ReviewBiology letters2016
Estimating times of extinction in the fossil record.
Review in Biology letters, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed.
- Why it is easier to date Quaternary extinctions than human colonizations under conditions of overkill.Cambridge prisms. Extinction · 2026Article
- Environmental conditions associated with initial northern expansion of anatomically modern humans.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Postglacial species arrival and diversity buildup of northern ecosystems took millennia.Science advances · 2022Article
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- Extinction of eastern Sahul megafauna coincides with sustained environmental deterioration.Nature communications · 2020Article
- Using the Fossil Record to Evaluate Timetree Timescales.Frontiers in genetics · 2019Review
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- Stratigraphic signatures of mass extinctions: ecological and sedimentary determinants.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Article
- Pattern and process in hominin brain size evolution are scale-dependent.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Article
- Identifying the most surprising victims of mass extinction events: an example using Late Ordovician brachiopods.Biology letters · 2017Article
- Pattern, process, inference and prediction in extinction biology.Biology letters · 2017Article
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Abstract
Because the fossil record is incomplete, the last fossil of a taxon is a biased estimate of its true time of extinction. Numerous methods have been developed in the palaeontology literature for estimating the true time of extinction using ages of fossil specimens. These methods, which typically give a confidence interval for estimating the true time of extinction, differ in the assumptions they make and the nature and amount of data they require. We review the literature on such methods and make some recommendations for future directions.
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