Response to comment on "Impacts of the cretaceous terrestrial revolution and KPg extinction on mammal diversification"

  • William J. Murphy
  • , Jan E. Janecka
  • , Tanja Stadler
  • , Eduardo Eizirik
  • , Oliver A. Ryder
  • , John Gatesy
  • , Robert W. Meredith
  • , Mark S. Springer

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Abstract

Bininda-Emonds and Purvis reanalyzed our mammalian phylogenetic supermatrix and claim that our results are not significantly different from their delayed-rise hypothesis. We show that our divergence times are ~11 million years later for placental inter- and intraordinal divergences - consistent with a post - Cretaceous-Paleogene (KPg) radiation of most modern mammalian orders - and find no support for the early Eocene delayed-rise hypothesis.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)34b
JournalScience
Volume336
Issue number6090
DOIs
StatePublished - 6 Jul 2012

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