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References and Notes

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/taxa/verts/archosaurs/ghost_lineages.php (background info -- not a peer-reviewed article) http://www.pnas.org/content/103/51/19419.short (Miocene mammal reveals a Mesozoic ghost lineage)

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0048380&type=printable (example of ghost lineages in caviid rodents AND how ghost lineages can be related to the “molecular clock”) (“The ghost lineages provide a minimum estimate for the age of these basal nodes of Cavioidea”)

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/paleobiology/article/ghost-lineages-and-mammalness-assessing-the-temporal-pattern-of-character-acquisition-in-the-synapsida/7D02E68F75C1D1474E6E3A6F432DF76D (“greater numbers of derived features tend to be correlated with longer ghost lineages” -- how ghost lineages are related to figuring out evolved features in the fossil record)

http://earth.geology.yale.edu/~ajs/1993/11.1993.15Norell.pdf http://science.sciencemag.org/content/327/5965/571.full (fig 3 shows how ghost lineages are represented in phylogenetic trees http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/10/1/20131003.short#ref-8 (discusses how “Ghost lineage estimates are minimum divergence dates and may underestimate the timing of actual splits”)

https://books.google.com/books?id=nkd8sJe9h9oC&pg=PA107&lpg=PA107&dq=ghost+lineage&source=bl&ots=mw9b0cYwVp&sig=5o_PdNSrLxmTpQTHQT9yJx4cEes&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiT3PfjkJnXAhUKS2MKHcZMB7Y4ChDoAQgmMAA#v=onepage&q=ghost%20lineage&f=false (background information)