Using the Fossil Record to Evaluate Timetree Timescales

The eruptive tempo of Deccan volcanism in relation to the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary

(2019) Courtney J. Sprain et al.   SCIENCE

On the probabilities of branch durations and stratigraphic gaps in phylogenies of fossil taxa when rates of diversification and sampling vary over time

(2019) Peter J. Wagner   PALEOBIOLOGY

How deep is the conflict between molecular and fossil evidence on the age of angiosperms?

(2019) Mario Coiro et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Iterative Calibration: A Novel Approach for Calibrating the Molecular Clock Using Complex Geological Events

(2018) Tzitziki Loeza-Quintana et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

The fossilized birth-death model for the analysis of stratigraphic range data under different speciation modes

(2018) Tanja Stadler et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Constraining uncertainty in the timescale of angiosperm evolution and the veracity of a Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution

(2018) Jose Barba-Montoya et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Using Phylogenomic Data to Explore the Effects of Relaxed Clocks and Calibration Strategies on Divergence Time Estimation: Primates as a Test Case

(2018) Mario Dos Reis et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Quantifying the dark data in museum fossil collections as palaeontology undergoes a second digital revolution

(2018) C. R. Marshall et al.   Biology Letters

Closing the gap between palaeontological and neontological speciation and extinction rate estimates

(2018) Daniele Silvestro et al.   Nature Communications

Phylogenomic analyses of 539 highly informative loci dates a fully resolved time tree for the major clades of living turtles (Testudines)

(2017) H. Bradley Shaffer et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Multilocus phylogeny and statistical biogeography clarify the evolutionary history of major lineages of turtles

(2017) Anieli G. Pereira et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Testing the molecular clock using mechanistic models of fossil preservation and molecular evolution

(2017) Rachel C. M. Warnock et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Likelihood of Tree Topologies with Fossils and Diversification Rate Estimation

(2017) Gilles Didier et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Five palaeobiological laws needed to understand the evolution of the living biota

(2017) Charles R. Marshall   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Probabilistic divergence time estimation without branch lengths: dating the origins of dinosaurs, avian flight and crown birds

(2016) G. T. Lloyd et al.   Biology Letters

Estimating times of extinction in the fossil record: Table 1.

(2016) Steve C. Wang et al.   Biology Letters

Adaptive credible intervals on stratigraphic ranges when recovery potential is unknown

(2016) Steve C. Wang et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Tectonic blocks and molecular clocks

(2016) Kenneth De Baets et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The non-uniformity of fossil preservation

(2016) Steven M. Holland   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The evolution of methods for establishing evolutionary timescales

(2016) Philip C. J. Donoghue et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Bayesian Total-Evidence Dating Reveals the Recent Crown Radiation of Penguins

(2016) Alexandra Gavryushkina et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Biogeographic Dating of Speciation Times Using Paleogeographically Informed Processes

(2016) Michael J. Landis   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Biogeographic calibrations for the molecular clock

(2015) Simon Y. W. Ho et al.   Biology Letters

Constraints on the timescale of animal evolutionary history

(2015) MJ Benton et al.   PALAEONTOLOGIA ELECTRONICA

Total-Evidence Dating under the Fossilized Birth–Death Process

(2015) Chi Zhang et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Dating Tips for Divergence-Time Estimation

(2015) Joseph E. O’Reilly et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

High-precision timeline for Earth’s most severe extinction

(2014) Seth D. Burgess et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Calibration uncertainty in molecular dating analyses: there is no substitute for the prior evaluation of time priors

(2014) R. C. M. Warnock et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A divergence dating analysis of turtles using fossil calibrations: an example of best practices

(2013) Walter G. Joyce et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

A Simple Method for Estimating Informative Node Age Priors for the Fossil Calibration of Molecular Divergence Time Analyses

(2013) Michael D. Nowak et al.   PLoS One

Molecular and fossil evidence place the origin of cichlid fishes long after Gondwanan rifting

(2013) M. Friedman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Modelling distributions of fossil sampling rates over time, space and taxa: assessment and implications for macroevolutionary studies

(2013) Peter J. Wagner et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

A stochastic rate-calibrated method for time-scaling phylogenies of fossil taxa

(2013) David W. Bapst   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Incorporating phylogenetic uncertainty on phylogeny-based palaeontological dating and the timing of turtle diversification

(2012) Juliana Sterli et al.   CLADISTICS

A Rhinocerotid Skull Cooked-to-Death in a 9.2 Ma-Old Ignimbrite Flow of Turkey

(2012) Pierre-Olivier Antoine et al.   PLoS One

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

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Establishing a time-scale for plant evolution

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

Interplay Between Changing Climate and Species' Ecology Drives Macroevolutionary Dynamics

(2011) T. H. G. Ezard et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2011) R. Alexander Pyron   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

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

Assessing Confidence Intervals for Stratigraphic Ranges of Higher Taxa: The Case of Lissamphibia

(2010) David Marjanović et al.   ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA POLONICA

Reassessing the temporal evolution of orchids with new fossils and a Bayesian relaxed clock, with implications for the diversification of the rare South American genus Hoffmannseggella (Orchidaceae: Epidendroideae)

(2010) A Lovisa S Gustafsson et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Constraints on clade ages from fossil outgroups

(2010) Matthew M. Hedman   PALEOBIOLOGY

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

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

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

Diversity dynamics: molecular phylogenies need the fossil record

(2010) Tiago B. Quental et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Earliest orchid macrofossils: Early Miocene Dendrobium and Earina (Orchidaceae: Epidendroideae) from New Zealand

(2009) John G. Conran et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

The use of sighting records to infer species extinctions: an evaluation of different methods

(2009) Marcelo M. Rivadeneira et al.   ECOLOGY

THE IMPORTANCE OF PREADAPTED GENOMES IN THE ORIGIN OF THE ANIMAL BODYPLANS AND THE CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION

(2009) Charles R. Marshal et al.   EVOLUTION

Optimal estimators of the position of a mass extinction when recovery potential is uniform

(2009) Steve C. Wang et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Ardipithecus ramidus and the Paleobiology of Early Hominids

(2009) T. D. White et al.   SCIENCE

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

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

(2008) Charles R. Marshall   AMERICAN NATURALIST