Ancient dates or accelerated rates? Morphological clocks and the antiquity of placental mammals

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1793, 2014, Pages

  Beck, Robin M D ^a   Lee, Michael S Y ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Divergence times; K Pg boundary; Mammals; Morphological clocks; Placentals; Rate of evolution

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; MAMMAL; MORPHOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENETICS; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; MAMMALS; MODELS, GENETIC; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 85006295222     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.1278     Document Type: Article

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