Discriminating signal from noise in the fossil record of early vertebrates reveals cryptic evolutionary history

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 282, Issue 1800, 2014, Pages

  Sansom, Robert S ^a,b   Randle, Emma ^a   Donoghue, Philip C J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competitive replacement; Diversity; Eustasy; Facies bias; Gnathostomes; Ostracoderm

Indexed keywords

CRYPSIS; EUSTACY; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; FACIES; FOSSIL RECORD; PALEOZOIC; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; REPLACEMENT; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SHALLOW WATER; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; VERTEBRATE;

GALEASPIDIFORMES; GNATHOSTOMATA (VERTEBRATE); HETEROSTRACI; OSTEOSTRACI; THELODONTI; VERTEBRATA;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; FISH; FOSSIL; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ENVIRONMENT; FISHES; FOSSILS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84920982762     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.2245     Document Type: Article

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