FIGURE 2.

Results for Dakotanthus cordiformis from angiosperm‐wide molecular backbone analyses using maximum parsimony, based on 29 floral characters that could be scored for this fossil. The color coding, the time scale superimposed on the circular chronogram, and the sources of the backbone tree and morphological data set of extant taxa are as in Figure 1. The drawing in the lower right shows the pentamerous flower of D. cordiformis (reproduced from Manchester et al., 2018, with permission of De Gruyter). The position of the order Fabales is indicated by an orange bar in the circular chronogram. The pink circle indicates the approximate age of D. cordiformis according to Manchester et al. (2018).