The fossil record of spiders revisited: implications for calibrating trees and evidence for a major faunal turnover since the Mesozoic

ABSTRACT Studies in evolutionary biology and biogeography increasingly rely on the estimation of dated phylogenetic trees using molecular clocks. In turn, the calibration of such clocks is critically dependent on external evidence (i.e. fossils) anchoring the ages of particular nodes to known absolu...

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