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Published in final edited form as: Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2017 Dec 2;122:125–141. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2017.11.015

Table 2.

Divergence-date priors for primary (top) and secondary (bottom) calibrations. Node numbers correspond to those indicated in Fig. S2. The translated log-normal (TL) zero-offset is presented in millions of years ago (Mya), parameter values (mean and standard deviation) follow in parentheses, and posterior (calculated) ages are presented as median with 95% confidence interval in parentheses.

PRIMARY CALIBRATIONS
Node TL zero-offset (mean, SD) Median (95% CI) Source
1 238 (1.4, 0.7) 242 (239.4–249.6) Fossil rhynchocephalian from Middle Triassic (Jones et al., 2013)
2 161 (1.8, 1.0) 167 (162.2–192.3) Stem scincomorph Balnealacerta from Middle Jurassic (Evans, 1998)
3 110 (1.8, 1.3) 116 (110.7–161.3) Stem teiids (e.g. Ptilodon) from Early Cretaceous (Nydam and Cifelli, 2002; Winkler et al., 1990)
4 61 (1.6, 0.8) 66.1 (62.4–80) Fossil amphisbaenian Plesiorhineura tsentasi from Middle Paleocene (Sullivan, 1985)
5 128 (1.0, 0.5) 130.7 (129.2–134.2) Fossil lizard Dalinghosaurus longidigitus from Early Cretaceous (Evans and Wang, 2005)
6 70 (1.8, 1.0) 76.1 (71.2–101.3) Fossil anguid Odaxosaurus from Late Cretaceous (Sullivan and Lucas, 1996)
7 70 (1.8, 1.0) 76.1 (71.2–101.3) Stem acrodont iguanian clade Priscagaminae from Late Cretaceous (Keqin and Norell, 2000)
8 70 (1.2, 1.9) 73.3 (70.2–145.6) Fossil pleurodont iguanian Saichangurvel from Late Cretaceous (Conrad and Norell, 2007)
9 99 (1.0, 0.5) 101.7 (100.2–105.2) Stem chameleon from Albian-Cenomanian boundary, Cretaceous (Daza et al., 2016)

SECONDARY CALIBRATIONS
Node TL zero-offset (mean, SD) Median (95% CI) Source

10 62.8 (1.0, 0.5) 64.8 (63.3–68.3) Node 1 by codon in Table S4 (Tolley et al., 2013)
11 51.2 (1.0, 0.5) 53.9 (52.4–57.4) Node 2 by codon in Table S4 (Tolley et al., 2013)
12 47.5 (1.0, 0.5) 50.2 (48.7–53.7) Node 3 by codon in Table S4 (Tolley et al., 2013)
13 45.6 (1.0, 0.5) 48.3 (46.8–51.8) Node 4 by codon in Table S4 (Tolley et al., 2013)
14 33.4 (1.0, 0.5) 36.1 (34.6–39.6) Node 5 by codon in Table S4 (Tolley et al., 2013)