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The fossil record and taphonomy of butterflies and moths (Insecta, Lepidoptera): implications for evolutionary diversity and divergence-time estimates

BACKGROUND: It is conventionally accepted that the lepidopteran fossil record is significantly incomplete when compared to the fossil records of other, very diverse, extant insect orders. Such an assumption, however, has been based on cumulative diversity data rather than using alternative statistic...

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Autores principales: Sohn, Jae-Cheon, Labandeira, Conrad C, Davis, Donald R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4326409/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25649001
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-015-0290-8