(Press-News.org) Just a few sites of exceptional fossil preservation may significantly distort the phylogenetic record for birds, scaly reptiles and dinosaurs
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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0297637
Article Title: Quantifying the effects of exceptional fossil preservation on the global availability of phylogenetic data in deep time
Author Countries: USA
Funding: CHW: Richard Estes Memorial Award (No grant number); Society of Vertebrate Paleontology; www.vertpaleo.org; NO - CHW: Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Grant (No grant number); American Museum of Natural History; www.amnh.org; NO - CHW: EAR-PF 2305564; National Science Foundation; www.nsf.gov; NO - NDS: EAR 1647841; National Science Foundation; www.nsf.gov; NO -NDS: ANT 1341475/2040007; National Science Foundation; www.nsf.gov; NO The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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Just a few sites of exceptional fossil preservation may significantly distort the phylogenetic record for birds, scaly reptiles and dinosaurs
2024-02-14
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