Dr. Johnson's Publications

2007

Stockey, R. A., Rothwell, G. W., Johnson, K. R., Cobbania corrugata (Lesquereux) GEN. ET COMB. NOV. (Araceae): A floating aquatic monocot from the Upper Cretaceous of western North America. American Journal of Botany v. 94, p. 609-624.

Johnson, K. R., Forests frozen in time. Nature v. 447, p. 786

Johnson, K. R. and Bonnell, M. A., 2007, Gas Trees and Car Turds, A Kid’s Guide to the Roots of Global Warming. Fulcrum Press, Golden. CO, 38 p.

Johnson, K. R and Troll, R. 2007. Cruisin’ the Fossil Freeway: An epoch tale of a scientist and an artist on the ultimate 5,000 mile paleo road trip. Fulcrum Press, Golden. CO, 204 p.

Johnson, K. R. and Troll, R. Ray Troll and Kirk Johnson’s Cruisin’ the Fossil Freeway: The Ultimate Prehistoric Road Map to the Best of the American West, Fulcrum Press, Golden. CO.

Royer, D. L., Sack, L., Wilf, P., Lusk, C. H., Jordan, G. J., Niinemets, U., Wright, I. J., Westoby, M., Cariglino, B., Coley, P. D., Cutter, A. D., Johnson, K. R., Labandeira, C. C., Moles, A. T., Palmer, M. B., and Valladares, F., Fossil leaf economics quantified: calibration, Eocene case study, and implications. Paleobiology, 33(4), 2007, pp. 574–589

Johnson, K. R. Review of Dinosaur Provincial Park: A Spectacular Ancient Ecosystem Revealed Edited by Phillip J. Currie and Eva B. Koppelhus, The Quarterly Review of Biology v. 83, n. 3, p. 268.

Iglesias, A., Wilf, P., Johnson, K. R., Zamuner, A. B., Cúneo, N. R., Matheos, S. D., Singer, B. D. 2007, A Paleocene lowland macroflora from Patagonia reveals significantly greater richness than North American analogs. Geology v. 35 no. 10, p. 947-950.

Raynolds, R. G, Johnson, K. R, Ellis, B., Dechesne, M, and Miller, I. History along Colorado’s Front Range: Salvaging geologic data in the suburbs and sharing it with the citizens. GSA Today vol. 17, no. 12, p. 4 - 10

Gonzalez, C.C., M.A. Gandolfo, MC Zamaloa, R. N. Cúneo, P Wilf and K Johnson. Revision of the Proteaceae macrofossil record from Patagonia, Argentina. Botanical Review vol. 73, no. 3, p. 235-266.

Sun, G., Akhmetiev, M. A., Golovneva, L., Bugdaeva, E., Quan, C., Kodrul, T. M., Nishida, H., Sun, Y., Sun, C., Johnson, K., and Dilcher, D. Late Cretaceous Plants from Jiayin along Heilongjiang River, Northeast China. Cour. Forsch.-Inst. Senckenberg vol 28, p. 75 - 83

Bogner, Josef, Johnson, Kirk R., Kvaček, Zlatko, Upchurch, Garland R., 2007, New fossil leaves of Araceae from the Late Cretaceous and Paleogene of western North America. Zitteliana vol. A47, p. 133-147.

2006

Johnson, K. R. and Raynolds, R., Ancient Denvers: Scenes from the past 300 million years of the Colorado Front Range: Golden, Fulcrum Press, 32 p., second edition.

Johnson, K. R. and Stucky, R.K., Prehistoric Journey: A History of Life on Earth: Golden, Fulcrum Press, 144p., second edition.

Wilf, P., C.C. Labandeira, K.R. Johnson, B. Ellis, Decoupled plant and insect diversity after the End-Cretaceous extinction. Science, vol. 313, p. 1112-1115.

2005

Wilf, P., Johnson, K.R., Cuneo, N.R., Smith, M.E., Singer, B.S., and Gandolfo, M.A., Eocene plant diversity at Laguna del Hunco and Rio Pichileufu, Patagonia, Argentina: The American Naturalist, v. 165, no. 6, p. 634-650.

Wilf, P., Labandeira, C.C., Johnson, K.R., and Cuneo, N.R., Richness of plant-insect associations in Eocence Patagonia: a legacy for South American biodiversity: Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, v. 102, no. 25, p. 8944-8948.

Burnham, R.J., Ellis, B., and Johnson, K.R., Modern tropical forest taphonomy: does high biodiversity affect paleoclimatic interpretations?: Palaios, v. 20, p. 440-452.

Archibald, S.B., Pigg, K.B., Greenwood, D.R., Manchester, S.R., Barksdale, L., Johnson, K.R., Sternberg, M., Stockey, R.A., DeVore, M.L., and Rothwell, G.W., Wes Wehr dedication: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 42, P. 115-117.

2004

Wilf, P., and Johnson, K.R., Land plant extinction at the end of the Cretaceous: a quantitative analysis of the North Dakota megafloral record: Paleobiology, v. 30, no. 3, p. 347-368.

Johnson, K.R., Presentation of the Harrell L. Strimple award of the Paleontological Society to Wesley C. Wehr, Journal of Paleontology, v. 78, n. 4, p. 822-824.

Burnham, R.J., Johnson, K.R., South American palaeobotany and the origins of neotropical rainforests: Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. London B v. 359, p. 1595-1610.

Barclay, R.S. and Johnson, K.R., West Bijou Site Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, Denver Basin, Colorado: Geological Society of America Field Guide 5, p. 59-68.

Ellis, B., Johnson, K.R., Dunn, R.E., and Reynolds, M.R., The Castle Rock Rainforest: Denver Museum of Nature & Science Technical Report 2004-2, 455 p.

2003

Wilf, P., Johnson, K. R., and Huber, B. T., Correlated terrestrial and marine evidence for global climate changes before mass extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 100, n. 2, p. 599-604.

Wilf, P., Cúneo, N. R., Johnson, K. R., Hicks, J. F., Wing, S. L., and Obradovich, J. D., High plant diversity in Eocene South America: Evidence from Patagonia: Science, v. 300, n. 5616, p. 122-125.

Johnson, K. R., Raynolds R. G., and Reynolds, M. L., eds., Paleontology and stratigraphy of Laramide strata in the Denver basin (Part II): Special issue of Rocky Mountain Geology, V. 38, no. 1, p. 1-181.

Hicks, J. F., Johnson, K. R., Obradovich, J. D., Miggins, D. P., and Tauxe, L., Magnetostratigraphy of Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) to lower Eocene strata of the Denver Basin, Colorado: Rocky Mountain Geology, v. 38, no. 1, p. 1-27.

Barclay, R. S., Johnson, K. R., Betterton, W. J., and Dilcher, D. L., Stratigraphy and Megaflora of a K-T Boundary Section in the Eastern Denver Basin, Colorado: Rocky Mountain Geology, v. 38, no. 1, p. 45-71.

Ellis, B., Dunn, R. E., and Johnson, K. R., Evidence for an in situ early Paleocene rainforest from Castle Rock, Colorado: Rocky Mountain Geology, v. 38, no. 1, p. 73-100.

Johnson, K. R., Reynolds, M. L., Werth, K. W. and Thomasson, J. R., Overview of the Late Cretaceous, early Paleocene, and early Eocene megaflora of the Denver Basin, Colorado: Rocky Mountain Geology, v. 38, no. 1, p. 101-120.

Raynolds, R. G. and Johnson, K. R., Synopsis of the stratigraphy and paleontology of the uppermost Cretaceous and lower Tertiary strata in the Denver Basin, Colorado: Rocky Mountain Geology, v. 38, no. 1, p. 171-181.

Johnson, K. R., Borders and Boundaries: The search for China’s last dinosaur: Museum Monthly, v. 4, Issue 5, p. 18-21.

2002

Labandeira, C. C., Johnson, K.R., and Wilf, P., Impact of the Terminal Cretaceous Event on Plant-Insect Associations: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 99, no. 4, p. 2061-2066.

Johnson, K. R. and Raynolds, R., Ancient Denvers: Scenes from the past 300 million years of the Colorado Front Range: Denver, Denver Museum of Nature & Science Press, 32 p.

Johnson, K. R. and Ellis, B., A tropical rainforest in Colorado 1.4 million years after the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary: Science, v. 296, p. 2379-2383.

Harries, P. J., Johnson, K. R., Cobban, W. A., and Nichols, D. J., Marine Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary section in southwestern South Dakota: Comment and Reply: Geology, v. 30, no. 10, p. 954-955.

Eberle, J. J., Johnson, K., Raynolds, R., Hicks, J., and Nichols, D., New discoveries of Puercan mammals in the Denver Basin, Colorado: Revisions to local Puercan mammalian biostratigraphy that incorporate paleomagnetic and palynological zonations: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22 (supplement to no. 3), p. 50A.

Hartman, J., Johnson, K. R., Nichols, D. J., eds., The Hell Creek Formation and the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in the northern Great Plains: An integrated Continental record of the End of the Cretaceous: Geological Society of America Special Paper, v. 361, 520 p.

Murphy, E.C., Hoganson, J.W., Johnson, K. R., Lithostratigraphy of the Hell Creek Formation in North Dakota, in Hartman, J., Johnson, K.R., Nichols, D. J., eds., The Hell Creek Formation and the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in the northern Great Plains: An integrated Continental record of the End of the Cretaceous: Geological Society of America Special Paper, v. 361, 9-34.

Hicks, J. F., and Johnson, K.R., Tauxe, Lisa, and Clark, David, Obradovich, John D., Magnetostratigraphy and geochronology of the Hell Creek and basal Fort Union Formations of southwestern North Dakota and a recalibration of the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, in Hartman, J., Johnson, K. R., Nichols, D. J., eds., The Hell Creek Formation and the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in the northern Great Plains: An integrated Continental record of the End of the Cretaceous: Geological Society of America Special Paper, v. 361, p. 35-56.

Nichols, D. J., and Johnson, K. R., Palynology and microstratigraphy of the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in southwestern North Dakota, in Hartman, J., Johnson, K. R., Nichols, D. J., eds., The Hell Creek Formation and the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in the northern Great Plains: An integrated Continental record of the End of the Cretaceous: Geological Society of America Special Paper, v. 361, p. 95-144.

Pearson, D. A., Schaefer, T., Johnson, K. R, Nichols, D. J., and Hunter, J., Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Hell Creek Formation in southwestern North and northwestern South Dakota, in Hartman, J., Johnson, K. R., Nichols, D. J., eds., The Hell Creek Formation and the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in the northern Great Plains: An integrated Continental record of the End of the Cretaceous: Geological Society of America Special Paper, v. 361, p. 145-168.

Labandeira, C. C., Johnson, K. R., and Lang, P., Insect herbivory across the Cretaceous/Tertiary Boundary: major extinction and minimum rebound, in Hartman, J., Johnson, K. R., Nichols, D. J., eds., The Hell Creek Formation and the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in the northern Great Plains: An integrated Continental record of the End of the Cretaceous: Geological Society of America Special Paper, v. 361, p. 297-328.

Johnson, K. R., The megaflora of the Hell Creek and lower Fort Union Formations in the western Dakotas: vegetational response to climate change, the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary event, and rapid marine transgression., in Hartman, J., Johnson, K. R., Nichols, D. J., eds., The Hell Creek Formation and the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in the northern Great Plains: An integrated Continental record of the End of the Cretaceous: Geological Society of America Special Paper, v. 361, p. 329-392.

Johnson, K.R., Nichols, D. J., Hartman, J., The Hell Creek Formation: a 2001 synthesis in Hartman, J., Johnson, K. R., Nichols, D. J., eds., The Hell Creek Formation and the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in the northern Great Plains: An integrated Continental record of the End of the Cretaceous: Geological Society of America Special Paper, v. 361, p. 503-510.

Johnson, K. R., Raynolds R. G., and Reynolds, M. L., eds., Paleontology and stratigraphy of Laramide strata in the Denver basin (Part I): Special issue of Rocky Mountain Geology, V. 37, no. 2, p. 103-254.

Johnson, K. R. and Raynolds R. G., Introduction to special issues: Paleontology and stratigraphy of Laramide strata in the Denver basin: Rocky Mountain Geology, V. 37, no. 2, p. 103.

Raynolds R. G. and Johnson, K. R. Drilling of the Kiowa Core, Elbert County, Colorado: Rocky Mountain Geology, V. 37, no. 2, p. 105-109.

Sun, G., Akhmetiev, M., Dong, Z.M., Ashraf, A. R., Sun, Y. W., Bugdaeva, E., Dilcher, D. L., Golovneva, L., Harding, I., Johnson, K., Kezina, T., Kodrul, T., Lu, J. S., Markevich, V., Nishida, H., Okada, H., Park, S. O., Sun, C. L., Xiong, X. Z., Xing, Y. L., and Zhou, Z. L., In search of the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in Heilongjiang River area of China: Journal of Geoscience Research NE Asia, v. 5, no. 2, p. 105-113.

2001

Pearson, D. A., Schaefer, T., Johnson, K.R., Nichols, D.J., Palynologically calibrated vertebrate record from North Dakota consistent with abrupt dinosaur extinction at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary: Geology. v. 29, no. 1, p. 36-39.

Wilf, P., Labandeira, C.C., Johnson, K.R., Coley, P.D. and Cutter, A.D., Insect herbivory, plant defense, and early Cenozoic climate change: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, v. 98, p. 6221-6226.

Burnham, R. J., Pitman, N.C. A., Johnson, K.R., Wilf, P., Habitat-related error in estimating temperatures from leaf margin analyses in a humid tropical forest: American Journal of Botany, v. 88, no. 6, p. 1096-1102.

Hartman, J. H., Johnson, K.R., and Nichols, D. J., The last freshwater molluscan assemblage of the Cretaceous? A new locality from the Ludlow Formation of North Dakota: Proceedings of the North Dakota Academy of Science, v. 55, p. 63.

Johnson, K.R., Wilf, P. and Wing, P., Morphotyping the Cretaceous and Paleogene leaf floras of the Rocky Mountain region. North America Paleontological Convention, Berkeley, CA. PaleoBios v. 21, supplement to No. 2, p. 75-76

Raynolds, R. G., Johnson, K. R., Arnold, L. R., Farnham, T. M., Fleming, R. F., Hicks, J. F., Kelley, S. A., Lapey, L. A., Nichols, D. J. and Wilson, M. D., The Kiowa Core, a Continuous Drill Core Through the Denver Basin Bedrock Aquifers at Kiowa, Elbert County, Colorado. U. S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-0185 (http://geology.cr.usgs.gov/pub/open-file-reports/ofr-01-0185/)

Johnson, K.R., Presentation of the Harrell L. Strimple award to Dean Pearson, Journal of Paleontology, v. 75, no. 4, p. 926-928.

Evanoff, E., Gregory-Wodzicki, K. M., and Johnson, K. R., Fossil flora and stratigraphy of the Florissant Formation, Colorado: Proceedings of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, series 4, no. 1, 218 p.

Johnson, K. R., and Evanoff, E., Introduction, p. iii-iv in Evanoff, E., K. M. Gregory-Wodzicki, and K. R. Johnson, Fossil flora and stratigraphy of the Florissant Formation, Colorado: Proceedings of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, series 4, no. 1

2000