A supertree of Temnospondyli: Cladogenetic patterns in the most species-rich group of early tetrapods

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1629, 2007, Pages 3087-3095

  Ruta, Marcello ^a   Pisani, Davide ^b   Lloyd, Graeme T ^a   Benton, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Diversification; Permian; Stereospondyli; Supertree; Temnospondyli; Triassic

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; CLADISTICS; MASS EXTINCTION; PERMIAN; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TRIASSIC;

ARTICLE; CONSENSUS; MESOZOIC; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PALEOZOIC; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TREE PRUNING; VERTEBRATE;

STEREOSPONDYLI; TEMNOSPONDYLI; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 36849007104     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.1250     Document Type: Article

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