Integration of molecules and new fossils supports a Triassic origin for Lepidosauria (lizards, snakes, and tuatara)

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Jones, Marc E H ^a,b   Anderson, Cajsa Lisa ^c   Hipsley, Christy A ^d   Müller, Johannes ^d,f   Evans, Susan E ^a   Schoch, Rainer R ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e STAATLICHES MUSEUM FÜR NATURKUNDE   (Germany)

^f BERLIN BRANDENBURG INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH BBIB   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dating; Fossil; Jurassic; Lepidosauria; Lizards; Molecular; Origin; Squamata; Triassic; Tuatara

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DATING METHOD; FOSSIL RECORD; LIZARD; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; PERMIAN; SNAKE; TRIASSIC; TYPE LOCALITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

GERMANY;

LEPIDOSAURIA; MYA; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; SPHENODON; SPHENODON PUNCTATUS; SPHENODONTIA; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENETICS; GERMANY; HISTOLOGY; LIZARD; PHYLOGENY; REPTILE; SNAKE; SPECIES EXTINCTION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOSSILS; GERMANY; LIZARDS; PHYLOGENY; REPTILES; SNAKES;

EID: 84884522224     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-208     Document Type: Article

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