• DOI:10.1093/sysbio/syq075
Corpus ID: 28225065

Old taxa on young islands: a critique of the use of island age to date island-endemic clades and calibrate phylogenies.

@article{Heads2011OldTO,
  title={Old taxa on young islands: a critique of the use of island age to date island-endemic clades and calibrate phylogenies.},
  author={M. Heads},
  journal={Systematic biology},
  year={2011},
  volume={60 2},
  pages={
          204-18
        }
}

• M. Heads
• Published 2011
• Biology, Medicine
• Systematic biology

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The age of a clade has been estimated by using the age of its oldest fossils, the age of islands or strata that the clade is endemic to, and the age of tectonic events that are spatially related to the clade’s geographic distribution (Heads 2005a). These dates can be used to calibrate a phylogeny and to calculate the ages of other related clades. This paper focuses on the use of islands in calibration, but the two other methods are also discussed briefly.