Cenozoic macroperforate planktonic foraminifera phylogeny of Aze & others (2011). TimeScale Creator Evolutionary Tree. Corrected Version, July 2018. Five datapacks for Java software package.

• Other Authors: Dr Barry Fordham (isOwnedBy)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: The Australian National University
• Subjects: Palaeontology (incl. Palynology); EARTH SCIENCES; GEOLOGY; Phylogeny and Comparative Analysis; BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; Stratigraphy (incl. Biostratigraphy and Sequence Stratigraphy); Palaeoclimatology; PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL GEOSCIENCE; evolutionary tree; phylogeny; timescale calibration; data visualisation; morphospecies; lineages; planktonic foraminifera; stratophenetics; biostratigraphy; macroevolution; TimeScale Creator; relational database; Cenozoic; Planktonic foraminifera
• Online Access: https://researchdata.edu.au/cenozoic-macroperforate-planktonic-software-package/1355383; https://datacommons.anu.edu.au/DataCommons/item/anudc:5529; https://doi.org/10.25911/5b8df4ddb9497

Timescale Creator–database customization Features provided by Timescale Creator enhance the information which can be gleaned from the 2011 trees. These features can be provided either from functions already built into Timescale Creator, or via “in-house” programming within the database which has exploited the built-in functions to provide data and information on key issues of interest to the case study. It is this flexibility provided by the combination of Timescale Creator functions and datapacks programmed from the back-end relational database which is showcased below. Groups Colours were used in the original 2011 trees [1, Appendices 2, 3 ], and now in the Timescale Creator trees, to display eco- and morpho-groups (respectively). The Timescale Creator trees also add coloured group labels (rather than colouring the range labels as in the original trees), and this allows identification of groups without recourse to the legend. These group labels are positioned on ancestor–descendant branches, but have here been programmed to display only when the group membership changes from ancestor to descendant. As a result, they have the added advantage of highlighting origins and reappearances of the selected groups or properties in a phylogenetic context. A handy use of this feature is when, for example, this is programmed to apply to the generic assignment of morphospecies, making polyphyletic morphogenera, intentioned or otherwise, easy to spot. Lineage labels To label range lines on the lineage tree, the Timescale Creator version has been programmed to augment each lineage code with its list of contained morphospecies, e.g., the listing appended to Lineage N1-N3 is “H. holmdelensis > G. archeocompressa > G. planocompressa > G. compressa“. The morphospecies series in these listings is ordered by lowest occurrence, and so the >’s denote stratigraphic succession. (The >’s do not necessarily represent ancestor–descendant relationships; of course only a single line of descent could be expressed in such a ...