Prolonged morphological expansion of spiny-rayed fishes following the end-Cretaceous
A. Ghezelayagh, R. C. Harrington, E. D. Burress, M. A. Campbell, J. C. Buckner, P. Chakrabarty, J. R. Glass, W. T. McCraney, P. J. Unmack, C. E. Thacker, M. E. Alfaro, S. T. Friedman, W. D. Ludt, P. F. Cowman, M. Friedman, , T. J. Near
This study investigates the morphological expansion of spiny-rayed fishes after the K-Pg extinction, finding a prolonged diversification driven by body elongation and lineage radiation throughout the Cenozoic.
bioRxiv · Jul 12, 2021Evolutionary Biology