Table 1.
Estimates (posterior median and 95% credibility intervals) of divergence times in several placental orders under various model settings.
| age (million years) |
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| Primates | Rodentia | Chiroptera | Carnivora | Perissodactyla | Cetartiodactyla | Eulipotyphla | |
| node Brownian | 63 (61,64) | 66 (64,67) | 61 (60,61) | 59 (54,63) | 59 (56,61) | 63 (61,65) | 72 (67,77) |
| node white noise | 65 (57,76) | 70 (65,76) | 60 (58,61) | 59 (51,65) | 58 (56,61) | 63 (59,66) | 81 (71,90) |
| node mixed | 67 (61,75) | 67 (64,71) | 60 (58,61) | 61 (54,66) | 58 (56,61) | 64 (61,66) | 79 (70,87) |
| tip Brownian | 92 (85,101) | 85 (79,93) | 62 (54,72) | 60 (55,66) | 59 (49,67) | 67 (62,72) | 84 (75,92) |
| tip white noise | 63 (52,75) | 68 (59,77) | 58 (51,67) | 52 (44,60) | 43 (37,52) | 58 (53,64) | 73 (61,85) |
| tip mixed | 67 (58,78) | 60 (54,70) | 56 (49,65) | 54 (47,62) | 45 (38,55) | 61 (55,67) | 69 (59,80) |
| tip prior | 49 (37,66) | 55 (47,65) | 56 (44,70) | 53 (42,67) | 49 (38,59) | 57 (52,63) | 54 (31,85) |