• DOI:10.1666/0094-8373-35.3.432
Corpus ID: 84324007

Estimating the effects of sampling biases on pterosaur diversity patterns: implications for hypotheses of bird/pterosaur competitive replacement

@inproceedings{Butler2009EstimatingTE,
  title={Estimating the effects of sampling biases on pterosaur diversity patterns: implications for hypotheses of bird/pterosaur competitive replacement},
  author={R. Butler and P. M. Barrett and S. Nowbath and P. Upchurch},
  year={2009}
}

R. Butler, P. M. Barrett, +1 author P. Upchurch

Published 2009

Biology

Abstract Pterosaurs were the first flying vertebrates and formed important components of terrestrial and marginal marine ecosystems during the Mesozoic. They became extinct during the latest Cretaceous (latest Maastrichtian), at, or near, the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary, following an apparent decline in diversity in the Late Cretaceous. This reduction in species richness has been linked to the ecological radiation of birds in the Early Cretaceous and the proposal that birds competitively… CONTINUE READING

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