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

Neither phylogenomic nor palaeontological data support a Palaeogene origin of placental mammals

(2014) M. dos Reis et al.   Biology Letters

Morphological Clocks in Paleontology, and a Mid-Cretaceous Origin of Crown Aves

(2014) M. S. Y. Lee et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Inferring Heterogeneous Evolutionary Processes Through Time: from Sequence Substitution to Phylogeography

(2014) Filip Bielejec et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Rates of Phenotypic and Genomic Evolution during the Cambrian Explosion

(2013) Michael S.Y. Lee et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Combining fossil and molecular data to date the diversification of New World Primates

(2013) C. G. Schrago et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The Placental Mammal Ancestor and the Post-K-Pg Radiation of Placentals

(2013) M. A. O'Leary et al.   SCIENCE

NextGenVoices

(2013)   SCIENCE

Phylogenetic evidence for a shift in the mode of mammalian body size evolution at the Cretaceous-Palaeogene boundary

(2013) Graham J. Slater   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

PartitionFinder: Combined Selection of Partitioning Schemes and Substitution Models for Phylogenetic Analyses

(2012) R. Lanfear et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Evidence for a convergent slowdown in primate molecular rates and its implications for the timing of early primate evolution

(2012) M. E. Steiper et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylogenomic datasets provide both precision and accuracy in estimating the timescale of placental mammal phylogeny

(2012) M. dos Reis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Treating Fossils as Terminal Taxa in Divergence Time Estimation Reveals Ancient Vicariance Patterns in the Palpimanoid Spiders

(2012) Hannah Marie Wood et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic analysis, taxonomic revision, and dental ontogeny of the Cretaceous Zhelestidae (Mammalia: Eutheria)

(2012) J. DAVID ARCHIBALD et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

IDENTIFYING HETEROGENEITY IN RATES OF MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION: DISCRETE CHARACTER CHANGE IN THE EVOLUTION OF LUNGFISH (SARCOPTERYGII; DIPNOI)

(2011) Graeme T. Lloyd et al.   EVOLUTION

Protungulatum, Confirmed Cretaceous Occurrence of an Otherwise Paleocene Eutherian (Placental?) Mammal

(2011) J. David Archibald et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

A Jurassic eutherian mammal and divergence of marsupials and placentals

(2011) Zhe-Xi Luo et al.   NATURE

A radiation of arboreal basal eutherian mammals beginning in the Late Cretaceous of India

(2011) A. Goswami 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

Divergence Time Estimation Using Fossils as Terminal Taxa and the Origins of Lissamphibia

(2011) R. Alexander Pyron   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Best Practices for Justifying Fossil Calibrations

(2011) James F. Parham et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

The origins of modern biodiversity on land

(2010) M. J. Benton   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The new framework for understanding placental mammal evolution

(2009) Robert J. Asher et al.   BIOESSAYS

The Eutherian Mammal Maelestes gobiensis from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia and the phylogeny of cretaceous eutheria

(2009) John R. Wible et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Paleocene emergence of elephant relatives and the rapid radiation of African ungulates

(2009) E. Gheerbrant   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Accounting for Calibration Uncertainty in Phylogenetic Estimation of Evolutionary Divergence Times

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

The Impact of the Representation of Fossil Calibrations on Bayesian Estimation of Species Divergence Times

(2009) Jun Inoue et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Evolution and biogeography of primates: a new model based on molecular phylogenetics, vicariance and plate tectonics

(2009) Michael Heads   ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA