Peter Robert Crane

Peter Robert Crane (1954–), British geologist and paleobotanist.

John & Marion Sullivan University Professor, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, 5734 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637 UC profile

Former Director, Royal Botanical Gardens Kew Kew Gardens Bio

IPNI standard form: P.R.Crane

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• 11 taxon names authored by Peter Robert Crane

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• 2 eponyms of Peter Robert Crane

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• Crane, P.R. 1981 Betulaceous leaves and fruits from the British Upper Palaeocene Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 83(2):103–136 DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.1981.tb01224.x

• Manchester, S.R.; Crane, P.R. 1983. Attached leaves, inflorescences, and fruits of Fagopsis, an extinct genus of fagaceous affinity from the Oligocene Florissant flora of Colorado, USA. American Journal of Botany 70(8): 1147–1164.  JSTOR Reference page. 

• Kenrick, P. & Crane, P.R. 1997 The Origin and Early Diversification of Land Plants: A Cladistic Study. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 1-56098-730-8. Reference page. 

• Manchester, S. R., Pigg, K. B. & Crane, P. R. (2004). Palaeocarpinus dakotensis sp.n. (Betulaceae: Coryloideae) and associated staminate catkins, pollen, and leaves from the Paleocene of North Dakota. International Journal of Plant Sciences 165 (6): 1135–1148.

• Herrera, F., Testo, W.L., Field, A.R., 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 233(5): 2310–2322. DOI: 10.1111/nph.17874 Reference page. 
• Manchester, S.R., Zhang, X., Hotton, C.L., Wing, S.L. & Crane, P.R. 2022. Two-seeded cones of probable gnetalean affinity from the Morrison Formation (Late Jurassic) of Utah and Colorado, USA. Acta Palaeobotanica 62(2): 77-92.