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Estimating times of extinction in the fossil record

Published:2016-04 Issue:4 Volume:12 Page:20150989
ISSN:1744-9561
Container-title:Biology Letters
language:en
Short-container-title:Biol. Lett.

Author:

Wang Steve C.¹^ORCID,Marshall Charles R.²

Affiliation:

1. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 19081, USA

2. Department of Integrative Biology and Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

Abstract

Because the fossil record is incomplete, the last fossil of a taxon is a biased estimate of its true time of extinction. Numerous methods have been developed in the palaeontology literature for estimating the true time of extinction using ages of fossil specimens. These methods, which typically give a confidence interval for estimating the true time of extinction, differ in the assumptions they make and the nature and amount of data they require. We review the literature on such methods and make some recommendations for future directions.

Publisher

The Royal Society

Subject

General Agricultural and Biological Sciences,Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous)

Link

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsbl.2015.0989

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