Fossil snakes of North America : origin, evolution, distribution, paleoecology

By J. Holman. 2000

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change, Paleontology

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Using regional comparative phylogeographic data from snake lineages to infer historical processes in Middle America (2010, methodology): “…and non-ambiguous ones are used as calibrations for fairly recent cladogenetic events since most of the fossils come from the Pliocene and Pleistocene (Holman 2000); using recent calibrations points to estimate older nodes has been identified as a potential source of error (Ho et al. 2008).”
Comparative phylogeography of pitvipers suggests a consensus of ancient Middle American highland biogeography (2009, methodology): “…& Thorpe, 2004; Castoe & Parkinson, 2006) and an extensive fossil record in the USA (reviewed by Holman, 2000), and appears to have dispersed into the New World as a single lineage from Asia during the Miocene (Kraus et al., 1996; Parkinson, 1999; Parkinson et al., 2002; see also Holman, 2000).”
Phylogeography of Middle American gophersnakes: mixed responses to biogeographical barriers across the Mexican Transition Zone (2011, methodology): “For relaxed clock dating analyses, three fossil constraints taken from the palaeoherpetological literature were used, following Pyron & Burbrink (2009a): (1) the oldest known New World ratsnake (Pantherophis kansensis) from the Middle Miocene (early Barstovian; Holman, 2000), (2) the oldest known ki”
Can the tropical conservatism hypothesis explain temperate species richness patterns? An inverse latitudinal biodiversity gradient in the New World snake tribe Lampropeltini (2009, background): “The earliest putative lampropeltinine fossils are known from this area (Wyoming) dating to the early Miocene (Holman, 2000).”
Evolutionary drivers of phylogeographical diversity in the highlands of Mexico: a case study of the Crotalus triseriatus species group of montane rattlesnakes (2011, methodology): “The node representing the most recent common ancestor (MRCA) of A. contortrix was given a zero offset of 6 Ma, a lognormal mean of 0.01, and a lognormal standard deviation of 0.42, producing a median age of 7 Ma and a 95% PCI extending to the start of the Late Hemphillian at 8 Ma (Holman, 2000).”