Book chapter
Stratigraphy, phylogeny, and species sampling in time and space
Fossils, phylogeny, and form; an analytical approach, Vol.19, pp.291-322
Topics in Geobiology, 19, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
2001
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-0571-6_8
Abstract
The potential role of stratigraphic order in phylogeny reconstruction is among the most contentious issues in contemporary paleontology (e.g., Norell, 1996; Wagner, 1996). Most workers agree that the distribution of taxa in time is essential information which should inform any evolutionary hypothesis. What is not agreed upon is whether that sampled distribution is itself evidence of relationship, and whether time-ordering should constrain a primary phylogenetic hypothesis. The question boils down to whether relationship should be determined using intrinsic biological information alone, or by using a certain amount of biological information, countermanded to some or other extent by extrinsic temporal information.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Stratigraphy, phylogeny, and species sampling in time and space
- Creators
- Jonathan M Adrain - University of IowaStephen R Westrop - University of Oklahoma
- Contributors
- Jonathan M Adrain (Editor) - University of IowaGregory D Edgecombe (Editor) - AUSBruce S Lieberman (Editor) - University of Kansas
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Fossils, phylogeny, and form; an analytical approach, Vol.19, pp.291-322
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
- Series
- Topics in Geobiology; 19
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4615-0571-6_8
- ISSN
- 0275-0120
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2001
- Academic Unit
- Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984240802402771
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