Key publications of Fabiany include the following. See more in Fabiany’s lab website.

Herrera F., Testo W.L., Field A.F., Clark E.G., Herendeen P.S, Crane P.R., Shi G. 2022. A permineralized Early Cretaceous lycopsid from China and the evolution of crown clubmosses. New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17874

Shi G., Herrera F., Herendeen P.S., Clark E.G., Crane P.R. 2021. Mesozoic cupules and the origin of the angiosperm second integument. Nature. 594: 223–226 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03598-w

Herrera F., G Shi, M. A. Bickner, N. Ichinnorov, A. B. Leslie, P. R. Crane, and P. S. Herendeen. 2021. Early Cretaceous abietoid Pinaceae from Mongolia and the history of seed scale shedding. American Journal of Botany 108(8): 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1713

Carvalho M.R., Jaramillo C., de la Parra F., Caballero-Rodríguez D., Herrera F., et al. 2021. Extinction at the end-Cretaceous set the origin of modern Neotropical rainforests. Science. Vol. 372, Issue 6537, pp. 63-68. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abf1969

Herrera F., Shi G., Mays C., Ichinnorov N., Takahashi M., Bevitt JJ., Herendee PS., Crane PR. 2020. Reconstructing Krassilovia mongolica supports recognition of a new and unusual group of Mesozoic conifers. PLoS ONE 15(1): e0226779. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226779

Herrera F., M. Carvalho, S.L. Wing, C. Jaramillo, and P.S. Herendeen. 2019. Middle-Late Paleocene Leguminosae Fruits and Leaves from Colombia. Australian Systematic Botany (invited). 32(6): 385-408 https://doi.org/10.1071/SB19001 http://www.publish.csiro.au/SB/SB19001

Herrera F., M. Carvalho, C. Jaramillo, and S.R. Manchester. 2019. 19 Million-Year-Old Spondioid Fruits from Panama Reveal a Dynamic Dispersal History for Anacardiaceae. International Journal of Plant Sciences 180 (6): 479–492. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/703551

Herrera F., G. Shi, N. Ichinnorov, M. Takahashi, E. Bugdaeva, P.S, Herendeen, and P.R. Crane. 2017. The presumed ginkgophyte Umaltolepis has seed-bearing structures resembling those of Peltaspermales and Umkomasiales. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA: 114 (12) E2385-E2391. https://www.pnas.org/content/114/12/E2385.abstract

Herrera, F., SR. Manchester, and C. Jaramillo. 2012. Permineralized fruits from the late Eocene of Panama give clues of the composition of forests established early in the uplift of Central America. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 175, 10–24. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034666712000371

Wing, S.L., Herrera, F., Jaramillo, C., Gomez, C., Wilf, P., and Labandeira, C.C. 2009. Late Paleocene fossils from the Cerrejón Formation, Colombia, are the earliest record of Neotropical Rainforest. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 106: 18627-18632. https://www.pnas.org/content/106/44/18627.full

Head, J., Bloch, J. Hasting, A., Bourque, J., Cadena, E., Herrera, F., Polly, P.D., and Jaramillo, C. 2009. Giant Boine Snake From A Paleocene Neotropical Rainforest Indicates Hotter Past Equatorial Temperatures. Nature, 457: 715-718. https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v457/n7230/abs/nature07671.html

Herrera, F., CA. Jaramillo, DL. Dilcher, SL. Wing, and C. Gómez-N. 2008. Fossil Araceae from a Paleocene neotropical rainforest in Colombia. American Journal of Botany, 95(12): 1569–1583. https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.3732/ajb.0800172

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