Table 3.

Ancestral character state reconstructions for paraphyletic Cycloneuralia topology

Character	Total group Edysozoa (PP)	Crown group Ecdysozoa (PP)	Scalidophora (PP)	Panarthropoda + Nematoida (PP)	Panarthropoda (PP)	Present in Acosmia ?
Terminal mouth	0 = 0.024837 1 = 0.975163	0 = 0.000858 1 = 0.999142	0 = 0.000128 1 = 0.999872	0 = 0.000288 1 = 0.999712	0 = 0.001408 1 = 0.998592	Yes
Pharyngeal armature	0 = 0.962564 1 = 0.037436	0 = 0.082954 1 = 0.917046	0 = 0.002036 1 = 0.997964	0 = 0.068972 1 = 0.931028	0 = 0.022113 1 = 0.977887	No
Circumoral structures	0 = 0.959800 1 = 0.040200	0 = 0.021808 1 = 0.978192	0 = 0.000288 1 = 0.999712	0 = 0.006146 1 = 0.993854	0 = 0.010114 1 = 0.989886	No (spines possibly present)
Annulated trunk	0 = 0.027979 1 = 0.972021	0 = 0.002343 1 = 0.997657	0 = 0.011783 1 = 0.988217	0 = 0.000535 1 = 0.999465	0 = 0.000203 1 = 0.999797	Yes
Scalid covered introvert	0 = 0.999838 1 = 0.000162	0 = 0.989892 1 = 0.010108	0 = 0.003788 1 = 0.996212	0 = 0.999403 1 = 0.000597	0 = 0.999986 1 = 0.000014	No
Paired sclerites	0 = 0.994518 1 = 0.005482	0 = 0.994662 1 = 0.005338	0 = 0.993516 1 = 0.006484	0 = 0.995261 1 = 0.004739	0 = 0.957987 1 = 0.042013	No

Values of ancestral character state reconstructions. 0 = absence of character, 1 = presence of character, PP = posterior probability