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  1. A microfossil resembling Merismopedia (Cyanobacteria) from the 410-million-yr-old Rhynie and Windyfield cherts – Rhyniococcus uniformis revisited

    Article • Nova Hedwigia, February 2019, Schweizerbart

    Dr Carla J Harper

  2. Distribution of fungi in a Triassic fern stem

    Article • Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, October 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Carla J Harper

  3. Fungal intruders of enigmatic propagule clusters occurring in microbial mats from the Lower Devonian Rhynie chert

    Article • PalZ, September 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Carla J Harper

  4. Additional observations on the fungal reproductive unit Windipila spinifera from the Windyfield chert, and description of a similar form, Windipila pumila nov. sp., from the nearby Rhynie chert (Lower Devonian, Scotland)

    Article • Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen, June 2018, Schweizerbart

    Dr Carla J Harper

  5. Deciphering interfungal relationships in the 410 million-year-old Rhynie chert: Glomoid spores under attack

    Article • Geobios, April 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Carla J Harper

  6. Fungal sporulation in a Permian plant fragment from Antarctica

    Article • Bulletin of Geosciences, March 2018, Czech Geological Survey

    Dr Carla J Harper

  7. Fungi and fungal interactions in the Rhynie chert: a review of the evidence, with the description of Perexiflasca tayloriana gen. et sp. nov. †

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, December 2017, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Carla J Harper

  8. A mantled fungal reproductive unit from the Lower Devonian Windyfield chert, Scotland, with prominent spines and otherwise shaped projections extending out from the mantle

    Article • Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen, August 2017, Schweizerbart

    Dr Carla J Harper

  9. Fungi in a Psaronius root mantle from the Rotliegend (Asselian, Lower Permian/Cisuralian) of Thuringia, Germany

    Article • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, April 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Carla J Harper

  10. Early Devonian (~410 mya) microfossils resembling Characiopsis (Tribophyceae) and Characium (Chlorophyceae)

    Article • Journal of Phycology, March 2017, Wiley

    Dr Carla J Harper

  11. Fungal decay in Permian Glossopteridalean stem and root wood from Antarctica

    Article • IAWA Journal, February 2017, Brill

    Dr Carla J Harper

  12. Hagenococcus aggregatus nov. gen. et sp., a microscopic, colony-forming alga from the 410-million-yr-old Rhynie chert

    Article • Nova Hedwigia, January 2017, Schweizerbart

    Dr Carla J Harper

  13. Deciphering interfungal relationships in the 410-million-yr-old Rhynie chert: Morphology and development of vesicle-colonizing microfungi

    Article • Geobios, January 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Carla J Harper

  14. A microfossil with suggested affinities to the Peronosporomycetes (Oomycota) from the Carboniferous (c. 330 Ma) of France

    Article • Nova Hedwigia, November 2016, Schweizerbart

    Dr Carla J Harper

  15. Morphology and ontogenetic development of Zwergimyces vestitus, a fungal reproductive unit enveloped in a hyphal mantle from the Lower Devonian Rhynie chert

    Article • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, May 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Carla J Harper

  16. Fossil FungiFOSSIL FUNGI. Thomas N. Taylor , Michael Krings , Edith L. Taylor . 2015, 382 p. Academic Press, London, UK. ISBN: 978-0-12-387731-4.

    Article • Ameghiniana, April 2016, Asociacion Paleontologica Argentina

    Dr Carla J Harper

  17. Structurally preserved fungi from Antarctica: diversity and interactions in late Palaeozoic and Mesozoic polar forest ecosystems

    Article • Antarctic Science, March 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Carla J Harper

  18. BELOW-GROUND NUTRIENT TRANSFER IN TREES: PROXY DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE EVOLUTION AND PALEOECOLOGY OF MYCORRHIZAL SYMBIOSES

    Article • January 2016, Geological Society of America

    Dr Carla J Harper

  19. Cheirolepidiaceous diversity: An anatomically preserved pollen cone from the Lower Jurassic of southern Victoria Land, Antarctica

    Article • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, September 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Carla J Harper

  20. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in a voltzialean conifer from the Triassic of Antarctica

    Article • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, April 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Carla J Harper

  21. Reexamination of cell contents in Pennsylvanian spores and pollen grains using Raman spectroscopy

    Article • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, November 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Carla J Harper

  22. Mycorrhizal symbiosis in the Paleozoic seed fern Glossopteris from Antarctica

    Article • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, May 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Carla J Harper

  23. A Putative Zygomycetous Fungus with Mantled Zygosporangia and Apposed Gametangia from the Lower Coal Measures (Carboniferous) of Great Britain

    Article • International Journal of Plant Sciences, March 2013, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Carla J Harper

  24. REINVESTIGATING CARBONIFEROUS "ACTINOMYCETES": AUTHIGENIC FORMATION OF BIOMIMETIC CARBONATES PROVIDES INSIGHT INTO EARLY DIAGENESIS OF PERMINERALIZED PLANTS

    Article • Palaios, February 2013, Society for Sedimentary Geology

    Dr Carla J Harper

  25. Tylosis formation and fungal interactions in an Early Jurassic conifer from northern Victoria Land, Antarctica

    Article • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, May 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Carla J Harper

  26. Microfossils from the Lower Devonian Rhynie Chert with suggested affinities to the peronosporomycetes

    Article • Journal of Paleontology, March 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Carla J Harper