Morphological clocks in paleontology, and a mid-Cretaceous origin of crown Aves.
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1Earth Sciences Section, South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide 5000, Australia; 2School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide 5005, Australia; 3Museo Geologico e Paleontologico “Giovanni Capellini”, Via Zamboni 63, 40126 Bologna, Italy; and 4Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, Southampton SO14 3ZH, UK ∗Correspondence to be sent to: E-mail: [email protected].
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Systematic biology
دوره 63 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014