Phylogenetically vetted and stratigraphically constrained fossil calibrations within Aves

Palaeontologia Electronica

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Ksepka, Daniel ^a,b   Clarke, Julia ^c  

^a NATIONAL EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS CENTER   (United States)

^b Bruce Museum   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Divergence dating; Molecular clock

Indexed keywords

BIRD; FOSSIL RECORD; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; STRATIGRAPHY; TAXONOMY;

APODIDAE; AVES; COLIIFORMES; PSITTACIFORMES; SPHENISCIFORMES; UPUPIFORMES;

EID: 84923637534     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10948074     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.26879/373     Document Type: Article

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