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- Title
Best Practices for Justifying Fossil Calibrations.
- Authors
Parham, James F.; Donoghue, Philip C. J.; Bell, Christopher J.; Calway, Tyler D.; Head, Jason J.; Holroyd, Patricia A.; Inoue, Jun G.; Irmis, Randall B.; Joyce, Walter G.; Ksepka, Daniel T.; Patané, José S. L.; Smith, Nathan D.; Tarver, James E.; van Tuinen, Marcel; Yang, Ziheng; Angielczyk, Kenneth D.; Greenwood, Jenny M.; Hipsley, Christy A.; Jacobs, Louis; Makovicky, Peter J.
- Abstract
The article discusses the best practices for justifying fossils utilized for the temporal calibration of molecular phylogenies. It examines the challenges connected with using paleontological data. It states that incorrect phylogenetic placement of fossil calibrations can bring large errors into divergence date calculations. It adds that even when relatively complete specimens are available, the phylogenetic position of a fossil taxon can be unstable.
- Subjects
BEST practices; FOSSILS; CALIBRATION; MOLECULAR phylogeny; PALEONTOLOGY
- Publication
Systematic Biology, 2012, Vol 61, Issue 2, p346
- ISSN
1063-5157
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/sysbio/syr107