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D.J. Beerling et al. (1998): Stomatal responses of the "living fossil" Ginkgo biloba L. to changes in atmospheric CO2 concentrations. PDF file, Journal of Experimental Botany, 49: 1603-1607.
M.J. Benton and P.N. Pearson (2001): Speciation in the fossil record. PDF file, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 16.
Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, CA: Why all the fuss? The fascination of coelacanths.
! C.C. Davis and H. Schaefer (2011): Plant Evolution: Pulses of Extinction and Speciation in Gymnosperm Diversity. See also here (abstract).
W.A. DiMichele et al. (2004): Long-term stasis in ecological assemblages: evidence from the fossil record. PDF file, Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst., 35: 285-322.
Nina Horvath, Linz, Austria: Living Fossils (in German).
Volker Fahlbusch, Walter Jung, Harald Immel, Helmut Mayr, Doris Barthelt-Ludwig, Kurt Heissig, Peter Wellnhofer, and R. Leinfelder, Palaeontological Museum Munich, Germany: Living Fossils. Some articles (in German). See also here.
Peter Forey, The Natural History Museum, London: Nature online > Life > Reptiles, amphibians and fishes > Living fossils: coelacanths (PDF file). Coelacanths and the ancestry debate. See also here.
Fundus.org, Vienna: On the phenomenon of living fossils. PDF file, in German.
S. Gilmore and K.D. Hill (1997): Relationships of the Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis) and a molecular phylogeny of the Araucariaceae. PDF file, Telopea 7.
Thomas M. Iliffe and Louis S. Kornicker (2009): Worldwide Diving Discoveries of Living Fossil Animals from the Depths of Anchialine and Marine Caves. PDF file, Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences.
Susan L. Jewett, Division of Fishes, Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History: On the Trail of the Coelacanth, a Living Fossil. November 11, 1998; The Washington Post.
Links for Palaeobotanists: Introductions to both Fossil and Recent Plant Taxa, e.g. Sphenophyta, Cycads, and Ginkgoales.
J. Ma (2003): The chronology of the "living fossil" Metasequoia glyptostroboides (Taxodiaceae): a review (1943-2003). PDF file, Harvard Papers in Botany, 8: 9-18. See also here (in German).
B. Mantovani et al. (2004): Molecular taxonomy and phylogeny of the "living fossil" lineages Triops and Lepidurus (Branchiopoda: Notostraca). PDF file, Zoologica Scripta, 33: 367-374.
! N.S. Nagalingum et al. (2011):
Recent
Synchronous Radiation of a Living Fossil. Abstract.
"Using fossil-calibrated molecular phylogenies, we show that cycads underwent a near
synchronous global rediversification beginning in the late Miocene, followed by a slowdown
toward the Recent. Although the cycad lineage is ancient, our timetrees indicate that
living cycad species are not much older than ~12 million years". See also
here. In PDF, Science 334.
C.A. Offord et al. (1999): Sexual Reproduction and Early Plant Growth of the Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis), a Rare and Threatened Australian Conifer. PDF file, Annals of Botany 84.
David N. Reznick and Robert E. Ricklefs (2009): Darwin´s bridge between microevolution and macroevolution. PDF file, Nature, 257.
Mark Ridley, Department of Zoology, Oxford University: Evolution (Blackwell). Go to: Living Fossils.
Andrew Simpson, Science Museums, Division of Environmental and Life Sciences, Macquarie University NSW: Andrew's Web Diary. A personal report from the Latin American Palaeontology Conference (Sociedade Brasileira de Paleontologia in Aracaju, in the north east of Brazil). Go to: DAY 5 - The plants of Gondwana and the Wollemi Pine.
Pamela S. Soltis et al. (2002): Rate heterogeneity among lineages of tracheophytes: Integration of molecular and fossil data and evidence for molecular living fossils. PDF file, PNAS, 99: 4430-4435. See also here (abstract).
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Living fossil.
Lebendes Fossil
(in German).
Wollemia.
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