Figure 1. Times of divergence among bony fishes (modified from Inoue et al., 2005 [17] and Peng et al., 2006 [18]), presented simply as the average of the various estimates.

The width of the horizontal rectangles reflects the extent of variation among the different estimates. The time of divergence between Anguilliformes and Cypriniformes (arrows) was estimated to be 265–355 mya (around the Paleozoic period).