Cyclicity in the fossil record mirrors rock outcrop area

Biology Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 443-445

  Smith, Andrew B ^a   McGowan, Alistair J ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cyclicity; Phanerozoic diversity patterns; Quality of fossil record

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL RECORD; PHANEROZOIC;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; FOSSIL; GENUS; PHANEROZOIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; ROCK; SEDIMENT; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 29144439722     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2005.0345     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Alroy, J. et al. 2001 Effects of sampling standardization on estimates of Phanerozoic marine diversification. Proc. NatlAcad. Sci. USA 98, 6261-6266.
2. Crampton, J. S., Beu, A. G., Cooper, R. A., Jones, C. M., Marshall, B. & Maxwell, P. A. 2003 Estimating the rock volume megabias in paleobiodiversity studies. Science 301, 358-360.
3. Hardenbol, J., Thierry, J., Farley, M. B., Jacquin, T., de Graciansky, P.-C. & Vail, P. R. 1998 Mesozoic and Cenozoic sequence chronostratigraphic framework of European basins. In Mesozoic and Cenozoic sequence stratigraphy of European basins (ed. P.-C. de Graciansky, J. Hardenbol, T. Jacquin & P. R. Vail) SEPM Special Publication 60, pp. 3-14. Tulsa, OK: SEPM.
4. Peters, S. E. & Foote, M. 2001 Biodiversity in the Phanerozoic: a reinterpretation. Paleobiology 27, 583-601.
5. Rohde, R. A. & Muller, R. A. 2005 Cycles in fossil diversity. Nature 434, 208-210.
6. Rosenweig, M. L. 1996 Species diversity in space and time. Cambridge University Press.
7. Sepkoski, J. J. 2002 Compendium of fossil marine animal genera (ed. D. Jablonski & M. Foote). Bull. Am. Paleontol. 363, 1-560.
8. Smith, A. B. 2001 Large-scale heterogeneity of the fossil record: implications for Phanerozoic biodiversity studies. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 356, 351-367. (doi:10.1098/rstb. 2000.0768.)
9. Smith, A. B., Gale, A. S. & Monks, N. E. A. 2001 Sea-level change and rock-record bias in the Cretaceous: a problem for extinction and biodiversity studies. Paleobiology 27, 241-253.
10. SYSTAT Inc. 1992 SYSTAT for the Macintosh version 5.2. Evanston, IL: Systat, Inc. (Computer program and manual.)