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Wilf P, KC Nixon, MA Gandolfo, NR Cúneo. 2019. Eocene Fagaceae
from Patagonia and Gondwanan legacy in Asian rainforests. Science 364, eaaw5139.
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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.
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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