Telling the Evolutionary Time: Molecular Clocks and the Fossil Record

vertebrates had diverged by 530 Ma. Furthermore, given the low stochastic value of the calculated error limits on published mole ...

scales are identified as chondrichthyans (total-group Chondrichthyes) on the basis that they possess neck canals and exhibit rig ...

variable. There is a clear correspondence between molecular and palaeontological estimates where there is a priori evidence for ...

calibrated, not the true time of origin of a clade and, hence, it has been argued that molecular clock estimates should be conse ...

The other molecular estimate that exhibits poor correspondence to palaeontological data, the divergence of crown-gnathostomes, p ...

evolution but also to our understanding of the sequence of character changes that shaped all subsequent events in chordate phylo ...

Similarly, it has been argued that the rise of jawed vertebrates and apparently concomitant demise of skeletonizing jawless vert ...

analyses as scientific hypotheses for testing, and the inclusion of more sequences representative of basal chordates and sister ...

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Appendix 10.2 Tree topologies and occurrence data upon which cladogram-stratigraphy statistics and confidence intervals are base ...

(Xenacanthiformes (Ctenacanthus (Hybodontiformes Neoselachii))))); following Janvier (1996b). Placodermi ((((Actinolepida (Phyll ...

Chapter 11 Bones, molecules, and crown-tetrapod origins Marcello Ruta and Michael I.Coates ABSTRACT The timing of major events i ...

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plesion on the tetrapod stem-group (see also below), whereas lepospondyls form a paraphyletic array of stem-lissamphibians. With ...