Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary uses and approaches to vertebrate biostratigraphy

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  • Louis Jacobs Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275 USA

Abstract

Vertebrate biostratigraphy is essential to characterizing both marine and terrestrial strata by their fossil content. Calibrating biostratigraphy is an iterative and multidisciplinary process that supplies numeric ages necessary for calculating rates of change in phylogenetic processes, refining studies of evolutionary adaptation to paleoenvironmental change, and constraining molecular clocks. Keywords:Vertebrate, biostratigraphy, paleoenvironment, biochronology

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2013-07-26

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