Genera are often better than species for detecting evolutionary change in the fossil record: A reply to salesa et al.

Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1514-1516

  Eronen, Jussi Tuomas ^a   Evans, Alistair Robert ^b   Fortelius, Mikael ^a,c   Jernvall, Jukka ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Anchitherium; Genus level; Miocene; Regional climate; Tooth crown height

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FOSSIL RECORD; HORSE; MIOCENE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TAXONOMY; TOOTH;

ANCHITHERIUM;

EID: 79955128886     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01220.x     Document Type: Article

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