Decoupling of morphological disparity and taxic diversity during the adaptive radiation of anomodont therapsids

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1768, 2013, Pages

  Ruta, Marcello ^a   Angielczyk, Kenneth D ^b   Fröbisch, Jörg ^c   Benton, Michael J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY SCIENCE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anomodontia; Bottleneck; Dicynodontia; Disparity; Diversity; Permian extinction

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; CLADISTICS; HERBIVORE; MACROECOLOGY; MASS EXTINCTION; MORPHOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VERTEBRATE;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOSSILS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84903387171     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.1071     Document Type: Article

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