Methods for the Quantitative Comparison of Molecular Estimates of Clade Age and the Fossil Record

Fossilization causes organisms to appear erroneously primitive by distorting evolutionary trees

(2013) Robert S. Sansom et al.   Scientific Reports

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

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Exploring uncertainty in the calibration of the molecular clock

(2011) R. C. M. Warnock et al.   Biology Letters

A distance-based least-square method for dating speciation events

(2011) Xuhua Xia et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

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

Best Practices for Justifying Fossil Calibrations

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

Evaluating Fossil Calibrations for Dating Phylogenies in Light of Rates of Molecular Evolution: A Comparison of Three Approaches

(2011) Vimoksalehi Lukoschek et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Exploring the effects of phylogenetic uncertainty and consensus trees on stratigraphic consistency scores: a new program and a standardized method

(2010) Clint A. Boyd et al.   CLADISTICS

Fossil Evidence for Evolution of the Shape and Color of Penguin Feathers

(2010) J. A. Clarke et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2008) Charles R. Marshall   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Erratic rates of molecular evolution and incongruence of fossil and molecular divergence time estimates in Ostracoda (Crustacea)

(2008) Oive Tinn et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Phylogenetic uncertainty and molecular clock calibrations: A case study of legless lizards (Pygopodidae, Gekkota)

(2008) M.S.Y. Lee et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The Modified Gap Excess Ratio (GER*) and the Stratigraphic Congruence of Dinosaur Phylogenies

(2008) Matthew A. Wills et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY