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Prestianni Cyrille

Département de géologie > Evolution and diversity dynamics lab

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ORCID
0000-0003-0417-8933
Main Referenced Co-authors
Gerrienne, Philippe  (25)
Denayer, Julien  (20)
Steemans, Philippe  (13)
De Brito, Léa  (8)
Mottequin, Bernard (8)
Main Referenced Keywords
Devonian (13); Carboniferous (8); Paleontology (7); Belgium (5); Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (5);
Main Referenced Unit & Research Centers
EddyLab (1)
Evolution & Diversity Dynamics (EDDy) Lab (1)
Geology - ULiège (1)
Main Referenced Disciplines
Earth sciences & physical geography (67)
Phytobiology (plant sciences, forestry, mycology...) (13)
History (2)
Environmental sciences & ecology (2)
Life sciences: Multidisciplinary, general & others (2)

Publications (total 77)

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Gerrienne, P., Gensel, P. G., Strullu-Derrien, C., Lardeux, H., Steemans, P., & Prestianni, C. (12 August 2011). A simple type of wood in two early Devonian plants. Science, 333, 837. doi:10.1126/science.1208882 https://hdl.handle.net/2268/97121

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Gerrienne, P., Gensel, P. G., Strullu-Derrien, C., Lardeux, H., Steemans, P., & Prestianni, C. (12 August 2011). A simple type of wood in two early Devonian plants. Science, 333, 837. doi:10.1126/science.1208882 https://hdl.handle.net/2268/97121

Capel, E., Cascales-Miñana, B., Prestianni, C., Servais, T., Steemans, P., Poschmann, M., & Thuy, B. (2024). Reassessing the Early Devonian flora from Consthum Quarry (Luxembourg). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 105199. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2024.105199
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Steemans, P., & Prestianni, C. (September 2024). The earliest evidence of land plants [Paper presentation]. Geologica Belgica, Liège, Belgium.
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Luthers, C., Renson, V., Damblon, F., Gerrienne, P., Nekrassoff, S., Prestianni, C., Streel, M., & Wastiaux, C. (March 2024). Evolution de la végétation au cours du Subatlantique sur le plateau des Hautes-Fagnes. Hautes Fagnes, 333 (1), p. 25-29.

De Brito, L., Fischer, V., & Prestianni, C. (2024). Revision of the Lower Cretaceous ovulate cone Pinus belgica Alvin (1960), one of the oldest representatives of Pinus. Geologica Belgica, 27 (1-2), 71-85. doi:10.20341/gb.2024.006
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Zambon, R., & Prestianni, C. (07 September 2023). Diversity of plant-insect interactions in the Cretaceous Aachen Formation (Aachen, Germany) and its relation to later Paleocene floras in Western Europe [Paper presentation]. 8th International Agora Paleobotanica Meeting 2023, Bellver de Cerdenaya, Spain.

Zambon, R., & Prestianni, C. (06 June 2023). Les interactions plantes-insectes de la flore fossile d'Aix-La-Chapelle et ses relations avec les écosystèmes du début du Cénozoïque Européen [Poster presentation]. APF 2023, Villers-sur_mer, France.

Janssens, P., Bomans, B., Kill, M., & Prestianni, C. (2023). Garder les yeux ouverts: Interview à trois voix. Le Quinzième Jour.

Decombeix, A.-L., Harper, C. J., Prestianni, C., Durieux, T., Ramel, M., & Krings, M. (2023). Fossil evidence of tylosis formation in Late Devonian plants. Nature Plants. doi:10.1038/s41477-023-01394-0
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Zambon, R., Prestianni, C., & Denayer, J. (2023). Plant-insect interactions in the Selandian (Early Paleocene) Gelinden Fossil Flora (Belgium) and what they mean for the ecosystems after the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111524
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De Brito, L., Fischer, V., & Prestianni, C. (2022). Morphological disparity of extant and extinct pinaceous ovulate cones: How many cones are enough? American Journal of Botany. doi:10.1002/ajb2.16044
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De Brito, L., Fischer, V., & Prestianni, C. (June 2022). The diversity of French Albian Pinaceae: a preliminary study of the Fliche (1896) material [Paper presentation]. 11th European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference, Stockholm, Sweden.

Clément, G., Denayer, J., Gueriau, P., Olive, S., Pernègre, V., & Prestianni, C. (2022). L’environnement de vie des premiers tétrapodes de Belgique. In Paléontologie d'aujourd'hui. EDP Sciences. doi:10.1051/978-2-7598-2718-3.c019
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Gess, R. W., & Prestianni, C. (February 2022). Flabellopteris lococannensis gen. et sp. nov.: A new fern-like plant from the Famennian of South Africa. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 297, 104585. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2021.104585
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Capel, E., Prestianni, C., & Cascales-Miñana, B. (2022). Revisiting the Rebreuve plant assemblage from the Lower Devonian of Artois, northern France. Botany Letters, 169 (4), 540 - 556. doi:10.1080/23818107.2022.2101516
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Prestianni, C., Rustán, J. J., Balseiro, D., & Vaccari, N. E. (2022). Porongodendron minitensis gen. nov. sp. nov. a new lycopsid from the Mississippian of Argentina with adaptations to tundra-like conditions. Botany Letters, 169 (4), 527 - 539. doi:10.1080/23818107.2022.2101515
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De Brito, L., Fischer, V., & Prestianni, C. (18 December 2021). New insight of the Early Cretaceous Pinaceae diversity from Belgium [Poster presentation]. Palaeontological Association Annual Meeting, Manchester, United Kingdom.

Harris, C., Gess, R. W., Prestianni, C., & Bamford, M. K. (October 2021). A Late Devonian refugium for Colpodexylon (Lycopsida) at high latitude. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 293, 104481. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2021.104481
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De Brito, L., Fischer, V., & Prestianni, C. (September 2021). Disparité morphologique des cônes de pinacées fossiles (Crétacé Inférieur) et actuelles [Paper presentation]. CONGRÈS APF 2021, Troyes, France.

Blanco-Moreno, C., Decombeix, A.-L., & Prestianni, C. (August 2021). New insights into the affinities, autoecology, and habit of the Mesozoic fern Weichselia reticulata based on the revision of stems from Bernissart (Mons Basin, Belgium). Papers in Palaeontology, 7 (3), 1351 - 1372. doi:10.1002/spp2.1344
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Blanco-Moreno, C., & Prestianni, C. (August 2021). Taxonomic revision and palaeoecological interpretation of the plant assemblage of Bernissart (Barremian, Belgium). Cretaceous Research, 124, 104814. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2021.104814
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De Brito, L., & Prestianni, C. (2021). PITYOSTROBUS ANDRAEI (PINACEAE) FROM THE BARREMIAN (LOWER CRETACEOUS) OF BELGIUM: A MORPHOMETRIC REVISION. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 182 (3). doi:10.1086/712355
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Denayer, J., Prestianni, C., & Marion, J.-M. (2021). Classical and less classical sections in the Middle Devonian-Tournaisian in the Ourthe and Amblève valleys [Paper presentation]. Field excursion for the BVLG.

Gess, R. W., & Prestianni, C. (2021). An early Devonian flora from the Baviaanskloof Formation (Table Mountain Group) of South Africa. Scientific Reports, 11 (1), 11859. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-90180-z
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Ezpeleta, M., Rustán, J. J., Balseiro, D., Dávila, F. M., Dahlquist, J. A., Vaccari, N. E., Sterren, A. F., Prestianni, C., Cisterna, G. A., & Basei, M. (November 2020). Glaciomarine sequence stratigraphy in the Mississippian Río Blanco Basin, Argentina, southwestern Gondwana. Basin analysis and palaeoclimatic implications for the Late Paleozoic Ice Age during the Tournaisian. Journal of the Geological Society, 177 (6), 1107 - 1128. doi:10.1144/JGS2019-214
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Maletz, J., Mottequin, B., Olive, S., Gueriau, P., Pernègre, V., Prestianni, C., & Goolaerts, S. (April 2020). Devonian and Carboniferous dendroid graptolites from Belgium and their significance for the taxonomy of the Dendroidea. Geobios, 59, 47 - 59. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2020.03.003
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Denayer, J., Prestianni, C., Mottequin, B., Hance, L., & Poty, E. (2020). The Devonian–Carboniferous boundary in Belgium and surrounding areas. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. doi:10.1007/s12549-020-00440-5
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De Brito, L., & Prestianni, C. (April 2019). Les Pinacées au Crétacé Inférieur, état de leur diversité et de leur dynamique évolutive [Paper presentation]. Congrès de l'Association Paléontologique Française, Aix-en-provence, France.

De Brito, L., & Prestianni, C. (19 March 2019). Diversity of Pityostrobus andraei (Pinaceae) from the Belgian Wealden : morphometry and phylogeny [Paper presentation]. Young Natural History Scientists' Meeting, Paris, France.

Prestianni, C., & Gess, R. W. (March 2019). Rinistachya hilleri gen. et sp. nov. (Sphenophyllales), from the upper Devonian of South Africa. Organisms Diversity and Evolution, 19 (1), 1 - 11. doi:10.1007/s13127-018-0385-3
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Cascales-Minaña, B., Prestianni, C., & Gerrienne, P. (2019). Welcome to papers from the 4th International Meeting of Agora Paleobotanica-Preface. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 108 (4), 337-338. doi:10.1017/S1755691018000828

Denayer, J., Prestianni, C., Mottequin, B., Hance, L., & Poty, E. (2019). Revision of the Devonian-Carboniferous Boundary in Belgium and surrounding areas: a scenario. Kölner Forum für Geologie und Paläontologie, 23, 75-76.
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Denayer, J., Prestianni, C., Mottequin, B., & Poty, E. (2019). Field trip A1: The Uppermost Devonian and Lower carboniferous in the type area of Southern Belgium. Kölner Forum für Geologie und Paläontologie, 24, 5-41.
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Gerrienne, P., Cascales-Minana, C., Prestianni, C., Steemans, P., & Cheng-Sen, L. (11 July 2018). Lilingostrobus chaloneri gen. et sp. nov., a Late Devonian woody lycopsid from Hunan, China. PLoS ONE, 13 (7), 1-25. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0198287
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Cascales-Minana, B., Gerrienne, P., Prestianni, C., Steemans, P., & Cheng-Sen, L. (July 2018). A new Late Devonian heterosporous woody plant from South China [Paper presentation]. 5th International Paleontological Congress, Parsi, France.

Marion, J.-M., Fischer, V., Denayer, J., Prestianni, C., Bennion, R., & Scavezzoni, I. (2018). Les bacheliers du bloc 1 Géologie de l'ULiège. Journées de terrain, travaux pratiques: Évolution des environnements et de la tectonique de la région de Boulogne-sur-Mer, Wimereux et Wissant, sous la conduite du Prof. Valentin Fischer et de ses collaborateurs. Séquence video et photos. (ULiège - Université de Liège, GEOL0202). Liège, Belgium: ULiège/Geologie/EDDy Lab.

Gess, R. W., & Prestianni, C. (February 2018). Kowieria alveoformis gen. nov. sp. nov., a new heterosporous lycophyte from the Latest Devonian of Southern Africa. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 249, 1 - 8. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2017.10.002
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Denayer, J., Anceau, A., & Prestianni, C. (2018). Two centuries of palaeontological research in the University of Liège, Belgium [Paper presentation]. 5th International Paleontological Congress – Paris.

Denayer, J., Mottequin, B., Prestianni, C., & Poty, E. (2018). Event stratigraphy accross the DevonianCarboniferous – New views from the shelf [Paper presentation]. 5th International Paleontological Congress – Paris.

Meyer-Berthaud, B., Gerrienne, P., & Prestianni, C. (2018). Letters to the twenty-first century botanist. Second series: “what is a seed?”–3. How did we get there? Palaeobotany sheds light on the emergence of seed [letter to the editor]. Botany Letters, 165 (3-4), 434-439. doi:10.1080/23818107.2018.1505547
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Anceau, A., Prestianni, C., Hatert, F., & Denayer, J. (24 November 2017). Les sciences géologiques à l'Université de Liège : deux siècles d'évolution [Paper presentation]. Deux siècles de Sciences à l'Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium.

Denayer, J., Mottequin, B., Prestianni, C., & Poty, E. (2017). in and out-of sequence event stratigraphy across the Devonian-Carboniferous Boundary - a view from the shelf in S Belgium. In 33rd International Meeting of Sedimentology - 16ème Congrès français de sédimentologie : Abstract book (pp. 234).
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Anceau, A., Prestianni, C., Hatert, F., & Denayer, J. (2017). Les sciences géologiques à l’Université de Liège : deux siècles d’évolution. Partie 1 : de la fondation à la Première Guerre Mondiale. Bulletin de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège, 86, 27-101.

Denayer, J., Prestianni, C., Gueriau, P., Olive, S., & Clément, G. (2016). Stratigraphy and depositional environments of the Late Famennian (Late Devonian) of Southern Belgium and characterization of the Strud locality. Geological Magazine, 153 (1), 112-127. doi:10.1017/S001675681500031X
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Poty, E., Denayer, J., Mottequin, B., & Prestianni, C. (2016). The Hangenberg Sandstone Event proposed for a new definition of the D/C Boundary. In A new look on the Devonian-Carboniferous Boundary (pp. 17).

Momont, N., Gerrienne, P., & Prestianni, C. (2016). Brabantophyton, a new genus with stenokolealean affinities from a Middle to earliest Upper Devonian locality from Belgium. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2015.10.009
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Prestianni, C., Denayer, J., & Sautois, M. (2016). the tener event as an equivalent of the Hangenberg on continents. In A new look on the Devonina-Carboniferous Boundary.

Prestianni, C., Cascales-Miñana, B., Gerrienne, P., & Momont, N. (Eds.). (2016). Proceedings of the 4th International Meeting of Agora Paleobotanica, Brussels 2016. Brussels, Belgium: Agora Paleobotanica.

Momont, N., Decombeix, A.-L., Gerrienne, P., & Prestianni, C. (2016). New information, including anatomy of the secondary xylem, on the genus Brabantophyton (Stenokoleales) from Ronquières (Middle Devonian, Belgium). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 234, 44-60. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2016.08.009
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Prestianni, C., Rustan, J. J., Balseiro, D., Vaccari, E., Sterren, A. F., Steemans, P., Rubinstein, C. V., & Astini, R. A. (2015). Early seed plants from Western Gondwana: Paleobiogeographical and ecological implications based on Tournaisian (Lower Carboniferous) records from Argentina. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 417, 210-219. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.10.039
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Prestianni, C., & Gerrienne, P. (2015). Thorezia vezerensis gen. et sp. nov., a new seed plant with multiovulate cupules from the Late Devonian of Belgium. Historical Biology, 27 (3-4), 316-324.
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Mottequin, B., Denayer, J., Konigshof, P., Prestianni, C., & Olive, S. (Eds.). (2015). IGCP-SDS Symposium, Climate Change and Biodiversity patterns in the Mid-Palaeozoic, Brussels, 20-22, September 2015, Abstract. Toulouse, France: STRATA.

Denayer, J., Mottequin, B., & Prestianni, C. (Eds.). (2015). IGCP-SDS Symposium, Climate Change and Biodiversity patterns in the Mid-Palaeozoic, Brussels, September 2015, Field guidebooks. Toulouse, France: STRATA.

Mottequin, B., Poty, E., & Prestianni, C. (2015). Catalogue of the types and illustrated specimens recovered from the ‘black marble’ of Denée, a marine conservation-Lagerstätte from the Mississippian of southern Belgium. Geologica Belgica.
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Clément, G., Olive, S., Gueriau, P., Lagebro, L., Prestianni, C., & Denayer, J. (2015). Assessment on the Late Devonian fauna of Strud, Belgium. Strata. Série 1 : Communications, 16, 35.
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Prestianni, C., Rustán, J. J., Balseiro, D., Vaccari, E., Sterren, A. F., Steemans, P., Rubinstein, C. V., & Astini, R. (September 2014). The earliest seed plants from Gondwana: palaeogeographical and evolutionary implications based on Tournaisian (Mississippian) records from Argentina [Paper presentation]. 4th International palaeontological congress, Mendoza, Argentina.

Denayer, J., Prestianni, C., Olive, S., Gueriau, P., & Clément, G. (2014). Stratigraphy and depositionnal settings of the Late Famennian of Southern Belgium - a snapshot of the palaeoenvironment for late Devonian tetrapods and arthropods. In 4th International Palaeontological Congress, Mendoza, Abstracts volume (pp. 62).

Garrouste, R., Clément, G., Nel, P., Engel, M., Grandcolas, P., D'Haese, C., Lagebro, L., Denayer, J., Gueriau, P., Lafaite, P., Olive, S., Prestianni, C., & Nel, A. (February 2013). Garrouste et al. reply. Nature, 488, 4-5. doi:10.1038/nature11888
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Higgs, K., Prestianni, C., Streel, M., & Thorez, J. (2013). High resolution miospore stratigraphy of the Upper Famennian of eastern Belgium, and correlation with the conodont zonation. Geologica Belgica, 16 (1-2), 84-94.
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Cornet, L., Gerrienne, P., Meyer-Berthaud, B., & Prestianni, C. (01 September 2012). A Middle Devonian Callixylon (Archaeopteridales) from Ronquières, Belgium. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 183, 1-8. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2012.07.004
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Prestianni, C., Rustan, J. J., Vaccan, N. E., Sterren, A. F., Steemans, P., & Rubinstein, C. V. (2012). A new Devonian flora in Argentina: palaeobotanical and stratigraphic implications [Paper presentation]. 4th Intenational Geological Belgica Meeting, Brussels, Belgium.

Gerrienne, P., Gensel, P. G., Strullu-Derrien, C., Lardeux, H., Steemans, P., & Prestianni, C. (12 August 2011). A simple type of wood in two early Devonian plants. Science, 333, 837. doi:10.1126/science.1208882
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Steemans, P., Breuer, P., Petus, E., Prestianni, C., Ville de Goyet, F. D., & Gerrienne, P. (May 2011). Diverse assemblages of Mid Devonian megaspores from Libya. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 165, 154-174. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2011.02.007
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Prestianni, C., Higgs, K., & Streel, M. (2011). A new Grandispora cornuta Interval Zone to specify the VCo Oppel Zone in the late Famennian of Western Europe [Paper presentation]. AASP Southampton 2011, Southampton, United Kingdom.

Prestianni, C., & Gerrienne, P. (2010). Early seed plant radiation : an ecological hypothesis. Geological Society Special Publication, 339, 69-78. doi:10.1144/SP339.7
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Prestianni, C., Meyer-Berthaud, B., & Gerrienne, P. (2010). The Lower to Middle Devonian transitional flora from Dechra-Aït-Abdallah (Morocco) [Paper presentation]. 8th EPPC, Budapest, Hungary.

Prestianni, C., Meyer-Berthaud, B., & Gerrienne, P. (2010). The flora from Dechra-Aït- Abdallah (Morocco): a Lower to Middle Devonian transitional assemblage [Paper presentation]. 3rd IPC.

Prestianni, C., Decombeix, A.-L., Thorez, J., Fokan, D., & Gerrienne, P. (2010). Famennian charcoal of Belgium. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.10.008
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Gonez, P., Prestianni, C., Strullu-Derrien, M.-C., & Gerrienne, P. (2009). Les premières plantes terrestres (Embryophytes) : origine et diversification - deuxième partie [Paper presentation]. Prospectives en Paléontologie et Palynologie, 4ème congrès A.P.F. et 21ème réunion A.P.L.F.

Gerrienne, P., & Prestianni, C. (2009). Du désert à la forêt : chronique du verdissement d'une planète [Paper presentation]. 47ème Congres pluraliste des Sciences, Université de Mons.

Gonez, P., Prestianni, C., Strullu-Derrien, M.-C., & Gerrienne, P. (2009). Les premières plantes terrestres (Embryophytes) : origine et diversification - première partie [Paper presentation]. Prospectives en Paléontologie et Palynologie, 4ème congrès A.P.F. et 21ème réunion A.P.L.F.

Prestianni, C., Steemans, P., & Gerrienne, P. (2008). Lignophyte evolution and heterospory: the early steps [Paper presentation]. IPC-XII / IOPC-VIII, Bonn, Germany.

Wang, Q., Xue, J., & Prestianni, C. (December 2007). Sphinxiocarpon, a new name for Sphinxia Li, Hilton & Hemsley, 1997 - not Reid & Chandler, 1933. Lethaia, 40 (4), 393-393. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.2007.00046.x
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Prestianni, C., Streel, M., Thorez, J., & Gerrienne, P. (2007). Strud: Old quarry, new discoveries. Preliminary report. Carnets de Géologie, 2007 (01), 43-47.
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Steemans, P., Breuer, P., Gerrienne, P., Prestianni, C., Streel, M., & Ville de Goyet, F. (2007). Givetian megaspores from Libya and Belgium [Paper presentation]. Joint meeting of Spores/Pollen and Acritarch Subcommissions, Lisbon, Portugal.

De Ville de Goyet, F., Breuer, P., Gerrienne, P., Prestianni, C., Streel, M., & Steemans, P. (2007). Middle Devonian (Givetian) megaspores from Belgium (Ronquières) and Libya (A1-69 borehole). Carnets de Géologie, CG2007 (M01/02), 68-73.
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Prestianni, C., & Gerrienne, P. (December 2006). Lectotypification of the Famennian pre-ovule Condrusia rumex Stockmans, 1948. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 142 (3-4), 161-164. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2006.03.024
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Prestianni, C., Ville de Goyet, F. D., Breuer, P., Steemans, P., & Gerrienne, P. (2006). Ovulate structure early origin and diversification: did something happen during the Givetian? [Paper presentation]. 7th European Palaeobotany - Palynology Conference, Prague, Czechia.

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