fossil record
On formation-based sampling proxies and why they should not be used to correct the fossil record
... The strong correlations observed between CBFs and raw diversity could indicate severe temporal sampling bias in the fossil record. It could be said that the weaker corre- lations observed between TFFs and ...
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Changes to the Fossil Record of Insects through Fifteen Years of Discovery
... new fossil hexapods seems disproportionately concentrated in the Cretaceous, with high numbers of publications on the extensive Jiulongshan and Yixian forma- tions in China [39], continued interest in the Crato ...
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Evolutionary Transitions in the Fossil Record of Terrestrial Hoofed Mammals
... a fossil has terrestrial legs and feet, it cannot be a sirenian or a whale, even if every other aspect of the anatomy clearly indicates its phylo- genetic ...the fossil record, they would stop ...
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Predators and Dangerous Prey in the Fossil Record: Evolution of the Busyconine Whelk-Mercenaria Predator-Prey System.
... the fossil record will require documentation of sources, frequencies, and cost-benefit effects of selection (which for many systems requires evidence from living animals; Vermeij, ...
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Testing the fossil record: Sampling proxies and scaling in the British Triassic–Jurassic
... the fossil record varies immensely across taxa, geographic regions, environments and time inter- ...trial record is patchier, and effects of rock availability are overprinted by a stronger signal of ...
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Evolution of the semi-aquatic bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha) with a re-interpretation of the fossil record
... The fossil history of semi-aquatic bugs (Gerromorpha) is reviewed in light of the many important recent records and new developments in our under- standing of the phylogeny of the ...oldest fossil forms ...
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Modeling durophagous predation and mortality rates from the fossil record of gastropods
... Given the difficulties with estimating , it is nevertheless possible with the above result to make � further progress with the problem if one is willing to make another simplifying assumption, i.e., that most ...
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History is written by the victors: the effect of the Push of the Past on the fossil record
... Raup 1991), and for Cenozoic mammals at up to 2 per species per millon years (Barnosky et al. 2011; Ceballos et al. 2015). Even highly conservative (i.e., low) estimates of background extinction rates, which partly ...
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A Review of the Fossil record of Gymnophiona (Tetrapoda; Lissamphibia) with Comments on Its Use to Calibrate Molecular Timetrees
... Other factors may contribute to the scarcity of the caecilian fossil record. One being the fact that extant caecilians are mainly distributed in tropical regions around the world, a type of environment ...
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The Fossil Record of the Epacridaceae
... The fossil record at present provides minimum ages of the first occurrences of major subfamilial taxa. Macrofossils of subfamily Richeoideae and of several morphotypes of the tribe Epacrideae are known from ...
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Characterization of melanosomes involved in the production of non-iridescent structural feather colours and their detection in the fossil record
... Babarović, F., Puttick, M.N., Zaher, M. et al. (5 more authors) (2019) Characterization of melanosomes involved in the production of non-iridescent structural feather colours and their detection in the fossil ...
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The Mosasaur Fossil Record Through the Lens of Fossil Completeness
... © 2018 The Palaeontological Association This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Driscoll, DA, Dunhill, AM, Stubbs, TL et al. (2018) The Mosasaur Fossil Record Through the Lens of ...
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Integrating developmental biology and the fossil record of reptiles
... The fossil record seemed to unambiguously suggest that advanced theropods (includ- ing birds) have digits 1-2-3 but that hypothesis was challenged by the discovery of a four-fingered basal ceratosaur ...
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The fossil record of ichthyosaurs, completeness metrics and sampling biases
... avian fossil record in particular, which is notoriously pat- ...poor fossil remains; this may also apply to our ...the fossil record, as Benton et ...
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Development of understanding of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic chondrichthyan fossil record
... It was recognized at a very early stage that Palaeozoic chondrichthyan remains could not readily be accommodated within living groups Agassiz (1833-1844). Whilst some post-Palaeozoic forms (such as hybodonts and ...
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Palaeobiogeography, extinctions and evolutionary trends in the Cunoniaceae : a synthesis of the fossil record
... context of phylogenetic studies; locate and describe previously unreported macrofossils of Cunoniaceae from selected Australian Cainozoic and Quaternary deposits; examine the palaeogeogr[r] ...
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Insights into Circovirus Host Range from the Genomic Fossil Record
... In this study, we screened genome assemblies of 675 animal species and identified numerous circovirus-related sequences, including the first examples of CVe derived from cycloviruses.. We [r] ...
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Stratigraphic Distribution, Taphonomy, and Isotope Paleoecology of the Dinosaurian Fauna in the latest Campanian lower Horseshoe Canyon Formation, Alberta, Canada
... vertebrate fossil record may supply a means of stratigraphically evaluating sections in other locations in which typical sedimentological and architectural cues for surfaces are ...
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Inactivation of thermogenic UCP1 as a historical contingency in multiple placental mammal clades
... genomic record and fossil record and identify potential climatic and ecological factors underlying ucp1 loss in these lineages, we calculated gene inactivation date ranges based on a ...
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Views from Understanding Evolution: Parsimonious Explanations for Punctuated Patterns
... One might imagine punctuated equilibria to be a topic appropriate only for biology majors—but, in fact, the subject has something to offer students at many levels. It relies on many basic concepts in evolution and the ...
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