Publications
2021
Matsunaga KKS, Herendeen PS, Herrera F, Ichinnorov N, Crane PR, Shi G. 2021. Ovulate cones of Schizolepidopsis ediae sp. nov. provide insights into the evolution of Pinaceae. International Journal of Plant Sciences 182(6): 490–507. DOI: 10.1086/714281
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Matsunaga KKS, Smith SY. 2021. Fossil palm reading: using fruits to reveal the deep roots of palm diversity. American Journal of Botany 108(3): 1–23. doi:10.1002/ajb2.1616
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2020
Manchester SR, Kapgate DK, Patil SP, Ramteke D, Matsunaga KKS, Smith SY. 2020. Morphology and affinities of Pantocarpon fruits (cf. Apiales: Torricelliaceae) from the Maastrichtian Deccan Intertrappean Beds of Central India. International Journal of Plant Sciences 181(4): 443–451.
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Poschmann M, Gossman R, Matsunaga KKS, Tomescu AMF. 2020. Characterizing the branching architecture of drepanophycalean lycophytes (Lycopsida): an exceptional specimen from the Early Devonian Hunsrück Slate, southwest Germany, and its paleobiological implications. Paläontologische Zeitschrift. DOI: 10.1007/s12542-018-00443-w
2019
Tomescu AMF, Matsunaga KKS. 2019. Polar auxin transport and plant sporophyte body plans. Reference modules in life sciences. Elsevier.
Matsunaga KKS, Manchester SR, Srivastava R, Kapgate DK, Smith SY. 2019. Fossil palm fruits from India indicate a Cretaceous origin of Arecaceae tribe Borasseae. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 190, 260-280.
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2018
Matsunaga KKS, Smith SY, Manchester SR, Kapgate D, Ramteke D, Garbout A, VillarragaGómez. 2018. Reinvestigating an enigmatic Late Cretaceous monocot: morphology, taxonomy, and biogeography of Viracarpon. Peer J 6:e4580
Matsunaga KKS, Tomescu AMF. 2018. Reciprocal illumination and fossils provide important perspectives in plant evo-devo: examples from auxin in seed-free plants. In H. Fernández (ed.), Current Advances in Fern Research, Springer, 201–225. DOI: 10.1007/978-3319-75103-0_10
2017
Matsunaga KKS, Cullen NP, Tomescu AMF. 2017. Vascularization of the Selaginella rhizophore: anatomical fingerprints of polar auxin transport with implications for the deep fossil record. New Phytologist 216(2): 419-428. DOI: 10.1111/nph.14478.
Matsunaga KKS, Tomescu AMF. 2017. An organismal concept for Sengelia radicans gen. et sp. nov. ⎯ morphology and natural history of an Early Devonian lycophyte. Annals of Botany 119(7): 1097-1113. DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcw277.
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2016
Petersen SV, Tabor CR, Lohmann KC, Poulsen CJ, Meyer KW, Carpenter SJ, Erickson JM, Matsunaga KKS, Smith SY, Sheldon ND. 2016. Temperature and salinity of the Late Cretaceous western interior seaway. Geology 44(11): G38311.1.
Tomescu AMF, Klymiuk AA, Matsunaga KKS, Bippus AC, Shelton GWK. 2016. Microbes and the fossil record – selected topics in paleomicrobiology. In: Hurst CJ (ed.) Advances in environmental microbiology. Vol 1. Their world: a diversity of microbial environments. Springer, Berlin, 69-169.
Matsunaga KKS, Tomescu AMF. 2016. Root evolution at the base of the lycophyte clade insights from an Early Devonian lycophyte. Annals of Botany 117(4): 585-598.
2013
Matsunaga KKS, Stockey RA, Tomescu AMF. 2013. Honeggeriella complexa gen. et sp.nov., a heteromerous lichen from the Early Cretaceous (Valanginian-Hauterivian) of Vancouver Island, British Columbia (Canada). American Journal of Botany 100(2): 450-459.