Telling the Evolutionary Time: Molecular Clocks and the Fossil Record

of various Permo-Carboniferous and Triassic forms in current amniote phylogenies (e.g. Laurin 1991; Laurin and Reisz 1995; Lee 1 ...

an as yet unrecorded radiation of limbed tetrapods during the Frasnian-Famennian. The dating of several track-bearing sediments ...

such widely used, fossil-based calibration tools as the synapsid-diapsid divergence time (see above). Another important issue is ...

stages). The quality of the fossil record is thus interpreted as more or less uniform when families are used as OTUs and the str ...

Marcello Ruta acknowledges the financial support provided by the Palaeontological Association. This work is part of a research p ...

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Figure 11.11 A strict consensus of 25 fundamental trees derived from the analysis of an expanded version of Ahlberg and Clack’s ...

The data matrix was processed with PAUP4.0b10 under the following search settings: 1000 random stepwise additions with one tree ...

Chapter 12 The fossil record and molecular clocks: basal radiations within the Neornithes Gareth J.Dyke ABSTRACT The fossil reco ...

the timing of divergence of the extant lineages of birds (Neornithes sensu Cracraft 1988; alternatively ‘crown-clade’ Aves sensu ...

reached the same conclusion—that the major clades of Neornithes diverged deep in the Cretaceous, largely at odds with the known ...