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paleoPhylo: free software to draw paleobiological phylogenies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2016

Thomas H. G. Ezard  and
Andy Purvis
Thomas H. G. Ezard
Affiliation:
Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, Berkshire SL5 7PY, United Kingdom. E-mail: thomas.ezard@imperial.ac.uk
Andy Purvis
Affiliation:
Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, Berkshire SL5 7PY, United Kingdom. E-mail: a.purvis@imperial.ac.uk
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Abstract

Paleobiological phylogenies often contain contrasting biological information to phylogenies based on extant species. Available software is primarily based on a present-day view of the world, however. Here, we present freeware to visualize phylogenies that is more suitable for the needs of paleobiologists, providing flexibility in how stratigraphic uncertainty, the geological timescale, and ancestor-descendant relationships are depicted.

Type
Tools for Paleobiology
Information
Paleobiology , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , Summer 2009 , pp. 460 - 464
Copyright
Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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