Revisiting the origin and diversification of vascular plants through a comprehensive Bayesian analysis of the fossil record

A metacalibrated time-tree documents the early rise of flowering plant phylogenetic diversity

(2015) Susana Magallón et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

FOSSILS AND A LARGE MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY SHOW THAT THE EVOLUTION OF SPECIES RICHNESS, GENERIC DIVERSITY, AND TURNOVER RATES ARE DISCONNECTED

(2014) Yaowu Xing et al.   EVOLUTION

Composition and dynamics of the great Phanerozoic Evolutionary Floras

(2014) Christopher J. Cleal et al.   LETHAIA

The nature and evolutionary relationships of the earliest land plants

(2014) Charles H. Wellman   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The fossilized birth-death process for coherent calibration of divergence-time estimates

(2014) T. A. Heath et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bayesian Estimation of Speciation and Extinction from Incomplete Fossil Occurrence Data

(2014) Daniele Silvestro et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

PyRate: a new program to estimate speciation and extinction rates from incomplete fossil data

(2014) Daniele Silvestro et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Land plant evolutionary timeline: Gene effects are secondary to fossil constraints in relaxed clock estimation of age and substitution rates

(2013) Susana Magallón et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Earliest record of megaphylls and leafy structures, and their initial diversification

(2013) ShouGang Hao et al.   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

Diversity dynamics of Zosterophyllopsida

(2013) Borja Cascales-Miñana et al.   LETHAIA

Diversity Dynamics of Silurian–Early Carboniferous Land Plants in South China

(2013) Conghui Xiong et al.   PLoS One

The plant fossil record reflects just two great extinction events

(2013) Borja Cascales-Miñana et al.   TERRA NOVA

Angiosperm-like pollen and Afropollis from the Middle Triassic (Anisian) of the Germanic Basin (Northern Switzerland)

(2013) Peter A. Hochuli et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Plant biodiversity changes in Carboniferous tropical wetlands

(2012) C.J. Cleal et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Permian and Triassic greenhouse crises

(2012) Gregory J. Retallack   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Bayesian Phylogenetics with BEAUti and the BEAST 1.7

(2012) Alexei J. Drummond et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Vertebrate diversity across the end-Permian mass extinction — Separating biological and geological signals

(2012) Jörg Fröbisch   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Vegetation history, diversity patterns, and climate change across the Triassic/Jurassic boundary

(2012) Nina R. Bonis et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Mass extinction of lizards and snakes at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary

(2012) N. R. Longrich et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Hierarchical Bayesian Model for Calibrating Estimates of Species Divergence Times

(2012) Tracy A. Heath   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

A Total-Evidence Approach to Dating with Fossils, Applied to the Early Radiation of the Hymenoptera

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Transitional changes in arborescent lignophytes at the Devonian–Carboniferous boundary

(2011) Anne-Laure Decombeix et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Mass extinction of birds at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary

(2011) N. R. Longrich et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Impacts of the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution and KPg Extinction on Mammal Diversification

(2011) R. W. Meredith et al.   SCIENCE

Testing the Impact of Calibration on Molecular Divergence Times Using a Fossil-Rich Group: The Case of Nothofagus (Fagales)

(2011) Hervé Sauquet et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

The age and diversification of the angiosperms re-revisited

(2010) Charles D. Bell et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Climatic change during the Palaeocene to Eocene based on fossil plants from Fushun, China

(2010) Qing Wang et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Global occurrence trajectories of microfossils: environmental volatility and the rise and fall of individual species

(2010) Lee Hsiang Liow et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Permian–Triassic land-plant diversity in South China: Was there a mass extinction at the Permian/Triassic boundary?

(2010) Conghui Xiong et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Diversity in obscurity: fossil flowers and the early history of angiosperms

(2010) E. M. Friis et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

An uncorrelated relaxed-clock analysis suggests an earlier origin for flowering plants

(2010) S. A. Smith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact and Mass Extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary

(2010) P. Schulte et al.   SCIENCE

Using Fossils to Break Long Branches in Molecular Dating: A Comparison of Relaxed Clocks Applied to the Origin of Angiosperms

(2010) Susana Magallón   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Evidence for extinction selectivity throughout the marine invertebrate fossil record

(2009) G. Alex Janevski et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Signature of the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction in the Modern Biota

(2009) A. Z. Krug et al.   SCIENCE

Accounting for Calibration Uncertainty in Phylogenetic Estimation of Evolutionary Divergence Times

(2009) Simon Y. W. Ho et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Integrating Early Cretaceous fossils into the phylogeny of living angiosperms: Magnoliidae and eudicots

(2009) James A. DOYLE et al.   Journal of Systematics and Evolution

Seed ferns survived the end-Cretaceous mass extinction in Tasmania

(2008) Stephen McLoughlin et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Darwin's second “abominable mystery”: Why are there so many angiosperm species?

(2008) William L. Crepet et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Palaeofloristics of Middle Pennsylvanian medullosaleans in Variscan Euramerica

(2008) Christopher J. Cleal   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Palaeofloristics of Middle Pennsylvanian lyginopteridaleans in Variscan Euramerica

(2008) Christopher J. Cleal   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Megaphylls, microphylls and the evolution of leaf development

(2008) Alexandru M.F. Tomescu   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE