Testing the impact of miniaturization on Phylogeny: Paleozoic dissorophoid Amphibians

Systematic Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 312-327

  Fröbisch, Nadia B ^a,b   Schoch, Rainer R ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c STAATLICHES MUSEUM FÜR NATURKUNDE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amphibamids; Bayesian analysis; Branchiosaurids; Dissorophoids; Fossil taxa; Lissamphibia; Miniaturization; Paleozoic; Parsimony analysis; Stratigraphic consistency

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BODY SIZE; FOSSIL; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYLOGENY;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BODY SIZE; FOSSILS; PHYLOGENY;

AMPHIBIA; BRANCHIOSAURIDAE; DISSOROPHOIDEA;

EID: 71549172572     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syp029     Document Type: Article

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