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The Fossil Calibration Database is a free online resource that stores carefully vetted fossil calibration points used to discover age constraints for evolutionary trees. All fossils included in the database have gone through a rigorous peer-review process. Students interested in issues related to biodiversity and the development of life will be interested in this database.
“Fossils provide the critical age data we need to unlock the timing of major evolutionary events... This new resource will provide the crucial fossil data needed to calibrate ‘molecular clocks’ that can reveal the ages of plant and animal groups that lack good fossil records. Precisely tuning the molecular clock with fossils is the best way we have to tell evolutionary time.”
Daniel T. Ksepka
More information on the database.
Access the database here.
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