Dinosaurs and the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution

被引:285
作者
Lloyd, Graeme T. [1 ]
Davis, Katie E. [2 ]
Pisani, Davide [3 ]
Tarver, James E. [1 ]
Ruta, Marcello [1 ]
Sakamoto, Manabu [1 ]
Hone, David W. E. [4 ,5 ]
Jennings, Rachel [1 ]
Benton, Michael J. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Bristol, Dept Earth Sci, Bristol BS8 1RJ, Avon, England
[2] Univ Glasgow, FBLS, DEEB, Glasgow G12 8QP, Lanark, Scotland
[3] Natl Univ Ireland Maynooth, Dept Biol, Lab Evolutionary Biol, Maynooth, Kildare, Ireland
[4] Bayerischen Staatssammlung Palaontol & Geol, D-80333 Munich, Germany
[5] Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China
基金
英国自然环境研究理事会;
关键词
dinosaur; angiosperm; Cretaceous; biodiversity; supertree;
D O I
10.1098/rspb.2008.0715
中图分类号
Q [生物科学];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
The observed diversity of dinosaurs reached its highest peak during the mid- and Late Cretaceous, the 50 Myr that preceded their extinction, and yet this explosion of dinosaur diversity may be explained largely by sampling bias. It has long been debated whether dinosaurs were part of the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution ( KTR), from 125-80 Myr ago, when flowering plants, herbivorous and social insects, squamates, birds and mammals all underwent a rapid expansion. Although an apparent explosion of dinosaur diversity occurred in the mid-Cretaceous, coinciding with the emergence of new groups (e.g. neoceratopsians, ankylosaurid ankylosaurs, hadrosaurids and pachycephalosaurs), results from the first quantitative study of diversification applied to a new supertree of dinosaurs show that this apparent burst in dinosaurian diversity in the last 18 Myr of the Cretaceous is a sampling artefact. Indeed, major diversification shifts occurred largely in the first one-third of the group's history. Despite the appearance of new clades of medium to large herbivores and carnivores later in dinosaur history, these new originations do not correspond to significant diversification shifts. Instead, the overall geometry of the Cretaceous part of the dinosaur tree does not depart from the null hypothesis of an equal rates model of lineage branching. Furthermore, we conclude that dinosaurs did not experience a progressive decline at the end of the Cretaceous, nor was their evolution driven directly by the KTR.
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