The non-uniformity of fossil preservation

The fossil record provides the primary source of data for calibrating the origin of clades. Although minimum ages of clades are given by the oldest preserved fossil, these underestimate the true age, which must be bracketed by probabilistic methods based on multiple fossil occurrences. Although most...

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Veröffentlicht in:Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences. - The Royal Society. - 371(2016), 1699, Seite 1-11
1. Verfasser: Holland, Steven M. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2016
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences
Schlagworte:Biological sciences Physical sciences
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520 |a The fossil record provides the primary source of data for calibrating the origin of clades. Although minimum ages of clades are given by the oldest preserved fossil, these underestimate the true age, which must be bracketed by probabilistic methods based on multiple fossil occurrences. Although most of these methods assume uniform preservation rates, this assumption is unsupported over geological timescales. On geologically long timescales (more than 10 Myr), the origin and cessation of sedimentary basins, and long-term variations in tectonic subsidence, eustatic sea level and sedimentation rate control the availability of depositional facies that preserve the environments in which species lived. The loss of doomed sediments, those with a low probability of preservation, imparts a secular trend to fossil preservation. As a result, the fossil record is spatially and temporally non-uniform. Models of fossil preservation should reflect this non-uniformity by using empirical estimates of fossil preservation that are spatially and temporally partitioned, or by using indirect proxies of fossil preservation. Geologically, realistic models of preservation will provide substantially more reliable estimates of the origination of clades. This article is part of the themed issue 'Dating species divergences using rocks and clocks'. 
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