Recent Research and Publications
Recent Research and Publications
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1. KENRICK, P., & P. R. CRANE. 1997. The Origin and Diversification of Land Plants. Smithsonian Institution Press, 592 pp.
2. FRIIS, E. M., K. R. PEDERSEN & CRANE, P. R. 2011. Early Flowers and Angiosperm Evolution. Cambridge University Press. 596 pp.
3. CRANE, P. R. 2013. Ginkgo: The Tree That Time Forgot. Yale University Press. 383 pp. (Shortlisted for the 2014 Phi Beta Kappa Science Book Award; “A Best Science Book of 2013”, New Scientist; Japanese edition, September, 2014; Chinese edition, June 2016; Italian edition, 2020).
Edited Volumes
1. FRIIS, E. M., W. G. CHALONER, & P. R. CRANE. Editors. 1987. The Origins of Angiosperms and their Biological Consequences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, x + 337 pp.
2. CRANE, P. R., & S. BLACKMORE. Editors. 1989a. The Evolution, Systematics and Fossil History of the Hamamelidae. Volume 1, Introduction and "Lower" Hamamelidae. Oxford: Oxford University Press, xii + 305 pp.
3. CRANE, P. R., & S. BLACKMORE. Editors. 1989b. The Evolution, Systematics and Fossil History of the Hamamelidae. Volume 2, "Higher" Hamamelidae. Oxford: Oxford University Press, xii + 356 pp.
4. LIDGARD, S., & P. R. CRANE. Editors. 1992. Fifth North American Paleontological Convention, Abstracts and Program. Paleontological Society Special Publication, 6, xxii + 326 pp.
5. CRANE, P. R., & P. S. HERENDEEN. Editors. 1999. The Origin of Modern Terrestrial Ecosystems: Fossils, Phylogeny and Biogeography. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 86: 227-655.
6. CRANE, P.R., & J. SCHÖNENBERGER. Editors. 2008. In Search of the Earliest Flowers. International Journal of Plant Sciences. 169: 815-927.
7. STOCKEY, R. A., S.W. GRAHAM & P. R. CRANE. Editors. 2009. Darwin Special Issue. American Journal of Botany, 96: 1-381.
8. CRANE, P. R., S. D. HOPPER, P. H. RAVEN & D. W. STEVENSON. Guest Editors. 2010. Plant Science Research in Botanic Gardens. Trends in Plant Science, 14: 575-642.
9. CRANE, P. R., W. G. CHALONER & E. M. FRIIS. Editors. 2010. Darwin and the Evolution of Flowers. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: 365: 345-543.
10. CRANE, P. R. Guest Editor. 2018. John Brady Blake. Curtis’s Botanical Magazine: 34: 4 1-530.
Selected Research and Other Publications
217. SHI, G., F. HERRERA, P.S. HERENDEEN, E.A. CLARKE & P.R. CRANE. In Press. The cupules of Mesozoic seed plants and the origin of the angiosperm second integument. Nature.
216. MATSUNAGA, K. K. S., P. S. HERENDEEN, F. HERRERA, N. ICHINNOROV, P.R. CRANE & G. SHI. In Press. Ovulate cones of Schizolepidopsis ediae sp. nov. provide insights into the evolution of Pinaceae. International Journal of Plant Sciences.
215. HERRERA, F., G. SHI, M. BICKNER, N. ICHINNOROV, A.B. LESLIE, P.R. CRANE & P.S. HERENDEEN, N. ICHINNOROV, P. KNOPF, M. TAKAHASHI, & P.R. CRANE. In Press. Early Cretaceous abietoid Pinaceae from Mongolia and the history of seed scale shedding. American Journal of Botany.
214. TAKAHASHI, M, P. S. HERENDEEN, F. HERRERA, R. HIRAYAMA, H. ANDO, K. SASAKI & P. R. CRANE. 2021. A new assemblage of plant mesofossils (late Turonian– middle Santonian; Upper Cretaceous) from the Tamagawa Formation, Kuji Group, in northeastern Japan. Paleontological Research, 25: 120-126.
213. SHI, G., T. TAN, J. LI, C. DONG, Z. BOLE, Q. WU, S. YIN, F. HERRERA, P.S. HERENDEEN & P. R. CRANE. 2021. Age of the Huolinhe Formation in eastern Inner Mongolia, China: evidence from U-Pb zircon dating and palynological assemblages. Journal of Stratigraphy, 45: 1–13.
212. FRIIS, E.M., P.R. CRANE & K.R. PEDERSEN. 2020. Multiparted, apocarpous flowers from the Early Cretaceous of eastern North America and Portugal. Fossil Imprint, 76: 279-296.
211. FRIIS, E.M., P.R. CRANE & K.R. PEDERSEN. 2020. Catanthus, an extinct magnoliid flower from the Early Cretaceous of Portugal. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 182: 28-45.
210. CRANE, P.R. 2020. Conserving our global botanical heritage: the PSESP plant conservation program. Plant Diversity, 42: 319-322.
209. FRIIS, E. M., P.R. CRANE & K.R. PEDERSEN. 2020. Melloniflora, a new extinct multiparted flower from the Early Cretaceous of Virginia. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 181: 887-897.
208. DONG, C., G. SHI, F. HERRERA, Y. WANG, P.S. HERENDEEN & P.R. CRANE. 2020. Middle-Late Jurassic fossils from northeast China reveal morphological stasis in the catkin-yew. National Science Review, 7: 1765–1767.
207. HERRERA, F., G. SHI, C. MAYS, N. ICHINNOROV, M. TAKAHASHI, J. BEVITT, P. S. HERENDEEN & P. R. CRANE. 2020. Reconstructing Krassilovia mongolica supports recognition of a new and unusual group of Mesozoic conifers. PLOS ONE, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226779
206. FRIIS, E. M., P. R. CRANE & K. R. PEDERSEN. 2019. Geminispermum, an Early Cretaceous (early–middle Albian) cupulate unit from the angiosperm-dominated Puddledock flora of eastern North America. Acta Palaeobotanica, 59: 229–239.
205. FRIIS, E. M., P. R. CRANE & K. R. PEDERSEN. 2019.The endothelium in the seeds of early angiosperms. New Phytologist, 224: 1419-1424.
204. FRIIS, E. M., P. R. CRANE & K. R. PEDERSEN. 2019. The Early Cretaceous mesofossil flora of Torres Vedras (NE of Forte da Forca), Portugal: a palaeofloristic analysis of an early angiosperm community. Fossil Imprint, 75: 153–257.
203. FRIIS, E. M., P. R. CRANE & K. R. PEDERSEN. 2019. Chlamydospermous seeds document the diversity and abundance of extinct gnetalean relatives in Early Cretaceous vegetation. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 180: 643-666.
202. FRIIS, E. M., P. R. CRANE & K. R. PEDERSEN. 2019. Hedyosmum-like fossils in the Early Cretaceous diversification of angiosperms. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 180: 232–239.
201. FRIIS, E. M., P. R. CRANE & K. R. PEDERSEN. 2019 Extinct diversity among Early Cretaceous angiosperms: mesofossil evidence of early Magnoliales from Portugal. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 180: 93–127.
200. SHI, G., P. R. CRANE, P. S. HERENDEEN, N. ICHINNOROV, M. TAKAHASHI & F. HERRERA. 2019. Diversity and homologies of corystosperm seed-bearing structures from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia. Systematic Palaeontology, 17: 997-1029.
199. CRANE, P. R. 2018. An evolutionary and cultural biography of ginkgo. Plants, People and Planet. 1: 32-37.
198. FRIIS, E. M., P. R. CRANE & K. R. PEDERSEN. 2018.Fossil seeds with affinities to Austrobaileyales and Nymphaeales from the Early Cretaceous (early-middle Albian) of Virginia and Maryland, U.S.A: new evidence for extensive extinction near the base of the angiosperm tree. In M. KRINGS ET Al. (eds), Transformative Paleobotany: Papers to Commemorate the Life and Legacy of Thomas N. Taylor. pp. 417-435. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
197. FRIIS, E. M., P. R. CRANE & K. R. PEDERSEN. 2018. Tanispermum, a new genus of hemi-orthotropous to hemi-anatropous angiosperm seeds from the Early Cretaceous of eastern North America. American Journal of Botany, 105: 1369-1388.
196. FRIIS, E. M., P. R. CRANE & K. R. PEDERSEN. 2018. Extinct taxa of exotestal seeds close to Austrobaileyales and Nymphaeales from the Early Cretaceous of Portugal. Fossil Imprint, 74: 135-158.
195. FRIIS, E. M., P. R. CRANE & K. R. PEDERSEN. 2018. Rightcania and Kvacekispermum: Early Cretaceous seeds from eastern North America and Portugal provide further evidence of the early chloranthoid diversification. Fossil Imprint, 74: 65-76.
194. GOODMAN, J. & P. CRANE. 2018. The life and work of John Bradby Blake. Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, 34: 231-250.
193. CRANE, P. & Z. LOEHLE. 2018. Introduction. Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, 34: 215-230.
192. CRANE, P. 2018. Editorial. Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, 34: 213-214.
191. HERRERA, F., R. MORAN, G. SHI, N. ICHINNOROV, M. TAKAHASHI, E. BUGDAEVA, P. R. CRANE & P. S. HERENDEEN. 2017. An exquisitely-preserved filmy fern (Hymenophyllaceae) from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia. American Journal of Botany 104: 1-12.
190. FRIIS, E. M., P. R. CRANE & K. R. PEDERSEN. 2017. Saportanthus, an extinct genus of Laurales from the Early Cretaceous of Portugal. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 178: 650-672.
189. HERRERA, F., G. SHI, N. ICHINNOROV, M. TAKAHASHI, E. BUGDAEVA, P. S. HERENDEEN & P. R. CRANE. 2017. The presumed ginkgophyte Umaltolepis has seed-bearing structures resembling those of Peltaspermales and Umkomasiales. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 114: E2385–E2391.
188. HERENDEEN, P. S., E. M. FRIIS, E. M., K. R. PEDERSEN & P. R. CRANE. 2017. Palaeobotanical redux: Revisiting the age of the angiosperms. Nature: Plants, 3: 1-8.
187. SHI, G., F. HERRERA, P. S. HERENDEEN, A. B. LESLIE, N. ICHINNOROV, M. TAKAHASHI & P. R. CRANE. 2017. Leaves of Podozamites and Pseudotorellia from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia: stomatal patterns and implications for relationships. Systematic Palaeontology, 16: 111–137. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2016.1274343
186. FRIIS, E. M., K. R. PEDERSEN & P. R. CRANE. 2017. Kenilanthus, a new eudicot flower with tricolpate pollen from the Early Cretaceous (early-middle Albian) of eastern North America. Grana, 56: 161-173.
185. NAGATA, T., H. HASEBE, T. TORIBA, H. TANEDA & P. R. CRANE. 2016. Sex conversion in Ginkgo biloba (Ginkgoaceae). Journal of Japanese Botany, 91 (Supplement): 120-127.
184. FRIIS, E. M., K. R. PEDERSEN & P. R. CRANE. 2016. The emergence of core eudicots: new floral evidence from the earliest Late Cretaceous. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: 283: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.1325.
183. HERRERA, F., A. B. LESLIE, G. SHI, P. KNOPF, N. ICHINNOROV, M. TAKAHASHI, P. R. CRANE & P. S. HERENDEEN. 2016. New fossil Pinaceae from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia. Botany, 94: 885–915.
182. HERRERA, F., G. SHI, P. KNOPF, A. B. LESLIE, N. ICHINNOROV, M. TAKAHASHI, P. R. CRANE. & P. S. HERENDEEN. 2016. Cupressaceae Conifers from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 178: 19-41.
181. SHI, G., A. B. LESLIE, P. S. HERENDEEN, F. HERRERA, N. ICHINNOROV, M. TAKAHASHI, P. KNOPF & P. R. CRANE. 2016. Early Cretaceous Umkomasia from Mongolia: Implications for homology of corystosperm cupules. New Phytologist, 210: 1418–1429.
180. FRIIS, E. M., K. R. PEDERSEN & P. R. CRANE. 2015. Early angiosperm embryos from the Early Cretaceous (early-middle Albian) of eastern North America. Nature, 528: 551-554.
179. CROWTHER, T. W., H. B. GLICK, K. R. COVEY, C. BETTIGOLE, D. S. MAYNARD, S. M. THOMAS, J. R. SMITH, G. HINTLER, G. AMATULLI, W. JETZ, M.-N. TUANMU, M. C. DUGUID, C. SALAS, C. STAM, D. PIOTTO, R. TAVANI, S. GREEN, G. BRUCE, S. J. WILLIAMS, S. K. WISER, M. O. HUBER, G. M. HENGEVELD, G-J. NABUURS, E. TIKHONOVA, P. BORCHARDT, C.-F. LI, L. W. POWRIE, M. FISCHER, A. HEMP, J. HOMEIER, P. CHO, A. C. VIBRANS, P. M. UMUNAY, S. PIAO, M. ASHTON, P. R. CRANE, & M. A. BRADFORD. 2015. Seeing the forest and the trees: mapping tree density at a global scale. Nature, 525: 201–205.
178. BEAULIEU, J. M., B. O’MEARA, P. R. CRANE & M. J. DONOGHUE. 2015. Heterogeneous rates of molecular evolution and diversification could explain the Triassic age estimate for angiosperms. Systematic Biology, 64: 869-878.
177. LESLIE, A. B., J. M. BEAULIEU, P. R. CRANE, P. KNOPF, & M. J. DONOGHUE. 2015. Trait integration and macroevolutionary patterns in the pollination biology of conifers. Evolution, 69: 1573-1583.
176. HERRERA, F., G. SHI, A. B. LESLIE, P. KNOPF, N. ICHINNOROV, M. TAKAHASHI, P. R. CRANE & P. S. HERENDEEN. 2015. A new Voltzian seed cone from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia and its implications for the evolution of ancient conifers. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 176: 791–809.
175. NAGATA, T., DUVAL, A. & P. R. CRANE. 2015. Engelbert Kaempfer, Genemon Imamura and the origin of the name Ginkgo. Taxon, 64: 131-136.
174. SHI, G., A. B. LESLIE, P. S. HERENDEEN, N. ICHINNOROV, M. TAKAHASHI, P. KNOPF & P. R. CRANE. 2014. Whole-plant reconstruction of Elatides zhoui sp. nov. (Cupressaceae) from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 175: 911–930.
173. CHARTIER, M., F. JABBOUR, S. GERBER, P. MITTEROECKER, H. SAUQUET, M. VON BALTHAZAR, Y. STAEDLER, P. R. CRANE & J. SCHÖNENBERGER. 2014. The floral morphospace – a modern comparative approach to study angiosperm evolution. New Phytologist, 204: 841–853.