of Plant Sciences, v. 179, p. 115-135.
Jud NA, MA Gandolfo, A Iglesias, P Wilf. 2018. Fossil flowers from
the early Palaeocene of Patagonia, Argentina with affinity to Schizomerieae
(Cunoniaceae). Annals of Botany, v.
121, p. 431-442.
Wilf P, MP Donovan, NR Cúneo, MA Gandolfo. 2017. The fossil
flip-leaves (Retrophyllum,
Podocarpaceae) of southern South America. American
Journal of Botany, v. 104, p. 1344-1369.
[supplemental image
library on Figshare]
Wright I, Ning D, Maire V, Prentice IC, Westoby M, Diaz S,
Gallagher RV, Jacobs BF, Kooyman R, Law EA, Leishman MR, Niinemets Ü, Reich PB,
Sack L, Villar R, Wang H, Wilf P. 2017. Global climatic drivers of leaf size. Science, v. 357, p. 917-921.
Wu J-Y, Wilf P, Ding S-T, An P-C, Dai J. 2017. Late Miocene Cyclocarya (Juglandaceae) from southwest
China and its biogeographic implications. International
Journal of Plant Sciences, v. 178, p. 580-591.
Jud NA, MA Gandolfo, A Iglesias, P Wilf. 2017. Flowering after
disaster: early Danian buckthorn (Rhamnaceae) flowers and leaves from
Patagonia. PLoS One, 12: e0176164.
Krause JM, WC Clyde, M Ibañez-Mejia, MD Schmitz, T Barnum, ES
Bellosi, P Wilf. 2017. New age constraints for early Paleogene strata of
central Patagonia, Argentina: implications for the timing of South American
land mammal ages. GSA Bulletin, v.
129, p. 886-903.
Wilf P, MR Carvalho, MA Gandolfo, NR Cúneo. 2017. Eocene lantern
fruits from Gondwanan Patagonia and the early origins of Solanaceae. Science, v. 355, p. 71-75. [full-text
& reprint]
[supplemental image
library on Figshare]
Donovan MP, A Iglesias, P Wilf, CC
Labandeira, NR Cúneo. 2016.
Rapid recovery of Patagonian plant-insect associations after the
Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction. Nature
Ecology & Evolution, v. 1, art. 12, doi:10.1038/s41559-016-0012.
Wilf P, DW Stevenson, NR Cúneo. 2016. The last Patagonian cycad, Austrozamia stockeyi gen. et sp. nov., early Eocene of Laguna del Hunco,
Chubut, Argentina. Botany, v. 94. p. 817-829.
Wilf, P, S Zhang, S Chikkerur, SA Little, SL Wing, T Serre. 2016.
Computer vision cracks the leaf code. PNAS, v. 113, p. 3305-3310.
Wilf P, Escapa IH. 2016. Molecular dates require geologic
testing. New Phytologist, v. 209, p. 1359-1362.
Elliott SJ, CL Grettenberger, MP Donovan, P Wilf, RC Walter, DJ
Merritts. 2016. Riparian and valley-margin hardwood species of pre-colonial
Piedmont forests: A preliminary study of subfossil leaves from White Clay
Creek, southeastern Pennsylvania, USA. Palaeontologia
Electronica 19.1.2A, 1-26.
Su T, P Wilf, Y Huang, S Zhang, Z Zhou.
2015. Peaches preceded humans:
fossil evidence from SW China. Nature Scientific Reports 5,
art. 16794.
Wilf P, CC Labandeira. 2015. The fossil record of mutualisms. Pp.
39-41 in Mutualism, ed. JL Bronstein, Oxford University Press. Viewable
on Google Books.
Merkhofer L, P Wilf, MT Haas, RM Kooyman, L Sack, C. Scoffoni, NR
Cúneo. 2015. Resolving Australian analogs for an Eocene Patagonian
paleorainforest using leaf size and floristics. American Journal of
Botany, v. 102, p. 1160-1173.
Comer EE, RL Slingerland, JM Krause, A Iglesias, WC Clyde, MS Raigemborn,
P Wilf. 2015. Sedimentary facies and depositional environments of diverse early
Paleocene floras, north-central San Jorge Basin, Patagonia, Argentina. Palaios,
v. 30, p. 553-573 (cover article).
Wilf P, Escapa IH. 2015. Green Web or megabiased clock? Plant
fossils from Gondwanan Patagonia speak on evolutionary radiations. New
Phytologist, v. 207, p. 283-290 (invited Tansley Insight).
Villar de Seoane L, NR Cúneo, I Escapa, P Wilf, MA Gandolfo. 2015.Ginkgoites
patagonica (Berry) comb. nov. from the Eocene of Patagonia, last
ginkgoalean record in South America. International Journal of Plant
Sciences, v. 176, p. 346-363.
Kooyman RM, Wilf P, Barreda, VD, Carpenter RJ, Jordan GJ,
Sniderman JMK, Allen A, Brodribb TJ, Crayn D, Feild TS, Laffan SW, Lusk CH,
Rossetto M, Weston PH. 2014. Paleo-Antarctic rainforest into the modern Old
World tropics: the rich past and threatened future of the 'southern wet forest
survivors.' American Journal of Botany, v. 101, p. 2121-2135.
Su T, P Wilf, H Xu, Z-K Zhou. 2014. Miocene leaves of Elaeagnus(Elaeagnaceae)
from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, its modern center of diversity and
endemism. American Journal of Botany, v. 101, p. 1350-1361.
Little SA, WA Green, SL Wing, P Wilf. 2014. Reinvestigation of
leaf rank, an underappreciated component of Leo Hickey’s legacy. Bulletin
of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, v. 55, p. 79-87.
Carpenter RJ, P Wilf, JG Conran, NR Cúneo. 2014. A Paleogene
trans-Antarctic distribution for Ripogonum (Ripogonaceae:
Liliales)?Palaeontologia Electronica, v. 17, article 17.3.39A.
Donovan M, P Wilf, CC Labandeira, KR Johnson, DJ Peppe. 2014 Novel
insect leaf-mining after the end-Cretaceous extinction and the demise of
Cretaceous leaf miners, Great Plains, USA. PloS One, v. 9, e103542.
Carvalho MR, P Wilf, H Barrios, ED Currano, DM Windsor, CA
Jaramillo, CC Labandeira. 2014. Insect leaf-chewing damage tracks herbivore
richness in modern and ancient forests. PloS One, v. 9, e94950.
Wilf P, IH Escapa, NR Cúneo, RM Kooyman, KR Johnson, A Iglesias.
2014. First South American Agathis (Araucariaceae), Eocene of
Patagonia. American Journal of Botany, v. 101, p. 156-179. [original 1200 dpi figures on figshare]
Clyde WC, P Wilf, A Iglesias, RL Slingerland, T Barnum, PK Bijl,
TJ Bralower, H Brinkhuis, EE Comer, BT Huber, M Ibañez-Mejia, BR Jicha, JM
Krause, JD Schueth, BS Singer, MS Raigemborn, MD Schmitz, A Sluijs, MC Zamaloa.
2014. New age constraints for the Salamanca Formation and lower Río Chico Group
in the western San Jorge Basin, Patagonia, Argentina: implications for K/Pg
extinction recovery and land mammal age correlations. Geological
Society of America Bulletin, v. 126, p. 289-306.
Cornwell WK, et al. (26 authors). 2014. Functional distinctiveness
of major plant lineages. Journal of Ecology, v. 102, p. 345-356.
Wilf P. 2014, Commentary on K.J. Niklas, B.H. Tiffney, A.H. Knoll,
1983, Patterns in vascular land plant diversification, Nature 303:614-616,
p. 36 inFoundations of Macroecology, F.A. Smith, J.L. Gittleman, J.H.
Brown, eds., University of Chicago Press.
Elliott SJ, P Wilf, RC Walter, DJ Merritts. 2013. Subfossil leaves
reveal a new upland floral component of the pre-European Piedmont landscape,
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. PloS One, v. 8, e79317.
Knight CL, P Wilf. 2013. Rare leaf fossils of Monimiaceae and
Atherospermataceae (Laurales) from Eocene Patagonian rainforests and their
biogeographic significance. Palaeontologia Electronica, v.
16, article 26A, 39 p.
Carvalho MR, P Wilf, MA Gandolfo, EJ Hermsen, KR Johnson, NR
Cúneo. 2013. First record of Todea (Osmundaceae) in South
America, from the early Eocene paleorainforests of Laguna del Hunco (Patagonia,
Argentina).American Journal of Botany, v. 100, p. 1831-1848.
Macphail M, RJ Carpenter, A Iglesias, P Wilf. 2013. First fossil
evidence for Wollemi Pine-type pollen (Dilwynites: Araucariaceae) in
South America. PloS One, 8: e69281, 8 p.
Wilf, P., N.R. Cúneo, I.H. Escapa, D. Pol, M.O. Woodburne. 2013. Splendid
and seldom isolated: the paleobiogeography of Patagonia. Annual Review
of Earth and Planetary Sciences, v. 41, p. 561-603. [pdf, html]
Barreda V.D., N.R. Cúneo, P. Wilf, E.D. Currano, R.A. Scasso, H.
Brinkhuis. 2012. Cretaceous/Paleogene floral turnover in Patagonia: drop in
diversity, low extinction, and a Classopollis spike. PLoS
One, v. 7, e52455 (8 p.). [pdf, html]
Barclay, R.S., P. Wilf, D.L. Dilcher, J.C. McElwain. 2012. The Cuticle Database Project, version 1.1, The Earth and Environmental
Systems Institute of Pennsylvania State University.
Wilf, P. 2012. Rainforest conifers of Eocene Patagonia: attached
cones and foliage of the extant southeast-Asian and Australasian genus Dacrycarpus(Podocarpaceae). American
Journal of Botany, v. 99, p. 562-584
(cover article). [original 1200 dpi figures on figshare]
Sauquet, H., S.Y.W. Ho, M.A. Gandolfo, G.J. Jordan, P. Wilf, D.J.
Cantrill, M. Bayly, L. Bromham, G. Brown, R.J. Carpenter, D.M. Lee, D. Murphy,
J.M. Kale Sniderman, F. Udovicic. 2012. Testing the impact of calibration on
molecular divergence times using a fossil-rich group: the case of Nothofagus(Fagales). Systematic
Biology, v. 61, p. 289-313 (cover article). [pdf, html, supplement]
Gandolfo, M.A., E.J. Hermsen, M.C. Zamaloa, K.C. Nixon, C.C.
González, P. Wilf, N.R. Cúneo, K.R. Johnson. 2011. Oldest known Eucalyptus fossils
are from South America. PloS One, v. 6, e21084. [pdf, html, supplement]
Little, S.A., S.W. Kembel, P. Wilf. 2010. Paleotemperature proxies
from leaf fossils reinterpreted in light of evolutionary history. PloS
One, v. 5, e15161.[pdf, html, supplement]
Winkler, I.S., C.C. Labandeira, T. Wappler, P. Wilf. 2010. Distinguishing
Agromyzidae (Diptera) leaf mines in the fossil record: new taxa from the
Paleogene of North America and Germany and implications for host use evolution
and an early origin for the Agromyzidae. Journal of Paleontology,
v. 84, p. 935-954. [pdf]
Currano, E.D., C.C. Labandeira, P. Wilf. 2010. Fossil insect
folivory tracks paleotemperature for six million years. Ecological
Monographs, v. 80, p. 547-567 (cover article). [pdf] [supplement]
Peppe, D.J., D.L. Royer, P. Wilf, E.A. Kowalski. 2010.
Quantification of large uncertainties in fossil leaf paleoaltimetry. Tectonics,
v. 29, TC3015, doi:10.1029/2009TC002549. [pdf] [supplement]
Wilf, P., B.S. Singer, M.C. Zamaloa, K.R. Johnson, N.R. Cúneo.
2010. Early Eocene 40Ar/39Ar age for the Pampa de Jones plant, frog, and insect
biota (Huitrera Formation, Neuquén Province, Patagonia, Argentina).Ameghiniana,
v. 47, p. 207-216. [pdf]
Wilf, P., S.A. Little, A. Iglesias, M.C. Zamaloa, M.A. Gandolfo,
N.R. Cúneo, K.R. Johnson. 2009. Papuacedrus (Cupressaceae) in
Eocene Patagonia, a new fossil link to Australasian rainforests. American
Journal of Botany, v. 96, p. 2031-2047
(cover article). [pdf]
Wing, S.L., F. Herrera, C.A. Jaramillo, C. Gómez-N., P. Wilf, C.C.
Labandeira. 2009. Late Paleocene fossils from the Cerrejón Formation, Colombia,
are the earliest record of Neotropical rainforest. PNAS, v. 106, p.
18627-18632. [pdf][supporting information, 40 Mb pdf including
photos and descriptions]
Wappler, T., E.D. Currano, P. Wilf, J. Rust, C.C. Labandeira.
2009. No post-Cretaceous ecosystem depression in European forests? Rich
insect-feeding damage on diverse middle Palaeocene plants at Menat,
France. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, v. 276, p.
4271-4277. [pdf, html, supplement]
Sarzetti, L.C., C.C. Labandeira, J. Muzón, P. Wilf, N.R. Cúneo,
K.R. Johnson, J.F. Genise. 2009. Odonatan endophytic oviposition from the
Eocene of Patagonia: the ichnogenus Paleoovoidus and
implications for behavioral stasis. Journal of Paleontology, v. 83,
p. 431-447. [pdf]
Royer, D.L., R.M. Kooyman, S.A. Little, P. Wilf. 2009. Ecology of
leaf teeth: A multi-site analysis from Australian subtropical rainforest. American
Journal of Botany, v. 96, p. 738-750. [pdf] [supplemental Appendix
S1] [supplemental Appendix
S2]
Ellis, B., D. Daly, L.J. Hickey, K.R. Johnson, J. Mitchell, P.
Wilf, S.L. Wing. 2009. Manual of Leaf Architecture. Cornell
University Press, 190 p. ISBN: 080147518X. Open-access pdf available here,
under the following agreement: ”This
digital edition of Manual of Leaf Architecture, published by Cornell University
Press in association with the New York Botanical Garden Press, is licensed
under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC 4.0. To
reprint this work in whole or in part for commercial purposes, please contact
Cornell University Press: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu.
Copyright © 2009 Cornell University.”
Crisp, M., M. Arroyo, L. Cook, M.A. Gandolfo, G. Jordan, M.
McGlone, P. Weston, M. Westoby, P. Wilf, H.P. Linder. 2009. Phylogenetic
biome conservatism on a global scale. Nature, v. 458, p.
754-756. [pdf] [supplemental data pdf]
Bennington, J.B., et al. (32 authors). 2009. Critical issues of
scale in paleoecology. Palaios (Spotlight), v. 24, p. 1-4. [pdf]
Wilf, P., 2008. Fossil angiosperm leaves: paleobotany’s difficult
children prove themselves. Paleontological Society Papers, v. 14,
p. 319-333. [pdf]
Royer D.L., J.C. McElwain, J.M. Adams, P. Wilf. 2008. Sensitivity
of leaf size and shape to climate within Acer rubrum and Quercus
kelloggii. New Phytologist, v. 179, p. 808-817. [pdf] [supplemental
information]
Wilf, P. 2008. Insect-damaged fossil leaves record food web
response to ancient climate change and extinction. New Phytologist (Tansley
Review), v. 178, p. 486-502. [pdf]
Currano, E.D., P. Wilf, S.L. Wing, C.C. Labandeira, E.C. Lovelock,
D.L. Royer, 2008. Sharply increased insect herbivory during the
Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. PNAS, v. 105, p. 1960-1964. [pdf][supplemental data]
Danehy, D.R., P. Wilf, S.A. Little, 2007. Early Eocene macroflora from
the Red Hot Truck Stop locality (Meridian, Mississippi, USA). Palaeontologia
Electronica, v. 10, article 17A, 31 p. [html] [pdf]
Royer, D.L., L. Sack, P. Wilf, C.H. Lusk, G.J. Jordan, Ü.
Niinemets, I.J. Wright, M. Westoby, B. Cariglino, P.D. Coley, A.D. Cutter, K.R.
Johnson, C.C. Labandeira, A.T. Moles, M.B. Palmer, F. Valladares, 2007. Fossil
leaf economics quantified: calibration, Eocene case study, and implications.Paleobiology,
v. 33, p. 574-589. [pdf] [online appendix A] [online appendix B]
Iglesias, A., P. Wilf, K.R. Johnson, A.B. Zamuner, N.R. Cúneo,
S.D. Matheos, B.S. Singer, 2007. A Paleocene lowland macroflora from Patagonia
reveals significantly greater richness than North American analogs. Geology,
v. 35, p. 947-950. [pdf incl. supplemental data]
Labandeira, C.C., Wilf, P., Johnson, K.R., and Marsh, F. 2007. Guide
to Insect (and other) Damage Types on Compressed Plant Fossils. Version 3.0.
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 25 p. [pdf] (ready
to print/laminate for field and lab use)
González, C.C., M.A. Gandolfo, M.C. Zamaloa, N.R. Cúneo, P. Wilf,
K.R. Johnson, 2007. Revision of the Proteaceae macrofossil record
fromPatagonia, Argentina . Botanical Review, v. 73, p.
235-266. [pdf]
Wilf, P., C.C. Labandeira, K.R. Johnson, B. Ellis, 2006. Decoupled
plant and insect diversity after the end-Cretaceous extinction. Science,
v. 313, p. 1112-1115 (in Reports). [pdf] [supplemental data]
Zamaloa, M.C., M.A. Gandolfo, C.C. González, E.J. Romero, N.R.
Cúneo, and P. Wilf, 2006. Casuarinaceae from the Eocene
of Patagonia, Argentina. International Journal of Plant Sciences, v.
167, p. 1279-1289. [pdf]
Secord, R., P.D. Gingerich, M.E. Smith, W.C. Clyde, P. Wilf, and
B.S. Singer, 2006. Geochronology and mammalian biostratigraphy of middle and
upper Paleocene continental strata, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. American
Journal of Science, v. 306. p. 211-245. [pdf]
Royer, D.L., and P. Wilf, 2006. Why do toothed leaves correlate with cold
climates? Gas-exchange at leaf margins provides new insights into a classic
paleotemperature proxy. International Journal of Plant Sciences, v. 167, p.
11-18. [pdf]
Wilf, P., C.C. Labandeira, K.R. Johnson, N.R. Cúneo, 2005. Richness of
plant-insect associations in Eocene Patagonia: a legacy for South American
biodiversity. PNAS, v. 102, p. 8944-8948. [pdf]
Wilf, P., K.R. Johnson, N.R. Cúneo, M.E. Smith, B.S. Singer, and M.A. Gandolfo,
2005, Eocene plant diversity at Laguna del Hunco and Río Pichileufú, Patagonia,
Argentina. American Naturalist, v. 165, p. 634-650. [pdf][supplemental data]
Royer, D.L., P. Wilf, D.A. Janesko, E.A. Kowalski, and D.L. Dilcher, 2005,
Correlations of climate and plant ecology to leaf size and shape: potential
proxies for the fossil record. American Journal of Botany, v. 92.
p. 1141-1151. [pdf]] [images and supplemental data]
Wilf, P., and K.R. Johnson, 2004, Land plant extinction at the end of the
Cretaceous: a quantitative analysis of the North Dakota megafloral record.Paleobiology,
v. 30, p. 347-368. [pdf] [html]
Greenwood, D.R., P. Wilf, S.L. Wing, and D.C. Christophel,
2004, Paleotemperature estimation using leaf-margin analysis: is Australia
different? Palaios, v. 19, p. 129-142. [pdf]
Wilf, P., N.R. Cúneo, K.R. Johnson, J.F. Hicks, S.L.
Wing, J.D. Obradovich, 2003, High plant diversity in Eocene South America:
Evidence from Patagonia. Science, v. 300, p. 122-125 (in Reports). [pdf] [supplemental data]
Huff, P.M., P. Wilf, and E.J. Azumah, 2003. Digital future for
paleoclimate estimation from fossil leaves? Preliminary results. Palaios,
v. 18, p. 266-274.[pdf] [images and supplemental data].
Wilf, P., K.R. Johnson, and B. T. Huber.
2003. Correlated terrestrial and marine evidence for global climate
changes before mass extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. PNAS 100:
599-604. [pdf] [supplemental data]
C.C. Labandeira, K.R. Johnson, and P. Wilf. 2002. Impact of the
terminal Cretaceous event on plant-insect associations. PNAS 99:
2061-2066. [pdf][html] [supplemental data]
Wilf, P., C.C. Labandeira, K.R. Johnson, P.D. Coley, and A.D.
Cutter. 2001. Insect herbivory, plant defense, and early Cenozoic climate
change. PNAS98: 6221-6226. [pdf] [html] [supplemental data]
Burnham, R.J., N.C.A. Pitman, K.R. Johnson, and P. Wilf. 2001.
Habitat-related error in estimating temperatures from leaf margins in a humid
tropical forest. American Journal of Botany 88:
1096-1102. [pdf] [supplemental data]
Wilf, P., C.C. Labandeira, W.J. Kress, C.L. Staines, D.M. Windsor,
A.L. Allen, and K.R. Johnson. 2000. Timing the radiations of leaf beetles:
Hispines on gingers from latest Cretaceous to Recent. Science 289:
291-294 (coverarticle). [pdf]
Wilf, P. 2000. Late Paleocene-early Eocene climate changes in
southwestern Wyoming: Paleobotanical analysis. Geological Society of
America Bulletin112:292-307. [pdf] [supplemental data]
Wilf, P., and C.C. Labandeira. 2000. Effects of Paleocene-Eocene
warming on insect herbivory. GFF:122.
Wilf, P., and C.C. Labandeira. 1999. Response of plant-insect
associations to Paleocene-Eocene warming. Science 284:2153-2156. [pdf]
Wilf, P., S.L. Wing, D.R. Greenwood, and C.L. Greenwood. 1999.
Using fossil leaves as paleoprecipitation indicators: An Eocene example:
Reply. Geology27:92. [pdf]
Leaf Architecture Working Group (Ash, A., B. Ellis, L.J. Hickey,
K.R. Johnson, P. Wilf, and S.L. Wing). 1999. Manual of Leaf Architecture:
Morphological description and categorization of dicotyledonous and net-veined
monocotyledonous angiosperms. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. 65
p. [pdf]
Wilf, P., K.C. Beard, K.S. Davies-Vollum, and J.W. Norejko. 1998. Portrait
of a late Paleocene (early Clarkforkian) terrestrial ecosystem: Big Multi
Quarry and associated strata, Washakie Basin, southwestern Wyoming. Palaios13:514-532. [pdf]
Wilf, P. 1998. Using fossil plants to understand global change:
Evidence for Paleocene-Eocene warming in the greater Green River Basin of
southwestern Wyoming. Doctoral dissertation, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, 384 p. [48 Mb pdf file now on figshare; contains 38 plates illustrating fossil
plants]
Wilf, P., S.L. Wing, D.R. Greenwood, and C.L. Greenwood. 1998.
Using fossil leaves as paleoprecipitation indicators: An Eocene example. Geology26:203-206. [pdf]
Wilf, P. 1997. When are leaves good thermometers? A new case for
Leaf Margin Analysis. Paleobiology 23:373-390. [pdf] [html]
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