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Character Acquisition Through Geological Time
Graeme T. Lloyd
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Tempo through time
Darwin1859
Westoll1949
Simpson1944
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“A balanced rate summing up total morphological change…would be of the greatest value for the study of
evolution” - Simpson 1953
Lungfish tempo
Westoll1949
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Questions
• Was Westoll right about lungfish evolution?
• Do other ‘living fossils’ show the same pattern?
• Do other taxa show a different pattern?• Are these results methodological artefacts
or peculiarities of the fossil record?
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Problems with Westoll’s method
• Only well known taxa can be included (Knoll et al. 1984)
• Error bars required (constrain interpretation)
• Ancestor artificial (Schopf 1984)• Reversals ignored (Derstler 1982)• Assumes stratigraphically ordered
ancestor-descendant sequence
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Lungfish again
(Lloyd in prep.)
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(Cloutier 1991)
Actinistians
Latimera chalumnae
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Sphenodontids
Linguloids Xiphosurans(Cusack et al. 1999) (Moore et al. in prep.)
(Lloyd in prep.) (Cherns 2004)Paleoloricates
Sphenodon punctatusNeopilina galatheae
Limulus polyphemusLingula anatina
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(Alroy 1995)
Hipparionines
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Temnopleurids(Jeffrey and Emlet 2003) (Lieberman and Kloc 1997)
Asteropygines
ReptilesArtiodactyls(Gentry and Hooker 1988) (Rieppel and deBraga 1996)
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Crocodilians(Gatesy et al. 2004)
Crocodylus niloticus
Alligator mississippiensis
Gavialis lewisi
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(Littlewood and Smith 1995)Echinoids
Tripneustes
Spatangus Heliocidaris
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Common pattern=
Common explanation
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r2 = 0.98853131
Character distribution
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Character distribution
Source Taxon R-squared PearsonAlroy 1995 Hipparionines 0.99 0.99Cherns 2004 Paleoloricates 0.98 0.99Cloutier 1991 Actinstians 0.99 0.99Cusack et al. 1999 Linguloids 0.97 0.99Gatesy et al. 2004 Crocodilians 0.87 0.93Gentry and Hooker 1988 Artiodactyls 0.75 0.75Jeffrey and Emlet 2003 Temnopleurids 0.78 0.89Lieberman and Kloc 1997 Asteropygines 0.96 0.98Littlewood and Smith 1995 Echinoids 0.81 0.90Lloyd in prep. Lungfish 0.99 0.99Lloyd in prep. Sphenodontids 0.96 0.98Moore et al. in prep. Xiphosurans 0.94 0.97Rieppel and deBraga 1996 Reptiles 0.95 0.97
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Taxon sampling vs. stratigraphic fit
(Division of total timespan of clade into five equal bins)
older younger
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Questions
• Was Westoll right about lungfish evolution?
• Do other ‘living fossils’ show the same pattern?
• Do other taxa show a different pattern?• Are these results methodological artefacts
or peculiarities of the fossil record?
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Acknowledgements
This project was initially conceived by my supervisors, Mike Benton and Phil Donoghue. Rachel Moore, Matt Friedman and Hans-Peter Schultze kindly provided me with copies of their unpublished matrices. Members of Bristol’s Palaeontology Discussion Group provided useful comments and advice on an earlier version of this presentation. This work represents part of my Ph.D. which is supported by NERC studentship NER/S/A/2004/12222.
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