Strong support for a heterogeneous speciation decline model in Dinosauria: a response to claims made by Bonsor

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Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Phylogenetically informed predictions outperform predictive equations in real and simulated data.Nature communications · 2025
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2. The spatiotemporal distribution of Mesozoic dinosaur diversity.Biology letters · 2024
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3. Mechanistic phylodynamic models do not provide conclusive evidence that non-avian dinosaurs were in decline before their final extinction.Cambridge prisms. Extinction · 2024
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4. Low dinosaur biodiversity in central China 2 million years prior to the end-Cretaceous mass extinction.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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  Dinosaur diversification rates were not in decline prior to the K-Pg boundary.2020

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