Sequences, stratigraphy and scenarios: What can we say about the fossil record of the earliest tetrapods?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1704, 2011, Pages 432-439

  Friedman, Matt ^a   Brazeau, Martin D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Birth death models; Devonian; Fossil record bias; Origin of tetrapods; Palaeobiology; Preservation rate

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEVONIAN; FOSSIL RECORD; LIMB; PALEOBIOLOGY; PRESERVATION; SAMPLING BIAS; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TETRAPOD; TRACKWAY;

POLAND;

TETRAPODA;

EID: 79251529560     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1321     Document Type: Conference Paper

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