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Kelly Pfeiler

Kelly Pfeiler

Assistant Professor in Botany

Biology

 

Ph.D. University of Kansas (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology), 2026

M.S. California Polytechnic University, Humboldt (Biology), 2020

B.S. California Polytechnic University, Humboldt (Botany), 2018

  • paleobotany
  • plant anatomy
  • conifer evolution
  • euphyllophyte evolution
  • Pfeiler, K.C., Matsunaga, K.K.S., Andruchow-Colombo, A., Iglesias, A., Smith, S.Y., Atkinson, B.A. 2026. Austrocedrus from the Late Cretaceous of Antarctica and its implications for the early evolution of southern cypresses (Callitroideae, Cupressaceae).American Journal of Botany 113: e70253.
  • Pfeiler, K.C., Bippus, A.C., Kammet, A., Ortiz, A., Escapa, I.H., Tomescu, A.M.F. 2025. Expanded character sampling inspired by a new Cretaceous conifer seed cone from California: importance of morphology in resolving relationships among the Cupressaceae. Annals of Botany, mcaf099.
  • Pfeiler, K.C., Matsunaga, K.K.S., Atkinson, B.A. 2025. Permineralized pollen cone of Classostrobus minutus sp. nov. provide evidence of pollinivory in the extinct conifer family Cheirolepidiaceae during the Late Cretaceous. International Journal of Plant Sciences 168(4): 271–281.
  • Pfeiler, K.C., Tomescu, A.M.F. 2023. Mosaic assembly of regulatory programs for vascular cambial growth: a view from the Early Devonian. New Phytologist 240: 529–541.
  • Iler, A., CaraDonna, P., Richardson, L., Wu, E., Pfeiler, K., Freymiller, G., Godfrey, K., Gorman, A., Wilson, N., Whitford, M., Edmonds, G., Stratton, C., Jules, E. 2022. Genotype accounts for intraspecific variation in the timing and duration of multiple, sequential life‐cycle events in a willow species. American Journal of Botany 110: e16112.
  • Pfeiler, K.C., Tomescu, A.M.F. 2020. An Early Devonian actinostelic euphyllophyte with secondary growth from the Emsian of Gaspé (Canada) and the importance of tracheid wall thickening patterns in early euphyllophyte systematics. Papers in Palaeontology 7: 1081–1095.
  • Pfeiler, K.C., Tomescu, A.M.F. 2018. An Early Devonian permineralized rhyniopsid from the Battery Point Formation of Gaspé (Canada). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 187: 292–302.