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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2024

Tip dating and Bayes factors provide insight into the divergences of crown bird clades across the end-Cretaceous mass extinction.

Neil Brocklehurst, Daniel J Field

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  1. Geologic history explains freshwater fish species richness across the conterminous USA.Global ecology and biogeography : a journal of macroecology · 2025
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  3. A complete and dynamic tree of birds.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  6. Reply to Claramunt et al.: Robustness of the Cretaceous radiation of crown aves.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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Neil BrocklehurstDepartment of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-2650-5480
Daniel J FieldDepartment of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-1786-0352

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UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The origin of crown birds (Neornithes) remains contentious owing to conflicting divergence time hypotheses obtained from alternative sources of data. The fossil record suggests limited diversification of Neornithes in the Late Mesozoic and a substantial radiation in the aftermath of the Cretaceous-Palaeogene (K-Pg) mass extinction, approximately 66 Ma. Molecular clock studies, however, have yielded estimates for neornithine origins ranging from the Early Cretaceous (130 Ma) to less than 10 Myr before the K-Pg. We use Bayes factors to compare the fit of node ages from different molecular clock studies to an independent morphological dataset. Our results allow us to reject scenarios of crown bird origins deep in the Early Cretaceous, as well as an origin of crown birds within the last 10 Myr of the Cretaceous. The scenario best supported by our analyses is one where Neornithes originated between the Early and Late Cretaceous (

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BirdsExtinction, BiologicalAnimalsBayes TheoremBiological EvolutionFossilsPhylogenyBayes factorbirdend-Cretaceous extinctionphylogenytip-dating

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PMCPMC10865003

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