Table 2. Estimated ages and substitution rates of the most recent common ancestors (MRCA) for the main clades obtained with partitioned BEAST analyses using three calibration points.

Period (Epoch) Age	Node MRCA	Age	Height 95% HPD	Rate	Rate 95% HPD
Carboniferous 360–300	Lecanoromycetes	305.53	275.46–327.36	2.64	0.19–6.85
Permian 300–250	Ostropomycetidae	259.33	221.98–293.64	1.31	0.19–3.28
	Lecanoromycetidae	251. 68	211.58–284.79	1.45	0.27–3.17
Jurassic 205–135	Lecanorales	160.65	129.66–192.63	1.40	0.18–2.98
Cretaceous 135–65	Parmeliaceae (Protoparmelia included)	108.96	85.52–136.55	2.07	0.52–4.21
	Parmeliaceae core (Protoparmelia excluded)	74.17	57.59–92.56	2.92	1.29–4.60
Paleogene (Paleocene) 65–53	Parmelioid group	60.28	49.81–73.55	2.87	0.71–5.78
Paleogene (Eocene) 53–34	Split 1. Xanthoparmelia – Parmotrema-clade	47.87	37.28–58.49	1.64	0.24–3.51
	Split 2. Melanelixia - Melanohalea	41.55	31.25–51.94	1.60	0.27–3.54
	Split 3. Parmelina - Myelochroa	37.13	24.97–48.65	1.80	0.17–4.71
	Split 4. Remototrachyna - Bulbotrix	36.78	27.66–45.72	3.81	1.49–6.58
	Split 5. Austroparmelina– Parmotrema, Flavoparmelia, …	34.60	26.67–42.69	1.41	0.13–3.08
Paleogene (Oligocene) 34–23.5	Melanelixia	33.82	23.66–43.86	1.50	0.28–3.26
	Split 6. Cetrariastrum - Hypotrachyna-clade p.p.	32.48	22.70–43.70	2.10	0.94–3.61
	Split 7. Flavoparmelia - Parmotrema	29.73	22.30–36.18	2.78	0.66–6.64
	Melanohalea	25.38	16.58–36.73	1.78	0.61–3.53
	Parmelia	23.59	18.03–31.31	1.56	0.49–3.10
	Remototrachyna	23.54	16.69–30.68	1.50	0.38–2.78
Neogene (Miocene) 23.5–5.3	Flavoparmelia	22.61	15.71–30.09	2.25	0.66–4.48
	Xanthoparmelia	21.55	13.64–32.74	1.27	0.41–2.35
	Myelochroa	17.55	10.00–26.23	3.36	1.45–6.35
	Punctelia	13.82	9.17–20.35	1.96	0.30–3.55
	Parmotrema	13.80	10.08–17.82	2.64	0.76–5.30
	Cetrelia	9.04	3.32–15.62	0.53	0.24–0.89
	Parmelina	8.45	2.24–19.49	0.68	0.22–1.25
Neogene (Pliocene) 5.3–1.8	Canoparmelia crozalsiana-clade	3.91	1.68–7.09	3.36	1.77–5.36

Units. Ages: Ma. Rates: (s/s/y) ×10−9. HPD: highest posterior density interval.