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Time-significant Fossils

Time-Significant Fossils is a paleontological construct that identifies fossil taxa with exceptionally restricted stratigraphic ranges, thereby serving as precise temporal markers within lineage zones due to their rapid evolutionary appearance and extinction.

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Time resolution in fluvial vertebrate assemblages

Anna K. Behrensmeyer · Paleobiology · 1982 · 354 citations

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Trace fossils from late Precambrian-Early Cambrian strata of southeastern Newfoundland (Canada); temporal and environmental implications

T. P. Crimes, Michael M. Anderson · Journal of Paleontology · 1985 · 243 citations

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Quality of the fossil record through time

Michael J. Benton, Matthew A. Wills, Rebecca Hitchin · Nature · 2000 · 224 citations

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The geochronology and significance of ash-fall tuffs in the glaciogenic Carboniferous-Permian Dwyka Group of Namibia and South Africa

Berthold Bangert, Harald Stollhofen, Volker Lorenz et al. · Journal of African Earth Sciences · 1999 · 220 citations

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Timing and warmth of the Last Interglacial period: new U-series evidence from Hawaii and Bermuda and a new fossil compilation for North America

Daniel R. Muhs, Kathleen R. Simmons, Bree Steinke · Quaternary Science Reviews · 2002 · 220 citations

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Authors

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  1. AK
    Anna K. Behrensmeyer

    Smithsonian Institution, United States

    2 publications · 404 citations

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  2. SG
    Spencer G. Lucas

    New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, United States

    2 publications · 282 citations

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  3. FT
    Francis Thackeray

    University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

    2 publications · 130 citations

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  4. BS
    Brigitte Sénut

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

    1 publications · 30 citations

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  5. SS
    Stephan Steuer

    Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Germany

    1 publications · 72 citations

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Institutions

111

  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    3 h-index

    9 publications

    309 citations

  2. National Museum of Natural History

    Washington, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    365 citations

  3. Indiana University Bloomington

    Bloomington, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    79 citations

  4. American Museum of Natural History

    New York, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    301 citations

  5. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science

    Albuquerque, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    282 citations

  6. The University of Adelaide

    Adelaide, Australia

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    285 citations

  7. United States Geological Survey

    Reston, United States

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    671 citations

  8. University of Wollongong

    Wollongong, Australia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    64 citations

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  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 3 publications · 112 citations

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  2. Precambrian Research

    3 publications · 84 citations

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  3. Quaternary Science Reviews

    2 publications · 284 citations

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  4. Geological Society London Special Publications

    2 publications · 146 citations

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  5. Sedimentary Geology

    2 publications · 62 citations

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