Signor-Lipps Effect Definition

noun

The principle that due to the incompleteness of the fossil record , the earliest and latest known occurrences of a taxon will almost never represent the ages of the actual earliest and latest organisms belonging to it.

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Origin of Signor-Lipps Effect

  • Named after American paleontologists Philip Signor and Jere Lipps , who formally proposed it in 1982.

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