The age of insects and the revival of the minimum age tree

Six Impossible Things before Breakfast: Assumptions, Models, and Belief in Molecular Dating

(2019) Lindell Bromham   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The Qingjiang biota—A Burgess Shale–type fossil Lagerstätte from the early Cambrian of South China

(2019) Dongjing Fu et al.   SCIENCE

Trilobite evolutionary rates constrain the duration of the Cambrian explosion

(2019) John R. Paterson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylogenomic analysis of Calyptratae: resolving the phylogenetic relationships within a major radiation of Diptera

(2019) Sujatha Narayanan Kutty et al.   CLADISTICS

Illustrating phylogenetic placement of fossils using RoguePlots: An example from ichneumonid parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) and an extensive morphological matrix

(2019) Seraina Klopfstein et al.   PLoS One

A Comprehensive and Dated Phylogenomic Analysis of Butterflies

(2018) Marianne Espeland et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The timescale of early land plant evolution

(2018) Jennifer L. Morris et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reply to Hedges et al.: Accurate timetrees do indeed require accurate calibrations

(2018) Jennifer L. Morris et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Accurate timetrees require accurate calibrations

(2018) S. Blair Hedges et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The presumed oldest flying insect: more likely a myriapod?

(2017) Carolin Haug et al.   PeerJ

New data on the age of the Lower Cretaceous amber outcrops of Lebanon

(2017) Sibelle Maksoud et al.   Palaeoworld

Central nervous system and muscular bundles preserved in a 240 million year old giant bristletail (Archaeognatha: Machilidae)

(2017) Matteo Montagna et al.   Scientific Reports

Inferring node dates from tip dates in fossil Canidae: the importance of tree priors

(2016) Nicholas J. Matzke et al.   Biology Letters

Putting scales into evolutionary time: the divergence of major scale insect lineages (Hemiptera) predates the radiation of modern angiosperm hosts

(2016) Isabelle M. Vea et al.   Scientific Reports

Uncertainty in the Timing of Origin of Animals and the Limits of Precision in Molecular Timescales

(2015) Mario dos Reis et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Ancient Neotropical origin and recent recolonisation: Phylogeny, biogeography and diversification of the Riodinidae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea)

(2015) Marianne Espeland et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Comment on "Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution"

(2015) K. J. Tong et al.   SCIENCE

Response to Comment on "Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution"

(2015) K. M. Kjer et al.   SCIENCE

The Fossil Calibration Database—A New Resource for Divergence Dating

(2015) Daniel T. Ksepka et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

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

Dating the diversification of the major lineages of Passeriformes (Aves)

(2014) Per GP Ericson et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

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

Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution

(2014) B. Misof et al.   SCIENCE

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

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

Three-dimensional reconstruction and the phylogeny of extinct chelicerate orders

(2014) Russell J. Garwood et al.   PeerJ

A revised dated phylogeny of the arachnid order Opiliones

(2014) Prashant P. Sharma et al.   Frontiers in Genetics

The insect molecular clock

(2013) Simon Y W Ho et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY

Is Strudiella a Devonian insect?

(2013) Thomas Hörnschemeyer et al.   NATURE

Garrouste et al. reply

(2013) Romain Garrouste et al.   NATURE

Bayesian transmogrification of clade divergence dates: a critique

(2012) Michael Heads   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

A complete insect from the Late Devonian period

(2012) Romain Garrouste et al.   NATURE

New Ophthalmosaurid Ichthyosaurs from the European Lower Cretaceous Demonstrate Extensive Ichthyosaur Survival across the Jurassic–Cretaceous Boundary

(2012) Valentin Fischer et al.   PLoS One

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

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

Exploring uncertainty in the calibration of the molecular clock

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

Calibrated Tree Priors for Relaxed Phylogenetics and Divergence Time Estimation

(2011) Joseph Heled et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

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

A Generation Time Effect on the Rate of Molecular Evolution in Invertebrates

(2010) Jessica A. Thomas et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Accounting for Calibration Uncertainty in Phylogenetic Estimation of Evolutionary Divergence Times

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