Table 1.

Prior and posterior distributions for the ages of key clades under the uninformative and rapid diversification TED model priors. The induced joint prior distributions were estimated under the full model, with fossils included, using Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling with log-likelihood of characters set to 0.0. Defined in this way, the prior distribution contains a fair amount of dating information from FBD model parameter priors and from the number of sampled fossils and their ages. Estimated distributions are summarized by the median followed by the 95% region of highest posterior density.

clade	uninformative		rapid diversification
	induced prior	posterior	induced prior	posterior
Placentalia	111 (86, 141)	118 (95, 178)	85 (66, 106)	85 (76, 93)
Xenarthra	46 (33, 84)	72 (44, 109)	39 (30, 63)	43 (35, 55)
Afrotheria	70 (44, 99)	86 (70, 120)	52 (37, 74)	66 (61, 74)
Afroinsectiphila	54 (37, 80)	79 (62, 112)	42 (33, 60)	56 (45, 66)
Paenungulata	50 (35, 77)	76 (63, 101)	41 (32, 59)	61 (47, 68)
Boreoeutheria	95 (73, 119)	113 (92, 174)	72 (58, 89)	81 (74, 90)
Laurasiatheria	86 (65, 107)	106 (85, 162)	64 (48, 79)	75 (68, 82)
Eulipotyphla	57 (38, 81)	91 (71, 156)	43 (34, 60)	56 (44, 69)
Euungulata	65 (43, 88)	94 (74, 134)	47 (37, 64)	65 (59, 72)
Cetartiodactyla	56 (39, 77)	74 (57, 100)	43 (34, 56)	54 (47, 60)
Chiroptera	62 (42, 84)	75 (55, 106)	46 (36, 63)	55 (43, 65)
Ferae	52 (35, 76)	94 (74, 137)	41 (32, 57)	68 (61, 75)
Carnivora	39 (32, 59)	71 (38, 102)	36 (30, 45)	44 (35, 61)
Euarchontoglires	82 (60, 105)	104 (83, 146)	61 (42, 76)	76 (69, 85)
Glires	65 (41, 89)	98 (79, 130)	47 (35, 65)	73 (66, 81)
Rodentia	52 (36, 74)	89 (70, 116)	41 (32, 55)	67 (61, 73)
Euarchonta	69 (46, 91)	91 (70, 128)	50 (37, 67)	65 (58, 73)
Primates	50 (36, 72)	77 (59, 109)	40 (32, 54)	58 (52, 65)