Tempo and mode of modern bird evolution observed with large-scale taxonomic sampling

Historical Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 209-225

  van Tuinen, M ^a,b   Stidham, T A ^c   Hadly, E A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Avian; Cretaceous; Divergence time; Fossil record; Molecular clock; Tertiary

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CRETACEOUS; EOCENE; EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; OLIGOCENE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

AVES;

EID: 33746525414     PISSN: 08912963     EISSN: 10292381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08912960600641174     Document Type: Article

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