Best Practices for Justifying Fossil Calibrations

New pelomedusoid turtles from the late Palaeocene Cerrejón Formation of Colombia and their implications for phylogeny and body size evolution

(2012) Edwin A. Cadena et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

Synthesizing and databasing fossil calibrations: divergence dating and beyond

(2011) D. T. Ksepka et al.   Biology Letters

The Evolution of Mid-Latitude Faunas During the Eocene: Late Eocene Lizards of the Medicine Pole Hills Reconsidered

(2011) Krister T. Smith   Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History

A sail-backed suchian from the Heshanggou Formation (Early Triassic: Olenekian) of China

(2011) Sterling J. Nesbitt et al.   Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Anatomy and affinities of large archosauromorphs from the lower Fremouw Formation (Early Triassic) of Antarctica

(2011) Nathan D. Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Multiple Genome Alignments Facilitate Development of NPCL Markers: A Case Study of Tetrapod Phylogeny Focusing on the Position of Turtles

(2011) X.-X. Shen et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Establishing a time-scale for plant evolution

(2011) John T. Clarke et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Integrating Fossil Preservation Biases in the Selection of Calibrations for Molecular Divergence Time Estimation

(2011) Alex Dornburg et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Testing fossil calibrations for vertebrate molecular trees

(2011) Michael S. Y. Lee et al.   ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA

Transitional fossils and the origin of turtles

(2010) T. R. Lyson et al.   Biology Letters

Mitochondrial genomes of acrodont lizards: timing of gene rearrangements and phylogenetic and biogeographic implications

(2010) Yasuhisa Okajima et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

From Reptilian Phylogenomics to Reptilian Genomes: Analyses of c-Jun and DJ-1 Proto-Oncogenes

(2010) Y. Katsu et al.   CYTOGENETIC AND GENOME RESEARCH

Joint determination of 40K decay constants and 40Ar∗/40K for the Fish Canyon sanidine standard, and improved accuracy for 40Ar/39Ar geochronology

(2010) Paul R. Renne et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Proopiomelanocortin (POMC) and testing the phylogenetic position of turtles (Testudines)

(2010) Rosemary E. Becker et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH

Phylogeny and divergence times of filesnakes (Acrochordus): Inferences from morphology, fossils and three molecular loci

(2010) Kate L. Sanders et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Non-random decay of chordate characters causes bias in fossil interpretation

(2010) Robert S. Sansom et al.   NATURE

Ecologically distinct dinosaurian sister group shows early diversification of Ornithodira

(2010) Sterling J. Nesbitt et al.   NATURE

The earliest record of birch mice from the Early Miocene Nei Mongol, China

(2010) Yuri Kimura   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Constraints on clade ages from fossil outgroups

(2010) Matthew M. Hedman   PALEOBIOLOGY

Revised Lithostratigraphy of the Sonsela Member (Chinle Formation, Upper Triassic) in the Southern Part of Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona

(2010) Jeffrey W. Martz et al.   PLoS One

Phylogenetic Analysis of Pelecaniformes (Aves) Based on Osteological Data: Implications for Waterbird Phylogeny and Fossil Calibration Studies

(2010) Nathan D. Smith   PLoS One

Sequences, stratigraphy and scenarios: what can we say about the fossil record of the earliest tetrapods?

(2010) M. Friedman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Footprints pull origin and diversification of dinosaur stem lineage deep into Early Triassic

(2010) S. L. Brusatte et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Dating Primate Divergences through an Integrated Analysis of Palaeontological and Molecular Data

(2010) Richard D. Wilkinson et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Old Taxa on Young Islands: A Critique of the Use of Island Age to Date Island-Endemic Clades and Calibrate Phylogenies

(2010) Michael Heads   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Combining Phylogenomics and Fossils in Higher-Level Squamate Reptile Phylogeny: Molecular Data Change the Placement of Fossil Taxa

(2010) John J. Wiens et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

The new framework for understanding placental mammal evolution

(2009) Robert J. Asher et al.   BIOESSAYS

Distinguishing heat from light in debate over controversial fossils

(2009) Philip C. J. Donoghue et al.   BIOESSAYS

Broken gears in the avian molecular clock: new phylogenetic analyses support stem galliform status forGallinuloides wyomingensisand rallid affinities forAmitabha urbsinterdictensis

(2009) Daniel T. Ksepka   CLADISTICS

Latest on the absolute age of the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM): New insights from exact stratigraphic position of key ash layers +19 and −17

(2009) Thomas Westerhold et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Use of U–Pb ages of detrital zircons to infer maximum depositional ages of strata: A test against a Colorado Plateau Mesozoic database

(2009) William R. Dickinson et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Utility and validity of Middle and Late Triassic ‘land vertebrate faunachrons’

(2009) Emily J. Rayfield et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Taxonomic revison of the basal neornithischian taxaThescelosaurusandBugenasaura

(2009) Clint A. Boyd et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Paleofloristic evidence of climate change near and beyond the Permian–Triassic boundary

(2009) Valentin Krassilov et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Congruence of morphologically-defined genera with molecular phylogenies

(2009) D. Jablonski et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Molecules, morphology, and ecology indicate a recent, amphibious ancestry for echidnas

(2009) M. J. Phillips et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Nine exceptional radiations plus high turnover explain species diversity in jawed vertebrates

(2009) M. E. Alfaro et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Covert biases, circularity, and apomorphies: A critical look at the North American Quaternary Herpetofaunal Stability Hypothesis

(2009) Christopher J. Bell et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Accounting for Calibration Uncertainty in Phylogenetic Estimation of Evolutionary Divergence Times

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

A Likelihood Method for Assessing Molecular Divergence Time Estimates and the Placement of Fossil Calibrations

(2009) R. Alexander Pyron   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

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

(2009) Jun Inoue et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

A Simple Method for Bracketing Absolute Divergence Times on Molecular Phylogenies Using Multiple Fossil Calibration Points

(2008) Charles R. Marshall   AMERICAN NATURALIST

W(h)ither Fossils? Studying Morphological Character Evolution in the Age of Molecular Sequences1

(2008) Elizabeth J. Hermsen et al.   ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN

Astronomical climate control on paleosol stacking patterns in the upper Paleocene–lower Eocene Willwood Formation, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming

(2008) Hayfaa Abdul Aziz et al.   GEOLOGY

Marine mammals through time: when less is more in studying palaeodiversity

(2008) F. G Marx   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Caveats on the Use of Fossil Calibrations for Molecular Dating: A Comment on Near et al.

(2007) James F. Parham et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Impact of increased character sampling on the phylogeny of Cetartiodactyla (Mammalia): combined analysis including fossils

(2007) Maureen A. O'Leary et al.   CLADISTICS