The apparent exponential radiation of Phanerozoic land vertebrates is an artefact of spatial sampling biases
There is no consensus about how terrestrial biodiversity was assembled through deep time, and in particular whether it has risen exponentially over the Phanerozoic. Using a database of 60 859 fossil occurrences, we show that the spatial extent of the worldwide terrestrial tetrapod fossil record itse...
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| 格式: | Journal article |
| 語言: | English |
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Royal Society
2020
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