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  1. On a new species of the calamitalean fossil-genus Annularia from the Douro Basin (lower Gzhelian; NW Portugal)

    Article • Historical Biology, May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Christopher Cleal

  2. Carboniferous flora from Sardinia

    Article • Geological Magazine, October 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Christopher Cleal

  3. Is Darwin's ‘Abominable Mystery’ still a mystery today?

    Article • Cretaceous Research, June 2016, Elsevier

    Christopher Cleal

  4. A review of the Middle–Late Pennsylvanian west European regional substages and floral biozones, and their correlation to the Geological Time Scale based on new U–Pb ages

    Article • Earth-Science Reviews, March 2016, Elsevier

    Christopher Cleal

  5. A palaeobotanical perspective on the great end-Permian biotic crisis

    Article • Historical Biology, November 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Christopher Cleal, Dr. José Bienvenido Diez

  6. Pennsylvanian fossil flora from the Velebit Mountains and Lika region (SW Croatia)

    Article • Bulletin of Geosciences, September 2015, Czech Geological Survey

    Christopher Cleal

  7. (087–090) Proposal to treat the use of a hyphen in the name of a fossil-genus as an orthographical error

    Article • Taxon, August 2015, International Association for Plant Taxonomy

    Christopher Cleal

  8. Cyclones and the formation of plant beds in late Carboniferous tropical swamps

    Article • Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, April 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Christopher Cleal

  9. Exceptional preservation of Upper Carboniferous (lower Westphalian) fossils from Edlington, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, UK

    Article • Geological Journal, August 2014, Wiley

    Christopher Cleal

  10. A revision of the Pennsylvanian marattialean fernLobatopteris vestita auct. and related species

    Article • Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, July 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Christopher Cleal

  11. Composition and dynamics of the great Phanerozoic Evolutionary Floras

    Article • Lethaia, April 2014, Wiley

    Christopher Cleal

  12. Paleoecology of Early Pennsylvanian vegetation on a seasonally dry tropical landscape (Tynemouth Creek Formation, New Brunswick, Canada)

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

    Christopher Cleal

  13. The plant fossil record reflects just two great extinction events

    Article • Terra Nova, December 2013, Wiley

    Christopher Cleal

  14. What is the best way to measure extinction? A reflection from the palaeobotanical record

    Article • Earth-Science Reviews, September 2013, Elsevier

    Christopher Cleal, Dr. José Bienvenido Diez

  15. Carboniferous fossil floras of Kashmir

    Article • Geological Magazine, January 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Christopher Cleal

  16. The epidermis of cyclopteroid Laveineopteris bohemica (Medullosales) from the Middle Pennsylvanian Radnice Member, Czech Republic

    Article • Bulletin of Geosciences, December 2012, Czech Geological Survey

    Christopher Cleal

  17. The systematic and palaeoecological value of foliage anatomy in Late Palaeozoic medullosalean seed-plants

    Article • Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, December 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Christopher Cleal

  18. Plant biodiversity changes in Carboniferous tropical wetlands

    Article • Earth-Science Reviews, August 2012, Elsevier

    Christopher Cleal

  19. Palaeobotany of the Pennsylvanian (mid-Bolsovian–Cantabrian; Moscovian) Warwickshire Group of the Bristol Coalfield, U.K.: Biostratigraphy and palaeoecology

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

    Christopher Cleal

  20. Pennsylvanian (mid/late Bolsovian–Asturian) permineralised plant assemblages of the Pennant Sandstone Formation of southern Britain: Systematics and palaeoecology

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

    Christopher Cleal

  21. Common ground between two British Pennsylvanian wetland floras: Using large, first-hand datasets to assess utility of historical museum collections

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, August 2011, Elsevier

    Christopher Cleal

  22. Imparipinnate neuropteroid foliage (Medullosales) from the middle Westphalian of the West and Central Bohemia Coal Basin, Czech Republic

    Article • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, August 2011, Elsevier

    Christopher Cleal

  23. The Brymbo Fossil Forest

    Article • Geology Today, May 2011, Wiley

    Christopher Cleal

  24. Plant fossil record and survival analyses

    Article • Lethaia, March 2011, Wiley

    Christopher Cleal

  25. Late Palaeozoic terrestrial habitats and biotas: the effect of changing climates

    Article • Journal of the Geological Society, February 2011, Geological Society

    Christopher Cleal

  26. Palynological evidence for Pennsylvanian extra-basinal vegetation in Atlantic Canada

    Article • Journal of the Geological Society, February 2011, Geological Society

    Christopher Cleal

  27. Phytochemistry of the fossilized-cuticle frond Macroneuropteris macrophylla (Pennsylvanian seed fern, Canada)

    Article • International Journal of Coal Geology, November 2010, Elsevier

    Christopher Cleal

  28. Late Carboniferous vegetation change in lowland and intramontane basins in Germany

    Article • International Journal of Coal Geology, August 2010, Elsevier

    Christopher Cleal

  29. Leafy branches of Bothrodendron punctatum from the Westphalian D (Asturian) of Nova Scotia, Canada

    Article • Atlantic Geology, February 2010, Atlantic Geology

    Christopher Cleal

  30. Neuralethopteris foliage (Medullosales) in the Carboniferous of the Dobrudzha Coalfield, Bulgaria

    Article • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, January 2010, Elsevier

    Christopher Cleal

  31. A Revision of the Pennsylvanian‐AgedEremopteris‐Bearing Seed Plant

    Article • International Journal of Plant Sciences, June 2009, University of Chicago Press

    Christopher Cleal

  32. Description of synangia and spores of the holotype of the Carboniferous fern Lobatopteris miltoni, with taxonomic comments

    Article • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, June 2009, Elsevier

    Christopher Cleal

  33. Palynological evidence for Pennsylvanian (Late Carboniferous) vegetation change in the Sydney Coalfield, eastern Canada

    Article • Geological Journal, January 2009, Wiley

    Christopher Cleal

  34. Palaeofloristics of Middle Pennsylvanian medullosaleans in Variscan Euramerica

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, October 2008, Elsevier

    Christopher Cleal

  35. Palaeofloristics of Middle Pennsylvanian lyginopteridaleans in Variscan Euramerica

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, April 2008, Elsevier

    Christopher Cleal

  36. The relationship between Euramerican and Cathaysian tropical floras in the Late Palaeozoic: Palaeobiogeographical and palaeogeographical implications

    Article • Earth-Science Reviews, December 2007, Elsevier

    Christopher Cleal

  37. Palynological evidence for late Westphalian–early Stephanian vegetation change in the Dobrudzha Coalfield, NE Bulgaria

    Article • Geological Magazine, April 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Christopher Cleal

  38. The arborescent Linopteris obliqua plant (Medullosales, Pennsylvanian)

    Article • Bulletin of Geosciences, March 2007, Czech Geological Survey

    Christopher Cleal

  39. Late Carboniferous of Variscan Europe

    Article • Geological Magazine, March 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Christopher Cleal

  40. Coal Measures (Upper Carboniferous) floras from the South Wales coalfield

    Article • Geological Magazine, March 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Christopher Cleal

  41. The contribution of British women to Carboniferous palaeobotany during the first half of the 20th century

    Article • Geological Society London Special Publications, January 2007, Geological Society

    Christopher Cleal

  42. Taxonomic revision of the Palaeozoic marattialean fern Acitheca Schimper

    Article • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, April 2006, Elsevier

    Christopher Cleal

  43. Palynology of late Westphalian–early Stephanian coal-bearing deposits in the eastern South Wales Coalfield

    Article • Geological Magazine, October 2005, Cambridge University Press

    Christopher Cleal

  44. Palaeozoic tropical rainforests and their effect on global climates: is the past the key to the present?

    Article • Geobiology, January 2005, Wiley

    Christopher Cleal

  45. Small-pinnuled odontopterid medullosaleans from the middle and upper Stephanian of Bohemia and Saar-Lorraine

    Article • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, March 2004, Elsevier

    Christopher Cleal

  46. The Middle Jurassic flora from Stonesfield, Oxfordshire, UK

    Article • Palaeontology, July 2003, Wiley

    Christopher Cleal

  47. A new late Westphalian fossil marattialean fern from Nova Scotia

    Article • Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, May 2003, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Christopher Cleal

  48. Two new late Carboniferous Neuropteris species (Medullosales) from Saarland, Germany and their palaeobiogeographical significance

    Article • Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, June 2002, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Christopher Cleal

  49. A new and diverse plant fossil assemblage from the upper Westphalian Benxi Formation, Shanxi, China, and its palaeofloristic significance

    Article • Geological Magazine, March 2002, Cambridge University Press

    Christopher Cleal

  50. The Late Palaeozoic relations between Gondwana and Laurussia

    Article • Geological Society London Special Publications, January 2000, Geological Society

    Christopher Cleal

  51. Anatomically preserved plants in siderite concretions in the shale split of the Foord Seam: mineralogy, geochemistry, genesis (Upper Carboniferous, Canada)

    Article • International Journal of Coal Geology, November 1999, Elsevier

    Christopher Cleal

  52. Variation in Stomatal Density in the Late Carboniferous Gymnosperm Frond Neuropteris Ovata

    Article • Palaios, April 1999, Society for Sedimentary Geology

    Christopher Cleal

  53. GEOSITES - an international geoconservation initiative

    Article • Geology Today, March 1999, Wiley

    Christopher Cleal

  54. The palaeobotany of the upper Westphalian and Stephanian of southern Britain and its geological significance

    Article • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, January 1997, Elsevier

    Christopher Cleal

  55. Epidermal features of some Carboniferous neuropteroid fronds

    Article • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, April 1992, Elsevier

    Christopher Cleal

  56. Lower Westphalian D fossil plants from the Nolton-Newgale Coalfield, Dyfed (Great Britain)

    Article • Geobios, January 1992, Elsevier

    Christopher Cleal

  57. Aberrant fronds of palaeozoic marttialean ferns

    Article • Geobios, January 1990, Elsevier

    Christopher Cleal

  58. The Westphalian fossil floras from the Cattybrook Claypit, avon (Great Britain)

    Article • Geobios, January 1988, Elsevier

    Christopher Cleal

  59. The juvenile frond of the middle Carboniferous Pteridosperm Paripteris Gothan

    Article • Geobios, January 1988, Elsevier

    Christopher Cleal