Telling the Evolutionary Time: Molecular Clocks and the Fossil Record

Strauss, D. and Sadler, P.M. (1989) ‘Classical confidence intervals and Bayesian probability estimates for ends of local taxon r ...

Chapter 5 Ghost ranges Christopher R.C.Paul ABSTRACT Ghost ranges occur where phylogenetic reconstructions predict fossil ranges ...

but not actually known. The term ‘ghost lineage’ has also been used in a similar sense (e.g. Wagner 1998). Here I use the term ‘ ...

zero to fully 100 per cent of the stratigraphic range of the ancestral species. For the purposes of this argument I am assuming ...

Reliability of the fossil record So, how can we be sure that the order in which species occur in the fossil record is the correc ...

species did coexist it is possible that they might be preserved in the fossil record in the wrong order. Take the conservative v ...

chosen to represent phyla or classes in cladograms truly representative of the higher taxa analysed? I would argue that if the s ...

without a thorough knowledge of changes in classification for all major taxonomic groups over the last forty years or so. An alt ...

publications will not. What is needed is a measure of total stratigraphic palaeontological effort. The measure I have used is th ...

the date of description of a genus is an unreliable source. Similarly, a number of records are based on specifically indetermina ...

stratigraphically important groups, the graptolites seem to have the best record, with the steepest part of the curve between 19 ...

Figures 5.7A-D Historical distributions of publication of the earliest stratigraphic records for fossil families (diamonds). Dat ...

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Figures 5.7C (Continued) GHOST RANGES 105 ...

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(8) Both of these points suggest that the stratigraphic ranges of at least some fossil groups are better known than would be exp ...

Norrell, M. (1992) ‘Taxic origin and temporal diversity: the effect of phylogeny’, in M.J.Novacek and Q.D.Wheeler (eds), Extinct ...

Chapter 6 Episodic evolution of nuclear small subunit ribosomal RNA gene in the stem-lineage of Foraminifera Jan Pawlowski and C ...

Several studies show an episodic acceleration of evolutionary rates in protein coding genes. Acceleration-deceleration patterns ...

Heterogeneity of the substitution rates in foraminiferan rRNA genes Analyses of partial SSU rDNA sequences show important differ ...