Bill Dimichele

• M.S., University of Illinois
• Ph.D., University of Illinois
• B.A., Drexel University

Paleoecology, morphology, and systematics of late Paleozoic plants (240-350 million years old), particularly the structure of late Paleozoic ecosystems and the relationship between long-term ecological and evolutionary patterns

Journal Article

• DiMichele, William A., Lucas, Spencer G., Eble, Cortland F., Kerp, Hans, Reynolds, Stephen J., May, Paul, and Pigg, Kathleen B. 2024. "A detailed stratigraphic and taphonomic reassessment of the late Paleozoic fossil flora from Promontory Butte, Arizona." Review of palaeobotany and palynology, 320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2023.105004.
• Calder, John H., Nelson, W. John, Bashforth, Arden R., Wittry, Jack, Elrick, Scott D., and DiMichele, William A. 2023. "Fossil Vegetational Transect from Below the Colchester Coal to the Roof of the Cardiff (Survant) Coal (Desmoinesian, Upper Middle Pennsylvanian), Illinois Basin." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 94 107–135.
• Cecil, C. Blaine, DiMichele, William A., Rahl, Jeffrey M., Dulong, Frank T., Michel, Lauren, and Elrick, Scott D. 2023. "Paleoclimate and the origin of two 1000 km Lower Mississippian facies tracts in southeastern Laurentia (USA): Cool-humid Famennian and Kinderhookian - warm-arid Osagean." Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 618 111521. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111521.
• DiMichele, William A., Eble, Cortland F., Nelson, W. John, Pfefferkorn, Hermann W., and Elrick, Scott D. 2023. "Paleobotany of the Corinth Coal Bed, Upper Pennsylvanian, Southern Illinois." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 94 171–203.
• DiMichele, William A., Hotton, Carol L., Labandeira, Conrad C., and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 2023. "A paleontological perspective on ecosystem assembly rules in the Paleozoic terrestrial realm." Evolving Earth, 1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eve.2023.100020.
• DiMichele, William A., Lucas, Spencer G., Kerp, Hans, and May, Paul T. 2023. "Two Early Permian Fossil Floras from the Arroyo De Alamillo Formation of the Yeso Group, Socorro County, New Mexico." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 94 155–169.
• DiMichele, William A., Eble, Cortland F., Pfefferkorn, Hermann W., Elrick, Scott D., Nelson, W. J., and Lucas, Spencer G. 2023. "Kasimovian floristic change in tropical wetlands and the Middle–Late Pennsylvanian Boundary Event." Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 535, (1) 293–335. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP535-2022-228.
• Lucas, Spencer G., DiMichele, William A., Harris, Susan K., May, Paul T., and Kerp, Hans. 2023. "Paleoecological Significance of Trace Fossils and Fossil Plants from a New Locality in the Upper Part of the Abo Formation (Lower Permian), Socorro County, New Mexico." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 94 411–421.
• Lucas, Spencer G., DiMichele, William A., and Karnes, Joseph M. 2023. "Unusual Sandstone Cylinders from the Lower Permian Glorieta Sandstone, Northern New Mexico." New Mexico Geology, 44, (3) 63–75. https://doi.org/10.58799/NMG-v44n3.63.
• Lucas, Spencer G., DiMichele, William A., Opluštil, Stanislav, and Wang, Xiangdong. 2023. "An introduction to ice ages, climate dynamics and biotic events: the Late Pennsylvanian world." Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 535, (1) 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP535-2022-334.
• Schachat, Sandra, Baresch, Andrés, Bui, Thu, Falcon-Lang, Howard, Chaney, Dan S., Nelson, W. J., Elrick, Scott D., Kerp, Hans, Lucas, Spencer G., and DiMichele, William A. 2023. "Vegetational change during the Middle–Late Pennsylvanian transition in western Pangaea." Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 535, (1) 337–359. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP535-2022-281.
• Nelson, W. John, DiMichele, William A., Wilson, Bob, Wilson, Doug, Lakeram, Scott R., and Elrick, Scott D. 2022. "Pennsylvanian-Age Cordaitalean Wood from Knoxville, Iowa." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 90 309–319.
• DiMichele, William A., Kerp, Hans, Lucas, Spencer G., and Chaney, Dan S. 2022. "A taxonomic revision of the late Paleozoic lyginopterid Sphenopteridium germanicum and description of its globose-stem growth habit." Review of palaeobotany and palynology, 298. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2021.104591.
• DiMichele, William A., Bateman, Richard M., Rothwell, Gar W., Duijnstee, Ivo A. P., Elrick, Scott D., and Looy, Cynthia V. 2022. "Stigmaria: A Review of the Anatomy, Development, and Functional Morphology of the Rootstock of the Arboreous Lycopsids." International journal of plant sciences, 183, (6) 493–534. https://doi.org/10.1086/720641.
• Lucas, Spencer G., DiMichele, William A., and Schneider, Joerg W. 2022. "The Kinney Brick Quarry Lagerstätte, Late Pennsylvanian of New Mexico, USA." Newsletter on Carboniferous Stratigraphy, 36 17–21.
• Marchetti, Lorenzo, Forte, Giuseppa, Kustatscher, Evelyn, DiMichele, William A., Lucas, Spencer G., Roghi, Guido, Juncal, Manuel A., Hartkopf-Fröder, Christoph, Krainer, Karl, Morelli, Corrado, and Ronchi, Ausonio. 2022. "The Artinskian Warming Event: an Euramerican change in climate and the terrestrial biota during the early Permian." Earth-Science Reviews, 226. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.103922.
• Bashforth, Arden R., DiMichele, William A., Eble, Cortland F., Falcon-Lang, Howard J., Looy, Cindy, V., and Lucas, Spencer G. 2021. "The environmental implications of upper Paleozoic plant-fossil assemblages with mixtures of wetland and drought-tolerant taxa in tropical Pangea." Geobios, 68 1–45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2021.04.002.
• DiMichele, William A. and Bateman, Richard M. 2021. "Escaping the voluntary constraints of "tyre-track" taxonomy." Taxon, https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12540.
• DiMichele, William A., Donovan, Michael P., Schachat, Sandra R., Schneider, Joerg W., and Lucas, Spencer G. 2021. "Plant-Fossil Taphonomy, Late Pennsylvanian Kinney Quarry, New Mexico, USA." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 84 125–151.
• Matthaeus, William J., Macarewich, Sophia, I., Richey, Jon D., Wilson, Jonathan P., McElwain, Jennifer C., Montanez, Isabel P., DiMichele, William A., Hren, Michael T., Poulsen, Christopher J., and White, Joseph D. 2021. "Freeze tolerance influenced forest cover and hydrology During the Pennsylvanian." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118, (42). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2025227118.
• Richey, Jon D., Montanez, Isabel P., White, Joseph D., DiMichele, William A., Matthaeus, William J., Poulsen, Christopher J., Macarewich, Sophia, I., and Looy, Cindy, V. 2021. "Modeled physiological mechanisms for observed changes in the late Paleozoic plant fossil record." Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 562 110056–110056. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.110056.
• Donovan, Michael P., DiMichele, William A., Lucas, Spencer G., and Schneider, Joerg W. 2021. "Atlas of Selected Kinney Quarry Plant Fossils, Late Pennsylvanian, Central New Mexico." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 84 153–183.
• Koll, Rebecca A. and DiMichele, William A. 2021. "Dominance-diversity architecture of a mixed hygromorphic-to-xeromorphic flora from a botanically rich locality in western equatorial Pangea (lower Permian Emily Irish site, Texas, USA." Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 563 110132–110132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.110132.
• Lucas, Spencer G. and DiMichele, William A. 2021. "The Kinney Brick Quarry Lagerstätte, Late Pennsylvanian of New Mexico, USA: Introduction and Overview." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 84 1–16.
• DiMichele, William A., Bashforth, Arden R., Falcon-Lang, Howard J., and Lucas, Spencer G. 2020. "Uplands, lowlands, and climate: Taphonomic megabiases and the apparent rise of a xeromorphic, drought-tolerant flora during the Pennsylvanian-Permian transition." Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 559 109965–109965. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109965.
• DiMichele, William A. and Bateman, Richard M. 2020. "Better together: Joint consideration of anatomy and morphology illuminates the architecture and life history of the Carboniferous arborescent lycopsid Paralycopodites." Journal of Systematics and Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.12662.
• DiMichele, William A., Nelson, W. John, Ames, Philip R., and Elrick, Scott D. 2020. "Evolution of a PeatContemporaneous Channel: The Galatia Channel, Middle Pennsylvanian, of the Illinois Basin." Illinois State Geological Survey Circular, 605 1–85.
• Kvale, Erik P., Bowie, Christopher M., Flenthrope, Chris, Mace, Christopher, Parrish, Jessica M., Price, Buddy, Anderson, Sloan, and DiMichele, William A. 2020. "Facies variability within a mixed carbonate–siliciclastic sea-floor fan (upper Wolfcamp Formation, Permian, Delaware Basin, New Mexico)." AAPG Bulletin, 104, (3) 525–563. https://doi.org/10.1306/06121917225.
• Richey, Jon D., Montanez, Isabel P., Godderis, Yves, Looy, Cindy, V., Griffis, Neil P., and DiMichele, William A. 2020. "Influence of temporally varying weatherability on CO2-climate coupling and ecosystem change in the late Paleozoic." Climate of the Past, 16, (5) 1759–1775. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-1759-2020.
• White, Joseph D., Montanez, Isabel P., Wilson, Jonathan P., Poulsen, Christopher J., McElwain, Jennifer C., DiMichele, William A., Hren, Michael T., Macarewich, Sophia, Richey, Jon D., and Matthaeus, William J. 2020. "A Process-Based Ecosystem Model (Paleo-Bgc) to Simulate the Dynamic Response of Late Carboniferous Plants to Elevated O-2 and Aridification." American Journal of Science, 320, (7) 547–598. https://doi.org/10.2475/09.2020.01.
• Wilson, Jonathan P., White, Joseph D., Montañez, Isabel P., DiMichele, William A., McElwain, Jennifer C., Poulsen, Christopher J., and Hren, Michael T. 2020. "Carboniferous plant physiology breaks the mold." New Phytologist, 227, (3) 667–679. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16460.
• DiMichele, William A., Hotton, Carol L., Looy, Cindy V., and Hook, Robert W. 2019. "Paleoecological and paleoenvironmental interpretation of three successive macrofloras and palynofloras from the Kola Switch locality, lower Permian (Archer City Formation, Bowie Group) of Clay County, Texas, USA." Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 93, (3) 423–451. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-019-00485-8.
• Hetherington, Alexander J., DiMichele, William A., Lucas, Spencer G., and Voigt, Sebastian. 2019. "Tiny Rhizomorphic Rooting Systems from the Early Permian Abo Formation of New Mexico, USA." International journal of plant sciences, 180, (6) 504–512. https://doi.org/10.1086/702759.
• Blomenkemper, Patrick, Kerp, Hans, Abu Hamad, Abdalla, DiMichele, William A., and Bomfleur, Benjamin. 2018. "A hidden cradle of plant evolution in Permian tropical lowlands." Science, 362, (6421) 1414–1416. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aau4061.
• Boyce, C. Kevin and DiMichele, William A. 2018. "Fast or slow for the arborescent lycopsids? Response to Thomas & Cleal (2017) 'Arborescent lycophyte growth in the late Carboniferous coal swamps'." New Phytologist, 218, (3 (Special Issue)) 891–893. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15059.
• DiMichele, William A., Lucas, Spencer G., Chaney, Dan S., Donovan, Michael P., Kerp, Hans, Koll, Rebecca A., and Looy, Cindy V. 2018. "Early Permian Flora, Doña Ana Mountains, Southern New Mexico, with Special Consideration of Taxonomic Issues and Arthropod Damage." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 79 165–205.
• Falcon-Lang, Howard, John Nelson, W., Heckel, Philip H., DiMichele, William A., and Elrick, Scott D. 2018. "New insights on the stepwise collapse of the Carboniferous Coal Forests: Evidence from cyclothems and coniferopsid tree-stumps near the Desmoinesian-Missourian boundary in Peoria County, Illinois, USA." Palaeogeography palaeoclimatology palaeoecology, 490 375–392. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.11.015.
• Simon, Sharane S. T., Gibling, Martin R., DiMichele, William A., Chaney, Dan S., and Koll, Rebecca. 2018. "An exhumed fine‐grained meandering channel in the lower Permian Clear Fork Formation, north‐central Texas: Processes of mud accumulation and the role of vegetation in channel dynamics." International Association of Sedimentologists, Special Publication, 48 149–172.
• DiMichele, William A., Chaney, Dan S., Lucas, Spencer G., Nelson, W. J., Elrick, Scott D., Falcon-Lang, Howard, and Kerp, Hans. 2017. "Middle and Late Pennsylvanian Fossil Floras from Socorro County, New Mexico, U.S.A." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 77 25–99.
• DiMichele, William A., Elrick, Scott D., and Nelson, W. John. 2017. "Vegetational zonation in a swamp forest, Middle Pennsylvanian, Illinois Basin, U.S.A., indicates niche differentiation in a wetland plant community." Palaeogeography palaeoclimatology palaeoecology, 487 71–92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.08.020.
• DiMichele, William A. and Lucas, Spencer G. 2017. "The First Specimen of Annularia spinulosa Sternberg from the Lower Permian Abo Formation, New Mexico, and Implications for Rarity in the Plant Fossil Record." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 77 17–23.
• Elrick, Scott D., Nelson, W. J., Ames, Philip R., and DiMichele, William A. 2017. "Floras characteristic of Late Pennsylvanian peat swamps arose in the late Middle Pennsylvanian." Stratigraphy, 14, (1-4) 123–141. https://doi.org/10.29041/strat.14.1-4.123-141.
• Koll, Rebecca A., DiMichele, William A., and Manchester, Steven R. 2017. "Reevaluation and taxonomic clarification of Gigantopteridium and Cathaysiopteris of western equatorial Pangea and their biogeographical significance." Journal of Paleontology, 91, (5) 859–870. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2017.25.
• Lucas, Spencer G., Krainer, Karl, Allen, Bruce D., and DiMichele, William A. 2017. "Carboniferous-Permian Transition in Socorro County, New Mexico, USA: An Overview." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 77 1–16.
• Pfefferkorn, Hermann W., Gastaldo, Robert A., and DiMichele, William A. 2017. "Impact of an icehouse climate interval on tropical vegetation and plant evolution." Stratigraphy, 14, (1-4) 365–376. https://doi.org/10.29041/strat.14.1-4.365-376.
• Wilson, Jonathan P., Montañez, Isabel P., White, Joseph D., DiMichele, William A., McElwain, Jennifer C., Poulsen, Christopher J., and Hren, Michael T. 2017. "Dynamic Carboniferous tropical forests: new views of plant function and potential for physiological forcing of climate." New Phytologist, 215, (4) 1333–1353. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14700.
• Bashforth, Arden R., DiMichele, William A., Eble, Cortland F., and Nelson, W. J. 2016. "A Middle Pennsylvanian macrofloral assemblage from wetland deposits in Indiana (Illinois Basin): a taxonomic contribution with biostratigraphic, paleobiogeographic, and paleoecologic implications." Journal of Paleontology, 90, (04) 589–631. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2015.69.
• Bashforth, Arden R., DiMichele, William A., Eble, Cortland F., and Nelson, W. J. 2016. "Dryland vegetation from the Middle Pennsylvanian of Indiana (Illinois Basin): the dryland biome in glacioeustatic, paleobiogeographic, and paleoecologic context." Journal of Paleontology, 90, (05) 785–814. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2016.25.
• Baumgardner, Robert W., DiMichele, William A., and de, Siqueira Vieira. 2016. "An early Permian coastal flora dominated by Germaropteris martinsii from basinal sediments in the Midland Basin, West Texas." Palaeogeography palaeoclimatology palaeoecology, 459 409–422. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.07.024.
• Boyce, C. K. and DiMichele, William A. 2016. "Arborescent lycopsid productivity and lifespan: Constraining the possibilities." Review of palaeobotany and palynology, 227 97–110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2015.10.007.
• DiMichele, William A., Bashforth, Arden R., Eble, Cortland F., and Nelson, W. J. 2016. "A Middle Pennsylvanian (early Asturian) tropical dry forest, Atokan-Desmoinesian boundary, Illinois Basin, USA." Spanish Journal of Palaeontology, 31, (1) 41–84. https://doi.org/10.7203/sjp.31.1.17139.
• DiMichele, William A., Schneider, Joerg W., Lucas, Spencer G., Eble, Cortland F., Falcon-Lang, Howard, Looy, Cindy V., Nelson, W. J., Elrick, Scott D., and Chaney, Dan S. 2016. "Megaflora and palynoflora associated with a Late Pennsylvanian coal bed (Bursum Formation, Carrizo Arroyo, New Mexico, U.S.A.) and paleoenvironmental significance." New Mexico Geological Society Field Conference Guidebook, 67 351–368. https://doi.org/10.56577/FFC-.351.
• Lyons, S. Kathleen, Amatangelo, Kathryn L., Behrensmeyer, Anna K., Bercovici, Antoine, Blois, Jessica L., Davis, Matt, DiMichele, William A., Du, Andrew, Eronen, Jussi T., Faith, J. Tyler, Graves, Gary R., Jud, Nathan, Labandeira, Conrad C., Looy, Cindy V., McGill, Brian, Miller, Joshua H., Patterson, David, Pineda-Munoz, Silvia, Potts, Richard, Riddle, Brett, Terry, Rebecca, Tóth, Anikó, Ulrich, Werner, Villaseñor, Amelia, Wing, Scott L. et al. 2016. "Holocene shifts in the assembly of plant and animal communities implicate human impacts." Nature, (529) 80–83. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature16447.
• Lyons, S. Kathleen, Miller, Joshua H., Amatange, Kathryn L., Behrensmeyer, Anna K., Bercovici, Antoine, Blois, Jessica L., Davis, Matt, DiMichele, William A., Du, Andrew, Eronen, Jussi T., Faith, J. T., Graves, Gary R., Jud, Nathan, Labandeira, Conrad C., Looy, Cindy V., McGill, Brian, Patterson, David, Pineda-Munoz, Silvia, Potts, Richard, Riddle, Brett, Terry, Rebecca, Tóth, Anikó, Ulrich, Werner, Villaseñor, Amelia, Wing, Scott L. et al. 2016. "Lyons et al. reply." Nature, 538, (7626) E3–E4. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature20097.
• Lyons, S. Kathleen, Miller, Joshua H., Tóth, Anikó, Amatangelo, Kathryn L., Behrensmeyer, Anna K., Bercovici, Antoine, Blois, Jessica L., Davis, Matt, DiMichele, William A., Du, Andrew, Eronen, Jussi T., Faith, J. T., Graves, Gary R., Jud, Nathan, Labandeira, Conrad C., Looy, Cindy V., McGill, Brian, Patterson, David, Pineda-Munoz, Silvia, Potts, Richard, Riddle, Brett, Terry, Rebecca, Ulrich, Werner, Villaseñor, Amelia, Wing, Scott L. et al. 2016. "Questioning Holocene community shifts Reply." Nature, 537, (7618) E5–E6. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature19111.
• Montañez, Isabel P., McElwain, Jennifer C., Poulsen, Christopher J., White, Joseph D., DiMichele, William A., Wilson, Jonathan P., Griggs, Galen, and Hren, Michael T. 2016. "Climate, pCO2 and terrestrial carbon cycle linkages during late Palaeozoic glacial-interglacial cycles." Nature Geoscience, 9, (11) 824–828. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2822.
• Nelsen, Matthew P., DiMichele, William A., Peters, Shanan E., and Boyce, C. K. 2016. "Delayed fungal evolution did not cause the Paleozoic peak in coal production." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113, (9) 2442–2447. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1517943113.
• Simon, Sharane S. T., Gibling, Martin R., DiMichele, William A., Chaney, Dan S., Looy, Cindy V., and Tabor, Neil J. 2016. "An Abandoned-Channel Fill With Exquisitely Preserved Plants In Redbeds of the clear Fork Formation, Texas, USA: An Early Permian Water-Dependent Habitat On the Arid Plains of Pangea." Journal of Sedimentary Research, 86, (8) 944–964. https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2016.60.
• DiMichele, William A. 2015. "A compositionally unique voltzian conifer-callipterid flora from a carbonate-filled channel, Lower Permian, Robledo Mountains, New Mexico, and its broader significance." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 65 123–128.
• DiMichele, William A., Lucas, Spencer G., Looy, Cindy V., Chaney, Dan S., and Voigt, Sebastian. 2015. "Early Permian Fossil Floras from the Red Beds of Prehistoric Trackways National Monument, Southern New Mexico." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 65 129–140.
• Falcon-Lang, Howard, Lucas, Spencer G., Kerp, Hans, Krainer, Karl, Montañez, Isabel P., Vachard, Daniel, Chaney, Dan S., Elrick, Scott D., Contreras, Dori L., Kurzawe, Francine, DiMichele, William A., and Looy, Cindy V. 2015. "Early Permian (Asselian) vegetation from a seasonally dry coast in western equatorial Pangea: Paleoecology and evolutionary significance." Palaeogeography palaeoclimatology palaeoecology, 433 158–173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.05.010.
• Lucas, Spencer G. and DiMichele, William A. 2015. "Carboniferous-Permian Transition in the Robledo Mountains, Southern New Mexico: An Overview." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 65 1–8.
• Lucas, Spencer G., Krainer, Karl, DiMichele, William A., Voigt, Sebastian, Berman, David, Henrici, Amy C., Tanner, Lawrence H., Chaney, Dan S., Elrick, Scott D., Nelson, W. J., and Rinehart, Larry F. 2015. "The Upper Paleozoic Sangre de Cristo Formation, Southwestern San Miguel County, New Mexico: Stratigraphy, Age and Sedimentology." New Mexico Geological Society Annual Spring Meeting, 37.
• Lucas, Spencer G., Krainer, Karl, Vachard, Daniel, Voigt, Sebastian, DiMichele, William A., Berman, David S., Henrici, Amy C., Schneider, Joerg W., and Barrick, James E. 2015. "Progress Report on Correlation of Nonmarine and Marine Lower Permian Strata, New Mexico, USA." Permophiles, (61) 10–17.
• Rinehart, Larry F., Lucas, Spencer G., Tanner, Lawrence, John Nelson, W., Elrick, Scott D., Chaney, Dan S., and DiMichele, William A. 2015. "Plant architecture and spatial structure of an early Permian woodland buried by flood waters, Sangre de Cristo Formation, New Mexico." Palaeogeography palaeoclimatology palaeoecology, 424 91–110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.02.018.
• Wilson, Jonathan P., White, Joseph D., DiMichele, William A., Hren, Michael T., Poulsen, Christopher J., McElwain, Jennifer C., and Montañez, Isabel P. 2015. "Reconstructing extinct plant water use for understanding vegetation-climate feedbacks: methods, synthesis and a case study using the Paleozoic era medullosan seed ferns." Paleontological Society Papers, 21 167–195. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1089332600003004.
• Cecil, C. Blaine, DiMichele, William A., and Elrick, Scott D. 2014. "Middle and Late Pennsylvanian cyclothems, American Midcontinent: Ice-age environmental changes and terrestrial biotic dynamics." Comptes Rendus Geoscience, 346, (7-8) 159–168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crte.2014.03.008.
• DiMichele, William A. 2014. "Wetland-Dryland Vegetational Dynamics in the Pennsylvanian Ice Age Tropics." International Journal of Plant Sciences, 175, (2) 123–164. https://doi.org/10.1086/675235.
• Gibling, M. R., Davies, N. S., Falcon-Lang, H., Bashforth, Arden R., DiMichele, William A., Rygel, M. C., and Ielpi, A. 2014. "Palaeozoic co-evolution of rivers and vegetation: a synthesis of current knowledge." Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 125, (5-6) 524–533. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2013.12.003.
• Looy, Cindy V., Kerp, Hans, Duijnstee, Ivo A. P., and DiMichele, William A. 2014. "The late Paleozoic ecological-evolutionary laboratory, a land-plant fossil record perspective." The Sedimentary Record, 12, (4) 4–10.
• Moore, Lillien C., Wittry, Jack, and DiMichele, William A. 2014. "The Okmulgee, Oklahoma fossil flora, a Mazon Creek equivalent: Spatial conservatism in the composition of Middle Pennsylvanian wetland vegetation over 1100 km." Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 200 24–52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.08.002.
• DiMichele, William A., Chaney, Dan S., Lucas, Spencer G., Kerp, Hans, and Voigt, Sebastian. 2013. "Flora of the Lower Permian Abo Formation redbeds, western equatorial Pangea, New Mexico." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 59 265–288.
• DiMichele, William A., Elrick, Scott D., and Bateman, Richard M. 2013. "Growth habit of the late Paleozoic rhizomorphic tree-lycopsid family Diaphorodendraceae: Phylogenetic, evolutionary, and paleoecological significance." American Journal of Botany, 100, (8) 1604–1625. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.1200623.
• DiMichele, William A., Kerp, Hans, Sirmons, Roberta, Fedorko, Nick, Skema, Viktoras, Blake, Bascombe M., Jr., and Cecil, C. B. 2013. "Callipterid peltasperms of the Dunkard Group, Central Appalachian Basin." International Journal of Coal Geology, 119 56–78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coal.2013.07.025.
• DiMichele, William A., Wagner, Robert H., Bashforth, Arden R., and Álvarez-Vázquez, Carmen. 2013. "An update on the flora of the Kinney Quarry of Central New Mexico (Upper Pennsylvanian), its preservational and environmental significance." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 59 289–325.
• Lucas, Spencer G., Krainer, Karl, Chaney, Dan S., DiMichele, William A., Voigt, Sebastian, Berman, David S., and Henrici, Amy C. 2013. "The Lower Permian Abo Formation in Central New Mexico." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 59 161–180.
• Lucas, Spencer G., Nelson, W. J., DiMichele, William A., Krainer, Karl, Barrick, James E., Voigt, Sebastian, Chaney, Dan S., Elrick, Scott, and Spielmann, Justin A. 2013. "Field guide to the Carboniferous-Permian transition in the Cerros de Amado and vicinity, Socorro County, Central New Mexico." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 59 39–76.
• O'Keefe, Jennifer M. K., Bechtel, Achim, Christanis, Kimon, Dai, Shifeng, DiMichele, William A., Eble, Cortland F., Esterle, Joan S., Mastalerz, Maria, Raymond, Anne L., Valentim, Bruno V., Wagner, Nicola J., Ward, Colin R., and Hower, James C. 2013. "On the fundamental difference between coal rank and coal type." International Journal of Coal Geology, 118 58–87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coal.2013.08.007.
• Stull, Gregory W., Labandeira, Conrad C., DiMichele, William A., and Chaney, Dan S. 2013. "The “Seeds” on Padgettia readi are Insect Galls: Reassignment of the Plant to Odontopteris, the Gall to Ovofoligallites N. Gen., and the Evolutionary Implications Thereof." Journal of Paleontology, 87, (2) 217–231. https://doi.org/10.1666/12-063R.1.
• Tabor, Neil J., DiMichele, William A., Montañez, Isabel P., and Chaney, Dan S. 2013. "Late Paleozoic continental warming of a cold tropical basin and floristic change in western Pangea." International Journal of Coal Geology, 119 177–186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coal.2013.07.009.
• Tabor, Neil J., Romanchock, Charles M., Looy, Cynthia V., Hotton, Carol L., DiMichele, William A., and Chaney, Dan S. 2013. "Conservatism of Late Pennsylvanian vegetational patterns during short-term cyclic and long-term directional environmental change, western equatorial Pangea." Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 376 201–234. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP376.14.
• Bashforth, Arden R. and DiMichele, William A. 2012. "Permian Coal Forest Offers a Glimpse of Late Paleozoic Ecology." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109, (13) 4717–4718. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1203261109.
• DiMichele, William A. and Falcon-Lang, Howard. 2012. "Calamitalean "pith casts" reconsidered." Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2012.01.011.
• DiMichele, William A., Lucas, Spencer G., and Krainer, Karl. 2012. "Vertebrate Trackways Among a Stand of Supaia White Plants on An Early Permian Floodplain, New Mexico." Journal of Paleontology, 86, (4) 584–594. https://doi.org/10.1666/11-137R.1.
• Horton, Daniel E., Poulsen, Christopher J., Montañez, Isabel P., and DiMichele, William A. 2012. "Eccentricity-paced late Paleozoic climate change." Palaeogeography palaeoclimatology palaeoecology, 331-332 150–161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.03.014.
• Lucas, Spencer G., Harris, Susan K., Spielmann, Justin A., Berman, David S., Henrici, Amy C., Krainer, Karl, Rinehart, Larry F., DiMichele, William A., Chaney, Dan S., and Kerp, Hans. 2012. "Lithostratigraphy, Paleontology, Biostratigraphy, and Age of the Upper Paleozoic Abo Formation Near Jemez Springs, Northern New Mexico, Usa." Annals of Carnegie Museum, 80, (4) 323–350. https://doi.org/10.2992/007.080.0403.
• Stull, Gregory W., DiMichele, William A., Falcon-Lang, Howard, Nelson, W. John, and Elrick, Scott. 2012. "Palaeoecology of Macroneuropteris scheuchzeri, and its implications for resolving the paradox of 'xeromorphic' plants in Pennsylvanian wetlands." Palaeogeography palaeoclimatology palaeoecology, 331-332 162–176. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.03.019.
• DiMichele, William A. and Falcon-Lang, Howard J. 2011. "Pennsylvanian 'fossil forests' in growth position (T⁰ assemblages): origin, taphonomic bias and palaeoecological insights." Journal of the Geological Society, 168, (2) 585–605. https://doi.org/10.1144/0016-76492010-103.
• DiMichele, William A., Looy, Cindy V., and Chaney, Dan S. 2011. "A New Genus of Gigantopterid from the Middle Permian of the United States and China and its Relevance to the Gigantopterid Concept." International Journal of Plant Sciences, 172, (1) 107–119. https://doi.org/10.1086/657276.
• Falcon-Lang, Howard J., Heckel, Philip H., DiMichele, William A., Blake, Bascombe M., Easterday, Cary R., Eble, Cortland F., Elrick, Scott, Gastaldo, Robert A., Greb, Stephen F., Martino, Ronald L., Nelson, W. John, Pfefferkorn, Hermann W., Phillips, Tom L., and Rosscoe, Steven J. 2011. "Reply: no major stratigraphic gap exists near the middle–upper Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian-Missourian) boundary in North America: Palaios, v. 26, no. 3, p. 125–139, 2011." Palaios, 26, (10) 671–671. https://doi.org/10.2110/Palo.2011.P11-055r.
• Falcon-Lang, Howard J., Heckel, Philip H., DiMichele, William A., Blake, Bascombe M., Easterday, Cary R., Eble, Cortland F., Elrick, Scott, Gastaldo, Robert A., Greb, Stephen F., Martino, Ronald L., Nelson, W. John, Pfefferkorn, Hermann W., Phillips, Tom L., and Rosscoe, Steven J. 2011. "No Major Stratigraphic Gap Exists Near the Middle-Upper Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian-Missourian) Boundary in North America." Palaios, 26, (3) 125–139. https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2010.p10-049r.
• Falcon-Lang, Howard J., Jud, Nathan A., Nelson, W. John, DiMichele, William A., Chaney, Dan S., and Lucas, Spencer G. 2011. "Pennsylvanian coniferopsid forests in sabkha facies reveal the nature of seasonal tropical biome." Geology, 39, (4) 371–374. https://doi.org/10.1130/G31764.1.
• Green, Walton A., Hunt, Gene, Wing, Scott L., and DiMichele, William A. 2011. "Does extinction wield an axe or pruning shears? How interactions between phylogeny and ecology affect patterns of extinction." Paleobiology, 37, (1) 72–91. https://doi.org/10.1666/09078.1.
• Lucas, Spencer G., Allen, Bruce D., Krainer, Karl, Barrick, James, Vachard, Daniel, Schneider, Joerg W., DiMichele, William A., and Bashforth, Arden R. 2011. "Precise age and biostratigraphic significance of the Kinney Brick Quarry Lagerstatte, Pennsylvanian of New Mexico, USA." Stratigraphy, 8, (1) 7–27.
• DiMichele, William A., Cecil, C. Blaine, Montañez, Isabel P., and Falcon-Lang, Howard J. 2010. "Cyclic changes in Pennsylvanian paleoclimate and effects on floristic dynamics in tropical Pangaea." International Journal of Coal Geology, 83, (2-3) 329–344. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coal.2010.01.007.
• DiMichele, William A., Chaney, Dan S., Kerp, Hans, and Lucas, Spencer G. 2010. "Late Pennsylvanian floras in Western Equatorial Pangea, Cañon del Cobre, New Mexico." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 49 75–113.
• Falcon-Lang, Howard J. and DiMichele, William A. 2010. "What happened to the coal forests during pennsylvanian glacial phases?" Palaios, 25, (9) 611–617. https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2009.p09-162r.
• Bennington, J. Bret, DiMichele, William A., Badgley, Catherine, Bambach, Richard K., Barrett, Paul M., Behrensmeyer, Anna K., Bobe, Rene, Burnham, Robyn J., Daeschler, Edward B., Van Dam, Jan, Eronen, Jussi T., Erwin, Douglas H., Finnegan, Seth, Holland, Steven M., Hunt, Gene, Jablonski, David, Jackson, Stephen T., Jacobs, Bonnie E., Kidwell, Susan M., Koch, Paul L., Kowalewski, Michal J., Labandeira, Conrad C., Looy, Cindy V., Lyons, Sara K., Novack-Gottshall, Philip M. et al. 2009. "Critical Issues of Scale in Paleoecology." Palaios, 24, (1-2) 1–4. https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2009.S01.
• Chaney, Dan S., Mamay, Serguis H., DiMichele, William A., and Kerp, Hans. 2009. "Auritifolia gen. nov., Probable Seed Plant Foliage with Comioid Affinities from the Early Permian of Texas, U.S.A." International Journal of Plant Sciences, 170, (2) 247–266. https://doi.org/10.1086/595293.
• DiMichele, William A., Montañez, I. P., Poulsen, C. J., and Tabor, Neil J. 2009. "Climate and vegetational regime shifts in the late Paleozoic ice age earth." Geobiology, 7, (2) 200–226. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1472-4669.2009.00192.x.
• DiMichele, William A., Nelson, W. John, Elrick, Scott, and Ames, Philip R. 2009. "Catastrophically Buried Middle Pennsylvanian Sigillaria and Calamitean Sphenopsids from Indiana, Usa: what Kind of Vegetation was This?" Palaios, 24, (3) 159–166. https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2008.p08-051r.
• Falcon-Lang, H., DiMichele, William A., Elrick, S., and Nelson, W. J. 2009. "Going underground: in search of Carboniferous coal forests." Geology Today, 25 181–184.
• Falcon-Lang, Howard J., Nelson, W. John, Elrick, Scott, Looy, Cindy V., Ames, Philip R., and DiMichele, William A. 2009. "Incised channel fills containing conifers indicate that seasonally dry vegetation dominated Pennsylvanian tropical lowlands." Geology, 37, (10) 923–926. https://doi.org/10.1130/G30117A.1.
• Mamay, Serguis H., Chaney, Dan S., and DiMichele, William A. 2009. "Comia, a seed plant possibly of peltaspermous affinity: a brief review of the genus and description of two new species from the Early Permian (Artinskian) of Texas, C. greggii sp. nov. and C. craddockii sp. nov." International Journal of Plant Sciences, 170, (2) 267–282. https://doi.org/10.1086/595294.
• DiMichele, William A. 2008. "Plants as a force of nature." Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 23, (2) 60–61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2007.09.015.
• DiMichele, William A. and Gastaldo, Robert A. 2008. "Plant paleoecology in deep time." Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 95 144–198.
• DiMichele, William A., Kerp, Hans, Tabor, Neil J., and Looy, Cynthia V. 2008. "The so-called "Paleophytic-Mesophytic" transition in equatorial Pangea: Multiple Biomes and Vegetational Tracking of Climate Change through Geological Time." Palaeogeography palaeoclimatology palaeoecology, 268, (3-4) 152–163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.06.006.
• Pfefferkorn, H. W., Gastaldo, Robert A., DiMichele, William A., and Philips, T. L. 2008. "Pennsylvanian tropical floras of the United States as a record of changing climate." Special Papers / Geological Society of America, 441 305–316.
• Chaney, Dan S. and DiMichele, William A. 2007. "Paleobotany of the classic redbeds (Clear Fork Group - Early Permian) of north central Texas." Proceedings of the XVth International Congress on Carboniferous and Permian Stratigraphy, 1 357–366.
• DiMichele, William A., Chaney, Dan S., Nelson, W. J., Lucas, Spencer G., Looy, C. V., Quick, K., and Jun, Wang. 2007. "A low diversity, seasonal tropical landscape dominated by conifers and peltasperms: Early Permian Abo Formation, New Mexico." Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 145 249–273.
• DiMichele, William A., Falcon-Lang, H. J., Nelson, W. J., Elrick, S. D., and Ames, P. R. 2007. "Ecological gradients within a Pennsylvanian mire forest." Geology, 35, (5) 415–418. https://doi.org/10.1130/G23472A.1.
• Montañez, I. P., Tabor, N. J., Niemeier, D., DiMichele, William A., Frank, T. D., Fielding, C. R., and Isbell, J. L. 2007. "CO2-forced climate and vegetation instability during Late Paleozoic deglaciation." Science, 315 87–91.
• Willard, D. A., Philips, T. L., Lesnikowska, W. A., and DiMichele, William A. 2007. "Paleoecology of the Late Pennsylvanian-Age Calhoun coal bed and implications for long-term dynamics of wetland ecosystems." International Journal of Coal Geology, 69 21–54.
• DiMichele, William A., Philips, T. L., and Pfefferkorn, H. W. 2006. "Paleoecology of Late Paleozoic pteridosperms from tropical Euramerica." Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society, 133 83–118.
• Greb, S. F., DiMichele, William A., and Gastaldo, Robert A. 2006. "Evolution and importance of wetlands in earth history." Special Papers / Geological Society of America, 399 1–40.
• Chaney, Dan S., Sues, Hans-Dieter, and DiMichele, William A. 2005. "A juvenile skeleton of the nectridean amphibian Diplocaulus and associated flora and fauna from the Mitchell Creek Flats locality (upper Waggoner Ranch Formation; Early Permian), Baylor County, north-central Texas, USA." The Nonmarine Permian.New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin., 30 39–47.
• DiMichele, William A. and Chaney, Dan S. 2005. "Pennsylvanian-Permian fossil floras from the Cutler Group, Cañon del Cobre and Arroyo del Agua areas, in northern New Mexico." The Permian of Central New Mexico.New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin., 31 27–33.
• DiMichele, William A., Gastaldo, Robert A., and Pfefferkorn, H. W. 2005. "Plant biodiversity partitioning in the Late Carboniferous and Early Permian and its implications for ecosystem assembly." Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 56 32–49.
• DiMichele, William A., Kerp, H., Krings, M., and Chaney, Dan S. 2005. "The Permian Peltasperm Radiation: Evidence from the Southwestern United States." The Nonmarine Permian.New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin., 30 67–79.
• DiMichele, William A., Tabor, N. J., and Chaney, Dan S. 2005. "Outcrop-scale Environmental Heterogeneity and Vegetational Complexity in the Permo-Carboniferous Markley Formation of north-central Texas." The Nonmarine Permian.New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin., 30 60–66.
• DiMichele, William A., Van Konijnenburg-Van Cittert, H. A., Looy, C. V., and Chaney, Dan S. 2005. "Equisetites from the Early Permian of north-central Texas." The Nonmarine Permian.New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin., 30 56–59.
• Krings, M., Klavins, S. D., DiMichele, William A., Axsmith, B. J., Kerp, H., and Taylor, T. N. 2005. "Epidermal anatomy of Glenopteris splendens Sellards nov. emend., an enigmatic seed plant from the Lower Permian of Kansas (U.S.A.)." Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 136 159–180.
• DiMichele, William A., Behrensmeyer, Anna K., Olszewski, T. D., Labandeira, Conrad C., Pandolfi, John M., Wing, Scott L., and Bobe, Rene. 2004. "Long-term stasis in ecological assemblages: evidence from the fossil record." Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 35 285–322.
• DiMichele, William A., Hook, R. W., Nelson, W. J., and Chaney, Dan S. 2004. "An Unusual Middle Permain Flora from the Blaine Formation (Pease River Group: Leonardian-Guadalupian Series) of King County, West Texas." Journal of Paleontology, 78 765–782.
• Bateman, Richard M. and DiMichele, William A. 2003. "Genesis of phenotypic and genotypic diversity in land plants: the present as the key to the past." Systematics and Biodiversity, 1 13–28.
• Greb, S. F., Andrews, W. M., Eble, C. F., DiMichele, William A., Cecil, C. B., and Hower, J. C. 2003. "Desmoinesian coal beds of the Eastern Interior and surrounding basins: the largest tropical peat mires in earth history." Geological Society of America, Special Publication, 370 127–150.
• DiMichele, William A. and Philips, T. L. 2002. "The ecology of Paleozoic ferns." Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 119 143–159.
• DiMichele, William A., Philips, T. L., and Nelson, W. J. 2002. "Place vs. time and vegetational persistence: a comparison of four tropical paleomires from the Illinois Basin at the height of the Pennsylvanian ice age." International Journal of Coal Geology, 50 43–72.
• Hotton, N., Feldmann, R. M., Hook, R. W., and DiMichele, William A. 2002. "Crustacean-bearing continental deposits in the Petrolia formation (Leonardian Series, Lower Permian) of North-Central Texas." Journal of Paleontology, 76, (3) 486–494.
• DiMichele, William A., Mamay, Serguis H., Chaney, Dan S., Hook, R. W., and Nelson, J. W. 2001. "An Early Permian Flora with Late Permian and Mesozoic Affinities from North-Central Texas." Journal of Paleontology, 75 449–460.
• DiMichele, William A., Pfefferkorn, H. W., and Gastaldo, Robert A. 2001. "Response of Late Carboniferous and Early Permian plant communities to climate change." Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 29 461–487.
• Laveine, J. P. and DiMichele, William A. 2001. "The qualitative approach for Carbniferous plant taxonomic analyses: implications of the Linopteris-Reticulopteris distinction." Revue Paléobiologie, Genève, 20 415–433.
• DiMichele, William A., Chaney, Dan S., Dixon, W. H., Nelson, W. J., and Hook, R. W. 2000. "An Early Permian Coastal Flora from the Central Basin Platform of Gaines County, West Texas." Palaios, 15 524–534.
• Pfefferkorn, H. W., Gastaldo, Robert A., and DiMichele, William A. 2000. "Ecological stability during the late Paleozoic cold interval." Paleontological Society Papers, 6 63–78.
• Bateman, Richard M., Crane, P. R., DiMichele, William A., Kenrick, P., Rowe, N. P., Speck, T., and Stein, W. E. 1998. "Early evolution of land plants: phylogeny, physiology, and ecology of the primary terrestrial radiation." Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 29 263–292.
• DiMichele, William A. 1998. "Love's labour lost? Or the tragic story of a young paleontologist who chooses fossil plants as his life's work only to discover at age 50 that his mother thinks he should have studied dinosaurs ("Why aren't you ever on TV?")." Palaios, 13, (5) 405–407.
• Philips, T. L. and DiMichele, William A. 1998. "A transect through a clastic-swamp to peat-swamp ecotone in the Springfield coal, Middle Pennsylvanian age of Indiana, U.S.A." Palaios, 13 110–125.
• Baker, R. A. and DiMichele, William A. 1997. "Biomass allocation in Late Pennsylvanian coal-swamp plants." Palaios, 12, (2) 127–132.
• Baker, R. and DiMichele, William A. 1997. "Resource allocation in Late Pennsylvanian coal-swamp plants." Palaios, 12 127–132.
• DiMichele, William A. and Bateman, Richard M. 1996. "Plant paleoecology and evolutionary inference: two examples from the Paleozoic." Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 90 223–247.
• DiMichele, William A. and Bateman, Richard M. 1996. "The rhizomorphic lycopsids: a case study in paleobotanical classification." Systematic Botany, 21 535–552.
• DiMichele, William A., Eble, C. F., and Chaney, Dan S. 1996. "A Drowned Lycopsid Forest above the Mahoning Coal (Conemaugh Group, Upper Pennsylvanian) in Eastern Ohio, U.S.A." International Journal of Coal Geology, 31 249–276.
• DiMichele, William A., Pfefferkorn, H. W., and Philips, T. L. 1996. "Persistence of Late Carboniferous tropical vegetation during glacially driven climatic and sea-level fluctuations." Palaeogeography palaeoclimatology palaeoecology, 128 105–128.
• DiMichele, William A. and Philips, T. L. 1996. "Clades, ecological amplitudes, and ecomorphs: phylogenetic effects and the persistence of primitive plant communities in the Pennsylvanian-age tropics." Palaeogeography palaeoclimatology palaeoecology, 127 83–106.
• DiMichele, William A. and Philips, T. L. 1996. "Climate change, plant extinctions, and vegetational recovery during the Middle-Late Pennsylvanian transition: the case of tropical peat-forming environments in North America." Geological Society Special Publication, 102 201–221.
• Gastaldo, Robert A., DiMichele, William A., and Pfefferkorn, H. W. 1996. "Out of the icehouse into the greenhouse: a late Paleozoic analogue for modern global vegetational change." GSA Today, 6 1–7.
• Gastaldo, Robert A., Pfefferkorn, H. W., and DiMichele, William A. 1995. "Characteristics and classification of Carboniferous roof shale floras." Geological Society of America Memoir, 185 341–352.
• Willard, D. A., DiMichele, William A., Eggert, D. L., Hower, J. C., Rexroad, C. B., and Scott, A. C. 1995. "Paleoecology of the Springfield Coal Member (Desmoinesian, Illinois Basin) Near the Leslie Cemetery Paleochannel, Southwestern Indiana." International Journal of Coal Geology, 27, (1) 59–98.
• Wing, Scott L. and DiMichele, William A. 1995. "Conflict between local and global changes in plant diversity through geological time." Palaios, 10 551–564.
• Bateman, Richard M. and DiMichele, William A. 1994. "Heterospory: the most iterative key innovation in the evolution of plants." Biological Reviews, 69 345–417.
• DiMichele, William A. 1994. "Ecological patterns in time and space." Paleobiology, 20 89–92.
• DiMichele, William A. 1994. "Presentation of the Charles-Schuchert-Award of the Paleontological-Society to Crane,peter,r." Journal of Paleontology, 68, (4) 918–918.
• DiMichele, William A. and Philips, T. L. 1994. "Paleobotanical and paleoecological constraints on models of peat formation in the Late Carboniferous of Euramerica." Palaeogeography palaeoclimatology palaeoecology, 106 39–90.
• Dolph, G. E., Gastaldo, Robert A., DiMichele, William A., and Hunn, D. M. 1994. "Karinopteris, a fossil pteridosperm from the "paper" coal of Indiana." Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Sciences, 98 433–448.
• DiMichele, William A. and Bateman, Richard M. 1993. "Validation of Synchysidendron, gen. nov. (Fossiles)." Taxon, 42 76–80.
• Bateman, Richard M., DiMichele, William A., and Willard, Debra A. 1992. "Experimental Cladistic Analysis of Anatomically Preserved Arborescent Lycopsids from the Carboniferous of Euramerica: An Essay on Paleobotanical Phylogenetics." Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 79, (3) 500–559.
• DiMichele, William A. and Aronson, Richard B. 1992. "The Pennsylvanian-Permian vegetational transition: a terrestrial analogue to the onshore offshore hypothesis." Evolution, 46 807–824.
• DiMichele, William A. and Bateman, Richard M. 1992. "Diaphorodendraceae, fam. nov. (Lycopsida: Carboniferous): systematics and evolutionary relationships of Diaphorodendron and Synchysidendron, gen. nov." American Journal of Botany, 79 605–617.
• DiMichele, William A. and Skog, J. A. 1992. "The Lycopsida: a symposium." Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 79 447–449.
• Philips, T. L. and DiMichele, William A. 1992. "Comparative ecology and life history biology of arborescent lycopods in Late Carboniferous swamps of Euramerica." Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 79 560–588.
• Bateman, Richard M. and DiMichele, William A. 1991. "Hizemodendron, gen. nov., a pseudoherbaceous segregate of Lepidodendron (Pennsylvanian): Phylogenetic context for evolutionary changes in lycopsid growth architecture." Systematic Botany, 16 195–205.
• DiMichele, William A., Philips, T. L., and McBrinn, G. E. 1991. "Quantitative analysis and paleoecology of the Secor coal and roof shale floras (Middle Pennsylvanian, Oklahoma)." Palaios, 6 390–409.
• DiMichele, William A. and Beall, B. S. 1990. "Flora, fauna and paleoecology of the Brazil Formation of Indiana." Rocks & Minerals, 65 244–250.
• Philips, T. L. and DiMichele, William A. 1990. "From Plants to Coal - Peat Taphonomy of Upper Carboniferous Coals." International Journal of Coal Geology, 16, (1-3) 151–156.
• DiMichele, William A., Davis, Jerrold I., and Olmstead, Richard G. 1989. "Origins of Heterospory and the Seed Habit: The Role of Heterochrony." Taxon, 38, (1) 1–11.
• DiMichele, William A. and Nelson, W. J. 1989. "Small scale spatial heterogeneity in Pennsylvanian age vegetation from the roof shale of the Springfield Coal." Palaios, 4 276.
• O'Grady, R. T., Goddard, Ives, Bateman, Richard M., DiMichele, William A., Funk, Vicki Ann, Kress, W. John, Mooi, Richard, and Cannell, P. F. 1989. "Genes and Tongues." Science, 243 1651.
• DiMichele, William A. and Philips, T. L. 1988. "Paleoecology of the Middle Pennsylvanian age Herrin coal swamp near a contemporaneous river system, the Walshville Paleochannel." Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 56 151–176.
• DiMichele, William A. and DeMaris, P. J. 1987. "Structure and dynamics of a Pennsylvanian age Lepidodendron forest: colonizers of a disturbed swamp habitat in the Herrin (No. 6) Coal of Illinois." Palaios, 2 146–157.
• DiMichele, William A., Philips, T. L., and Olmstead, R. G. 1987. "Opportunistic evolution: abiotic environmental stress and the fossil record of plants." Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 50 151–178.
• DiMichele, William A., Philips, T. L., and Willard, D. A. 1986. "Morphology and paleoecology of Pennsylvanian age coal swamp plants." University of Tennessee, Studies in Geology, 15 97–114.
• DiMichele, William A. 1985. "Diaphorodendron, Gen-Nov, a Segregate from Lepidodendron (Pennsylvanian Age)." Systematic Botany, 10, (4) 453–458.
• DiMichele, William A. 1985. "The Upward Outlook in Paleobotany." Paleobiology, 11, (3) 356–359.
• DiMichele, William A. and Philips, T. L. 1985. "Arborescent Lycopod Reproduction and Paleoecology in a Coal-Swamp Environment of Late Middle Pennsylvanian Age (Herrin Coal, Illinois, Usa)." Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 44, (1-2) 1–26.
• Nelson, W. J., Eggert, D. L., DiMichele, William A., and Stecyk, A. C. 1985. "Origin of discontinuities in coal bearing strata at Roaring Creek (basal Pennsylvanian of Indiana)." International Journal of Coal Geology, 4 355–370.
• Philips, T. L., Peppers, R. A., and DiMichele, William A. 1985. "Stratigraphic and interregional changes in Pennsylvanian age coal-swamp vegetation: environmental inferences." International Journal of Coal Geology, 5 43–109.
• DiMichele, William A., Rischbieter, M. O., Eggert, D. L., and Gastaldo, Robert A. 1984. "Stem and Leaf Cuticle of Karinopteris - Source of Cuticles from the Indiana Paper Coal." American Journal of Botany, 71, (5) 626–637.
• DiMichele, William A. 1983. "Lepidodendron-Hickii and Generic Delimitation in Carboniferous Lepidodendrid Lycopods." Systematic Botany, 8, (3) 317–333.
• DiMichele, William A. 1980. "Paralycopodites Morey and Morey, from the Carboniferous of Euramerica - a Reassessment of Generic Affinities and Evolution of Lepidodendron-Brevifolium Williamson." American Journal of Botany, 67, (10) 1466–1476.
• DiMichele, William A., Mahaffy, J. F., and Philips, T. L. 1979. "Lycopods of Pennsylvanian Age Coals - Polysporia." Canadian Journal of Botany-Revue Canadienne De Botanique, 57, (16) 1740–1753.
• DiMichele, William A., Mahaffy, James F., and Phillips, Tom L. 1979. "Lycopods of Pennsylvanian age coals: Polysporia." Canadian Journal of Botany, 57 1740–1753.
• DiMichele, William A. and Philips, T. L. 1979. "Stelastellara Baxter, Axes of Questionable Gymnosperm Affinity with Unusual Habit - Middle Pennsylvanian." Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 27, (2) 103–117.
• DiMichele, William A. and Philips, T. L. 1977. "Monocyclic Psaronius from Lower Pennsylvanian of Illinois Basin." Canadian Journal of Botany-Revue Canadienne De Botanique, 55, (19) 2514–2524.
• DiMichele, William A. and Philips, T. L. 1976. "Thallites-Dichopleurus Sp-Nov from Middle Pennsylvanian Mazon Creek Flora." Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, 103, (5) 218–222.

Book Chapter

• Greb, Stephen F., DiMichele, William A., Gastaldo, Robert W., Eble, Cortland F., and Wing, Scott L. 2022. "Prehistoric Wetlands." In Encyclopedia of Inland Waters. 2nd ed. Junk, Wolfgang and Wittman, Florian, editors. 23–32. Elsevier. In Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-819166-8.00066-9.
• Gastaldo, R. A., Bamford, M., Calder, J., DiMichele, William A., Ianuzzi, R., Jasper, A., Kerp, H., McLoughlin, S., Opluštil, S., Pfefferkorn, H. W., Roessler, R., and Wang, J. 2020. "The non-analog vegetation of the Late Paleozoic icehouse–hothouse and their coal-forming forested environments." In Nature Through Time. Martinetto, E., Tschopp, E., and Gastaldo, R. A., editors. 291–316. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35058-1_12.
• Gastaldo, R. A., Bamford, M., Calder, J., DiMichele, William A., Ianuzzi, R., Jasper, A., Kerp, H., McLoughlin, S., Opluštil, S., Pfefferkorn, H. W., Roessler, R., and Wang, J. 2020. "The Coal Farms of the Late Paleozoic." In Nature Through Time. Martinetto, E., Tschopp, E., and Gastaldo, R. A., editors. 317–343. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35058-1_13.
• DiMichele, William A., Hook, Robert W., Kerp, Hans, Hotton, Carol L., Looy, Cindy V., and Chaney, Dan S. 2018. "Lower Permian flora of the Sanzenbacher Ranch, Clay County, Texas." In Transformative Paleobotany: Papers to Commemorate the Life and Legacy of Thomas N. Taylor. 95–126. Elsevier. (https://doi.org/10.1016/C2016-0-03920-7), https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-813012-4.00006-1.
• Archer, Allen W., Elrick, Scott, Nelson, W. J., and DiMichele, William A. 2016. "Cataclysmic burial of Pennsylvanian Period coal swamps in the Illinois Basin." In Contributions to Modern and Ancient Tidal Sedimentology. Tessier, Bernadette and Reynaud, Jean-Yves, editors. 217–231. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119218395.ch12.
• Lucas, Spencer G., Krainer, Karl, DiMichele, William A., Voigt, Sebastian, Berman, David S., Henrici, Amy C., Tanner, Lawrence H., Chaney, Dan S., Elrick, Scott D., Nelson, W. John, and Rinehart, Larry F. 2015. "Lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy and sedimentology of the Upper Paleozoic Sangre De Cristo Formation, southwestern San Miguel County, New Mexico." In New Mexico Geological Society, 66th Annual Field Conference, 2015. Lindline, Jennifer, Petronis, Michael, and Zebrowski, Joseph P., editors. 211–228. Socorro, New Mexico: New Mexico Geological Society. In Annual Fall Field Conference Guidebook, 66.
• DiMichele, William A., Cecil, C. B., Chaney, Dan S., Elrick, S. D., and Nelson, W. J. 2014. "Fossil floras from the Pennsylvanian-Permian Cutler Group of southeastern Utah." In Geology of Utah's Far South. 491–504. In Utah Geological Association Publication (43).
• Lucas, Spencer G., Lerner, Allan J., DiMichele, William A., Cantrell, Amanda K., Suazo, Thomas L., and Chaney, Dan S. 2014. "Xiphosurid fossils from the Pennsylvanian Beeman formation, Otero County, New Mexico." In New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 65th Field Conference, Geology of the Sacramento Mountains Region. 311–314. Socorro, NM: New Mexico Geological Society, Inc..
• Lucas, S. G., Krainer, K., Chaney, Dan S., DiMichele, William A., Voigt, S., Berman, D. S., and Henrici, A. C. 2012. "The Lower Permian Abo Formation in the Fra Cristobal and Caballo Mountains, Sierra County, New Mexico." In Geology of the Warm Springs Region: New Mexico Geological Society 63rd Annual Field Conference Guidebook. Lucas, S. G., McLemore, V. T., Lueth, V. W., Spielmann, J. A., and Krainer, K., editors. 345–376. Socorro, New Mexico: New Mexico Geological Society.
• Cecil, C. B., DiMichele, William A., Fedorko, Nick, and Skema, Viktoras. 2011. "Autocyclic and allocyclic controls on the origin of the Dunkard Group." In Geology of the Pennsylvanian-Permian in the Dunkard Basin. Guidebook for the 76th Annual Field Conference of Pennsylvania Geologists. Harper, John A., editor. 26–45. Middletown, PA: Field Conference of Pennsylvania Geologists, Inc.
• DiMichele, William A., Blake, Bascomb M., Cecil, C. B., Fedorko, Nick, Kerp, Hans, and Skema, Viktoras. 2011. "Callipterids of the Dunkard Group of the Appalachian Basin: Their identity and paleoenvironmental significance." In Geology of the Pennsylvanian-Permian in the Dunkard Basin. Guidebook for the 76th Annual Field Conference of Pennsylvania Geologists. Harper, John A., editor. 144–167. Middletown, PA: Field Conference of Pennsylvania Geologists, Inc..
• DiMichele, William A., Cecil, C. B., Chaney, Dan S., Elrick, Scott D., Lucas, Spencer G., Lupia, Richard, Nelson, W. J., and Tabor, Neil J. 2011. "Pennsylvanian-Permian vegetational changes in tropical Euramerica." In Geology of the Pennsylvanian-Permian in the Dunkard Basin. Guidebook for the 76th Annual Field Conference of Pennsylvania Geologists. Harper, John A., editor. 60–102. Middletown, PA: Field Conference of Pennsylvania Geologists, Inc..
• DiMichele, William A., Skema, Vik, and Harper, John A. 2011. "Pleasant Hill Gap." In Geology of the Pennsylvanian-Permian in the Dunkard basin. Guidebook, 76th Annual Field Conference of Pennsylvania Geologists. Harper, John A., editor. 168–173. Middletown, PA: Field Conference of Pennsylvania Geologists, Inc.
• DiMichele, William A., Tabor, N. J., Chaney, Dan S., and Nelson, W. J. 2006. "From wetlands to wet spots: Environmental tracking and the fate of Carboniferous elements in Early Permian tropical floras." In Wetlands trough time: Geological Society of America Special Paper 399. Greb, S. F. and DiMichele, William A., editors. 223–248. Geological Society of America.
• DiMichele, William A. and Bateman, Richard M. 2005. "Evolution of land plant diversity: Major innovations and lineages through time." In Plant Conservation: A Natural History Approach. Krupnick, Gary A. and Kress, W. John, editors. 3–14. University of Chicago Press.
• DiMichele, William A., Hans, Kerp, and Chaney, Dan S. 2004. "Tropical floras of the Late Pennsylvanian-Early Permian transition: Carrizo Arroyo in context." In Carboniferous-Permian Transition at Carrizo Arroyo, Central New Mexico. Lucas, Spencer G. and Zeigler, K. E., editors. 105–110. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 25.
• Bateman, Richard M. and DiMichele, William A. 2002. "Generating and filtering major phenotypic novelties: neoGoldschmidtian saltation revisited." In Developmental Genetics and Plant Evolution. Cronk, C. B., Bateman, Richard M., and Hawkins, J. A., editors. 109–159. Taylor and Francis.
• DiMichele, William A., Stein, W. E., and Bateman, Richard M. 2001. "Ecological sorting during the Paleozoic radiation of vascular plant classes." In Evolutionary Paleoecology. Allmon, W. D. and Bottjer, D. J., editors. 285–335. Columbia University Press.
• DiMichele, William A. 2000. "Carboniferous Coal Swamp Forests." In Palaeobiology II. Briggs, E. G. and Crowther, P. R., editors. 79–82. Blackwell Science.
• DiMichele, William A. 2000. "Ecosystem dynamics." In McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology. McGraw, Hill staff, editor. 129–131. McGraw-Hill.
• Philips, T. L. and DiMichele, William A. 1999. "Coal ball sampling and quantification." In Fossil Plants and Spores: Modern Techniques. Jones, T. P. and Rowe, N. P., editors. 206–209. Geological Society.
• DiMichele, William A. and Philips, T. L. 1995. "The response of hierarchically structured ecosystems to long term climate change: a case study using tropical peat swamps of Pennsylvanian age." In Effects of Past Global Change on Life. Stanley, Steven M., Knoll, A. H., and Kennett, J. P., editors. 134–155. National Research Council, Studies in Geophysics.
• DiMichele, William A. and Phillips, Tom L. 1995. "The Response of Hierarchially Structured Ecosystems to Long-Term Climatic Change: A Case Study Using Tropical Peat Swamps of Pennsylvanian Age." In Effects of past global change on life. 134–155.
• Bateman, Richard M. and DiMichele, William A. 1994. "Saltational evolution of form in vascular plants: a neoGoldschmidtian synthesis." In Linnean Society, Symposium Series. 61–100. 16
• Wing, Scott L., Sues, Hans-Dieter, Potts, Richard, DiMichele, William A., and Behrensmeyer, Anna K. 1992. "Evolutionary Paleoecology." In Terrestrial Ecosystems Through Time: Evolutionary Paleoecology of Terrestrial Plants and Animals
  . Behrensmeyer, Anna K., editor. 1–13. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• DiMichele, William A., Philips, T. L., and Peppers, R. A. 1985. "The influence of climate and depositional environment on the distribution and evolution of Pennsylvanian coal swamp plants." In Geologic Factors and the Evolution of Plants. Tiffney, B., editor. 223–256. Yale University Press.

Book

• Lucas, Spencer G., DiMichele, William A., Krainer, Karl, Barrick, James E., Vachard, Daniel, Donovan, Michael P., Looy, Cindy, Kerp, Hans, and Chaney, Dan S. 2022. The Pennsylvanian System in the Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico, USA: Stratigraphy, Petrography, Depositional Systems, Paleontology, Biostratigraphy and Geologic History. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. In Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology, 104. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.14079809.
• DiMichele, William A., Lucas, Spencer G., Looy, Cindy V., Kerp, Hans, and Chaney, Dan S. 2017. Plant Fossils from the Pennsylvanian–Permian Transition in Western Pangea, Abo Pass, New Mexico. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. In Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology, 99. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.1943-6688.99.
• Damuth, J., Behrensmeyer, Anna K., DiMichele, William A., Labandeira, Conrad C., Potts, Richard, and Wing, Scott L. 1997. ETE Database Manual. Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems Consortium. Washington, D.C..
• Behrensmeyer, Anna K., Damuth, J., DiMichele, William A., Potts, Richard, Sues, Hans-Dieter, and Wing, Scott L., editors. 1992. Terrestrial Ecosystems Through Time. Chicago: University of Chicago.

Conference Proceedings

• May, Paul, Lucas, Spencer G., Kerp, Hans, DiMichele, William A., and Rogers, John B. 2022. "An early Permian fossil flora from the Arroyo de Alamillo Formation of the Yeso Group, Socorro County, NM." in 2022 New Mexico Geological Society Annual Spring Meeting & Ft.Stanton Cave Conference. 2787. https://doi.org/10.56577/SM-2022.2787.
• Sirmons, Roberta L., Dodge, Clifford H., Henderson, Geoffrey, and DiMichele, William A. 2021. "A Geologist's Journey: David White's Field Trip to Ohiopyle, Summer 1900." from 85th Annual Field Conference of Pennsylvania Geologists. 121–152.
• Lerner, A. J., Lucas, Spencer G., Spielmann, J. A., Krainer, K., DiMichele, William A., Chaney, Dan S., Schneider, J. W., Nelson, W. John, and Ivanov, Anton B. 2009. "The biota and paleoecology of the Upper Pennsylvanian (Missourian) Tinajas Locality, Socorro County, New Mexico." from New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 60th Field Conference, Geology of the Chupadera Mesa Region. 267–280.
• Lucas, Spencer G., DiMichele, William A., Krainer, K., Chaney, Dan S., and Spielmann, J. A. 2009. "A coal-measure forest near Socorro, New Mexico." from New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 60th Field Conference, Geology of the Chupadera Mesa Region. 235–242. New Mexico Geological Society Field Conference Guidebook 60

Dataset

• Matthaeus, William J., Macarewich, Sophia I., Richey, Jon D., Wilson, Jonathan P., McElwin, Jennifer C., Montañez, Isabel P., DiMichele, William A., Hren, Michael T., Poulsen, Christopher J., and White, Joseph D. 2021. [Dataset] Data for: Freeze tolerance influenced forest cover and hydrology during the Pennsylvanian. Distributed by Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/DRYAD.QNK98SFGJ.

Book Review

• DiMichele, William A. 2003. [Book review] "The Structure of Evolutionary Theory." American Journal of Science, 303, 259–261.
• DiMichele, William A. 1998. [Book review] "Macroevolution: Pattern and Process." American Paleontologist, 6, 13–14.
• DiMichele, William A. 1995. [Book review] "Basic Questions in Palaeontology." Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 84, 481–483.
• DiMichele, William A. 1993. [Book review] "Plant Fossils in Geological Investigation: the Paleozoic." Journal of Geological Education, 41, 378–379.
• DiMichele, William A. 1992. [Book review] "Causes of Evolution, A paleontological Perspective." Brittonia, 44, 76–80.
• DiMichele, William A. 1991. [Book review] "The Other Side of the Medal." Earth Science History, 10, 91–92.
• DiMichele, William A., Burnham, Robyn, and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 1988. [Book review] "Origins of Angiosperms and Their Biological Consequences." Palaios, 4, 449–452.