2018

• Benca, J.P. , I.A.P. Duijnstee, and C.V. Looy. 2018. UV-B-induced forest sterility: implications of ozone shield failure in Earth's largest extinction. Science Advances 4. e1700618
• DiMichele W.A., Hook R.W., Kerp H., Hotton C.L., Looy C.V., Chaney D.S., 2018. The lower Permian flora of the Sanzenbacher Ranch, Clay County, Texas. Pp. 95-126 in M. Krings M, C.J. Harper, N.R. Cuneo, G.W. Rothwell GW (eds.), Transformative Paleobotany. Elsevier, Amsterdam. Read it
• DiMichele, W.A., S.G. Lucas, D.S. Chaney, M.P. Donovan, H. Kerp, R.A. Koll and C.V. Looy. 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.

2017

• Contreras, D.L., I.A.P. Duijnstee, S.L. Ranks, C.R. Marshall, C.V. Looy. 2017. The evolution of dispersal strategies in conifers: convergence and divergence in the morphology of diaspores. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. 24:93−117. Read it

2013

• Looy, C.V. 2013. Natural history of a plant trait: branch system abscission in Paleozoic conifers and its environmental, autecological and ecosystem implications. Paleobiology. 39:235-252.
• Looy, C.V., and I.A.P. Duijnstee. 2013. Characterizing morphologic variability in foliated Paleozoic conifer branches — a first step in testing its potential as proxy for taxonomic position. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin. 60:215-223.
• Tabor, N.J., C.M. Romanchock, C.V. Looy, C. Hotton, W.A. DiMichele, and D.S. Chaney. 2013. Biome dynamics and niche-conservatism of Late Pennsylvanian vegetation in western equatorial Pangaea. Journal of the Geological Society of London Special Publication. 376: 201-234.

2010

• Prevec, R., Gastaldo, R.A., Neveling, J., Reid, S.B. and Looy, C.V., 2010. An autochthonous glossopterid flora with latest Permian palynomorphs and its depositional setting in the Dicynodon Assemblage Zone of the southern Karoo Basin, South Africa. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 292:391-408.

2009

• Bennington, J.B., W.A. DiMichele, C. Badgley, R.K. Bambach, P. Barrett, A.K. Behrensmeyer, R. Bobe, R. Burnham, T. Daeschler, J. Van Dam, J. Eronen, D.H. Erwin, S. Finnegan, S. Holland, G. Hunt, D. Jablonski, S.T. Jackson, B. Jacobs, S.M. Kidwell, P. Koch, M. Kowalewski, C. Labandeira, C. Looy, S.K. Lyons, P.M. Novack-Gottshall, R. Potts, P. Roopnarine, C. Strömberg, H. Sues, P. Wagner, P. Wilf, and S. Wing. 2009. Critical issues of scale in paleoecology. Palaios 24(1):1-4
• Falcon-Lang, H.J.W., J. Nelson, S.D. Elrick, C.V. Looy, P.R. Ames, and W.A. DiMichele. 2009. Incised channel fills containing conifers indicate that seasonally dry vegetation dominated Pennsylvanian tropical lowlands. Geology. 37:923-926.
• Prevec, R., C.C. Labandeira, J. Neveling, R.A. Gastaldo, C.V. Looy, and M. Bamford. 2009. Portrait of a Gondwanan ecosystem: A new late Permian fossil locality from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 156(3-4):454-493.
• Sephton, M.A., H. Visscher, C.V. Looy, A.B. Verchovsky, and J.S. Watson. 2009. Chemical constitution of a Permian-Triassic disaster species. Geology. 37:875-878.