TABLE 1. Abbreviations used in the figures and text.
| Abbreviation | Meaning |
| PTAPH | The probability that a species is not removed from a locality by taphonomic processes |
| PFORM | The probability that a formation is sampled |
| PLOC | The probability that a locality is sampled |
| PMIST | The probability that of a node being subjected to nearest node interchange (i.e., an error is introduced to the phylogeny at that node); in short, the error rate. |
| PD/LE | The probability of dispersal divided by the probability of local extinction. |
| TDE | Taxic diversity estimate |
| PDE | Phylogenetic diversity estimate |
| RDE | Residual diversity estimate |
TABLE 2. The full list of parameter variations tested in this study. For each set of parameter values, 100 simulations were carried out. The Spearman’s rho values presented in the figures and Appendix are the means of the results from the 100 simulation.
| PTAPH | PFORM | PLOC | PMIST | PD/LE | |
| Simulation 1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 1 |
| Simulation 2 | 0.15 | 0.15 | 0.15 | 0.1 | 1 |
| Simulation 3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 1 |
| Simulation 4 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.1 | 1 |
| Simulation 5 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1 |
| Simulation 6 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1 |
| Simulation 7 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 1 |
| Simulation 8 | 0.75 | 0.75 | 0.75 | 0.1 | 1 |
| Simulation 9 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.2 | 1 |
| Simulation 10 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.3 | 1 |
| Simulation 11 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.4 | 1 |
| Simulation 12 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.5 | 1 |
| Simulation 13 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 1 |
| Simulation 14 | 0.9 | 0.25 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 1 |
| Simulation 15 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 1 |
| Simulation 16 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 1 |
| Simulation 17 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.25 | 0.1 | 1 |
| Simulation 18 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 1 |
| Simulation 19 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.1 | 1.5 |
| Simulation 20 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.1 | 2 |
| Simulation 21 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.1 | 2.5 |
| Simulation 22 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.1 | 3 |
| Simulation 23 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.1 | 4 |
