Biodiversity across space and time in the fossil record

RBJ Benson, R Butler, RA Close, E Saupe… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
The fossil record is the primary source of information on how biodiversity has varied in deep
time, providing unique insight on the long-term dynamics of diversification and their drivers …

A high-resolution summary of Cambrian to Early Triassic marine invertebrate biodiversity

J Fan, S Shen, DH Erwin, PM Sadler, N MacLeod… - Science, 2020 - science.org
One great challenge in understanding the history of life is resolving the influence of
environmental change on biodiversity. Simulated annealing and genetic algorithms were …

Morphology and distribution of scales, dermal ossifications, and other non‐feather integumentary structures in non‐avialan theropod dinosaurs

C Hendrickx, PR Bell, M Pittman, ARC Milner… - Biological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Modern birds are typified by the presence of feathers, complex evolutionary innovations that
were already widespread in the group of theropod dinosaurs (Maniraptoriformes) that …

Dinosaur biodiversity declined well before the asteroid impact, influenced by ecological and environmental pressures

FL Condamine, G Guinot, MJ Benton… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The question why non-avian dinosaurs went extinct 66 million years ago (Ma) remains
unresolved because of the coarseness of the fossil record. A sudden extinction caused by …

DeepDive: estimating global biodiversity patterns through time using deep learning

RB Cooper, JT Flannery-Sutherland… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Understanding how biodiversity has changed through time is a central goal of evolutionary
biology. However, estimates of past biodiversity are challenged by the inherent …

Taxonomic affinities of the putative titanosaurs from the Late Jurassic Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania: phylogenetic and biogeographic implications for eusauropod …

PD Mannion, P Upchurch, D Schwarz… - Zoological Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Late Jurassic Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania, southeastern Africa, records a
rich sauropod fauna, including the diplodocoids Dicraeosaurus and Tornieria, and the …

Bayesian phylogenetic estimation of clade ages supports trans-Atlantic dispersal of cichlid fishes

M Matschiner, Z Musilová, JMI Barth… - Systematic …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Divergence-time estimation based on molecular phylogenies and the fossil record has
provided insights into fundamental questions of evolutionary biology. In Bayesian node …

How should we estimate diversity in the fossil record? Testing richness estimators using sampling‐standardised discovery curves

RA Close, SW Evers, J Alroy… - Methods in Ecology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
To infer genuine patterns of biodiversity change in the fossil record, we must be able to
accurately estimate relative differences in numbers of taxa (richness) despite considerable …

[KNJIGA][B] Phylonyms: a companion to the PhyloCode

K de Queiroz, P Cantino, J Gauthier - 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
Phylonyms is an implementation of PhyloCode, which is a set of principles, rules, and
recommendations governing phylogenetic nomenclature. Nearly 300 clades-lineages of …

Global diversity dynamics in the fossil record are regionally heterogeneous

JT Flannery-Sutherland, D Silvestro… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Global diversity patterns in the fossil record comprise a mosaic of regional trends,
underpinned by spatially non-random drivers and distorted by variation in sampling intensity …