Quantitative studies of fossil data have proven critical to a number of major
macroevolutionary and macroecological discoveries, such as the 'Big 5'mass extinctions of …

The spectacular fossil fauna and flora preserved in the Upper Cretaceous terrestrial strata of
North America's Western Interior Basin record an exceptional peak in the diversification of …

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 …

Dinosaurs dominated Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems globally. However, whereas a pole-to-
pole geographic distribution characterized ornithischians and theropods, sauropods were …

The open‐source programming language 'R'has become a standard tool in the
palaeobiologist's toolkit. Its popularity within the palaeobiological community continues to …

Much of our view on Mesozoic dinosaur diversity is obscured by biases in the fossil record.
In particular, spatiotemporal sampling heterogeneity affects identification of the timing and …

The Paleozoic represents a key time interval in the origins and early diversification of
chondrichthyans (cartilaginous fishes), but their diversity and macroevolution are largely …

It has long been debated why groups such as non-avian dinosaurs became extinct whereas
mammals and other lineages survived the Cretaceous/Paleogene mass extinction 66 million …

Presented here is a coupled model of the nonmarine fossil record, based on a geometric
model of deposition, a random-branching model of evolution, and an ecological model …

All skeletal specimens of the North American dinosaur Tyrannosaurus and a number of trace
fossils have been attributed to the single species: T. rex. Although an unusual degree of …