Table 2.
Estimates (posterior median and 95% credibility intervals) of crown divergence times for the four placental superorders and for Placentalia under various model settings.
| age (million years) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Euarchontoglires | Laurasiatheria | Xenarthra | Afrotheria | Placentalia | |
| node Brownian | 77 (73,81) | 77 (73,81) | 65 (59,71) | 66 (62,73) | 88 (83,94) |
| node white noise | 87 (78,97) | 83 (75,92) | 66 (59,71) | 74 (63,87) | 100 (91,112) |
| node mixed | 86 (78,94) | 85 (78,92) | 66 (59,71) | 73 (64,84) | 100 (92,108) |
| tip Brownian | 104 (96,114) | 95 (88,103) | 74 (64,87) | 76 (67,89) | 120 (108,135) |
| tip white noise | 84 (75,95) | 79 (71,87) | 56 (43,70) | 66 (55,78) | 95 (85,107) |
| tip mixed | 80 (72,90) | 77 (71,85) | 60 (49,74) | 65 (55,78) | 93 (84,108) |
| tip prior | 86 (71,104) | 85 (73,101) | 51 (32,78) | 61 (44,88) | 97 (82,117) |