The phrase "above extant" is not correct in standard written English.
It is unclear and may be intended to refer to something that exists or is present above a certain point, but the phrasing is awkward.
Example: "The documents mentioned above extant are crucial for our research."
Alternatives: "previously mentioned" or "aforementioned".
As should be clear from the above, Auriol's extant works are predominantly theological in nature, having been composed in connection with his duties as a theological student and teacher.
This scenario implies that, despite all evidence to the contrary (see above) all extant viruses are monophyletic, although their subsequent evolution involved massive gene loss in some lineages as well as extensive acquisition of new genes from the hosts in others.
If spending were to be continued at the $472 billion level for the next 10 years, base Defense Department spending would be three quarters of a trillion dollars above the levels extant in 2000.
Over the 20 years, O. flocktoniae was found in 133 discrete populations, although in any one year far fewer populations (10 48) were extant above ground (Fig. 2).
In 1999, after annual survey data had been accrued for 5 years, a schedule of sites of known population ages of either extant or extinct above-ground populations was assembled.
To compare the above results with the coverage obtained with extant Enterobacteriaceae sequences, we collected the same data by comparing the extant sequences among themselves.
The first is that someone might proceed quite differently from the above, so as to preserve most of extant science while maintaining the hypothesis, by restricting prior theory to "normal" as opposed to "exceptional" occurrences.
The extant research reviewed above encompasses many conditions that influence children's health.
This finding is promising, but the extant literature described above suggests that students generally do not possess a strong command of evolutionary concepts when they enter college.
In modern humans the degree of distal phalanx tuft robusticity for the first and third manual rays is very similar, although it is somewhat higher in the thumbs of Neandertals, with both La Ferrassie I and Kebara II having robusticity values above the 95% CI of extant humans.
