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Continental Paleobiogeography as Phylogenetic Evidence

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Morphological convergence between members of clades isolated on different landmasses can mislead phylogenetic analyses, and can imply intercontinental dispersals that are unlikely given reconstructed paleogeography. It is argued here that paleobiogeographic data, like chronostratigraphic data, are relevant to the process of inferring phylogenetic relationships. In order to allow the dynamic history of continental paleogeography to influence phylogenetic analysis, a “chronobiogeographic character” is developed here, and implemented in two phylogenetic case studies from the primate fossil record. The chronobiogeographic character allows for a tradeoff between morphological character debt and “chronobiogeographic debt”, and provides a more explicit test of phylogenetic hypotheses that imply complex (and perhaps unlikely) biogeographic histories.

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Rossie, J.B., Seiffert, E.R. (2006). Continental Paleobiogeography as Phylogenetic Evidence. In: Primate Biogeography. Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects. Springer, Boston, MA . https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-31710-4_16

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