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GENERA ARE OFTEN BETTER THAN SPECIES FOR DETECTING EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE IN THE FOSSIL RECORD: A REPLY TO SALESA ET AL.
Author(s) -
Eronen Jussi Tuomas,
Evans Alistair Robert,
Fortelius Mikael,
Jernvall Jukka
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
evolution
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.84
H-Index - 199
eISSN - 1558-5646
pISSN - 0014-3820
DOI - 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01220.x
Subject(s) - biology , taxonomy (biology) , evolutionary biology , fossil record , ecology , zoology
In their technical comment Salesa et al. (2011) raise several issues, including an important topic affecting most, or perhaps all, paleoecological studies—the difficulty of determining a reasonable way to deal with taxonomy. Specifically, Salesa et al. draw our attention to a taxonomic revision of Iberian Anchitherium (Sánchez et al. 1998), that we failed to follow in our study (Eronen et al. 2010), and express concerns that a different handling of Anchitherium taxonomy would have affected our results and conclusions.