A living fossil tale of Pangaean biogeography

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1775, 2013, Pages

  Murienne, Jerome ^a,b   Daniels, Savel R ^a,c   Buckley, Thomas R ^d,e,f   Mayer, Georg ^g   Giribet, Gonzalo ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^d LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^f Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology & Evolution   (New Zealand)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Molecular dating; Onychophora; Velvet worms

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; DATING METHOD; DISPERSAL; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; INVERTEBRATE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEONTOLOGY; PANGAEA; PHYLOGENY; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; VICARIANCE;

ANIMALIA; ONYCHOPHORA; PANARTHROPODA;

EID: 84888339533     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2648     Document Type: Article

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