Avian Diversification Patterns across the K-Pg Boundary: Influence of Calibrations, Datasets, and Model Misspecification

Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 300-328

  Ksepka, Daniel T ^a   Phillips, Matthew J ^b  

^a Bruce Museum   (United States)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aves; birds; divergence dating; fossils; paleontology; phylogeny

Indexed keywords

AVES; EUTHERIA; TETRAPODA;

EID: 84938917560     PISSN: 00266493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3417/2014032     Document Type: Review

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