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SUBMITTER: Puttick MN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5071738 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Puttick Mark N MN Thomas Gavin H GH Benton Michael J MJ
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution 20160406 4
Dating the origin of Placentalia has been a contentious issue for biologists and paleontologists. Although it is likely that crown-group placentals originated in the Late Cretaceous, nearly all molecular clock estimates point to a deeper Cretaceous origin. An approach with the potential to reconcile this discrepancy could be the application of a morphological clock. This would permit the direct incorporation of fossil data in node dating, and would break long internal branches of the tree, so le ...[more]