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Peter Wilf
PeerJ Editor & Author
1,205 Points

Contributions by role

Author 235
Preprint Author 35
Editor 935

Contributions by subject area

Evolutionary Studies
Paleontology
Plant Science
Biodiversity
Ecosystem Science
Taxonomy
Entomology
Zoology
Ecology

Peter Wilf

PeerJ Editor & Author

Summary

After my eclectic and non-geological 20s, I discovered geology and then paleobotany and have never looked back. Most of my thesis research (Penn Geology) was done in residence at the Smithsonian, on megafloral and paleoclimatic change across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary in southern Wyoming. During this time and in an ensuing Smithsonian postdoc, I began developing two major subsequent themes of my research: the fossil history of plant-insect associations and the remarkable riches of Patagonian fossil floras. I spent three years at Michigan, 1999-2002, as a Michigan Fellow and happily joined the Penn State Geosciences faculty in 2002, where I have been developing these and several other wonderful research projects with my students and colleagues all over the world.

Paleontology

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Past or current institution affiliations

Pennsylvania State University

Work details

Professor of Geosciences

Pennsylvania State University
June 2002
Geosciences

Websites

  • Google Scholar
  • Peter Wilf | Penn State Paleobotany

PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 2
  • Preprints 1
  • Edited 8
March 24, 2022
First fossil-leaf floras from Brunei Darussalam show dipterocarp dominance in Borneo by the Pliocene
Peter Wilf, Xiaoyu Zou, Michael P. Donovan, László Kocsis, Antonino Briguglio, David Shaw, JW Ferry Slik, Joseph J. Lambiase
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12949 PubMed 35356469
December 12, 2019
Fossil fern rhizomes as a model system for exploring epiphyte community structure across geologic time: evidence from Patagonia
Alexander C. Bippus, Ignacio H. Escapa, Peter Wilf, Alexandru M.F. Tomescu
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8244 PubMed 31844594
November 21, 2017 - Version: 1
Fossil fern rhizomes as a model system for biotic interactions across geologic time: Evidence from Patagonia
Alexander C. Bippus, Ignacio H. Escapa, Peter Wilf, Alexandru M. F. Tomescu
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3422v1

Academic Editor on

April 10, 2023
An integrated leaf trait analysis of two Paleogene leaf floras
Christian Müller, Agathe Toumoulin, Helen Böttcher, Anita Roth-Nebelsick, Torsten Wappler, Lutz Kunzmann
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15140 PubMed 37065698
December 12, 2022
Miocene Cupressinoxylon from Gökçeada (Imbros), Turkey with Protophytobia cambium mining and the study of ecological signals of wood anatomy
Dimitra Mantzouka, Ünal Akkemik, Yıldırım Güngör
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14212 PubMed 36530400
March 22, 2022
Upside-down in volcanic ash: crown reconstruction of the early Permian seed fern Medullosa stellata with attached foliated fronds
Ludwig Luthardt, Mathias Merbitz, Evgeny Fridland, Ronny Rößler
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13051 PubMed 35341054
December 4, 2020
The phylogeny and systematics of Xiphosura
James C. Lamsdell
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10431 PubMed 33335810
June 16, 2020
Keraphyton gen. nov., a new Late Devonian fern-like plant from Australia
Antoine Champreux, Brigitte Meyer-Berthaud, Anne-Laure Decombeix
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9321 PubMed 32587800
November 22, 2019
The first North American Propterodon (Hyaenodonta: Hyaenodontidae), a new species from the late Uintan of Utah
Shawn P. Zack
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8136 PubMed 31772846
May 30, 2018
The smallest biggest theropod dinosaur: a tiny pedal ungual of a juvenile Spinosaurus from the Cretaceous of Morocco
Simone Maganuco, Cristiano Dal Sasso
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4785 PubMed 29868253
April 6, 2018
Reinvestigating an enigmatic Late Cretaceous monocot: morphology, taxonomy, and biogeography of Viracarpon
Kelly K.S. Matsunaga, Selena Y. Smith, Steven R. Manchester, Dashrath Kapgate, Deepak Ramteke, Amin Garbout, Herminso Villarraga-Gómez
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4580 PubMed 29637023