Research Summary
Research interests include paleobotany, paleobiology and paleoclimatology. Research uses fossil plants to investigate ancient ecosystems, past environmental change, and the evolution and extinction of plants and plant-insect associations to emphasize questions with relevance for modern climate change, biodiversity, biogeography and ecological processes. Three specific areas of research include the end-Cretaceous (K-T) mass extinction and Eocene global warming, origins of South American plant diversity and the evolution of plant-insect associations.
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Fossil insect-feeding traces indicate unrecognized evolutionary history and biodiversity on Australia's iconic Eucalyptus
Giraldo, L. A., Wilf, P., Donovan, M. P., Kooyman, R. M. & Gandolfo, M. A., Feb 2025, In: New Phytologist. 245, 4, p. 1762-1773 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
SEDIMENTOLOGICAL CONTROLS ON PLANT-FOSSIL PRESERVATION IN AN EOCENE CALDERA-LAKE FILL: A HIGH-RESOLUTION, AGE-CONSTRAINED RECORD FROM THE TUFOLITAS LAGUNA DEL HUNCO, CHUBUT PROVINCE, ARGENTINA
Hajek, E. A., Krause, J. M., Wilf, P. & Schmitz, M. D., Apr 2025, In: Palaios. 40, 4, p. 114-129 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Lauraceous fossil woods from the early Eocene of Laguna del Hunco, Argentine Patagonia
Pujana, R. R., Jud, N. A., Wilf, P. & Gandolfo, M. A., 2025, In: Alcheringa. 49, 1, p. 85-98 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Osmoxylon-like fossils from early Eocene South America: West Gondwana–Malesia connections in Araliaceae
Wilf, P., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: American journal of botany.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Paleobotany reframes the fiery debate on Australia's rainforest edges
Wilf, P. & Kooyman, R. M., Feb 2025, In: New Phytologist. 245, 4, p. 1355-1365 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Depositional framework of the Sangkarewang and Sawahlunto Formations, Ombilin Basin, West Sumatra, Indonesia
Zonneveld, J. P., Barreda, V. D., Zaim, Y., Aswan, Rizal, Y., Hascaryo, A. T., Ciochon, R. L., Head, J., Murray, A., Smith, T., Wilf, P. & Bloch, J. I., Jun 15 2025, In: Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 287, 106611.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Stratigraphy, paleontology, and depositional setting of the Late Eocene (Priabonian) lower Pagat Member, Tanjung Formation, in the Asem Asem Basin, South Kalimantan, Indonesia
Zonneveld, J. P., Adani, N., Aswan, Bloch, J. I., Briguglio, A., Ciochon, R. L., Cotton, L. J., Hascaryo, A. T., Head, J., Luque, J., Rizal, Y., Santodomingo, N., Smith, T., Todd, J., Wilf, P. & Zaim, Y., Feb 1 2025, In: Journal of Paleontology. 98, p. 1-37 37 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Reassessing floral diversity at Río Pichileufú, earliest middle Eocene of Río Negro, Argentina
Rossetto-Harris, G. & Wilf, P., 2024, In: Palaeontologia Electronica. 27, 3, a49.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Early Eocene infructescences from Argentine Patagonia expand the biogeography of Malvoideae
Siegert, C., Gandolfo, M. A. & Wilf, P., Sep 2024, In: American journal of botany. 111, 9, e16384.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
GIANT SEEDS OF AN EXTANT AUSTRALASIAN LEGUME LINEAGE DISCOVERED IN EOCENE BORNEO (SOUTH KALIMANTAN, INDONESIA)
Spagnuolo, E. J., Wilf, P., Zonneveld, J. P., Shaw, D., Aswan, Rizal, Y., Zaim, Y., Bloch, J. I. & Ciochon, R. L., Sep 2024, In: International journal of plant sciences. 185, 5, p. 482-502 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Putative Celtis Leaves from Eocene Patagonia are Allied with Asian Anacardiaceae
Wilf, P., González, C. C., Gandolfo, M. A. & Zamaloa, M. C., Apr 30 2024, In: Ameghiniana. 61, 2, p. 73-92 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
AVIAN FORAGING ON AN INTERTIDAL MUDFLAT SUCCESSION IN THE EOCENE TANJUNG FORMATION, ASEM ASEM BASIN, SOUTH KALIMANTAN, INDONESIAN BORNEO
Zonneveld, J. P., Zaim, Y., Rizal, Y., Aswan, A., Ciochon, R. L., Smith, T., Head, J., Wilf, P. & Bloch, J. I., Mar 2024, In: Palaios. 39, 3, p. 67-96 30 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
A new fossil Acmopyle with accessory transfusion tissue and potential reproductive buds: Direct evidence for ever-wet rainforests in Eocene Patagonia
Andruchow-Colombo, A., Rossetto-Harris, G., Brodribb, T. J., Gandolfo, M. A. & Wilf, P., Aug 2023, In: American journal of botany. 110, 8, e16221.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Fossil berries reveal global radiation of the nightshade family by the early Cenozoic
Deanna, R., Martínez, C., Manchester, S., Wilf, P., Campos, A., Knapp, S., Chiarini, F. E., Barboza, G. E., Bernardello, G., Sauquet, H., Dean, E., Orejuela, A. & Smith, S. D., Jun 2023, In: New Phytologist. 238, 6, p. 2685-2697 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Insect herbivore and fungal communities on Agathis (Araucariaceae) from the latest Cretaceous to Recent
Donovan, M. P., Wilf, P., Iglesias, A., Cúneo, N. R. & Labandeira, C. C., 2023, In: PhytoKeys. 226, p. 109-158 50 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review