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Fossil Record Completeness

Fossil Record Completeness is a metric that quantifies the extent to which the preserved fossil evidence accurately represents the true temporal and spatial distribution of extinct taxa within the geological record.

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Best Practices for Justifying Fossil Calibrations

James F. Parham, Philip C. J. Donoghue, Christopher J. Bell et al. · Systematic Biology · 2011 · 788 citations · Full text

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Missing Data, Incomplete Taxa, and Phylogenetic Accuracy

John J. Wiens · Systematic Biology · 2003 · 663 citations

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Phanerozoic marine diversity and the fossil record

J. John Sepkoski, Richard K. Bambach, David M. Raup et al. · Nature · 1981 · 454 citations

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Diversity dynamics: molecular phylogenies need the fossil record

Tiago B. Quental, Charles R. Marshall · Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 2010 · 416 citations

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The fossil record and the early evolution of the Metazoa

Simon Conway Morris · Nature · 1993 · 403 citations

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Authors

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    Michael J. Benton

    University of Bristol, United Kingdom

    24 publications · 2.3K citations

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  2. RJ
    Richard J. Twitchett

    University of Plymouth, United Kingdom

    6 publications · 231 citations

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  3. AM
    Alexander M. Dunhill

    University of Leeds, United Kingdom

    6 publications · 346 citations

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    Richard J. Butler

    University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

    6 publications · 254 citations

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    Mark A. Norell

    American Museum of Natural History, United States

    5 publications · 579 citations

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Institutions

435

  1. University of Bristol

    Bristol, United Kingdom

    24 h-index

    62 publications

    7.9K citations

  2. American Museum of Natural History

    New York, United States

    17 h-index

    31 publications

    1.7K citations

  3. Natural History Museum

    London, United Kingdom

    15 h-index

    23 publications

    1.4K citations

  4. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    15 h-index

    36 publications

    2K citations

  5. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    13 h-index

    18 publications

    4.7K citations

  6. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    12 h-index

    16 publications

    1.6K citations

  7. Smithsonian Institution

    Washington, United States

    12 h-index

    15 publications

    968 citations

  8. National Museum of Natural History

    Washington, United States

    12 h-index

    15 publications

    749 citations

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  1. Paleobiology

    32 publications · 3.2K citations

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  2. Palaeontology

    17 publications · 676 citations

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  3. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology

    11 publications · 756 citations

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  4. Nature

    10 publications · 1.7K citations

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  5. Geology

    9 publications · 796 citations

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