The 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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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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Evolutionary Transitions in the Fossil Record of Terrestrial Hoofed Mammals
... the fossil record of hoofed mammals is full of transitional fossils and even longer transitional sequences that demonstrate the origins of nearly all the living ungulates and tethytheres from ancestors that ...
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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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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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Changes to the Fossil Record of Insects through Fifteen Years of Discovery
... the fossil record are compiled from publications up to ...the fossil record since 1994, over half of the earlier, existing families have experienced changes in their known stratigraphic range ...
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The fossil record of ichthyosaurs, completeness metrics and sampling biases
... of fossil record data with proposed metrics of sampling such as formation or collection counts, identification of implied gaps (Lazarus gaps, ghost ranges) and consideration of specimen quality (reviewed in ...
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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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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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Integrating developmental biology and the fossil record of reptiles
... because fossil record poses questions that can be tested in developmental studies (Hall 2002; Thewissen et ...that fossil record is much more informative then it was previ- ously ...
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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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A Review of the Fossil record of Gymnophiona (Tetrapoda; Lissamphibia) with Comments on Its Use to Calibrate Molecular Timetrees
... gymnophionomorph fossil record at the beginning of the Mesozoic, a distribution concentrated at least in northern Pangea is well established (Pyron, ...Cretaceous record of ...
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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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Trees and networks before and after Darwin
... It is well-known that Charles Darwin sketched abstract trees of relationship in his 1837 notebook, and depicted a tree in the Origin of Species (1859). Here I attempt to place Darwin's trees in historical context. By the ...
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Chironomid based temperature reconstruction for the Eemian Interglacial (MIS 5e) at Sokli, northeast Finland
... the fossil record is therefore important, to ensure that independent variation in variables other than the one of interest have had negligible influence on the fossil assemblage (Birks et ...
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Is pollen size a robust proxy for moisture availability?
... premature to use pollen size as a moisture availability proxy in the fossil record.. we recognise that the technique may have potential and conclude by offering a series of.[r] ...
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Views from Understanding Evolution: Parsimonious Explanations for Punctuated Patterns
... change (Fig. 1c)—in which, for example, tracing fossils through rock layers that correspond to a slow cooling in Earth’s climate reveals the gradual evolution of traits suited to colder temperatures. This picture of slow ...
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Multigene phylogeny of the Mustelidae: Resolving relationships, tempo and biogeographic history of a mammalian adaptive radiation
... the fossil record and divergence times from our phylogeny indicates that the mustelid faunas of Africa, North America and South America have been assembled gradually over ...example, fossil evidence ...
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Palaeontological evidence for an Oligocene divergence between Old World monkeys and apes
... The late Oligocene represents the least-sampled temporal interval in primate evolutionary history 3 , with only a handful of primates described from all of Afro-Arabia 6–10 . Possible reasons for an end-Palaeogene gap in ...
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