New crinoids from the Baltic region (Estonia): fossil tip-dating phylogenetics constrains the origin and Ordovician-Silurian diversification of the Flexibilia (Echinodermata)

Biotic immigration events, speciation, and the accumulation of biodiversity in the fossil record

(2017) Alycia L. Stigall et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Filling the Gondwanan gap: paleobiogeographic implications of new crinoids from the Castillejo and Fombuena formations (Middle and Upper Ordovician, Iberian Chains, Spain)

(2017) Selina R. Cole et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Phylogenetic taxonomy and classification of the Crinoidea (Echinodermata)

(2017) David F. Wright et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Bayesian estimation of fossil phylogenies and the evolution of early to middle Paleozoic crinoids (Echinodermata)

(2017) David F. Wright   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Topology, divergence dates, and macroevolutionary inferences vary between different tip-dating approaches applied to fossil theropods (Dinosauria)

(2016) D. W. Bapst et al.   Biology Letters

Ordovician reef and mound evolution: the Baltoscandian picture

(2016) BJÖRN KRÖGER et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

Synchronous diversification of Laurentian and Baltic rhynchonelliform brachiopods: Implications for regional versus global triggers of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event

(2016) Sarah Trubovitz et al.   GEOLOGY

Llandovery (early Silurian) crinoids from Hiiumaa Island, western Estonia

(2016) William I. Ausich et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Comparing cal3 and other a posteriori time-scaling approaches in a case study with the pterocephaliid trilobites

(2016) David W. Bapst et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Graptolite community responses to global climate change and the Late Ordovician mass extinction

(2016) H. David Sheets et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Response of beta diversity to pulses of Ordovician-Silurian mass extinction

(2015) Simon A. F. Darroch et al.   ECOLOGY

South America’s earliest (Ordovician, Floian) crinoids

(2015) Thomas E. Guensburg et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Early phylogeny of crinoids within the pelmatozoan clade

(2015) William I. Ausich et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Fossils, homology, and “Phylogenetic Paleo-ontogeny”: a reassessment of primary posterior plate homologies among fossil and living crinoids with insights from developmental biology

(2015) David F. Wright   PALEOBIOLOGY

Iocrinid crinoids from the Ordovician of the Baltic Region, Estonia

(2015) W. I. Ausich et al.   PALEONTOLOGICAL JOURNAL

Total-Evidence Dating under the Fossilized Birth–Death Process

(2015) Chi Zhang et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Chinese origin and radiation of the Palaeozoic crinoid family Petalocrinidae

(2015) Ying-Yan Mao et al.   Palaeoworld

Phylogenetic Clustering of Origination and Extinction across the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction

(2015) Andrew Z. Krug et al.   PLoS One

Age, facies, and geometry of the Sandbian/Katian (Upper Ordovician) pelmatozoan-bryozoan-receptaculitid reefs of the Vasalemma Formation, northern Estonia

(2014) Björn Kröger et al.   FACIES

Bayesian Analysis Using a Simple Likelihood Model Outperforms Parsimony for Estimation of Phylogeny from Discrete Morphological Data

(2014) April M. Wright et al.   PLoS One

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

Bayesian Inference of Sampled Ancestor Trees for Epidemiology and Fossil Calibration

(2014) Alexandra Gavryushkina et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

End Ordovician extinctions: A coincidence of causes

(2013) David A.T. Harper et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Macroevolutionary transition in crinoids following the Late Ordovician extinction event (Ordovician to Early Silurian)

(2012) William I. Ausich et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

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

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist 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

paleotree: an R package for paleontological and phylogenetic analyses of evolution

(2012) David W. Bapst   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Crinoids from the Silurian of Western Estonia

(2011) William I. Ausich et al.   ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA POLONICA

Tail Paradox, Partial Identifiability, and Influential Priors in Bayesian Branch Length Inference

(2011) B. Rannala et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Testing the plateau: a reexamination of disparity and morphologic constraints in early Paleozoic crinoids

(2011) Bradley Deline et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

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

(2011) R. Alexander Pyron   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

phangorn: phylogenetic analysis in R

(2010) Klaus Peter Schliep   BIOINFORMATICS

Alphacrinus new genus and origin of the disparid clade

(2010) Thomas E. Guensburg   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Solving the mystery of crinoid ancestry: new fossil evidence of arm origin and development

(2009) Thomas E. Guensburg et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

The new chronostratigraphic classification of the Ordovician System and its relations to major regional series and stages and to δ13C chemostratigraphy

(2008) STIG M. BERGSTRÖM et al.   LETHAIA

A sampling-adjusted macroevolutionary history for Ordovician-Early Silurian crinoids

(2008) Shanan E. Peters et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Dynamics of origination and extinction in the marine fossil record

(2008) J. Alroy   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA