Early angiosperm crown-lineage diversification estimates
A metacalibrated time-tree estimates Early Cretaceous diversification of major flowering-plant crown lineages; it is not direct evidence of fossil first appearances or ecological dominance.
The study's metacalibrated clocks estimate that Magnoliidae, Monocotyledoneae and Eudicotyledoneae diversified around 135–130 Ma; these are model-dependent crown-lineage estimates, not direct fossil first appearances or evidence of ecological dominance.