Inferring 'weak spots' in phylogenetic trees: application to mosasauroid nomenclature.

ABSTRACT: Mosasauroid squamates represented the apex predators within the Late Cretaceous marine and occasionally also freshwater ecosystems. Proper understanding of the origin of their ecological adaptations or paleobiogeographic dispersals requires adequate knowledge of their phylogeny. The studies assessing the position of mosasauroids on the squamate evolutionary tree and their origins have long given conflicting results. The phylogenetic relationships within Mosasauroidea, however, have experienced only little changes throughout the last decades. Considering the substantial improvements in the development of phylogenetic methodology that have undergone in recent years, resulting, among others, in numerous alterations in the phylogenetic hypotheses of other fossil amniotes, we test the robustnes

SUBMITTER: Madzia D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5602675 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature