This paleobotany list records new fossilplanttaxa that were described during the year 2012, as well as other significant paleobotany discoveries and events which occurred during 2012.
^Michael T. Dunn; Prescott Atkinson; James Lacefield; Michael Rischbieter (2012). "Winslowia tuscumbiana gen. et sp. nov. (Chaloneriaceae): A Cormose, Heterosporous, Ligulate Lycopsid Reconstructed from the Inside Out from the Pride Mountain Formation (Late Mississippian/Serpukhovian) of Northern Alabama". International Journal of Plant Sciences. 173 (1): 96–111. doi:10.1086/662679. S2CID85874193.
^Cai-Qing Guo; Dianne Edwards; Peng-Cheng Wu; Jeffrey G. Duckett; Francis M. Hueber; Cheng-Sen Li (2012). "Riccardiothallus devonicus gen. et sp. nov., the earliest simple thalloid liverwort from the Lower Devonian of Yunnan, China". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 176–177: 35–40. Bibcode:2012RPaPa.176...35G. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2012.03.012.
^Ezequiel I. Vera (2012). "Millerocaulis tekelili sp. nov., a new species of osmundalean fern from the Aptian Cerro Negro Formation (Antarctica)". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 36 (1): 35–45. Bibcode:2012Alch...36...35V. doi:10.1080/03115518.2011.576541. S2CID129810694.
^ abIgnacio H. Escapa; N. Rubén Cúneo (2012). "Fertile Osmundaceae from the Early Jurassic of Patagonia, Argentina". International Journal of Plant Sciences. 173 (1): 54–66. doi:10.1086/662652. hdl:11336/194430. S2CID85319731.
^Christian Pott; Stephen McLoughlin; Shunqing Wu; Else Marie Friis (2012). "Trichomes on the leaves of Anomozamites villosus sp. nov. (Bennettitales) from the Daohugou beds (Middle Jurassic), Inner Mongolia, China: Mechanical defence against herbivorous arthropods". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 169: 48–60. Bibcode:2012RPaPa.169...48P. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2011.10.005.
^Patricia E. Ryberg; Edith L. Taylor; Thomas N. Taylor (2012). "The First Permineralized Microsporophyll of the Glossopteridales: Eretmonia macloughlinii sp. nov". International Journal of Plant Sciences. 173 (7): 812–822. doi:10.1086/666667. hdl:1808/13676. S2CID54003097.
^S.V. Naugolnykh; A.A. Sidorov (2012). "A new representative of gymnosperms of the order Peltaspermales from the Novy Kuvak locality (Kazanian stage; Samara region, Russia)". In S.V. Naugolnykh (ed.). Palaeontology and evolution of the biodiversity in the Earth history (in museum context). Collection of scientific articles. GEOS. pp. 71–78. ISBN978-5-89118-575-3.
^ abPatricia E. Ryberg; Edith L. Taylor; Thomas N. Taylor (2012). "Antarctic glossopterid diversity on a local scale: The presence of multiple megasporophyll genera, Upper Permian, Mt. Achernar, Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica". American Journal of Botany. 99 (9): 1531–1540. doi:10.3732/ajb.1200142. PMID22922397.
^Serge V. Naugolnykh (2012). "Vetlugospermum and Vetlugospermaceae: A new genus and family of peltasperms from the Lower Triassic of Moscow syneclise (Russia)". Geobios. 45 (5): 451–462. Bibcode:2012Geobi..45..451N. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2011.10.009.
^Zhou, Z.; Quan, C.; Liu, Y-S (2012). "Tertiary Ginkgo ovulate organs with associated leaves from North Dakota, U.S.A., and their evolutionary significance". International Journal of Plant Sciences. 173 (1): 67–80. doi:10.1086/662651. S2CID86289858.
^Mary E. Dettmann; H. Trevor Clifford; Mark Peters (2012). "Emwadea microcarpa gen. et sp. nov.—anatomically preserved araucarian seed cones from the Winton Formation (late Albian), western Queensland, Australia". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 36 (2): 217–237. Bibcode:2012Alch...36..217D. doi:10.1080/03115518.2012.622155. S2CID129171237.
^Gomez, Bernard; Ewin, Timothy A.M.; Daviero-Gomez, Véronique (2012). "The conifer Glenrosa falcata sp. nov. from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain and its palaeoecology". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 172: 21–32. Bibcode:2012RPaPa.172...21G. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2012.01.009.
^Shi, G.; Zhou, Z.; Xie, Z. (2012). "A new Oligocene Calocedrus from south China and its implications for transpacific floristic exchanges". American Journal of Botany. 99 (1): 108–120. doi:10.3732/ajb.1100331. PMID22223689.
^Wenlong He; Bainian Sun; Yu-Sheng (Christopher) Liu (2012). "Fokienia shengxianensis sp. nov. (Cupressaceae) from the late Miocene of eastern China and its paleoecological implications". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 176–177: 24–34. Bibcode:2012RPaPa.176...24H. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2012.03.013.
^Jian-Wei Zhang; Jian Huang; Ashalata D'Rozario; Jonathan M. Adams; Zhe-Kun Zhou (2015). "Calocedrus shengxianensis, a late Miocene relative of C. macrolepis (Cupressaceae) from South China: Implications for paleoclimate and evolution of the genus". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 222: 1–15. Bibcode:2015RPaPa.222....1Z. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2015.07.004.
^Gar W. Rothwell; Gene Mapes; Ruth A. Stockey; Jason Hilton (2012). "The seed cone Eathiestrobus gen. nov.: Fossil evidence for a Jurassic origin of Pinaceae". American Journal of Botany. 99 (4): 708–720. doi:10.3732/ajb.1100595. PMID22491001.
^Patricia E. Ryberg; Gar W. Rothwell; Ruth A. Stockey; Jason Hilton; Gene Mapes; James B. Riding (2012). "Reconsidering Relationships among Stem and Crown Group Pinaceae: Oldest Record of the Genus Pinus from the Early Cretaceous of Yorkshire, United Kingdom". International Journal of Plant Sciences. 173 (8): 917–932. doi:10.1086/667228. S2CID85402168.
^Peter Wilf (2012). "Rainforest conifers of Eocene Patagonia: Attached cones and foliage of the extant Southeast Asian and Australasian genus Dacrycarpus (Podocarpaceae)". American Journal of Botany. 99 (3): 562–584. doi:10.3732/ajb.1100367. PMID22334450.
^Zhuo Feng; Jun Wang; Lu-Jun Liu; Ronny Rößler (2012). "A novel coniferous tree trunk with septate pith from the Guadalupian (Permian) of China: Ecological and evolutionary significance". International Journal of Plant Sciences. 173 (7): 835–848. doi:10.1086/666660. S2CID83603254.
^Christian Pott; Stephen McLoughlin; Anders Lindström; Wu Shunqing; Else Marie Friis (2012). "Baikalophyllum lobatum and Rehezamites anisolobus: Two Seed Plants with "Cycadophyte" Foliage from the Early Cretaceous of Eastern Asia". International Journal of Plant Sciences. 173 (2): 192–208. doi:10.1086/663276. S2CID84539093.
^ abcEmilio Estrada-Ruiz; Garland R. Upchurch Jr.; Elisabeth A. Wheeler; Greg H. Mack (2012). "Late Cretaceous Angiosperm Woods from the Crevasse Canyon and McRae Formations, South-Central New Mexico, USA: Part 1". International Journal of Plant Sciences. 173 (4): 412–428. doi:10.1086/664714. S2CID83998771.
^Else Marie Friis; Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen (2012). "Bertilanthus scanicus, a New Asterid Flower from the Late Cretaceous (Late Santonian–Early Campanian) of Scania, Sweden". International Journal of Plant Sciences. 173 (3): 318–330. doi:10.1086/663973. S2CID84272620.
^Steven R. Manchester; Iju Chen; Terry A. Lott (2012). "Seeds of Ampelocissus, Cissus, and Leea (Vitales) from the Paleogene of Western Peru and Their Biogeographic Significance". International Journal of Plant Sciences. 173 (8): 933–943. doi:10.1086/667233. S2CID84998585.
^ abcElizabeth J. Hermsen; María A. Gandolfo; María del Carmen Zamaloa (2012). "The fossil record of Eucalyptus in Patagonia". American Journal of Botany. 99 (8): 1356–1374. doi:10.3732/ajb.1200025. PMID22859652.
^ abNareerat Boonchai; Steven R. Manchester (2012). "Systematic Affinities of Early Eocene Petrified Woods from Big Sandy Reservoir, Southwestern Wyoming". International Journal of Plant Sciences. 173 (2): 209–227. doi:10.1086/663161. S2CID84604851.
^ abcdefghijBannister, Jennifer M.; Conran, John G.; Lee, Daphne E. (2012). "Lauraceae from rainforest surrounding an early Miocene maar lake, Otago, southern New Zealand". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 178: 13–34. Bibcode:2012RPaPa.178...13B. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2012.03.015.
^Xianggang Shi; Jianhua Jin; Chuangxing Ye; Weiqiu Liu (2012). "First fruit fossil record of Morinda (Rubiaceae) from China". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 179: 13–16. Bibcode:2012RPaPa.179...13S. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2012.04.001.
^Aaron D. Pan; Ellen D. Currano; Bonnie F. Jacobs; Mulugeta Feseha; Neil Tabor; Patrick S. Herendeen (2012). "Fossil Newtonia (Fabaceae: Mimoseae) Seeds from the Early Miocene (22–21 Ma) Mush Valley in Ethiopia". International Journal of Plant Sciences. 173 (3): 290–296. doi:10.1086/663967. S2CID84215509.
^ abcGregory W. Stull; Fabiany Herrera; Steven R. Manchester; Carlos Jaramillo; Bruce H. Tiffney (2012). "Fruits of an "Old World" tribe (Phytocreneae; Icacinaceae) from the Paleogene of North and South America". Systematic Botany. 37 (3): 784–794. doi:10.1600/036364412X648724. S2CID35156838.
^Mohr, B.A.R.; Coiffard, C.; Bernardes-de-Oliveira, M.E.C. (2012). "Schenkeriphyllum glanduliferum, a new magnolialean angiosperm from the Early Cretaceous of Northern Gondwana and its relationships to fossil and modern Magnoliales". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 189: 57–72. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2012.08.004.