image: Desert sand dune landscape of the Upper Cretaceous Djadokhta/Baruungoyot Formations. Foreground: the large-bodied monstersaurian lizard Estesia mongoliensis predating on the enantiornithine bird Gobipteryx minuta. Background: a pair of ornithomimid dinosaurs search for a drink of water.
Credit: Landscape of the Djadokhta/Baruungoyot Formations with Estesia mongoliensis predating on Gobipteryx minuta by Nathan Dehaut, 2024, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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.
Journal
PLOS One
Article Title
Quantifying the effects of exceptional fossil preservation on the global availability of phylogenetic data in deep time
Article Publication Date
14-Feb-2024
COI Statement
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.