Does exceptional preservation distort our view of disparity in the fossil record?

How much of evolutionary history is lost because of the unevenness of the fossil record? Lagerstätten, sites which have historically yielded exceptionally preserved fossils, provide remarkable, yet distorting insights into past life. When examining macroevolutionary trends in the fossil record, they...

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Published in:Proc Biol Sci
Main Authors: Flannery Sutherland, Joseph T., Moon, Benjamin C., Stubbs, Thomas L., Benton, Michael J.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The Royal Society 2019
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Palaeobiology
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6408902/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30963850
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.0091
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