Paleontological evidence to date the tree of life

MJ Benton, PCJ Donoghue - Molecular biology and evolution, 2007 - academic.oup.com
The role of fossils in dating the tree of life has been misunderstood. Fossils can provide
good “minimum” age estimates for branches in the tree, but “maximum” constraints on those …

Life at the top of the greenhouse Eocene world—A review of the Eocene flora and vertebrate fauna from Canada's High Arctic

JJ Eberle, DR Greenwood - Bulletin, 2012 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract Early–middle Eocene (ca. 53–38 Ma) sediments of the Eureka Sound Group in
Canada's Arctic Archipelago preserve evidence of lush mixed conifer-broadleaf rain forests …

[HTML][HTML] Constraints on the timescale of animal evolutionary history

MJ Benton, PCJ Donoghue, RJ Asher, M Friedman… - 2015 - palaeo-electronica.org
Dating the tree of life is a core endeavor in evolutionary biology. Rates of evolution are
fundamental to nearly every evolutionary model and process. Rates need dates. There is …

[图书][B] The beginning of the age of mammals

KD Rose - 2006 - books.google.com
In the tradition of GG Simpson's classic work, Kenneth D. Rose's The Beginning of the Age of
Mammals analyzes the events that occurred directly before and after the mysterious KT …

Synoptic reconstruction of a major ancient lake system: Eocene Green River Formation, western United States

ME Smith, AR Carroll… - Geological Society of …, 2008 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract Numerous 40Ar/39Ar experiments on sanidine and biotite from 22 ash beds and 3
volcaniclastic sand beds from the Greater Green River, Piceance Creek, and Uinta Basins of …

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

WG Joyce, JF Parham, TR Lyson… - Journal of …, 2013 - cambridge.org
Turtles have served as a model system for molecular divergence dating studies using fossil
calibrations. However, because some parts of the fossil record of turtles are very well known …

Resolving the relationships of Paleocene placental mammals

TJD Halliday, P Upchurch, A Goswami - Biological Reviews, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT The 'Age of Mammals' began in the Paleocene epoch, the 10 million year
interval immediately following the Cretaceous–Palaeogene mass extinction. The apparently …

A new chronology for middle Eocene–early Miocene South American land mammal ages

RE Dunn, RH Madden, MJ Kohn, MD Schmitz… - …, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract Cenozoic South American Land Mammal Ages (SALMAs) have historically been
correlated to the geologic time scale using 40Ar/39Ar dating and magnetostratigraphy. At …

Towards a robust and consistent middle Eocene astronomical timescale

S Boulila, M Vahlenkamp, D De Vleeschouwer… - Earth and Planetary …, 2018 - Elsevier
Until now, the middle Eocene has remained a poorly constrained interval of efforts to
produce an astrochronological timescale for the entire Cenozoic. This has given rise to a so …

Diachronous episodes of Cenozoic erosion in southwestern North America and their relationship to surface uplift, paleoclimate, paleodrainage, and paleoaltimetry

SM Cather, CE Chapin, SA Kelley - Geosphere, 2012 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The history of erosion of southwestern North America and its relationship to surface uplift is a
long-standing topic of debate. We use geologic and thermochronometric data to reconstruct …